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  • Chinese Reportage

    The Aesthetics of Historical Experience

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Chinese Reportage details for the first time in English the creation and evolution of a distinctive literary genre in twentieth-century China. Reportage literature, while sharing traditional journalism’s commitment to the accurate, nonfictional portrayal of experience, was largely produced by authors outside the official news media. In identifying the literary merit of this genre and establishing ... Leer más

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  • Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory

    Reimagining a Field

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group of scholars includes twentieth-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; ... Leer más

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  • Literary Societies Of Republican China

    Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Traditionally the period is seen ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Biodiversity and Human Health

    The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water ... Leer más

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  • Ritual

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why

    Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Secrets of the Roaring Blue - 5 Classic High-Seas Seafaring Stories

    Enriched edition. The Corsair King, The Mystery of the Laughlin Islands, The Ruby of Kishmoor, The Mutineers, The Isle of Pirate's Doom, etc.

    Secrets of the Roaring Blue - 5 Classic High-Seas Seafaring Stories offers readers a captivating journey through the adventurous waters of literary seas. This anthology comprises a diverse range of narratives that explore the perilous yet thrilling existence at sea. Each story is imbued with themes of bravery, exploration, and the unrelenting force of nature, reflected through an array of ... Leer más

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  • Mutiny Under Moonlit Sails - 8 Classic High Seas Stories of Pirates & Peril

    Enriched edition. The Mutineers, The Sea-Wolf, The Mystery of the Laughlin Islands, Moran of the Lady Letty, Treasure Island, Pirates, etc.

    Mutiny Under Moonlit Sails - 8 Classic High Seas Stories of Pirates & Peril sails through treacherous waters of literary exploration, capturing the allure and danger of the pirate's life. This anthology encompasses an array of storytelling styles, from the robust journalism of Jack London to the imaginative adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson. Engaging in themes of rebellion, survival, and the ... Leer más

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  • Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

    Rootabaga Pigeons, The Good Crow's Happy Shop, Little Mitchell, Nobody's Girl, The Magic Fishbone, Slovenly Betsy, The monster-hunters, etc.

    de C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. Würdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...
    Renowned as a treasure trove of wisdom and whimsy, "Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate" offers a panoramic vista of the children's literary landscape. This anthology brings together an eclectic range of narratives that cater to the budding minds of young readers, emboldening them with lessons in morality, creativity, and intellect. From tales of adventure and ... Leer más

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  • By the River

    Seven Contemporary Chinese Novellas

    Series series Chinese Literature Today Book Series
    The novella, as the editors of this volume explain, is in many ways the “native habitat” of modern Chinese literary production—the ideal fictional form for revealing the various facets of contemporary Chinese culture. The seven novellas collected here resoundingly support their claim. Featuring works by award winners and rising stars, women and men, By the River presents a confluence of some of ... Leer más

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  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

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    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Leer más

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  • Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Delphi Classics)

    Series Libro 13 - Delphi Series Three
    For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations, ... Leer más

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