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Author | : Juan Eduardo Tesone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0429914814 |
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This book emphasizes the influence of the name given at birth in terms of the construction of subjectivity. It offers the reader a fascinating journey through the meanders of culture, literary quotations, stories heard, and a difficult journey through the pain and horror of certain realities.
Author | : Scott Tong |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-11-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022633905X |
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An “immensely readable” journey through modern Chinese history told through the experiences of the author’s extended family (Christian Science Monitor). When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start the first full-time China bureau for “Marketplace,” the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the US. But for Tong the move became much more: an opportunity to reconnect with members of his extended family who’d remained there after his parents fled the communists six decades prior. Uncovering their stories gave him a new way to understand modern China’s defining moments and its long, interrupted quest to go global. A Village with My Name offers a unique perspective on China’s transitions through the eyes of regular people who witnessed such epochal events as the toppling of the Qing monarchy, Japan’s occupation during WWII, exile of political prisoners to forced labor camps, mass death and famine during the Great Leap Forward, market reforms under Deng Xiaoping, and the dawn of the One Child Policy. Tong focuses on five members of his family, who each offer a specific window on a changing country: a rare American-educated girl born in the closing days of the Qing Dynasty, a pioneer exchange student, a toddler abandoned in wartime who later rides the wave of China’s global export boom, a young professional climbing the ladder at a multinational company, and an orphan (the author’s daughter) adopted in the middle of a baby-selling scandal fueled by foreign money. Through their stories, Tong shows us China anew, visiting former prison labor camps on the Tibetan plateau and rural outposts along the Yangtze, exploring the Shanghai of the 1930s, and touring factories across the mainland—providing a compelling and deeply personal take on how China became what it is today. “Vivid and readable . . . The book’s focus on ordinary people makes it refreshingly accessible.” —Financial Times “Tong tells his story with humor, a little snark, [and] lots of love . . . Highly recommended, especially for those interested in Chinese history and family journeys.” —Library Journal (starred review)
Author | : Stanley Lieberson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300083859 |
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What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.
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Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Christian literature |
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Author | : Flavell Edmunds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Peter H. Gommers |
Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789058671493 |
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Europe is a word that is almost daily on our lips. But how far do we have to go back in order to find the origins of its name? The first part of this beautifully illustrated book traces the geographical and mythological basis of Europe's name. Who came up with the idea to distinguish the world in continents with proper names? The search will bring the reader back to the early history of mankind. How did the ancient Egyptians see the world and populations around them? Where did the Hebrews get the idea to split the world in three? And what was the world-picture in ancient Greece, laid down in geographic treatises and fragments? Where did the name 'Europe' originate from? Could it be from a person, either mortal or divine? In ancient Greek literature the name 'Europa' appears quite frequently for Greek goddesses and Greek women. Strangely enough, the best known Europa myth concerns a Phoenician princess, loved by the Greek god Zeus. Many mythographs doubt the Asian descent of the Phoenician Europa. Is her real origin to be located on mainland Greece? How can the contradicting Greek myths be interpreted, and was the name universally accepted as the name for the continent? In the second part of this book, the author tells the amazing story of how the Arts have treated the Europa myths for almost three millennia. He shows the extraordinary influence of the personification of the geographic continent Europe on literature, music, sculpture, painting, tapestry and other applied arts. All this clearly demonstrates the vivid interest in Europe for the subject throughout the ages and illustrates, according to Karel van Miert in his Foreword, our common European culture.
Author | : Claude Hermann Walter Johns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David D. Gillette |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521407885 |
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This is the first book ever to be devoted to this subject.
Author | : Edgar Bueschke |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2009-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1438926979 |
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As World War II erupted in Europe, the Bueschke family left their home in Poland, fleeing first to Germany and then to Canada and the United States. This is the story of their journey and of the longing for things that were lost or taken along the way.
Author | : Philip Moore Callow Kermode |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Isle of Man |
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