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Bamboo

By: Paul Yee

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This tale is set in turn-of-the-century China. When Bamboo, a young farmer, sets off to try to earn his fortune in the New World, his sister-in-law schemes to steal his ancestral lands. But the magic bamboo that his new wife, Ming, has brought as a gift saves his life and brings the family life-long prosperity.

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Tradewind Books

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1896580823

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9781896580821

Learning to Fly

By: Paul Yee

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Learning to Fly

By: Paul Yee

Jason is an outsider. A recent immigrant from China, he lives in a close-minded town with his mother and younger brother. Falling in with the wrong crowd, trying to fit in, Jason takes chances and ends up in trouble with the police. Holding on to his friendship with an Indigenous boy, also an outsider, Jason finds he needs to fight to belong and to find a new home.

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Orca Book Publishers

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1554696607

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9781554696604

Money Boy

By: Paul Yee

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Money Boy

By: Paul Yee

An American Library Association Youth Media Award Stonewall Honor Book Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. It’s tough getting grades that will please his army veteran father, when speaking English is still a struggle. And he can’t quite connect with his peers at high school -- Chinese immigrants like himself but who seem to have adjusted to North American life more easily. Then comes the fateful day when his father accesses Ray’s internet account, and discovers Ray has been cruising gay websites. Before Ray knows what has hit him, his belongings have been thrown on the front lawn, and he has been kicked out. Angry,defiant, Ray heads to downtown Toronto. In short order he is robbed, beaten up and seduced, and he learns the hard realities of life on the street. Could he really sell himself for sex? Lots of people use their bodies to make money -- athletes, actors, models, pop singers. If no one gets hurt, why should anyone care?

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Groundwood Books Ltd

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1554981751

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9781554981755

The Case of the Indian Trader

Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post

By: Paul D. Berkowitz

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The Case of the Indian Trader

Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post

By: Paul D. Berkowitz

This is the story of Billy Gene Malone and the end of an era. Malone lived almost his entire life on the Navajo Reservation working as an Indian trader; the last real indian trader to operate historis Hubbell Trading Post. In 2004 the National Park Service (NPS) launched an investigation targeting Malone, alleging a long list of crimes that literally equated him with the likes of Al Capone. A thought-provoking story of the dark side of a respected branch of the American government, The Case of the Indian Trader will open the eyes of a wide audience.

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UNM Press

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0826348602

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9780826348609

Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face

By: Paul Acampora

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Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face

By: Paul Acampora

Zachary's mom just up and disappeared from their home in Copper Lake, Colorado. The good news is that Zachary and his dad are trying to move on, and Falls, Connecticut is just the place for a fresh start. With the help of a new friend, Rachel, and her brother Teddy, Zachary is learning about new beginnings, the power of forgiveness, and the quirky people that make life interesting.

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Roaring Brook Press

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1429976802

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Localization in Clinical Neurology

By: Paul W. Brazis,Joseph C. Masdeu,José Biller

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Localization in Clinical Neurology

By: Paul W. Brazis,Joseph C. Masdeu,José Biller

This classic work is written for frontline clinicians who need to ask "Where is it?" when diagnosing a neurological disorder, helping them reach a diagnosis with greater accuracy and avoiding unnecessary testing. Updated to reflect the latest literature, enhanced with color anatomical diagrams and additional tables, Localization in Clinical Neurology is a cornerstone in clinical neurology.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451153589

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9781451153583

Godsons

Counting Sunsets

By: Paul Gait

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Godsons

Counting Sunsets

By: Paul Gait

Multimillionaire Geoffery Foster, having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, is determined to maximise his remaining days.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1781480044

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Voices from the Frontline

Narratives of Nonnative English Speaking Teachers

By: Icy Lee,Paul Sze

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Voices from the Frontline

Narratives of Nonnative English Speaking Teachers

By: Icy Lee,Paul Sze

In this handy book, Icy Lee and Paul Sze openly share their stories as nonnative English speaking educators in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). This collection of teachers' stories provides a source of inspiration for both native and nonnative speaking professionals in the field, encouraging them to reexamine key issues in the profession and to reflect on their own practice critically. "Voices from the Frontline: Narratives of Nonnative English Speaking Teachers is a mustread for anyone in TESOL as it brings power through stories to inspire teachers, native or nonnative alike, to reflect, recharge and reimagine what they do by confronting challenges with problem solving tactics, and devoting themselves to the profession with enthusiasm and passion." —Jun Liu, Georgia State University

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9629966409

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Final Charge to the Endzone of Chaos

By: Paul Forster

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Final Charge to the Endzone of Chaos

