111 Places in Tokyo That You Shouldn't Miss
Christine Izeki and Bjorn Neumann
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Tokyo is a city that enshrines the past and the future, where the Far East meets the Western world....
Medicine and the Science of the Stars: Astrological Physick in Early Modern England
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Despite the modern view of astrology as a pseudoscience, the movements and corresponding effects of...
Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the '68 Movement
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In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports...
Beating the Graves
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The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an...
The Girls
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California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is...
Due Antiche Diocesi dello Stretto di Messina: Insediamento, Manufatti, Infrastrutture e Produzione Nell'eparchia Delle Saline e nelle Isole Eolie Tra Tardoantico e Alto Medioevo
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This monograph is a comparative study of the Saline area and of the Aeolian Islands dioceses'...
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
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Based on ancient Japanese lore, Murumasa: The Demon Blade plunges players into the mystical Genroku...
Lindsay (1717 KP) rated The Tea Planter's Wife in Books
Dec 7, 2017
You go allow with Gwen with her struggles and learning curves of being a mother and wife to her twins and what is going on with Ceylon culture.
When one of her children is colored she does not know if it was her husband or someone else's child. She fights with herself when she gives her daughter to a village. That is when she gives birth to her twins. She has a household servant named Naveena.
Gwen had to deal with not only decision to what she made but also her sister in law. She dealt with that and her raising her son. You are lean so much history and culture of Ceylon at that time as well. You meet Tamil and Sinhalese worker that were part of Tea Plantation.
The Ever-Present Origin
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This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag,...
1 and 2 Corinthians
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The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to...