This site appears to include the podcasts from UH Hiloʻs Hale Kuamoʻo program that accompanies the textbook Nā Kai ‘Ewalu. A series of videos on YouTube by Ahonui, a teacher in one of the Hawaiian-language immersion schools on the Big Island. You can also purchase the Kulaiwi DVD set, which includes Lessons #1-24 on 6 DVDs. At this webpage you can stream videos and download a Lesson Workbook for Lessons 1-12. A series of 30 Hawaiian-language lessons from Kamehameha Schools Distance Learning. Learn Hawaiian at the website of ‘Aha Pūnana Leo.At this site on the Ulukau Hawaiian Electronic Library, you can search through six different authoritative dictionaries at once! Input Hawaiian terms to find English definitions input English terms to find Hawaiian equivalents. Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian, by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Any serious student of Hawaiian language and Hawaiian culture will own the following dictionary:
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Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered. How did this monumental conversion come about? How did Christianity compare and compete with the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work, from award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civic life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than her. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austen's published work Sense and Sensibility, its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature. This early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main character (the widowed Lady Susan) as she seeks a new husband for herself, and one for her daughter. 1871 Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. In another story, jazz fan Kino blunders in on his wife having sex with his best friend and, apparently more embarrassed than wounded, decides to begin life again as a bar owner in another part of town. Throughout their life together, his wife had affairs, but he loved her, and though it was painful – “his heart was torn and his insides were bleeding” – he never dared ask her what deficiency she was tryng to make up for in their relationship now it’s too late. Kafuko, a middle-aged character actor, used to be married. Ninety years later, Haruki Murakami’s men without women have come to the same conclusion, polishing it into a postmodern lifestyle. Men should never put themselves in the position where they can lose someone, a bereaved Italian soldier warns Hemingway’s long-running protagonist Nick Adams: instead, a man “should find things he cannot lose”. A quiet panic afflicts the male characters in Hemingway’s 1927 collection Men Without Women, that touchstone in the development of both Hemingwayism and the short story. “Oh… So you are a Zodiac Master too? Where’s your medallion?” “Ah, that’s quite nice, being a part of an order! So many pleasant memories…” I’ve come to Rosenweld to join an order”. “Oh,” Tamie noticed his gaze onto her necklace. “Tamie,” the girl shook it, a little timidly.Įrik caught a glimpse of Tamie’s brass-chained Libra sign necklace, and a weak smile twinkled through his lips: “Oh, quite a tiny country, that one… Anyway, it is nice to meet you. “Oh, yes,” Tamie shrugged and turned to him – no, he didn’t plan to give up. “But sure it is awesome to be back here again,” the man spoke once more, apparently wanting to start a conversation with this tiny brown-ponytailed cute girl he had just stumbled upon. “Oh, it’s fine, really,” Tamie smiled and got back to looking out the windows. “Whoops, sorry, I think that came out loud,” the guy chuckled and scratched his bushy hair. “Uhm…” her lips formed in a polite smile as they often used to when meeting talkative strangers who broke her peace. She started and looked aside, to see a robust man before her, nearly two metres tall, with weird long bushy blond hair, two tied bangs framing his face from both sides, and those sky blue eyes, blazing with the inner fire… Truly a weird one. Tamie was looking out the train window, watching evergreen trees and colourful flowering fields slide by as the train roared forward. “Wow, I didn’t imagine nature was this beautiful in Rosenweld… Sure is the most beautiful country in the whole realm of Zariel, as they say”. “We want a song about throwing crumpled-up wrapping paper into the bin” was a typical request from the BBC. I became an expert at writing to order on such subjects as guinea pigs, window-cleaning and horrible smells. The busking led to a career in singing and songwriting, mainly for children’s television. I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.īefore Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country the best one was in Italian about pasta. A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes. Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him). I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. He is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He divides his time between homes in Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts where he lives with his wife Jean. He finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard that included general surgery and ophthalmology. Many have been made into motion pictures.Ĭook is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of Medicine. Many were also featured in the Literary Guild. A number of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have been bestsellers on the "New York Times" Bestseller List with several at #1. He is best known for being the author who created the medical-thriller genre by combining medical writing with the thriller genre of writing. Robin Cook (born in New York City, New York) is an American doctor / novelist who writes about medicine, biotechnology, and topics affecting public health. Librarian Note: Not to be confused with British novelist Robin Cook a pseudonym of Robert William Arthur Cook.ĭr. OL90644W Page_number_confidence 96.43 Pages 506 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200828085649 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 415 Scandate 20200826190752 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780312119997 Tts_version 4. It is part of the Egyptian series of novels by Smith and follows the exploits of the adventurer Nicholas Quenton-Harper and Dr. Swashbuckling adventures at sea and on land highlight Smith's latest (after The Seventh Scroll), a. The Seventh Scroll is a novel by author Wilbur Smith. Urn:lcp:seventhscroll0000smit_d7f0:lcpdf:498a00a0-d2de-4283-8206-bd70048e5c31 An edition of The seventh scroll (1995) The seventh scroll by Wilbur Smith 0 Ratings 5 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 2 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1996 Publisher Pan, Pan Books Language English Pages 708 Previews available in: English This edition doesn't have a description yet. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:01:48 Boxid IA1916802 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Jane Goodall is a renowned humanitarian, conservationist, animal activist, environmentalist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace. One of the worlds most inspiring women, Dr. With anecdotes taken directly from Jane Goodalls autobiography, McDonnell makes this very true story accessible for the very young-and young at heart. As the young Jane observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams of a life living with and helping all animals, until one day she finds that her dream has come true. In his characteristic heartwarming style, Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Book Synopsis Patrick McDonnell-beloved, bestselling author-artist and creator of the Mutts syndicated comic strip-shares the inspiring story of young Jane Goodall, the legendary and inspiring conservationist featured in the hit documentary film Jane. With anecdotes taken directly from Goodalls autobiography, McDonnell makes this very true story accessible for the very young. About the Book The New York Times-bestselling author of The Gift of Nothing presents an inspiring story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee. Gilder certainly doesn’t solve the whole problem. But for millions of visitors, the museum could be a frustrating maze, circulation a fiasco. To regulars, former dead-end galleries, like the ones for gems and minerals, were akin to Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley: secret, magical places. This one seems destined to be an instant heartthrob and colossal attraction. New Yorkers live to grouse about new buildings. Like them, Gilder is spectacular: a poetic, joyful, theatrical work of public architecture and a highly sophisticated flight of sculptural fantasy. I wouldn’t go so far as to equate it with the curvaceous genius of Gaudi or with Saarinen’s groovy TWA Terminal, but it’s in the family. It becomes an atrium in the guise of a towering canyon, a city block deep.įor its architects, Jeanne Gang and her team, Gilder was clearly a gamble and leap of faith, bucking today’s innocuous norms, almost begging for charges of starchitectural self-indulgence. Past the front doors, that cliff face morphs. When plans for it first surfaced, I wondered if the new Gilder Center at the Natural History museum might end up looking overcooked.įrom the outside it’s a white-pink granite cliff with yawning windows shaped a little like the openings to caves, nestling the museum’s wonderful Romanesque Revival addition from the turn of the last century. |