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Alluring Beauty Who Shakes the World: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Gu XiaoShian imperial edict said that the young miss of the feng family had been married off to the unparalleled beauty of prince jing he had thought that he would be able to run away after completing his goal but now he had fallen into a pit once more your highness you said that you won't touch me a certain woman stepped back that was because you were too young so it wasn't convenient for you prince you are a gentleman if you say something you will not be able to keep up with it yeah so i definitely can't let you go he had clearly said that he would succeed and retreat the female looked at the big tailed wolf that was slowly approaching and wanted to cry but no tears came out
Alluring Beauty Who Shakes the World: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Gu XiaoShian imperial edict said that the young miss of the feng family had been married off to the unparalleled beauty of prince jing he had thought that he would be able to run away after completing his goal but now he had fallen into a pit once more your highness you said that you won't touch me a certain woman stepped back that was because you were too young so it wasn't convenient for you prince you are a gentleman if you say something you will not be able to keep up with it yeah so i definitely can't let you go he had clearly said that he would succeed and retreat the female looked at the big tailed wolf that was slowly approaching and wanted to cry but no tears came out
Alluring Beauty Who Shakes the World: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Gu XiaoShian imperial edict said that the young miss of the feng family had been married off to the unparalleled beauty of prince jing he had thought that he would be able to run away after completing his goal but now he had fallen into a pit once more your highness you said that you won't touch me a certain woman stepped back that was because you were too young so it wasn't convenient for you prince you are a gentleman if you say something you will not be able to keep up with it yeah so i definitely can't let you go he had clearly said that he would succeed and retreat the female looked at the big tailed wolf that was slowly approaching and wanted to cry but no tears came out
Alluring Beauty Who Shakes the World: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Gu XiaoShian imperial edict said that the young miss of the feng family had been married off to the unparalleled beauty of prince jing he had thought that he would be able to run away after completing his goal but now he had fallen into a pit once more your highness you said that you won't touch me a certain woman stepped back that was because you were too young so it wasn't convenient for you prince you are a gentleman if you say something you will not be able to keep up with it yeah so i definitely can't let you go he had clearly said that he would succeed and retreat the female looked at the big tailed wolf that was slowly approaching and wanted to cry but no tears came out
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization (Film and Culture Series)
by Rosalind GaltThe pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets gender norms and social hierarchies. The pontianak first appeared on screen in late colonial Singapore in a series of popular films that combine indigenous animism and transnational production with the cultural and political force of the horror genre.In Alluring Monsters, Rosalind Galt explores how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society. She argues that the figure speaks to a series of intersecting anxieties: about femininity and modernity, globalization and indigeneity, racial and national identities, the relationship of Islam to animism, and heritage and environmental destruction. The pontianak offers abundant feminist potential, but her disruptive gender politics also unsettle queer and feminist film theories by putting them in dialogue with Malay epistemologies. Reading the pontianak as a precolonial figure of disturbance within postcolonial cultures, Galt reveals the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization. From the horror films made by Cathay Keris and Shaw Studios in the 1950s and 1960s to contemporary film, television, art, and fiction in Malaysia and Singapore, the pontianak in all her media forms sheds light on how postcolonial identities are both developed and contested. In tracing the entanglements of Malay feminist animisms with postcolonial visual cultures, Alluring Monsters reveals how a “pontianak theory” can reshape understandings of anticolonial aesthetics and world cinema.
Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique (Histories and Cultures of Tourism)
by Todd ClevelandAlluring Opportunities examines the lives of African laborers in the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the social ascension that many of these workers achieved in spite of demanding conditions. From the origin of the colonial period until its end in 1975, the tourism industry developed on the backs of these laborers and ultimately became an important source of foreign exchange for Portugal.Todd Cleveland explores the daily experiences of local tourism workers in the genesis and expansion of this vital industry with an analytical utility that transcends Africa's borders by complicating the narrative established and reinforced by an expansive body of literature that stresses the exploitation of indigenous tourism workers. He argues that just as foreign tourists embraced the opportunity to travel to various locations in Mozambique, so too did many Indigenous laborers seize opportunities for employment in the tourism industry in an effort to realize social mobility via both the steady wages that they earned and their daily interactions with sojourning clientele. Alluring Opportunities reconstructs these workers' lives, highlighting their critical contributions to the local industry, while also prompting a reconsideration of Indigenous labor and social mobility in colonial Africa. As a result, Cleveland reveals new ways of thinking, more broadly, about the ways that tourism shapes processes of empire, interracial interactions, and power relations.
Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music (Musical Meaning And Interpretation Ser.)
by Jacquelyn E. SholesA musicologist offers a fresh look at how Brahms used the inspiration of earlier composers in his own instrumental works.As Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes reveals in this study, an essential aspect of Johannes Brahms’s art was the canny use of musical references to the works of others. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known musical references in works such as the B-Major Piano Trio, the D-Major Serenade, the First Piano Concerto, and the Fourth Symphony, Sholes demonstrates how a historical reference in one movement can resonate meaningfully, musically, and dramatically with material in other movements in ways not previously recognized.Brahms masterfully wove such references into broad, movement-spanning narratives. Sholes argues that these narratives served as expressive outlets for his complicated attitudes toward the material to which he alludes. Ultimately, Brahms’s music reveals both the inspiration and the burden that established masters such as Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and especially Beethoven represented for him as he struggled to establish his own artistic voice and place in musical history.
Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms’s Instrumental Music (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)
by Jacquelyn E. SholesWho inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known musical references in works such as the B-Major Piano Trio, the D-Major Serenade, the First Piano Concerto, and the Fourth Symphony, among others, Sholes demonstrates how a historical reference in one movement of a work seems to resonate meaningfully, musically, and dramatically with material in other movements in ways not previously recognized. She highlights Brahms's ability to weave such references into broad, movement-spanning narratives, arguing that these narratives served as expressive outlets for his complicated, sometimes conflicted, attitudes toward the material to which he alludes. Ultimately, Brahms's music reveals both the inspiration and the burden that established masters such as Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and especially Beethoven represented for him as he struggled to emerge with his own artistic voice and to define and secure his unique position in music history.
Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers (Crime Files)
by Jem BloomfieldThis study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst alluding to them. The first part traces the complex web of allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible which appear in the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, examining the meanings these allusions produce. The second part explores the way in which Sayers’ own collection of detective novels became a canon, on which later novelists exercised those same allusive practices. It studies allusions to Sayers’ novels throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, from Gladys Mitchell and P.D. James to Reginald Hill and Sujata Massey. This study reveals allusion as a shaping force at the origin of the classic British detective novel, and a continuing element in its identity.
Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich
by David Martin Dame Rebecca WestDavid Martin, a distinguished journalist, political analyst and staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, first published his book ALLY BETRAYED in 1946. Having devoted his life to uncovering the truth and to defending Mihailovich, Martin’s book asks the crucial questions:1. Why did the Allied press which had made a great hero of Mihailovich as a resister of Axis invaders of Yugoslavia begin to play him down after 1942?2. What was Tito’s past? And where was the radio station located that heralded his appearance in Yugoslavia?3. What decision was reached at Teheran with respect to Tito and Mihailovich?4. How was the ALLIED military intelligence about Yugoslavia falsified?5. Why did Churchill say of Yugoslavia, “I was deceived and badly informed.”David Martin was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1914. Before World War II, he wrote on Canadian affairs for Current History, The Nation, The New Republic, the New Leader, and other journals. He joined the Canadian Air Force in October 1942, became a pilot, and flew on the Burmese frontier. He was honorably discharged in 1946.With a Foreword by Dame Rebecca West, one of Mihailovich’s most avid supporters.“Solid reading”—Kirkus Review
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
by Michael B. OrenNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMichael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States--a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East--provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region. Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. During Oren's tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program. Forged in the Truman administration, America's alliance with Israel was subjected to enormous strains, and its future was questioned by commentators in both countries. On more than one occasion, the friendship's very fabric seemed close to unraveling. Ally is the story of that enduring alliance--and of its divides--written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home. No one could have been better suited to strengthen bridges between the United States and Israel than Michael Oren--a man equally at home jumping out of a plane as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing Middle East history on TV's Sunday morning political shows. In the pages of this fast-paced book, Oren interweaves the story of his personal journey with behind-the-scenes accounts of fateful meetings between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summits with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the controversy surrounding the world's most contested strip of land. A quintessentially American story of a young man who refused to relinquish a dream--irrespective of the obstacles--and an inherently Israeli story about assuming onerous responsibilities, Ally is at once a record, a chronicle, and a confession. And it is a story about love--about someone fortunate enough to love two countries and to represent one to the other. But, above all, this memoir is a testament to an alliance that was and will remain vital for Americans, Israelis, and the world.Praise for Ally "The smartest and juiciest diplomatic memoir that I've read in years, and I've read my share. . . . The best contribution yet to a growing literature--from Vali Nasr's Dispensable Nation to Leon Panetta's Worthy Fights--describing how foreign policy is made in the Age of Obama."--Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal "Illuminating . . . [Oren's] personal odyssey exemplifies the shift from a liberal and secular Zionism to a more belligerent nationalism."--The New York Times"Provocative . . . Oren's book offers a view into the deep rifts that have opened not only between Washington and Jerusalem, but also between Israeli and American Jews."--Newsweek "[Oren is] one of the most uniquely qualified judges of this ever more crucial special relationship."--The Washington Times "The diplomatic equivalent of a 'kiss-and-tell' memoir . . . informative and in parts entertaining."--Financial Times "The talk of Washington and Jerusalem . . . an ultimate insider's story."--New York PostFrom the Hardcover edition.
