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Building Temples in China

Memories, Tourism and Identities

By: Selina Ching Chan,Graeme Lang

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Building Temples in China

Memories, Tourism and Identities

By: Selina Ching Chan,Graeme Lang

Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by local governments. This book examines the revival of worship of the Chinese Deity Huang Daxian and the building of many new temples to the god in mainland China over the last 20 years. It analyses the role of local governments in initiating temple construction projects in China, and how development-oriented temple-building activities in Mainland China reveal the forces of transnational ties, capital, markets and identities, as temples were built with the hope of developing tourism, boosting the local economy, and enhancing Chinese identities for Hong Kong worshippers and Taiwanese in response to the reunification of Hong Kong to China. Including chapters on local religious memory awakening, pilgrimage as a form of tourism, women temple managers, entrepreneurialism and the religious economy, and based on extensive fieldwork, Chan and Lang have produced a truly interdisciplinary follow up to The Rise of a Refugee God which will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese religion, Chinese culture, Asian anthropology, cultural heritage and Daoism alike.

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Routledge

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1136171045

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9781136171048

Nothing but a Storage Door. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Selina Castel

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Nothing but a Storage Door. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Selina Castel

Step into a world where every door leads to a new adventure. A mysterious stranger invites you to play a game of imagination. With his words, he guides you through a storage door into a magical room filled with numerous other doors, each one a gateway to a new chapter. Behind every door lies a discovery, a challenge, or a secret waiting to be uncovered. Will you find what you never knew you were searching for? The journey is yours to choose.

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3711538991

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9783711538994

OBSESSION

By: Selina Elliot

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OBSESSION

By: Selina Elliot

Tessa knew that she deserved the fate that had befallen her. The decision to run away from a father who hated her and a marriage she wanted no part of was entirely hers. Certainly the outcome was her responsibility. So why did she keep trying to escape her life? Had she not learned that her master's control was absolute? Escape would never be possible. And yet, when a trip across the ocean presented an unlikely opportunity, she didn't hesitate. But was Tessa reaching too far? Was redemption impossible? Even as a child Trey understood that there was no law to protect a slave against the whims of a white man. So there would be no justice for his family unless he took matters into his own hands. As an adult Trey swore that there would be nothing that would keep Baron Henley safe from his revenge. But even well laid plans could go awry. Particularly when his attention was diverted to the bewildering, raven-haired beauty he impulsively abducted.

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1491809450

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9781491809457

Fanny, the Flower-Girl; Or, Honesty Rewarded. To Which are Added Other Tales

in large print

By: Selina Bunbury

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Fanny, the Flower-Girl; Or, Honesty Rewarded. To Which are Added Other Tales

in large print

By: Selina Bunbury

Reproduction of the original.

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130

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3368357328

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9783368357320

Birrick’s Quest for the Other World

By: Selina Astarre

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Birrick’s Quest for the Other World

By: Selina Astarre

Can elves do good, or magic? Can they find secrets or proof of the Other World? Journey with Birrick on his quest, as he seeks out hidden truths and tries to liberate the Citadel and its keeper from the problems of magic, science and power gone wrong. Come along for his struggle to get back to the Other World where he feels that he belongs.

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162

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398429252

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9781398429253

Nancy Mitford

By: Selina Hastings

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Nancy Mitford

By: Selina Hastings

Nancy Mitford’s life was as glamorous and as dramatic as her most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on her eccentric family, she became a huge bestseller and household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, John Betjeman, and, of course, her famous sisters. Noted biographer Selina Hastings captures the gaiety and frivolity as well as the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford’s life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with her dashing but unfaithful French lover contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Hastings has written a biography that is as superbly entertaining and clear-eyed as the unforgettable novels that are its subject’s lasting claim to fame.

