About the Book I give you fair warning, if you’re planning on lying to me, don’t look me in the eye. It’s May’s 17th birthday – making the air tingle with a tension she doesn’t fully understand. But she knows her mother and her aunt are being evasive; secrets are being ...
Summary:In a laconic manner, this book recounts the history of the legendary Wu Garden in Tainan. Established in the Dutch colonial period, it changed hands many times, each time being repurposed by the new owners: the Japanese colonial rulers, the government of the Republic of China, the ...
The Costs of Being Poor: Two New Books Explore How Difficult the Housing Market and Criminal Justice System Make It to Climb out of PovertyEVICTED: POVERTY AND PROFIT IN THE AMERICAN CITY BY MATTHEW DESMOND Crown A POUND OF...Reich, Adam D...
Aside from being bestsellers, these books are page-turners with characters that seem nearly real. Sharpen your memory and retention skills with the Iris Reading Maximizing Memory Course to remember all characters and book plots for the socials or your book club....
“The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is about all the queens called Cleopatra: the one most of us know about being, in fact, Cleopatra VII. You learn a lot about Ptolemaic Egypt as well as what was happening further East (the first Cleopatra was from Syria). Very striking is the ...
搜索智能精选题目【题文】—I saw several boxes of books at the gate of our school just now.—They ___ to children in poor areas.A.were sent B.are sent C.will be sent D.were being sent答案【答案】C
. Ten to one, he is bound to make a fortune. I do not like such men as spend their money in a wrong way. They do not know extravagance is a bad thing. It can only make them happy for the time being. In short, thrift makes poor men rich and extravagance makes rich men poor....
Fortunately, this part is misnamed. “Primitive” accumulation is supposed to be about how the juggernaut of capitalism initially gets rolling. This part starts out being about that. But it then moves on, and is in its later stages also about much, much more. ...
In the film, based on a short story by Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin, Earth is in danger of being destroyed by the dying sun. In reply, humans around the world work ___ to build a huge engine system that will push Earth away from the dying sun. ___ giving up Earth—again—thi...
These artists write about being different and unaccepted, making the kids realize that even people they admire may have felt this way too. The truth is, bullying happens in every walk of life, at every age. Teaching compassion, acceptance, empathy, and understanding at every age is essential...