By: Paul Forster

Sex, drugs and rock and roll! They all collide on and off the football field at Harlow High when the Troy Benson, the young drama teacher is forced to take over the football team by his ambitious and desperate principal. Sports, love and comedy all crash together in this fast and fun novel of what life is REALLY LIKE in a modern American high school. FINAL CHARGE is written by a real teacher about real students and it rolls in the Harper Valley politics that permeate high school culture. Dark-humored and yet inspirational FINAL CHARGE is a perfect fun read.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465314601

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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

A Novel

By: Paul Malmont

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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

A Novel

By: Paul Malmont

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is a thrilling debut novel that casts the rivalry between two of pulp fiction's most revered writers into its own saga, which bursts from the pages with blood, cruelty, fear, mystery, vengeance, courageous heroes, evil villains, dames in distress, secret identities, disguises, global schemes, hideous deaths, beautiful psychics, superweapons, cliff-hanging escapes, and other outrageous pulp lies that are all completely true. Return to 1937, when America is turning to the pulps for relief from the Depression, and meet Walter Gibson, the mind behind The Shadow, and his rival for the top-selling spot on the nation's newsstands, Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage. The murder of Gibson's friend H. P. Lovecraft -- victim of a mysterious death that literally makes the skin crawl -- is about to bring these two writers face to face with a peril sprung from the pulps. The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is at once a valentine to an old-fashioned genre as well as a modern, meta-literary examination of the classic hero pulp. From the palaces and battlefields of warlord-plagued China to the seedy waterfronts of Providence, Rhode Island; from frozen seas and cursed islands to the dizzying and labyrinthine alleys and tunnels of lower Manhattan, Dent and Gibson, joined by the young pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard and a host of colorful characters, finally step out from behind the shadows of their creations to take part in a heroic journey far greater than any story they have imagined as they race to stop a madman destined to create a new empire born of, and based in, pure, gaseous evil. The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is a swashbuckling romantic tale of writers and writing, magic and love, marriage and fatherhood, and ambition and loss that weaves the true lives of its real-life characters into a fictional epic.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743293304

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9780743293303

Accounting Principles, Volume 1

By: Jerry J. Weygandt,Donald E. Kieso,Paul D. Kimmel,Barbara Trenholm,Valerie Warren,Lori Novak

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Accounting Principles, Volume 1

By: Jerry J. Weygandt,Donald E. Kieso,Paul D. Kimmel,Barbara Trenholm,Valerie Warren,Lori Novak

Our top selling introductory accounting product Accounting Principles helps students succeed with its proven pedagogical framework, technical currency and an unparalleled robust suite of study and practice resources. It has been praised for its outstanding visual design, excellent writing style and clarity of presentation. The new eighth edition provides more opportunities to use technology and new features that empower students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to the world outside the classroom.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111950242X

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9781119502425

Transforming Legal Education

Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century

By: Paul Maharg

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Transforming Legal Education

Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century

By: Paul Maharg

Paul Maharg presents a critical inquiry into the identity and possibilities of legal education, and an exploration of transformational alternatives to our current theories and practices of teaching and learning the law. His work takes the view that bodies of interdisciplinary theory and knowledge of the history of legal education are important to all stages of legal education. He also argues that new learning designs - such as transactional learning - need to be developed to help students, educators and lawyers deal with the transitions and challenges facing them now and in the foreseeable future. Throughout, discussions of theory are spliced with case studies of academic and professional legal learning, particularly in the field of technology-enhanced learning. The content of the book will be updated in a community of practice wiki at http://www.transforming.org.uk, which will also allow readers to comment and expand on the book's final chapter.

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Routledge

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1351877992

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Art and Exoticism

An Anthropology of the Yearning for Authenticity

By: Paul van der Grijp

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Art and Exoticism

An Anthropology of the Yearning for Authenticity

By: Paul van der Grijp

This book is about the yearning for authenticity via art and exoticism. Exoticism related to art cannot be reduced to primitivism alone and also encompasses a search in one's own unconsciousness among other things. The yearning for authenticity through exoticism is explored in a cultural anthropological perspective in the realms of Western philosophy (capita selecta) and colonial literature, currents of art, and in the appreciation of Western art conceptions in non-Western societies. An array of firsthand ethnographic illustrations of art production in Asian and Pacific societies demonstrates complementary processes in the non-Western world. A major hypothesis is that exoticism is closely related to, and often motivated by eroticism, a reason why exoticism should be considered as gendered. Case studies of the falsification of authentic art, the de-sacralization of sacred objects, and of the use of natural materials deriving from endangered species complete the analysis.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825816672

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9783825816674

Muslim Mafia

Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America

By: P. David Gaubatz,Paul E. Sperry

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Muslim Mafia

Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America

By: P. David Gaubatz,Paul E. Sperry

As part of an undercover operation, Gaubatz and his team revealed a well-funded conspiracy to destroy American society and promote radical Islam.

