Sign up for Summer Library Challenge
Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience
search MeLCat Search MeLCat

Filter By Fiction/Non-fiction

Fiction Non-fiction

Filter By Subjects

California Los Angeles China China History Tang dynasty, 618-907 Drama Female assassins Female assassins China Drama Foreign films Martial artists Martial artists Drama Mental health services Social aspects Tang Dynasty (China)

Filter By Authors

Gong, Neil

Filter By Genres

Action and adventure films. Drama. Feature films-Taiwan. Feature films. Fiction films. Foreign language films-Chinese-Mandarin. Historical films. History. Martial arts films. videorecording

Sons, daughters, and sidewalk psychotics : mental illness and homelessness in Los Angeles

Gong, Neil

Details

Summary: "In 2022, Los Angeles became the US city with the largest population of unhoused people, a stark contrast with the city's luxurious hillside mansions. This book from sociologist Neil Gong traces the divide between the haves and have nots by looking to mental health treatment, a key factor in what kind of life a person can live. As Gong shows, the mental health options available to the wealthy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago 2024

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

The assassin = Ci ke Nie Yinniang

Details

Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASS

chat loading...
Back to Top