Children will find a book about China very interesting. This will introduce children to a new way of life. This will also introduce children how children in China live on a daily basis. This will make children use their imagination to the fullest extent. Children will also be able to find out about different types of food that were never introduced to them. Children can also see how technology effects China on a daily basis. This will be a book ...
From cuisine and martial arts to sex and self-esteem, <i>East Eats West</i> shines new light on the bridges and crossroads where two hemispheres meld into one worldwide “immigrant nation.” In this new nation, with its amalgamation of divergent ideas, tastes, and styles, today's bold fusion becomes tomorrow's classic. But while the space between East and West continues to shrink in this age of globalizati ...
In this deeply moving collection of short stories and essays, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeño/Cahuilla) cements his voice not only as a wry commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing. In Johnson's stories, all of which are set on the fictional San Ignacio reservation in Southern California, we meet unforgettable characters like Plato Pena, the Stanford-bound geek who reads Kahlil Gibran dur ...
Коллективная монография междисциплинарного коллектива ученых – философов, психологов и литературоведов – рассматривает с разных сторон феномен поэзии и закономерности ее восприятия и воздействия на сознание читателей, как наиболее общие вопросы ее определения и функционирования в обществе, так и сравнительно частные аспекты, сквозь призму которых феномен поэзии обнаруживает свою многогранность. Специалистам в области философии искусства, психол ...
The stories in this book, originally published as a double number of Dickens' 'All Year Round'-magazine, come from the likes of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter, George Sala and Hesba Stretton. Included are 'The Mortals in the House', 'The Ghost in the Clock Room', 'The Ghost in the Double Room', 'The Ghost in the Picture Room', 'The Ghost in the ...
Mr. Wilkie Collins can tell a story well, and he has an ingenious knack of stringing stories together. After Dark consisted of a series of stories, and admirable they were, and 'The Queen of Hearts' is a work of the same description. The author lives in the region of fiction; but he does not aim at the higher objects contemplated by the more gifted writers of his class. He does not affect to be profound, philosophical, or didactic. His ...
