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American poets project volume ; 30
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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America's first professional songwriter, Foster wrote lyrics that have entered our country's cultural bloodstream. Emerson presents a fully and delightfully annotated selection of Foster's most famous songs, and augments them with lyrics that either influenced Foster or were inspired by his genius.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"What if you suddenly found yourself in Josefina's world in New Mexico in 1824? What activities might you do on the rancho, what dreams might you have, and what would you do for fun? In this story, you can join Josefina on adventures that take the two of you from spending cozy evenings on the rancho to coming face-to-face with a mountain lion to visiting the lively market in the city of Santa Fe! Your journey back in time can take whatever twists...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文(繁體)
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It is a reading of the beauty of classical poetry through time. The author selected poems from 20 influential poets of ancient poetry. He followed the tracks of the early Tang Dynasty through late Song, breaking the limitations of time and space. Readers can enjoy the beauty of rivers and lakes, extravagant luxury life, and the lives of common folks.
《一本书读懂经典古诗人》,是一本透过诗人人生来品读古典诗词之美的经典读本。作者精选了20位对后世有影响力的古诗词大家,沿着初唐、盛唐……晚宋的轨迹,打破时间与空间的局限,让我们领略诗词江湖的美好。...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"These essays are artful meditations on life in the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on everything in between. The pieces combine admonition, celebration, inquiry, jokes, assignments, entreaties, prayers, and advice: honest reflections distilled from years of working in the theater. They offer candid accounts of what it is like to be a mother and an artist, along with descriptions of how Ruhl's children's dreams, jokes, and songs work themselves...
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English
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Pirates are an enduring popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirate women -- who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like -- is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the story of 16 women who through the ages sailed alongside -- and sometimes in command of -- their male counterparts....
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Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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"When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection. Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Push your GameMaker programming skills to the edge with 100 programming challenges using the popular GameMaker: Studio and GML. Each challenge includes an outline of the challenge, a scoring and time guide, useful GML code, and a working example provided in GMZ format. For more advanced programmers, each challenge comes with an additional task to complete. Think you're a good GameMaker game application developer or programmer? Think again with this...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A collection of more than fifty prose pieces by the cultural commentator reviews the literary achievements of her contemporaries, sharing perspectives on subjects ranging from the art of writing fiction to the continuing unequal state of race in America.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned cultural institution documenting black life in America and...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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中文(繁體)
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This literary book collects short essays written by Liao Yu Hui (1950–), a Taiwanese essayist and professor of Chinese literature. Liao has published more than 35 books and won various literature awards since the 1980s. In this book, she tells the stories of babysitting her two granddaughters and shares fun and love of growing with their young minds in her retired life.
大寶小寶,統統都是寶;天地再大,比不上我長大。 面對現在雙薪父母無法親自哺養子女的窘境,阿公阿嬤一肩扛起隔代教養的重責大任,雖偶有老而彌「艱」之嘆,更多的是被孫兒「笑彎了腰」、「閃瞎了眼」的驚奇!升格阿嬤的散文名家廖玉蕙,自從在臉書上深情剪貼大孫女海蒂、小孫女諾諾的點滴成長,這「大大小小」的高人氣魅力,加上「允文允武」的十八般技藝,足以PK「載歌載舞」的「左左右右」。...
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Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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Jalalu'l-Din Rumi (1207-73) was the greatest of the Persian mystical poets. In his extensive writings he explored the profound themes that had gradually evolved with the long succession of Sufi thinkers since the ninth century, such as the nature of truth, of beauty, and of our spiritual relationship with God.
Professor R. A. Nicholson translated this inspiring collection of mystical poems shortly before his death. It contains delicately rhythmical...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Multimedia Technology IV is a collection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Technology (ICMT 2015, Sydney, Australia, 28-29 March 2015). The book discusses a wide range of topics, including:- Image and signal processing- Video and audio processing- Multimedia data communication and transmission, and - Multimedia tools. Presenting recent advances, and new techniques and applications, the contributions will be of interest...
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