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Book Synopsis /The Daya of West Lake by : Richard Vann
Download or read book /The Daya of West Lake written by Richard Vann and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clouds rise on my exited chest. The birds I see widest back to nest. One day, I’ll stand on the steep crest, And oversee small hills of the rest. Fan Qiang, a great poet living in China, has spent five years carefully translating Chinese classical poems penned hundreds of years ago by such literary masters as Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi and Li Qingzhao etc.. While attempting to stay true to the original meaning of the poems and the rhymes in English, He also pays homage to the artistic qualities of each of the one hundred and sixty-two included verses. Shared in both Chinese and English languages, the poems mostly reflect on the beauty of nature and its creatures. Included are his meticulous notes that address the meanings and reasons behind the writings as well as how Chinese traditional culture influenced the poets. The Daya of West Lake is a collection of translated poetic masterpieces, from Chinese to English, sure to please anyone interested in Chinese classical poetry.
Download or read book Rebellion written by Ian Irvine and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hightspall is dying. Every year the winters worsen, and the realm's protective magic disappeared with the traitor-king, Lyf, two thousand years ago. Now Lyf is back, bent on wiping Hightspall off the map and rebuilding his ancient land anew. Lyf also killed Tali's mother and now he is hunting Tali, for the master pearl she bears inside her holds the key to saving the realm -- or destroying it. Can Tali find Lyf before he tears Hightspall apart? And if she does, can she put aside her quest for vengeance to save her country? Or will Lyf cut the pearl from her and use its magic to plunge her world into perpetual darkness?
Download or read book Bouncing Pearls written by Kwan-Hung Chan and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bouncing Pearls presents over 250 important ancient Chinese poems translated into English. Through a faithful translation with appropriate rhymes, the essence and identity of the originals are preserved.
Book Synopsis Dreaming the Future by : Clifford A. Pickover
Download or read book Dreaming the Future written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For countless generations people of every culture have practiced a broad range of dramatic and sometimes frightening techniques to peer into the future. In this fascinating book acclaimed author Clifford Pickover presents a nearly exhaustive list of fortune-telling techniques, from the ominous practice of human sacrifice to reading clues on the Internet.Pickover not only explores a vast and colorful array of methods of prediction--including dreaming--he also evaluates the accuracy of some of the most astonishing prophecies made throughout history. Just how accurate were such famous soothsayers as Nostradamus, the Delphic Oracle, Edgar Cayce, the children of Fatima (whose third vision has only recently been revealed), and dozens more?This book takes us one step further by exploring our own inner psyches: Why does looking into the future provide a source of solace in a world filled with uncertainty, disease, and chance? And why do the most noted prognosticators so often warn of natural catastrophes of biblical proportions, such as earthquakes and floods that will signal the end of the world?Through insight and wit, Pickover will unlock the door of your imagination with engrossing mysteries, intriguing illustrations, and even modern patents and computer techniques. Also included is a range of practical experiments and recipes--from Stone Age to New Age.Prepare yourself for a strange but captivating ride!
Book Synopsis Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment by : Deborah Warren
Download or read book Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment written by Deborah Warren and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You can’t stop language, because when all’s said and done is never.” In her witty account of the origins of many English words and expressions, Deborah Warren educates as she entertains―and entertain she does, leading her readers through the amazing labyrinthian history of related words. “Language,” she writes, “is all about mutation.” Read here about the first meanings of common words and phrases, including dessert, vodka, lunatic, tulip, dollar, bikini, peeping tom, peter out, and devil’s advocate. A former Latin teacher, Warren is a gifted poet and a writer of great playfulness. Strange to Say is a cornucopia of joyful learning and laughter. Did you know… Lord Cardigan was a British aristocrat and military man known for the sweater jackets he sported. A lying lawyer might pull the wool over a judge’s eyes―yank his wig down across his face. In the original tale of Cinderella, her slippers were made of vair (“fur”)―which in the orally-told story mistakenly turned into the homonym verre (“glass”). Like laundry, lavender evolved from Italian lavanderia, “things to be washed.” The plant was used as a clothes freshener. It smells better than, say, the misspelled Downy Unstopable with the ad that touts its “feisty freshness,” unaware that feisty evolved from Middle English fisten―fart.
