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Collecting the Self

Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China

By: Sing-chen Lydia Chiang

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Collecting the Self

Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China

By: Sing-chen Lydia Chiang

Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and other perceived “anomalies” to accepted cosmic and social norms. As such, this body of literature is a rich repository of Chinese myths, folklore, and unofficial “histories”. These collections also reflect Chinese attitudes towards normalcy and strangeness, perceptions of civilization and barbarism, and fantasies about self and other. Inspired in part by Freud’s theory of the uncanny, this book explores the emotive subtexts of late imperial strange tale collections to consider what these stories tell us about suppressed cultural anxieties, the construction of gender, and authorial self-identity.

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9047414845

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The Perfect Name for the Perfect Baby

A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby

By: Lydia Wilen

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The Perfect Name for the Perfect Baby

A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby

By: Lydia Wilen

You've talked to everyone and your mind still isn't made up. Your mother or mother-in-law has the perfect name -- her own! Your next door neighbors just named their baby what you were going to name your own child. Relax! Help is on the way! You're sure to find a name that sings to you in this clever, up-to-date guide. Is your baby bound to be an angel like Arael? Or as great as Alexander? Organized by categories such as favorite names over the years, song titles, celebrities, angels, saints, flowers, and more, THE PERFECT NAME FOR THE PERFECT BABY gives advice and suggestions on: * Names to consider if your last name is complicated or simple * Names of European, Latin, African, or Asian origin * Names from the Bible, mythology, and literature * Names of your favorite soap opera characters, and what the celebrities have named their own children * And much more With a complete alphabetical listing of thousands of names, THE PERFECT NAME FOR THE PERFECT BABY is a fun and comprehensive catalogue of great names -- one of which is bound to fit your baby perfectly.

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369

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Ballantine Books

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0307775070

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9780307775078

This Place Called Absence

By: Lydia Kwa

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This Place Called Absence

By: Lydia Kwa

In Kwa's debut novel, four narrators tell two stories, one of a contemporary Chinese-Canadian psychologist mourning the death of her father, another of two Chinese prostitutes in early 20th century Singapore.

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Kensington Books

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0758201486

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9780758201485

She Changes by Intrigue

Irony, Femininity and Feminism

By: Lydia Rainford

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She Changes by Intrigue

Irony, Femininity and Feminism

By: Lydia Rainford

Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their ‘double’ relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining ‘other’ to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation to the patriarchal structure while refusing to validate the truth of the current sexual hierarchy. She Changes by Intrigue undertakes the first sustained analysis of the parallels between irony, femininity and feminism. By retracing the association of these terms through canonical and contemporary continental philosophy, the book seeks to illuminate a notion of sexual agency that has until now remained shadowy, in spite of its prevalence. Examining the recurrence of the ‘ironic feminine’ in texts by Kristeva, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Irigaray, Derrida and Kofman, it argues that a radical revaluation of the legacy of patriarchal thought in feminism is necessary before irony can be embraced as a feminist strategy. In this context, She Changes by Intrigue offers a new reading of what it means to write as a feminist ‘subject’. This volume will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, continental philosophy and critical / cultural theory.

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BRILL

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9401201137

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9789401201131

control

By: Lydia Kang

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control

By: Lydia Kang

For fans of Uglies comes a spiraling, intense sci fi thriller. "Control blew me away. The twists and turns and suspense made for a thrilling ride. Zel is as authentic a character as I've read in a very long time. Highly recommended" - James Dashner, New York Times bestselling author of The Maze Runner Set in 2150 -- in a world of automatic cars, nightclubs with auditory ecstasy drugs, and guys with four arms -- this is about the human genetic "mistakes" that society wants to forget, and the way that outcasts can turn out to be heroes. When their overprotective father is killed in a terrible accident, Zel and her younger sister, Dylia, are lost in grief. But it's not until strangers appear, using bizarre sensory weapons, that the life they had is truly eviscerated. Zel ends up in a safe house for teens that aren't like any she's ever seen -- teens who, by law, shouldn't even exist. One of them -- an angry tattooed boy haunted by tragedy -- can help Zel reunite with her sister. But only if she is willing to lose him.

