Download or read book China in Ten Words written by Yu Hua and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.
Download or read book Lord of my Heart written by Jo Beverley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jo Putney declared Jo Beverley “a born storyteller” after reading Lord of My Heart, and Roberta Gellis praised it “a delightful book with warm, lively characters—an exciting pleasure to read.” Now, at last, this classic romance is back in print.... To save her barony from ruin, Madeleine de la Haute Vironge must wed one of a trio of lords offered by King William. A shocking twist of fate impels the convent-bred beauty into the arms of the most dangerous of the three—a magnificent, exciting stranger Madeleine desires…but also fears. Torn between familial loyalties and devotion to his king, handsome Aimery de Gaillard prowls the forest as the Golden Hart, devoted to helping the common English folk. But the beautiful young heiress he is honor bound to marry suspects his secret, threatening his cause and his life. Yet his noble heart, hardened by mistrust, aches with passion for Madeleine’s sensuous innocence—entreating the daring outlaw to surrender to the glory, the rapture…and the peril of love.
Download or read book The Investigation written by Stanislaw Lem and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize–winning author. The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would expect. In fact, it is not one any sane man would care to entertain. Bodies are disappearing. The initial assumption is that a grave robber is roaming London and defiling local morgues. But upon further examination, it seems the deceased are, in fact, resurrecting. As Gregory stumbles his way through the tangled clues, seeking advice from scientific, philosophical, and theological experts alike, he finds himself tossed into a baffling metaphysical puzzle of incomprehensible truths and unbelievable realities. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “closer to Kafka than the police precinct house,” Lem’s intelligent and puzzling foray into the mystery genre offers an appealing combination of disturbance and delight.
Download or read book Sceptical Essays written by Bertrand Russell and published by Unwin Hyman. This book was released on 1977 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and subversive' - a belief that reason should determine human actions. Unwittingly foreseeing the horrors that resulted in the ensuing years from the irrational passions of religious and political beliefs, it is no wonder that Sceptical Essays has never been out of print since its first publication 1928." "Today, besieged as we are by the numbing onslaught of twenty-first-century capitalism, Russell's defence of scepticism and independence of mind is as timely as ever. In clear, engaging prose, he guides us through the key philosophical issues that affect our daily life - freedom, happiness, emotions, ethics and beliefs - and offers no-nonsense advice. What would be the effect, he asks his readers with playful irony, 'of a spread of rational scepticism?'"--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Fandom written by Anna Day and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet's in her element - cosplay at the ready, she can't wait to feel part of her favourite fandom: 'The Gallows Dance', a mega book and movie franchise. But when a freak accident transports her into the story for real, can Violet play out the plot the way it was written?
Download or read book Current Debates in Business Studies written by Selva Staub and published by IJOPEC Publication. This book was released on 2018 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Champion written by Jo Beverley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Damsel’s Plight Orphaned and desperate, Imogen of Carrisford flees when a brutal lord invades and takes possession of her castle. There is only one man she can turn to for help. A Knight's Rescue He is FitzRoger of Cleeve, rumored to be a ruthless champion in battle and a tyrannical master. Imogen is stunned at the very sight of his powerful body, yet it is his cool green eyes that penetrate her very soul, making her tremble with both fear and desire. Sheltered all her life, she needs such a man to defend and protect her…yet she dares not trust him to put her desires before his own. But even as she vows independence, boldly standing beside him against treacherous enemies, her defenses crumble…falling helplessly to the gentle fury of her warrior’s love.
Download or read book A Student Grammar of Turkish written by F. Nihan Ketrez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to Turkish grammar, designed specifically for English-speaking students and professionals.
Download or read book Current Debates in Business Studies written by F. Burcu Candan and published by IJOPEC. This book was released on 2018 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a product of the need of understanding the new debates from the perspective of business studies. First part includes the topics that define some of the contemporary issues in accounting, as well as demonstrate how accounting practices change to adapt necessities of time. Part II deals with contemporary marketing topics indicating the importance of consumer in today’s business and the necessity of understanding consumers. Finally, the last part of the book, includes writing related to new methods and approaches in operation management and production that gain importance parallel to development in industry.
Download or read book Current Debates in International Relations Law written by Övgü Kalkan Küçüksolak and published by ismail siriner. This book was released on 2018 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of CUDES 2017, wide spectrum of topics that occupy primary place in the current debates of International Relations and Law were addressed by the papers presented at the Current Debates in Social Sciences Conference which was held in İstanbul, on December 14-16, 2017. The purpose of this conference was to provide a forum for scholars, researchers and students to foster discussion and expand understanding on the current themes of Social Sciences. In parallel to changing and multiplying dynamics of world politics, papers reflect diversity of issues in International Relations and Law including: the impacts of the Syrian Refugee Crisis on EU-Turkey relations, lone wolf terrorism, energy security, Russia’s domestic factors in its foreign policy, foreign policy of Iran and Russia in the Middle East, Mirziyoyev’s first year in presidency, Turkish foreign aid under the Justice and Development Party, the place of civil aviation in Turkish foreign policy as a soft power instrument, the Kosovo intervention in the context of UN’s human security discourse, UN and gender issues, mediation in international law and Turkey, the development of good corporate governance in Turkey, Ombudsman institution in Turkey, the status of surviving spouse in terms of law of succession and the regime of participation in acquired property in Turkey, legitimacy of censorship in the West from the perspective of human rights, intellectual property protection for plant innovation, legal framework of ‘autonomy in modern liberal eugenics’, the impact of the new technologies on the law.
