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Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends: Volume Two by Tara A. Devlin
epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Tara A. Devlin [Devlin, Tara A.]

Game Brain Do you like video games? Of course, video games are fun, but if you play them constantly, it’s dangerous for your health. If you play games every day ...
( Category: Folklore July 6,2020 )
The First Sikh by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
epub |eng | 2019-11-08 | Author:Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh [Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur]

Unlike Hindu, Buddhist or Jain texts, the Guru does not elaborate on what happens after death. For instance, the Gita explains the paths of light (devayana) and darkness (pitriyana) that ...
( Category: Indian July 6,2020 )
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Morris Ivan;
epub |eng | 2018-08-07 | Author:Morris, Ivan;

122. In the Fifth Month In the Fifth Month I love going up to a mountain village. When one passes a marsh on the way, a thick covering of weeds ...
( Category: Japanese July 4,2020 )
The First Islamic Classic in Chinese by Wang Daiyu;Murata Sachiko;
epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Wang, Daiyu;Murata, Sachiko;

Book Two 2.1. The Five Constants The Five Constants of the true teaching, which are the clear mandate of the Real Lord, are five affairs: remembrance, giving, abstaining, worship, and ...
( Category: Asian July 4,2020 )
The Illicit Happiness Of Other People by Manu Joseph
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2020-06-25 | Author:Manu Joseph [Joseph, Manu]

SIMION CLARK WAS AN Anglo-Indian physics teacher whose sudden appearance in the cheap cement corridors of St Ignatius had all the enchantment of a Rolls-Royce passing through a narrow Madras ...
( Category: Indian June 26,2020 )
Illustrated Myths & Legends of China by Huang Dehai
epub |eng | | Author:Huang Dehai

Handscroll: Copy of Gu Kaizhi’s The Nymph of Luo River (detail, another part) In the early morning, Yaoji often turned into a vague misty cloud that floated lazily between the ...
( Category: Chinese June 23,2020 )
Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge by Wai-yee Li
epub |eng | | Author:Wai-yee Li

YOU TONG, “ON THE MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE PLANK BRIDGE” Yu Huai showed me The Miscellaneous Records of the Plank Bridge, which he authored, so that I could write a ...
( Category: Women June 19,2020 )
Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf by John Stevens
epub |eng | | Author:John Stevens

Along the hedge a few branches of golden mums; Winter crows soar above the thick woods. A thousand peaks glow brilliantly in the sunset, And this monk returns home with ...
( Category: Love Poems June 16,2020 )
Bullseye! by Tsutsui Yasutaka
epub |eng | 2019-11-16 | Author:Tsutsui, Yasutaka [Tsutsui, Yasutaka]

Sleepy Summer Afternoon It was still sweltering when I left the factory. As I walked out, I looked up to see a cloudless sky, a sky colored ultramarine with eyes ...
( Category: Japanese June 15,2020 )
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu by Xu Xu
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Xu Xu

Map of Shanghai from 1932 showing the foreign concessions and larger city area. Numbers refer to locations mentioned in the Introduction and the stories. Detail from Xu Xu’s wartime passport ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 12,2020 )
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories by Tsering Dondrup
epub |eng | | Author:Tsering Dondrup

* * * 1. Alak Drong’s long verse was originally written using a version of “alphabet poetry” (ka rtsom), in which the first two lines each start with A, the ...
( Category: Asian June 2,2020 )
Early Korean Literature by McCann David;
epub |eng | 2000-09-06 | Author:McCann, David;

NEGOTIATING LINGUISTIC MEANING Just as various objects in the story become signs of the king’s, Ch’ŏyong’s, and others’ negotiated authorities, the events of the story give meaning, through narrative authority, ...
( Category: Asian May 31,2020 )
Computer Programming: PYTHON: A step-by-step giude to learn the basic concepts of Python Programming Language with practical exercises by Tony Chan
azw3 |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Tony Chan [Chan, Tony]

The class statement In Python, due to class statement, you may execute a square of code and appends its nearby namespace to a class, so that you may use it ...
( Category: Linux & UNIX Administration May 3,2020 )
Roots of Yoga by James Mallinson
epub |eng | 2016-12-10 | Author:James Mallinson

SEVEN Mantra The use of verbal formulas called mantras to bring about worldly and soteriological aims has a pre-eminent place in almost all Indian religious traditions.1 It is central to ...
( Category: Indian April 19,2020 )
Shahnameh (Penguin Classics) by Ferdowsi Abolqasem
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )

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