Into The Silk
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Into The Silk
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Author : Ian Mackersey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Into The Silk written by Ian Mackersey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Silk
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Author : Alessandro Baricco
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2006-07-09
Silk written by Alessandro Baricco and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-09 with Fiction categories.
In 1861 French silkworm merchant Hervé Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei’s beautiful concubine – but they cannot touch; they don’t even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But the moment he does, Joncour is enslaved. Subtle, tender and surprising, Silk is an evocative tale of erotic possession.
Slip Into Silk
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Author : Cherrilyn Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Slip Into Silk written by Cherrilyn Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Into The Silk
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Author : Ian Mackersey
language : en
Publisher: Mayflower Books
Release Date : 1978
Into The Silk written by Ian Mackersey and has been published by Mayflower Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Girl Who Wrote In Silk
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Author : Kelli Estes
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2015-07-07
The Girl Who Wrote In Silk written by Kelli Estes and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Fiction categories.
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A powerful debut that proves the threads that interweave our lives can withstand time and any tide, and bind our hearts forever."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of Belleweather and The Vanished Days A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing, highlighting the power of our own stories. The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets... While exploring her aunt's island estate, Inara Erickson is captivated by an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. The truth behind the silk sleeve dated back to 1886, when Mei Lien, the lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese in Seattle found refuge on Orcas Island and shared her tragic experience by embroidering it. As Inara peels back layer upon layer of the centuries of secrets the sleeve holds, her life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core—and force her to make an impossible choice. Should she bring shame to her family and risk everything by telling the truth, or tell no one and dishonor Mei Lien's memory? A touching and tender book for fans of Marie Benedict, Susanna Kearsley, and Duncan Jepson, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk is a dual-time period novel that explores how a delicate piece of silk interweaves the past and the present, reminding us that today's actions have far reaching implications. Praise for The Girl Who Wrote in Silk: "A beautiful, elegiac novel, as finely and delicately woven as the title suggests. Kelli Estes spins a spellbinding tale that illuminates the past in all its brutality and beauty, and the humanity that binds us all together." —Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper's Ball "A touching and tender story about discovering the past to bring peace to the present." —Duncan Jepson, author of All the Flowers in Shanghai "Vibrant and tragic, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk explores a horrific, little-known era in our nation's history. Estes sensitively alternates between Mei Lien, a young Chinese-American girl who lived in the late 1800s, and Inara, a modern recent college grad who sets Mei Lien's story free." —Margaret Dilloway, author of How to Be an American Housewife and Sisters of Heart and Snow
Shadowed In Silk
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Author : Christine Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: Whitefire Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Shadowed In Silk written by Christine Lindsay and has been published by Whitefire Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Fiction categories.
She was invisible to those who should have loved her. After the Great War, Abby Fraser returns to India, where her husband is stationed with the British army. She has longed to go home to the land of glittering palaces and veiled women . . . but Nick has become a cruel stranger and a cruel father to their three-year old son. It will take more than her American pluck to survive. Major Geoff Richards, broken over the loss of so many of his men in the trenches of France, returns to his cavalry post in Amritsar. His faith does little to help him understand the ruthlessness of his British peers toward the Indian people he loves. Nor does it explain how he is to protect Abby Fraser and her child from the husband who mistreats them. Amid political unrest, inhospitable deserts, and Russian spies, tensions rise in India as the people cry for the freedom espoused by Gandhi. Caught between their own ideals and duty, Geoff and Abby stumble into sinister secrets . . . secrets that will thrust them out of the shadows and straight into the fire of revolution.
Blood And Silk
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Author : Michael Vatikiotis
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-06-08
Blood And Silk written by Michael Vatikiotis and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-08 with History categories.
Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia, and China's growing influence, affect the region and the rest of the world? Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate peace, and understand the reasons behind endemic violence.
The Electronic Silk Road
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Author : Anupam Chander
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-16
The Electronic Silk Road written by Anupam Chander and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with Computers categories.
DIVDIVFrom China to Facebookistan, the Internet has transformed global commerce. A cyber-law expert argues that we must free Internet trade while simultaneously protecting consumers./div/div
Singapore And The Silk Road Of The Sea 1300 1800
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Author : John N. Miksic
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2013-09-30
Singapore And The Silk Road Of The Sea 1300 1800 written by John N. Miksic and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with History categories.
Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years of archaeological research to reconstruct the 14th-century port of Singapore in greater detail than is possible for any other early Southeast Asian city. The picture that emerges is of a port where people processed raw materials, used money, and had specialized occupations. Within its defensive wall, the city was well organized and prosperous, with a cosmopolitan population that included residents from China, other parts of Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Fully illustrated, with more than 300 maps and colour photos, Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea presents Singapore's history in the context of Asia's long-distance maritime trade in the years between 1300 and 1800: it amounts to a dramatic new understanding of Singapore's pre-colonial past.
Silk
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Author : Aarathi Prasad
language : en
Publisher: William Collins
Release Date : 2024-07-04
Silk written by Aarathi Prasad and has been published by William Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-04 with Business & Economics categories.
There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. For silk, prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has inspired - from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts to holograms - continue to be developed in laboratories around the world, they are now also beginning to offer a desperately needed, sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet. Prasad's Silk is a cultural and biological history from the origins and ancient routes of silk to the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals, manipulating the habitats and physiologies of moths, spiders and molluscs. Because there is more than one silk, there is more than one story of silk. More than one road, more than one people who discovered it, and wove its threads. From the moths of China, Indonesia and India to the spiders of South America and Madagascar, to the silk-producing molluscs of the Mediterranean, Silk is a book rich in the passionate connections made by women and men of science to the diversity of the animal world. It is an intoxicating mix of biography, intellectual history and science writing that brings to life the human obsession with silk.