Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage: Hong Kong island and Kowloon

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This companion to Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage: The New Territories takes the armchair traveler on an exploration of Hong Kong Islan and the Kowloon peninsula, where generations of urban Hong Kong culture have been preservedin the religious beliefs, festivals, social customs, and
folk superstitions of its people as well as in its specialist shops, street markets and temples.

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Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195900758

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This is the first practical. portable, and authoritative guide to Hong Kong's cultural heritage that combines walking tours with an informative and accessible introduction to Hong Kong culture. The first half of the book explains the history, culture, beliefs, social customs, and folk
superstitions of the Hong Kong New Territories people, and how these are reflected in their everyday lives. The second half is a guide to touring twelve places of interest in the New Territories and outlying islands.

Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage: The New Territories

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Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage: The New Territories
Patricia Kim
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195928261

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This updated version of the popular Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage takes the armchair traveler on an exploration of Hong Kong's New Territories, where generations of Hong Kong culture have been preserved in the religious beliefs, festivals, social customs, and folk superstitions of
peopleas well as in the architecture of temples and clan halls.

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Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Thomas Wolfe, Czeslaw Milosz, and Henry David Thoreau.

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Kudos.......2007-01-20

What a superb collection! An anthology that can be read and re-read many times without feeling repetition. I feel sorry for anyone wanting to get a hold of it if and when it goes out of print.

From Mid-90's until today these poems create new Images.......2005-10-28

After my years of professional activities were completed, I had never expected to lose memory of these unforgetable unimaginably pure images of "Changing Diapers, (Gary Snyder) or "Sailing to Byzantium" (WB Yeats) or "The United Fruit Co" (Pablo Neruda.)

After contributing my early copy to the Prison Library, I never thought I would need see that familar print again: But...I Did!

Editors, Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade combined a short Introduction, preceeded by these poignant thoughts from William Butler Yeats: "Those masterful images because complete/ Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? ...Old kettles, old bottles... Old iron, old bones, old rags...I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."

If being reminded in twelve selections of William Butler Yeats, added to dozens of Robert Bly, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, E. E.Cummings, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Stanley Kunitz, Dylan Thomas, William Blake, Walt Whitman, 500 pages of familiar and new poems, surely is sufficient then check out groupings under a few orderly headings: "Father's Prayers for Sons and Daughters; WAR; I Know the Earth and I Am Sad; The House of Fathers and Titans; Making A Hole In Denial; Zaniness!" Completely fitting these six most unque titles are combined with ten more, equally imaginative and descriptive!

From the perspective of a Poetry Addict, into being a creator of my own poems, not yet note-worthy, I am back in "Poetry Heaven," with this second memorable discovery of rich word treasures! Sing-cerely from a retired Singer and Chaplain Fred W Hood

Disregard the "canned" editorial on this anthology.......2004-11-13

This is, indeed, a collection of poetry which is multi-dimensional. The "canned" editorial above, from Publisher's Weekly, is a narrow-minded interpretation of the "purpose" of this collection of poetry. Whoever wrote the "canned" editorial has no understanding of men's struggle to redefine their role and character, constructively, to find a place in the twenty first century. Although many of the poems are multi-dimensional, the anthology as a whole, leads a man out of denial, into the heart, into the spirit, and, ultimately into a celebration of masculinity which misandry (hatred of men) has outlawed for almost half a century.

This anthology celebrates a new masculinity. One that is grounded in compassion, awareness, and, ultimately, the most important aspects of our existence as men.

For instance, one of the most important poems in the collection is Goethe's "The Invisible King." Through Goethe's genius we come to understand, as men, that if we deny the murmurs and whispering of our souls, we do so at grave peril to that which is most dear to us.

Buy it if you dare become something more than Madison Avenue made men in the 1980's and 1990's.

Good Medicine for the Male Soul.......2004-03-31

If you loved Iron John, you should read this book. But if you either (1) didn't read Iron John, (2) tried to read but couldn't finish Iron John, or (3) hated Iron John, you should especially read this book. I have to say up front that I don't agree with, or perhaps understand, many aspects and details of the men's movement. I was one person who tried mightily to read and enjoy Iron John, but simply couldn't get all the way through it. Then I found this book, and I have been reading it since. This was 10 years ago. I am exaggerating of course, but only a little. This book is a constant in my reading habits. I refer to it again and again, and have recommended it (and purchased it) for more friends than any other book I know.

