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courtesan poetry of the last Korean Dynasty
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Brillant translation - brillant poetry.......2000-06-25
This volume of translated poetry is remarkable for the task the translators set for themselves. As the poetic structure of the original Korean would not work in English, they established a new English form into which they translated the Korean. The result is spectacular - one retains the sense of the poetic discipline in the Korean while never feeling that the English is forced. (If you have suffered through bad translations of Sanskrit poetry into English quartrains you know exactly what this poetry doesn't do.)
The introduction to the poetry - essentially court courtesan poetry - sets the cultural stage for the poetry. It's lack of "status" helps explain how "only the best survived" - and it is an excellent best. The poetry stands so well on its own, I am tempted to suggest you read the introduction after you have enjoyed the poetry.
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These Poems are deceptively simple, thwarted love remaining their paradigm. But they also represent what we might, with historical hindsight, call "feminist" views since they depict rare instances in which Korean women were permitted to address their own emotions. Call them courtesan blues from the Chosun Dynasty, and read them for both pleasure and edification. -Sam Hamill
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A FAMOUS SPANISH DANCER.......2002-08-18
A fascinating portrait of CAROLINE OTERO,the SPANISH dancer who came to symbolize the period called LA BELLE ÉPOQUE.In her time,she was a worldwide celebrity who had love affairs with the likes of EDOUARD VII,GUILLAUME II and the great duc NICHOLAS de RUSSIE.Many soupirants even commited suicide for her.With all the others COCOTTES of that time,CAROLINE's life changed after the great war.She finally became a recluse,like all the great beauties who tried to preserverved their legend.For anyone interested in that particular time in history,this book is a must.Her life was a fascinating incursion into the hypocrisy of a world that idolized her.
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- the life of Claudie de Rochambeau
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The Last Courtesan
Jeffrey K. Hill
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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The Last Courtesan details the unbridled reality of Claudie de Rochambeau. She leads a life of notoriety based on a multitude of fabricated pasts. She spreads a plague of illusions through turn-of-the-century Paris. With the reappearance of her sometimes fictional, sometimes factual biography, she regains her title as Princess of Love, and an eager young seamstress becomes the focus of Claudie's quest for an heir.
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the life of Claudie de Rochambeau.......2003-01-04
Remember her? The alluring woman from The Last Decadent, one of the many lovers of Alexandre Guilbert, is no longer a mystery. Her complete story is told in this wild ride of a novel. From the back cover blurb: "She leads a life of notoriety based on a multitude of fabricated pasts. She spreads a plague of illusions through turn-of-the-century Paris. With the reappearance of her sometimes factual, sometimes fictional biography, she regains her title of Princess of Love, and an eager young seamstress becomes the focus of Claudie's quest for an heir." Lose yourself in the unbridled reality.
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 500 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Songs of the Kisaeng: Courtesan Poetry of the Last Korean Dynasty.(Brief Article)
Author: Young-Hee Lee
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Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: v71
Issue: n2
Page: p265(2)
Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article
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Not worth the price.......2006-08-19
This is my first purchase on Amazon and I feel taken. This is a 500 word review of the book I wanted to purchase and poorly written at that. Because Amazon displayed the book and this "e-book" I thought the book is what I was purchasing. WOW half the price of the book and I got less than the book jacket write-up. Be careful and only purchase this If you want a review not the book.
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- Disappointing
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The Histories of Middle Earth, Volumes 1-5
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Disappointing.......2007-10-04
I was extremely disappointed in the whole set of books. I wouldn't recommend them to anybody. Lord of the Rings was so good that I assumed anything written by the same author would be good and worth reading but I got an unpleasant surprise.
collected works.......2006-11-10
It's been a while since I was able to read the original trilogy, so after I did, I bought this boxed set. I like boxed sets, especially for serial material, as it looks better on the shelf.
Cheaply Printed Versions of Important Tolkien Work.......2006-11-04
I bought this set of the first five volumes of Tolkien's history of Middle Earth and while all the content is there, the quality of the publications is mass paperbook at its worst. Dry scratchy paper, type that is too small for my tired eyes to read and cheap bindings that were I to continually use would no doubt fall apart before the paper turned yellow. But then what do you expect for $20? As I became more interested in Tolkien and realized that I would use these books both for pleasure and reference and would doubtless return to them again and again, I decided to spring for the Harper Collins three volume set (published in 2002) that includes all twelve books of the histories in an attractive and efficient three volume set. It cost close to $200 for the set because I had to order them from AMAZON.UK but I'm happy when I see them on the shelf and pick one up to read. They are a substantial presence as befits the content. (I would also recommend buying the History of Middle Earth Index to go along with these books as it ties them all together with one common index rather than the the separate ones for each of the twelve volumes.)
