Download or read book COMMONERS ANECDOTES written by AMAN ANAND and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That evening while I frantically wept and walked inside my house, while my mother’s hearse lay in the verandah. Something strange happened. With no fan being used in the house, all windows closed on a winter evening. Friends, neighbors, and my father’s colleague standing outside, I walked aimlessly in my room.
Download or read book Commoners Anecdotes written by Aman and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That evening, I frantically wept and walked into my house while my mother's hearse lay in the verandah. Something strange happened. With no fan being used in the house and all windows closed on the winter evening, with friends, neighbors, and my father's colleagues standing outside, I walked aimlessly in my room.
Download or read book Of Kings and Commoners written by Monisha Mukundan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Kings & Commoners is a magical mix of fact and fiction, comprising delightful stories from Indian history accompanied by a factual account of the period in which they're set. �Illustrated by a leading Indian children's illustrator. � Ages 13 to 16 years.
Download or read book A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes Memoirs Allegories Essays and Poetical Fragments written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prince and the Poor Girl written by Jeff Child and published by Vincent Noot. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard gets bored with his obligations and standard routines, he leaves the palace and goes on a little adventure. He meets a special person, fights a dark figure in his courts, and changes the law through his father forever. His status as a prince isn’t everything, and he discovers it quickly. But his brave character helps him overcome obstacles and defeat obscure enemies.
Download or read book Sporting Anecdotes written by James Glass Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Commoners Delight Reprinted written by COMMONERS. and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious and Moral Anecdotes Comprised Generally Within Three Hundred Years Or From the Days of John Knox Till the Present Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genealogist s Guide written by George William Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kings Commoners and Knaves written by Edward Winter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cornucopia of games, positions, biographies, mysteries, howlers, reviews, quotations, etc., featuring a cast of hundreds from the chess world of today and yesteryear -- the champions and the under-achievers; the scholars and the bunglers; the saints and the sinners. Every page provides fascinating, little-known material from an author who is prepared to name names.
Download or read book Humor and Chinese Culture written by Xiaodong Yue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses psychological studies of humour in Chinese societies. It starts by reviewing how the concept of humour evolves in Chinese history, and how it is perceived by Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism respectively. It then compares differences in the Western and the Chinese perceptions of humor and discusses empirical studies that were conducted to examine such differences. It also discusses the cultural origin and empirical evidence of the Chinese ambivalence about humor and presents empirical findings that illustrate its existence. Having done these, it proceeds to discuss psychological studies that examine how humour is related to various demographic, dispositional variables as well as how humour is related to creativity in Chinese societies. It also discusses how humour is related to emotional expressions and mental health in Chinese society as well. It concludes with a discussion on how workplace humor is reflected and developed in Chinese contexts. Taken together, this book attempts to bring together the theoretical propositions, empirical studies, and cultural analyses of humor in Chinese societies.
Download or read book Kings of the Turf Memoirs and Anecdotes of Distinguished Owners Backers Trainers and Jockeys who Have Figured on the British Turf with Memorable Achievements of Famous Horses written by Thormanby and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The House of Wonders written by Kirby Record and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Wonders By Kirby Record and Manouchehr Hosseinzadeh The House of Wonders is a mythic tale from the imaginary Kingdom of Ajayeeb, set in the Middle East. This book is a satirical depiction of the hypocrisies of government leaders —both Eurocentric and Middle Eastern—as they ruthlessly pursue their own interests at the expense of their countries and people. The book’s protagonists consist of the uneducated and foolish Emir Hallaku, his immature teenage son, Allameh, and the Emir’s illegitimate son, Tallal Marouf, a precocious and charismatic young man, who alone might raise the consciousness of his father and preserve the Kingdom. Meanwhile, the Emir’s Queen Mother and her equally sinister paramour, General Shefiq, work ceaselessly for greater shares of the Kingdom’s power and wealth. What begins as a hilarious, even leisurely tale builds steadily into a tense thriller, as the irresistible forces of change clash with the unmovable wall of blind tradition. Will the Emir ever acknowledge Tallal as his son and do what he can to lessen the suffering of the Ajayeebian people? Can the Emir and his sons find a way to counter the dire threats, both domestic and foreign, that surround them?
Download or read book Selfless Offspring written by Keith N. Knapp and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Western and Chinese intellectuals have long derided filial piety tales as an absurd and grotesque variety of children’s literature. Selfless Offspring offers a fresh perspective on the genre, revealing the rich historical worth of these stories by examining them in their original context: the tumultuous and politically fragmented early medieval era (A.D. 100–600). At a time when no Confucian virtue was more prized than filial piety, adults were moved and inspired by tales of filial children. The emotional impact of even the most outlandish actions portrayed in the stories was profound, a measure of the directness with which they spoke to major concerns of the early medieval Chinese elite. In a period of weak central government and powerful local clans, the key to preserving a household’s privileged status was maintaining a cohesive extended family. Keith Knapp begins this far-ranging and persuasive study by describing two related historical trends that account for the narrative’s popularity: the growth of extended families and the rapid incursion of Confucianism among China’s learned elite. Extended families were better at maintaining their status and power, so patriarchs found it expedient to embrace Confucianism to keep their large, fragile households intact. Knapp then focuses on the filial piety stories themselves—their structure, historicity, origin, function, and transmission—and argues that most stem from the oral culture of these elite extended families. After examining collections of filial piety tales, known as Accounts of Filial Children, he shifts from text to motif, exploring the most common theme: the "reverent care" and mourning of parents. In the final chapter, Knapp looks at the relative burden that filiality placed on men and women and concludes that, although women largely performed the same filial acts as men, they had to go to greater extremes to prove their sincerity.
Download or read book Extreme Killers written by Michael Newton and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of history’s most “elite” serial killers—including Bluebeard, Henry Lee Lucas, and Erzsébet Báthory. “This isn’t a book for the faint of heart.” —Publishers Weekly Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles fifteen of the most infamous “extreme killers” who ever lived—those with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than fifty. The subjects range from fifteenth-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of “Bluebeard,” to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, who inspired the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; to Samuel Little, America’s most prolific serial killer with sixty confirmed and 93 claimed murdered, to Mikhail Popkov, dubbed “The Werewolf” by Russian media for having slain more than 70 women between 1992 and 2010.
Download or read book The Fledgling Handbook 101 written by P. C. Cast and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merry meet, fledgling. Welcome to a new life, a new world, and a new you. Welcome to the House of Night! This might seem like a scary time, Fledgling, but never fear! As you start your journey through the ancient halls of the House of Night, this indispensable handbook will aid you in your transition from human to fledgling. Within these pages you will find invaluable information about the history of vampyres. You will also come to a better understanding of your body's transformation, as well as read words of hope from great vampyres of the past and learn essential foundations of rituals and lore. Now, Fledgling, read on. A new life awaits you; your path to that magickal future begins here!
Download or read book The Duke and the Commoner written by Edith Evelyn Jaffray Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
