Having read a lot of texts translated from Chinese lately for class, I have to say that this is one of the poorest jobs of translating I have ever encountered. Translating from Chinese to English is not an easy job, granted, because Chinese text is pictographic and requires a lot of artistic elaboration on the part of the author to keep the text alive for a Western audience. "A Daughter of Han" is a complete failure in this respect. As a reader, I felt so far removed from the events of the story, it was as though I was hearing an account of the plot from a woman who knew another guy who'd once heard about this lady who'd had these things happen to her that might be interesting if only the storytelling weren't so detached. I suppose one could make an argument that the emotional detachment with which the author treats potentially very dramatic events makes a larger statement about the Chinese culture, but that still doesn't make it worth reading for 250 pages. I could've gotten the same enthusiasm and emotional detachment from the blurb on the back of the book, had I only known better. Plus, if a key point of the book was this unusual treatment of tone, there are definitely tons of books out there that exemplify exactly how to do this without losing the reader, such as "The Stranger." Anyway, I'll wrap this up so as not to be as thoroughly terrible as the book. Bottom line, this book is boring. If you want to find out about how the common people of China lived around the turn of the 20th century, get a good textbook, look up the time period in the index, and read the obligatory social history section. It'll be about a page long. Amen to that.

I had to read this book for a core class in college and I thought that I would have hated it. Actually, I really liked it. It told of a Chinese working woman's life. It even gives the reader an insight into her lifestyle and her struggles during this tumuluous time in history. The story even touches on the japanese invasion. I didn't think this biography would be interesting but it was. I would recommended this book to anyone. It is a light read and it is very interesting.

Ida Pruitt's biography of Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai (literally "old lady Ning"), a peasant woman of northeast China born in 1867, is a fascinating anecdotal retelling of Ning's personal history as she related it to the author over the course of their two year long friendship. The storyline of Ning's life: childhood, marriage, work, and children, is laid out in a chronological history, broken into separate sections at particular turning points; and yet a cohesive theme of hardship, oppression and poverty, of strong-willed women and weak men is carried throughout not only Ning's tales but also through the stories she relates of her ancestors and neighbors.

Pruitt writes in the voice of Ning as if she is translating, but what she is really doing is recalling Ning's stories of her life in the first half of the 20th century. Ning was born into an educated middle class family which had fallen on harder times. Her father wants a better situation for her marriage, but the older husband he choses for her becomes addicted to opium driving the family into poverty. To survive and feed her children Ning must become first a beggar, then a servant to various households: military, Muslim, bureaucrat, and finally to Christian missionaries. And Ning's voice does come across clearly; speaking against concubinage and prostitution, about the penury of employers, the need to support and keep family together.

By using a first person retelling of the stories Pruitt gives the impresssion of accuracy, yet there were 7 years between the conversations with Ning and the writing of the book. Also the apparent bias against Japanese in prologue and last chapter together with the pub. date of the book indicate a hidden agenda on the part of the author. Still, although limited to the view of this one woman's experience, Ning's story is reflective of the hardships of life for Chinese women before the Communist era.

Rosa De Jong is a ten-year-old girl living in Holland occupied by the Nazis. She is a talented young violinist that takes lessons from a man named Mr. Goldenstein. Rosa is a EJwish girl and the kids at her school make fun of her and dont like her at all. So Rosa stays inside and daydreams about all the Nazis disappearing.
I disliked this book because at times it got sort of boring. It kind of depressed me because of all the killing, but at other times I liked it because it taught me a lot about the Holocaust.
Ida Vos has written other books about World War 2. In which her family was involved. Those books are called Hide and Seek, and Anna is Still Here.

I read this book about 5 years ago, in 5th grade, as I have been a Holocaust nutcase since I was 11 years old. I've read everything I can get my hands on, gone to the USHMM, memorials, museums, written Miep Gies, and I can quote Anne Frank from memory. I remember taking this book out among other stacks of Holocaust Young Reader books from our small library-well, I doubt I ever returned it. Ida Vos is a genius. (And the translater, Inez Schmidt) This is a super, touching, book.

Have you ever been cursed? You know, the usual: You're walking down the street minding your own business when, suddenly, you smell brimstone. The cement below your feet starts to heat up, and then the vague outline of a lesser demon appears. I hate it when that happens. So you whip out your trusty St. Vitus' charm, a ragged copy of the Good News, and a long, pointed stick and prepare to do battle with the forces of evil.

Above all else, this book will make you feel a lot better about yourself, knowing that there are so many much sillier people out there who might actually believe this hokum. But it is also scary, in that they might be your neighbors.

