Download or read book A Tender Voyage written by Ping-chen Hsiung and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary range of sources to analyze both the normative concept of childhoodliterary and philosophicaland the treatment and experience of children in China. The study begins with the history of pediatrics and newborn care and their evolution over time. The author moves on to the social environment of the child, including models of upbringing and expected behavior and the treatment of different kinds of children, including the rebellious and the "gentle" child. She examines the role of the mother, notably her close and complex relations with her sons, and the broader emotional world of children, their relationships with the adults around them, and the destructive power of death. The last section discusses concepts of childhood in China and the West. Throughout, the study keeps in view the issue of representation versus practice, the role of memory, and the importance of listening for what is not said.
Download or read book Voyage of the Sable Venus written by Robin Coste Lewis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
Download or read book The Voyage of American Promise written by Dodge Morgan and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodge Morgan, at age 53, sailed around the world nonstop in 150 days, the fastest solo circumnavigation ever made. This book tells the story of that incredible voyage, painting a portrait of a hardheaded, warmhearted individualist and the people who helped make Morgan's dream a reality.
Download or read book Darcy s Voyage written by Kara Louise and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Uncharted Love on the Open Seas In this enchanting and highly original retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet sets out for the new world aboard the grand ship Pemberley's Promise. She's prepared for an uneventful voyage until a chance encounter with the handsome, taciturn Mr. Darcy turns her world upside down. When Elizabeth falls ill, Darcy throws convention overboard in a plan that will bind them to each other more deeply than he ever could have imagined. But the perils of their ocean voyage pale in comparison to the harsh reality of society's rules that threaten their chance at happiness. When they return to the lavish halls of England, will their love survive? What readers say: "Kara Louise is an incredible storyteller." "Such a sweet and romantic 'what if' scenario for Pride and Prejudice fans! A must have for your P&P library!" "Romantic, creative, and witty."
Download or read book The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy written by John MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love s Tender Voyage written by Joan Winmill Brown and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 written by Thomas Pennant and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides MDCCLXXII written by Thomas Pennant and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy written by John MacGregor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"' is the story of John MacGregor's incredible 1,500-mile solo sailing journey on a 21-foot boat in 1867. This book is a testament to MacGregor's pioneering spirit and his role in creating the canoe-cruising craze of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inspiring generations of adventurers to follow in his wake. Although some of his recommendations are outdated, the general tone of adventurous endeavor is sure to inspire readers to explore the world around them.
Download or read book The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy from London to Paris and Back by Havre the Isle of Wight South Coast c c written by John MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah written by William C. Whittle and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah was the last of a group of commerce raiders deployed to prey on Union merchant ships. Ordered to the Pacific Ocean, the Shenandoah's successes compared favorably with the exploits of the more celebrated Alabama and Florida but have never been as well known because the Shenandoah's story coincided with the war's end. The expedition, however, from England to the Indian Ocean, Australia and the South Pacific, the Bering Sea, San Francisco, and finally to port in Liverpool, was one of the best documented during the Civil War. Among the most significant accounts of the expedition is the journal of Lieutenant William Whittle Jr., which is presented here with annotations from other journals, the official records and logs, and newspaper accounts or the Shenandoah's activities. These fascinating primary sources bring to life the history of this remarkable voyage. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Federal Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
Download or read book Notes of Travel written by James Currie and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A new voyage round the world Vol 1 of Dampier s voyages written by William Dampier and published by . This book was released on 1703 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage with Hitchcock written by Murray Pomerance and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock's work gives extensive meditations on six films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion. Murray Pomerance's sources come from a wide territory of interest, including production study, philosophy, cultural history, and more. The book is written as an homage to, and in many ways address to, not only the story content of these films but, more importantly, their overall filmic texture, which involves compositions, visual nuances, sounds, rhythms, and Hitchcock's unique treatments of human experience. The voyage theme plays a key—and moving—role in all the films discussed here.
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the District Courts of the United States Within the Second Circuit written by Robert Dewey Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
