Timeline Analog 5: 1991-1996, Buck John

Автор: Spurling, Hilary
Название: Pearl Buck In China
ISBN: 1416540431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416540434
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: One of the twentieth centurys most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.



She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw Chinas future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of Chinas building a relationship with the United States.

As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party.

Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers.

She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearls life in China.

"Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld."

Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies.

It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Changs Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either.

Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan.

Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.

Автор: Buck Stephanie
Название: Masters of Italian Art: Raphael
ISBN: 3848003961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783848003969
Издательство: Ullmann
Цена: 7660.00 T
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Описание: Raphael (1483-1520) was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. In this volume, numerous large-sized illustrations showcase the artist's oeuvre; authoritative texts illustrate the decisive stages in the artist's life and in the development of his work, explaining their significance in the context of his time and for the following generations of artists.

Автор: Buck Stephanie
Название: Rembrandt`S Mark (German Edition)
ISBN: 1911300636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911300632
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: 2019 jahrt sich Rembrandts Todesjahr zum 350ten Mal. Rembrandts Strich wird sich auf den Grafiker und Zeichner konzentrieren und einen frischen Blick auf ihn suchen, der vielleicht wie kein zweiter bis heute als sogenannter "artists` artist" andere Kunstler zur Auseinandersetzung angeregt hat.

Автор: Buck Stephanie, Muller Jurgen
Название: Rembrandt`s Mark
ISBN: 1911300628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911300625
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Описание: The exhibition and catalogue cast a fresh light on this innovative `artists` artist`, who continues to inspire and engage artists and audiences three and a half centuries after his death.

Автор: Buck, Andrew D.
Название: Principality of antioch and its frontiers in the twelfth century
ISBN: 1783271736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783271733
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: An investigation into how Antioch maintained itself as an independent principality during a period of considerable challenges.

Автор: Buck Pearl S.
Название: The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir
ISBN: 1504047966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504047968
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13790.00 T
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Описание: A "groundbreaking" memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice--a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly).

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights.

Pearl S. Buck is known today for earning a Nobel Prize in Literature and for such New York Times-bestselling novels as The Good Earth. What many do not know is that she wrote that great work of art with the motivation of paying for a special school for her oldest daughter, Carol, who had a rare developmental disorder.

What was called "mental retardation" at the time--though some used crueler terms--was a disability that could cause great suffering and break a parent's heart. There was little awareness of how to deal with such children, and as a result some were simply hidden away, considered a source of shame and stigma, while others were taken advantage of because of their innocence.

In this remarkable account, which helped bring the issue to light, Pearl S. Buck candidly discusses her own experience as a mother, from her struggle to accept Carol's diagnosis to her determination to give her child as full and happy a life as possible, including a top-quality education designed around her needs and abilities. Both heartrending and inspiring, The Child Who Never Grew provides perspective on just how much progress has been made in recent decades, while also offering common sense and timeless wisdom for the challenges still faced by those who love and care for someone with special needs. It is a clear-eyed and compelling read by a woman renowned for both her literary talent and her humanitarian spirit.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate.

Автор: Buck N
Название: Christmas in a Manger
ISBN: 0694012270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780694012275
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: The classic Christmas story, a joy to share with young children. The gentle beauty of the story of the first Christmas is now available as a board book.

Автор: Buck Joan Juliet
Название: The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
ISBN: 1476762953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476762951
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 20370.00 T
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Описание: From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and "one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style" (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris--"If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you'll adore The Price of Illusion" (Elle).

In a book as rich and dramatic as the life she's led, Joan Juliet Buck takes us into the splendid illusions of film, fashion, and fame to reveal, in stunning, sensual prose, the truth behind the artifice.

The only child of a volatile movie producer betrayed by his dreams, she became a magazine journalist at nineteen to reflect and record the high life she'd been brought up in, a choice that led her into a hall of mirrors where she was both magician and dupe. After a career writing for Vogue and Vanity Fair, she was named the first American woman to edit Vogue Paris. The vivid adventures of this thoughtful, incisive writer at the hub of dreams across two continents over fifty years are hilarious and heartbreaking.

Including a spectacular cast of carefully observed legends, monsters, and stars (just look at the index ), this is the moving account of a remarkable woman's rocky passage through glamour and passion, filial duty and family madness, in search of her true self.

Автор: Jankiewicz Patrick
Название: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: A TV Companion (Hardback)
ISBN: 1593931727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593931728
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 46590.00 T
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Автор: Biggers Buck, Stover Chet
Название: Underdog Classics Vol 1 Gn
ISBN: 1945205083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781945205088
Издательство: Diamond Books
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Описание: There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here For over 50 years the adventures of Underdog have entertained children of all ages. When the call for help goes out, Shoeshine Boy leaps into action by transforming into Underdog With the speed of lightning and a roar of thunder, Underdog fights his many colorful foes including the dastardly Simon Bar Sinister, Riff Raff, and the Marble Men to save Sweet Polly Purebred and the city Relive your childhood with this cherished animated classic which presents some of the best original comic book adventures ever assembled