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Family stories
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Describes the rise of a Chinese peasant from poverty to the position of a rich landowner, helped by his patient wife. Pulitzer Prize, 1932. Vietnamese language. 1970
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Short stories
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Collection of eleven short stories by the contemporary Vietnamese author now living in California. Includes the stories "Feeble Happiness," "Something…
like a Desperate Feeling," and "The Last Memorial Sonnet." Vietnamese language. 1988
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Literature, Literature biography
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Autobiography of an educated young Chinese woman who lives through the Japanese bombing of Chunking. She chronicles the hardships of…
the Chinese people during their struggle against the Japanese. First published in 1942. Vietnamese language. 1971
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Family stories
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A passionate peasant woman, deserted by her husband, slaves to support her three children with a devotion that achieves its reward at last in a grandchild. Vietnamese language. 1972
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History, War, True crime
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"This book chronicles the long hunt for Nazi war criminals and the swift justice they are dealt by Jewish avengers.…
Beginning with accounts of Jewish vengeance, the book then describes the complicated escape plans of top Nazi leaders and their underground aid network, and ends in Mato Grosso, the jungle located on the Brazilian and Argentine borders that, when the book was written, was a sort of renegade Nazi badland." -- Provided by NLS. Marrakesh title
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Poetry
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Nineteenth-century narrative poem of love and sacrifice recounts the story of a young girl forced by circumstances to become a…
prostitute. This classic work is an acknowledged masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Vietnamese language
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History
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Introductory text on the history, geography, and customs of Vietnam. Includes a listing of biographical annotations on the great figures in the country's history. Vietnamese language
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Poetry
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Anthology of poetry of the two best known Vietnamese poets of the late nineteenth century. The poems exemplify the "Southern Writing" which contrasts with the Chinese-influenced "Northern Writing." Vietnamese language
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Humour
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Collection of favorite Vietnamese humor. Vietnamese language
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In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the ‘horos’, a stone that Athenians erected to…
mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property.
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This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most…
important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew addresses this lacuna, with eight lucid but technically rigorous articles written in English by a range of experienced scholars, focusing on various aspects of Rabbinic Hebrew: its phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and lexicon. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Rabbinic studies alike, and constitutes the first in a new series, Studies in Semitic Languages and Cultures, in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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Science and technology
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This book reviews the occurrence and fate of pesticides in soils, their impact on soil quality and soil ecosystems, and…
it also provides a comprehensive overview of the latest prevention and remediation strategies of soil contamination. Chapters from expert contributors cover topics such as soil pollution monitoring, the role of dissolved organic matter on the environmental fate of pesticides in soils, the effects of pesticides on soil microbial communities, plant uptake of pesticides from soils, and nano-based pesticides. Particular attention is given to the latest physicochemical and biological technologies developed to immobilize or degrade pesticides, preventing soil and water pollution. Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, professionals, including environmental chemists, engineers, ecologists, and policy-makers responsible for soil management.
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General non-fiction
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This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and detailed commentary on Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov, (The Rectifying of the Curved), a…
14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of geometry. The book is a mixture of two genres: philosophical discussion and formal, Euclidean-type geometrical writing. A central issue is the use of motion and superposition in geometry, which is analyzed in depth through dialog with earlier Arab mathematicians. The author, Alfonso, was identified by Gita Gluskina (the editor of the 1983 Russian edition) as Alfonso of Valladolid, the converted Jew Abner of Burgos. Alfonso lived in Castile, rather far from the leading cultural centers of his time, but nonetheless at the crossroad of three cultures. He was raised in the Jewish tradition and like many Sephardic Jewish intellectuals was versed in Greek-Arabic philosophy and science. He also had connections with some Christian nobles and towards the end of his life converted to Christianity. Driven by his ambition to solve the problem of the quadrature of the circle, as well as other open geometrical problems, Alfonso acquired surprisingly wide knowledge and became familiar with several episodes in Greek and Arabic geometry that historians usually consider not to have been known in the West in the fourteenth century. Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov reflects his wide and deep erudition in mathematics and philosophy, and provides new evidence on cultural transmission around the Mediterranean.
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Vietnamese edition. Vision Australia exists to support people who are blind or have low vision to live the life they…
choose. This document covers key information about client rights and responsibilities, privacy, services and how clients can provide feedback and make a complaint. It also includes a list of relevant contacts.
