Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai

Truyen ngan - Thuong nho muoi hai
Author: Bang Vu
Publisher: MintRight Inc
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 6042028146

"Muoi hai" in this book title means twelve months in a year which according to the author, "each month has its own plaintive beauty, personal nostalgia ...". Vu Bang conveys his sweet memory about Hanoi by the beauty of culture, lifestyle, food art etc. and especially the deep love of his wife apart.

210th Day

210th Day
Author: Natsume Soseki
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 146290209X

First published as Nihyaku Toka in 1906, The 210th Day is published here for the first time in English. Focusing on two strongly contrasting characters, Kei and Roku, as they attempt to climb the rumbling Mount Aso as it threatens to erupt, it is a celebration of personal experience and subjective reaction to an event in the author's life. During their progress up the mountain—where they encounter a storm on the 210th day (the lunar calendar day traditionally associated with typhoons)—and during a stopover at an inn along the way, Roku, the main protagonist, banters with Kei about his background, behavior and his reaction to the things they see. Kei surprises his easy–going friend by advocating a radical social agenda. Written almost entirely in the form of an extended dialogue, carried over several episodes, the book reveals Soseki's gift for the striking image and his vivid imagination, as well as his talent for combining Eastern and Western genres—the Western auto–biography and the Japanese traditional literary diary—into a work with a unified theme and atmosphere. In his Introduction to the book, Dr Marvin Marcus, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Washington University, provides insight into Soseki's life and work.

Happiness

Happiness
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Parallax Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2005-07-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1888375914

50 short and simple mindfulness practices for cultivating happiness—anytime, anywhere—from world-renowned spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. You don’t need to “formally” meditate in order to bring mindfulness into your daily life! Whether you’re new to Buddhist teaching or you’re a more experienced practitioner, this quintessential resource of Thich Nhat Hanh’s most essential teachings will show you how to walk, sit, work, eat, and even drive with full awareness. In one accessible and easy-to-use volume, you’ll find many kinds of meditations, including: • Daily Practices: walking meditation, taking refuge, telephone meditation • Eating Practices: kitchen meditation, mindful eating, tea meditation • Physical Practices: resting and stopping, deep relaxation, mindful movements • Relationship & Community Practices: deep listening and loving speech, peace treaty, hugging meditation • Extended Practices: touching the earth, lazy day, traveling and returning home • Practices With Children: helping children with anger, the cake in the refrigerator, pebble meditation The only way to truly develop peace both in oneself and in the world is to learn to live in the present moment instead of the past or the future. Integrating these practices into daily life will allow you to cultivate peace and joy within yourself, leading to freedom from fear, misunderstanding, and suffering.

China's Gilded Age

China's Gilded Age
Author: Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108802389

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces serious risks for the economy and political system. Since market opening, corruption in China has evolved toward access money. Using a range of data sources, the author explains the evolution of Chinese corruption, how it differs from the West and other developing countries, and how Xi's anti-corruption campaign could affect growth and governance. In this formidable yet accessible book, Ang challenges one-dimensional measures of corruption. By unbundling the problem and adopting a comparative-historical lens, she reveals that the rise of capitalism was not accompanied by the eradication of corruption, but rather by its evolution from thuggery and theft to access money. In doing so, she changes the way we think about corruption and capitalism, not only in China but around the world.

Cn V

Cn V
Author: Vinh Liem
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0578012960

Each period of an existence is naturally bound together with its history and era. Therefore, the Love has to change along with its human's conception and organs of sense. Over a quarter of a century, since April 30, 1975, love and humans have changed. But, one thing has never changed - the LoVietnameseng Poem. A loVietnameseng poem can be written in any form, any language, or any era; it is still a loVietnameseng poem forever. If there is no Love, it's a dead certainty that there is no LoVietnameseng Poem. The author hopes that his readers will welcome this book of poems - Ties of Affection (Cn V

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1927
Genre: Animals
ISBN:

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Author: Nahoko Uehashi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545311802

You've never read a fantasy novel like this one! The deep well of Japanese myth merges with the Western fantasy tradition for a novel that's as rich in place and culture as it is hard to put down. Balsa was a wanderer and warrior for hire. Then she rescued a boy flung into a raging river -- and at that moment, her destiny changed. Now Balsa must protect the boy -- the Prince Chagum -- on his quest to deliver the great egg of the water spirit to its source in the sea. As they travel across the land of Yogo and discover the truth about the spirit, they find themselves hunted by two deadly enemies: the egg-eating monster Rarunga . . . and the prince's own father.