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  China - Culture Smart!: The...

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  For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence of being Chinese remained essentially unchanged until the twentieth century. Since then, change has taken place in Chinese society at an unprecedented speed: the country experienced the turmoil of civil war and revolution and then emerged on to the world stage as a global superpower. This book aims to put these changes into a historical context, explain deep-seated cultural attitudes, and guide listeners through a maze of unfamiliar social situations, in order to help them discover the pragmatism, genius, warmth, and humanity of this extraordinary people.

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  Black & White Bright & Bold - 24...

  Kim Schaefer

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  24 easy projects to help you craft bold, modern quilted accessories for your home, by the bestselling author of Kim Schaeffer’s Calendar Runners. Make it dramatic with 24 easy modern quilts from bestselling author Kim Schaefer (over 200,000 books sold.) Bold black-and-white designs with bright accent colors bring a graphic modern style to your table, walls, or sofa. These quilts are easy to customize by using your own favorite colors as accents. The sewing is easy, too, with Kim’s simple piecing techniques and fusible appliqué. Book includes 24 projects, some featuring appliqué, in a variety of sizes: placemats, table runners, wall hangings, and lap quilts. Black-and-white modern designs will always stay in style.

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  Wet Britches and Muddy Boots - A...

  John H. White

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  “Succeeds admirably as an introductory survey of the early American travel experience”—from the National Book Award-nominated author (Journal of Transport History).   What was travel like in the 1880s? Was it easy to get from place to place? Were the rides comfortable? How long did journeys take? Wet Britches and Muddy Boots describes all forms of public transport from canal boats to oceangoing vessels, passenger trains to the overland stage. Trips over long distances often involved several modes of transportation and many days, even weeks. Baggage and sometimes even children were lost en route. Travelers might start out with a walk down to the river to meet a boat for the journey to a town where they caught a stagecoach for the rail junction to catch the train for a ride to the city. John H. White Jr. discusses not only the means of travel but also the people who made the system run—riverboat pilots, locomotive engineers, stewards, stagecoach drivers, seamen. He provides a fascinating glimpse into a time when travel within the United States was a true adventure. “Throughout this massive work, the author repeatedly captures the romance, flavor, and color associated with travel.”—Choice “Every chapter, in any order, will constitute a well-spent and informative read. Journey with this book soon!”—National Railway Historical Society Bulletin “[A] popular history, informative and engaging . . . White has given us a book that’s as unusual as it is useful. Read it cover-to-cover or just pick out a random chapter in a stolen hour, and the book will be equally enjoyable either way.”—Railroad History

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  More Whiz Quiz

  National Parents Council

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  Specially compiled by children, parents and teachers, this book contains a wide variety of questions on film, sport, TV, music, etc. Laid out in game form, each game consists of ten rounds of eight questions each. There are few quiz books for Irish children and this book will help to fill that gap.

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  Iberia

  Julian Sayarer

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  'Iberia is Julian Sayarer's account of his impromptu journey across Portugal and Spain, from Lisbon towards Barcelona, undertaken during a pandemic on an old blue bicycle named Miles
  Finding himself in Lisbon amidst a pandemic, Julian Sayarer decides simply to ride. Through hazy landscapes and on baked roads, he pedals east. During long hours in the saddle, his thoughts traverse matters big and small – hopping from post-colonial culpability to the supremacy of an orange picked at the roadside. Across 900 miles of sun-drenched olive groves, vast mountainscapes, and dormant towns glimpsed through driving rain, Sayarer's journey is punctuated by fleeting, beautiful moments of human connection. Iberia is a celebration of a shared humanity and community found in a uniquely fragile time.

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  5000 Great One Liners

  Grant Tucker

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  My mate told me that I just don't understand irony.
  Which was ironic because we were at a bus stop at the time.
  
  
  A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
  
  
  An onion just told me a joke.
  I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
  
  
  A priest, a rabbi and a blind man walk into a bar and the bartender says, 'What is this, some kind of joke?'
  
  
  I got chatting to a lumberjack in a pub.
  He seemed like a decent feller.
  
  
  I'll never forget what my granddad said to me just before he kicked the bucket. He said, 'Grandson, how far do you think I can kick this bucket?'
  
  
  
  
  Whether told in the rugby clubs of Wales or the gentlemen's clubs of London, their sharpness and simplicity unites us all. Short, sweet and wickedly clever, they hold a special place in the annals of comedy, and as the Twitter age heralds a resurrection of the art form, there seems no better time to celebrate the immortal one-liner. In this riveting read, Times diary columnist Grant Tucker does just that, bringing together 5,000 of the funniest one-liners ever told in one definitive volume. Laugh-out-loud funny, 5,000 Great One-Liners has all the quips, zingers, puns and wisecracks you'll ever need - and a whole lot more.

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