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Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ransom of Emily Jane written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595313841
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Seeking an Alliance written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meg Maxwell
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488002339
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book A Cowboy in the Kitchen written by Meg Maxwell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweet contemporary romance, something’s cooking between a beautiful chef and a widowed cowboy. Rancher West Montgomery thought he needed Annabel Hurley’s help just with cooking lessons. But the widowed single dad required more than great culinary skills to secure custody of his young daughter. Her maternal grandparents wanted little Lucy in a more stable environment. What could be more perfect than West’s loving home . . . with his new wife? Marry West Montgomery? That had once been Annabel’s dream . . . until West had up and wed someone else. But now the cowboy needed her help—and was willing to save her family’s business in return. She’d do anything to keep Hurley’s Homestyle Kitchen open. Still, living in the same house with West, and adding his adorable daughter into the mix? This was surely a recipe for another broken heart.
Author : Janice P. Nimura
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248240
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back written by Janice P. Nimura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life." —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan—a land grown foreign to them—determined to revolutionize women’s education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment.
Author : Richard Stengel
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307460681
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Mandela's Way written by Richard Stengel and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time" magazine editor Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela on his bestselling autobiography, distills Mandela's wisdom into 15 vital life lessons that have the power to deepen lives.
Author : Lee Broughton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442272430
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on the Western written by Lee Broughton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the Western film has been considered a dying breed of cinema, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen find new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue to be produced for contemporary audiences, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the relevance of this enduring genre. In Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained, Lee Broughton has compiled a wide-ranging collection of essays that look at various forms of the genre, on both the large and small screen. Contributors to this volume consider themes and subgenres, celebrities and authors, recent idiosyncratic engagements with the genre, and the international Western. These essays also explore issues of race and gender in the various films discussed as well as within the film genre as a whole. Among the films and television programs discussed in this volume are The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward, Robert Ford; Django Kill; Justified; Meek’s Cutoff; Tears of the Black Tiger; Appaloosa; The Frozen Limits; and Red Harvest.Featuring a diverse selection of chapters that represent current thinking on the Western. Critical Perspectives on the Western will appeal to fans of the genre, film students, and scholars alike.
Author : Minae Mizumura
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517067
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A True Novel written by Minae Mizumura and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class. The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.
Author : Takie Sugiyama Lebra
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824810252
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Japanese Women written by Takie Sugiyama Lebra and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1985-08-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan, a decade behind the United States, is now expressing its awareness of women as a major social issue. This awareness manifests itself in floods of publications, television coverage, the burgeoning of women's studies groups, court rulings interfering with sex discrimination, appointments of women to prominent positions thus far reserved exclusively for men, admission of women to such institutions as the Self Defense Forces, police, athletics, and so on.
Author : 宋尚節
Publisher : ARMOUR PUBLISHING PTE LTD
ISBN 13 : 9814305545
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The Diary of John Sung written by 宋尚節 and published by ARMOUR PUBLISHING PTE LTD. This book was released on 2012 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil K. Y. Ho
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199282714
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Understanding Canton written by Virgil K. Y. Ho and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this periodindulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impacton the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that thecommon people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city lifeand popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.
Author : Rashelle S. Karp
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Plays for Children and Young Adults written by Rashelle S. Karp and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Perin E. Gürel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543964
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Westernization written by Perin E. Gürel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollsters reversed the question—"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international relations?"—the United States came in second. How did Turkey's citizens come to hold such opposing views simultaneously? In The Limits of Westernization, Perin E. Gürel explains this unique split and its echoes in contemporary U.S.-Turkey relations. Using Turkish and English sources, Gürel maps the reaction of Turks to the rise of the United States as a world-ordering power in the twentieth century. As Turkey transitioned from an empire to a nation-state, the country's ruling elite projected "westernization" as a necessary and desirable force but also feared its cultural damage. Turkish stock figures and figures of speech represented America both as a good model for selective westernization and as a dangerous source of degeneration. At the same time, U.S. policy makers imagined Turkey from within their own civilization templates, first as the main figure of Oriental barbarism (i.e., "the terrible Turk"), then, during the Cold War, as good pupils of modernization theory. As the Cold War transitioned to the War on Terror, Turks rebelled against the new U.S.-made trope of the "moderate Muslim." Local artifacts of westernization—folk culture crossed with American cultural exports—and alternate projections of modernity became tinder for both Turkish anti-Americanism and resistance to state-led modernization projects. The Limits of Westernization analyzes the complex local uses of "the West" to explain how the United States could become both the best and the worst in the Turkish political imagination. Gürel traces how ideas about westernization and America have influenced national history writing and policy making, as well as everyday affects and identities. Foregrounding shifting tropes about and from Turkey—a regional power that continues to dominate American visions for the "modernization" of the Middle East—Gürel also illuminates the transnational development of powerful political tropes, from "the Terrible Turk" to "the Islamic Terrorist."
