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A Grasp for Life
A grasp for life is a fictional story of a boy and his siblings taken from their home to live in an orphans home. It tells of the stuggles as a young man's journey to find the family that he was taken from, only to find life is not as simple as he had imagined it would be. Born in a poor family, they had their problems of raising four boys and a girl as Life gets away from them when the State is called in and takes the Walker children to an orphans home, then to several foster homes. It takes you on many mistakes made in the name of finding love as he finds love, loses love, slips in his grasp for life. The book may resemble many of the readers own lives. It could be your life. BEWARE!
Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema that compliment and contradict each other. Second, to analyze the social and cultural environments that make these representations possible and problematic. Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema presents a comprehensive picture of how Hong Kong mainstream cinematic masculinities are produced within their own socio-cultural discourses, and how these masculinities are distributed, received, and transformed within the setting of the market place. This volume is divided into three interrelated parts: the local cinematic tradition; the transnational context and reverberations; and the larger production, reception, and mediation environments. The combination of these three perspectives will reveal the dynamics and tensions between the local and the transnational, between production and reception, and between text and context, in the gendered manifestations of Hong Kong cinema.
Band on the Run
After the breakup of the Beatles in 1971, Paul McCartney formed Wings with his wife Linda on keyboards, ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine, and American session drummer Denny Seiwell. For ten dramatic and turbulent years, the band weathered the critics, endured pot busts, survived a harrowing recording stint in Nigeria, changed drummers constantly, and produced a great deal of remarkable music. McGee's tale of one of the most successful bands of the seventies—the first book to focus exclusively on Paul's post-Beatles years-tells the stories behind the #1 hits "Listen To What the Man Said," "My Love," "Band on the Run," "Jet," "With a Little Luck," and "Coming Up." McGee reveals the band'...
Der Freischütz
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The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home
ôThe ugly wife is a treasure at homeö is not just an idle expression in China. For centuries, Chinese marriage involved matchmakers, child brides, dowries, and concubines, until the PeopleÆs Republic of China was established by Mao Zedong and his Communist Party in 1949. Initially encouraging citizens to reject traditional arranged marriages and instead wed for love, the party soon spurned ôthe sin of putting love first,ö fearful that romantic love would distract good Communists from selflessly carrying out the StateÆs agenda. Under Mao the party established the power to approve or reject proposed marriages, dictate where couples would live, and even determine if spouses would live tog...
The smidgens of demon
Another horror/thriller American fiction with new and interesting characters. Do you believe in demons and witchcrafts? Or do you like contacting them? The book is not for the faint-hearted ones although, you can read it, that’s fine. Are we really being human these days? Have you doubted yourself that you have evil spirits within you? What if the myths are actually happening and we didn’t know? Alright, so many questions in the head…guess the book would answer you. Dive into the spirit realm and face the dark stuff, if you dare!
A Handbook of Scandinavian Names
Are you looking for • A Scandinavian name for your baby? • The names of Norse gods and heroes? • The history and meaning of Scandinavian first names? • Variations and alternate spellings for common Scandinavian names? • Naming traditions and customs in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark? A Handbook of Scandinavian Names includes a dictionary of more than fifteen hundred given names from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, plus some from Iceland and Finland. Each entry provides a guide to pronunciation and the origin and meaning of the name. Many entries also include variations and usage in the Scandinavian countries and famous bearers of the name. Adding engaging context to the dictionary sectio...
Ll
Uses phonetical concepts and photographs to teach children reading skills, focusing on the letter "l."
Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present
This essential reference work provides an alphabetic listing, with an extensive index, of studies on women in China from earliest times to the present day written in Western languages, primarily English, French, German, and Italian. Containing more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, especially those published in the last thirty years, and more than 100 titles of doctoral dissertations and Masters theses, it covers works written in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; art and archaeology; demography; economics; education; fashion; film and media studies; history; interdisciplinary studies; law; literature; music; medicine, science, and technology; political science; and religion and philosophy. It also contains many citations of studies of women in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