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General non-fiction, Science and technology
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Accessible to a variety of readers, this book is of interest to specialists, graduate students and researchers in mathematics, optimization,…
computer science, operations research, management science, engineering and other applied areas interested in solving optimization problems. Basic principles, potential and boundaries of applicability of stochastic global optimization techniques are examined in this book. A variety of issues that face specialists in global optimization are explored, such as multidimensional spaces which are frequently ignored by researchers. The importance of precise interpretation of the mathematical results in assessments of optimization methods is demonstrated through examples of convergence in probability of random search. Methodological issues concerning construction and applicability of stochastic global optimization methods are discussed, including the one-step optimal average improvement method based on a statistical model of the objective function. A significant portion of this book is devoted to an analysis of high-dimensional global optimization problems and the so-called ‘curse of dimensionality’. An examination of the three different classes of high-dimensional optimization problems, the geometry of high-dimensional balls and cubes, very slow convergence of global random search algorithms in large-dimensional problems , and poor uniformity of the uniformly distributed sequences of points are included in this book.
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Spirituality
Книгата Урантия, публикувана за пръв път от фондация "Урантия" през 1955 г., е била предоставена от небесни същества като откровение…
за нашата планета, Урантия. Авторите на Книгата Урантия ни разказват за произхода, историята и съдбата на човечеството, а също и за нашата връзка с Небесния Отец. Те представят уникално и вълнуващо изображение на живота и учението на Иисус. Те откриват нови перспективи на времето и вечността за човешкия дух и предлагат нови подробности за нашето възходящо пътешествие в една приятелска и внимателно управлявана Вселена.Книгата Урантия предлага ясна и стройна система, която обединява науката, философията и религията. Хората, които четат и изучават книгата, вярват, че Книгата Урантия е в състояние да даде значителен принос към религиозното и философско мислене на хората от цял свят.Книгата Урантия не е нова "религия". Тя се основава на религиозното наследство от миналото и настоящето, насърчавайки личната, жива религиозна вяра.Читателите по целия свят споделят, че четенето на Книгата Урантия ги докосва дълбоко, а често и променя живота им. Книгата вдъхновява хората за постигане на нови нива на духовно израстване и засилва чувството им за ценността на човешкия живот.Насърчаваме ви да се присъедините към читателите на тази Книга и да откриете за себе си нейното облагородяващо въздействие.
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Romance
"Неподвижният живот" е едно пасивно състояние, от което не може да се излезе, огорчението от един неизживян живот. Точно това…
е душевното състояние, което авторът се опитва да ни предаде чрез тази своя прокълната творба. Средството са петнадесетте разказа, които я съставят.Vincent Fleur описва герои потопени в тази "воняща клоака" на тръпчиво-горчиво-сладникаво-кисело ежедневие, на безполезни напъни за изплуване и на живот живян наужким. Започва с един мним диалог между двама близнаци "в утробата" и от една автоматична машина за закуски, която се превръща в спасение от ежедневното, мизерно съществувание; продължава по пътя, който води до секси дами с много наточени зъби (Джаз и Анален коитус), транссексуалци, които се надсмиват на тъжни предприемачи (Милано Милейди) и до скучният и еднообразен провинциален живот на тези, които си мечтаят за големи и приказни градове (Сувенир от Париж), за да достигне накрая до "пеперудите в стомаха", много по-страшни от чудовищата, които се крият в мрака на нашето подсъзнание (Пеперуди).
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Classic fiction, General fiction
[This edition is in Bulgarian.] Before he gained wide fame and accolades as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary…
reputation with his short stories. “The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” the titular story of this collection, was originally published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1936 and is among Hemingway’s most celebrated work. Set in Africa on a big-game safari, it is a story of betrayal, courage, and the relationship between a husband and wife. Other stories in this collection include “The Capital of the World,” “A Way You’ll Never Be,” “A Day’s Wait,” and “Fathers and Sons.” All sixteen stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century.
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Classic fiction, General fiction
[This edition is in Bulgarian.] The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is…
the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway’s frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto—of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized—is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was thirty years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.
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Adventure stories, Mysteries and crime stories
A man is found dead inside his art gallery, Vincent Germano will be expected to wade through thousands of possible…
assumptions, the Commissioner will have to deal with an investigation shadowed by melancholy.