City Of Eternal Spring

Author : NEITH. BOYCE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033121398

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ETERNAL SPRING by NEITH. BOYCE Pdf

Author : Afaa Michael Weaver
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822980308

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City of Eternal Spring by Afaa Michael Weaver Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (poetry category) This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar themes that address the author’s personal experience with childhood abuse through the context of Daoist renderings of nature as a metaphor for the human body, with an eye to recovery and forgiveness in a very eclectic spiritual life. City of Eternal Spring chronicles Weaver’s travels abroad in Taiwan and China, as well as showing the limits of cultural influence.

Author : Côn Sơn Phạm,Brenda Paik Sunoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Đà Lạt (Vietnam)
ISBN : UOM:39015058154116

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Đà Lạt by Côn Sơn Phạm,Brenda Paik Sunoo Pdf

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476708201

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The Best American Poetry 2015 by David Lehman Pdf

Title page verso indicates hardcover edition, but this ISBN is for the paperback printing.

Author : Amatoritsero Ede,Sandra Lee Kleppe,Angela Sorby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000998474

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Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis by Amatoritsero Ede,Sandra Lee Kleppe,Angela Sorby Pdf

This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond. The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity, empathy, and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, and Antarctica, integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues, including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the ecopoetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism, racism, and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading, teaching, and learning can enhance or modify mindsets, the book focuses on offering creative, practical approaches and tools that educators can implement into their teaching and equipping them with the theoretical knowledge to support these. This volume will appeal to educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective.

Author : Matthew B. Christensen
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462918362

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Geek in China by Matthew B. Christensen Pdf

For every fan of kung fu, steamed dumplings, Confucius and giant skyscrapers, A Geek in China is a hip, smart and concise guide to the Middle Kingdom. Packed with photographs and short articles on all aspects of Chinese culture, past and present, A Geek in China introduces readers to everything from Taoism and Confucianism to pop music and China's new middle class. A mix of traditional culture, such as highlights of Chinese history, great historical and mythological figures, traditional medicine, how the Chinese language works, real Chinese food, martial arts, and how the Chinese Communist Party works, is complimented with information on what makes China unique today. Chapters discuss why China is so crowded, what it's like to work in an office, internet and cell phone culture, dating and marriage practices, top popular movies and movie stars, the contemporary art scene, China's amazing new architecture and infrastructure, and popular holidays. It also contains chapters on what makes the Chinese tick, such as the importance of harmony in society, the practice of humility, and the importance of hierarchy. For visitors to the country, the author includes sections on what to see, both common cultural sites and off-the-beaten-track sites, and how to get around in China. Sections on visiting Hong Kong and Taiwan are also included. This China travel guide is a unique guide to the world's most populous and longest continuous culture. Readers will learn essential information about China's past and present to be able to understand the many references to history, politics, and pop culture that come up in everyday conversation and in the media.

Author : R.B. Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9784431550433

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Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities by R.B. Singh Pdf

In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population in 2009 was approximately 3.4 billion and Asia’s urban population was about 1.72 billion. Between 2010 and 2020, 411 million people will be added to Asian cities (60 % of the growth in the world’s urban population). By 2020, of the world’s urban population of 4.2 billion, approximately 2.2 billion will be in Asia. China and India will contribute 31.3 % of the total world urban population by 2025. Developing Asia’s projected global share of CO2 emissions for energy consumption will increase from 30 % in 2006 to 43 % by 2030. City regions serve as magnets for people, enterprise, and culture, but with urbanisation , the worst form of visible poverty becomes prominent. The Asian region, with a slum population of an estimated 505.5 million people, remains host to over half of the world’s slum population . The book provides information on a comprehensive range of environmental threats faced by the inhabitants of megacities. It also offers a wide and multidisciplinary group of case studies from rapidly growing megacities (with populations of more than 5 million) from developed and developing countries of Asia.

