Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620590877
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"All that a young Muslimah needs to survive campus life is her headscarf to stay in one place, the perfect lip colour and friends you can rely on. Oh, and Whatsapp messages that get replied on time. That is all. Amina is a first year student at the University of Johannesburg. Coming from small town Newcastle, this is the freedom that she has been waiting for all through high school. Between juggling the buzz in her head inspired by the super-cute, popular Moe in his sports car and the growing bond she shares with Sue, she is learning the tricks and trials of being out in the big world. Or is she? It really is a challenge. If it isn't about family pressure to get married, and to watch that she isn't gallivanting, then it's the feeling of drowning in the crazy world of young people. Will Amina achieve her Big Houghton Dream? Or is she destined for betrayal? Follow Amina's private thoughts as she stumbles through university, her flirtation with the infamous 'Samoosa Run', fights off loneliness and encounters guys with cracked heels, balding patches and hanging tummies." -- Back cover.
Diary of a Guji Girl
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620590877
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"All that a young Muslimah needs to survive campus life is her headscarf to stay in one place, the perfect lip colour and friends you can rely on. Oh, and Whatsapp messages that get replied on time. That is all. Amina is a first year student at the University of Johannesburg. Coming from small town Newcastle, this is the freedom that she has been waiting for all through high school. Between juggling the buzz in her head inspired by the super-cute, popular Moe in his sports car and the growing bond she shares with Sue, she is learning the tricks and trials of being out in the big world. Or is she? It really is a challenge. If it isn't about family pressure to get married, and to watch that she isn't gallivanting, then it's the feeling of drowning in the crazy world of young people. Will Amina achieve her Big Houghton Dream? Or is she destined for betrayal? Follow Amina's private thoughts as she stumbles through university, her flirtation with the infamous 'Samoosa Run', fights off loneliness and encounters guys with cracked heels, balding patches and hanging tummies." -- Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620590877
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"All that a young Muslimah needs to survive campus life is her headscarf to stay in one place, the perfect lip colour and friends you can rely on. Oh, and Whatsapp messages that get replied on time. That is all. Amina is a first year student at the University of Johannesburg. Coming from small town Newcastle, this is the freedom that she has been waiting for all through high school. Between juggling the buzz in her head inspired by the super-cute, popular Moe in his sports car and the growing bond she shares with Sue, she is learning the tricks and trials of being out in the big world. Or is she? It really is a challenge. If it isn't about family pressure to get married, and to watch that she isn't gallivanting, then it's the feeling of drowning in the crazy world of young people. Will Amina achieve her Big Houghton Dream? Or is she destined for betrayal? Follow Amina's private thoughts as she stumbles through university, her flirtation with the infamous 'Samoosa Run', fights off loneliness and encounters guys with cracked heels, balding patches and hanging tummies." -- Back cover.
Guji Guji
Author: Zhiyuan Chen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958278706
Category : Crocodiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'An egg was rolling on the ground. It rolled through the trees. It rolled across the meadow. It rolled all the way down the hill. Finally it rolled right into a duck's nest. Mother Duck didn't notice. She was reading.' Raised from an egg by Mother Duck, Guji Guji is quite content with his life as a duckling, despite the fact that he doesn't look anything like his brothers. Then he meets three nasty crocodiles who not only convince him that he is one of them, but also try to persuade him to deliver his duck relatives for their dinner. Beautifully illustrated in watercolour and ink, this New York Times Bestseller is the story of a befuddled 'crocoduck' who comes to appreciate families and differences.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958278706
Category : Crocodiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'An egg was rolling on the ground. It rolled through the trees. It rolled across the meadow. It rolled all the way down the hill. Finally it rolled right into a duck's nest. Mother Duck didn't notice. She was reading.' Raised from an egg by Mother Duck, Guji Guji is quite content with his life as a duckling, despite the fact that he doesn't look anything like his brothers. Then he meets three nasty crocodiles who not only convince him that he is one of them, but also try to persuade him to deliver his duck relatives for their dinner. Beautifully illustrated in watercolour and ink, this New York Times Bestseller is the story of a befuddled 'crocoduck' who comes to appreciate families and differences.
Stories from an Ancient Land
Author: Magnus Fiskesjö
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789208882
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Stories from an Ancient Land".
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789208882
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Stories from an Ancient Land".
What is a Slave Society?
Author: Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107144892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107144892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
Revolution and Form
Author: Jianhua Chen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004364854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In Revolution and Form, Jianhua Chen offers a detailed analysis of several early works by Mao Dun, focusing in particular on their engagement with themes of modernity and revolution, gender and desire. One of the leading authors of the early twentieth century May Fourth period, Mao Dun had a complicated relationship with both the Communist Party and the women’s liberation movement, and his fictional works reflect these twin concerns with revolution and gender. Chen’s study examines Mao Dun’s early fiction in relationship to the biographical and historical conditions under which it was produced. Translated by Max Bohnenkamp, Todd Foley, FU Poshek, Nga Li LAM, LI Meng, and Carlos Rojas.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004364854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In Revolution and Form, Jianhua Chen offers a detailed analysis of several early works by Mao Dun, focusing in particular on their engagement with themes of modernity and revolution, gender and desire. One of the leading authors of the early twentieth century May Fourth period, Mao Dun had a complicated relationship with both the Communist Party and the women’s liberation movement, and his fictional works reflect these twin concerns with revolution and gender. Chen’s study examines Mao Dun’s early fiction in relationship to the biographical and historical conditions under which it was produced. Translated by Max Bohnenkamp, Todd Foley, FU Poshek, Nga Li LAM, LI Meng, and Carlos Rojas.
Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China
Author: S. Liu
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137306114
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137306114
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
Inscribing Jingju/Peking Opera
Author: David Rolston
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004463399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
What was the most influential mass medium in China before the internet reaching both literate and illiterate audiences? The answer may surprise you...it’s Jingju (Peking opera). This book traces the tradition’s increasing textualization and the changes in authorship, copyright, performance rights, and textual fixation that accompanied those changes.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004463399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
What was the most influential mass medium in China before the internet reaching both literate and illiterate audiences? The answer may surprise you...it’s Jingju (Peking opera). This book traces the tradition’s increasing textualization and the changes in authorship, copyright, performance rights, and textual fixation that accompanied those changes.
In a Japanese garden ; The household shrine ; Of women's hair ; From the diary of an English teacher ; Two strange festivals ; By the Japanese Sea ; Of a dancing-girl ; From Hōki to Oki ; Of souls ; Of ghosts and goblins ; The Japanese smile ; Sayōnara!
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
As an interpreter of Japan to the West, Lafcadio Hearn was without parallel in his time. His numerous books about that country were read with a fascination that was a tribute to his keen powers of observation and the vividness of his descriptions. Today, even though Japan has changed greatly from what it was when he wrote about it, his writing is still valid, for it captures the essence of the country - an essence that has actually changed a good deal less than outward appearances might suggest. In a word, the Japanese character and the Japanese tradition are still fundamentally the same as Hearn described.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
As an interpreter of Japan to the West, Lafcadio Hearn was without parallel in his time. His numerous books about that country were read with a fascination that was a tribute to his keen powers of observation and the vividness of his descriptions. Today, even though Japan has changed greatly from what it was when he wrote about it, his writing is still valid, for it captures the essence of the country - an essence that has actually changed a good deal less than outward appearances might suggest. In a word, the Japanese character and the Japanese tradition are still fundamentally the same as Hearn described.
Desperate in Dubai
Author: Ameera Al Hakawati
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184002319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Oozing with men, money, and Maseratis, Dubai is the ultimate playground for the woman who knows her Louboutins from her Louis Vuittons. But for some, there’s a lot more at stake than a Hermes Birkin. Leila has been in search of a wealthy husband for over a decade. Nadia moves to Dubai to support her husband’s career, only to have her sacrifices thrown in her face. Sugar escapes the UK in an attempt to escape her past. Lady Luxe, the rebellious Emirati heiress, scoffs at everything her culture holds sacred. Until the day her double life starts unravelling at the seams. Set against a backdrop of luxury hotels and manmade islands, Desperate in Dubai tells the tale of four desperate women as they struggle to find truth, love, and themselves.
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184002319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Oozing with men, money, and Maseratis, Dubai is the ultimate playground for the woman who knows her Louboutins from her Louis Vuittons. But for some, there’s a lot more at stake than a Hermes Birkin. Leila has been in search of a wealthy husband for over a decade. Nadia moves to Dubai to support her husband’s career, only to have her sacrifices thrown in her face. Sugar escapes the UK in an attempt to escape her past. Lady Luxe, the rebellious Emirati heiress, scoffs at everything her culture holds sacred. Until the day her double life starts unravelling at the seams. Set against a backdrop of luxury hotels and manmade islands, Desperate in Dubai tells the tale of four desperate women as they struggle to find truth, love, and themselves.
Imperial Biologists
Author: Hideo Mohri
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811367566
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Imperial family of Japan: For three generations, members of the family have devoted themselves to biological research. Emperor Showa (Hirohito) was an expert on hydrozoans and slime molds. His son, Emperor Akihito, is an ichthyologist specializing in gobioid fishes, and his research is highly respected in the field. Prince Akishino, Emperor Akihito’s son, is known for his research on giant catfish and the domestication of fowl, while Prince Hitachi, Emperor Akihito’s brother, has conducted research on cancer in animals. The book shows how they became interested in biology, how seriously they were committed to their research, what their main scientific contributions are, and how their achievements are valued by experts at home and abroad. To commemorate the 60-year reign of Emperor Showa and his longtime devotion to biology, the International Prize for Biology was founded in 1985. The prize seeks to recognize and encourage researches in basic biology. A list of winners and a summary of their research are presented in the last part of the book. The author, an eminent biologist who has given lectures to the Imperial Family, explains their research and tells the fascinating story of biology and the Imperial Family of Japan. The book is a valuable resource, not only for biology students and researchers, but also for historians and anyone interested in science and the Royal and Imperial families.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811367566
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Imperial family of Japan: For three generations, members of the family have devoted themselves to biological research. Emperor Showa (Hirohito) was an expert on hydrozoans and slime molds. His son, Emperor Akihito, is an ichthyologist specializing in gobioid fishes, and his research is highly respected in the field. Prince Akishino, Emperor Akihito’s son, is known for his research on giant catfish and the domestication of fowl, while Prince Hitachi, Emperor Akihito’s brother, has conducted research on cancer in animals. The book shows how they became interested in biology, how seriously they were committed to their research, what their main scientific contributions are, and how their achievements are valued by experts at home and abroad. To commemorate the 60-year reign of Emperor Showa and his longtime devotion to biology, the International Prize for Biology was founded in 1985. The prize seeks to recognize and encourage researches in basic biology. A list of winners and a summary of their research are presented in the last part of the book. The author, an eminent biologist who has given lectures to the Imperial Family, explains their research and tells the fascinating story of biology and the Imperial Family of Japan. The book is a valuable resource, not only for biology students and researchers, but also for historians and anyone interested in science and the Royal and Imperial families.