Istanbul

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Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306825856
Total Pages : 709 pages
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Book Synopsis Istanbul by : Bettany Hughes

Download or read book Istanbul written by Bettany Hughes and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.

Tales of Three Cities

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Three Cities written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Three Cities

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Tales of Three Cities written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Three Cities (A Collection of Short Stories)

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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473365910
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Tales of Three Cities (A Collection of Short Stories) by : Henry James

Download or read book Tales of Three Cities (A Collection of Short Stories) written by Henry James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, ‘A Tragedy of Error’, in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A Tale of Three Cities

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349145998
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis A Tale of Three Cities by : John Lynch

Download or read book A Tale of Three Cities written by John Lynch and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Belfast tends to be discussed in terms of its distinctiveness from the rest of Ireland, an industrial city in an agricultural country. However, when compared with another 'British' industrial port such as Bristol it is the similarities rather than the differences that are surprising. When these cities are compared with Dublin, the contrasts become even more painfully evident. This book seeks to explore these contrasting urban centres at the start of the twentieth century.

Tales of Two Cities

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024403
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales of Two Cities by : Jonathan Conlin

Download or read book Tales of Two Cities written by Jonathan Conlin and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By borrowing, imitating and learning from each other Paris and London invented the true metropolis. Tales of Two Cities examines and compares five urban spaces—the pleasure garden, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant and the music hall—that defined urban modernity in the nineteenth century. The citizens of Paris and London first created these essential features of the modern cityscape and so defined urban living for all of us.

A Tale of Time City

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101567007
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book A Tale of Time City written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling story by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin. London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped - out of her own time. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl. . . .

A Tale of Three Cities

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Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781413718843
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Book Synopsis A Tale of Three Cities by : Marty Penny

Download or read book A Tale of Three Cities written by Marty Penny and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, there are men and women out on the streets who have chosen to take on the ne'er-do-wells of society. The incidents related in this book give an insight into the tragedies and triumphs, the horror and the satisfaction that comes with being a cop in America today. Come along as the author takes you on a ride through the streets of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and reveals a world that is very rarely seen by the average person. From dangerous high-speed pursuits to officer-involved shootings and the untimely deaths of fellow officers, being a cop is not always what it is cracked up to be.

Never Grow Up

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Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 1982107227
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis Never Grow Up by : Jackie Chan

Download or read book Never Grow Up written by Jackie Chan and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You’ll be hard-pressed to find a Hollywood memoir with this much blood and (broken) bone” (Entertainment Weekly) in this candid, thrilling autobiography from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world. Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it’s from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016—after over fifty-five years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones—he received an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in film. But Jackie is just getting started. Now, in Never Grow Up, the global superstar reflects on his early life, including his childhood years at the China Drama Academy (in which he was enrolled at the age of six), his big breaks (and setbacks) in Hong Kong and Hollywood, his numerous brushes with death (both on and off film sets), and his life as a husband and father (which has been, admittedly and regrettably, imperfect). In this “impossibly colorful memoir” (USA TODAY), Jackie applies the same spirit of openness to his “legendary life, with many fascinating stories waiting for you to discover” (Jet Li), proving time and time again why he’s beloved the world over: he’s honest, funny, kind, brave beyond reckoning and—after all this time—still young at heart.

A Tale of Three Cities

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Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Tale of Three Cities by : Ernst Roth

Download or read book A Tale of Three Cities written by Ernst Roth and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Three Cities

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Three Cities written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tale of Three Cities

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
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Book Synopsis Tale of Three Cities by : David Leslie Murray

Download or read book Tale of Three Cities written by David Leslie Murray and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome, London and Paris in the 1860's and 1870's. A thrilling and passionate love story full of romance set during the Franco-Prussian War. The characters are sinister, lovable, human, macabre and heroic in this monster of a novel.

Invisible Cities

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054413320X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Book Synopsis Invisible Cities by : Italo Calvino

Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.

A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))

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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz)) written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.

I Am Jackie Chan

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ISBN 13 : 9780345429131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (291 download)

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Book Synopsis I Am Jackie Chan by : Long Cheng

Download or read book I Am Jackie Chan written by Long Cheng and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the biggest stars to burst into U.S. theaters, Jackie Chan has wowed audiences with death-defying stunts. But who really is this lightning-fast Charlie Chaplin of martial arts moviemaking? Now, in I Am Jackie Chan, he tells the fascinating, harrowing, ultimately triumphant story of his life: How the rebellious son of refugees in tumultuous 1950s Hong Kong became the disciplined disciple of a Chinese Opera Master. How the dying art of Chinese opera led Jackie to the movie business. And how he broke into Hollywood big time by breaking almost every bone in his body.

Tales Of The City

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448126924
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Tales Of The City written by Armistead Maupin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies. Named as one of the BBC’s 100 Most Inspiring Novels, a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain’s favourite gay/lesbian novel from The Big Gay Read ____________________ Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life. Among the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Tales of Three Hemispheres

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Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
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Download or read book Tales of Three Hemispheres written by Lord Dunsany and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And glad they were when they came to the water-hole, where only one white man had gone before, which the natives know as the camp of Bwona Khubla, and found the water there. It lies three days from the nearest other water, and when Bwona Khubla had gone there three years ago, what with malaria with which he was shaking all over, and what with disgust at finding the water-hole dry, he had decided to die there, and in that part of the world such decisions are always fatal. In any case he was overdue to die, but hitherto his amazing resolution, and that terrible strength of character that so astounded his porters, had kept him alive and moved his safari on.