epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:May-lee Chai

Hong Kong For most of the twentieth century, until 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. Hong Kong was originally ceded to Great Britain in 1842, after ...

epub |eng | | Author:Simon, Bryant

HALLEY’S COMET AND BEYOND In 2004, Halley’s Comet hit. That’s what Brewster called Ray Charles’s Concord Records/Hear Music-produced CD, Genius Loves Company. Timed to come out at the same time ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Daniel Bergner [Bergner, Daniel]

SEVEN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI HAD BEEN SURGING. WITH Easter six days away, the river at Angola’s bend climbed past record height and was starting to flood the prison. I traveled ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marnie O. Mamminga [Marnie O. Mamminga]

The Lodge Beckons 1923–1967 “This is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather It was the heart of the camp. Low slung, dark and rambling, its ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Prasenjit Duara [Duara, Prasenjit]

Dialogical transcendence and popular religion Although the emperor claimed exclusive access to Heaven, the Chinese imperial model was not a theocracy. Local communities were permitted to worship a panoply of ...

epub |eng | 2007-11-05 | Author:W. Warde Fowler [Fowler, W. Warde]

505 The locus classicus for this is Pliny, N.H. xxxv. 157. The artist was said to have been one Volcas of Veii. Ovid, Fasti i. 201, says that the god ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Marc Alexander

M MABINOGION, THE Based on a fourteenth-century manuscript known as The Red Book of Hergest, The Mabinogion was the work of Lady Charlotte Guest, published in 1840. It consisted of ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Sheril Kirshenbaum [Kirshenbaum, Sheril]

What His Nose Knows In 2000, psychologists in Texas conducted a study similar to Wedekind’s experiment. Seventeen women—who, importantly, were not using hormonal contraceptives at the time—wore the same T-shirt ...

epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Dirie, Waris [Dirie, Waris]

“Well, why don’t you go to school part-time and work part-time? Don’t worry about what kind of job it is just take anything until you learn English.” “Will you help ...

azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Hessler, Peter [Hessler, Peter]

40 KM/HR IS THE SAFEST 80 KM/HR IS DANGEROUS 100 KM/HR IS BOUND FOR THE HOSPITAL The road climbed steeply to the border of Qinghai Province. We passed slow-moving Liberation ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

By preserving the ruins, the National Trust feeds this belief that the worst is yet to come. Of course, the millions who visit historic houses and gardens have a gentle, ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Sheila Heti & Heidi Julavits & Leanne Shapton [Heti, Sheila]

SURVEY Please describe your mind. Right now especially, my mind is mush.—RANDI RIVERA • Romantic.—EMILY RABOTEAU • High levels of comprehension but lower levels of production.—GLORIA ARMINIO • I would ...

epub |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Colin White & Laurie Boucke

The Other Cult The Dutch possess a proven respect for religion. Traditionally, the country is divided between the Catholic and Protestant faiths (reference books are contradictory about the exact ratio; ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Meg Cox [Cox, Meg]

Homecoming Day The Hoddinott family celebrates the adoption days of two children born in Korea but is sensitive to the feelings of a biological daughter. “To us, it’s a way ...

mobi |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Yapp, Nick & Syrett, Michel [Yapp, Nick]

Other holidays The French have a generous helping of days off. With luck, these fall on Tuesdays or Thursdays, which enables the French to take Monday or Friday off as ...