ATAR Notes Text Guide: Unpolished Gem
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File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2019-06
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ISBN : 9781925945416
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Release : 2019-06
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Author : Alice Pung
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440662053
“Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung’s rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir—already an award-winning bestseller when it was published in Australia—Alice grows up straddling two worlds, East and West, her insular family and the Australia outside. With wisdom beyond her years and a keen eye for comedy in everyday life, she writes of the trials of assimilation and cultural misunderstanding, and of the tender but fraught relationships between three generations of women trying to live the Australian dream without losing themselves. Unpolished Gem is a moving, vivid journey about identity and the ultimate search for acceptance and healing, delivered by a writer possessed of rare empathy, penetrating insight, and undeniable narrative gifts.
Author : Leo Su
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2019-06
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781925945157
The ATAR Notes Text Guides cover everything you need to know for your set texts. Written by some of the best English students in the country, these books do the hard work for you: condensing all of the important details in your text, and providing you with sophisticated analysis you can use in your own essays. This Text Guide contains: - A thorough summary and analysis of the entire text - Insightful dissections of the characters, key themes, and structural features - A comprehensive quote bank - Exemplary sample essays with commentary designed to help you increase your marks - Highlighted vocabulary words to learn and integrate - Valuable advice from a high-scoring former student who shares their tips and tricks for success.
Author : Socrates Spiro
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Arabic language
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Author : Elizabeth Armstrong Reed
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Persian literature
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Author : Henry Walter Bellew
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Afghanistan
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The Races of Afghanistan was written towards the end of, and shortly after, the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) and published in London in 1880. The author, Henry Walter Bellew, was a surgeon and medical officer in the Indian Army who over the years had undertaken a number of political missions in Afghanistan and written several books on Indian and Afghan subjects. In explaining the purpose of his book, Bellew writes that the peoples of Afghanistan in his view soon would become subjects of the British Empire and that, "to know the history, interests, and aspirations of a people, is half the battle gained in converting them to loyal, contented, and peaceable subjects...." The book begins with an introduction, an overview chapter on the Afghans, and separate chapters on the history of the Afghans, British relations with Afghanistan, and Sher Ali (the emir of Afghanistan who reigned 1863-66 and 1868-79). These introductory chapters are followed by individual chapters on the following ethnic groups or tribes: Pathan (today usually seen as Pashtun or Paktun, Puktun, or Pushtun), Yusufzai, Afridi, Khattak, Dadicae, Ghilji (also seen today as Ghilzi and Khilji), Tajik, and Hazarah (Hazara in modern times). Bellew speculates on the pre-Islamic origins of the different Afghan peoples, discussing the tradition that the Afghans were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and referring to the writings of Herodotus, in which the Dadicae are mentioned as one of four Indian nations forming a satrapy on the extreme eastern frontier of the Persian Empire under the emperor, Darius I. Bellew's book was used as a source by later writers, for example Percy Molesworth Sykes (1867-1945) in his A History of Persia (1921). Bellew was the author of other books on Afghanistan and neighboring countries, of grammars and dictionaries of several Afghan languages, and of studies of individual ethnic groups.
Author : A. Vieyra
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1794
Category : History
ISBN : 5874406670
Part 1: Portuguese and English
Author : Thomas Bulfinch
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Mythology
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Author : Sherman E. Lee
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art, Chinese
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Author : Samuel E. Martin
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1462910416
Every serious student of Japanese needs a reliable and user-friendly dictionary in their collection. Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary, now with 30% more content, is a completely updated dictionary designed for students and business people who are living in Japan and using the Japanese language on a daily basis. Its greatest advantage is that it contains recent idiomatic expressions which have become popular in the past several years and which are not found in other competing dictionaries. The dictionary has been fully updated with the addition of recent vocabulary relating to computers, mobile phones, social media and the Internet. Other special features that set this dictionary apart include: Over 25,000 words and expressions including idioms and slang. User-friendly layout with main entries in color. Complete Japanese-English and English-Japanese sections. Romanized forms and the Japanese script are given for all Japanese words. A guide to pronunciation helps the user to pronounce Japanese words correctly. Different senses of each word are distinguished by multiple definitions.