Author: Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595317758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A Melodie Chang Novel
Author: Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595317758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Tong War
Author: James A RozhonPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595383386
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Tong War describes feuds between Chinese gangs that ended in the 1920s. However, one threatens to break out in Portland, Maine, and PI Melodie Chang is dragged into the middle of it. It doesn't help that she's five months pregnant and that her husband, Brad, is one of the targets of this new feud. Mike Wei is beating up people around town. Melodie will discover that every preconceived notion she has about tong wars will be wrong. She will discover things about her husband that might threaten her marriage. Mostly, she will need to discover the true reason that war has broken out in Portland before it threatens the life of her unborn baby. Into Melodie's world comes a girl named Sylvia and her baby, Johnny. Can Melodie save them before Wei kills both of them? Who is she and what does she have to do with everything that is happening? And why does she insist that Melodie's friend, Candy Howard, needs her? The case will end only when Melodie can answer all these questions. Still, one of them will die before she does and that death will transform not just Melodie but all of them.
Echoes Of A Distant Past
Author: James RozhonPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595339980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"My mother has cancer." So starts Echoes Of A Distant Past. Melodie Chang's life is perfect and then her mother tells her she has cancer plus a son from long ago. She wants her to find him before she dies. The search for Michael Campbell will uncover some old truths that Melodie's mother thought she left in the past. Will those truths be enough to scatter their family and break up Melodie's perfect life? Echoes Of A Distant Past will answer every question Melodie has ever had about her family and her own position within it. Of course, she has to live through the search first. It seems that an old lover, Peter Campbell, remembers Nikki Swanson, the girl who is now Melodie's mother, and remembers her quite differently than Melodie does. One will win and one will lose and Michael will be between them when that day comes. Who will win and who will die? Someone will. Is it Melodie?
Bordering On Hatred
Author: James RozhonPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595404464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Speaker Hawke wants things to be better for her than they were for her mother when she grew up on the Tohono Oodham Reservation outside Tucson. That wish leads her to take John Overland for a short walk early one Saturday morning. She smokes a joint just as two pickups race across the valley below them. And that starts everything that follows. The next morning, she goes to visit her friend and discovers a blood bath. Dorinda's parents are gruesomely dead and her friend is missing. That spurs John Overland into action, into a mystery where he will meet FBI agents, crooked cops, drug dealers from Nogales, Mexico, and old Indians who live in hovels dug out of hillsides. It all leads to something he suspects might be a drug hit on Dorinda's parents. The deeper he digs into the death of her parents, however, the more he is convinced that something hideously heinous is about to happen in southern Arizona. Though it is difficult to accept, he does believe one thing: he will not live through it. Read Bordering On Hatred to discover what John Overland is fighting. Join John as he is shown how to prevent a holocaust that would pit race-against-race, brother-against-brother and friend-against-friend.
Humour in Asian Cultures
Author: Jessica Milner DavisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000591778
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Chinese cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the contributors explore the different cultural rules for creating and sharing humour. Humour can be a powerful lubricant when correctly interpreted; mis-interpreted, it is likely to cause considerable setbacks. Over time, it has emerged and submerged in different periods and different forms in all these countries but today’s conventions still reflect traditional attitudes to and assumptions about what is appropriate in creating and using humour. Under close examination, Milner Davis and her colleagues show how forms and conventions that differ from those in the west can also be seen to possess elements in common. With examples including Mencian and other classical texts, Balinese traditional verbal humour, Korean and Taiwanese workplace humour, Japanese laughter ceremonies, performances and cartoons, as well as contemporary Chinese-language films and videos, they engage with a wide range of forms and traditions. This fascinating collection of studies will be of great interest to students and scholars of many Asian cultures, and also to those with a broader interest in humour studies. It highlights the increasing importance of understanding a wider range of cultural values in the present era of globalized communication and the importance of reliable studies of why and how cultures that are geographically related differ in their traditional uses of and assumptions about humour.
Musical News and Herald
Author: Innovative Processes and Materials in Additive Manufacturing
Author: Sunpreet SinghPublisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 032385723X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Innovative Processes and Materials in Additive Manufacturing explains game-changing interdisciplinary applications of recent research breakthroughs in additive manufacturing technology. The number of research publications addressing additive manufacturing has soared in recent years as a range of disciplines explore the possibilities that this technology can provide. This book acts as a bridge between this high-level research and the large number of academics and practitioners looking to additive manufacturing for innovative solutions, providing them with practical and approachable information. Applications in aerospace, automotive, medical, construction, and food industries are addressed, featuring technical details that will help successful implementation. This unique book also provides broad coverage of the theory behind this emerging technology, including material development, as well as the technical details required for readers to investigate the novel applications of the involved methods for themselves. - Includes case studies from the aerospace, construction and medical industries - Features innovations in the integration of additive manufacturing processes with other manufacturing technologies - Identifies exciting routes for future research and application areas of additive manufacturing
International Film Guide 1980
Author: Peter CowiePublisher: A. S. Barnes
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Richard Wagner's Prose Works
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Author: Richard Wagner