Book Synopsis Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet by : Roch C. Smith
Download or read book Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet written by Roch C. Smith and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transforming bewilderment into understanding and pleasure while preserving a sense of Robbe-Grillet's considerable richness and complexity, Smith elucidates the defining elements of the writer's fictional world - characters that barely exist, changeable narrators, plots that defy logic, notoriously meticulous descriptions that never quite form a complete story. Smith examines Robbe-Grillet's embrace of discontinuity, circularity, indeterminacy, and linguistic play. Smith also poses questions about how we should view this perplexing writer: as an author of hyperobjective novels and short stories, a subjective novelist, a realist, or a writer who undermines the narrative's claim to represent reality. In addition Smith evaluates the sado-erotic imagery of Robbe-Grillet's middle and late novels as a metaphorical play with textual and social conventions."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Tears of Mermaids by : Stephen G. Bloom
Download or read book Tears of Mermaids written by Stephen G. Bloom and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A round, luminescent pearl is the simplest and most perfect gem. Columbus sought—and found—this precious jewel coveted by his Spanish sovereigns, sparking popularity throughout Europe. Fashion icons Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Grace, and Michelle Obama cherished them, making them iconic. And designer Coco Chanel raised them to new heights, bringing pearls— fake and real—to women everywhere. In Tears of Mermaids, Stephen G. Bloom travels 30,000 miles in an effort to trace a single pearl—from the moment a diver off the coast of Australia scoops an oyster containing a single luminescent pearl from the ocean floor to the instant a woman fastens the clasp of a strand containing the same orb. Bloom chronicles the never-before-told saga of the global pearl trade by gaining access to clandestine outposts in China, the Philippines, French Polynesia and Australia. He infiltrates high-tech pearl farms guarded by gun-toting sentries, farms for pearls in rural China, and even goes backstage at Christie's for a fast and furious auction of the most expensive pearl ever sold. Teeming with rogue humor and uncanny intelligence, Tears of Mermaids weaves a nonstop detective story whose main character is the world's most enduring jewel.
Book Synopsis 149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America by : Julian Porter
Download or read book 149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America written by Julian Porter and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides. This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries. Julian Porter has had a life-long passion for art. He worked for seven years as a student tour guide in Europe and since has conducted countless gallery tours in Europe and North America. His co-author, Stephen Grant, brings a wealth of expertise in twentieth-century artists, and presents them within the framework of a North American–led, sustained burst of originality and shock. Presented with wit and irreverence, here is the best that North American galleries have to offer. Focused and curated to give you everything you need to enjoy the greatest works of art in the best company and save you the sore feet and superfluous information.
Book Synopsis A Unicorn in your Living-Room by : Adela Simons
Download or read book A Unicorn in your Living-Room written by Adela Simons and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a full colour glossy page of the fabulous 'Soul of a Unicorn' image by Josephine Wall! If you have only ever thought of a unicorn as a beautiful mythological creature or even as a cute cartoon character... it may be time for you to think again! A Unicorn in Your Living-Room introduces the amazing qualities of unicorn energy into your everyday life – their peace, positivity and ultimate ability will help you to fufil your soul’s purpose to its highest potential. This exciting and innovative spiritual guide to advancement will help you practise powerful meditation, relaxation and healing. Taking a glimpse at the history and heritage of the unicorn, A Unicorn in Your Living-Room gives you the unique opportunity to have an exciting, fun, fast and magical journey to your own uplifting spiritual illumination. The book allows you to harness the power and high-frequency energy of the unicorns, bringing their amazing qualities of purity into your life. A Unicorn in Your Living-Room is a spiritual guidebook with a difference that will help you to build a personal and uplifting connection with the wondrous unicorns. So sit back, enjoy the ride, and remember: where you find unicorns, you can guarantee that angels are never far behind. Author Adela Simons has taken inspiration from many spiritual writers, including Denise Linn, in order to embrace wisdom and understanding. Her debut book brings the glory of the unicorns back down to Earth that both believers and sceptics alike will enjoy. Featured in The Bookseller.
