Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 2.
The Borrowed
Author: Chan Ho-Kei
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802189822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802189822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.
Something Borrowed
Author: Emily Giffin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781250011862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Giffin's smash-hit debut novel--basis for the 2011 film--is for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781250011862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Giffin's smash-hit debut novel--basis for the 2011 film--is for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.
Reimbursement to the City of Baltimore of Interest Paid on Borrowed Money Advanced to the General Government During the Civil War
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 2.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 2.
Borrowing
Author: Shana Poplack
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190256389
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book focuses on the process of lexical borrowing: how bilinguals introduce and adapt foreign items into recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Building on more than three decades of original research, Shana Poplack demystifies the phenomenon of borrowing as practiced by bilinguals in the context of theirspeech communities.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190256389
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book focuses on the process of lexical borrowing: how bilinguals introduce and adapt foreign items into recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Building on more than three decades of original research, Shana Poplack demystifies the phenomenon of borrowing as practiced by bilinguals in the context of theirspeech communities.
Postsecondary financing strategies how undergraduates combine work, borrowing, and attendance
Author: Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428927387
Category : College costs
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428927387
Category : College costs
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Early Musical Borrowing
Author: Honey Meconi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135577943
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This collection of essays examines the common compositional practice of borrowing or imitation in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century music.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135577943
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This collection of essays examines the common compositional practice of borrowing or imitation in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century music.
To Increase the Borrowing Authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Public Bills
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description