Author : Morley Glicken
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595363735

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Remembering Zion by Morley Glicken Pdf

Remembering Zion is a deeply spiritual novel of love set in the beauty and splendor of the American Southwest and Mexico. It is about a man who finds his perfect love and then loses her, only to be given gifts he never dreamed were possible. Remembering Zion is a journey of the heart and the soul. It is about the wonder and immortality of love. The author writes: "For those of you who believe in the notion of the Beshert, that for everyone there is a chosen one with whom we can achieve an immortal love, I hope you find this novel as touching to read as it was for me to write." Morley Glicken is the author of Ending the Sex Wars: A Woman's Guide to Understanding Men, also published by iUniverse. The novel takes many of the ideas presented about love in that book and applies them to people who are as real and memorable as those in our own lives. Remembering Zion has wonderfully romantic descriptions of Mexico and the Southwest, beautiful love poetry, and unforgettable characters who love deeply and show the reader how spiritual love leads to love for the ages, eternal love.

Author : Charles Alan Long
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781460298329

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Poems of Charles Alan Long by Charles Alan Long Pdf

This book is a compilation of poems written by inspiration by Professor Emeritus Charles Alan Long, that reflect a long career of scholarship with many historical and lyrical expressions hidden by layers of research and teaching. A chronology of sorts, it begins in Dr. Long’s youth in college over sixty years ago, and continued until he was 80, as a teacher, professor of research, museum director, soldier, with success in bio-mathematics, natural history, as a philosopher, critic, and member of a progressive family. Some current, practical problems studied from the vantage of evolutionist, ecologist, biblical critic, naturalist, and offended American include the sudden rise of marijuana, political rhetoric, usury beyond decency, and by liberals and conservatives alike the erosion of personal liberty, especially of speech and universities. But the poems, from laments, to loves, to joy, to pathos and death, poverty to wealth, nature, art, music, and poetry itself are presented in almost musical sadness or joy. The history of an intellectual’s scholarly travels, whereas some poems are for children, some for society, some attacking evils, some praising good people, with merit even in deference to religions, many nations, and his beloved homeland. The poems are in large part visits into nostalgia and sentiment. Cultures of many peoples in many nations are described, as are many situations in America. There is, of course, an American core, but surely this poet loves good peoples and the history of Greece, France, Scotland, Africa, Russia, and other places. Loves genuine for many women inspired many lovely poems, a lot of romance. But profound in its argument is love for the poor and unhappy people, love for art, nature, philosophy, even sports, science and math, even religions. It becomes unified by reason, his active caring, and his bursts of singing. Much attention is given to geography, history, science and nature.

Author : Hill Gates
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501721625

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Looking for Chengdu by Hill Gates Pdf

For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan—face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province. That visit was the first of many she would make there on a remarkable double adventure: to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese women and to complete a difficult passage in her own life. Looking for Chengdu is her memoir of these trips. By turns analytic, witty, and bittersweet, Gates's observations on contemporary China are enlivened by a keen eye for the oddities of human behavior, including her own.The vast, inland province of Sichuan was the birthplace of the Chinese economic reforms of the 1970s, and is now speeding from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Was its economic boom transforming women's lives, Gates wondered? After a generation of socialist rule, would women risk the challenge of entrepreneurship? A feminist, she was especially curious to learn what Chinese of both sexes defined as women's rights.Gates traveled—by boat, train, bus, car, bicycle, and foot (her preference)—across the spectacular countryside, gleaning insight into China's massive bureaucracies from her experiences on an obligatory vacation, in a Tibetan dance-hall, and at a shouting match in her Chengdu home. She met dozens of hard-working, stylish women running family firms, and crossed paths with scholars and sailors. Her book is rich in anecdotes and compelling moments, from her journey through mountain villages in search of five thousand women with bound feet to low-voiced conversations about the Chengdu equivalent of the events at Tiananmen Square.A fascinating glimpse into the deeply personal vocation of anthropology, Gates's memoir will change the way readers think about the Chinese people.