Wonderful!!!.......2006-10-15
I started to read the Silmarillion, and then I read these. I had never liked poetry beforehand, I had actually rather detested it, but I loved the poetry in here. I many respects, I actually prefer these to the Silmarillion because these are longer and more in depth. However, if you don't feel like reading 50 pages of something with tons of footnotes and endnotes, you probably shouldn't read these.
very good.......2006-02-22
This set of books is really good for anyone who is interested in knowing extensive history of Tolkien's Middle Earth. I would reccomend it for any person to read.
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Highly recommend!.......2003-08-27
Very good story that will definetly keep you interested & wanting more.
Can't wait to read book 2.
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Traces the origin and preservation of sacred Scripture. This book includes the conversion story of the author, who converted from Calvinist ministry to Catholicism.
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A Solid Catholic Title.......2007-06-20
"Where We Got The Bible..." is a very good book if you're a Catholic. It gives a very solid argument against the belief that the Catholic Church tried to withhold the Sacred Scriptures from the laity. However, like many others (both Catholic and Protestant) have mentioned, Rev. Graham has only a handful of sources to back up all of his claims. Granted, most Catholics will probably accept this limited amount of sources from both Catholic and Protestant writings, but to properly defend statements such as those made in this book to a Protestant, there needs to be more references available.
Graham's argument starts with the "compilation" of the books of the Bible, the writing of numerous copies in numerous languages by the religious of the Catholic Church and then gradually enters the era of the printing press and a very large number of Protestant versions of the Bible that contain quite a few errors and misleading statements. Some of the errors are, according to the author, intentional, but I'll let each reader decide this on their own.
Personally, I converted to Catholicism back in 2000. In the few years before that time, I researched the Church for myself. I found a number of very helpful guides for non-Catholics to read. Titles by Kevin Orlin Johnson, Scott Hahn, and Patrick Madrid all fall into this category. "Where We Got The Bible..." comes off, in my opinion, a bit too harsh for people who are just becoming interested in the Catholic faith. As I stated before, this is a wonderful book for Catholics, but it doesn't have enough backing it up to make it a legitimate defense of the Faith in the eyes of a Protestant. I recommend it to Catholics and to those with a general interest in the history of Chrisitianity, but I wouldn't classify it as a solid apologetic.
Good Read.......2007-06-08
It was worth the time to read. Very informative. Good reference material. This book is often referenced on Catholic talk radio when discussion the history of the Bible.
Protestant-bashing over which Pope Benedict would blush..........2006-08-13
On reviewer rightly observed of too much anti-Protestant drooling. A surprisingly ungenerous spirit and a very dated book.
Not much for the Bible student.......2006-05-16
If you are a Catholic, you will love this book. The author has done a magnificent job of upholding the Catholic Church, making it worthy of all Catholic's faith, which is the real purpose of this Book. In reality, the book is short on facts, narrow in its views and long on spin.
If one didn't know better, after reading Where We Got The Bible, you'd think the Catholic Church was the only group ever to touch the Holy Scriptures in a positive way and that everyone else that had a hand in getting the Bible to the average person, were either blasphemers or heretics (just two of the many adjectives used by the author).
But there is an extraordinary statement Mr. Graham makes in this book that is profoundly insightful into the real reverence (or the lack thereof) the Catholic Church has toward the written word. Mr. Graham says that the Catholic Church would be the same today even if there were no Bible. To say the Bible is not necessary for Church doctrine reveals that the Church's belief system has been built around other teachings like revelations, traditions, cultures and other religious beliefs encountered by the Church. In other words, during the time when the infant church was to turn from its source for doctrinal beliefs (the gifts of the Holy Spirit or the "spoken word") to the written word (1 Cor. Chapter 13), the church that evolved into the Catholic Church never made that transition. Instead, it held on to the spoken word, which turned out to be a critical mistake allowing other teachings to influence the Church as it grew.
The spoken word has a strong appeal, as we see with Pentecostals starting at the turn of the last century, who resurrected the spoken word (especially speaking in tongues) and tend to put more faith in speaking the word instead of reading the Word. Protestants during the age of Reformation did just the opposite. They starting out with the Catholic Church relying on the spoken word but broke away from the Church, when they started trusting the written word and their faith shifted from the Church to the Bible.
