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Book Wild Geese and Tea

Download or read book Wild Geese and Tea written by Shu Shu Costa and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wild Geese and Tea

Download or read book Wild Geese and Tea written by Shu Shu Costa and published by Riverhead Books (Hardcover). This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical wedding planner for Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-Americans, this book is beautifully illustrated and rich with history and traditions. Featuring an eight-page color insert, it is an essential guide for Asian-Americans--one that honors ancient heritage as it inspires the creation of new traditions.

Book Getting Married

Download or read book Getting Married written by Andrea Rotondo Hospidor and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a guide to making the most of the time between today and the wedding by dividing it into manageable components. As you plan, consider things your mother probably hasn't told you, like Jack and Jill parties and registering online. Fill in checklists to help you find your wedding style, whether traditional, ethnic, special theme, your own production (or eloping). Charts and tips help you establish costs and budgeting. Then come planning the ceremony, with common-sense etiquette on whom to invite, selecting the wedding party, and resolving family tensions. Where to honeymoon? Look over the great list of suggestions together. You really can manage the announcements, engagement parties, rehearsal dinner, and the reception. Finally: plan a peaceful, lovely wedding day, hour by hou

Book Journey of the Wild Geese

Download or read book Journey of the Wild Geese written by Jayson Lee and published by Jayson Lee. This book was released on 2006 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean immigrants and their experiences in the United States from 1903-1941.

Book The Flavor of Wisconsin

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  • Author : Harva Hachten
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Release : 2013-09-03
  • ISBN : 0870205536
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The Flavor of Wisconsin written by Harva Hachten and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisconsin Historical Society published Harva Hachten's The Flavor of Wisconsin in 1981. It immediately became an invaluable resource on Wisconsin foods and foodways. This updated and expanded edition explores the multitude of changes in the food culture since the 1980s. It will find new audiences while continuing to delight the book’s many fans. And it will stand as a legacy to author Harva Hachten, who was at work on the revised edition at the time of her death in April 2006. While in many ways the first edition of The Flavor of Wisconsin has stood the test of time very well, food-related culture and business have changed immensely in the twenty-five years since its publication. Well-known regional food expert and author Terese Allen examines aspects of food, cooking, and eating that have changed or emerged since the first edition, including the explosion of farmers' markets; organic farming and sustainability; the "slow food" movement; artisanal breads, dairy, herb growers, and the like; and how relatively recent immigrants have contributed to Wisconsin's remarkably rich food scene.

Book Where the Wildgeese Roam  a Coyne Family History

Download or read book Where the Wildgeese Roam a Coyne Family History written by Steve Coyne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish family history is not easy to pursue. This book took the author many years researching the journey of his family from County Roscommon at the time of the Great Famine in the 1840s. They settled in Lancashire, became part of the Irish in Britain, while working as plasterers, house painters, and cotton weavers. We discover where they lived, how much they earnt, and how much rent they paid. As they assimilated into British society in the last century family members contributed in both world wars. In the Second World War we follow the fortunes of three cousins in each of the three services. The family name - O'Cadhain in Irish - translates as 'wildgoose'. Their roaming continued after 1945 with further migrations to Canada. As we discover from what happened to this one family of famine migrants there are plenty of surprises along the way.

Book Chinese Tea

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  • Author : Tong Liu
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-09
  • ISBN : 0521186803
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Chinese Tea written by Tong Liu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to the ancient culture of tea in China and its popularisation around the world.

Book Horns of Dilemma

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  • Author : Peter Rimmer
  • Publisher : Kamba Publishing
  • Release : 2020-01-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Horns of Dilemma written by Peter Rimmer and published by Kamba Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rumours swirling of his parentage, Frank Brigandshaw wants answers: Who put horns on his father’s head? Returning to England, Frank is heading down two paths. One to make them, the ménage à trois a trifle uncomfortable and admit the truth. The other, to make money and lots of it. And so like father like son, it seems Frank will succeed until he meets Connie Whitaker. Meantime, Frank’s siblings are making their own way in a city that is recovering from the fallout of war. Amongst the jazz set and artists living in Chelsea, Beth falls in love with a man who doesn’t love her; Dorian finds himself with a worrying dilemma and Kim sets off on his travels to India. However, when they are all summoned to Hastings Court, everything the young Brigandshaws have come to love is about to unravel, threatened with collapse and truths are revealed. With the flame of empire about to go out, along with crippling taxes, the enduring Brigandshaws strive to make their way in a new Britain in this next instalment of Peter Rimmer’s historical fiction series, the seventh in the epic saga of the Brigandshaws, Horns of Dilemma.

Book Spectacular Accumulation

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  • Author : Morgan Pitelka
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 0824857348
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Spectacular Accumulation written by Morgan Pitelka and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history. This innovative and eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of meibutsu, or "famous objects," exchanging hostages, collecting heads, and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy Pitelka calls "spectacular accumulation," which profoundly affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity. Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to contextualize the acquisition of "art" within a larger complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority, demonstrating military dominance, reifying hierarchy, and advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between cultural history and political history, arguing that the famed cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the landscape of political conflict, but constitutive of it. Employing a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence, including letters, diaries, historical chronicles, and art, Pitelka links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural practices. Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea utensil collections of Ieyasu, from the exchange of military hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified human bodies.

