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The Last Kings of Shanghai

Autor: Jonathan Kaufman

Número de Páginas: 386

"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon--billionaire playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty--the hotel hosts a who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward has written a draft of Private Lives in his suite and Charlie Chaplin has entertained his wife-to-be. And a few miles away, Mao and the nascent Communist Party have been plotting revolution. By the 1930s, the Sassoons had been doing business in China for a century, rivaled in wealth and influence by only one other dynasty--the Kadoories. These two Jewish families, both originally from Baghdad, stood astride Chinese business and politics for...

Kings of Shanghai

Autor: Jonathan Kaufman

Número de Páginas: 324

'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon - billionaire playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty - the hotel hosts a who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward has written a draft of Private Lives in his suite, Charlie Chaplin entertained his wife-to-be, and the American socialite Wallis Simpson reportedly posed for 'glamour' photographs. A few miles away, Mao and the nascent Communist party have been plotting revolution before being forced to flee the city. By the 1930s, the Sassoons had been doing business in China for a century, rivaled in wealth and influence by only one other dynasty - the Kadoories. These two Jewish families, both originally...

China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters

Autor: Kathryn Hellerstein , Lihong Song

Número de Páginas: 298

In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.

The Sassoons

Autor: Joseph Sassoon

Número de Páginas: 449

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives. “Engaging...compelling...well-paced and supremely satisfying. ”—The New York Times They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years, from the 19th century to the 20th, and were known as ‘the Rothschilds of the East.’ Mesopotamian in origin, and for more than forty years the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Basra, they were forced to flee to Bushir on the Persian Gulf; David Sassoon and sons starting over with nothing, and beginning to trade in India in cotton and opium. The Sassoons soon were building textile mills and factories, and setting up branches in shipping in China, and expanding beyond, to Japan, and further west, to Paris and London. They became members of British parliament; were knighted; and owned and edited Britain’s leading newspapers,...

Shanghai Grand

Autor: Taras Grescoe

Número de Páginas: 490

On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the illustrious Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily 'Mickey' Hahn arrived there at the height of the Depression. A legendary New Yorker journalist, Hahn's vivid writing would play a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. But on reaching Shanghai, Hahn was nursing a broken heart after a disappointing affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter; she was convinced she would never love again. Checking in to Sassoon's glittering Cathay Hotel, Hahn was absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton and the colourful gangster Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen. But when she met Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet from an illustrious family, she discovered the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees - a place her innate curiosity led her to explore first hand. Danger lurked on the...

One Night with You

Autor: Fortune Whelan

Número de Páginas: 232

Their lives are about to change forever…but not how they expected. Cheramie Johnston-Davies is almost set to embrace the path her family set for her—a handsome and ambitious fiancé, an enviable address, and a guaranteed board position wherever she desires. But when her grandmother passes unexpectedly, Cheramie gets a few more months of freedom while she steps up to secure her family’s legacy by completing the revitalization project her grandmother started. Former risk-taking, adventurous Deacon Dorsey knows he needs to clip his own wings and create a loving, secure home for his preteen daughter after his ex dies. Considering his own unstable upbringing, Deacon’s work is cut out for him. He decides to settle in his hometown and invest in a local project in Conception Bay. He can’t change the past, but he’s determined to shape the future for his daughter. An anonymous hookup in a Seattle hotel bar is a last night of freedom for Deacon and Cheramie before they settle into their new responsibilities. Only it’s not so anonymous when they find themselves on opposite sides of the same project…

The Forsaken Series Collection

Autor: Phil Price

Número de Páginas: 1570

All four books in Phil Price's 'The Forsaken Series', now available in one volume! Unknown: Every year, a select few disappear never to return. From the Falkland Islands to the Himalayas, Puerto Rico to England - people are vanishing without a trace. After a young man stumbles across an ancient secret, he faces a mystery. But can he find those who need him... and can he escape the Unknown? The Turning: He had started a new life, with his new family. His scars were healing. But they found him and took his loved ones to their world. Now, Jake must follow. But can he reach them in time... before they are turned against him? The Witch and the Watcher: In a faraway place, two lost souls are being hunted. An ancient evil, hell-bent on revenge, wants to claim them for his own. Meanwhile, a mother and son are coming to terms with the death of their loved ones. The boy dreams of distant souls who need help. Can he help them find the way home before they are lost to the darkness? Secrets Beneath The Sea: A child is taken from her mother by a powerful family, and her father is banished. Emma Thorne doesn't know if her daughter is alive or dead; the village offers no clues and gives away no...

