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  Jin Dynasty - Northern Warriors...

  Rolf Hedger

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  The Jurchens, the ancestors of the Manchu people, emerged as a formidable force in northeastern Asia long before they established the Jin Dynasty. Originating from the forests and plains of Manchuria, they were a collection of semi-nomadic and agricultural tribes with a distinct culture, language, and way of life. Their society was organized into clans led by chieftains, and they engaged in hunting, fishing, and farming while maintaining a warrior tradition that would later define their military prowess. Although they lived independently, they often found themselves under the influence of stronger neighboring powers, including the Korean kingdoms and the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty. 
  The Liao Dynasty, which dominated much of northern China and Manchuria, exerted control over the Jurchens for centuries. The Khitan rulers forced them into a tributary system, requiring them to provide labor, furs, and horses in exchange for nominal autonomy. While this arrangement allowed the Jurchens to retain aspects of their culture, it also placed them in a subordinate position. However, resentment grew among the Jurchen clans, who viewed the Khitan overlords as oppressive rulers. This growing dissatisfaction set the stage for their eventual rebellion. 
  Despite their subjugation, the Jurchens developed a strong warrior tradition and mastered cavalry warfare, which would later give them an advantage over their adversaries. They organized themselves into tribal confederations and honed their skills in archery and horseback combat, making them formidable in battle. Their ability to adapt to different terrains, combined with their knowledge of the harsh northern climate, allowed them to maintain resilience and independence, even under Liao control. Over time, they also adopted elements of Chinese and Khitan governance, learning valuable administrative techniques that would later aid them in state-building.

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  Shonen Manga

  Studio Kamikaze Factory

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  A step-by-step guide to all the tricks-both freehand and digital-to creating the best manga characters, Shonen Manga is a fun, easy to read manga manual for artists of all ages and languages.Focusing on Shonen-style manga and anime (a genre targeting young boys-”Shonen” means young boy, referring to elementary through grade school age groups), Shonen Manga is a practical, hands-on guide to learning the skills of action-packed drawing. It includes detailed information on how to apply digital colour, 3D designs, vectorial drawing, and a host of other fascinating and useful design applications. Each project in Shonen Manga includes step-by-step instructions specifying software, tools, and professional tricks to achieve the gritty eyes, roaring faces, and clenched fists of teen heroes, martial art masters, ninja girls, and violent samurai, integral to the Shonen genre.Shonen Manga will walk an audience of manga artists, illustrators, and graphic designers through the basic stages of manga production, beginning with black-and-white sketches and ending with vibrant, fully costumed characters.

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  The Transformative Power of Tattoo

  Julianne Ingles

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  A smashing collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by a diverse group of writers who delve into tattoos in terms of class, body image, history, empowerment and transformations. It's an investigation into why people get tattoos and how they transform a person's life.
  Our 19 contributors are debut and award-winning. Their work includes memoir, transgressive fiction, horror, magical realism, sci-fi, literary fiction, poetry and personal essays. We're delighted to share with you their take on the tattoo.

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  Combat Love - A Story of Leaving...

  Alisyn Camerota

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  CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota's memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980s, Camerota finds the belonging she craves courtesy of a local punk rock band named Shrapnel and their diehard fans. Combat Love chronicles her near-misses and misadventures at clubs like CBGB and Max's Kansas City, coupled with the sex, drugs, and punk rock of 1980s New Jersey. By the time she leaves home at sixteen, it feels like home had left her long ago. 
   
    
   
  Combat Love is also the story of two women, mother and daughter, trying to forge their own paths and independence, and find their own happiness, success, and wholeness. Camerota's story searches for the line between shelter and risk, nurture and neglect, parenting and personal freedom. What are we willing to sacrifice for self-actualization and happiness? What if the answer is your mother, or your daughter? 
   
    
   
  The two-time Emmy-award-winning Camerota retraces her steps down an often gritty path toward her dream of becoming a journalist. At times heartbreaking and pulse-pounding, Combat Love is an inspiration for anyone who's ever searched for that elusive place called home.

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  50 Masterpieces you have to read...

  George Eliot, Charles Dickens,...

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  This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
  Novels
  Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
  Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
  Austen, Jane: Emma
  Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
  Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
  Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
  Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
  Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
  Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
  Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
  Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
  Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
  Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
  Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
  Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
  Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
  Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
  Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
  Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
  Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
  Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
  Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
  Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
  Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
  Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  Eliot, George: Middlemarch
  Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
  Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
  Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
  Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
  Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
  Forster, E. M.: Howards End
  Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
  Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
  Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
  Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines
  Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  Homer: The Odyssey
  Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
  Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
  James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

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  Hollywood Stage - Intermezzo -...

  Various Authors

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  The Hollywood Ringmaster himself, Cecil B DeMille unveils the treasures and the stars for you right here…..

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