![]() ![]() ![]() One of the ironies a century on from the revolution of 1911 is that in some ways China is a completely different country from what it was a century ago – everything from the skyscrapers of Shanghai to the massive development of rural areas in western China – and yet many of the problems that the revolutionaries of 1911 were trying to solve are still very relevant to China today. ![]() What legacy of the 1911 revolution and its vision for a modern nation can we see in China today, or have the changes of the 20th century been so dramatic that there is none? In October 1911 the revolution that overthrew China’s imperial dynasty began, a period that would see the establishment of a Republic and the holding of national elections. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Penniless Charlotte knows she's far from a suitable match yet, in Adam's arms, she can dream of the happily-ever-after she's always wanted!The Captain's Disgraced LadyWho is Captain Harry Fanton?When Juliana Milford first encounters Captain Harry Fanton, she finds him arrogant and rude. ![]() That is, until a stolen dance reveals a hidden side to the earl. hes Henrietta's games of courtship with wry amusement. So why does his eye keep wandering to her quiet cousin Charlotte Wyncroft?Charlotte watc. Wealthy and beautiful Henrietta Buxted should be the perfect candidate. Waltzing With The EarlA wallflower's time to shine.The Earl of Shalford needs to marry into money to save his estate. A Gentle Persuasion/Waltzing with the Earl/The Captain's Disgraced (Paperback) ![]() ![]() Proust are arrested by Carrot and Angua, and (nominally) locked up – although it is mostly, in fact, for their protection as people start to resent witches. When they find Roland and Letitia the Nac Mac Feegles, who have as usual been following Tiffany, are accused of destroying a pub. In the city she meets Mrs Proust, the proprietor of Boffo's joke shop, where many witches buy their stereotypical witch accoutrements. On the way Tiffany is attacked by the Cunning Man, a frightening figure who has holes where his eyes should be. ![]() Tiffany travels to Ankh-Morpork to inform the Baron's heir, Roland, who happens to be in the city with his fiancée Letitia. ![]() When the local Baron (for whom she had been caring) dies of poor health, she is accused of murder. ![]() Tiffany is working as the Chalk's only witch in a climate of growing suspicion and prejudice. In an interview at the Guardian Book Club, Pratchett remarked that the book is an urban fantasy. But for now she'd had enough of darkness." The title is taken from a quotation in A Hat Full of Sky: "When I'm old I shall wear midnight, she'd decided. It centres on Tiffany Aching, who is now fifteen years old and getting on with the hard work of being a witch. It was published on 2 September 2010 in the United Kingdom, and on 28 September in the United States, and won the 2010 Andre Norton Award. ![]() It is the fourth novel within the Discworld series to be based on the character of Tiffany Aching. I Shall Wear Midnight is a comic fantasy novel by English writer Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, what I loved most was that at the end when Colin learned he didn't need a Katherine or theory to be happy. He began to realize that the world wasn't revolved around him and he had to be there for the people who cared about him, even if it meant being stung by a swarm of hornets to protect Hassan. But as the story progressed he started to change and become a better person. In this book, I really liked how Colin's first intentions for going on a road trip was for him to find his 'Eureka moment' which would prove to people that he really was a true genius. Heartbroken by being dumped by K-19 (Katherine number 19), his best friend Hassan plans a road trip which will change Colin's whole outlook on love, relationships and life. However, each Katherine he has ever dated has dumped him, or so he believes. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green is based around Colin: a child prodigy and a wannabe genius, who only seems to want to date girls named Katherine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still she becomes a teacher in spite of the obstacles in her path. Her mother dies and she takes on family responsibilities. As she grows up, she longs to visit the faraway places she learns about, but life doesn't offer her those opportunities. Grade 1-3- Arizona, a child of the Blue Ridge, is named by her older brother, a cavalryman out West. (Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.) She goes with us in our minds." Readers will be among the many touched by this very special relative. ![]() Though her great-aunt died at the age of 93, Houston concludes that she "travels with me and with those of us whose lives she touched. For 57 years, Arizona hugged her students, and "taught them words and numbers, and about the faraway places they would visit someday." Lamb's bustling paintings-with glowing characters straight out of Laura Ingalls Wilder-convey the timeless beauty of the region, as well as Arizona's warmth and charisma. in the Blue Ridge Mountains." Arizona and her younger brother attended a one-room school, helped tap the maple trees in spring and "caught tadpoles in the creek." Later, she went away to school, and returned to teach in the same schoolhouse where she herself learned. ![]() In spare yet stirring prose, she recounts the life of her great-aunt Arizona, who "was born in a log cabin her papa built. The author of The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree and Littlejim again demonstrates her skill as a graceful, affecting storyteller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than join the dogfight, companies like Apple, FedEx, and Starbucks have chosen to become metaphorical cats, continuously renewing their distinctive strategies to compete on their own terms. ![]() ![]() Conventional wisdom suggests that dogfights are to be expected as marketplaces mature, giving rise to the notion that there are "bad" industries where it is unlikely that any company can succeed.