44 results for 'd.j mandarin'

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In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around...

"How did people in China learn to speak a common language? Out of a dizzying array of regional and local vernaculars, many of them mutually unintelligible, how was the idea of a spoken standard...

With over 6,750 fully illustrated words and phrases in Mandarin Chinese and English and a free bilingual audio app, DK's Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential...

For families looking for a fun way to teach children about the community workers in their neighborhood, this book creatively uses common Asian foods to not only captures their bitty babe’s attention...

Ming drama represents the classical Chinese theatre at its most mature. Between 1368 and 1644, more than 400 playwrights produced over 1500 plays, ranging from one-act skits to works with 50 scenes...

In this timely book, Alex Callinicos explores the real meaning of the Bush Doctrine. He deconstructs the rhetorical justifications of the 'war on terrorism' and analyses the strategy of the...

V. 1. Opuscula Logica, Physica, Allegorica, Alia -- V. 2. Opuscula Psychologica, Theologica, Daemonologica. Ediderunt J.m. Duffy Et D.j. O'meara. Text In Greek, Preface In Latin. Cover Title:...

V. 1. Opuscula Logica, Physica, Allegorica, Alia -- V. 2. Opuscula Psychologica, Theologica, Daemonologica. Ediderunt J.m. Duffy Et D.j. O'meara. Text In Greek, Preface In Latin. Cover Title:...

Can a bomb ever be "clean"? Are we relieved to be warned that there will be an "odor" when once we were told that something would "stink"? Or, to put it another way, when is a euphemism a mark of...

"In The World of Franz Kafka, Professor J.P. Stern, the internationally respected critic and historian of modern German literature, brings together a number of writings on widely varying aspects of...

This book proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on culture and language rather than power and politics. Applying this to what he calls Germany's "axial age," Bernhard Giesen...

An unforgettable portrait of Paris and Vichy France during the Nazi occupationAmericans in Paris recounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the brutal Nazi occupation...