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Book Reflections in a Lotus Pool

Download or read book Reflections in a Lotus Pool written by Claire Reenstjerna and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reflections on a White Elephant

Download or read book Reflections on a White Elephant written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Har-Anand Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections On The White Elephant Is A Unique Novel By Mulk Raj Anand Which Shows Militant Hindutva On The Offensive Against Exalted Faith Of Sri Aurobindo. Author Suggests Reaffirmation Of Hinduism Other Than Idolatery As Way Towards Self-Realisation.

Book Under the Jeweled Sky

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  • Author : Alison McQueen
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2014-01-21
  • ISBN : 1402288786
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Under the Jeweled Sky written by Alison McQueen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking story of forbidden love and devastating consequences... The moment Sophie steps onto India's burning soil, she realizes her return was inevitable. But this is not the India she fell in love with ten years before in a maharaja's palace. This is not the India that ripped her heart out as Partition tore the country in two. That India, a place of tigers, scorpions, and shimmering beauty, is long gone. Drawing on her own family's heritage, acclaimed novelist Alison McQueen beautifully portrays the heart of a woman who must confront her past in order to fight for her future. Under the Jeweled Sky deftly explores the loss of innocence, the urgent connection in our stars, and how we'll go to find our hearts. "Beautiful and brave and bittersweet—a moving story of how love in all its forms binds us together and endures, in spite of everything."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of The Firebird and The Winter Sea "Bursting with the evocative glow of long-forgotten India...lures you into a beautiful story of scandal, hope, and the kind of love that marks us forever."—Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House

Book The Key of Dreams

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  • Author : Lily Adams Beck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Key of Dreams written by Lily Adams Beck and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monsters and Monstrosity in Media  Reflections on Vulnerability

Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity in Media Reflections on Vulnerability written by Yeojin Kim and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As monstrous bodies on-screen signal a wide range of subversive destabilization of the notions of identity and community, this anthology asks what meanings monsters and monstrosity convey in relation to our recent circumstances shaped by neoliberalism and the pandemic that have led to the intensified tightening of border controls by nation-states, the intensive categorization of (un)identifiable bodies, and subsequent forms of isolations and detachments imposed by social distancing and the rapid transition of sociality from reality to virtual reality. Presenting various thinkings along the lines of the body and its representations as cultural text, together with popular or recent media productions showing various bodies deemed to be monstrous as they either cross conventionally held borders or stay in liminal spaces such as between human-animal, human-machine, virtual bodies-corporeal flesh, living-death, and other permeable borders, this volume looks into the on-screen constructions of the monster and monstrosity not only as they represent notions of difference, perceived (non)belongings, and disruptions of traditional identity markers, but also as they either conceal various vulnerabilities or implicitly endorse violence towards the labeled Other.

Book China Song

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  • Author : Elizabeth Lane
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1497616301
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book China Song written by Elizabeth Lane and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire overcomes all obstacles in nineteenth-century Macao, China, in this turbulent historical romance from the author of China Quest. Macao, China, in 1839 is an exciting, exotic locale, but is being violently torn up by the ultimate clash of East and West, of godly corruption and heathen pride: the Opium Wars. Caught amid this upheaval is Kathleen Bellamy, blinded by fate but sensitive to the world around her. Even if she cannot see it, she can feel the turmoil in the air as it matches the conflict in her heart. Cheng Lo is the only man able to illuminate the dark depths of her soul. But she is, unfortunately, bound to her missionary father. Will their duties betray what their passions owe each other? Their love is forbidden and their future unseeable, but Kathleen’s addiction to Cheng Lo is about to propel her into a world she can only imagine in her dreams.

Book Monet  Narcissus  and Self Reflection

Download or read book Monet Narcissus and Self Reflection written by Steven Zalman Levine and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Z. Levine provides a new understanding of the life and work of Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the extensive critical reception of Monet and the artist's own prolific writings in the context of the story of Narcissus, popular in late nineteenth-century France. Through a careful blending of psychoanalytical theory and historical study, Levine identifies narcissism and obsession as driving forces in Monet's art and demonstrates how we derive meaning from the accumulated verbal responses to an artist's work.

Book The Lotus Pool

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  • Author : Anne Charlotte Darlington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 61 pages

Download or read book The Lotus Pool written by Anne Charlotte Darlington and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lotus Pool

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  • Author : Chung-cheng Chow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Lotus Pool written by Chung-cheng Chow and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reflections of the lotus

Download or read book Reflections of the lotus written by Guang-zhong Yu and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring Humanities Around the World

Download or read book Exploring Humanities Around the World written by Ph. D. Gary L. Hauck and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is time to pack your virtual bags and prepare yourself for an intimate and fun-filled adventure. As you read and follow this amazing written and photo journal, you will feel like you are at each and every site; someone who is lucky to be on this global journey with a person who cares enough about you, the land that is being visited and the culture described in past and present form." Dan Pappas, Humanities Chair Executive Director, Michigan Institute for Educational Management Hall of Fame Award Recipient, Michigan Association of School Administrators ... A delightful book, full of engaging descriptions of some of the World's most fascinating places, while providing the historical and cultural perspectives that bring a deeper understanding of the peoples and cultures who lived and live there now. Dr. Frank Novakowski Coordinator, Study Abroad Program Associate Dean, Davenport University