Allyn Abbott Young (Great Thinkers in Economics)
by Ramesh ChandraAllyn Young (1876-1929) was a deep thinker and achieved fame during his lifetime. His fame owes more to his style and influence as a teacher than his published work. His greatest fame as an author rests on a single economic paper on increasing returns and economic progress but he contributed much more as a mentor to his graduate students such as Frank Knight, Edward Chamberlin, and Lauchlin Currie at Harvard and to the undergraduate Nicholas Kaldor at the London School of Economics. He shot into international fame for his role as a member of the American delegation led by President Woodrow Wilson to negotiate peace at Paris after WWI. However, recent interest in Young is more due to his thought than to his contribution to the economics profession or public service. At the time of his death, he was working on two treatises, one on Money and the other on Economics. The one on Money was at a fairly advanced stage but no trace of either was found in his family’s hasty departure from London after his untimely death. There is a general dearth of published material about Young, his thought and his life. His economic thought, apart from his views on growth theory and monetary economics, is relatively unknown. This volume offers a thematic approach to his contributions and biography.
Allà on neix el dia
by Sarah LarkLa història d'una jove moriori i d'una noia alemanya i de com totes dues aconseguiran protegir el que més estimen i assolir la llibertat a la Nova Zelanda del segle XIX. Un poble oblidat. Dues dones. Un mateix destí. Només elles podran triar quin camí segueixen. Illes Chatham, 1835. La jove moriori Kimi ha estat testimoni directe de la invasió de les seves terres per part dels maoris. Amb dolor, ha entès que les lleis dels seus déus no la poden protegir ni dels maoris ni de l'home blanc. Tampoc aquell de qui espera un fill la podrà salvar. Al mateix temps, una jove alemanya, la Ruth, ha decidit viatjar fins als confins del món perseguint el somni de l'home que estima. Però realment val la pena anar rere algú que se n'allunya i que posa per davant la lluita pròpia? Totes dues dones hauran d'agafar les regnes del destí i bregar pel futur i per la felicitat.
Allí donde nace el día
by Sarah LarkSolo contaban con ellas mismas para elegir su destino. Sarah Lark regresa al escenario del bestseller En el país de la nube blanca. Islas Chatham, 1835. La joven moriori Kimi ha sido testigo directo de la invasión maorí de sus tierras. Dolorosamente, ha comprendido que las leyes de sus dioses no la pueden proteger ni de los maoríes, ni del hombre blanco. Tampoco el hombre cuyo hijo está esperando, podrá salvarla. Al mismo tiempo, una joven alemana, Ruth, ha decidido viajar al fin del mundo detrás del sueño del hombre al que ama. Pero, ¿realmente merece la pena seguir los pasos de un hombre cuya lucha la mantiene siempre alejada de él? Ambas mujeres deberán tomar las riendas de su destino y luchar por su futuro y su felicidad. La crítica ha dicho:«Aventuras exóticas, amor e historia: Sarah Lark tiene la fórmula mágica del éxito.»El Periódico
Allí donde se construyen los sueños
by Eric MarchalLa pluma experta y magistral de Éric Marchal rinde tributo a la explosión científica, cultural y artística de finales del s. XIX con una ambiciosa saga familiar marcada por el amor, el idealismo y la amistad. <P><P>Andalucía, junio de 1863. Clément Delhorme, un apasionado astrónomo, y su esposa Alicia viven en Granada, donde ella trabaja en la restauración de la Alhambra junto al arquitecto Rafael Contreras. <P>Clément está obsesionado con hacer volar un enorme globo que permita surcar los cielos cuando llega a la ciudad un joven ingeniero, Gustave Eiffel. Pronto, los dos genios se dan cuenta que no solo les une su pasión por el progreso sino también un temperamento fuerte y una ambición sin límite. <P>Pese a su reciente paternidad de trillizos, Delhorme no cesará en sus investigaciones aeronáuticas al tiempo que asesora al joven Eiffel, que pretende construir un puente en Portugal que franquee el Duero. <P>Arropado por esta familia de artistas y científicos brillantes, y en el recogimiento de los mágicos jardines y las maravillosas fuentes de la Alhambra, se forjará el destino de Eiffel, quien, años más tarde, levantará la famosa torre parisina y la Estatua de la Libertad. <P>La vanguardia une Granada y París mediante las ambiciones de los genios Delhorme y Eiffel, dos hombres dedicados a la ciencia que rinden homenaje a todas aquellas mentes que impulsaron la modernidad y el progreso a finales del s. XIX.