Book The Disaffected

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  • Author : Aaron Sullivan
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 0812251261
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Disaffected written by Aaron Sullivan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came to Philadelphia when the city was taken and occupied by the British army. Aaron Sullivan explores the British occupation of Philadelphia, chronicling the experiences of a group of people who were pursued, pressured, and at times persecuted, not because they chose the wrong side of the Revolution but because they tried not to choose a side at all. For these people, the war was neither a glorious cause to be won nor an unnatural rebellion to be suppressed, but a dangerous and costly calamity to be navigated with care. Both the Patriots and the British referred to this group as "the disaffected," perceiving correctly that their defining feature was less loyalty to than a lack of support for either side in the dispute, and denounced them as opportunistic, apathetic, or even treasonous. Sullivan shows how Revolutionary authorities embraced desperate measures in their quest to secure their own legitimacy, suppressing speech, controlling commerce, and mandating military service. In 1778, without the Patriots firing a shot, the king's army abandoned Philadelphia and the perceived threat from neutrals began to decline—as did the coercive and intolerant practices of the Revolutionary regime. By highlighting the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the conflict, The Disaffected reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.

Book The Glorious Cause

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  • Author : Robert Middlekauff
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-03-09
  • ISBN : 0199740925
  • Pages : 768 pages

Download or read book The Glorious Cause written by Robert Middlekauff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America, highlighting the drama and anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the political and the personal, he provides a compelling account of the key events that precipitated the war, from the Stamp Act to the Tea Act, tracing the gradual gathering of American resistance that culminated in the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world." The heart of the book features a vivid description of the eight-year-long war, with gripping accounts of battles and campaigns, ranging from Bunker Hill and Washington's crossing of the Delaware to the brilliant victory at Hannah's Cowpens and the final triumph at Yorktown, paying particular attention to what made men fight in these bloody encounters. The book concludes with an insightful look at the making of the Constitution in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the struggle over ratification. Through it all, Middlekauff gives the reader a vivid sense of how the colonists saw these events and the importance they gave to them. Common soldiers and great generals, Sons of Liberty and African slaves, town committee-men and representatives in congress--all receive their due. And there are particularly insightful portraits of such figures as Sam and John Adams, James Otis, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and many others. This new edition has been revised and expanded, with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War, military medicine, women's role in the Revolution, American Indians, the different kinds of war fought by the Americans and the British, and the ratification of the Constitution. The book also has a new epilogue and an updated bibliography. The cause for which the colonists fought, liberty and independence, was glorious indeed. Here is an equally glorious narrative of an event that changed the world, capturing the profound and passionate struggle to found a free nation. The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.

Book Once a Week

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  • Author : Eneas Sweetland Dallas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1863
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 736 pages

Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Unicorns to Wild Geese

Download or read book From Unicorns to Wild Geese written by Louise James and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1914 18 War is over. Tom Penry listed as missing presumed dead returns to Blackberry Cottage in the woods at Indian Queens. His grieving sisters Janet and Amy hear that a stranger has moved into their old home and hurry to see. Friend Joe Treggorran is sure its Tom but the man insists that he is Jack Travers and locks himself away when they come. Nineteen year old Rowan Berryman who was sure she saw a unicorn when she was twelve, wanders the woods rescuing sick or injured animals and birds, comes upon Tom fishing. He finds that he can relate to her as she is shy and quiet. When she tells him about the unicorn he admits he has seen a very strange looking deer too. Rowan is under pressure from her father to marry Bill Wilkins a local widower whom she dislikes. Bill attacks her in the woods and Tom comes to her aid. She later realizes she is in love with him. Tom has forgotten that he married before the war and doesnt know he is a father. When Ruth his wife comes looking for him bringing his little son Peter, there is a terrible storm and Ruth is killed beneath falling masonry. Tom is shaken out of his mental state and later is able to explain to his sisters, Rowan and the Treggorran family about the dreadful time at the battle of Passchendaele; the cause of his breakdown. Later he goes to stay with Janet, taking care of his son while Rowan heart-broken and under pressure from her father and Bill runs away to Meg Thornton the woman who took care of the Penrys when they were on the run. Will Tom fully recover? Is he in love with Rowan? Will he come back when the wild geese fly home?

Book Once a Week

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  • Author : S. Lucas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1863
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 744 pages

Download or read book Once a Week written by S. Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wild geese

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  • Author : M. A. Ogilvie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Wild geese written by M. A. Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wild Geese Returning

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  • Author : Mich?le M?tail
  • Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
  • Release : 2017-03-15
  • ISBN : 9629968002
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Wild Geese Returning written by Mich?le M?tail and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as "a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing."

Book Superstitions

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  • Author : William Carroll
  • Publisher : Coda Publications
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780910390569
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book Superstitions written by William Carroll and published by Coda Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: