Blur: The Making of Nothing

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When the visionary American architectural team of Diller + Scofidio won a commission for Swiss EXPO 2002, they reinvented the tradition of creating spectacular buildings for World's Fairs by creating an empty one—an ephemerally beautiful yet eerily vacant pavilion. Consisting of a mist formed by 30,000 fog nozzles mounted on an immense structure of steel cables, the Blur Building appears to float above a Swiss lake. It's a fabricated cloud, complete with a water bar.

The book of Blur captures the experience of passing through this vaporous maze. More than 240 pages, including four double gatefolds, document every aspect of the project, from the first conceptual sketches to the computer-programmed "braincoats" to be worn by the estimated 10 million visitors to construction documents and news clippings. Even the transparent plastic cover and shadowy title typography convey the transitory essence of Diller + Scofidio's thought-provoking work. This unique book will be the permanent manifestation of the building, which will be dismantled after the Expo closes.

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Visually awsome.......2003-03-04

This book was designed extreamly well. The book consists of emails, faxes, photos, sketches, CAD, essays, and much more in a scrap book fasion. The whole thing is talking about this project for the Expo, but that isn't what is interesting about it. The design of the book allows you to page through and look at the pictures, read snippits of emails or faxes, and shows you their process of concept and design. If you were to ignore the fact that it is all talking about this one project you can use it to inspire new ideas for your own use. This is one hell of a book. The copy i go was a slightly different version but the inards are essentially the same.

the good against the bad.......2002-11-03

diller & scofidio are the best. and everyone has to know it. so read the book and support them on their fight against the rest of the bad, bad world. you can manipulate every fact that it fits your purpose, but sometimes it's too transparent for mature people, probably this book would work as a fairytale for children.

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acrylic painter's pocket palette.......2002-03-21

This is a great resource book for mixing colors for the beginner in acrylic painting. I wish it was still in print. Perhaps the publishers will se fit to republish for those who missed out the first time.

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Acrylic Painter's Pocket Palette
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Acrylic Painter's Pocket Palette, The
Ian Sidaway
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000KWD0CI

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American-born photographer Levinthal has earned national recognition by creating potent, ironic, and sometimes controversial visions using miniature figures and toys as characters in staged tableaux. Since publishing his first major work in 1977 (Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43), he has worked with Barbie, blackface memorabilia, toy soldiers, and various modeling figures to explore the icons and stereotypes of popular culture. Levinthal executed his series Modern Romance in the mid-1980s. Echoing the paintings of Edward Hopper and film noir, these are scenes of urban life in dreamy neon-lit color and television blues. Levinthal shows us figures lingering on street corners, entering movie theaters, passing through alleys, conversing in diners, and interacting in confined spaces. He also depicts the impersonal landscape of the city: cop cars on the streets, doorways, and murky bedrooms. Levinthal's lovely and vaguely troubling photographs house a tension of possibilities; with details obscured, they speak of solitude, sexual isolation, and urban anxiety. An illuminating essay by Eugenia Parry opens the book, nicely placing this formative series in both a personal and an artistic context. This is serious art, dealing with fascinating ideas. Highly recommended for contemporary art collections of academic and public libraries. Deborah Miller, Minneapolis--Library Journal

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Modern Romance.
David. LEVINTHAL
Manufacturer: Atherton: Aaron Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000U2JFHM

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Modern Romance
David Levinthal
Manufacturer: FOUNDERS GALLERY
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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

The life story of a degenerate Irish drunken vampire.

As the title suggests, it takes one of the major characters from Preacher and tells how he got to be so messed up (and undead), in a sideline from the main plot.

Interesting prelude to the Preacher saga.......2003-12-26

A one shot featuring Preacher regular Cassidey, Blood & Whiskey is a precursor to the events in the opening Preacher storyline Gone to Texas. When the hard drinking Irish vampire Cassidey goes to New Orleans, he meets another vampire named Eccarius who lives his immortal life exactly as a vampire would in an Anne Rice novel. Cassidey tries to help him out from "being such a wanker", but not all goes according to plan. Ennis' story is hilarious and blood curdling at the same time; something he became known for with the Preacher comics, while Steve Dillon's art is superb as always. The events in this story would play an important part later on in the Preacher series as Cassidey's character became more developed, and you can find this story re-pritned in the Preacher: Dixie Fried TPB.

