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The "gripping and meticulously researched" (The Times, London) true
story of the determined museum curators who saved the priceless
treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to
World War II and beyond. Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and
palaces of Peking's Forbidden City, for centuries the home of
Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's
aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away.
All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of
the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: how will
they protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? A
difficult and monumental decision is made: to safeguard the
treasures, they will need to be evacuated. The magnificent
collections contain a million pieces of art--objects that carry
China's deepest and most ancient memories. Among them are
irreplaceable artefacts: exquisite paintings on silk, rare Ming
porcelain, and the extraordinary Stone Drums of Qin, which are
adorned with 2,500-year-old inscriptions of cultural significance.
For sixteen years, under the quiet leadership of museum director Ma
Heng, the curators would go on to transport the imperial art
collections thousands of miles across China--up rivers of white
water, across mountain ranges, and through burning cities. In their
search for safety the curators and their fragile, invaluable cargo
journeyed through the maelstrom of violence, chaos, and starvation
that was China's Second World War. Told for the first time in
English and playing out across a vast historical canvas, this
"compelling story of art, war, and adventure" (Simon Sebag
Montefiore, author of The Romanovs: 1613-1918) follows the small
group of men and women who, when faced with war's onslaught on
civilization, chose to resist.
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Last Vegas (DVD)
Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen, …
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Jon Turteltaub directs this all-star buddy comedy following four
past-their-prime friends out to set the Vegas strip alight on a
four-night stag party. When last-bachelor-standing Billy (Michael
Douglas) informs his lifelong buddies Paddy (Robert De Niro),
Archie (Morgan Freeman), and Sam (Kevin Klein) that he's finally
getting hitched, the four friends decide to head off to Las Vegas
to act anything but their age for one last time. But once they hit
the streets, the boys soon discover that things have changed a lot
since their glory days, and that for the old-school thrill seekers,
the party has only just begun.
This book introduces the concepts of diverse programming languages
for students who have already mastered basic programming in at
least one language. It is suitable for use in an undergraduate
course for computer science and computer engineering majors. It
treats all the knowledge units in the area of programming languages
that appear in the ACM's Computer Science Curriculum 2008, and
introduces the core units thoroughly. It gives programming
exercises in three different language paradigms. Philosophically,
it is in complete agreement with the ACM report. This book has two
distinct kinds of chapters: practical and theoretical. The
practical chapters are self-contained primers in three very
different programming languages - ML, Java, and Prolog - at least
two of which will be new languages for almost all students at this
level. Students receive a quick introduction to the linguistically
unique parts of each language and enough simple programming
exercises to develop a feel for the programming paradigm of the
language. There are excellent free implementations of all these
languages available on a variety of platforms, including Windows,
Unix, and Macintosh; the book's Web site at
http://www.webber-labs.com/mpl.html has instructions on how to get
them. The theoretical chapters present the underlying principles of
programming languages. They are interleaved with the practical
chapters in an order that allows ideas to be illustrated using
examples in the newly learned languages and allows theoretical
topics to be covered when their relevance to programming practice
will be most evident. For example, Chapter 23 deals with formal
semantics by starting with simple interpreters written in Prolog.
These interpreters lead naturally to language definitions using
big-step operational semantics. That is why formal semantics occurs
so late in the book: only at the end of the Prolog tutorial are
students ready to be led from Prolog exercises to this related,
abstract topic.
'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia
Lovell, Literary Review '[A] gripping and meticulously researched
account of an epic effort to transport delicate scrolls, paintings
and carvings thousands of miles under the threat of bombing and
invasion' Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement 'Brilliant and
thrilling... A tale of daring and adventure... A desperate race
against time' Paul French, South China Morning Post _____ The
gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's
finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War
II. Spring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's
Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's
aircraft drone overhead; its troops and tanks are only hours away.
All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of
the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: how will
they protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? The
magnificent collections contain a million pieces of art - objects
that carry China's deepest and most ancient memories. Among them
are irreplaceable artefacts: exquisite paintings on silk,
vanishingly rare Ming porcelain and the extraordinary Stone Drums
of Qin, which are adorned with 2,500-year-old inscriptions of
crucial cultural significance. For sixteen terrifying years, under
the quiet leadership of museum director Ma Heng, the curators would
go on to transport the imperial art collections thousands of miles
across China - up rivers of white water, across mountain ranges and
through burning cities. In their search for safety the curators and
their fragile, invaluable cargo journeyed through the maelstrom of
violence, chaos and starvation that was China's Second World War.
Told for the first time in English and playing out across a vast
historical canvas, this is the exhilarating story of a small group
of men and women who, when faced with war's onslaught on
civilisation, chose to resist. 'Fascinating... Brookes marries a
reporter's grasp of detail with a novelist's narrative flair to
bring clarity and readability to a complicated period of China's
troubled history' Mail on Sunday
'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia
Lovell, Literary Review '[A] gripping and meticulously researched
account of an epic effort to transport delicate scrolls, paintings
and carvings thousands of miles under the threat of bombing and
invasion' Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement 'Brilliant and
thrilling... A tale of daring and adventure... A desperate race
against time' Paul French, South China Morning Post _____ The
gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's
finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War
II. Spring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's
Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's
aircraft drone overhead; its troops and tanks are only hours away.
