The Unabridged Charles Dickens
This collection includes versions of Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.
ISBN: 0762406720
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Rating: 4.44
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Sunday, October 31, 1999
Tuesday, October 26, 1999
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson has written a well-received collection of short stories, The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind, and is a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. In this novel he has acknowledged his debt to ten years of high school English teaching, and especially to his annual task of introducing students to Romeo and Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird. Echoes of both are found in this book, the ta!e of a community undergoing a trial which questions the whole basis of their justice, and love story across a divided society. Yet Guterson's work is unmistakably his own, original, memorable, capturing time and place in a poetic and reflective style that is always deeply moving.
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in the Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with cold-blooded murder. It is 1954 and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and the internment of Japanese-Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom. Ishmael Chambers, who lost an arm in the war and now runs the island newspaper, is among the journalists
covering the trial that brings him close, once again, to Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused and Ishmael's never-forgotten first love. As a heavy snowfall impedes the course of the trial, the whole community Is faced with the ambiguities of justice, the racism that persists even between neighbours, and the necessity of individual moral action, despite the indifference of nature and circumstance.
Peter Marinker is a highly experienced stage actor whose credits include The Iceman Cometh and Edward H among many others. On television he has starred in Oppenheimer, Strangers and Brothers, Casualty, and The Mackinnons, whilst his films include , Fear is the Key, and The Emerald Forest.
Playing time 15 hours 8mins approx.
ISBN: 0676503373
Author: David Guterson
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Rating: 3.76
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Thursday, September 9, 1999
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn't like...and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, he learns eternal lessons of charity, kindness, and goodwill. Experience a true Victorian Christmas!
ISBN: 1561797464
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Rating: 3.99
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Thursday, April 15, 1999
Orientalism and Religion: Post Colonial Theory, India and the Mystic East
Orientalism and Religion: Post Colonial Theory, India and the Mystic East
Offers a discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. This text examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows how religion needs to be redescribed along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, Richard King provides a series of reflections on the nature of religious studies and Indology.
ISBN: 0415202582
Author: Richard King
Publisher: Routledge
Rating: 4.06
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Sunday, March 28, 1999
In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World
In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World
Presenting new and invaluable Chinese perspectives on international relations in general and BeijingOs foreign policy in particular, this work offers the first balanced and thoroughly researched analysis by Chinese scholars. Drawing on original Chinese sources and interviews, In the Eyes of the Dragon explores Chinese views on sovereignty, national interest, security multilateralism, international human rights, nuclear nonproliferation, Taiwan, and the United States. Illuminating how China views the postDCold War world and its place therein, the contributors enhance our understanding of the nationalist sentiments driving the PRCOs foreign policy and elevate the debate over China to a higher, more sophisticated, and productive level.
ISBN: 0847693376
Author: Deng Yong Deng
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Rating: 0.00
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Tuesday, December 1, 1998
The Dragon s Eye
The Dragon s Eye
Winner of the 1969 Edgar Award, "The Dragon's Eye" takes us behind the Bamboo Curtain into a world of espionage and intrigue in China.
"Why me? I was no hero. Just a war-wise, war-weary combat reporter who'd pushed his luck too far and too long. Still alive and tired of all the dying. Now all I wanted was a long blonde in a short bikini and a star to steer her by. I cabled my resignation and got the hell out of Asia. I got as far as Honolulu. That's where an old buddy brainwashed me into a mission that would rattle the guts of the most hardened agents. A rescue job behind the Bamboo Curtain. A former British correspondent, now top man in the Chinese news service. A man with lethal secrets . . . and a Chinese mistress. A man who would deal with no one but me. Why me? I couldn't figure it out. And there was only one way to find out."
ISBN: 1583480412
Author: Scott C.S. Stone
Publisher: iUniverse
Rating: 3.33
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Sunday, November 1, 1998
The Founding Fathers on Leadership: Classic Teamwork in Changing Times
The Founding Fathers on Leadership: Classic Teamwork in Changing Times
An exciting business primer based on the country-building strategies that sprang from the ingenuity, resourcefulness, determination, desperation & passion of America's founding fathers.
ISBN: 0446674257
Author: Donald T. Phillips
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Rating: 3.71
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