Best Comic Book Ever!.......2003-06-23

Time and time again I reread Cassidy: Blood and Whiskey, and it's easily one of my favorite comic books ever. Why? Well, it stars Cassidy, an Irish vampire who would rather have a pint of beer instead of a pint of blood. He's also one of those characters that says exactly what the reader would like to say in the same situation. Some of his one liners are great for use with friends (and enemies).

In this adventure Cassidy goes to New Orleans and meets another vampire, who thinks that Anne Rice is the authority on how all vampires should act. This other vampire, Eccarius, is going to be condemned to eternal life as a boring, self righteous jerk unless Cassidy can set him strait.

With deliciously powerful scripting by Garth Ennis; flowing, delicious art by Steve Dillion; and a gut wrenching twist ending every Preacher or Ennis fan should have this book.

By the way, look for a cameo by fan favorite Neil Gaiman as "Roger" a Goth follower of Eccarius.

NOTE: With nudity, extreme bad language, various other sins, this book is not for the young or easily offended.

Best Comic Book Ever!.......2003-06-18

With deliciously powerful scripting by Garth Ennis; flowing, delicious art by Steve Dillion; and a gut wrenching twist ending every Preacher or Ennis fan should have this book.

By the way, look for a cameo by fan favorite Neil Gaiman as "Roger" a Goth follower of Eccarius.

NOTE: With nudity, extreme bad language, various other sins, this book is not for the young or easily offended.

Reprinted in Dixie Fried.......2000-12-22

A few years before the events of "Gone to Texas", Cassidy meets a vampire with a slightly different attitude to undeath. A fun little romp, foreshadowing later events in the Preacher books. It's reprinted in its entirety in "Dixie Fried".

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The profoundly moving family history of one of America's greatest newspapermen.

As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld was the celebrated rabbi. Nicknamed "the memory boy" by his parents, the fifty-nine-year-old son begins to revisit the portion of his father's life recorded in letters, newspaper clippings, and mementos stored in a dusty camp trunk. In an excursion into an unsettled and shakily recalled period of his boyhood, Lelyveld uses these artifacts, and the journalistic reporting techniques of his career as an author and editor, to investigate memories that have haunted him in adult life..

With equal measures of candor and tenderness, Lelyveld unravels the tangled story of his father and his mother, a Shakespeare scholar whose passion for independence led her to recoil from her roles as a clergyman's wife and, for a time, as a mother. This reacquired history of his sometimes troubled family becomes the framework for the author's story; in particular, his discovery in early adolescence of the way personal emotions cue political choices, when he is forced to choose sides between his father and his own closest adult friend, a colleague of his father's who is suddenly dismissed for concealing Communist ties.

Lelyveld's offort to recapture his family history takes him on an unforeseen journey past disparate landmarks of the last century, including the Scottsboro trials, the Zionist movement, the Hollywood blacklist, McCarthyism, and Mississippi's "freedom summer" of 1964. His excursion becomes both a meditation on the selectivity and unreliability of memory and a testimony to the possibilities, even late in life, for understanding and healing. As Lelyveld seeks out the truth of his life story, he evokes a remarkable moment in our national story with unforgettable poignancy.

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Unexamined area of American history.......2005-07-25

I purchased this book because I enjoyed Lleyveld's work at the New York Times and thought his autobiography would be of interest. It proved to be interesting for other reasons, as well. Firstly, it provides a glimpse of what it life must have been like for rural Jews in early-20th century America. As a native of Alabama, I've wondered how life must have been like for Jews then, and this book certainly answers that question. Also, as a reporter, Mr. Lleyveld is able to research his early years and effectively establish or disprove the validity of his memories. This proves very interesting and he deserves a lot of credit for this. It must have been very difficult to rely on objectively researched clues for the story of his life, instead of his own memories, especially considering that oftentimes his own memories proved false.

