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Author : George Washington Stimpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaires
ISBN : 0760738033
Author : Maria Dermout
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590178829
In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things: "Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” And it's true, The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Author : Anna Kovecses
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781847807021
Find out what one thousand really looks like in this visual encyclopedia of first words to see and say. Search-and-find Little Mouse on every page and discover new words with every turn of the page. Stylishly laid out, the book is arranged by theme and features fully illustrated collections of "things", each clearly labeled and easy to recognize. This value-packed 80 page book covers everything from space, to the human body, to the world around us, bringing contemporary appeal to a classic subject.
Author : Judith Farquhar,Qicheng Zhang
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935408185
Examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
Author : Lothar Ledderose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252889
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.
Author : John Spurling
Publisher : Duckworth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0715647318
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2015), The Ten Thousand Things takes us on a journey across fated meetings, grand battles and riveting drama. In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Kublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity with this regime he prefers not to dwell on his official duties, choosing instead to live the life of the mind. Wang is an extraordinarily gifted artist and his paintings are at once delicate and confident; in them one can see the wind blowing through the trees, the water rushing through rocky valleys, the infinite expanse of China's natural beauty. But this is not a time for sitting still as Wang must soon travel through an empire in turmoil. In his wanderings he encounters master painters, a fierce female warrior known as the White Tigress who will recruit him as a military strategist, and an ugly young Buddhist monk who rises from beggary to extraordinary heights. The Ten Thousand Things seamlessly fuses the epic and the intimate with the precision and depth that the real-life Wang Meng brought to his painting. ***PRAISE FOR THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS*** 'It has the sort of sensual prose that makes the reader purr with delight and is surely destined to be one of the books of the year.' The Daily Mail 'Spurling has mastered many aspects of Chinese history and legend.' Times Literary Supplement 'Told by Wang from the cell into which he has been thrust in his old age, the story of his career becomes an intelligent, graceful meditation on the difficulties of reconciling spiritual life with the material world.' The Sunday Times 'I've never read anything like it... great feats of scholarship and imagination have gone into making these people, so distant from us in space and time' Literary Review 'This intricately wrought study of medieval Chinese scholar-artists is wonderfully well imagined.' The Spectator 'It is ostensibly a historical novel, but Spurling has in fact written a love letter to Chinese art.' New Statesman This is a remarkable novel that deserves to be read slowly and savoured as one would a stunning landscape or a beautiful painting.' Herald Scotland 'Those who appreciate a subtle, thoughtful narrative, and are willing to engage with the kind of philosophical questions that are as relevant today as they were in 14th-century China, will relish every page of it.' BBC History magazine 'In this immersive tale of a landscape artist's life, written with restrained lyricism, John Spurling has also given us an entertaining and insightful study about the art of nature, and the nature of art.' Tan Twan Eng, author of The Garden of Evening Mists
Author : Jason Mraz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Instant photography
ISBN : 0615194699
Author : Alexander Roussel
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468943184
Evelyn Doorn is a young girl lost in a world of magic and dark secrets. She is thrust into the middle of a land where good and evil have long battled over control. The few remaining rebels for the cause of the rightful ruler fight against powerful oppressors. Evelyn is caught in the middle of an age-old feud, one that's only hope for any end are rumors and promises of coming revolution. Experience the magical, the vile, and the truly extraordinary as Evelyn searches for a way back home from this place called Orvia, in The Mother of Ten Thousand Things.
Author : Gary Geddes
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781402753442
"Gary Geddes follows the trail of the legendary Huishen, an Afghan monk who fled from Kabul to China and crossed the Pacific to North America a thousand years before Columbus."--Jacket.
Author : Nathaniel C. Fowler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664180193
Unlock the doors to intriguing and lesser-known facts with '1000 Things Worth Knowing' by Nathaniel C. Fowler. Within the pages of this remarkable book, Fowler presents a diverse collection of over one thousand fascinating facts that are often overlooked by the average person. Fowler's language is refreshingly accessible, avoiding technical jargon and ensuring that readers can easily grasp the subjects discussed. This comprehensive volume combines the qualities of an almanac, an encyclopedia, and a dictionary, offering a concise yet enriching exploration of knowledge that truly matters.
Author : Elspeth Beidas
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780789334077
The perfect gift book for every age, generously illustrated with evocative full-color images and striking black-and-white photographs. This is the ultimate book of lists that is sure to entertain and inform—a 1,000-page collection of fun and fascinating facts in a wide range of topics, presented in a wonderfully eclectic format that invites browsing, yet also provides an absorbing read. Featuring over 10,000 entries compiled by experts in each field, this treasure trove of facts, trivia, and bite-size summaries covering diverse areas of knowledge will delight the legions of fans of "best of" lists. Featuring 100 lists each in turn showcasing 100 "bests" covering a wide variety of subjects—including the arts, science, nature, history, sports, design, technology, and philosophy—this volume provides a breathtaking range of informed, accessible, and essential reading. Lovers of the visual arts will encounter fascinating insights into artists, paintings, sculptures, movies, and museums, while foodies will relish the best cheeses, luxury foods, restaurants, and legendary chefs. History buffs will become absorbed in momentous events, famous trials, and great warriors, and sports fans will appreciate facts on sporting heroes, great races, and winning teams. Richly illustrated, this compendium makes the perfect gift and contains an abundance of useful information, hard facts, and obscure trivia. Among the wealth of knowledge in these pages, the reader will find helpful summaries of great art, music, and literature as well as complex philosophical ideas, scientific theories, and history alongside a guide to the wonders of the cosmos, innovative economic and political theories, pivotal scientific discoveries, and game-changing technological innovations.
Author : Robert Saltzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1999353595
Continuing conversations with Robert Saltzman, an extensive follow-up to his first book, The Ten Thousand Things. Robert writes: "I find myself astounded by the unexpected nature of this aliveness, astonished by this apparently ceaseless bubbling up of phenomena as one moment flows into the next. To feel this aliveness directly puts the lie to any metaphysics that claims to separate real from unreal or otherwise to define this."
Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466877511
The World of Ten Thousand Things gathers The Southern Cross (1981), The Other Side of the River (1984), Zone Journals (1988), and a new group of poems, "Xionia," into one volume, allowing us to see Wright's work of the past decade as, in essence, one long poem, a meditation on self, history, and the metaphysical that is among the most ambitious and resonant creations in contemporary American poetry.
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780747585893
A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love
Author : Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226735849
The chapters in this book cover 'Asian Studies: East Asia' 'Biography and Letters', 'History: Asian History', 'History European History', 'History of Science', 'Literature and Literary Criticism: Asian Languages', and much more.