Illuminations
 Just a quick note: I have nothing to add to the reviews below except to note for scholarly interest that the essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' included in this collection is not Benjamin's final version. (Neither is this title [... more]
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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
DIVExperience a world of chaos and wonder./DIVDIVWhen Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He knows nothing of city life. But the city, with its [... more]
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The Phonology of Standard Chinese
The fully revised edition of San Duanmu's popular introduction to Chinese phonology reflects recent research and theoretical advances in particular work in feature, syllable, and stress. The author has also added a chapter on rhythm in poetry.brbrSan [... more]
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Managing Facilities
Managing Facilities provides a clear introduction to the concepts, development and application of managing facilities in hotels. Premises and services operations management are considered through the application of generic management techniques. In [... more]
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Fixed Point Theory
Granas-Dugundji's book is an encyclopedic survey of the classical fixed point theory of continuous mappings (the work of Poincari, Brouwer, Lefschetz-Hopf, Leray-Schauder) and all its various modern extensions. This is certainly the most learned book [... more]
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Doctrine of God, The: A Global Introduction
A Christian's understanding of God is crucial to how he or she views everything else. In IThe Doctrine of God: A Global Introduction/I, Veli-Matti K}}rkk}}inen surveys what the church has traditionally thought about God. He also examines what the church [... more]
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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
DIVBA classic Newbery Award winner, with an introduction by Katherine Paterson and new illustrations/BBRBRWhen Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. [... more]
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Quest: The Essence of Humanity
An intriguing work of history, philosophy, and popular science that explores the human desire to quest.pScientists continually look for the genetic factors that make humans so very different in appearance and behaviour from most animals - the genes that [... more]
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Brother Woodrow: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson ...
This memoir of Woodrow Wilson is a long-neglected treasure, full of the candid and perceptive observations of Wilson's brother-in-law and close friend, Stockton Axson. A charming and talented scholar of English literature, Axson became one of the few [... more]
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The Phonology of Standard Chinese
The fully revised edition of San Duanmu's popular introduction to Chinese phonology reflects recent research and theoretical advances in particular work in feature, syllable, and stress. The author has also added a chapter on rhythm in poetry.brbrSan [... more]
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Just a quick note: I have nothing to add to the reviews below except to note for scholarly interest that the essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' included in this collection is not Benjamin's final version. (Neither is this title [... more]
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Why Truth Matters
The false, the phoney and the therapy: The shocks of The Great War of 1914-1918 spawned a social movement known as "nihilism". Values once held meaningful were rejected by those who felt the conflict demonstrated such beliefs to be invalid. The [... more]
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