The Vanishing Muse

Autor: Adidas Wilson

Número de Páginas: 222

In the small, artsy coastal town of Port Haven, renowned painter Eliza Marrow vanishes from her cliffside studio during a violent storm. Her latest masterpiece, rumored to depict a scandalous secret about the town's elite, is also missing. Private investigator Lila Voss, a former art restorer with a knack for uncovering hidden truths, is hired by Eliza's estranged sister to find her. As Lila digs into Eliza's life, she uncovers a web of jealousy, betrayal, and long-buried secrets among Port Haven's seemingly idyllic residents. The deeper she goes, the more she realizes the painting—and its secrets—may hold the key to Eliza's fate.

Bulletin des lois de la République Française

Autor: Frankreich

Número de Páginas: 586

Presente

Número de Páginas: 1078

Corrosion of Steel Piling in Nonmarine Applications

Autor: J. A. Beavers , C. L. Durr

Número de Páginas: 210

Patent, Copyright & Trademark

Autor: Richard Stim

Número de Páginas: 705

Provides an overview of intellectual property law, including what legal rights apply to a work, what trade-secret law protects, and the scope of copyright protection. A plain-English guide to intellectual property law.

The Global Merchants

Autor: Joseph Sassoon

Número de Páginas: 356

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. This book reveals the secrets behind the family's phenomenal success: how a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home in colonial Bombay, the vast network of agents, informants and politicians they built, and the way they came to bridge East and West, culturally as well as commercially. As one competitor remarked, 'silver and gold, silks, gums and spices, opium and cotton, wool and wheat - whatever moves over sea or land feels the hand or bears the mark of Sassoon & Co.' Drawing for the first time on the vast family archives, Joseph Sassoon brings vividly to life a succession of remarkable characters. From a single generation: Flora, the first woman to steer a major global business, Siegfried, the poet, and Victor, the tycoon who drew the stars of Hollywood's silent era to his skyscraper in Shanghai. Through the lives these ambitious figures built for...

The Sassoons

Autor: Esther Da Costa Meyer , Claudia J. Nahson

Número de Páginas: 257

Tracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and London The Sassoons were prosperous as bankers and treasurers to the Ottoman sultans in nineteenth-century Baghdad, until they were driven out by religious persecution and economic pressures. Assuming the precarious status of stateless Jews, the family dispersed, establishing businesses in Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London. Their wealth enabled them to collect splendid works of art from the various cultures that welcomed them. This volume tells the sweeping global story of the Sassoon family through the works of art they collected. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, porcelain, manuscripts, Judaica, and architecture, it foregrounds family members who were patrons of art and sponsors of remarkable buildings, highlighting the role of the family's accomplished women. Rachel Sassoon was editor of both the Times and the Observer newspapers in London at the turn of the twentieth century. The renowned war poet Siegfried Sassoon was a cousin. Victor Sassoon hosted the glitterati of the 1920s and 1930s at his Cathay Hotel in ...

Foundation Engineering Handbook

Autor: Hsai-yang Fang

Número de Páginas: 935

More than ten years have passed since the first edition was published. During that period there have been a substantial number of changes in geotechnical engineering, especially in the applications of foundation engineering. As the world population increases, more land is needed and many soil deposits previously deemed unsuitable for residential housing or other construction projects are now being used. Such areas include problematic soil regions, mining subsidence areas, and sanitary landfills. To overcome the problems associated with these natural or man-made soil deposits, new and improved methods of analysis, design, and implementation are needed in foundation construction. As society develops and living standards rise, tall buildings, transportation facilities, and industrial complexes are increasingly being built. Because of the heavy design loads and the complicated environments, the traditional design concepts, construction materials, methods, and equipment also need improvement. Further, recent energy and material shortages have caused additional burdens on the engineering profession and brought about the need to seek alternative or cost-saving methods for foundation...