I ordered this one while on one of my demonology trips gathering all types of information to prepare myself for war against Satan. Curses and demons around every corner. Fortunately, the book contains a good amount of scripture. A bit too sensational now that I sit down to review it. Begins with the premise that curses are real and follows by describing different types that exist (generational, personal sin, accursed objects, witchcraft, etc.) He then goes on to describe eight laws that govern each category of curse. He concludes with a four page chapter dedicated to steps in breaking curses. Writing style identical to "Pigs in the Parlour."

This is the BEST book out there on the breaking of ANY curse or witchcraft spell, written by a minister with a great deal of experience on casting out demons, Rev. Frank Hammond. If you own Frank's classic book "Pigs in the Parlor", you MUST have a copy of this alos great Bible based book on the breaking of all curses. As a person who has gone to a number of churches that help those afflicted with demons, this book is read by all, and highly recommended. With this book you understand God's spiritual world, you understand that curses are REAL, and you learn about word curses, generational curses that lead to illness and emotional problems, and also learn about witchcraft curses, that actually go on today. This is a MUST for all church and town libraries. Higly recommended by a born again Christian.

A pleasant read. This is a book that anyone interested in angels would find facinating. There is a sweetness to this book that makes it feel warm and safe.

This book is less a biography of these great philanthropists than a catalogue of the generosity they have displayed over the years. It gives ample information about the Greens' early lives, and it has useful appendices detailing the many donations and endowments these remarkable people left behind at MIT, the Colorado School of Mines, Austin College, UBC and so many other places.

This probably of limited interest to an audience not already acquainted with the Greens and their philanthropy. Nevertheless, I am pleased that such a fine account of their lives and fortune is in print.

Before you order this book, first enlarge the photo. You will then see you are ordering only vol. three and vol. four. (You will be missing vol. one and vol. two).

First published in 1969 by the Institute of Economic Affairs, the free-market think tank, this little book takes government and others to task for their attempts to introduce systems analysis into public finance.

Dr. Ira Hoos, then a Research Sociologist at the University of California (Berkeley), sets out in a very closely argued and succinct paper the history, the techniques and some examples of such analysis before drawing some quite remarkable conclusions.

The book makes a very pertinent point which is to question the whole area of the applicability of management techniques to areas of government and to the usefulness of such techniques as they relate to general economic questions.

In this book, Dr. Hoos finds the issue of the use of systems analysis wanting in that there are no value free participants in such processes and that they are liable for capture by the particular vested interests involved. There is also the issue of the use of such techniques in areas not exposed to market forces either due to the nature of government involvement or the delineation of activity by legal and governmental processes. In such cases what are taken as costs are subjective and defined in part by the particular institutional structure involved.

There are also the broader issues of applicability of mathematical techniques to model and predict human behaviour as well as the development of the religion of the computer which effectively believes that all human and other activity can be distilled into packets of data. Dr. Hoos also highlights the growth in selling power of the space age technocracy which assists in the development of systems analysis and it's application into the field of government.

This book argues for less application of systems analysis and more of opening up areas of activity to the market. This is a powerful advocay, not for privatisation, but for liberalisation and the extension of competition into hitherto unreached areas rather like the upper waters of the Amazon. Ultimately governmental activity will reach a zenith after which it will be downhill all the way as government seeks to keep what it has provided but in the long run will only be sustainable in and by the market.

A very perceptive and readable book.

Picked this up in a bookshop with a view to buying it. Like most folks, I went straight to my own name and found the information relating thereto inaccurate, poorly researched and misleading. That was enough for me to give it a hearty thumbs down. My recommendation - buy one of MacLysaght's book instead.

I ordered the book thinking that my mother's name Brannagan would be in there for sure. I was very disappointed.

I was not at all displeased with this book (as the two previous reviewers were.) I find it full of interesting information about a number of names I know (including Haggarty.) It gives several pronunciations, talks about the meaning of a name, and tells us about some of the more famous people who've held the name. I'd buy it again.

The authors, Frank and Ida Mae Hammond,present their PLAN for implementing DIVINE ORDER in the family by combining counseling, discipline, and deliverance. This book is not for every Christian!! The distinctive feature of this book on family relationships is its scripturally based counsel in correlation with the ministry of deliverance.

This book, authored by deliverance ministers Frank and Ida Mae Hammond, is an excellent example of how to put words into the mouth of God. In terms of content, Kingdom Living for the Family offers little in the way of new advice for raising families, and it seems to convey a condescending tone towards married women. For example, Frank states on page 62 that "A man's family is his 'flock,' and his wife is his number-one-sheep." Statements by apostles such as Paul and Peter are erroneuosly interpreted by the Hammonds as proceeding from the mouth of God. This book may be of some use to those who study exorcism in that it details some alleged cases of demon possession that came about as a result of faulty family relationships. Otherwise, it would be wise for those trying to build up their families to avoid this book.

Si quieres aprender a espanol, este libro es bueno. Si quieres leer literatura espanola, compra Don Quixote. Este libro es un buen camino para aprender a la cultra espanola.