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This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of...

A word as to the exact chronological position of this journey to Jerusalem. Mark’s is, as you all know, the briefest of the Gospels, and we are not to conclude that incidents that follow one another in the narrative necessarily came immediately the one after the other. For the sequence of events,...

"ROUTE STEP - Semper Facetious" is a rollicking recollection of service related memories and the fellow Marines, friends and family that helped make them famous. ROUTE STEP marches across decades, from the recruiting office that began my Marine Corps journey, to fun-filled shipboard and...

Forced to chase a naked guy through the middle of an industrial park does not endear Dominick to the foster child of a convicted criminal. What starts as a routine job turns in to something far more complicated, and Dominick, a US marshal, gets stuck babysitting ‘Cal.’ But Dominick...

Before Bobby Pendragon. Before Saint Dane. Before the war . . . Every territory of Halla has a Traveler. They lived for years-some even for decades-before learning of their true destiny. What was life like for Bobby Pendragon's fellow Travelers before they joined him in the fight to save every...

The horrific bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 was the result of a Government "sting" operation that went terribly wrong, resulting in the political and judicial lynching of Timothy McVeigh, a Government Agent, as part of a massive Government Cover-up.

Nye Havers is in his forties and has given up on love. Life hasn’t done him any favors, and his acerbic nature has just gotten worse over time. He rides a bicycle to work, gets splashed by cars in the rain, and is constantly in trouble because he can’t resist being a smart mouth. He is...

It's the middle of a very cold December, and Charlie Mayburn is in desperate need of a seasonal night manager at his self-storage facility. When he comes across a résumé from his childhood sweetheart, Lonnie "Mack" McDaniel, he’s beyond surprised. Mack left right after high school, determined to...

It was just your typical, run-of-the-mill scout field trip—that is, until Kit spotted an object from space plummeting to Earth. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.

SOMEWHERE IN SPACE, THERE IS AN AWESOME POWER KNOWN AS THE STAR FORCE. In AD 2144, Earth federation forces known as the United Worlds Space Force send two mighty starships into interstellar space on a mission to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, known as Mission Star Search. What they encounter on their way there is a power that could shatter the universe!

This Mini Missing Manual takes you down the virtual rows of Apple's iBookstore, to help you find, buy, and download books and subscribe to magazine and newspapers on your iPad. You'll learn now to navigate your books and periodicals and sync them back to iTunes to swap them on and off your iPad to...

PAUL VERLAINE (1844 - 1896) was a leading light of the French Parnassian poets, highly praised for his early collection of verse, Ftes galantes (1869). In 1872 he deserted Paris, wife and child, and the Parnassians to travel with young poet Arthur Rimbaud on a quest to "renew poetic vision."...

Exploring themes of love, death, war, suffering, and spiritual insight, this collection features carefully crafted poetry and humorous light verse, spanning decades of the authors personal experience, while also touching on something of the universal human condition. Threnody This story must end as...