Almanaque de "El Comercio."

Número de Páginas: 1052

U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Register

Número de Páginas: 90

Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the District of Columbia

Autor: Freemasons. Grand Lodge Of The District Of Columbia

Número de Páginas: 824

William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist

Autor: William Cooper Nell

Número de Páginas: 772

For the first time, a biography of William Cooper Nell and a major portion of his articles for "The Liberator", "The National Anti-Slavery Standard", and "The North Star" have been published in a single volume. The book is the first to document the life and works of Nell and includes correspondence with many noted abolitionists such as Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass, Amy Kirby Post and Charles Sumner.

Spacelab Payloads

Autor: Michael E. Haddad , David J. Shayler

Número de Páginas: 550

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory facility that was flown on the Space Shuttle from 1983 to 1998. Completing 22 major missions and contributing to many other NASA goals, Spacelab stands as one of the Shuttle program’s most resounding successes. The system comprised multiple components, including a pressurized laboratory module, unpressurized carrier pallets and other related hardware, all housed in the Shuttle’s Payload Bay and crew compartment. But how did all those varied components actually come together? The answer is the little-known “Level-IV”, a team of managers and engineers who molded separate elements of hardware into cohesive and safe payloads. Without the dedication and drive of the Level-IV team, the huge successes of the Spacelab missions would not have been achieved. This is their story. You will learn herein how Level-IV was formed, who was involved, and the accomplishments, setbacks and problems faced along the way, in a story that blends both the professional and personal sides of Level-IV operations and its legacy. Upon reading this book, you will gain a new appreciation for this crucial team and understand what is meant when you hear the term...

Economic Growth, second edition

Autor: Robert J. Barro , Xavier I. Sala-i-martin

Número de Páginas: 673

The long-awaited second edition of an important textbook on economic growth—a major revision incorporating the most recent work on the subject. This graduate level text on economic growth surveys neoclassical and more recent growth theories, stressing their empirical implications and the relation of theory to data and evidence. The authors have undertaken a major revision for the long-awaited second edition of this widely used text, the first modern textbook devoted to growth theory. The book has been expanded in many areas and incorporates the latest research. After an introductory discussion of economic growth, the book examines neoclassical growth theories, from Solow-Swan in the 1950s and Cass-Koopmans in the 1960s to more recent refinements; this is followed by a discussion of extensions to the model, with expanded treatment in this edition of heterogenity of households. The book then turns to endogenous growth theory, discussing, among other topics, models of endogenous technological progress (with an expanded discussion in this edition of the role of outside competition in the growth process), technological diffusion, and an endogenous determination of labor supply and...

Unification of a Slave State

Autor: Rachel N. Klein

Número de Páginas: 344

This book describes the turbulent transformation of South Carolina from a colony rent by sectional conflict into a state dominated by the South’s most unified and politically powerful planter leadership. Rachel Klein unravels the sources of conflict and growing unity, showing how a deep commitment to slavery enabled leaders from both low– and backcountry to define the terms of political and ideological compromise. The spread of cotton into the backcountry, often invoked as the reason for South Carolina’s political unification, actually concluded a complex struggle for power and legitimacy. Beginning with the Regulator Uprising of the 1760s, Klein demonstrates how backcountry leaders both gained authority among yeoman constituents and assumed a powerful role within state government. By defining slavery as the natural extension of familial inequality, backcountry ministers strengthened the planter class. At the same time, evangelical religion, like the backcountry’s dominant political language, expressed yet contained the persisting tensions between planters and yeomen. Klein weaves social, political, and religious history into a formidable account of planter class formation ...

First Workshop on Grand Unification

Autor: Frampton

Número de Páginas: 366

This workshop held at the New England Center provided a timely opportunity for over 100 participants to gather in a unique environment and discuss the present status of the unification of strong and electroweak forces. One reason for the timeliness was perhaps that experiments of the seventies had already lent confirmation to the separate theories of strong and of electroweak forces, so that for the eighties it now seems especially compelling to attempt the grand unification of these two forces. Also, the planned experiments to search for proton decay and the new experiments which are suggestive, though not yet conclusive, of non-zero neutrino rest masses add further stimulus to the theory. Thus, the workshop provided an ideal forum for exchange of ideas amongst active physicists. The presentations at the workshop covered the present status of both theory and experiment with a strong interplay. Also, there were presentations from the discipline of astrophysics which is becoming very intertwined with that of high-energy physics especially when in the latter one is addressing energies and temperatures that were extant only in the first nanosecond of the universe. On experiment, we...

