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These eleven articles examine the issues and offer a range of opinions coming from eyewitnesses, scientific journals, and government officials on American's use of drugs as opposed to making behavioral changes, and the growing pharmaceutical industry.

The author of the popular Wall Street Journal column "The Expat Life" offers a lively account of his family's move to China, which culminated in him fronting a successful Chinese blues band called Woodie Alan.

Presents a retelling of Henry James's "The Ambassadors" that follows the efforts of divorced schoolteacher Bea Nightingale to navigate a turbulent year spent with her estranged brother's family.

The Los Angeles Times Moscow bureau chief describes her witness to events at the front lines of the war on terror in multiple countries, sharing her insights into the high cost of violence as weighed against the war's democracy-based objectives.

A tale based on the life of novelist Pearl S. Buck follows her as she grows up in late-nineteenth-century China; befriends Willow, a Chinese peasant girl; and with Willow shares life's joys and sorrows, despite the Communist revolution.

A memoir in which the author combines details of her personal life with tales of her work and wanderings in the deserts of Egypt and Sudan in search for the birth of language.

An American describes his experiences after his arrival in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, including his wushu training and life in post-Mao China.

A novel based upon the murder of Fulbright scholar Amy Elizabeth Biehl in which the fictitious mother of the killer examines the life and world of her son in the black township of Guguletu, South Africa.