I highly recommend this book if you are a truth seeker who wants to understand the real beliefs of the Catholic Church. But if you want to read an honest account of where the Bible came from and how we have free access to it today, without spin and partisan views, I would seek a much more informative and impartial book like How We Got The Bible by Lightfoot.
A Concise Explanation of the Organization and Redacting of the Bible.......2006-03-17
Father Graham's book titled WHERE WE GOT THE BIBLE is a short explanation of how the Early Church Fathers edited, redacted, and organized what is bascially the Christian Bible. This is not a "scholarly" book in that it was bascially written for laymen and those who are not familiar with the gradual development of the Christian Bible.
This early Catholic Church "Fathers" were primarily responsible for the organization and early translation of the Bible. As readers may know one of the first if not the first "official" Catholic Bible was the Vulgate Bible which was organized by St. Jerome 354-430). The Early Church Fathers carefully and patiently examined this translation which was based on Hebrew and Greek sources. For example, the Early Church Fathers held councils in Hippo and Carthage in 393, 397, and 419 to "finalize" this Bible. The contention that the Catholic Bible was originally translated into Latin so keep "the masses" ignorant of biblical literature is in error. Readers should remember that Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, and most of Western European barbarians had no exact written language.
The argument that there was no Catholic Church until the reign of Constantine's reign (306-330)is erronous. St. Ignatius (d 107) mentions the Catholic Church in a letter he wrote shortly before he was martyred. There were bishops and claiments to the position of Pope before Constantine. In other words, there is a valid claim that the Catholic Church authorities did organize the Christian Bible.
While the Vulgate Bible was a translation into Latin, Father Graham makes clear that during the early Middle Ages, the Catholic monks also engaged in producing vernacular translations of the Bible based on the Latin Vulgate. In fact, there are exhibits of these bibles in museums. St. Bede (c.680-735)was working on an Anglo-Saxon translation when he died.
As for English language translations, the King James Version was not the first first early modern translation. The Douay Rheims English translation was finished in 1609 two years before the King James Version was published in 1611.
Father Graham mentions some of the printing and translation blunders that existed in the early editions of the King James Version of the Bible. This may be a distraction but readers should note that translating, translerating, and editing a bible is tedious work requiring careful attention. Readers should also note that until the invention of the printing press (c.1450), bibles were literally handcopied by monks which took considerable time and effort. In other words, had Catholic monks not made this exhaustive effort, there would be no Bible.
Those who doubted the existence of the Catholic efforts in translating and handcopying bibles, should pay attention to Father Graham's comments about the Caxton Exhibition in the late 19th century which had some of these bibles on display. As Father Graham remarks, "Seeing is believing."
For those who desire a more comprehensive examination of the Bible, the NEW JEROME BIBLICAL COMMENTARY, which is Catholic, is very good. Readers should note that there are also very good Protestant biblical commentaries and books on the history of the Bible. For example, the Paulist Press has produced John Miller's book titled THE ORIGINS OF THE BIBLE. The Paulist Pres is Catholic, but John Miller is Protestant.
Father wrote a concise, readable book. As mentioned above, this book is not "scholarly," but this book is informative for the "beginner." The other books mentioned above, are useful if one wants to further investigate the history of the development of the Bible.
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The Great Turkey Cookbook
Manufacturer: Hoffman Press
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385 Turkey Recipes for Every Day and Holidays. The recipes range from formal roast turkey to turkey fajitas, turkey cacciatore, turkey chili...everything imaginable...all with turkey instead of beef, pork or lamb. More nutritious, less expensive. Lots of recipes for leftovers too!
Each recipe has a complete nutritional analysis. The book also includes complete instructions on how to buy, carve and store turkey, in addition to the recipes.
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Library Bookwatch Review.......2002-04-16
The Great Turkey Cookbook is the definitive year round specialty cookbook for turkey based cuisines....It offers mouth-watering, palate-pleasing, easy-to-follow recipes for all occasions both formal and informal.