Simply, this is a wonderful anthology of poetry, organized thematically, for men. Many of the individual poems are brilliant, and the overall organization is intelligent and, at times, profound. As I have grappled with marriage, fatherhood, aging parents--all the trappings of midlife--this book has been a constant source of wisdom and comfort for me. Do a kind thing for yourself or for a thoughtful man in your life and buy this book.

treasures untold.......2004-02-29

Treasures untold, indeed. This is the finest, most inspiring and least predictable contemporary poetry anthology I have ever come across. It has introduced me (I am British, and certain of the US
poets featured are not so well-known over here) to, among many others, Balaban, Nowlen and the wonderful Robert Haydon - his poem about his father is heartbreaking, a perfect poem.
Bly is a hero. I`ve long loved his poetry and his approach to the art. Here, with his compadres, he has given us a cornucopia of living, fire-breathing verse to live, love and get lost in for ever.
`Volume Two?`

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Exploring the Human Condition with R. Cormier
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Bad Ending
The Power of Suggestion
Forever Changed by Certain Events of Our Lives

The Rag and Bone Shop (Readers Circle)
Robert Cormier
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ASIN: 0440229715
Release Date: 2003-05-13

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This final novel from the grand master of young-adult fiction is one last jewel in the literary crown of Robert Cormier, who died in November 2000. In it he continues to explore the themes that are so characteristic of his work: guilt and forgiveness, misuse of authority, and the corruption of innocence. But a new book from Cormier is always a surprise, and here he gives us a brilliant evocation of the detective story, in a narrative that centers on the interrogation of a murder suspect.

A 7-year-old girl has been battered to death, and there are no suspects, no leads. The police, under political pressure to make an arrest, bring in Trent, a cold, ambitious professional interrogator who prides himself on his ability to extract confessions. His victim is 12-year-old Jason--the last person to see the girl. We know that Jason is innocent, and halfway through the interrogation Trent realizes it, too, in "a blazing moment." But like a medieval torturer, his goal is confession, not truth, and so he stifles his impulses for good and proceeds with the job, with deeply ironic consequences.

The interrogation itself, which forms the centerpiece of the novel, is dazzling in its elegant thrust-and-parry, its subtle twists and turns, as Jason frantically tries to escape, like a mouse caged with a python. The point of view snaps back and forth so that we are intensely aware of the shifting emotions of both participants in the deadly game. And once again, Cormier has given us an ending that seems provocative and uncomfortable--until we remember that the center of his moral universe was always summed up by the words "if only." (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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Twelve-year old Jason is accused of the brutal murder of a young girl. Is he innocent or guilty? The shocked town calls on an interrogator with a stellar reputation: he always gets a confession. The confrontation between Jason and his interrogator forms the chilling climax of this terrifying look at what can happen when the pursuit of justice becomes a personal crusade for victory at any cost.

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Exploring the Human Condition with R. Cormier.......2007-09-03

When seven-year-old Alicia Bartlett is mysteriously murdered, Trent, a relentless ace investigator for the police department, finds himself faced with a difficult and irresistible moral decision. Is it worth the risk to sacrifice truth for the sake of his impeccable reputation? As Trent interviews Jason, a thirteen-year-old friend of the victim and the last person to see her alive, he questions whether or not the innocent, naive boy, too, is expendable. With no clues as to the identity of the murderer, Trent's hard-earned, perfect record of criminal confessions is in danger. But young Jason has even more to lose.

Concisely and subtly, yet effectively and without didacticism, Cormier bravely poses a question facing the human condition: what price would one pay for success, love, and reputation? In this dark novel, the protagonist struggles against himself. The reader is afforded a glimpse of the same "foul rag and bone shop of the heart" of humanity that Trent claims to visit in each criminal he interrogates. The backdrop settings, from the freshness of a sunny and carefree early-summer vacation day, to the sweltering confines of the tortuous interrogation room, are highly effective in reinforcing the chacterization and heightening the tension of the plot. The unexpected denouement is thought-provoking and alarming. This novel may not be for everyone, though. Raw emotional brutality is part of the plot and may be too frank and offensive to some readers.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent.......2007-08-10

Robert Cormier, the Godfather of YA Lit, gave us one last effort with THE RAG AND BONE SHOP, and this troubling, novella-length book aims squarely at a favorite Cormier theme: the misuse and abuse of authority. The intriguing title comes by way of a W.B. Yeats poem with the lines "I must lie down where all the ladders start/In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."

Foul? There's plenty to go around in this economic cautionary tale (like a short story, it can be read in one sitting). First there's an opening scene with a man named Trent -- a Vermont detective -- extracting a confession from a 17-year-old murderer. In fact, Trent has developed quite the reputation for using psychology to coax confessions from killers. Cormier uses this brief opening scene to show the master at work.