All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of
the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: how will
they protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? The
magnificent collections contain a million pieces of art - objects
that carry China's deepest and most ancient memories. Among them
are irreplaceable artefacts: exquisite paintings on silk,
vanishingly rare Ming porcelain and the extraordinary Stone Drums
of Qin, which are adorned with 2,500-year-old inscriptions of
crucial cultural significance. For sixteen terrifying years, under
the quiet leadership of museum director Ma Heng, the curators would
go on to transport the imperial art collections thousands of miles
across China - up rivers of white water, across mountain ranges and
through burning cities. In their search for safety the curators and
their fragile, invaluable cargo journeyed through the maelstrom of
violence, chaos and starvation that was China's Second World War.
Told for the first time in English and playing out across a vast
historical canvas, this is the exhilarating story of a small group
of men and women who, when faced with war's onslaught on
civilisation, chose to resist. 'Fascinating... Brookes marries a
reporter's grasp of detail with a novelist's narrative flair to
bring clarity and readability to a complicated period of China's
troubled history' Mail on Sunday
This book has two major goals. The first is to help you understand
and appreciate the beautiful and enduring ideas of formal language.
These ideas are the birthright of all computer scientists, and they
will profoundly change the way you think about computation. They
are not only among the most beautiful, but also among the most
useful tools in computer science. They are used to solve problems
in a wide variety of practical applications, and they are
especially useful for defining programming languages and for
building language systems. The second purpose of this book is to
help you develop a facility with these useful tools. Our code
examples are in Java, but they are not particularly Java-centric
and should be accessible to any programmer. There is also a third
major reason to study formal language, one that is not a primary
focus of this book: to learn the techniques of mathematical proof.
When you are learning about formal language, it can also be a good
time to learn proof techniques, because the subject is full of
theorems to practice on. But this book tries to make the beautiful
and useful ideas for formal language accessible to students at all
levels of mathematical interest and ability. To that end, although
the book presents and discusses many simple proofs, it does not try
to teach advanced proof techniques. Relatively few of the exercises
pose challenging proof problems. Those planning graduate-level
study of theoretical computer science would be well advised not to
rely exclusively on this book for that kind of training.
Tell them, the Night Heron is hunting ...A lone man escapes a
labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert
of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the
British. Now he finds Beijing transformed and crawling with danger
- the fugitive must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed
streets or face death. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to
his one-time MI6 paymasters via journalist Philip Mangan, offering
secrets in return for his life. Mangan is dragged into a deeper and
deeper whirlpool of lies, as the secrets prove more valuable than
either of them could ever have known...and not only to the British.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
We've all seen some poor adolescent spiral out of control and hoped
that it would never be our kid making those kinds of mistakes. Why
do some teens self-destruct? Can we communicate a little
differently? Can we teach or encourage a little more? When do we
let them make mistakes and face the consequences and when do we
jump in to their rescue? This book contains true stories of parents
and teens, written by ten different professionals who interact with
teens in a variety of ways. Cops, teachers, administrators and
counselors all provide valuable insight to parents about how to
help your teens avoid the serious pitfalls of adolescence and
capitalize on their mistakes for future success. WTF? Failure is
not an option
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Kirksville (Hardcover)
Erika Woehlk; Foreword by Adam Brooke Davis
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THIS 128 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Degradation
of the Democratic Dogma, by Henry Adams. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1417915986.
THIS 134 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Degradation
of the Democratic Dogma, by Henry Adams. To purchase the entire
book, please order ISBN 1417915986.
'Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal' Charles
Cumming The stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated author
Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense and spy fiction at its very finest.
Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret. Pearl longed
for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool,
friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she
was different. Pearl had a gift for mathematics, a college
sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation, and a family
riven with anger and dysfunction. And it's only now, at nineteen
years old, that she has started to understand what role she is to
play. What her parents intend for her. For Pearl Tao, any hope of
escape lies with two British spies: Trish Patterson, sidelined in
disgrace, and Philip Mangan, blown and discredited - and following
his own trail of corruption. Finding out the truth about Pearl will
be the most urgent, the most dangerous mission they'll ever
undertake. 'The final instalment of Brookes' Mangan trilogy secures
its status as a classic' Telegraph (50 Best Books of 2017)
'Riveting and accomplished' Sunday Times
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Spy Games (Paperback)
Adam Brookes
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'Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal' Charles
Cumming Fearing for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone
into hiding from the Chinese agents who have identified him as a
British spy. His reputation and life are in tatters. But when he is
caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese
figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on the
origins of the atrocity, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the
storm. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on a humid Hong Kong
night, a key MI6 source is murdered minutes after meeting spy Trish
Patterson. From Washington, D.C. to the hallowed halls of Oxford
University and dusty African streets, a sinister power is stirring
that will use Mangan and Patterson as its pawns - if they survive.
Deeply steeped in tension and paranoia, Spy Games is Adam Brookes'
follow-up to his award-nominated debut Night Heron and a
remarkable, groundbreaking spy thriller.
A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night,
fleeing across the winter desert of northwest China.
Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut
must disappear on Beijing s surveillance-blanketed streets.
Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6
paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering
military secrets in return for extraction.
But the secrets prove more valuable than Peanut or Mangan could
ever have known and not only to the British."
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