Book Synopsis Psychics and Mediums in Canada by : Jean Porche
Download or read book Psychics and Mediums in Canada written by Jean Porche and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you think psychics are limited to 900-line phone scams, or whether you are a believer, Psychics and Mediums in Canada is sure to intrigue you. Well-respected psychics, mediums, and readers from across the country - individuals possessing extraordinary gifts of psychic insight - are profiled within. You will also find a history of psychism in our country, frequently asked questions, what to expect from a reading and how to evaluate a psychic, and how to develop your own psychic gift.
Book Synopsis Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi by : Ronald Egan
Download or read book Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi written by Ronald Egan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembered today primarily as a poet, calligrapher, and critic, the protean Su Shi was an outspoken player in the contentious politics and intellectual debates of the Northern Song dynasty. In this comprehensive study, Ronald C. Egan analyzes Su’s literary and artistic work against the background of eleventh-century developments within Buddhist and Confucian thought and Su’s dogged disagreement with the New Policies of Wang Anshi. Egan explicates Su’s views on governance, the classics, and Buddhism; and he describes Su’s social-welfare initiatives, arrest for disloyalty, and exiles. Finding a key to the richness of Su’s artistic activities in his vacillation on the significance of aesthetic pursuits, Egan explores Su’s shi and ci poetry and Su’s promotion of painting and calligraphy, looking specially at the problem of subjectivity. In a concluding chapter, he reconsiders Su’s role as a founder of the wenren (“literati”) and challenges the conventional understanding of both Su and the Northern Song wenren generally.
Book Synopsis Practical Witch's Almanac 2021 by : Friday Gladheart
Download or read book Practical Witch's Almanac 2021 written by Friday Gladheart and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is a universal force but how we access and use it is deeply personal. The 24th annual edition of Friday Gladheart's beloved almanac is focused on crafting your magic. Special planner pages, worksheets, and articles are included to help you achieve your goals, discover your hidden talents, and explore the awe-inspiring beauty of nature, no matter what kind of magic you practice. The projects, articles, and ideas will motivate you to hone your witchy skills no matter your current level of expertise, including divination (tarot, runes, pendulum), herbalism & wortcunning, and using nature's gifts of stones, crystals, and minerals. It can also be used as a companion study guide to the traditional "year and a day" of study prior to initiation or solitary dedication. And as always, it contains astrological and astronomical information, moon phases, trivia, recipes, Sabbats, historical tidbits, and everything you need to get you in touch with the Practical Witch within you.
Book Synopsis A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes] by : Gary Westfahl
Download or read book A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes] written by Gary Westfahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each profession is examined in a compelling essay that is specifically written to inform readers about career choices in different times and cultures, and is accompanied by a bibliography of additional sources of information, sidebars that relate historical issues to present-day concerns, as well as related historical documents. Readers of this work will learn what each profession entailed or entails on a daily basis, how one gained entry to the vocation, training methods, and typical compensation levels for the job. The book provides sufficient specific detail to convey a comprehensive understanding of the experiences, benefits, and downsides of a given profession. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering honest testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
Download or read book Secrecy written by Rupert Thomson and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sorcerer in wax. A fugitive. Haunted by a past he cannot escape. Threatened by a future he cannot imagine. Zummo, a Sicilian sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. Late seventeenth-century Florence is a hotbed of repression and hypocrisy. All forms of pleasure are brutally punished, and the Grand Duke himself, a man for whom marriage has been an exquisite torture, hides his pain beneath a show of excessive piety. The Grand Duke asks Zummo to produce a life-size woman out of wax, an antidote to the French wife who made him suffer so. As Zummo wrestles with this unique commission, he falls under the spell of a woman whose elusiveness mirrors his own, but whose secrets are far more explosive. Lurking in the wings is the poisonous Dominican priest, Stufa, who has it within his power to destroy Zummo’s livelihood, if not his life. In this highly charged novel, Thomson brings Florence to life in all its vibrant sensuality, while remaining entirely contemporary in his exploration of the tensions between love and solitude, beauty and decay. When reality becomes threatening, not to say unfathomable, survival strategies are tested to the limit. Redemption is a possibility, but only if the agonies of death and separation can be transcended.
