Download or read book Tigers Devils and Fools A Guide to Japanese Proverbs written by Edward Trimnell and published by Edward Trimnell Books. This book was released on 2019-04-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wish that you could speak more idiomatic Japanese? You are about to enter a world inhabited by a host of diverse characters, including: samurai, frogs, snakes, merchants, sparrows, thieves, tigers, devils, and fools. A guide to the most useful and common Japanese proverbs. The proverbs are given in kanji, hiragana, and romaji. English definitions and cultural explanations are included. Recommended for all students of the Japanese language, and anyone with an interest in Japanese culture.
Download or read book Jinan written by Kajikawa Sadao and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his moving memoir, Sadao Kajikawa tells the story of two generations of second-born sons, or jinans, who rode waves of hope, despair, and success across two rival countries and one world war. At age eighteen, with only five dollars in his pocket, little formal education, and no command of the English language, Sadao left Hiroshima. He boarded the Tatsuta Maru alone in 1936 and set sail for his birthplace-an otherwise foreign and faraway country he had left when he was three. In Los Angeles, Sadao would join his older brother, Tadashi. Once reunited in LA, an unstoppable entrepreneurial drive would awaken within the Kajikawa brothers and lead to undreamed-of success. This fraternal force, born from unwavering filial piety and an invincible survival instinct, would sustain them throughout World War II, allow them to thrive once the Allies had declared victory, and withstand the virulently anti-Japanese climate of their native land. Despite the injustice of Executive Order 9066 and the loss of loved ones when the nuclear bomb razed Hiroshima to the ground, Sadao maintained his determined humility, having sworn his family would never know the hunger and insecurity he experienced as an impoverished child in Japan. Blurring definitions of homeland, in Jinan, Sadao describes how unbreakable family ties spanning two warring countries separated by the mighty Pacific allowed him to triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds. Sadao provides one man's intimate, cross-cultural account that breaks the model minority mold and reflects the diverse and quiet-but-indomitable voices of the Greatest Generation. His book is an inspiring and timeless testament to the power, promise, and potential of the immigrant experience.
Download or read book Tigers Devils and Fools written by Edward Trimnell and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wish that you could speak more idiomatic Japanese? You are about to enter a world inhabited by a host of diverse characters, including: samurai, frogs, snakes, merchants, sparrows, thieves, tigers, devils, and fools. A guide to the most useful and common Japanese proverbs. The proverbs are given in kanji, hiragana, and romaji. English definitions and cultural explanations are included. Recommended for all students of the Japanese language, and anyone with an interest in Japanese culture.
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Download or read book The Devil s Tiger written by Robert Flynn and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tigers begin attacking people in Texas, only Arina Yeroskin, a veterinarian who was in on the experimental program that infected animals with a virulent form of rickettsia, "and the reader--knows why the post-communist Russian government wants their prize animals dead, not alive."--Jacket.
Download or read book Hypnotize a Tiger written by Calef Brown and published by Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first longer-format, middle-grade collection from #1 New York Times-bestselling author-illustrator Calef Brown. Moving away from the picture book format offers Calef the opportunity to tackle a variety of themes and poetry styles as well as reach a slightly older audience. Hypnotize a Tiger is chock-full of Calef's zany black-and-white artwork and features his wonderfully inventive characters and worlds-from the "completely nonviolent and silent" Lou Gnome to Percival, the impetuous (and none-too-sensible) lad who believes he is invincible, to Hugh Jarm (who has a huge arm, natch!). It's a whimsical world: creative, fun, and inspiring!
Download or read book Riding the Tiger written by Milena Banks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut novelist Banks crafts a sweeping tale of seduction, betrayal and war...(her) evocative prose is impressive throughout....Banks delivers an engaging tale of forgiveness and the strength of familial ties, even when those ties have been frayed almost to extinction. A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map. Kirkus Reviews Riding the Tiger In the turbulent years of the late 1930s on the China coast, Jack, a powerful foreign business tycoon, and Ana, a sensual and deep Russian jazz singermeet as strangers and part as lovers on the night Shanghai burns and falls to the Japanese. And then Ana simply vanishes. Besotted, Jack returns to Hong Kong determined to find Ana. He must hide his anguish from his fiance, Violet, a beautiful and paranoid Hong Kong socialite, as she begins her lavish wedding plans. As the Japanese army advances, a tragedy unfolds, encompassing the passion and destruction of humans clinging to their dreams as the only world they know changes around them. Half a century later, a young woman lives with a hidden shame. Jardine Woo is a modern Chinese girl who makes a living jumping out of party cakes, but under her cheerful exterior lies a secret: her mother was a Jane Doe, struck dead on a Hong Kong street nearly thirty years earlier, her infant daughter in her arms. Grown up now, Jardine has adjusted to life with no familyor so she thinks. Then, the extraordinary occurs, and her world will change in the blink of an eye. Algernon Worthing, an Englishman on his deathbed, claims not only that he knows her, but also that she is inextricably connected to a long-hidden crime that occurred before she was even born.
Download or read book Dead Jester A fool of Nightmares written by Micheal Peay and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamed of becoming a superhero? Being the one to swoop in and save the day. Sounds amazing, doesn't it? Right up until you grow up, the world kicks you in the gut. My name is Cal, and I was one of those kids growing up. With the real world came real problems like anxiety, depression, and a sense of apathy toward people in general. But life happens fast, and things can change in an instant, I should know. I went to bed one night, ready to die, and wake up built like a freak of nature with the demeanor to match. Now I walk around with a smile on my face and the need to punish evil flooding through my veins. Life is funny like that. Now life is nothing but a deadly joke, and I'm the jester running the court.