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Penguin

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1101593903

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9781101593905

World Regional Geography

Global Patterns, Local Lives

By: Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher,Alex Pulsipher,Holly M. Hapke

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World Regional Geography

Global Patterns, Local Lives

By: Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher,Alex Pulsipher,Holly M. Hapke

The scale of [this book] encompasses vast continents and global forces, but often its descriptive focus on individual lives has the most impact. Stories of people and families make the study of geography compelling. Students begin to grasp the complex patterns at work in the world today as they see how people are affected by, and respond to, economic, social, and political processes. Through these stories of individual lives, [the authors] hope to convey the impact of globalization, a major theme of the text. To highlight global to local and interregional connections, the text includes a number of topics that have no borders: the war on terrorism, realignments in the global political order, interregional trade, the global economy, popular culture, the environment, and the Internet. Here, again, the focus on the individual person provides insight, offering local perspectives on these global trends.-Preface.

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666

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Macmillan

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0716719045

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9780716719045

Topological Groups and the Pontryagin-van Kampen Duality

An Introduction

By: Lydia Außenhofer,Dikran Dikranjan,Anna Giordano Bruno

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Topological Groups and the Pontryagin-van Kampen Duality

An Introduction

By: Lydia Außenhofer,Dikran Dikranjan,Anna Giordano Bruno

The series is devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level textbooks in mathematics, mathematical methods and their applications. Apart from covering important areas of current interest, a major aim is to make topics of an interdisciplinary nature accessible to the non-specialist. The works in this series are addressed to advanced students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics. In addition, it can serve as a guide for lectures and seminars on a graduate level. The series de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics was founded ca. 35 years ago by the late Professor Heinz Bauer and Professor Peter Gabriel with the aim to establish a series of monographs and textbooks of high standard, written by scholars with an international reputation presenting current fields of research in pure and applied mathematics. While the editorial board of the Studies has changed with the years, the aspirations of the Studies are unchanged. In times of rapid growth of mathematical knowledge carefully written monographs and textbooks written by experts are needed more than ever, not least to pave the way for the next generation of mathematicians. In this sense the editorial board and the publisher of the Studies are devoted to continue the Studies as a service to the mathematical community. Please submit any book proposals to Niels Jacob.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110653559

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9783110653557

Lydia Maria Child

A Radical American Life

By: Lydia Moland

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Lydia Maria Child

A Radical American Life

By: Lydia Moland

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the Wood,” Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books and charming children’s stories. But in 1833, Child shocked her readers by publishing a scathing book-length argument against slavery in the United States—a book so radical in its commitment to abolition that friends abandoned her, patrons ostracized her, and her book sales plummeted. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the abolitionist cause, becoming one of the foremost authors and activists of her generation. Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child’s example, philosopher Lydia Moland asks questions as pressing and personal in our time as they were in Child’s: What does it mean to change your life when the moral future of your country is at stake? When confronted by sanctioned evil and systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? Child’s lifetime of bravery, conviction, humility, and determination provides a wealth of spirited guidance for political engagement today.

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University of Chicago Press

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022671585X

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9780226715858

Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers

By: Lydia Sloan Cline

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Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers

By: Lydia Sloan Cline

This resource on architectural drafting introduces the topic specifically for beginning interior designers. This second edition adds a new chapter 14, 'Incorporating the Computer,' which covers integrating software with hand drafting. Content reorganization - like new chapter 3, '2D and 3D' - makes this edition even more intuitive, with specific topics easy to locate.

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A&C Black

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1628920963

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9781628920963

La Calle

Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

By: Lydia R. Otero

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La Calle

Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

By: Lydia R. Otero

On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small retail and service shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues, they openly lived and celebrated their culture. To make way for the Pueblo Center’s new buildings, city officials proceeded to displace la calle’s residents and to demolish their ethnically diverse neighborhoods, which, contends Lydia Otero, challenged the spatial and cultural assumptions of postwar modernity, suburbia, and urban planning. Otero examines conflicting claims to urban space, place, and history as advanced by two opposing historic preservationist groups: the La Placita Committee and the Tucson Heritage Foundation. She gives voice to those who lived in, experienced, or remembered this contested area, and analyzes the historical narratives promoted by Anglo American elites in the service of tourism and cultural dominance. La Calle explores the forces behind the mass displacement: an unrelenting desire for order, a local economy increasingly dependent on tourism, and the pivotal power of federal housing policies. To understand how urban renewal resulted in the spatial reconfiguration of downtown Tucson, Otero draws on scholarship from a wide range of disciplines: Chicana/o, ethnic, and cultural studies; urban history, sociology, and anthropology; city planning; and cultural and feminist geography.