All’s Fair: The Story of the British Secret Service
by Cpt. Henry LandauIt was in 1934 that Henry Landau, Captain in the British Army’s RFA, first published his memoirs as a World War I spy master.All’s Fair: The Story of the British Secret Service tells an authentic, exciting, true story of spies and their dangerous work, revealed for the first time by a British Secret Service Agent…“It does not contain a dull page.”—New York Herald Tribune
Alma
by David McmackenRalph Ely, founder of Alma, selected 10 acres of old forest on the bank of the Pine River in 1853. In this central-Michigan wilderness, he built a log cabin, a log store, and two steam-powered mills--a sawmill and a gristmill. At first, his growing settlement was called Elyton, but within a few years, it was renamed Alma, memorializing a battle in the Crimean War. Alma was energized by the acquisition of millionaire lumberman and entrepreneur Ammi W. Wright, who poured his resources into the town. Wright encouraged the establishment of Alma College in 1886 and the state Masonic home for the elderly in 1911. Wright laid the foundations for Alma's great Republic Truck Company, the largest exclusive maker of trucks in the world by 1920. The discovery of several oil fields prompted the establishment of two oil refineries in Alma in the 1930s and saved the town from the doldrums of the Great Depression. By the 1950s, Alma was a key national manufacturer of house trailers and mobile homes. This photographic panorama reflects the city's economic cycles and its institutions that have given Alma an enviable stability through the years.
Alma gitana: El que las hace las paga
by Andrea Milano¿Qué puede hacer una joven para conquistar el corazón de un hombre enamorado de otra mujer? ¿Qué le está vedado? Alma gitana es la crónica deliciosa de un amor predestinado. Como solo Andrea Milano lo sabe hacer. Escrita especialmente para dos cautivadores personajes de su exitosa Embrujo gitano -el Payo y Almudena, que se robaron el corazón de las lectoras-, Alma gitana despliega una red imperceptible de pasión y erotismo en la que los enamorados quedarán atrapados por entero sin siquiera advertirlo. El progreso del ferrocarril durante los convulsionados tiempos del asesinato de Urquiza, una venganza serenamente planificada, un niño que no puede hablar, una tentación abrasadora, una herencia insospechada. Y una sentencia proverbial que se cumple inexorablemente: "El que las hace las paga".
Almaguin Chronicles: Memories of the Past
by Astrid TaimThe Almaguin Highlands is a region that was once coveted for its game, silver birch and majestic white pine. For centuries this area stretched up to the shores of Lake Nipissing and embraced an unbroken forest that remained largely intact save where lakes, streams and beaver meadows punctuated the forest floor. In 1900, the northernmost areas of the District of Parry Sound were still not accessible by even a conventional roadway. Homesteaders, their claims precariously strung along the Pickerel River, relied on the waterway as their transportation route. What must it have been like at the outset for the lumbermen who cut down the white pine? And how did the settlers-those intrepid folk who trekked across the district with only the lumberjack’s blazed trails for a guide-cope in the wilderness?Almaguin Chronicles explores the relationship between lumbering and settlement throughout the Parry Sound District-the last frontier of this part of Ontario. Throughout, rare archival photographs and excerpts from unpublished memoirs augment the text.