Download or read book Current Debates in Film Media Studies written by Emrah Doğan and published by IJOPEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, prepared within the scope of current debates in social sciences, explores significant researches made in both film and media studies in parallel with the acceleration in interdisciplinary studies. In the field of film studies, some of the themes represented in the film are evaluated by using qualitative critical analysis, but the directors' view of cinema is filtered through a critical filter. In the media section, internet self-efficacy based on the aims of using social media, digital literacy levels and innovative personality profiles of young people in the rapidly developing new communication technologies are examined.
Download or read book Bu Bir A k ark s De il This is Not A Love Song written by F. Javier Panera Cuevas and published by Pera Müzesi. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bu Bir Aşk Şarkısı Değil: Video Sanatı ve Pop Müzik İlişkisi sergi kataloğu, video sanatının pop müzik ile ilişkisini ele alıyor ve aralarındaki etkileşimlere odaklanıyor, 1960’lardan günümüze pop müzik ile video sanatının kesiştiği yolların izini sürüyor. Serginin küratörü F. Javier Panera Cuevas’ın video sanatı ve pop müzik ilişkisini ele alan metni ile Pop İçinde Sanat / Sanat İçinde Pop, Histeri ve Din, Rock ve Kavramsal Sanat: ‘Müzisyen Olmayanlar’ ile ‘Sanatçı Olmayanlar’ Karşı Karşıya, Rock ve İkizi: Bir “Alet Çantası” Olarak Pop Müzik ve Dans Müziği Politikaları başlıklı beş bölümden oluşan sergi kataloğu, sergide yer alan işlerle ilgili detaylı bilgiler içeriyor. Bu Bir Aşk Şarkısı Değil, müzik ile görsel sanatlar arasındaki ilişkinin son dönemde müzisyenler ile sanatçıların kendilerini egemen kültürel sistemin aktörü olarak konumlandırdığı veya o sistemde ardında, Greil Marcus’un deyişiyle, “silindikten sonra hafızamızda derin bir iz bırakan ruj lekesi gibi” geçici ama yoğun izler bırakarak küçük direniş biçimleri benimseyip muhaliflere dönüştüğü başka bir sanat tarihi üzerine düşünmeye teşvik ediyor. ---- This is Not a Love Song: Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers exhibition catalogue traces the genealogy of the relations between video art and pop music from the 1960s to today in which video art and pop music crossed roads. The catalogue features a substantial essay on video art and pop music relationship by curator F. Javier Panera Cuevas. The five chapters in the catalogue Art in Pop, Pop in Art, Hysteria and Religion, ‘Non-Musicians’ vs ‘Non-Artists’ Rock and Conceptual Art, Rock and Its Double: Pop Music as a ‘Toolbox’ and Dance Music Politics present a deeper look into the works in the exhibition. This is Not a Love Song suggests that the relations between music and the visual arts force us to reconsider another history of art, in which musicians and artists can position themselves either as actors in the hegemonic cultural system or as critical radicals whose traces, as Greil Marcus would say, can be as intense and as short-lived 'as a lipstick stain that is removed but leaves a profound imprint on our memory.
Download or read book Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture written by Yosef Garfinkel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nomadic hunters and gatherers of the ancient Near East turned to agriculture for their livelihood and settled into villages, religious ceremonies involving dancing became their primary means for bonding individuals into communities and households into villages. So important was dance that scenes of dancing are among the oldest and most persistent themes in Near Eastern prehistoric art, and these depictions of dance accompanied the spread of agriculture into surrounding regions of Europe and Africa. In this pathfinding book, Yosef Garfinkel analyzes depictions of dancing found on archaeological objects from the Near East, southeastern Europe, and Egypt to offer the first comprehensive look at the role of dance in these Neolithic (7000-4000 BC) societies. In the first part of the book, Garfinkel examines the structure of dance, its functional roles in the community (with comparisons to dance in modern pre-state societies), and its cognitive, or symbolic, aspects. This analysis leads him to assert that scenes of dancing depict real community rituals linked to the agricultural cycle and that dance was essential for maintaining these calendrical rituals and passing them on to succeeding generations. In the concluding section of the book, Garfinkel presents and discusses the extensive archaeological data—some 400 depictions of dance—on which his study is based.
Download or read book Global Agenda in Social Sciences written by İsmail Şiriner and published by IJOPEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taming the Wolf written by Deborah Simmons and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious maiden …for the formidable knight Dunstan de Burgh, Baron of Wessex, rescues a lost maiden—only to realize she can’t remember who she is! When his inquiries reveal she’s heiress Marion Warenne, he escorts her home. An easy task for the man often likened to a wolf: fierce and ever alert to danger. Yet his brave, intriguing charge is inexplicably fearful of returning and tries to run away! And, even more perilously, she’s slipping past his guard and into his heart… Previously published.
Download or read book Promoting Mental Health written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health can be improved through the collective action of society. Improving mental health requires broadly based policies and programmes, as well as specific activities in the health field relating to the prevention and treatment of ill health. .
Download or read book The de Burghs written by Deborah Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
