The Adventures of Wu

The Adventures of Wu
Author: H. Y. Lowe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400855896

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Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nursery rhymes, and education; flowers and foods; street entertainers, folk amusements, and acrobatics; religions; jokes and poems; and a great deal more. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Theory and Practice of Communism

The Theory and Practice of Communism
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1973
Genre: Communism
ISBN:

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The Sketch

The Sketch
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 812
Release: 1913
Genre:
ISBN:

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Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu
Author: Louise Jordan Miln
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1918
Genre: British
ISBN:

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"Mandarin Wu is a doting father to his beautiful daughter Nang Ping who falls in love with a dashing British visitor to China, Basil Gregory. Basil informs Nang Ping that he must return to Britain with his family, but she surprises him with the revelation that she carries his child. Wu learns of his daughter's dishonor and lets the ancient laws of China lead him relentlessly toward tragedy."--Adapted from Yesterdaysgallery.com

The Attention Merchants

The Attention Merchants
Author: Tim Wu
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0804170045

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From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. "Dazzling." —Financial Times Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. Wu’s narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium—from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook—has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of “attention merchants” has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, The Attention Merchants lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.

Vreeland

Vreeland
Author: Gabriel Strump
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1460246802

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In every school, there is always one exceptional individual who stands out from the rest of the crowd. Seventeen-year-old Anton knows this all too well. Creative, sensitive, and musically-gifted, he possesses an intangible quality that draws both the admiration of young girls and the ire of teenage boys. Teased since grade school for his slightly-pointed ears, and tormented in high school because of the long, brown hair he’s grown to cover them, he finds solace in a world of fantasy where his unconventional nature is not only welcomed, but desired. While at summer camp, the other boys pull a cruel prank that drives him into the woods, terrified and injured, and he stumbles into a deep hole where he falls into an altered state of consciousness; or does he? When he awakens, he finds himself in a most unusual, delightful place, surrounded by five charming, female, fairy-like creatures. “This is Vreeland,” explains Titi, a most captivating winged beauty. As the seed of love sprouts and grows between Titi and Anton, it is eventually discovered that he is, in fact, the son of the Great Architect, whom the Vrees revere. As the prophesied Chosen One, Anton is therefore destined to rescue the Queen of Peace from her captor—the malignant Drakon, Lord of the Weets. But how will this be accomplished? What hidden strength must be realized within Anton to see this mission fulfilled? And will he ever return to the realm from whence he came?

Memories of Dr. Wu Lien-teh, Plague Fighter

Memories of Dr. Wu Lien-teh, Plague Fighter
Author: Yu-lin Wu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9810222874

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Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humour, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of readings that aim to identify what he calls the "queening" of America, a process by which "rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral." The Queening of America examines how the invisibility of gay male writing, especially in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, facilitated the crossing of gay motifs in straight culture. Van Leer then critiques some current models of making homosexuality visible (the packaging of Joe Orton, the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the rise of gay studies), before concluding more optimistically with the possible alliances between gay culture and other minority discourses.

Punch

Punch
Author: Mark Lemon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1913
Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN:

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Hearings

Hearings
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1746
Release: 1972
Genre: Legislative hearings
ISBN:

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Female CEO's Super Bodyguard

Female CEO's Super Bodyguard
Author: Jiang BianNuoSong
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 1033
Release: 2020-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164884975X

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Stone gambling? Invincible! Medical skills? Solitary Snow was seeking defeat! Beautiful women? Aiya, don't be rude, I'm really a doctor. The King of Assassins, Yang Ping, returned to the city and obtained the most powerful God's Eye, Dragon Travelling on the Shoals, fighting against the Nine Heavens, and becoming a super perceptive expert of his generation.