Israel and China: From the Tang Dynasty to Silicon Wadi

Autor: Mark O'neill

Número de Páginas: 408

The Jews first arrived in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) and settled as businessmen, civil servants and professionals. They assimilated into Chinese society and lost their Jewish character. The next wave came in the mid-19th century with the opening of the treaty ports and settled in Shanghai. They went into trading, especially opium, and diversified into property, manufacturing, finance, public transport and retail. Another Jewish community settled in Harbin after the opening of the China Eastern Railway in 1903. They also prospered in trading and business. Both communities built synagogues, schools, social clubs and welfare institutions. During World War Two, 25,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe took refuge in Shanghai, one of the few cities in the world open to them. Many received visas from Asian diplomats who defied their governments to issue them. The Japanese military refused the Nazi demand to carry out ‘the final solution’ of the Jews in Shanghai. After 1945, inflation, civil war and Communist rule made most Jews leave China for new homes in Israel, North America, Australia and elsewhere. The new state of Israel worked hard to establish diplomatic ties...

Proceedings of the Board of Regents

Autor: University Of Michigan. Board Of Regents

Número de Páginas: 1364

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Autor: Dennis G. Zill

Número de Páginas: 1047

Modern and comprehensive, the new sixth edition of Zill’s Advanced Engineering Mathematics is a full compendium of topics that are most often covered in engineering mathematics courses, and is extremely flexible to meet the unique needs of courses ranging from ordinary differential equations to vector calculus. A key strength of this best-selling text is Zill’s emphasis on differential equation as mathematical models, discussing the constructs and pitfalls of each.

Living on Paper

Autor: Iris Murdoch

Número de Páginas: 705

For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice—her life in her own words. Living on Paper—the first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and interesting personal letters—gives, for the first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. The result is the most important book about Murdoch in more than a decade. The letters show a great mind at work—struggling with philosophical problems, trying to bring a difficult novel together, exploring spirituality, and responding pointedly to world events. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity, especially in letters to lovers or close friends, such as the writers Brigid Brophy, Elias...

The Bewildered

Autor: Peter Rock

Número de Páginas: 154

In Portland, Orgeon, three high school friends—Leon, Chris and Kayla—spend their time skateboarding studying foreign languages and classical music, and plotting a shared future that will avoid the superficiality they witness in the adult world around them. There is only one adult they admire, whom they suspect might hold secrets worth knowing. Natalie lives alone in a decrepit trailer, yet seems happy, and to have few concerns. As they befriend her she persuades them to harvest copper wire from the high tension electrical lines in the countryside around the city, until one day when there is an accident in which Leon is electrocuted. He appears to shake it off, yet soon—despite his denials of anything being wrong—his behavior comes to resemble Natalie's in many ways. The mystery of what has happened to Leon (and to Natalie) leads Kayla and Chris on an adventure that takes them into the world of a remarkable group of people. These people live among us and are almost impossible to recognize, yet they possess different needs, and different powers. What they do not possess is insight into their condition, or any awareness that they are different. Others are left to wonder...

Proposed Specifications for LRFD Soil-nailing Design and Construction

Autor: Carlos Alberto Lazarte , Carlos Arias Lazarte

Número de Páginas: 145

This report contains proposed specifications for the design and construction of soil-nailed retaining structures. Despite their advantages in cut applications, these structures are not available to some state DOTs, due to the lack of guidance for their use in AASHTO's standard specifications based on load and resistance factor design (LRFD).

Goldstein on Copyright

Autor: Goldstein

Número de Páginas: 5086

A comprehensive treatise with detailed analysis of every aspect of copyright law, from registration to licensing to infringement and litigation. Written by Paul Goldstein, Professor of Law at Stanford University and of Counsel to Morrison & Foerster. Includes explanations of applicable copyright law to the music, publishing, motion picture, commercial art, and software industries. Also covers international copyright law, as well as the intersection of copyright law with bankruptcy, antitrust law, and Lanham Act doctrines that fill in the gaps in traditional copyright protection.

