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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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The Santa Fe Magazine
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Stories Old and New
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029580128X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029580128X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html
Bottom Line's Smart Consumer How to Get the Best Deals Anytime, Anywhere
Author: Boardroom Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780887232565
Category : Consumer education
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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ISBN: 9780887232565
Category : Consumer education
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Smuggler Catcher
Author: Mr. Zoran Knezev
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479767573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book "Smuggler Catcher" details my career with US Customs later, after 9/11 renamed to US Customs and border Protection. Every word in the books is true and correct. Together with my highly successful work I had to fi ght for the promotions. This due to the fact that I was still a foreigner in the eyes of some of my supervisors who simply refused to accepts me as one of their own.The book contains a number of original photographs which show some of my successful operations. I estimate that during my work for the US Government we have seized over twenty million dollars of "Dirty Money". I am now happily retired and enjoying the benefi ts given to me.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479767573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book "Smuggler Catcher" details my career with US Customs later, after 9/11 renamed to US Customs and border Protection. Every word in the books is true and correct. Together with my highly successful work I had to fi ght for the promotions. This due to the fact that I was still a foreigner in the eyes of some of my supervisors who simply refused to accepts me as one of their own.The book contains a number of original photographs which show some of my successful operations. I estimate that during my work for the US Government we have seized over twenty million dollars of "Dirty Money". I am now happily retired and enjoying the benefi ts given to me.
Just One Evil Act
Author: Elizabeth George
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698138287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Punishment She Deserves Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as never before. Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim. Just when Azhar is beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss, he gets more shocking news: Hadiyyah has been kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most and how far she’s willing to go to protect it.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698138287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Punishment She Deserves Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as never before. Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim. Just when Azhar is beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss, he gets more shocking news: Hadiyyah has been kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most and how far she’s willing to go to protect it.
Bottom Line's Smart Consumer
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ISBN: 9780887233029
Category : Consumer education
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
How to get the best deals anytime, anywhere.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780887233029
Category : Consumer education
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
How to get the best deals anytime, anywhere.
Sherlock Sam and the Kidnapped Gamer in Taipei
Author: A.J. Low
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814984302
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In the second half of the Digital Detectives Duology, Sherlock Sam, Watson and the Supper Club rush to Taipei to meet up with Eliza and investigate the disappearance of star video gamer Jill Su. How is Jill still streaming on SeeFood? Who is the mastermind pulling the strings behind the scenes? With the assistance of international Supper Club members, Sherlock, Watson and friends have to rush to solve the mystery before Jill Su runs out of extra lives. Includes BONUS Short Story: Sherlock Sam and the Book Sale Burglary on SnackTown.
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814984302
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In the second half of the Digital Detectives Duology, Sherlock Sam, Watson and the Supper Club rush to Taipei to meet up with Eliza and investigate the disappearance of star video gamer Jill Su. How is Jill still streaming on SeeFood? Who is the mastermind pulling the strings behind the scenes? With the assistance of international Supper Club members, Sherlock, Watson and friends have to rush to solve the mystery before Jill Su runs out of extra lives. Includes BONUS Short Story: Sherlock Sam and the Book Sale Burglary on SnackTown.
Kitchen Confidential
Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408845040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408845040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.
New York Journal of Homœopathy
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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A Better Man
Author: Louise Penny
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 146687371X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
“‘A Better Man,' with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre.” —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal "Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions." —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father. Increasingly hounded by the question, how would you feel..., he resumes the search. As the rivers rise, and the social media onslaught against Gamache becomes crueler, a body is discovered. And in the tumult, mistakes are made. In the next novel in this “constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves” (New York Times Book Review), Gamache must face a horrific possibility, and a burning question. What would you do if your child’s killer walked free?
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 146687371X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
“‘A Better Man,' with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre.” —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal "Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions." —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father. Increasingly hounded by the question, how would you feel..., he resumes the search. As the rivers rise, and the social media onslaught against Gamache becomes crueler, a body is discovered. And in the tumult, mistakes are made. In the next novel in this “constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves” (New York Times Book Review), Gamache must face a horrific possibility, and a burning question. What would you do if your child’s killer walked free?