Palate-pleasing, easy-to-follow.......2002-01-09
Virginia and Robert Hoffman's The Great Turkey Cookbook: 385 Turkey Recipes For Every Day And Holidays is the definitive, year round specialty cookbook for turkey based cuisines. From Fruitful Turkey Salad; Turkey Divan Soup; Vintner's Turkey Chili; and Teriyaki Turkey; to Spicy Turkey Meat Loaf; Glazed Turkey Steaks with Apricot Nut Pilaf; Port-Sauced Turkey; and Turkey Tacos, The Great Turkey Cookbook offers mouth-watering, palate-pleasing, easy-to-follow recipes for all occasions both formal and informal.
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Great Turkey Cookbook
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More than 400 recipes, each with a nutritional analysis for turkey, fresh, frozen, or left-overs. Great recipes for the substitution of turkey for beef and/or pork. An essential book for any serious cook
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Never realized how versatile turkey could be !.......1999-06-24
I never realized how versatile turkey could be until I got this book. There are so many recipes that it is staggering...and the best part are the recipes for leftovers. It is now the most important cookbook that I have and I have recommended it to many people
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Great Year-Round Turkey Cookbook
Anita Borghese
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Yippee !.......2007-03-14
I owned this book years ago and lost it. To my delight it was available thru Amazon...it is a treasure.
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Terrific Tablecloths from the '40s & '50s is a must have book for anyone interested in textiles. These tablecloths take you back to the colorful prints inspired by wartime victory gardens, mountain dogwood, and springtime bouquets. Enjoy colorful treatments of fruits, vegetables, and berries, and an incredible assortment of florals in allover and rich border patterns. An entire chapter is dedicated to the wonderful souvenir maps from vacations in places like Florida, Arizona, and Alaska. More than 400 color photographs are here to be enjoyed. Captions and values make this an invaluable resource for collectors, designers, and antique dealers.
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Great photos, but not enough text.......2003-12-13
Although I agree with the other reviewers about the lack of text and collecting information in this book I am very happy with the book overall. The photos are clear and are great for seeing what the various colors used during the time period should look like and what color combinations were used together. It would have been very helpful if there was information included on which colors were more desirable, and which sizes were more desirable or harder to find.
I am a collector of so many varied things though, that I never feel like a book is "too much" for the final result. Yes, it is about $30 but it is a book that I have gone back to time and again to compare with things I've seen in person.
Unfortunately just about ALL of the prices are exactly the same. It almost seems as if they were better left out than to be so unimportant.
Where's the Beef?.......2002-07-15
The book has beautiful pictures of a nice assortment of vintage tablecloths but absolutely no history or other information regarding them. It was almost like looking at someone's home videos. Rather than "here's where I've been", it is a "here's what I collect". In this case a picture is NOT worth a thousand words. Too expense for the final product.
Terrific Tablecloths?.......2001-08-01
Being an avid printed tablecloth collector for many years, I was happy to see that a reference book for these lovely tablecloths had finally arrived. I was very disappointed by the fact that there was not much in the way of the history of the tablecloths in this book. I was appalled at the photos of tablecloths that had not been cleaned or ironed! I have yet to order her second book, and only hope that she has paid much more attention to details when it comes to photographing these wonderful old tablecloths!
Looking For More..........2000-08-08
Although this book beautifully catalogs hundreds of vintage tablecloths, it is virtually devoid of any solid information about them. Maybe I'm looking for something that doesn't exist, but I had hoped to learn more about when certain styles of tablecloths were designed and manufactured, who the designers and manufacturers were, the trends in tablecloths over time, the homemaking culture that went with them, how to care for them (and repair them), and maybe even a little about the vintage tablecloth market--what's hot, regional trends/specialties, etc. In short, I had hoped for something a little more scholarly and not just pretty pictures. Nonetheless, with very few resource books on the topic, this book does at least show the variety of vintage tablecloths that exists. And that's a start!
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- A Quick Approach to Vintage Floral - looking Quilts
- Good ideas, lovely quilts, small projects are not applique.
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Flowers In Applique : Fast and Simple Quilting with Printed-Motif Fabrics
Judy Severson
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Ideal for beginners who are attracted to quiltmaking but intimidated by the time and effort it takes to make a traditional quilt, Flowers in Appliqué presents a simpler but just as beautiful alternative--cutting out flowers that already exist in a fabric and sewing them into new arrangements for a completely different look and feel. From fabric choices, cutting, and stitching to quilting, finishing, and assembly, the book illustrates how to make gorgeous, romantic quilts, perfect for home decoration, in record time.
