Author: Lin Yutang
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: people, country
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $43.45
ISBN-10: 1443723770
ISBN-13: 9781443723770

MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLEby LIN YUTANGINTRODUCTION In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed the doctrine of Confucius and learned the classics and revolted against them, these young people have been battered by many forces of the new times. They have been taught something of science, something of Christianity, something of atheism, something of free love, something of communism, something of Western philosophy, something of modern militarism, something, in fact, of everything. In the midst of the sturdy medievalism of the mass

Author: Lin Yutang
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: people, country
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2006-11-12
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1406724459
ISBN-13: 9781406724455

MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLEby LIN YUTANGINTRODUCTION In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed the doctrine of Confucius and learned the classics and revolted against them, these young people have been battered by many forces of the new times. They have been taught something of science, something of Christianity, something of atheism, something of free love, something of communism, something of Western philosophy, something of modern militarism, something, in fact, of everything. In the midst of the sturdy medievalism of the mass

Author: Peter Brownlowe
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: people, country, destruction
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-12-21
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0595375456
ISBN-13: 9780595375455

Not since Jimmy the Greek’s statement on race has there been a book this edgy! This book says what everyone would like to say but are scared to say. Straight out of the projects of Bronx New York, this author has traveled down many roads and has experienced many of the things that most will not have had the opportunity to do. He has taken some of those thoughts and experiences and put it all in this book in order to expose some of the problems and feelings that he believes is plaguing our country.An ex-military officer and police officer, he recently returned from the war in Iraq and tel

Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Keywords: country, profiles, series, oxfam, people, background, issues, cambodia
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0855984309
ISBN-13: 9780855984304

The Cambodia Country Profile, 22nd title in this series, explores the rich cultural heritage of Cambodia, while also showing a nation in rapid change as it prepares to claim its place in the advanced economies of South East Asia. A continuing theme through the book is how Cambodia can balance the demands for social equity and a sustainable civil society with its rapid economic growth.This profile focuses on campaigns to preserve traditional livelihoods; on efforts to deal with landmines and AIDS-related illness; and initiatives to rebuild trust and to break with the nation’s violent past. Th

Author: Jeanette Keith
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: cumberland, studies, rural, culture, upper, tennessee, people, new, south, country
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1995-08-14
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0807845264
ISBN-13: 9780807845264

Using the Tennessee antievolution ’Monkey Law,’ authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee’s hill country from 1890 to 1925.Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men controlled their families’ labor and opposed economic risk taking; farm women married young, had large families, and produced m

Authors:Mary Miers, Jeremy Musson, Tim Richardson, Tim Knox, M
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: country, life, magazine, house, english, archives
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0847830578
ISBN-13: 9780847830572

The English Country House takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries—from the medieval Stokesay Castle to the newly built, Lutyens-inspired Corfe Farm—brought to life through the world-renowned photography library of Country Life. More than four hundred color and black and white illustrations provide an insight into the architecture, decoration, gardens, and landscape settings of these houses, which are set into their architectural and historical context by the accompanying text and extended capti

Author: Mabel Carney
Publisher: Furnas Press
Keywords: country, school, social, community, relationship, progress, agencies, life, study, rural
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1408679817
ISBN-13: 9781408679814

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.