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WND Books

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1935071106

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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology

By: Paul Cefalu

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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology

By: Paul Cefalu

The volume highlights how the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were leading apostolic texts during the early modern period in England, and the importance of Johannine theology to early modern religious poetry.

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Oxford University Press

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0198808712

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9780198808718

Almost All Aliens

Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

By: Paul Spickard

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Almost All Aliens

Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

By: Paul Spickard

Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Leaving behind the traditional melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard puts forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. His astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining not only the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, but also those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens provides a distinct, inclusive analysis of immigration and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present. For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Almost All Aliens companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/almostallaliens.

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Routledge

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1135950474

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Exploring the New Exodus in John

A Biblical Theological Investigation of John Chapters 5–10

By: Paul S. Coxon

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Exploring the New Exodus in John

A Biblical Theological Investigation of John Chapters 5–10

By: Paul S. Coxon

The theme of the New Exodus (NE) in John's Gospel has been largely unexplored in recent scholarship. Now, however, by careful intertextual exegesis of John 5-10, Paul Coxon has compellingly argued that not only is the NE key to interpreting the Fourth Gospel, but also to unlocking the mysteries of the Johannine "puzzle" itself. Anyone who is interested in searching the riches of this marvelous Gospel will want to explore the NE in John in these pages.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630879320

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9781630879327

Elastomer Technology Handbook

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Paul N. Cheremisinoff

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Elastomer Technology Handbook

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Paul N. Cheremisinoff

Elastomer Technology Handbook is a major new reference on the science and technology of engineered elastomers. This contributed volume features some of the latest work by international experts in polymer science and rubber technology. Topics covered include theoretical and practical information on characterizing rubbers, designing engineering elastomers for consumer and engineering applications, properties testing, chemical and physical property characterization, polymerization chemistry, rubber processing and fabrication methods, and rheological characterization. The book also highlights both conventional and emerging market applications for synthetic rubber products and emphasizes the latest technology advancements. Elastomer Technology Handbook is a "must have" book for polymer researchers and engineers. It will also benefit anyone involved in the handling, manufacturing, processing, and designing of synthetic rubbers.

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CRC Press

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0429610556

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9780429610554

The Madman of Piney Woods

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

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The Madman of Piney Woods

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

In this poignant companion to Elijah of Buxton, two boys united by tragedy find friendship and adventure in the Canadian woods. Benji and Red couldn’t be more different. They aren’t friends. They don’t even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real? In a tale brimming with intrigue and adventure, Christopher Paul Curtis returns to the vibrant world he brought to life in Elijah of Buxton. Here is another novel that will break your heart—and expand it, too. This critically acclaimed story by National Book Award finalist Christopher Paul Curtis joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes extra bonus content! Praise for The Madman of Piney Woods “Humor and tragedy are often intertwined, and readers will find themselves sobbing and chuckling, sometimes in the same scene.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “A delight, featuring the author’s obvious love for his characters, his skillful use of sentiment, and his often hyperbolic humor.” —Booklist, Starred Review “Heady stuff. Funny stuff. Smart stuff. Good stuff. Better get your hands on this stuff.” —School Library Journal “So suspenseful . . . Curtis deftly makes what might have been simply heart-rending hopeful and redeeming instead . . . A thrill ride of a plot.” —TheNew York Times

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545633761

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9780545633765

Articulated Ladies

By: Paul Rouzer

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Articulated Ladies

By: Paul Rouzer

This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths. Paul Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation was inevitably influenced by this act of identification. Articulated women are always located within a non-existent liminal space between ostensible object and ostensible subject, a focus of textual desire both through possession and through identification. Nor, in male-authored texts, is this articulation ever fully resolved--the potential of multiple interpretations is continually present.

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BRILL

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1684170370

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9781684170371

Merchants of Canton and Macao

Success and Failure in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade

By: Paul A. Van Dyke

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Merchants of Canton and Macao

