Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Author : Robert James Leslie M'Ghee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2022-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375016344
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Author : Robert James Leslie McGhee
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1862
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1101580380
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author : Paul French
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2021-06-07
Category :
ISBN : 9789887963967
Bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking) returns to China's capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people - many Americans among them - who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century. From wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton to the poor Mona Monteith, who worked as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis Simpson to the 1930s 'It' couple Edgar and Helen Foster Snow; Destination Peking brings a lost pre-communist era back to life.
Author : Robert James Leslie M'Ghee
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 1862
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Robert James Leslie McGhee
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 1862
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Jim Conover
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Child molesters
ISBN :
Slayer of Innocence is about the investigation of a predator pedophile serial killer who used the Midwest and California as a killing field from 1972 until he was stopped in 1979 by a handful of dedicated law enforcement officers. It is believed that he was responsible for the abductions and murders of more than 16 young boys. This book details the investigation of this killer of children by those officers. It also has many tips on how to reduce the chances of your child being abducted.
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442426209
Jesus loves you, did you know? Jesus loves me! This I know For the Bible tells me so. The popular Sunday school song is the background text for this warm and richly illustrated book.
Author : Mark McCrum
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0805086765
McCrum pens a lighthearted and informative guide to everything from first meeting to last rites. Subjects covered include the opening contact between strangers; greetings, gestures, handshakes, and getting names right; as well as more complex traditions and how to behave abroad.
Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0802779123
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.