Evanescent Isles

Author : Xu Xi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622099463
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evanescent Isles written by Xu Xi and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual book of quirky essays, some deeply personal. Xu Xi writes from within, of Hong Kong's vanishing culture and sensibility as it transforms itself into a space that is 21st Century China. She zooms in on her own life in the city: on family, friends and a professional history as both business executive and author, on moments that offer wry observations of the shifting world around her. She casts her eye on films, pop stars, public transportation, and muses on the political, without losing sight of the distinctly apolitical culture that evolved through a history as the former British colony and Chinese "Special Administrative Region" after the 1997 "handover."

Author : David Huddart
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178138598X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Involuntary Associations written by David Huddart and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.

Author : Arthur Crosfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pilgrimage of the Empire written by Arthur Crosfield and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poem cataloging the glories of the British Empire and its colonies, and the battle against the foes that would destroy it. Illustrated by photographs of the beauties of the Empire.

Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336068
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fearless Confessions written by Sue William Silverman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper—or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers. The rise of interest in memoir recognizes the power of the genre to move and affect not just individual readers but society at large. Sue William Silverman covers traditional writing topics such as metaphor, theme, plot, and voice and also includes chapters on trusting memory and cultivating the courage to tell one's truth in the face of forces—from family members to the media—who would prefer that people with inconvenient pasts and views remain silent. Silverman, an award-winning memoirist, draws upon her own personal and professional experience to provide an essential resource for transforming life into words that matter. Fearless Confessions is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person's life that have yet to be explored.

Author : Xu Xi
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760143987
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials written by Xu Xi and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a personal and literary identity. Dear Hong Kong is a profound reflection on the life of Hong Kong, personified and interrogated by one of its most lucid writers.

Author : William Allport Leighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lichen-flora of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands written by William Allport Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clive Ralph Symmons
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789024721719
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maritime Zones of Islands in International Law written by Clive Ralph Symmons and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1979-06-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Lerche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475730195
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impact of Natural Hazards on Oil and Gas Extraction written by Ian Lerche and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union almost a decade ago, there has been rapid evolution of interactions between the Western nations and individual countries of the former Soviet Union. As part of that interaction, the autonomous independent Republic of Azerbaijan through its scientific arm, the Geological Institute of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences under the Directorship of Academician Akif Ali-Zadeh and Deputy Director Ibrahim Guliev, arranged for personnel to be seconded to the University of South Carolina. The idea here was to see to what extent a quantitative understanding could be achieved of the evolution of the Azerbaijan part of the South Caspian Basin from dynamical, thermal and hydrocarbon perspectives. The Azeris brought with them copious amounts of data collected over decades which, together with the quantitative numerical codes available at USC, enabled a concerted effort to be put forward, culminating in two large books (Evolution of the South Caspian Basin: Geological Risks and Probable Hazards, 675 pps; and The South Caspian Basin: Stratigraphy, Geochemistry, and Risk Analysis, of which were published by the Azerbaijan Academy of 472 pps. ) both Sciences, and also many scientific papers. Thus, over the last four to five years an integrated comprehensive start has been made to understand the hydrocarbon proneness of the South Caspian Basin. In the course of the endeavor to understand the basinal evolution, it became clear that a variety of natural hazards occur in the Basin.

Author : Xu Xi
Publisher : Typhoon Media Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9881953448
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Walls written by Xu Xi and published by Typhoon Media Ltd. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It "s the sixties. US sailors on R&R prowl the streets of the waterfront in Hong Kong where the Indonesian-Chinese Hsu family lives. "What "s a prostitute?" nine-year old Ai-Lin asks her older brother Philip, who is horrified she knows the word. This controversial first novel launched the author "s career in Asia.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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