Qiao Zhi, a modern woman, has passed through a time of war. She met a black wind monster, a notorious flower picking thief in the Jianghu. He stole the jade seal, true or false. But she didn't expect that the black wind monster hid the fake one. The mantis pounced on the cicada and the yellow sparrow. In fact, the people who competed for the jade seal all hid in the dark. When the fake one appeared, it attracted people In the struggle of the people, Qiao Zhi, escorted by a CAI, went back to the Xiangguo mansion smoothly. When Qiao Zhi was granted the title of imperial concubine by the emperor who had never been masked, she could enter the palace. However, Qiao Zhi didn't care about the emperor at all. She didn't sell the emperor's account at all. She often embarrassed the emperor and even made the emperor's eyes blue. This little girl Zi has a personality. The more so the emperor likes to stick to her. In order to love him, he gave up his throne and was willing to live in seclusion. Qiao Muyu became the new emperor. They had different choices but lived the same happy life.

In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community. When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their congressperson. But award-winning author Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new methods for coping with these losses and invites readers to reconsider what constitutes “worthwhile action.” She discusses real wounded places ranging from weapons-testing grounds at Eglin Air Force Base, to Appalachian mountain tops destroyed by mining. These stories, along with tools for community engagement—ceremony, vigil, apology, and the creation of art with on-site materials—show us how we can find beauty in these places and discover new sources of meaning and community.

Provides hope for real-world solutions to life-threatening problems such as global poverty, environmental destruction, and terrorism.

The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future.

There was a bright moon three feet above his head, and an azure dragon embroidered on his sleeves. Riding a horse with a sword, indulging in unbridled pleasures, roaming the Jianghu with his lover.

Beauty provides the dynamic catalyst for sixteen very charged and individual discussions about architecture and design. Based on a series of interviews by Yael Reisner, Architecture and Beauty has been developed into sixteen individual chapter/portraits, written up by Fleur Watson, that eloquently recount the thoughts of some of the world's most creative designers. Each interviewee candidly expresses their beliefs and experiences and espouses their own distinctive position on aesthetics. Offering up rare and often highly personal insights into the minds of today's most progressive and high-profile architects, the book is lusciously illustrated with the works that the architects discuss. Featured architects: Will Alsop, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Peter Cook, Odile Decq, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Mark Goulthorpe, Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, Greg Lynn, Tom Mayne, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gaetano Pesce, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf Prix and Lebbeus Woods.