![]() ![]() ![]() All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world. From a little-known fishing community at the periphery of China, Hong Kong developed into one of the world's most spectacular and cosmopolitan metropoles after a century and a half of British imperial rule. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. ![]() As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. Very light tanning to edge sof page block. ![]()
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Cinderella is a pink-haired, freckle-faced little white girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simply read the synopsis and you’ll probably be able to tell right away why I feel so conflicted about certain aspects of this book. ![]() I’ll try not to do that, but I make no promises. This is the type of book that just makes me want to go on and on and on about my feelings because they’re so complex. This book is so incredibly hard to encapsulate in a review because it brings up so many topics of discussion. Funny, smart, and true-to-life, FIRSTS is a one-of-a-kind young adult novel about growing up. When Mercedes’ perfect system falls apart, she has to find a way to salvage her reputation and figure out where her heart really belongs in the process. ![]() But Mercedes doesn’t bank on Angela’s boyfriend finding out about her services and wanting a turn- or on Zach, who likes her for who she is instead of what she can do in bed. 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At the time, I had a fellowship that involved teaching in a British boarding school and travelling as much as I could with my small stipend. ![]() It’s about a train, the Eurostar essentially, who falls in love with a rider. The oldest story in this collection was drafted eighteen years ago, when I was a not terribly sensible 24-year-old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Siamese Cats sneak up on Growltiger in "sampans and junks".The illustrations seem to show the villainous Growltiger to be dark-colored.Jennyanydots is a cheerful and apparently lazy tabby homemaker.He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession No matter what crime he's committed this time, on its discovery he always manages to be a good distance away and doing something else. 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And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker-by accident. ![]() Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient's circulatory system to a healthy donor's, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world's first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.ĭeftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickįor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. ![]() ![]() $11.00 lower ( %92 savings) than the regular price of $11.99 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the hero builds his life up from the ground on his own. The hero doesn’t save the heroine she saves herself. Its honest and raw, about two people who have to learn to grow and survive on their own despite their love for each other. You are not going to find a story in these pages about falling in love and everything else falling into place because of it. This is a book about self-love and survival in spite of the world turning against you. This is not a book where two people find each other and need to hold each other up to survive. ![]() I don’t think they went away throughout the whole book. 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Urn:lcp:houseofardennewy00enes:epub:532d439c-07b8-453f-9cf3-8cd2fd09bef2 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier houseofardennewy00enes Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1kh40v64 Invoice 11 Isbn 1590172027ĩ781590172025 Lccn 2005022879 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Plot summary A boy named Edred Arden inherits the title of Lord Arden and the dilapidated Arden Castle. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:46:35 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1130606 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor The House of Arden is a novel for children written by the English author E. The child was Edred Arden, and he lived in a house in a clean, wind-swept town on a cliff. ![]() |