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Author: Michael Meyer Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1632869357 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China's changes as he was. Thus began an impassioned immersion into Chinese life. With humor and insight, Meyer puts readers in his novice shoes, winding across the length and breadth of his adopted country --from a terrifying bus attack on arrival, to remote Xinjiang and Tibet, into Beijing's backstreets and his future wife's Manchurian family, and headlong into efforts to protect China's vanishing heritage at places like "Sleeping Dragon," the world's largest panda preserve. In the last book of his China trilogy, Meyer tells a story both deeply personal and universal, as he gains greater – if never complete – assurance, capturing what it feels like to learn a language, culture and history from the ground up. Both funny and relatable, The Road to Sleeping Dragon is essential reading for anyone interested in China's history, and how daily life plays out there today.
Author: Michael Meyer Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1632869357 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China's changes as he was. Thus began an impassioned immersion into Chinese life. With humor and insight, Meyer puts readers in his novice shoes, winding across the length and breadth of his adopted country --from a terrifying bus attack on arrival, to remote Xinjiang and Tibet, into Beijing's backstreets and his future wife's Manchurian family, and headlong into efforts to protect China's vanishing heritage at places like "Sleeping Dragon," the world's largest panda preserve. In the last book of his China trilogy, Meyer tells a story both deeply personal and universal, as he gains greater – if never complete – assurance, capturing what it feels like to learn a language, culture and history from the ground up. Both funny and relatable, The Road to Sleeping Dragon is essential reading for anyone interested in China's history, and how daily life plays out there today.
Author: Joel Rosenberg Publisher: Dutton Childrens Books ISBN: 9780451148339 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 253
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Seven students engaged in a role-playing board game are transferred into their game world and must find their way home. The series continues with The Sword and the Chain (1984, 1987), The Silver Crown (1985), Heir Apparent (1987), The Warrior Lives (1990), and The Road to Ehvenor (1991).
Author: Michael Schaible Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1434918327 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 96
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Bay Wang kept turning down unwanted suitors that bargained for her marriage. But one day, a poor gentleman broke into her father's farm to borrow a rooster, but her father accused him of stealing. Hong agreed to enter a bargain with the rich farmer to save his hand. With Bay and a servant named Chi, Hong took the search for a magical stone called The Eye of the Sleeping Dragon. But the stone was only a part of a fable Bay's grandfather used to tell the rich farmer. Now, Hong had to either bring home The Eye or prove that the stone was unreal. An unwanted task in the beginning turned out to be a good adventure with fantastic creatures and the wonders of the mountain. Eye of the Sleeping Dragon, by Michael Charles Schaible, is an adventure that leads to a happy, fruitful ending.
Author: James Pearson Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
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This is a fascinating story about a boy named Matt that set out on a Journey to confront a Mythical beast in order to help his Mother.
Author: Wes Engel Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1669854558 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 425
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World War II rages on in the European and Pacific fronts. Troy, ‘Tank’, Connors, an American soldier serving in France is severely wounded. He is discharged from the military and returns home to North Carolina to rehabilitate. Back home he and his young wife must somehow put their lives back together. His life is again turned upside down when he accepts a job at an unknown government town with no name or address in the mountains of New Mexico. There, he joins an elite group of scientists working on a top secret government program; the Manhattan Project, building the first atomic bomb. The twists and turns mount as Tank, at one point, is wrongly accused of international espionage. Tank becomes a hunted man. He has few allies on his side. In the climax scene it takes a daring move to save himself.
Author: Daniel Sinker Publisher: Akashic Books ISBN: 1933354321 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 402
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Revised and expanded edition of the punk classic with six new interviews and a new introduction, bringing the definitive book of conversations with the underground's greatest minds up to 2007. New interviews include talks with bands like The Gossip and Maritime, a conversation with punk legend Bob Mould and many more. Punk Planet has consistently explored the crossover of punk with activism, reflecting the currents of the underground while simultaneously challenging the bleak centrism of today's popular culture.
Author: D. K. Caldwell Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1618628348 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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It was as if she was looking at them through cloudy water. Suddenly the letters came back into focus, but now the words made sense. As she stood with the staff in one hand, she pointed her other hand at the writing and read, 'Here in stone lie the dragons, waiting for their knights to return. By the blood of the knight shall the dragon be reborn. Now enter the Dragon Knight.' As she finished the last word, she felt the staff in her hand rise into the air and then slam down into the stone floor with a loud bang. Then suddenly the light in the cave was gone, and she felt the stone beneath her feet fall away. Assigned by their father to help clean up part of a newly discovered, ancient city, sisters Erica and Elisabeth stumble into a cave above the city and accidentally awaken two great red dragons. With the dragons awake, magic returns to the earth. But what the sisters aren't prepared for is that along with magic, an ancient enemy, the Speculons, will also return to Earth. Now, the only hope for Earth is to awaken the rest of the sleeping dragons hidden around the world. Erica must use her newfound powers and her dragon to find and awaken each of the remaining dragons. They must reopen Heaven's Gate, a gateway to the magical worlds of mythical beings. Only by uniting the worlds of Heaven's Gate once more can an army with enough magic be raised that has any hope of defeating the Speculons. Join author D. K. Caldwell in the adventure of a lifetime as you discover the Days of the Dragons!
Author: The Rev. Sandy Honnold Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462035728 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 78
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This book is a creative "tool" that can be used by clergypersons, spiritual directors, and retreat leaders as well as those who would like to create a meditative walk on their own property for their own pleasure or for others' enjoyment. Creative Pilgrim Walks will enliven the participants who attend a conference, a retreat or a quiet day by helping them to see how their everyday life experiences connect to the sacred.
Author: H. and E. Heron Publisher: Tacet Books ISBN: 3968583116 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 5269
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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Frank Richard Stockton - John Kendrick Bangs - Kenneth Grahame - Julian Hawthorne - A. E. W. Mason - Richard Middleton - Pierre Louÿs - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole - Ethel Richardson - Gertrude Stein - E. Phillips Oppenheim - Arthur Quiller-Couch - Mór Jókai - Andy Adams - Bertha Sinclair - Fitz James O'Brien - Eleanor H. Porter - Valery Bryusov - John Ulrich Giesy - Otis Adelbert Kline - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Frank Lucius Packard - Barry Pain - Gertrude Bennett - Francis Marion Crawford - William Pett Ridge - Gilbert Parker - Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Elizabeth Garver Jordan - Richard Austin Freeman - Alice Duer Miller - Leonard Merrick - Anthony Hope - Ethel Watts Mumford - Anne O'Hagan Shinn - B. M. Bower
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