american jewish diaspora.......2005-04-30

my confession first, since this book is a quasi-memoir (the author calls it a memory loop, though it reads like a mobious strip of guilt, pain, poignancy, and truth-seeking), i was attracted to this book because joe lelyveld's father was my rabbi growing up in cleveland. i really didn't enjoy going to fairmont temple as a youngster, not on sundays and certainly not twice a week for hebrew school when around 4:30 p.m, once a week, we filed into the chapel, and the rabbi would lead us through the standard prayers. i rarely, rarely, rarely go to temple these days ( six months on a kibbutz in the negev when i was 19 did wonders for my belief in cultural judaism at the expense of religiousity). but this book is a confrontation between memory and loss in the attempt to untangle destiny from fate. the battleground is the uneasy relationship between father and son, arthur and joe, with his mother providing the drama that sets things spinning off-kilter. the pages are thick with loss and regret; there is none of the philip roth's comic shtick that jumps at the reader in his autobiographical writings (or thinly veiled fictional renderings.) i applaud mr. lelyveld for having the courage to confront his past, especially as he must look far back in time, decades, to pry loose shards of recollection. know thyself, socrates counseled. this book satisfies the author's need to know, though it would be foolish to expect a complete and full answer.

so just how close were father and son? not very. towards the end of the book, the son lets fly this awareness: "we seldom quarreled and we were never close." nor did they engage in much shop talk; rabbi lelyvled was one of the most prominent rabbis in america, and his son rose to become the man in charge at the ny times. but they steered clear discussing their jobs or careers. which to me, is, frighteningly pathological. perhaps the need to avoid conflict at all costs was what drove this arrangement, but as a reader, i wanted to know about the schisms that had to exist, especially in matter of political coverage that the times devoted to the arab-israeli saga.

naturally, with an emotionally distant father, joe needed another father figure to project his hopes and desires as he entered his adolescence, and the figure who emerged is a complicated rabbi/communist/friend of his father who occupies the moral center--and about 50 pages--of this slim book. it's here that joe's reportorial skills are in full display as he pieces together the mysterious life of ben goldstein/ben lowell.

as for my own recollection of rabbi lelyvled: I remember the newspaper photo of him in his blood-soaked shirt following a vicious beating by white thugs in the south in the early 60s. I was seven or so when this occured. and i remember his rather stiff and aloof demeanor during religious services. anyway, i was too young to make sense of any of his sermons. but every time he stood in front of the congregation, I would keep picturing the rabbi, with the bandage over his eye and the blood soaked shirt. he achieved a somewhat heroic stature as a result of this constant visualization

this book, alas, by his son, brings the rabbi down to earth. not maliciously, but in a careful, circumspect way, we see a man defined by his son who, in his seventh decade is still trying to define himself as a welter of repressed memories surfaced. one walks away from this sad, sad book hoping to have read these words from rabbi to son, " I love you, son." joe does tell his father that he loves him, but by then, the rabbi is lying in a vegetative state as a result of a brain tumor. the father can't hear the son. or respond to him. now, that's a painful memory loop. memories, after all, are for the living.

Exceptional, warm offering.......2005-04-24

Joseph Lelyveld's "Omaha Blues", a recollection of his growing up years, is a book that touches all emotions. Having only known the author through books like Seth Mnookin's "Hard News" and his (Lelyveld's) appearances on programs such as Charlie Rose, I felt a certain draw to read "Omaha Blues". I was not disappointed.

Had the term "dysfunctional" been around in the 1940s and 1950s, Lelyveld's family could be described as such. Uprooted every few months it seems, Lelyveld spent much of his childhood with different family members (other than his parents) and with total strangers (the Jensen family in Nebraska). One wonders how this nomadic life can affect the maturity of any child, but he seems, somehow, to have taken much of this in stride. It certainly gave him a foundation for his own independence, to which he alludes.

A large section of the middle of the book is devoted to his boyhood "friend", Ben Goldstein, (aka Ben Lowell, aka George B. Stern) who seems to have served as the author's mentor or avuncular presence. While Lelyveld and Goldstein appeared to have known each other for only a brief few years, the older man certainly played an enormous role in the life of the budding foreign correspondent. That so much of this relationship is left to the imagination of the reader, Lelyveld nonetheless fills in the pieces of how Goldstein was connected to his own family...that story, in itself, is worth the read of "Omaha Blues".