Download or read book Buffalo Bill s Bold Play The Tiger of the Hills written by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Devil s Fool written by Raven Steele and published by Raven Steele. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was afraid of the dark until I became it." As the daughter of a magical family, power bled through my veins. The desire to control. Manipulate. It lived in my blood, handed down from generations of witches. They expected me to be the same. Subtly rule over humans, bending their will to ours. But I wanted to be free of my family’s dark world. Their crimes and murders. I wanted to be more. Be different. Boaz, a powerful vampire, saved me from my parent’s suffocating grip. He promised me the world. Seductive. Bewitching. I craved him. His power. His strength. But the devil’s in the details. And even he was once an angel. In this full-length, paranormal romance series, Steele introduces readers to a dark and sexy world full of vampires, and witches. If you like Laurell K. Hamilton and Anne Rice, you will LOVE this series! Scroll up and grab this paranormal romance TODAY for free! ** This novel includes some of the beloved characters from the Rouen Chronicles and is intended for adult readers. ** This is the beginning of a five-book series! Start it now! Book 1: The Devil's Fool Book 2: The Devil's Angel Book 3: The Devil's Soldier Book 4: The Devil Prequel: What Devil's May Come Scroll up and grab your copy! "Thought-provoking, dark, and remarkably suspenseful." - USA Today Bestselling Author, Rebecca Hamilton ★★★★★ "This is one of those rare books that captures me from the very first moment. The first scene was all it took, and I was in love. The story has some unique turns that ultimately set this story up as an epic paranormal romance." - Book Enthusiast, top 100 reviewer ★★★★★ "It is a must-read book! You won't be disappointed!" - Customer Reviewer ★★★★★ Keywords: vampire, vampire novels, vampire series, paranormal romance, witches, forbidden love, love stories, magic, action, dark romance, dark fantasy, true love, free vampire novels, free paranormal romance, free love stories, free dark fantasy, free dark romance
Download or read book The Avant Garde and the Popular in Modern China written by Liang Luo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China explores how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times. In particular, playwright and activist Tian Han (1898-1968) exemplified the instability of conventional delineations between the avant-garde, popular culture, and political propaganda. Liang Luo traces Tian’s trajectory through key moments in the evolution of twentieth-century Chinese national culture, from the Christian socialist cosmopolitanism of post–WWI Tokyo to the urban modernism of Shanghai in 1920s and 30s, then into the Chinese hinterland during the late 1930s and 40s, and finally to the Communist Beijing of the 1950s, revealing the dynamic interplay of art and politics throughout this period. Understanding Tian in his time sheds light upon a new generation of contemporary Chinese avant-gardists (Ai Wei Wei being the best known), who, half a century later, are similarly engaging national politics and popular culture.
Download or read book Ferdinand Fitzormond Or the Fool of Nature A Novel written by F. TEMPLE (Novelist) and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fool s Talk written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Christianity Today Book of the Year in Apologetics/Evangelism One of Desiring God's Top 15 Books of 2015 Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Social Criticism and Cultural Engagement In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade—to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who are not interested in it. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. Guinness notes, "Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we." Following the tradition of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger, Guinness demonstrates how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners' assumptions to surprise them with signals of transcendence and the credibility of the gospel. This book is the fruit of forty years of thinking, honed in countless talks and discussions at many of the leading universities and intellectual centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness from one of the leading apologists and thinkers of our era.
Download or read book Tiger s Tail written by Gus Lee and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Honor and Duty and China Boy comes an ingenious thriller set in Korea in 1973—a gripping story of sorrow, corruption and redemption, with plenty of brawls to boot. A career officer who trained at West Point. The number-one son of a hardworking Chinese family. A soldier still tormented by his tour of duty in Vietnam. Jackson Kan is a man caught in the middle of clashing worlds. Now Kan is bound for Asia once again, this time to the volatile demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. His objective is to track down a missing American investigator, also his closest friend. But in fact, Kan has no idea of the enormity—and the danger—of the mission that awaits him. It turns out that the frigid, barren Korean DMZ is at the mercy of Colonel Frederick LeBlanc, known as the Wizard, a Bible-pounding zealot engaged in his own private, paranoid war on communism. Kan quickly uncovers the depravity and corruption of the Wizard's little empire. But only gradually does he piece together the explosive truth about LeBlanc's secret arsenal—a truth that burns like a fuse between Kan's missing friend and the fragile truce of the two Koreas. . . . Praise for Tiger's Tail “[Gus] Lee's narrative is irresistible.”—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle “A dazzling literary thriller.”—Amy Tan “In the manner of Malraux, Greene, and Le Carré . . . A wise and wrenching novel, beautifully told.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book The Tiger s Daughter written by K Arsenault Rivera and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush new epic historical fantasy series that evokes the ambition and widespread appeal of Patrick Rothfuss and the vivid storytelling of Naomi Novik
Download or read book Sharpe s Tiger written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the first exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. “The greatest writer of historical adventures today.” —Washington Post Richard Sharpe. Soldier, hero, rogue—the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles, whose green jacket he proudly wears.