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308

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Vintage

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0307949478

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9780307949479

Beshadowed: Series Omnibus

By: Selina A. Fenech

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Beshadowed: Series Omnibus

By: Selina A. Fenech

The life she's known is a lie... Drawn back to her hometown by her mother's death, Everly hopes it's her chance to reconnect with her childhood sweetheart. Instead, on her first night back, she sees him die. Killed by something she can't explain. Now his body is missing, and his soul is trapped in her dreams. As Everly hunts for answers to the mystery, supernatural creatures lurk around every corner. But they aren't the vampires and werewolves of legend Everly expects. Shroudhaven is crawling with dark secrets. The biggest of which is inside Everly herself. This omnibus contains the first four books in the Beshadowed series by Selina A. Fenech. An urban fantasy with a plus-size heroine, shifters with a twist, mystery, horror, and a love that transcends life and death. Grab your copy and binge the complete story today!

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701

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Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd

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1922390704

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9781922390707

Hope's Reign

Memory's Wake Trilogy Book 2

By: Selina A. Fenech

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Hope's Reign

Memory's Wake Trilogy Book 2

By: Selina A. Fenech

In a kingdom where humans and the fae live side by side, secrets and manipulation reign. Memory struggles to make a new home in an unfamiliar, magical land, but the dark secrets from her past are catching up to her. Her only friends are being torn away by dark forces while a greater threat lies veiled in shadows. Memory fights to reclaim the stolen parts of her soul, but when her past self starts haunting her, she knows her sanity could be the next thing she will lose. How can a girl on the edge save a kingdom from a cunning foe? Memory's Wake is the second book in the epic, illustrated Memory's Wake trilogy. A thrilling, young adult fantasy, set in a Victorian fairyland, by bestselling creator Selina Fenech. Discover the unique magical world of the Memory's Wake Trilogy by picking up your copy today.

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360

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Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd

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0987563505

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9780987563507

The Rainbow Round the Throne

By: Selina J. Hancock

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The Rainbow Round the Throne

By: Selina J. Hancock

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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154

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3382335050

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9783382335052

Fast Talking PI

By: Selina Tusitala Marsh

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Fast Talking PI

By: Selina Tusitala Marsh

Winner, 2010 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry The judging panel found Marsh's collection exhilarating: "The poems are sensuous but strong, using lush imagery and clear rhythms and repetitions to power them forward." Touching on the poet's community, ancestry, influences, and history, this debut collection of poetry lives up to the meaning behind the artist's name—&“writer of tales.&” The featured verse is sensuous but strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms, and repetitions to power it forward. With a unique Pacific lyricism, this compendium is structured in three sections that showcase different strengths, from personal poems and political and historical verse to those already destined to become classics. Fighting against historical injustices and exploring the ideas of identity and story—especially those associated with the afakasi or half-caste experience in a postcolonial world—this compilation will gratify fans of poetry everywhere.

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Auckland University Press

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1775580660

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9781775580669

Sybille Bedford

A Life

By: Selina Hastings

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Sybille Bedford

A Life

By: Selina Hastings

The first biography of the universally acclaimed British writer, Sybille Bedford, by the celebrated author of books about Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. Passionate, liberated, fiercely independent, Sybille Bedford was a writer and a journalist, the author of ten books, including a biography of Aldous Huxley, and four novels, all of which fictionalized her extraordinary life. Born in Berlin, she grew up in Baden, first with her distant, aristocratic father, and then in France with her intellectual, narcissistic, morphine-addicted mother and her lover. She was a child with a German Jewish background who survived two world wars and went on to spend her adult life in exile in France, Italy, New York, and Los Angeles, before finally settling in England. Bedford was ahead of her time in many ways, with great enthusiasm for life and all its sensual pleasures, including friendships with bold faced names in the worlds of literature and food as well as a literary network of high-powered lesbians. Aldous Huxley became a mentor, and Martha Gellhorn encouraged her to write her first novel, A Legacy; in 1989, her novel Jigsaw was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In the 1960s, she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials, including those of Auschwitz officials accused of Nazi war crimes and Jack Ruby, on trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Brenda Wineapple has called Bedford "one of the finest stylists of the 20th century, bar none." In this major biography, Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, and compassion of the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements.