I appreciate the author's candor regarding his own recollections of these formative years. While he was nicknamed "the memory boy", Lelyveld is not above letting us know that his own memory is sometimes very faulty. This admission adds to the charm of the book and allows him to be as human as possible.

"Omaha Blues" is told straight from the author's heart. I highly recommend it to any reader who wishes to explore the depths of his or her own family relationships. Joseph Lelyveld has given us his remembrances in a most affective way.

Relative truth: Joe Lelyveld takes on his toughest assignment: his family.(book by Joseph Lelyveld )(Book Review): An article from: Washington Monthly

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Relative truth: Joe Lelyveld takes on his toughest assignment: his family.(book by Joseph Lelyveld )(Book Review): An article from: Washington Monthly
Melinda Henneberger
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Title: Relative truth: Joe Lelyveld takes on his toughest assignment: his family.(book by Joseph Lelyveld )(Book Review)
Author: Melinda Henneberger
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Volume: 37 Issue: 5 Page: 46(3)

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Omaha Blues : A Memory Loop
Joseph Lelyveld
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OXI2IU

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This serves as an accessible and practical guide for answering the questions of women with breast cancer as well as a resource for easing the concerns of the spouse and family members of breast cancer patients. Drawing on the personal experiences of a breast cancer survivor and the professional expertise of medical professionals, this guide details the various treatment options for cancer patients, including lumpectomy and mastectomy surgeries, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy. Updated information and photographs on breast reconstruction, a complete list of resources, and an open discussion of hereditary and reoccurrence risks are included.

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this book is great.......2000-11-03

dr. braddock was able to utilize her own experiences of battling (and surviving!) this disease to help others in a similar situation. she saw a need for a simple, easy to understand text to inform and inspire both those living with breast cancer and their loved ones. as a woman (and as her daughter) i am so proud to see someone turning her own life experience into such a positive and constructive resource.

updated regularly - last one just out.......1999-12-13

this book has been the most satisfying effort of my life - we update its content every year or so as new information come out, and that last update was just accomplished. Over 30,000 copies have been sold throughout the country, and we hear from so many women whom it has helped cope with the diagnosis. Thank you, all of you. Wishing you peace and joy.

excellent, concise, humorous at times.......1998-10-21

recently updated, this small book gives hope and practical, simple-to-read information to all who are confronted with this terrible disease. Patients, family members, friends will all benefit from reading this work.

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Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An "instant city," created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people--scientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and the families. How these people, as a community, faced both the fevered rush to create an atomic bomb and the intensity of the subsequent cold-war era is the focus of Jon Hunner's fascinating narrative history.

Much has been written about scientific developments at Los Alamos, but until this book little has been said about the community that fostered them. Using government records and the personal accounts of early residents, Inventing Los Alamos, traces the evolution of the town during its first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory and documents the town's creation, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact of this small community on the Atomic Age.

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An in-depth survey of the community which grew from a political and scientific objective........2007-10-06

INVENTING LOS ALAMOS: THE GROWTH OF AN ATOMIC COMMUNITY provides a powerful social history of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the Atomic Age. It began as an 'instant city' created in 1943 for this purpose but came to accommodate scientists and over 6,000 residents brought in to achieve a goal. Most books focus on science: this provides urban studies collections with more: an in-depth survey of the community which grew from a political and scientific objective.

perceptive cultural study.......2005-04-11

I was at Los Alamos in 1988, 31 years after the period covered by the book. Yet there were still clearly common attributes of the town's culture, than spanned those intervening years. The scientific elite of the town in both 1988 and in the book's period, had an insularity. Bred in part perhaps by the sheer intellectual fascination of the problems they were working on. And which they could not explain to outsiders.

But the book also explores the working class sections of the town. A group often overlooked in other "official" histories. It explains informal demarcations of the time, in the social mixing.

A further nuance was not just class but ethnicity. New Mexico was and is a relatively poor, rural American state. Many of the locals were Hispanics, trying to scratch out a living on poor soils. So the lab was always able to find a plentiful labour force. Which had some resentments against the elite, often Anglo scientists. In 1988, this was perhaps not as pronounced. But still present.

