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Author: Tim Mair
Publisher: Ringpress Books
Keywords: veterinary, advice, guide, colic, horses
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-10-31
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1860542425
ISBN-13: 9781860542428

Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: studies, hawaii, asian, tzu, essays, chuang, experimental
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1983-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0824808363
ISBN-13: 9780824808365

Author: Devan C Mair
Publisher: Xulon Pre
Keywords: vengeance
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2005-07-21
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 1597814326
ISBN-13: 9781597814324

Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: multilingual, cidian, hanyu, index, alphabetical
Number of Pages: 522
Published: 2004-02
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 082482816X
ISBN-13: 9780824828165

Traditionally, China had character dictionaries, but no word dictionaries. Later, small-scale word dictionaries began to appear. Then large-scale word dictionaries began to appear but those only dealt with modern Chinese language. The Hanyu Da Cidian (Unabridged Dictionary of Sinitic) (HDC) is the first large-scale comprehensive word dictionary in Chinese history that includes both ancient and modern language. HDC consists of twelve volumes, almost 20,000 pages, approximately 370,000 entries, 1,500,000 citations, and nearly 23,000 different characters. Well over 100,000 sets in China alone hav

Author: Lucy Mair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: societies, african
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1974-09-27
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0521098548
ISBN-13: 9780521098540

In African Societies, Lucy Mair unites the two main strands of anthropology teaching: the discussion and illustration of the various analytical concepts used by anthropologists in the study of social systems; and ethnography - the detailed study of particular societies, nowadays obtained by participant observation. All societies discussed are in sub-Saharan Africa. This 1977 book will be of great use to students of social anthropology studying ethnography. Presenting as it does brief ethnographic accounts of a wide variety of African societies, as well as exemplifications and discussions of ma

Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: literature, chinese, traditional, anthology, columbia
Number of Pages: 1376
Published: 1996-04-15
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0231074298
ISBN-13: 9780231074292

Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.

Authors:Lao Tzu,  Victor H. Mair,
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: ching, tao
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1990-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 055334935X
ISBN-13: 9780553349351

A new, landmark translation ofone of the most popular works of world literture, this edition of the Tao Te Ching is based on the newly discovered Ma-wang-tui manuscripts. Illustrated ith ten woodcuts.
  
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