The Boy With A Bamboo Heart

The Boy With A Bamboo Heart
Author: Amporn Wathanavongs
Publisher: Maverick House
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-09-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1908518324

Orphaned at the age of five in a rural Thai village, Lek is thrust into a life-long struggle to find his place in the world. Alone and impoverished, he treads a precarious path, barely surviving in the markets of Surin until, at age fifteen, he finds himself brandishing a rifle as a boy soldier in the Cambodian jungle. Despair leads him to two suicide attempts. He is hell-bent on succeeding on his third try, but a stranger intervenes and offers him hope. Thus begins Lek’s journey to become Dr. Amporn Wathanavongs, foster father to more than 50,000 Thai children. Driven to become a reputable member of society, he returns to his boyhood village to study at the local temple. But when his vows as a monk collide with his desire to learn English and have a family, he must choose between settling for a safe and predictable life, or risk living as a vagrant on the streets of Bangkok while searching for a way to make his dream a reality. Through the generous support of a Jesuit missionary working in Thailand, he achieves his objectives. But having a family, a formal education, and a respectable job in social work are not enough. He perseveres and finds his true calling―helping others. With the exotic landscape of Thailand as a backdrop, Boy with A Bamboo Heart tells the story of one man’s quest for happiness.

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Author: Oriental Translation Fund
Publisher:
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1839
Genre: Hindustani literature
ISBN:

Compositeurs suisses d'oeuvres chorales

Compositeurs suisses d'oeuvres chorales
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Avec les compositeurs lausannois André Besançon, Patrick Bron, Philippe Buhler, Pierre Chatton, René Falquet, Vincent Girod, Jean-Marie Marcel, Anne-Marie Monnier-Thomas.

Debussy's Resonance

Debussy's Resonance
Author: François de Médicis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1580465250

Some of Debussy's most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds. The music of Claude Debussy has always been widely beloved by listeners and performers alike, more perhaps than that of any of the other pioneers of musical modernism. However rich in itself, his creative output also participated, and continues to participate, in a network of cultural connections, the scope and meaning of which can only be gleaned through multiple interpretive frameworks. Debussy's Resonance offers twenty new studies by some of themost active and respected English- and French-language scholars of French music. The book treats a large swath of the composer's music, from previously unexplored mélodies of his early years to late pieces such as the ballet Jeux and the Douze Études, and takes into consideration the numerous contexts that helped shape the works and the different ways that musicologists and critics have explained them. CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine Bergeron, Matthew Brown, David J. Code, Mark DeVoto, Michel Duchesneau, David Grayson, Denis Herlin, Jocelyn Ho, Roy Howat, Steven Huebner, Julian Johnson, Barbara L. Kelly, Richard Langham Smith, Mark McFarland, François de Médicis, Robert Orledge, Boyd Pomeroy. Caroline Rae, Marie Rolf, August Sheehy FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS is Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal. STEVEN HUEBNER is Professor of Music at McGill University.

The Book of Masks

The Book of Masks
Author: Remy de Gourmont
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN:

"The Book of Masks" by Remy de Gourmont (translated by Jacob Howard Lewis). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.