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Knopf

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1101947926

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9781101947920

And Man Created God

A History of the World at the Time of Jesus

By: Selina O'Grady

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And Man Created God

A History of the World at the Time of Jesus

By: Selina O'Grady

At the time of Jesus' birth , the world was full of gods. Thousands of them jostled, competed and merged with one another. In Syria ecstatic devotees castrated themselves in the streets to become priests of Atargatis In Galilee, holy men turned oil into wine, healed the sick, drove out devils, and claimed to be the Messiah. Every day thousands of people were leaving their family and tribes behind them and flocking into brand new multi-ethnic cities. The ancient world was in ferment as it underwent the first phase of globalisation, and in this ferment rulers and ruled turned to religion as a source of order and stability. Augustus, the first emperor of Rome (though he never dared officially to call himself so) was maneuvering his way to becoming worshipped as a god – it was one of the most brilliant makeovers ever undertaken by a ruler and his spin doctors. In North Africa, Amanirenas the warrior queen exploited her god-like status to inspire her armies to face and defeat Rome. In China the usurper Wang Mang won and lost his throne because of his obsession with Confucianism. To explore the power that religious belief has had over societies through the ages, Selina O'Grady takes the reader on a dazzling journey across the empires of the ancient world and introduces us to rulers, merchants, messiahs, priests and holy men. Throughout, she seeks to answer why, amongst the countless religious options available, the empires at the time of Jesus ‘chose' the religions they did? Why did China's rulers hitch their fate to Confucianism, a philosophy more than a religion? And why was a tiny Jewish cult led by Jesus eventually adopted by Rome's emperors rather than the cult of Isis which was far more popular and widespread? The Jesus cult , followed by no more than 100 people at the time of his death, should, by rights, have disappeared in a few generations. Instead it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Why did Christianity grow so quickly to become the predominant world religion? What was it about its teachings that so appealed to people? And Man Created God looks at why and how religions have had such an immense impact on human history and in doing so uncovers the ineradicable connection between politics and religion - a connection which still defines us in our own age. This is an important, thrilling and necessary new work of history.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250016827

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9781250016829

Sounds of the Sacred

Religious Music in India

By: Selina Thielemann

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Sounds of the Sacred

Religious Music in India

By: Selina Thielemann

It Is A Good Introduction To The Musico-Literary Traditions Of Vraja And The Collection Of Lectures And Short Essays Concentrate Upon Traditions Of Music Whether Sacred Or Secular, As An Act Of Divine Worship.

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180

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APH Publishing

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8170249902

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9788170249900

Memory's Wake

By: Selina A. Fenech

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Memory's Wake

By: Selina A. Fenech

She doesn't belong in this fairy tale land. 'Memory' is having a bad day. Torn through a magical portal. Her past unknown, stolen. She has no idea how much worse things will get. The only thing she knows is she has to run. A dragon hunts her. The fairies despise her. The king wants her soul. And a wild man follows her in the shadows… Memory will do anything to get back home, wherever that is, but unexplainable forces and dangerous secrets push her toward a fate darker than she ever imagined. Will she survive learning the truth? Victorian style, fairy tale creatures, and Arthurian lore combine in this unforgettable tale. Memory's Wake is the first book in this complete young adult fantasy trilogy, perfect for readers seeking a unique story full of intrigue, unexpected twists and high-stakes action. Get your copy of this spellbinding page-turner today.

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098715110X

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Building Temples in China

Building Temples in China

Nothing but a Storage Door. Life is a Story - story.one

Nothing but a Storage Door. Life is a Story - story.one

OBSESSION

OBSESSION

Fanny, the Flower-Girl; Or, Honesty Rewarded. To Which are Added Other Tales

Fanny, the Flower-Girl; Or, Honesty Rewarded. To Which are Added Other Tales

Birrick’s Quest for the Other World

Birrick’s Quest for the Other World

Nancy Mitford

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Beshadowed: Series Omnibus

Beshadowed: Series Omnibus

Hope's Reign

Hope's Reign

The Rainbow Round the Throne

The Rainbow Round the Throne

Fast Talking PI

Fast Talking PI

Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford

And Man Created God

And Man Created God

Sounds of the Sacred

Sounds of the Sacred

Memory's Wake

Memory's Wake

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