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  • Author : 朱自清著
  • Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
  • Release : 2021-11-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book written by 朱自清著 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 中国古代一位影响不小的哲学家——庄子,他好像整天是在山野里散步,观看着鹏鸟、小虫、蝴蝶、游鱼,又在人间世里凝视一些奇形怪状的人:驼背、跛脚、四肢不全、心灵不正常的人,很像意大利文艺复兴时大天才达·芬奇在米兰街头散步时速写下来的一些“戏画”,现在竟成为“画院的奇葩”。

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Book The Farmer s Almanac and Calendar

Download or read book The Farmer s Almanac and Calendar written by Cuthbert William Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stolen Glimpses  Captive Shadows

Download or read book Stolen Glimpses Captive Shadows written by Geoffrey O'Brien and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast," writes Geoffrey O'Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows. This collection—gathering the best of a decade's worth of writing on film by one of our most bracing and imaginative critics—ranges freely over the past, present, and future of the movies, from the primal visual poetry of the silent era to the dizzying permutations of the merging digital age. Here are 38 searching essays on contemporary blockbusters like Spider–Man and Minority Report; recent innovative triumphs like The Tree of Life and Beasts of the Southern Wild; and the intricacies of genre mythmaking from Chinese martial arts films to the horror classics of Val Lewton. O'Brien probes the visionary art of classic filmmakers—von Sternberg, Fod, Cocteau, Kurosawa, Godard—and the implications of such diverse recent work as Farenheit 9/11, The Passion of Christ, and The Sopranos. Each of these pieces is alert to the always–surprising intersections between screen life and real life, and the way that film from the beginning has shaped our sense of memory and history.

Book River of Ink

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  • Author : Paul M.M. Cooper
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-01-28
  • ISBN : 1408862239
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book River of Ink written by Paul M.M. Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extraordinary debut ... River of Ink is what historical fiction should be: immersive, illuminating and captivating' The Times 'Vivid and compelling' Mail on Sunday 'A powerful and timely fable about freedom, resistance and the secret might of the weak' Financial Times _____________ From his humble village beginnings, Asanka has risen to the prestigious position of court poet in the great island kingdom of Lanka, delighting in a life of ease. But when the ruthless Kalinga Magha violently usurps the throne, Asanka's world is changed beyond imagination. To his horror, the king tasks him with the translation of an epic poem designed to civilise his subjects and snuff out the fires of rebellion... Asanka has always believed that poetry makes nothing happen, but as lines on the page become cries in the street he learns that true power lies not at the point of a sword, but in the tip of a pen.

Book Lianda

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  • Author : John Israel
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 0804765243
  • Pages : 710 pages

Download or read book Lianda written by John Israel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1937, Japanese troops occupied the campuses of Beijing’s two leading universities, Beida and Qinghua, and reduced Nankai, in Tianjin, to rubble. These were China's leading institutions of higher learning, run by men educated in the West and committed to modern liberal education. The three universities first moved to Changsha, 900 miles southwest of Beijing, where they joined forces. But with the fall of Nanjing in mid-December, many students left to fight the Japanese, who soon began bombing Changsha. In February 1938, the 800 remaining students and faculty made the thousand-mile trek to Kunming, in China’s remote, mountainous southwest, where they formed the National Southwest Associated University (Lianda). In makeshift quarters, subject to sporadic bombing by the Japanese and shortages of food, books, and clothing, students and professors did their best to conduct a modern university. In the next eight years, many of China’s most prominent intellectuals taught or studied at Lianda. This book is the story of their lives and work under extraordinary conditions. Lianda’s wartime saga crystallized the experience of a generation of Chinese intellectuals, beginning with epic journeys, followed by years of privation and endurance, and concluding with politicization, polarization, and radicalization, as China moved from a war of resistance against a foreign foe to a civil war pitting brother against brother. The Lianda community, which had entered the war fiercely loyal to the government of Chiang Kai-shek, emerged in 1946 as a bastion of criticism of China’s ruling Guomindang party. Within three years, the majority of the Lianda community, now returned to its north China campuses in Beijing and Tianjin, was prepared to accept Communist rule. In addition to struggling for physical survival, Lianda’s faculty and students spent the war years striving to uphold a model of higher education in which modern universities, based in large part on the American model, sought to preserve liberal education, political autonomy, and academic freedom. Successful in the face of wartime privations, enemy air raids, and Guomindang pressure, Lianda’s constituent universities eventually succumbed to Communist control. By 1952, the Lianda ideal had been replaced with a politicized and technocratic model borrowed from the Soviet Union.