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Book Synopsis Mr Wong Goes West by : Nury Vittachi
Download or read book Mr Wong Goes West written by Nury Vittachi and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to laugh - the Feng Shui Detective is back in an all new adventure. Feng Shui master CF Wong's skills and charms are again in desperate need, this time in London. But is the West ready for our Feng Shui crime-fighting hero?
Book Synopsis Mr Wong Goes West by : Nury Vittachi
Download or read book Mr Wong Goes West written by Nury Vittachi and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.F. Wong is not a fan of Western culture, so it seems like his worst nightmare when he gets an assignment to deal with the British royal family. He heads to Buckingham Palace to do a feng shui reading in an attempt to end the Windsors' anni horribiles. But a bomb on his plane might just cause the wheels to come off the plan.
Book Synopsis Compounds and Compounding by : Laurie Bauer
Download or read book Compounds and Compounding written by Laurie Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are compounds words or phrases - or are they neither or both? How should we classify compounds? How can we deal with the fact that the relationship between the elements of sugar pill ('pill made of sugar') is different from that in sea-sickness pill ('pill to prevent sea-sickness')? Are compounds a linguistic universal? How much do languages vary in the way their compounds work? Why do we need compounds, when there are other ways of creating the same meanings? Are so-called neoclassical compounds like photograph really compounds? Based on more than forty years' research, this controversial new book sets out to answer these and many other questions.
Download or read book Globish written by Robert McCrum and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century. As its power spreads, its language follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the 20th century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international trade and industrial ingenuity will bring to the world great works of literature and extraordinary movies, cricket pitches and episodes of Dallas, the printing press and the internet. But what happens next is quite unprecedented. While the global dominance of Anglo-American power appears to be on the wane, the English language has acquired an astonishing new life of its own. With a supra-national momentum, it is now able to zoom across time and space at previously unimaginable speeds. In Robert McCrum's analysis, the cultural revolution of our times is the emergence of English, a global phenomenon as never before, to become the world's language. In the 21st century English + Microsoft = Globish. Globish takes us on a riveting and enlightening journey of the spread of a global English, from the icy swamps of pre-Roman Saxony to the shopping malls of Seoul, from the study of 'Crazy English' TM in China to crowds of juvenile wizards mobbing bookshop tills across the world. Along the way it gives new meaning to a faded old brown parchment (the Magna Carta), a 272 word presidential speech (the Gettysburg address) and a scratchy black and white film of a couple of men in space suits.
Book Synopsis Asian American Literature and the Environment by : Lorna Fitzsimmons
Download or read book Asian American Literature and the Environment written by Lorna Fitzsimmons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies. This collection demonstrates the distinctiveness of Asian American writers’ positions on topics of major concern today: environmental justice, identity and the land, war environments, consumption, urban environments, and the environment and creativity. Represented authors include Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ruth Ozeki, Ha Jin, Fae Myenne Ng, Le Ly Hayslip, Lan Cao, Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Milton Murayama, Don Lee, and Hisaye Yamamoto. These writers provide a range of perspectives on the historical, social, psychological, economic, philosophical, and aesthetic responses of Asian Americans to the environment conceived in relation to labor, racism, immigration, domesticity, global capitalism, relocation, pollution, violence, and religion. Contributors apply a diversity of critical frameworks, including critical radical race studies, counter-memory studies, ecofeminism, and geomantic criticism. The book presents a compelling and timely "green" perspective through which to understand key works of Asian American literature and leads the field of ecocriticism into neglected terrain.
Book Synopsis Globish: How English Became the World's Language by : Robert McCrum
Download or read book Globish: How English Became the World's Language written by Robert McCrum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future.”—Bloomsbury Review It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world’s lingua franca. In the twenty-first century, writes the author, English + Microsoft = Globish.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology by : Laurie Bauer
Download or read book The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology written by Laurie Bauer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive description of English word formation covers inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and minor processes such as subtractive morphology. It combines theory-neutral presentation of data with theoretically informed analysis. Winner of the 2015 Bloomfield Book Award and written by three outstanding scholars, this is a vital reference for all linguists.
Book Synopsis Visions of Yesterday by : Jeffrey Richards
Download or read book Visions of Yesterday written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in its cinema. It considers the role of the cinema in dramatizing popular beliefs and myths, and takes three case studies – American populism, British imperialism, German Nazism – to explain how a nation’s pressures, tensions and hopes come through in its films. Examining the American cinema is accomplished by analysing the careers of three great directors, John Ford, Frank Capra and Leo McCarey, while the British and German cinemas are studied by theme. The analysis of the British Empire as seen in film broke exciting new ground with a pioneering account of ‘the cinema of Empire’ when it was first published in 1973. With full filmographies and a carefully selected bibliography it is an outstanding work of reference and its lively approach makes it a delight to read. Reviews of the original edition: ‘A work of considerable force and considerable wit.’ – Clive James, Observer ‘...a work that is original, mentally stimulating and most pleasurable to read.’ – Focus on Film
Book Synopsis The Feng Shui Detective Goes West by : Nury Vittachi
Download or read book The Feng Shui Detective Goes West written by Nury Vittachi and published by Master Wong Mysteries. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Wong, Feng Shui consultant and amateur detective, travels to Buckingham Palace to help the Queen.
Book Synopsis Hollywood Goes Oriental by : Karla Rae Fuller
Download or read book Hollywood Goes Oriental written by Karla Rae Fuller and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film. In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the 1930s to the 1960s, many iconic Asian roles were filled by non-Asian actors and some—like Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan—are still familiar today. In Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, Karla Rae Fuller tracks specific cosmetic devices, physical gestures, dramatic cues, and narrative conventions to argue that representations of Oriental identity by Caucasian actors in the studio era offer an archetypal standard. Through this standard, Fuller shed light on the artificial foundations of Hollywood's depictions of race and larger issues of ethnicity and performance. Fuller begins by investigating a range of Hollywood productions, including animated images, B films, and blockbusters, to identify the elaborate make-up practices and distinct performance styles that characterize Hollywood's Oriental. In chapter 2, Fuller focuses on the most well known Oriental archetype, the detective, who incorporates both heroic qualities and darker elements into a complex persona. Moving into the World War II era, Fuller examines the Oriental character as political enemy and cultural outsider in chapter 3, drawing a distinction between the "good" Chinese and the "sinister" Japanese character. In chapter 4, she traces a shift back to a seemingly more benign, erotic, and often comedic depiction of Oriental characters after the war. While Hollywood Goes Oriental primarily focuses on representations of Oriental characters by Caucasian actors, Fuller includes examples of performances by non-Caucasian actors as well. She also delves into the origination, connotations, and repercussions of the loaded term "yellowface," which has been appropriated for many causes. Students, scholars of film, and anyone interested in Asian and cultural studies will appreciate this insightful study.
Download or read book Within Our Gates written by Alan Gevinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Facilities, Mail, and Labor Management Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :456 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Status of U.S. Postal Service in the Western Region by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Facilities, Mail, and Labor Management
Download or read book Status of U.S. Postal Service in the Western Region written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Facilities, Mail, and Labor Management and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Hollywood Classics Index, Books 1-16: A-Z by : John Reid
Download or read book Hollywood Classics Index, Books 1-16: A-Z written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cumulative index to all the films detailed and reviewed in the "Hollywood Classics" series to date, features both original release and alternative titles, together with the year of production. This book is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of original movie posters, many from the author's private collection.
Book Synopsis Hollywood Classics Index Books 1-16: M-Z by : John H. Reid
Download or read book Hollywood Classics Index Books 1-16: M-Z written by John H. Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1286 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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