Author : Doug Byrd,Diana Maldonado Guiliani
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483654690

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The Forgotten Heart of the Homeland by Doug Byrd,Diana Maldonado Guiliani Pdf

The idea for this novel was conceived in the spring of 1996, at Casa Bonita Restaurant in Denver, Colorado; the title derives from a political tract circulating in that city at that time titled The Fourth Declaration of the Jungle. The forgotten heart of the homeland is a line from that tract. Casa Bonita---also known to fans of TV's South Park as Cartman's favorite restaurant---occupies a large cavernous space decorated to look like a Mexican village, with grotto-like nooks in the walls for a cozier dining experience and high cliffs from which athletic young people dive into limpid turquoise pools. I was having lunch there with my friend Diana, the first time I had been in that place. What struck me as more than a coincidence was its remarkable similarity to a place I had dreamed of, just days earlier. So it came as no surprise when she said: Douglas, we need to come up with something that'll make us some money...a project we can work on together. What did she have in mind? I asked, though an idea was already burbling around in my brain. Since we both did some writing, why not co-author a book? Hey, if Larry McMurtry and Diana Osana can do it, why not us? What kind of book? And sitting there in the warm light of tiki torches, working on a plate of enchiladas, I had a sudden inspiration. In my younger days I had enjoyed travels in Mexico. Also, I'm a history buff, and have always been interested in the era of the Mexican Revolution. And as the unrest that spurred the 1910 revolution persisted up until our own time, the conflict was still relevant in the year 1996. Many volumes have been written on the subject; but---what if a person from our time (a woman, in our case) could travel back into the past and experience it first-hand. It would be the story of a young woman, an investigative journalist, who travels into Mexico in search of the truth, and finds more than she bargained for. It would be a historical romance/science-fantasy epic, part recorded history and part fiction. The deal we agreed upon went like this: I would research and write the book; she would give me the woman's point of view, what a woman would think and feel and how she would react in any given situation; so that whenever a woman speaks in this novel, it comes from a woman's mouth. Once we had agreed on the subject matter for our opus, we paid a visit to the Tattered Cover Bookstore, where Diana purchased two volumes, John Womack, Jr.'s Zapata and the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa the Mexican Centaur, by Oren Arnold; these books would be my main source of information about Zapata and Villa. I also made extensive use of The Wind that Swept Mexico and 500 anos del Pueblo Chicano, a pictorial history, to get more of an overview and a flavor of the era. In time I read entries from the diary of Rosa King, owner and proprietress of the Hotel Bella Vista, an important person in this book. I read the stories of the Generals, of rich landowners, of artists and writers and engineers, politicians and radical reformers, and all these have their say. I took stories from each of these and included them in a single volume, my own panoramic picture of the Mexican Revolution. This book is a work of fiction within a true historical context. Wherever possible I have retold the history as I found it, only changing the wording around some to avoid outright plagiarism. In only one instance did I use an author's exact words to describe a person: when John Womack described Pablo Escandon as the last frail twig of his line---I wracked my brain searching in vain for a better way to put it but in the end found the line too delicious to resist. My apologies and thanks to Mr. Womack. I should add that the ideas of the very clever Mr. Dooley are not mine at all but the intellectual property of Chicago-based humorist Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936). In regards to historical authenticity, there are things whic

Author : Heidi Johansen
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400008360

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Fodor's Mexico 2010 by Heidi Johansen Pdf

Provides information on Mexican history and culture, and shares advice on sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment

Author : Heidi Leigh Johansen
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400016785

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Fodor's 2007 Mexico by Heidi Leigh Johansen Pdf

Provides information on Mexican history and culture, and shares advice on sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment

Author : YouGuide
Publisher : Youguide International BV
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Complete Travel Guide for Colombia by YouGuide Pdf

"The Complete Travel Guide Series" offers a comprehensive exploration of diverse destinations worldwide. Each book provides detailed insights into local culture, history, attractions, and practical travel tips, ensuring travellers are well-prepared to embark on memorable journeys. With vibrant illustrations, beautiful pictures and up to date information, this series is an essential companion for any type of traveller seeking enriching experiences.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822003666799

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China City Briefs by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf