The Publishers Weekly

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2250

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The Publishers Weekly

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Category : American literature
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Pages : 2250

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Publishers Weekly

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Languages : en
Pages : 1260

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The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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The Publisher's Weekly American Book-Trade Journal

The Publisher's Weekly American Book-Trade Journal PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 810

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The Publishers' Weekly

The Publishers' Weekly PDF Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382819635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Amy Tan

Amy Tan PDF Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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In the mid–1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan’s work—once pigeonholed as ethnic literature—resonates with universal themes that cross cultural and ideological boundaries, and prove wildly successful with readers of all stripes. Tender, sincere, complex, honest and uncompromising in its portrayal of Chinese culture and its affect on women, Amy Tan’s work earned her both praise and excoriation from critics, adoration from fans, and a place as one of America’s most notable modern writers. This reference work introduces and summarizes Amy Tan’s life, her body of literature, and her characters. The main text is comprised of entries covering characters, dates, historical figures and events, allusions, motifs and themes from her works. The entries combine critical insights with generous citations from primary and secondary sources. Each entry concludes with a selected bibliography. There is also a chronology of Tan’s family history and her life. Appendices provide an overlapping timeline of historical and fictional events in Tan’s work; a glossary of foreign terms found in her writing; and a list of related writing and research topics. An extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index accompany the text.

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott PDF Author: Madeleine B. Stern
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534172
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Chronicles the life and literary success of the author of the enduring classic, "Little Women."

The Fortnightly Review

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Languages : en
Pages : 530

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The publishers weekly

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1352

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American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan

American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan PDF Author: Elisheva A. Perelman
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888528149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Tuberculosis ran rampant in Japan during the late Meiji and Taisho years (1880s–1920s). Many of the victims of the then incurable disease were young female workers from the rural areas, who were trying to support their families by working in the new textile factories. The Japanese government of the time, however, seemed unprepared to tackle the epidemic. Elisheva A. Perelman argues that pragmatism and utilitarianism dominated the thinking of the administration, which saw little point in providing health services to a group of politically insignificant patients. This created a space for American evangelical organizations to offer their services. Perelman sees the relationship between the Japanese government and the evangelists as one of moral entrepreneurship on both sides. All the parties involved were trying to occupy the moral high ground. In the end, an uneasy but mutually beneficial arrangement was reached: the government accepted the evangelists’ assistance in providing relief to some tuberculosis patients, and the evangelists gained an opportunity to spread Christianity further in the country. Nonetheless, the patients remained a marginalized group as they possessed little agency over how they were treated. “Perelman captures the strategies that enabled Protestant missionaries to become a central force in treating tuberculosis and providing social services in prewar Japan. Acting as ‘moral entrepreneurs,’ the medical missionaries deftly raised funds abroad, gained support from the Japanese state, gained converts, and cultivated a corps of Japanese medical practitioners.” —Sheldon Garon, Princeton University; author of Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life “Based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, this groundbreaking book traces evangelical Christianity and the work of medical missions in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Christianity, disease, medicine, or public health in modern Japan.” —William Johnston, Wesleyan University; author of The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan