Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338060309
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Show timeKaren is going to art camp! She cannot wait to make art projects. But Karen is mad at Hannie and Nancy. They are not going to art camp. Karen works on a puppet show at camp. She makes silly puppets that look like Hannie and Nancy. But then Karen’s friends buy tickets to the puppet show. Uh-oh. Now what is Karen going to do?
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338060465
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Good-bye, Stoneybrook!Karen is moving to Chicago for six months, with Mommy, Andrew, and Seth. Karen wants to be with her little-house family. But leaving her big-house family will be hard. And Karen will miss her friends and her school a lot too. She will try her best to like Chicago. But what if she misses Stoneybrook too much?
Author: James George Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Author: Clement R. Attlee
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "As It Happened" by Clement R. Attlee. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike
Author: Holt Samuel Hallett
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465507876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The importance of the Eastern markets to European commerce has long been recognised, and since the famous Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope at the close of the fifteenth century, and the Portuguese occupied Malacca and established factories or trade depots in Burmah at Martaban and Syriam, the trade of Western China and Indo-China has been a prize which has attracted the commercial aspirations of every maritime mercantile community in Europe. In 1613, the Portuguese were ousted from Burmah, and six years later, the English and Dutch established factories in that country. Some years afterwards the Dutch were expelled, and in the middle of the next century the French became our rivals for a short time. In 1756 the chief of their factory was executed, and their factory was destroyed, never to be resuscitated. The first Englishman whose name is recorded in history as travelling in Siam and the Shan States is Thomas Samuel, who happened to be at Zimmé when that place was recaptured by the Burmese in 1615. In Purchas’s ‘Pilgrims’ it is related that he had proceeded from Siam to Zimmé “to discover the trade of that country.” From that time to 1687, when the English were turned out of Siam for killing some of the natives in a scuffle, many English merchants resided there. Whilst the coast of Burmah was under native dominion, our traders had to content themselves with travelling along the great rivers; and it was not until 1829, three years after we had annexed the Burmese provinces of Tenasserim and Arakan, that steps were taken by us to establish overland trade with Northern Siam, the Shan States, and China. In that year Lord William Bentinck, the Governor-General of India, ordered a mission to proceed, under Dr Richardson, from Maulmain to the Siamese Shan States, to ensure friendly relations and trade in that direction; and in 1837, Lord Auckland, then Governor-General, despatched Captain (late General) MacLeod, viâ Zimmé and Kiang Hung to China, with the view of opening up trade with that country. Notwithstanding the favourable reports of these and subsequent missions, and the frequent petitions of our mercantile community asking for the connection of Burmah with China by railway, no action has been taken by the Indian Government in the sixty years that have elapsed since Dr Richardson’s mission, for improving the overland routes leading from Burmah to the great undeveloped markets which immediately border our possessions on the east. Burmah might as well have remained for these sixty years in native hands, for all the good that its acquisition has been to the furtherance of our trade with the neighbouring regions. When I retired from Government service at the end of 1879, the French were again in the field. They had annexed the south-eastern corner of Indo-China, had seized Cambodia from the Siamese, were determined to wrest Tonquin from China, which they have since succeeded in doing, and had openly avowed their intention to eject British trade from Eastern Indo-China, and to do all they possibly could to attract the trade of South-western, Southern, and Central China to French ports in Tonquin, where prohibitive duties could be, and have since been, placed upon British goods. It was under these circumstances that Mr Colquhoun and I took up the question, placed the necessity of connecting India with Burmah, Siam, and China before the public, and with the aid of the mercantile community determined to carry out a series of exploration-surveys to prove whether or not Burmah could be connected with these countries by railway at a reasonable expense, and to select the best route, financially and commercially, for the undertaking. The present volume deals with my exploration-surveys in Siam and the Shan States.
Author: Peter Ward Fay
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472083428
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.
Author: Webster Griffin Tarpley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0930852885
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Remember compassionate conservatism and a humble foreign policy? You should. Tarpley reveals that the Obama puppet's advisors are even more radical reactionaries than the neo-cons. Check out the rave reviews on Amazon: "a crash course in political science". Distils three decades of political insight and astute analysis, from a unique perspective.
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338060090
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Accidents HappenKaren wants to play outside. Mommy tells her not to go in the treehouse. It is too dangerous. But Karen climbs up anyway. Then she slips and falls. Karen is rushed to the hospital. She has to have an operation. It is going to be scary. But Karen is going to be brave.
Author: Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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