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289

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University of Arizona Press

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0816534918

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9780816534913

Hearing by Jael

By: Joyce Elbrecht,Lydia Fakundiny

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Hearing by Jael

By: Joyce Elbrecht,Lydia Fakundiny

In 1993 the narrator Jael B. Juba treks south to revisit historic Tarragona, Florida, where her friend and mentor Elizabeth Harding Dumot had restored a decrepit mansion fifteen years earlier and released the wild energies of legend and contemporary social conflict before getting out of town, her work done. Juba's work is also one of restoration. She must return a long-hidden diary-- discovered by Harding in her work on the house--to its original site, a secret room about to be opened to the public for the first time. Here, the diarist Frances Boullet and her intimates once kept a vodun sanctuary for celebrating their multiracial heritage, burying their dead, resisting the terror of the conquest of the Americas, and pondering the knowledge they draw from their variously Creolized past. Through the sanctuary, the diary, and the novel flow tales of trading; piracy; colonization; slave life at a plantation; an Indian bride's miraculous legacy from the time of the Seminole Wars; Haitian uprisings and inter-American conflict; and murders, births, and hauntings in Reconstruction times and after. These tales, framed by Juba's and Harding's, stretch into a revisionary history that is joyously plural.

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342

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Terrace Books

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0299213005

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9780299213008

The Walking Boy

By: Lydia Kwa

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The Walking Boy

By: Lydia Kwa

A quietly subversive quest novel set in eighth-century China, full of magic and poetic allusions.

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221

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arsenal pulp press

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1551527642

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9781551527642

A Gathering of Crones

By: Lydia M. Hawke

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A Gathering of Crones

By: Lydia M. Hawke

She's running out of time. And so is the world. Claire Emerson is up against the clock. After learning on her sixtieth birthday that she’s one of four Crones destined to save the world, she’s been desperately trying to acquire the lifetime of magic she missed out on. But the mages who are out to destroy everything she loves aren’t waiting, and when one of the other Crones ends up on Claire’s doorstep—wounded and unconscious—Claire knows she’s out of time. Leaving the safety of her house, she goes in search of the remaining Crones… only to find them under siege by the mages and the nearly indestructible monster they control. And without control over her powerful elemental magic, she has no idea how to rescue them. Can Claire harness her powers in time to help her fellow Crones defeat the mages—or will her efforts bring even greater disaster?

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Michem Publishing

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1989457061

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9781989457061

Pictures of Poverty

The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations

By: Lydia Jakobs

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Pictures of Poverty

The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations

By: Lydia Jakobs

From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period, whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures, presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial role of the Victorian state in poor relief.

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347

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Indiana University Press

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0861969855

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9780861969852

China on the Threshold of World War II

By: Lydia Koohtin,Lydia Zola

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China on the Threshold of World War II

By: Lydia Koohtin,Lydia Zola

Before Japan loomed over most of Asia during World War II, the ageing British Empire still held sway over the area, and people from various reaches of the empire swarm all over the colonies. Best of friends Nick Wilson and husband-and-wife Val and Jenny Cornish are three such imperial subjects who find themselves in Hong Kong for different reasons. In the time that Nick stumbles on what he believes to be the love of his life, Helen, the Japanese start their planned conquest of Asia-Pacific, throwing the ill-fated lovers off their plans, and making the game of survival their primary concern. We all know Japan lost this war. Nick Wilson¿s subsequent military involvement, mostly within deep Chinese territories, gives a revealing glimpse what the Japanese military planners overlooked on this last imperial campaign.

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292

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Dorrance Publishing

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1434916561

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9781434916563

Dinosaurs: A Novel

By: Lydia Millet

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Dinosaurs: A Novel

By: Lydia Millet

One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 An Oprah Daily Favorite Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Novel of 2022 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2022 A stunning new novel from the author of A Children’s Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil’s unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins—what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies. Dinosaurs is both sharp-edged and tender, an emotionally moving, intellectually resonant novel that asks: In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324021470

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9781324021476

Collecting the Self

Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China

By: Sing-chen Lydia Chiang

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Collecting the Self

Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China

By: Sing-chen Lydia Chiang

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Talking to High Monks in the Snow

Asian-American Odyssey, An

By: Lydia Minatoya

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Talking to High Monks in the Snow

Asian-American Odyssey, An

By: Lydia Minatoya

Winner of the 1991 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Talking to High Monks in the Snow captures the passion and intensity of an Asian-American woman's search for cultural identity.

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Harper Collins

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0060923725

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9780060923723

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