A Social History of an Instant Town.......2005-01-19

From a remote, very remote ranch in the mountains of New Mexico, Los Alamos became an instant city in 1943 as it grew to six thousand people, among them the best physical scientists from around the world. With them came thousands of other workers, and their families. Los Alamos became the birthplace of the Atomic Age as it revolutionized modern weaponry and science.

Rather than being exclusively scientific - as are a number of other books -- Inventing Los Alamos concentrates on the people. It uses the oral history point of view to create a social history of the people and the culture that developed.

The book covers not only the early World War II days of developing the Atomic bomb, but also the Cold War Era, and even a short section on the work being conducted at the site now.

This is a most interesting account of the side effects of the scientific work done there.

Birthplace of the Atomic Age.......2004-11-08

This is a great book for anyone remotely interested in the development of America's nuclear program and especially the city known as the birthplace of the Atomic Age. What makes the book unique is both the reader friendly narrative style of the writing and the author's focusing on the establishment of the town and men and women that created a livable community out of wartime chaos while confronting the myriad of social and cultural issues of the Atomic Age prior to the rest of the country...or world. A fresh look at the development of the Atomic Age culture.

The bomb's hometown.(109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos)(Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

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The bomb's hometown.(109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos)(Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist
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Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Russell B. Olwell
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000MX6YMS
Release Date: 2007-01-24

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 532 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community.(Book review)
Author: Russell B. Olwell
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Gender and Community Under British Colonialism is a study of continuity and change in village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, China. Through an in-depth case study of An He village in the New Territories, this book examines the fast-changing features of community life during the British colonial era. It highlights the realpolitik collusion between British colonizers and village patriarchy, the intra-village power structures and relations, as well as the agency of Chinese women in shaping the social and political order of local society. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary materials, this study examines the gender dynamics of Chinese village society from an interdisciplinary perspective. The findings and analysis of this work will be of interest to anyone interested in colonialism, gender relations, village societies, and state-society relations in modern China.

South China Village Culture (Images of Asia)

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South China Village Culture (Images of Asia)
James Hayes
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195919890

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The true essence of China is rooted in its villages. The traditional village culture of South China, as elsewhere in the country, is a microcosm of the greater society and philosophy of China, both ancient and modern. This book focuses particularly on Hong Kong and Shenzhen, originally part of the same county in Guangdong province, which share a rich heritage of diverse influences - a mix of doctrines and varied beliefs, interwoven with regional social and economic practices operating through a well-ordered local organisation - that have helped make this region the success it is today.

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Village Life in Hong Kong
James L. Watson , and Rubie S. Watson
Manufacturer: The Chinese University Press
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ASIN: 9629961008

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This book is a collection of revised articles based on the authors'fieldwork on two villages in Yuen Long, a rural district of Hong Kong. It presents the authors'observations and their interpretation of life in a southern Chinese village under the process of urbanization.

Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories

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Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories
James L. Watson , and Rubie S. Watson
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Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
James Hayes
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 638 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories.(Book Review)
Author: James Hayes
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 78 Issue: 1 Page: 135(2)

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The effects of emigration on a Hakka village

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The effects of emigration on a Hakka village
Dorothy Heid Bracey
Manufacturer: Harvard University
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Lineage, village and alliance: The territorial organization of mainland New Territories

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Lineage, village and alliance: The territorial organization of mainland New Territories
David Faure
Manufacturer: Asian Research Service
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Picture source book for social history
Hugh D. R Baker
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Some aspects of traditional life in Hong Kong: The village fisheries

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Some aspects of traditional life in Hong Kong: The village fisheries
James Hayes
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Specialists and written materials in the village world
James Hayes
Manufacturer: University of California
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00073CEBS

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This book consists of editions and translations of the three known texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) addresses his Nephew: an exhortation to the study of the liberal arts that constitute "philosophy" (On the Same and the Different), a dialogue on the nature of things in which rational causes are sought (Questions on Natural Science), and a discussion concerning the upbringing and medication of hawks (On Birds). A preface introduces the works and places them in the context of the Court schools of Norman bishops and dukes.

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