īut there are notable exceptions where enlightened executives have changed the rules of the game to survive and thrive in embattled industries. Businesses often find themselves trapped in a competitive dogfight, scratching and clawing for market share with products consumers view as largely undifferentiated. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is how their adventure begins, with Death trailing closely behind Rincewind.Īs expected, Twoflower gets kidnapped, which ends with a huge fire that burnt down Ankh-Morkpork, with the two heroes barely escaping. ![]() At first, Rincewind doesn’t want to be entangled with Twoflower, but then gets ordered by the town’s authority to protect him. Twoflower is followed by luggage with hundreds of legs and is an aware entity of its own. Twoflower is an extremely naive and unaware character, coming from a place where gold is not a rarity, not realizing that he could easily become a target in Ankh-Morpork. The main protagonist is an unsuccessful wizard called Rincewind, who stumbles upon a tourist called Twoflower in a tavern in a town called Ankh-Morpork. The sex of the turtle is unknown, which will prove quite an important factor in the protagonists’ adventures later. ![]() This comedic fantasy novel is set in a fictional world called Discworld, which is described as a flat surface world on top of a giant turtle which is supported by four giant elephants roaming through the universe. ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I lost my heart in Moscow, it will stay there forever and I started learning Russian because, one day, I want to be able to read it in the original language. ![]() One year later the images came back, and how! Another Russian friend of mine, Irina Ternovaya, advised me to read The Master and Margarita, written by Mikhail Bulgakov. I was listening and I was amused, but without really trying to remember the name of the novel nor its author. She told me a strange, but funny story about the Devil visiting Moscow. We were discussing literature and I told her about my favourite novel, Cien años de soledad, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I was talking to Tatiana Poppel, a Russian friend who lived there. It was a hot summer night in July 2003 and I was admiring the Eiffel Tower from the open window of a nice penthouse at the Avenue Émile Zola in Paris. ![]() ![]() The titular first essay in the collection of writings introduces us to Cottom, her background, and the motivations for her writings. ![]() Focusing on the contemporary issues of the day, Cottom reveals how the stories that Black women tell about themselves can never get old (and perhaps never should get old considering how often whiteness refers to itself, even if predictably) considering the myriad of experiences we have and the various ways, as Cottom puts it, our social locations impact how we are able to navigate society. Cottom’s work means to grant Black women permission to “do what they are already doing but for better rewards.” Her collection resembles the non-fictional narrative work of Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider (1984) for how it catalogs various themes of the Black experience. ![]() Without being pompous, Cottom is unapologetic in a way that frees both her and the reader to accept what it means for Black women to both be a problem and cause problems. A social scientist herself, Tressie McMillan Cottom turns her theoretical lens inward to discuss the interiority of American life as a ‘thick’ Black woman. ![]() More than a double entendre, Thick: And Other Essays is a rigorous analysis of Black womanhood that utilizes the auto-ethnographic technique well-practiced by women of color long before Clifford Geertz (1973) endorsed in-depth, descriptive writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later immortalized in Machiavelli’s The Prince, he provides the energy and the muscle. ![]() If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women, and power must use papacy and family-in particular, his eldest son, Cesare, and his daughter Lucrezia-in order to succeed.Ĭesare, with a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even colder soul, is his greatest-though increasingly unstable-weapon. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. With an exceptional talent for breathing life into history, Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to one of the world’s most intriguing and infamous families-the Borgias-in an engrossing work of literary fiction.īy the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. ![]() |