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A Quick Approach to Vintage Floral - looking Quilts.......2000-10-08
This book was stock full of useful information for making those beautiful chintz quilts of yesteryear. The directions were, for the most part, extremely precise. Where there is question, I found that contacting Ms. Severson via e-mail through her website, was an excellent experience. She wastes no time in helping with any questions you have and has a generous interest in what people who use her book are doing. The quilts in the book are extremely beautiful and most of the projects will produce some beautiful, heirloom quality quilts. It's one of my favorite books in my colletion!!!
Good ideas, lovely quilts, small projects are not applique........1999-04-18
Ms Severson has a wonderful sense of color and design. Her quilts are a lovely combination of applique and piecing. She has also provided fine instructions for creating borders with meandering vines and ideas for using toile. The one thing I didn't care for in this text (which is pricey) were the small projects which were neither applique nor up to the quality of the rest of the text, (the sissor fob, eye glass case, sachets and pin cushion). Never-the-less I am happy I purchased the book for my library.
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Bringing together the best aspects of ambulatory care, complementary medicine, and fitness clubs under one roof, wellness centers are poised to become an essential vehicle of healthcare delivery for the 21st century. Although wellness-based programs have been instituted by nearly every hospital system in North America, very little has been published on this rapidly emerging building type.
Wellness Centers enables design professionals and others to understand the fitness and healthcare requirements of these facilities, and to address them effectively in their work.
Providing essential insights into balancing the healthcare and retail demands of wellness centers, Joan Whaley Gallup reviews every step of the planning and development process, addressing project assessment, financing, programming, and marketing. She draws on her extensive expertise in creating wellness centers to cover a full range of development and design considerations, including design guidelines for lobby/waiting areas, clinical space, administrative areas, pools, saunas, and indoor gardens. Finally, an inspiring project portfolio profiles an impressive roster of successful wellness centers from around the world.
With useful information on code compliance, plus floor plans, schematic designs, and more, this book is a vital professional resource for anyone involved in wellness center design, planning, or management.
"The wellness center is the most positive, nurturing, life-affirming building type ever to evolve in the history of healthcare facilities design. . . . By turning inside out the trends of past centuries, we can now focus on wellness. We can create buildings that will nurture and sustain us, healing environments that will serve to support happy, life-enhancing activities. Centers for wellness are centers for life."-from the Preface
The first book of its kind, Wellness Centers offers design professionals and others complete cutting-edge coverage of these complex new facilities, from planning and development issues to design guidelines and case examples of successful wellness centers from around the world. Written by an architect with extensive experience in the field, this book provides a firm foundation in wellness center design, planning, and management-essential reading for anyone involved in this rapidly growing area of healthcare design.
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Architecture and Its Image: Four Centuries of Architectural Representation
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Drawing on an incomparable collection of architectural drawings and prints, photographs, books, and periodicals, Architecture and Its Image explores the idea of serial imagery in architectural representation through works dating from the Renaissance to today.
Although drawings and photographs of architecture are often viewed as single images, they are generally produced in series. The most basic of these is the set of drawings that shows a building in plan, elevation, and section. But as Architecture and Its Image reveals, the concept can be extended to other types of architectural representations: theater sets, travel accounts, photographic surveys, pattern books, even the alternative designs submitted for competition. All relate in different ways to their subjects; viewed in series, all reveal underlying principles of organization that can convey new understanding of architectural imagery.
Under the headings Architecture in Three Dimensions, Architecture in Place and Time, and Architecture in Process, essays by six scholars use the concept of serial imagery to explore the complex relationship between various types of architectural representations and their subject matter: projective drawings (Robin Evans), 19th-century urban survey photography (Eve Blau), the travel narratives of English architectural "explorers" from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century (Edward Kaufman), festival and theater architecture (William Alexander McClung), architectural publications, competitions, and exhibitions (Helene Lipstadt), and computer graphics (Robert Bruegmann).
An accompanying catalog describes 350 examples, drawn from the CCA collections, of work by architects and architectural delineators, photographers, and cartographers. The book is illustrated by over 400 superbly reproduced duotone illustrations and 16 pages of color.
Eve Blau is Curator of Exhibitions and Publications at the CCA. Edward Kaufman is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Columbia University.
Architecture and Its Image is a publication of the Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal Distributed by The MIT Press.
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Arriving in Hollywood: Letters, 1929
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My Very Last Possession and Other Stories
Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (DEL-Anthologies)
The Naked Tree (Cornell East Asia, No. 83) (Cornell East Asia Series, 83)
The Dwarf (Modern Korean Fiction)
