A Knights Journey Into Shangri La

Author : Thomas I. Whelan
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412023416
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Knight's Journey Into Shangri La written by Thomas I. Whelan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting an unseen enemy at times and fighting them on their terms most of the time. They were like a fighting "ghost". The mines and booby traps took their toll on all of us Americans and Vietmanese themselves. Then there was the jungles: a unforgiving place to be at, for a tour of duty.

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765205
Total Pages : 5135 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 5135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317661877
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam War Slang written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the language. War has always been an incubator for slang; it is brutal, and brutality demands a vocabulary to describe what we don’t encounter in peacetime civilian life. Furthermore, such language serves to create an intense bond between comrades in the armed forces, helping them to support the heavy burdens of war. The troops in Vietnam faced the usual demands of war, as well as several that were unique to Vietnam – a murky political basis for the war, widespread corruption in the ruling government, untraditional guerilla warfare, an unpredictable civilian population in Vietnam, and a growing lack of popular support for the war back in the US. For all these reasons, the language of those who fought in Vietnam was a vivid reflection of life in wartime. Vietnam War Slang lays out the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Assuming no prior knowledge, it presents around 2000 headwords, with each entry divided into sections giving parts of speech, definitions, glosses, the countries of origin, dates of earliest known citations, and citations. It will be an essential resource for Vietnam veterans and their families, students and readers of history, and anyone interested in the principles underpinning the development of slang.

Author : Peter Bishop
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066861
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Shangri-La written by Peter Bishop and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bishop's engrossing and readable account provides us with a fascinating picture of European myths concerning the Land of the Snows and of the role these myths played in shaping perceptions of the Orient. Bishop's riveting portrait of European conceptions is an important and exceptionally well written contribution to an understanding of Western attitudes toward Tibet and all of East Asia."--Morris Rossabi, author of Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

Author : Thomas G. Casey
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728336910
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to Shangri-La written by Thomas G. Casey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Sunday afternoon on December 7th at the home of Charles Reed. His wife, daughter and six year old son Chip hear the radio report that Pearl Harbor is under attack by Japanese planes. Charles learns days later his brother stationed at Wheeler Field was killed, which ignites an uncontrolled permanent hatred for the Japanese which his son Chip quickly inherits. Thirty six years later, Chip Reed, a senior airline pilot and successful real estate investor, loses his wife and son in a head on crash in her Japanese sports car hit by a Japanese pickup truck. A year later he buys a B-25, has it restored and named “Ruptured Duck. After the show, he is in a real dogfight with a Japanese pilot flying a Zero fighter from the show which blows up in his flight path causing severe damage to his plane and forced to crash land killing his best friend. While recuperating he learns his life will be cut short due to a blood disease. He makes plans to settle his grievances and hate for the Japanese and makes plans to have revenge with the Japanese automaker for killing his uncle, his wife and son and best friend. With his plane completely restored, he tells the Chinese Government he wants to take his plane of tour of China visiting the towns and cities the Doolittle Raiders escaped through. His plan was approved and he ships his plane to China to begin his mission to end his life flying into the auto maker in Tokyo who killed his family and best friend. Chip Reed will have to outsmart the Chinese and Japanese defense systems before he can reach Tokyo.

Author : Alexander C Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999751800
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Knight's Journey written by Alexander C Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After what happened in the capital, Estoria is no longer safe for Rowan. He is now a fugitive, wanted for aiding in the murder of his king. His master is dead and everyone close to him thinks that he is too.With no other choice, Rowan seeks to exile himself to Lauratrea. He faces death without a care as his failures weigh upon him.But back in Estoria preparations are being made to go to war. Gannon has taken charge of the capital and the country, and he will stop at nothing to extend his reach and start his war for power and dominance.As the winds of war begin to blow, only two people have the power to stop it. Rowan...and the princess that he believes dead.

Author : Tim Winter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134044356
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asia on Tour written by Tim Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book reveals how improvements in infrastructures, ever increasing disposable incomes, liberalized economies, the inter-connectivities of globalization and the lowering of borders, both physical and political, are now enabling millions of Asians to travel as tourists.

Author : Jing Guo
Publisher : Jing Guo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1988 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book JingGuo Novel：Knight's Anthem written by Jing Guo and published by Jing Guo. This book was released on with total page 1988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan Neuharth
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365655849
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Nomine written by Nathan Neuharth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tao Dongfeng
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810371
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature written by Tao Dongfeng and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has brought together essays to explore, analyse and interpret the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature over the past century from various angles. The authors examines the bodily or carnal dimension, especially the hidden implication of sexual passion, in revolutionary literature, formulate feminist critiques of the conception of women in literary expressions of revolution, explore the function of revolution as historical discourse and in historiographical representation, and discuss the reworking of “revolutionary classics” in recent literary and artistic endeavours. Here, revolution (in history and in literature) is conceptualized neither as an unquestionably progressive and creative force for a new world, nor an absolutely pejorative concept that necessarily leads to sociopolitical turmoil and tragedy. Insofar as “postrevolutionary writings” cannot but reappropriate the revolutionary spirit as their unavoidable and inseparable traumatic kernel, studies in revolutionary literature and culture, too, go through the zigzag experience of revolution in order to scrutinize its complex implications.