Author : Seestah Imahk S.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1425147631
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Returning Home Ain't Easy But It Sure Is a Blessing written by Seestah Imahk S. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Returning Home Ain't Easy But it Sure Is A Blessing" is a very moving and penetrating work that every African whether he or she intends on repatriating to Africa or not, should read. It is an "invaluable guide" to all Africans who are desperately trying to make their way back home. To re-locate is not a simple matter. It requires a determination to succeed, a firm faith in God the Almighty and patience to learn and re-learn. The power of this book prepares a plan for those wanting to return home to re-acquaint themselves with the land of their Afrikan ancestors. This book shows wisdom, extreme sensibility, and sense of humor necessary to help one to re-settle and make their home in Ghana or anywhere in Africa for that matter. The discourse also includes Ghanaian law as it relates to the subject of Dual Citizenship and The Right of Abode for Afrikans born in the Diaspora. This book can help those who may choose to walk the path of "Return", but should also be read by those who do not intend to re-locate as it is a book, which imparts valuable information about a country in Africa, one of the countries that many African-Americans repatriate to...Ghana. Her straightforward choice of words makes for an admirable, enjoyable, serious and commendable read.
Author : W. G. Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100051093X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Modern Japan written by W. G. Beasley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, much of Western scholarly writing on Japan had in recent years concerned the study of modernisation. The papers in this volume, which were prepared by leading specialists from Europe and Israel, concentrate on the problems arising from modernisation, rather than on an analysis of the process itself. The historical papers deal with various aspects of the political and international tensions that link modernisation to Japanese expansion and the Second World War: the civil war of 1868; early newspapers and nationalist opinion; the Washington Conference; politics in the 1930s; the bombing of Japan in 1945. Those on literature examine some related themes concerning national attitudes, as expressed in drama and the novel, especially in the context of the relationship of modern ideas and institutions to traditional culture and society. Similar questions are raised by the discussion of new post-war religions, as well as in papers on the use of leisure and on industrial relations in contemporary Japan. Finally, there are two contributions dealing with the economic consequences of the industrial miracle that has marked the latest phase of modernisation, one on balance of payments difficulties and one on current plans to deal with the problems of urban growth. Many of these papers present the results of hitherto unpublished research of great importance to students of modern Japan.
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Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Collier's written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Le Ly Hayslip
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307823687
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places written by Le Ly Hayslip and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters langed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children. Before the age of sixteen, Le Ly had suffered near-starvation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and the deaths of beloved family members—but miraculously held fast to her faith in humanity. And almost twenty years after her escape to Ameica, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, offering a poignant picture of vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War—and survived to tell her unforgettable story.
Author : Mori Ogai
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901419
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Wild Goose written by Mori Ogai and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mori Ōgai (1862–1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ōgai’s narrator is a middle-aged man reminiscing about an unconsummated affair, dating to his student days, between his classmate and a young woman kept by a moneylender. At a time when writers tended to depict modern, alienated male intellectuals, the characters of The Wild Goose are diverse, including not only students preparing for a privileged intellectual life and members of the plebeian classes who provide services to them, but also a pair of highly developed female characters. The author’s sympathetic and penetrating portrayal of the dilemmas and frustrations faced by women in this early period of Japan’s modernization makes the story of particular interest to readers today. Ōgai was not only a prolific and popular writer, but also a protean figure in early modern Japan: critic, translator, physician, military officer, and eventually Japan’s Surgeon General. His rigorous and broad education included the Chinese classics as well as Dutch and German; he gained admittance to the Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University at the age of only fifteen. Once established as a military physician, he was sent to Germany for four years to study aspects of European medicine still unfamiliar to the Japanese. Upon his return, he produced his first works of fiction and translations of English and European literature. Ōgai’s writing is extolled for its unparalleled style and psychological insight, nowhere better demonstrated than in The Wild Goose.