Download or read book Humbug written by Tony Bertauski and published by Tony Bertauski. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Marley is dead. His business partner, Eb Scrooge, is left to run Avocado, Inc., an innovative technology business, all alone. An introverted shut-in locked away in a Colorado mansion, he changes the company’s mission statement. Only his servant droids keep him company. Until the gifts arrive. Each Christmas, a messenger forces Eb to look at his life in hopes he will change. But change does not happen in a single night. And only Eb can make it happen. But who is sending the messengers?
Download or read book Claus Boxed 2 written by Tony Bertauski and published by Tony Bertauski. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christmas adventures continue. The second volume of the holiday tales you never heard growing up... HUMBUG Eb Scrooge is left to run Avocado, Inc., an innovative technology business, all alone. An introverted shut-in locked away in a Colorado mansion, only his servant droids keep him company. Until the gifts arrive. HEAT MISER When Kandi’s dad gets a mysterious call, they fly to a tropical island. Despite the heat, his sunburned client wears a heavy cloak. The world doesn’t know it yet, but Santa Claus is missing. Kandi knows where he is. RONIN There's one Christmas story no one has ever heard, the legend of the biggest and baddest reindeer of them all, the one who leads the sleigh and protects the herd. Billy Big Game doesn’t want to discover the last reindeer. He wants to capture him. A very good read with an ending that will not disappoint. –Review for Humbug Even Dickens would approve. –Review for Humbug You'll LOVE Humbug! –Review for Humbug Another great addition to the Claus series –Review for Humbug A great retelling of a classic story - with a sci-fi twist. –Review for Humbug A total 10! I love it. –Review for Humbug I absolutely love his Christmas series. –Review for The Rise of the Miser All of these winter wonderland characters are given new and meaningful outlooks as the author re-writes their stories… –Review for The Rise of the Miser A must read for all Santa followers. –Review for The Rise of the Miser Great characters and an awesome twist at the end. –Review for The Rise of the Miser I love everything he has every written but this is a personal favorite!!! –Review for The Rise of the Miser "Tony does it again! Another fabulous installment in the world of Claus that takes me back to my childhood but adds a whole new perspective!" -- Review for Ronin "Absolutely LOVED LOVED LOVED Ronin" -- Review for Ronin "I absolutely loved it!" -- Review for Ronin "The greatest EVER!" -- Review for Ronin "Pick up the Claus series and transform the holiday season into something unbelievable." -- Review for Ronin "I loved the book!! Kept me guessing for a long time! I even had to go back and reread the rest of the series! " -- Review for Ronin
Book Synopsis Pokemon Pokedex: Complete Generation 3 by : Pokemon Database
Download or read book Pokemon Pokedex: Complete Generation 3 written by Pokemon Database and published by Pokemon Database. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pokedex eBook includes the following: Updated In Game Sprites For Pokemon X/Y & OR/AS Updated In Game Shiny Sprites For Pokemon X/Y & OR/AS Updated In Game Data for Pokemon X/Y & OR/AS Updated In Game Base Stats for Pokemon X/Y & OR/AS Updated In Game Move Lists for Pokemon OR/AS Mega Stone Locations In Pokemon X/Y & OR/AS (Some information for OR/AS may change at later dates.)
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