Download or read book TANJONG LIFE written by Azmi Hussin and published by Clarity Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the cheeky adventures of Joe G as he explores 50 of Penang’s must-see attractions! From the best food to secret scenic spots, Joe G shows you all the fun that the island has to offer.
Download or read book The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sis p 1435 1493 written by Vladimir Glomb and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493) offers an account of the most extraordinary figure of Korean literature and intellectual history. The present work narrates the fascinating story of a prodigious child, acclaimed poet, author of the first Korean novel, Buddhist monk, model subject, Confucian recluse and Daoist master. No other Chosŏn scholar or writer has been venerated in both Confucian shrines and Buddhist temples, had his works widely read in Tokugawa Japan and became an integral part of the North Korean literary canon. The nine studies and further materials presented in this volume provide a detailed look on the various aspects of Kim Sisŭp’s life and work as well as a reflection of both traditional and modern narratives surrounding his legacy. Contributors are: Vladimír Glomb, Gregory N. Evon, Dennis Wuerthner, Barbara Wall, Kim Daeyeol, Miriam Löwensteinová, Anastasia A. Guryeva, Sixiang Wang, and Diana Yüksel.
Download or read book The Asami Library written by Chaoying Fang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Download or read book Life s Handicap written by Rudyard Kipling and published by London Macmillan 1891.. This book was released on 1891 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hell under the Rising Sun written by Kelly E. Crager and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them were eager to face any challenge. Just over a year later, these carefree young Texans would be confronted by horrors they could never have imagined. The battalion was en route to bolster the Allied defense of the Philippines when they received news of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Soon, they found themselves ashore on Java, with orders to assist the Dutch, British, and Australian defense of the island against imminent Japanese invasion. When war came to Java in March 1942, the Japanese forces overwhelmed the numerically inferior Allied defenders in little more than a week. For more than three years, the Texans, along with the sailors and marines who survived the sinking of the USS Houston, were prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning in late 1942, these prisoners-of-war were shipped to Burma to accelerate completion of the Burma-Thailand railway. These men labored alongside other Allied prisoners and Asian conscript laborers to build more than 260 miles of railroad for their Japanese taskmasters. They suffered abscessed wounds, near-starvation, daily beatings, and debilitating disease, and 89 of the original 534 Texans taken prisoner died in the infested, malarial jungles. The survivors received a hero’s welcome from Gov. Coke Stevenson, who declared October 29, 1945, as “Lost Battalion Day” when they finally returned to Texas. Kelly E. Crager consulted official documentary sources of the National Archives and the U.S. Army and mined the personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the “Lost Battalion” members. He focuses on the treatment the men received in their captivity and surmises that a main factor in the battalion’s comparatively high survival rate (84 percent of the 2nd Battalion) was the comraderie of the Texans and their commitment to care for each other. This narrative is grueling, yet ultimately inspiring. Hell under the Rising Sun will be a valuable addition to the collections of World War II historians and interested general readers alike.
Download or read book Singapore written by Gretchen Liu and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Singapore through the eyes of artists and photographers. Each image conveys a strong sense of place, and together they tell the story of a nation and the island they transformed from a fishing village to a global city state.
Download or read book Cherish This Life written by Toh Soon Huat and published by 玲子传媒 LINGZI MEDIA. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is about self-cultivation Life is about sharing burdens. Whether someone lives a life of mere existence with value and meaning depends on one’s own choice cultivation inner spirit wisdom strength and ‘Truth Kindness and Beauty’. The first English edition of inspiring quotes “Cherish This Life: A Thanksgiving” written by Mr Toh Soon Huat JP Volunteer Executive Chairman of Sian Chay Medical Institution has been published. "Cherish This Life: A Thanksgiving," translated from Chairman Toh's fourth book “Cherish Life Be Grateful For Life”. This book presents his grateful quotations for life livelihood and career in an illustrated style. To Chairman Toh "forgiveness, compassion & universal love is an inner cultivation, a life perspective & philosophy, an attitude of gratitude and a bright disposition towards life. These can solve many problems affecting physical and mental health, social harmony, interpersonal relationship, conflicts, and ignorance. With this spirit, Toh Soon Huat runs Sian Chay Medical Institution and serves the public. Publishing and promoting a series of inspirational books is also his way of conveying positive energy to the public with his own perception.
Download or read book Portraits of Places written by Brenda S. A. Yeoh and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features eleven essays by geographers, sociologists and other professionals revealing how Singaporeans relate to specific spots in Singapore.
Download or read book A Chinese from Singapore written by Samuel Wong and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Chinese came to the U.S. for theological training. His goal was to become a pastor/teacher in Singapore. Upon graduation, he returned to Singapore with his Caucasian wife to fulfill his obligations and to do post-graduate study, concurrently. Unwittingly, the young couple was entangled in church and secular politics and they had to leave Singapore. They began a new life in America. At several critical junctures of the protagonists career when he was in a relatively comfortable environment, he moved out of the comfort zone to tackle a new challenge, in response to a higher calling. The detours in his life journey, the prejudice and discrimination in the workplace, the consistent acts of fairness of people of good will, the secrets of his success, and the mellowing of his worldview and religious faith are the substance of this unusual book of inspiration. For a deeper appreciation of one who has led a life full of challenges, a life characterized by many successes against high odds and a life replete with recognitions and awards in secular and religious settings, I invite you to read on.
Download or read book The China Sea Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discover Singapore on Foot written by Dominique Grêlé and published by Select Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Biography written by and published by Gale. This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents brief biographical sketches which provide vital statistics as well as information on the importance of the person listed.
Download or read book God and the British Soldier written by Michael Snape and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, Michael Snape presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain’s vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them. Historians of the First and Second World Wars have consistently underestimated the importance of religion in Britain during the war years, but this book shows that religion had much greater currency and influence in twentieth-century British society than has previously been realised. Snape argues that religion provided a key component of military morale and national identity in both the First and Second World Wars, and demonstrates that, contrary to accepted wisdom, Britain’s popular religious culture emerged intact and even strengthened as a result of the army’s experiences of war. The book covers such a range of disciplines, that students and scholars of military history, British history and Religion will all benefit from its purchase.
Download or read book Eating Together written by Jean Duruz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, “food streets,” and “ethnic” neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways different people live, eat, work, and relax together, and traces negotiations and accommodations in these dynamics. The motif of rojak (Malay, meaning “mixture”), together with Ien Ang’s evocative “together-in-difference,” enables the analysis to move beyond the immediacy of street eating with its moments of exchange and remembering. Ultimately, the book traces the political tensions of “different” people living together, and the search for home and identity in a world on the move. Each of the chapters designates a different space for exploring these cultures of “mixedness” and their contradictions—whether these involve “old” and “new” forms of sociality, struggles over meanings of place, or frissons of pleasure and risk in eating “differently.” Simply put, Eating Together is about understanding complex forms of multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore through the mind, tongue, nose, and eyes.
Download or read book Autobiography Biography in Malay Historical Studies written by William R. Roff and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper was written by one of the leaders of a new trend in the field of Malay historical writing. It reflects the trend of scholars both foreign and local, using Malay as a major tool in research, and their turning away from the colonial record to indigenous sources in order to write a more authentic history of the Malay peoples and institutions.
Download or read book Railway Heritage and Tourism written by Michael V. Conlin and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It explores the challenges faced by developers and operators of railway heritage destinations including financial, legal and managerial sustainability in the modern tourism industry. These themes are exemplified by a variety of case studies of railway heritage in tourism from regions around the world including North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australasia. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of cultural tourism as well as researchers and practitioners of industrial heritage tourism, along with graduate and senior undergraduate students.
