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Author : Elie Assis
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781646022533
Author : Eliyahu Assis
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781646022540
Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441235602
1 and 2 Kings, like each volume in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is designed to serve the church--through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth--and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible.
Author : Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735224421
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon--billionaire playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty--the hotel hosts a who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward has written a draft of Private Lives in his suite and Charlie Chaplin has entertained his wife-to-be. And a few miles away, Mao and the nascent Communist Party have been plotting revolution. By the 1930s, the Sassoons had been doing business in China for a century, rivaled in wealth and influence by only one other dynasty--the Kadoories. These two Jewish families, both originally from Baghdad, stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than 175 years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and losing nearly everything as the Communists swept into power. In The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families participated in an economic boom that opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil at their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival. The book lays bare the moral compromises of the Kadoories and the Sassoons--and their exceptional foresight, success, and generosity. At the height of World War II, they joined together to rescue and protect eighteen thousand Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism. Though their stay in China started out as a business opportunity, the country became a home they were reluctant to leave, even on the eve of revolution. The lavish buildings they built and the booming businesses they nurtured continue to define Shanghai and Hong Kong to this day. As the United States confronts China's rise, and China grapples with the pressures of breakneck modernization and global power, the long-hidden odysseys of the Sassoons and the Kadoories hold a key to understanding the present moment.
Author : Matthew Henry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773561806
Author : John Henry Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Justification (Christian theology)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUC1C
Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Liberty
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047165365
Author : Burke O. Long
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467468039
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Long begins this volume with a discussion of the nature of historical literature and a survey of its important genres: list, report, story, and history. He then focuses on 1 Kings as an example of historical literature, first analyzing the book as a whole and then unit-by-unit. The work is enhanced by extensive bibliographies and a glossary of genres and formulas which offers clear, thorough definitions with examples.
Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH54PV
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : 0199913706
"An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Political science
ISBN : UOM:39015005119550
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Political science
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50279194
Author : Rev. James WHITE (of Bonchurch.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022416536
Author : Charles Boutell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000467783
Author : Allen Buchanan,Margaret Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521525756
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