The Little Red Cliff
Title | The Little Red Cliff PDF eBook |
Author | Yeo Hong Eng |
Publisher | Partridge Singapore |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2014-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1482894211 |
The Little Red Cliff portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s in Tanah Merah Kechil (Little Red Cliff) in a corner of Bedok District along the eastern coast of Singapore. Author Yeo Hong Eng chronicles the story of his family, the Yeo family, as they struggled to make a living during the lean years after the Japanese Occupation. He describes in detail how his parents developed the land for farming and exploited other available resources, such as sand mining during rainy seasons, until they were forced to leave the land in 1963. He also explains how they processed coconuts into cooking oil and bamboo into food, materials for building trellises, farming accessories, and basic toys. Whether they were working in animal husbandry or in vegetable cultivation, his grandmother and parents used the age-old methods passed down from their parents and grandparents to work with the land and their animals. What's more, they made sure to take time from their work to celebrate important festivals, entertainment, and the joys and sorrows of everyday life. They attended wayangs (street plays), flew kites, and made their own playthings-shuttles, spinners, sling shots, and musical instruments-with whatever raw materials they had on hand. In The Little Red Cliff, Yeo Hong Eng shares a description of family life in Singapore in the mid-twentieth century-its lows and highs, its struggles and joys.
The Halberd at Red Cliff
Title | The Halberd at Red Cliff PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaofei Tian |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684170923 |
"The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface.The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses."
Murder on the Red Cliff Rez
Title | Murder on the Red Cliff Rez PDF eBook |
Author | Mardi Oakley Medawar |
Publisher | Worldwide Library |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780373264933 |
When murder happens on the Red Cliff Reservation, Police Chief David Lameraux hires Karen "Tracker" Charboneau, a Chippewa native and ceramics artist whose tracking skills are legendary. But soon, the ruthless killer is pursuing Tracker, determined to silence her permanently. Martin's Press.
Pottery in Alberta
Title | Pottery in Alberta PDF eBook |
Author | Marylu Antonelli |
Publisher | University of Alberta |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780888640239 |
A history of the pottery industry in Alberta, which began around the turn of the century in Medicine Hat, where clay deposits and natural gas were abundant. This is a dramatic story of temperamental entrepreneurs who were fierce rivals and who had fires, world wars, a depression, high freight rates and cheap imports to contend with.
Cliff Hanger
Title | Cliff Hanger PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Craighead George |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2002-05-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0060002603 |
Despite the dangers of a thunderstorm, Axel and his father make a difficult climb to rescue Axel's stranded dog.
Of Blood and Hope
Title | Of Blood and Hope PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Pisar |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishing Company |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780020063100 |
A survivor of Auschwitz recounts his harrowing experiences, his adjustment to freedom, and his work on behalf of the Jewish cause
Jump Off the Cliff Notes
Title | Jump Off the Cliff Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Gina Cascone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1988-09 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9781557850737 |
Whether students have read or aspire to read the classics, the most commonly assigned literature is capsulized for everyone to enjoy, including Moby Dick, Old Man and the Sea, A Tale of Two Cities, and Dr. Suess's One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.