Orient
Title | Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Bollen |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2015-05-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062329979 |
“A gorgeously written book whose literary chops are beyond doubt. Come for the prose, and stay for the murders.” — USA Today “This is beach reading that’s as intelligent as it is absorbing.”— People A gripping novel of culture clash and murder from the acclaimed author of A Beautiful Crime and The Destroyers. As summer draws to a close, a small Long Island town is gripped by a series of mysterious deaths—and one young man, a loner taken in by a local, tries to piece together the crimes before his own time runs out. Orient is an isolated town on the north fork of Long Island, its future as a historic village newly threatened by the arrival of wealthy transplants from Manhattan—many of them artists. One late summer morning, the body of a local caretaker is found in the open water; the same day, a monstrous animal corpse is found on the beach, presumed a casualty from a nearby research lab. With rumors flying, eyes turn to Mills Chevern—a tumbleweed orphan newly arrived in town from the west with no ties and a hazy history. As the deaths continue and fear in town escalates, Mills is enlisted by Beth, an Orient native in retreat from Manhattan, to help her uncover the truth. With the clock ticking, Mills and Beth struggle to find answers, faced with a killer they may not be able to outsmart. Rich with character and incident, yet deeply suspenseful, Orient marks the emergence of a novelist of enormous talent.
Russia's Orient
Title | Russia's Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel R. Brower |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1997-06-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253211132 |
From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Japan's Orient
Title | Japan's Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Tanaka |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1995-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520916685 |
Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts—Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese—to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.
The Commercial Orient in 1905, Showing the Trade of Each Oriental Country, the Chief Countries Participating Therein, the Principal Articles Imported and Exported, and Details of Trade of the United States with Each of These Countries During a Term of Years
Title | The Commercial Orient in 1905, Showing the Trade of Each Oriental Country, the Chief Countries Participating Therein, the Principal Articles Imported and Exported, and Details of Trade of the United States with Each of These Countries During a Term of Years PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Africa, North |
ISBN |
North to the Orient
Title | North to the Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1935 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780156671408 |
Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1935.
The Face of the Ancient Orient
Title | The Face of the Ancient Orient PDF eBook |
Author | Sabatino Moscati |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2012-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 048614769X |
Fascinating study examines Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Israelites, Persians, others. "...a valuable introduction, perhaps the best available in English." — American Historical Review. 32 halftones. 5 figures. 1 map.
The Orient in Utrecht
Title | The Orient in Utrecht PDF eBook |
Author | Bart Jaski |
Publisher | History of Oriental Studies |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004462168 |
The Orient in Utrecht unfolds the intellectual biography of Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), professor of Oriental languages and Hebrew Antiquities in Utrecht, philologist, Hebraist, Arabist, cartographer, poet, antiquarian, and a pioneer of the comparative study of religion.