Almaguin: A Highland History
by Astrid TaimThe Almaguin Highlands, an extensive territory covering a 90 km corridor from Huntsville, north to Callander, west to Dunchurch and east to the Algonquin Park border, is a land rich with lakes, rivers and a lively history. Once considered as a possibility for a government Indian Reserve in the early 1800s, Almaguin became a centre for lumbering and ultimately a year-round mecca for outdoor enthusiasts.Almaguin: A Highland History offers a wide range of stories from the opening of the area by colonization roads to the first vessels on the Magnetawan River and the courage of the early pioneers. Included are community histories of the many towns, villages and ghost towns of today, profiles of colourful personalities, as well as interesting and amusing tales of these rugged early times.
Almanac of World War I
by David F. Burg L. Edward Purcell&“A detailed day-by-day account of the war&’s events, emphasizing the military dimensions but also touching on politics and diplomacy.&” —Choice Almanac of World War I provides reports of the action on all fronts and of the events surrounding the conflict, from the guns of August 1914 to the November 1918 Armistice and its troubled aftermath. Daily entries, topical descriptions, biographical sketches, maps, and illustrations combine to give a ready and succinct account of what was happening in each of the principal theaters of war. This definitive book on the Great War by David F. Burg and L. Edward Purcell—coauthors of The World Almanac of the American Revolution—&“captures the pathos and absurdity of the conflict in a way that few others have&” (American Reference Books Annual). &“Whereas most accounts of World War I zero in on the muddy trenches of the Western front, Burg and Purcell&’s work puts that theater in the context of the larger war.&” —Tallahassee Democrat &“There is really nothing comparable to this volume.&” —Booklist &“Almanacs represent the final book(s) needed to complete a collection regarding a particular period in history. David Burg and L. Edward Purcell&’s Almanac of World War I is such a book.&” —BookLovers &“A useful reference for the Great War.&” —Paper Wars &“This valuable reference book provides a day-by-day account of the First World War, with each entry divided geographically.&” —Canadian Military History
Almanac of the Dead
by Leslie Marmon SilkoAn ancient manuscript predicts the end of the white man's rule of North America and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl.
Almanac: A Murmuration (Excelsior Editions)
by Christine GelineauFrom the sanctuary of her one-hundred-and-twenty-acre horse farm in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, essayist and poet Christine Gelineau takes stock of what it means to care for a farm, a nation, a planet—a home—and of how the stories we tell impact our lives.Decades into life on a Morgan horse farm in upstate New York, Almanac author Christine Gelineau focused on the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and one another, about the planet we all share, and on how these narratives shape our own identities, our communities, and our attitudes and actions toward the environment. Framed by the seasons, Gelineau speaks to these vital conversations about what it can mean to be human in ways that are lyrical, practical, spiritual, and life-affirming. Almanac combines observations of iced-in alligators and newborn foals with prose poems evoking the natural world, gardening techniques learned from the Haudenosaunee, personal resilience in the face of long COVID and brain surgery, and urban versus rural perspectives on water rights and wind-turbine siting. It charts one person's journey into the inner and external worlds that will resonate with all readers dealing with these life-changing times.
Almas en pena: Un policial clásico en el Buenos Aires del Virreinato
by Mercedes GiuffréOtro difícil caso que deberá esclarecer el doctor Samuel Redhead en el contexto de las invasiones inglesas. Luego de varios años de ausencia, regresa el doctor Samuel Redhead, uno de los personajes más celebrados y reconocidos de la novela histórica de los últimos años, que consolidó a Mercedes Giuffré como la gran representante de un género que ella misma se encargó de inaugurar: el policial anclado en el Virreinato del Río de la Plata. Además de una atrapante trama policial histórica perfectamente documentada, Almas en pena propone una atractiva línea argumental con tintes fantásticos.
Almayer's Folly: A Story Of An Eastern River (Oxford World's Classics)
by Joseph ConradRuled by the greed that proves to be his undoing, Kaspar Almayer, a white settler in Borneo, embarks on a futile search for a hidden goldmine, risking both his life and his family in the process.But while Almayer pursues a dangerous alliance with a local prince, Almayer's native-born wife plots an unforgivable betrayal—one that will cost Almayer everything that he holds dear.Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to today's digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose work continues to get people talking. Look for other fiction and non-fiction classics from ClassicJoe.