Author: Barbaro GFT Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 110
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Are you Looking For a perfect Birthday Gift? No worries. You are in the right place. this notebook is the perfect gift idea for his/her birthday. he/she will love the funny birthday quote on the cover and it will definitely make him/her smile. So what are you waiting for? grab this notebook and be ready to see that big smile. this notebook is ideal for recording goals, feelings, insights, and quotes that you love Ps: don't forget to tell him/her happy birthday !!! This notebook also available 6st birthday to 99th birthday clicking the Author's/Publisher's name under the title and find your birthday gifts notebook Features: .page: 110 page .size: "6x9" in .high-quality white paper .cute and funny cover design
Author: Nick Heath-Brown Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349578231 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 1558
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Now in its 152nd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www.statesmansyearbook.com .
Author: Compiled from Wikipedia entries and published by DrGoogelberg Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291079696 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 365
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This book is completey compiled from Wikipedia pages. Learn about Diana Spencer, Kate Midleton and all the other UK Princesses from then and now.
Author: Jatswan S. Sidhu Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810870789 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 393
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The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Brunei Darussalam substantially updates the first edition through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
Author: Nicholas Daly Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192573675 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 272
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This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, but faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope's novel inspired stage and screen adaptations, place names, and even a board game, but it also launched a whole new subgenre, the "Ruritanian romance". The new form offered swordplay, royal romance, and splendid uniforms and gowns in such settings as Alasia, Balaria, and Cadonia. This study explores both the original appeal of The Prisoner of Zenda, and the extraordinary longevity and adaptability of the Ruritanian formula, which, it is argued, has been rooted in a lingering fascination with royalty, and the pocket kingdom's capacity to hold a looking glass up to Britain and later the United States. Individual chapters look at Hope's novel and its stage and film adaptations; at the forgotten American versions of Ruritania; at the chocolate-box principalities of the musical stage; at Cold War reworkings of the formula; and at Ruritania's recent reappearance in young adult fiction and made-for-television Christmas movies. The adventures of Ruritania have involved a diverse list of contributors, including John Buchan, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ian Fleming among the writers; Sigmund Romberg and Ivor Novello among the composers; Erich Von Stroheim and David O. Selznick among the film-makers; and Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, and Anne Hathaway among the performers.
Author: Sudha Shah Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 9350295989 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 480
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'An absorbing read. Exhaustively researched and gracefully written, The King in Exile tells a story of compelling human interest, filled with drama, pathos and tragedy... [It] heralds the arrival of a writer of non-fiction who is both uncommonly talented and exceptionally diligent...One of the great merits of [the book] is that it is completely free of jargon and theorizing. It is in essence a family story, centred on five women whose lives were waylaid by history' - Amitav Ghosh in his blog 'The captivity of Burma's last king and the fall of the Konbaung dynasty: a compelling new account' In 1879, as the king of Burma lay dying, one of his queens schemed for his forty-first son, Thibaw, to supersede his half brothers to the throne. For seven years, King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat ruled from the resplendent, intrigue-infused Golden Palace in Mandalay, where they were treated as demi-gods. After a war against Britain in 1885, their kingdom was lost, and the family exiled to the secluded town of Ratnagiri in British-occupied India. Here they lived, closely guarded, for over thirty-one years. The king's four daughters received almost no education, and their social interaction was restricted mainly to their staff. As the princesses grew, so did their hopes and frustrations. Two of them fell in love with 'highly inappropriate' men. In 1916, the heartbroken king died. Queen Supayalat and her daughters were permitted to return to Rangoon in 1919. In Burma, the old queen regained some of her feisty spirit as visitors came by daily to pay their respects. All the princesses, however, had to make numerous adjustments in a world they had no knowledge of. The impact of the deposition and exile echoed forever in each of their lives, as it did in the lives of their children. Written after years of meticulous research, and richly supplemented with photographs and illustrations, The King in Exile is an engrossing human-interest story of this forgotten but fascinating family.
Author: B. Turner Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349740276 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 1596
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This edition is fully updated and contains more information and analysis than ever before. A foldout colour section provides a political world map and flags for all 193 countries. Each copy comes with online access to the full text at no extra cost. Unlimited-user upgrades are also available for libraries who wish to network the data.
Author: Susanna Zaraysky Publisher: Kaleidomundi ISBN: 0982018916 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 148
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One-Eyed Princess shows the journey of a stereoblind person with amblyopia and strabismus doing eye muscle and brain exercises to straighten her eyes and rewire her brain to wake up dormant binocular brain cells to see in 3D. Along the way to seeing the world in more detail and appreciating depth, Susanna learned not only to see the physical world anew but also to feel reborn into a new inner world.
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 6351
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The 2006 CIA World Factbook is a reference work produced by the CIA containing information about the countries of the world, frequently used as a resource for academic research papers and news articles.
Author: Barbaro GFT
Author: Nick Heath-Brown
Author: Compiled from Wikipedia entries and published by DrGoogelberg
Author: Springer Nature Limited
Author: Jatswan S. Sidhu
Author: Nicholas Daly
Author: Sudha Shah
Author: B. Turner
Author: Susanna Zaraysky
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency