Download or read book Smashing China written by Matthew Toffin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash Hollow has always had a big mouth, poor impulse control, and a knack for finding trouble. Now, as he treks through the jungles outside Chiang Mai, Thailand in an effort to outrun his destructive nature, Ash realizes that real life has no appeal. With nothing back home but two brothers in college, Ash is not ready to return to America anytime soon. Ashs brother, Tom, has always followed his brothers leads and never learned to look within for the answers. As he attempts to navigate life on his own for the first time, Tom immerses himself in a new social circle at Boston College while acknowledging that life is easier without Ash around. Meanwhile, their judgmental cousin, Alice, is frustrated that success has not brought the satisfaction she expected in life. But everything changes when Tom is injured in an accident and must call on Ash and Alice for help. As the family comes together, can they learn to embrace their differences and accept that their deepest weaknesses might also be their greatest strengths? In a series of compelling, interconnected vignettes, three family members attempting to change courses in life learn the ways of the world and how they fit within its boundsor whether they fit at all.
Download or read book China s Economic Challenge written by Neil C. Hughes and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title lays bare the reality behind China's efforts at economic modernization. The author examines issues such as China's WTO membership; the Three Gorges Project; the widening differences between the urban and rural areas; and the situation facing the state enterprises.
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Download or read book China s Economic Challenge Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl written by Neil C. Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays bare the reality behind China's efforts at economic modernization by showing: (1) what is happening to the industrial forces that help shape the economy; (2) how economic agents have behaved; (3) what government intentions really are; and (4) how the transition from a centralized to a market-oriented economy has been filled with contradictions and difficult choices. The author examines issues such as China's WTO membership; the Three Gorges Project; the widening differences between the urban and rural areas; the government's efforts to protect its own interests and maintain stability; the impact of reform; and the situation facing state enterprises, the banking system, the agricultural sector, and the environment.
Download or read book The Chinese written by John Stuart Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sing Red Smash Black written by Macky Levaughn Myers and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play is not history in the sense in which dialogue and word might be used for historical or academic purposes. The intended purpose of this play is strictly for entertainment and dramatical production. For the sake of dramatic purposes, characters have been fused into one character, characters have been entirely deleted, and information gathered may have fallen into the category of folklore due to the passage of time and to the sensationalism surrounding such a tragedy. The reader or audience should, however, discover within the dramatic framework one of the modern-day tragedies that led to what is now known as the Chongqing Model which helped shape China’s rapidly growing economy that shifted from the coastal cities to the interior provinces just a few years after the opening of the Three Gorges Dam and the dynamic success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Download or read book Hydra written by Adriane Howell and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anja is a young, ambitious antiquarian, passionate for the clean and balanced lines of mid-century furniture. She is intent on classifying objects based on emotional response and when her career goes awry, Anja finds herself adrift. Like a close friend, she confesses her intimacies and rage to us with candour, tenderness, and humour. Cast out from the world of antiques, she stumbles upon a beachside cottage that the neighbouring naval base is offering for a 100-year lease. The property is derelict, isolated, and surrounded by scrub. Despite of, or because of, its wildness and solitude, Anja uses the last of the inheritance from her mother to lease the property. Yet a presence – human, ghost, other – seemingly inhabits the grounds. Hydra is a novel of dark suspense and mental disquiet, struck through with black humour., Adriane Howell beguilingly explores notions of moral culpability, revenge, memory, and narrative – all through the female lens of freedom and constraint. She holds us captive to the last page. ‘From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut – elegant, savage, and delightfully unhinged.’ – Laura Elizabeth Woollett, author of Beautiful Revolutionary and The Newcomer ‘A puzzle box of creeping dread, Hydra had me questioning my own grasp on reality. This is sophisticated, genre-defying literary fiction of the first order.’ – Bram Presser, author of The Book of Dirt ‘Hydra crosses planes; it is superb, distinct, and breathtaking. It surprises, disturbs and enthrals at every turn.’ – Angela Meyer, author of A Superior Spectre and Moon Sugar
Download or read book JOSEPH CONRAD 9 Quintessential Books in One Collection written by Joseph Conrad and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 2521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Novels and Novellas: Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Victory: An Island Tale Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard The Shadow Line: A Confession The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Forecastle The Duel Under Western Eyes Memoirs, Letters and Articles A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences The Mirror of the Sea Notes On Life And Letters Autocracy And War The Crime Of Partition A Note On The Polish Problem Poland Revisited First News Well Done Tradition Confidence Flight Some Reflections On The Loss Of The Titanic Certain Aspects Of The Admirable Inquiry Into The Loss Of The Titanic Protection Of Ocean Liners A Friendly Place On Red Badge of Courage Biography & Critical Essays Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy Joseph Conrad & The Athenæum by Arnold Bennett Joseph Conrad by Virginia WoolfJoseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
Download or read book Magic for Breakfast written by Ivy Blyth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grizelda is a girl witch and thinks she is ten years old but isn't sure because she doesn't really know when or where she was born or how she came to have such strong magical powers. She is the Official Witch of Whoomph, an enchanted town nestling in a dip made by a falling dragon and protects it from the dark Realm of the Faerie ruled by Queen Milduna. Time begins to wobble around her and strange things happen that even in a magical world are odd, which all seem to point to the mystery of her birth. Her search for answers takes her on a journey to creepy places with weird creatures that test her to the limit. But she cannot go back to Whoomph until this puzzle is solved.
Download or read book A Set of Six written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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