Success and Failure in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade

By: Paul A. Van Dyke

Merchants were central to the huge growth in China’s foreign trade and contributed to the development of world markets and networks. Merchants of Canton and Macao: Success and Failure in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade brings together much new research about the inner workings of the merchants of Canton and Macao. The book studies in detail the leading Chinese merchants and merchant families as well as the porcelain and silk trades. By examining the successes and failures of dozens of Chinese merchants involved in foreign trade, it provides fresh insights into China’s unique form of capitalism and her role in the rise of global commerce. Van Dyke’s conclusions on the nature of Qing policy towards foreign trade are bold, original and supported by intensive research. In contrast to the traditional focus on British and American trade, his research draws on archives in multiple languages, spread around the world. ‘Like its predecessor, this volume offers a detailed and vivid reconstruction of business practices based on a remarkable collection of archival sources in Chinese and diverse European languages. It will be especially welcome by economic historians as well as anyone who wants to understand global history as it played out in a particular place.’ —R. Bin Wong, Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Asia Institute, UCLA ‘Once again Paul Van Dyke has plumbed the depths of the archives to provide us with an extraordinary catalogue of the activities of European and Chinese traders during the heyday of the Canton trade. In this second volume of his encyclopedic study, Van Dyke focuses in detail on the transactions that took place between foreign private and company traders and Chinese licensed merchants.’ —Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, Columbia University ‘This is a great study which will be the ultimate work on the subject for many years to come. It is as complete as the available documentation at present makes possible; it is concise, well organized and the subject is researched with great thoroughness.’ —Christiaan Jörg, author of Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888139320

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9789888139323

Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold)

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

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Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold)

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor and unique narrative voice, is now part of the Scholastic Gold line! Elijah of Buxton, recipient of the Newbery Honor and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. This edition includes exclusive bonus content!Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. Elijah's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that -- not to mention for being the best at chunking rocks and catching fish. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and tends to talk too much. But everything changes when a former slave steals money from Elijah's friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Now it's up to Elijah to track down the thief -- and his dangerous journey just might make a hero out of him, if only he can find the courage to get back home.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545281199

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9780545281195

Infiltration

How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington

By: Paul Sperry

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Infiltration

How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington

By: Paul Sperry

The most sinister terrorists won't be sneaking through our borders from the Middle East. They're already here. This is the untold story about the silent, yet extremely dangerous threat from the Muslim establishment in America?an alarming exposé of how Muslims have for years been secretly infiltrating American society, government, and culture, pretending to be peace-loving and patriotic, while supporting violent jihad and working to turn America into an Islamic state. In this powder keg of a book, you'll learn: How radical Muslims have penetrated the U.S. military, the FBI, the Homeland Security Department, and even the White House?where subversive Muslims and Arabs have received top-secret clearance. How they've infiltrated the chaplains program in the federal and state prison systems?a top recruiting ground for al-Qaida. How they've successfully run influence operations against our political system with the help of both Democrats and Republicans, badgering corporate boards into Islamizing the workplace. How we've been utterly duped about what the Quran does and doesn't teach. Sadly, much of anti-Western terrorism is simply Islam in practice, the text of the Quran in action. In a time when religious and political leaders are scrambling to smooth over differences in faith and beliefs, this book gives the terrifying truth abaout the very real, very deadly agenda of Islam and how it has already infiltrated key American institutions with agents, spies, and subversives.

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Thomas Nelson

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141850842X

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9781418508425

Ghost Train

By: Paul Yee

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Ghost Train

By: Paul Yee

The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board a train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born. Ghostly, magical and yet redeeming, this tale by Paul Yee is superbly illustrated by Harvey Chan. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)

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Groundwood Books Ltd

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1773065793

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Ephesians

Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of All in Christ

By: John Paul Heil

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Ephesians

Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of All in Christ

By: John Paul Heil

This book analyzes Paul's Letter to the Ephesians and demonstrates that the Letter's implied audience heard its individual units as a rich and complex pattern of chiastic structures. It shows that, not only is the entire Letter arranged in fifteen units that function as a comprehensive chiastic structure, but that each of these fifteen units in turn exhibits its own chiastic structure. By attending carefully to the structure and rhetoric of Ephesians, this work demonstrates how the implied audience is persuaded and empowered by the progression of the Letter to “walk in love” and so contribute to the cosmic unity of all things in Christ.

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Society of Biblical Lit

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1589832671

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Milton's Complex Words

Essays on the Conceptual Structure of Paradise Lost

By: Paul Hammond

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Milton's Complex Words

Essays on the Conceptual Structure of Paradise Lost

By: Paul Hammond

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which Milton develops around key words in Paradise Lost. Some of these are theological or philosophical terms (e.g. 'evil', 'grace', 'reason'); others are words which shape the imagined world of the poem (e.g. 'dark', 'fall', 'within'); yet others are small words or even prefixes which subtly move the argument in new directions (e.g. 'if', 'not', 're-'). Milton seems to expect his readers to be alert to the special semantic field which he creates around such words, often by infusing them with biblical and literary connotations, and activating their etymological roots; alert also to the patterns created by the repetitions of such words, and particularly to their diverse use (and often their blatant misuse) by different characters. To understand the migrations and malleability of key words is part of the education of Milton's reader.

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