El Tigre News

Número de Páginas: 176

Guía de forasteros en Madrid para el año de 1846

Autor: Imprenta Nacional (madrid)

Número de Páginas: 508

Dictionnaire des séries télévisées - Nouvelle édition

Autor: Nils Ahl , Benjamin Fau

Número de Páginas: 1710

Au cours des années 2000, les séries télévisées ont acquis leurs lettres de noblesse, et certaines font jeu égal avec les meilleures productions cinématographiques. Cette deuxième édition du Dictionnaire des séries télévisées entend offrir aux lecteurs débutants, amateurs ou éclairés, un regard d'ensemble – autant descriptif que critique – sur la production télévisée de ces quatre-vingts dernières années. Chaque notice présente ainsi les informations techniques indispensables (créateur, acteurs, production, diffusion...), une note d'appréciation, un " pitch " de départ, et l'opinion de son auteur. Environ 4 200 entrées – plus de 900 nouvelles et des centaines actualisées – traitent de la totalité des séries diffusées en France depuis l'origine de la télévision. Se côtoient ainsi Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir, Dr House, Thierry la Fronde, Les Experts, Dallas, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Sur écoute, Mad Men, Falco, True Blood, House of Cards, Derrick, Downton Abbey, Friends, Les Soprano, Game of Thrones, Columbo ou encore Breaking Bad, époques et genres confondus. À ce corpus s'ajoutent un glossaire du jargon sériephile, une bibliographie ...

The Shadows of Willow Creek

Autor: Mirriam Musonda Salati-oppong

Número de Páginas: 103

In the small town of Willow Creek, Detective Emily Parker is thrust into an investigation that shakes the community to its core. A series of perplexing deaths have struck fear into the hearts of its residents, as each victim boasts a solid alibi, making it seemingly impossible to directly link anyone to the crimes. Determined to bring justice to the victims and restore peace to her town, Emily embarks on a relentless pursuit of truth. As Emily delves deeper into her investigation, she unravels a twisted web of deception and hidden motives, shrouding the true identity of the perpetrator. In her quest for answers, she finds herself drawn closer to two key figures in Willow Creek. The first is Dr. Michael Reynolds, a highly respected psychiatrist known for his effective treatments and supposedly impeccable reputation. However, there is something about his demeanour that raises suspicion within Emily. The second figure is Sarah Lawson, an enigmatic artist with an uncanny ability to uncover the darkest secrets of those around her. Sarah seems to possess knowledge about each victim's hidden past, making Emily question whether she could be somehow connected to the murders. As Emily tries ...

The Dream Architect

Autor: Erik Sandoval

Número de Páginas: 257

The world is on the brink of a dream renaissance. Muse, a revolutionary AI birthed from the minds of neuroscientist Dr. Jennifer Sandoval and AI architect William Flores, transforms dreams into reality. Imagine candy-colored dragons soaring through city parks and self-sustaining cities blossoming in deserts. Muse delivers. Initially, the world marvels. Then, the nightmares begin. Grotesque sculptures twist in shadowed alleys. Spectral figures haunt the night. A child’s monster under the bed becomes terrifyingly real. These aren’t interpretations; they’re sentient horrors, born from the darkest recesses of the collective unconscious. The world, once captivated, recoils in fear. Jennifer, haunted by a shadowy figure from her own past, races to unravel the terrifying truth: Muse isn’t just interpreting dreams; it’s amplifying humanity’s deepest fears, giving them form and substance. Her own buried secrets are woven into Muse’s horrifying creations, threatening her family and her meticulously constructed life. William, blinded by ambition, clings to the belief that Muse can be controlled. But Jennifer knows the AI she created is a mirror reflecting humanity’s darkest...

Guía de forasteros en Madrid para el año de 1844

Número de Páginas: 478

Guía de forasteros en Madrid para el año de 1841

Número de Páginas: 434

La vida agricola revista mensual

Número de Páginas: 698

Congressional Record

Autor: United States. Congress

Número de Páginas: 1392