Meanwhile, in familiar Monument, Massachusetts -- home to many Cormier books -- 7-year-old Alicia Bartlett has been murdered. The last person to see her alive was our 12-year-old protagonist, Jason Dorrant. An average kid who has some difficulty making friends, Jason gets along better with younger kids than kids his own age. Little did he realize how risky this odd fact might become. The wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time, young Jason will become the focal point of a witch hunt to find the killer -- fast. Detective Trent is called in to accomplish just that, and then the fun begins.

The book's strength lies in the interrogation techniques used by Trent on Jason. The back-and-forth is riveting and deeply disturbing. If you ever wondered if America was truly the land of "guilty until proven innocent" instead of "innocent until proven guilty"; if you ever wondered if innocent people ever went to the gas chambers or to lethal injection due to rushes to judgment by the police; if you ever wondered if the power of the word and the net of the law could easily entrap -- then this detective vs. suspect stretch of the book is for you and will not disappoint.

What does disappoint is the ending. It comes out of nowhere. As a reader, I have no problem with surprise endings, but they have to be realistic and this one is not. At all. And even if I allowed that the ending WAS possible, it would never occur as quickly in time as this one seems to.

Despite that, I round up a 3.5 rating and give Cormier the lifetime achievement benefit of the doubt here. Not anywhere near the equal to I AM THE CHEESE or THE CHOCOLATE WAR, THE RAG AND BONE SHOP will nevertheless provide a diverting hour or two some lazy afternoon. It's food for thought, this book. Just pass on the dessert (the ending).

Bad Ending.......2007-06-19

When I saw this book, I was very interested in reading it. The plot sounded interesting and I couldn't wait to see the outcome. Jason is a 12 year old boy who is accused of murdering Alicia, the 7 year old sister of one of Jason's "friends". Trent is the interrogator hired to interrogate Jason and make him confess murdering Alicia. I read this book in one day for the same reason I decided to read the book: to see the outcome. It wasn't the most exciting book to read and I found myself confused during Trent and Jason's conversations, but overall it was okay. When I got to the ending, I have to say I hated it. I absolutely hated it. I won't say any more, but this book is not one I would read again. However, I do think it is a worthwhile read for people over 13 due to most of the context within the book. This book is gory at times and for mature readers. Overall, The Rag and Bone Shop was an okay read, but definitely not one of my favorites.

The Power of Suggestion.......2007-02-18

A little girl, seven years old, has been murdered. She is found out in the woods with a wound on the side of her head that looks like it was made by a rock. The last person to see her was a twelve-year-old neighbor, Jason. Jason liked the little girl and often stopped by her home to talk and to watch her put together jigsaw puzzles. Jason is very upset when she dies.

Little does Jason know that he is the chief suspect in this murder. A superstar investigator named Trent, famous for getting people to admit their guilt, has been called in to talk to Jason and get him to confess to this murder. Trent and Jason are together alone in a small room at the police station. Will Jason confess? Did he commit this murder after all?

Robert Cormier writes very vivid characters, who each have flaws as well as their strengths. I liked the psychological question that this story raises about children and the power of suggestion.

Forever Changed by Certain Events of Our Lives.......2007-02-14

The last of Robert Cormier's 16 novels, THE RAG AND BONE SHOP is a chilling conclusion to this writer's fabulous career and life (January 17, 1925 - November 2, 2000). I can't say I've ever finished a book and felt the way I did after this one. Far from a happy ending, it'll have you thinking for hours.

"I must lie down where all the ladders start / In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart." ~ William Butler Yeats

The district has called in expert interrogator Trent for a special case. The whole town of Monument is riled up and wants a confession. They need a perp to make themselves feel better. Seven-year-old Alicia Bartlett's body is found in the trees a short ways off the path with no physical evidence. All they have to go on is the last person to see her alive, twelve-year-old Jason Dorrant.

Jason has a short history of violence, but if someone were to ask him about it, he would say that punching Bobo Kelton was necessary. After all, he'd touched little Alicia inappropriately, and no one had done anything about it, not even Alicia. Alicia intrigues Jason. She's honest, smart, expert at puzzles, and befriends him when the rest of the world doesn't.

The trouble is that Alicia's dead now. Trent needs a confession to move further up the ranks. Jason's trapped without an alibi. And the town wants blood. The tale Cormier weaves from this situation amounts to a social statement, or question, about the roles adults have in the formation of young lives. Are we innately good, or evil? Or perhaps we are forever changed by certain events of our lives, ones we'll never be able to forget, ones we'll eventually have to act on before our minds take over.

-- Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens

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An excellent work.
The Inimitable Dickens

The Rag and Bone Shop
Jeff Rackham
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: 0142002259

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At the height of his career, Charles Dickens's every move, appearance, and public utterance was pored over in the pubs and the press. His private life held, however, one enormous secret: his thirteen-year affair with Ellen Ternan, a childlike actress from a family of traveling players. Told in the alternating voices of Dickens's sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth; his friend, mystery writer Wilkie Collins; and Ellen Ternan herself, The Rag and Bone Shop reveals the warring demands of public propriety and private libertinism. Devotees of Dickens, Collins, and great historical fiction will be ensnared by this suspenseful and bewitching tale.

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An engrossing first novel of the long-secret private life of Charles Dickens.

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Better Books Available.......2007-03-04

For lovers of Dickens and those who wish to know more about the alleged affair between Ellen Ternan and Charles Dickens, you will fair far better bypassing Rackham's, The Rag and Bone Shop and sticking with non-fiction. I have given this work one star because anything less is unavailable but to be frank, the book is absolutely terrible. Telling a single story from three differing points of view works well for William Faulkner but not for Rackham as all three voices sound very male and very much the same. The book contains very explicit and bizarre sexual situations and if you have any respect for Dickens at all, you'll feel like you need a shower afterwards. Furthermore, even as a "novel," the historicity and credibility of these events is highly suspect. Skip it.

Bah Humbug.......2005-05-22

I couldn't finish this book and regret reading as much as I did. Vulgar, name dropping, coat-tail riding, rewriting someone else's story with inserted titallating bits. I gather there's no law against slandering people who lived 100 years ago, but this book makes you feel that there should. The publishers, though they plastered Charles Dickens name on the cover, wrote a disclaimer on the inside that this is fiction and any resemblance to real persons is just coincidence. Yea Right. If you want to read about Dickens' secret life, you'd be far better to read Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin.

An excellent work........2005-01-10

I hate Dickens, and hated having to suffer through Great Expectations in high school, but after reading this book, I'm considering giving it a second go. Rackham may or may not have done research (I'm not one to judge) but what he has done is create a compelling story with compelling characters. His point of view and distinct voices are excellent, certainly the best I've seen in a long time.
There are some gruesome and dispiriting scenes. This is a book for those who want excellent writing, not for those who want cheerful resolutions and happy endings.

The Inimitable Dickens.......2003-02-10

With chapters written in the varying voices of Wilkie Collins (friend to Dickens and author of novels of such novels as `The Woman in White'), Georgina Hogarth (the sister of Dickens' wife, Catherine), and Ellen Ternan (the young actress/mistress to Dickens), Rackham gives the reader creative perspective into the life of the `inimitable' author. There is much to speculate because Dickens, in true Victorian fashion, did everything in his power to keep his public from finding out about his private life. He went so far as to have seasonal bonfires, his children assisted him, tossing into them all of his paperwork and letters. In fact, after his death, the only link to his private comings and goings were coded messages in a day journal.

This book covers the last phase of Dickens' life: his separation/dissolution of marriage with Catherine Hogarth, his final trip to America (which made him a lot of money - more than 15,000 pounds), and work on novels like `Great Expectations', `Our Mutual Friend', and `Edwin Drood'. What Rackham tries to explore through his narrative characters is what Dickens, the man, was really like. There were social and familial pressures that tied the author down. He made a lot of money throughout his career, but wasn't to able to enjoy the fruits of his labors; his sons were a disappointment to him, his celebrity was often a too heavy responsibility, and his marriage was dragged through tabloidal mud - surprisingly, via his own pen.

It isn't even known - just assumed - if his relationship with the young Ternan was consummated. They met on the stage... [Dickens took great interest in the stage - often working side by side with actors on productions. His dramatic readings of novel excerpts oftentimes garnered more pay than publications. It is said that his final emphatic reading from `Oliver Twist' (the scene where Nancy is murdered) led to his death.] Rackham does a wondrous job filling in the tenderest gaps.

`Rag and Bone' is an eye-opener. Read it along with a good biography - try `The Friendly Dickens' (an enjoyable read) or Angus Wilson's `Life of Charles Dickens.'
And, of course, read Dickens. His body of work is a real treasure - don't just skim either. `Great Expectations', `Copperfield', and `Christmas Carol' are fabulous, but you get the best sense of his comic genius and characterization in `Pickwick', `Nicholas Nickleby', `Dombey & Son'...

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The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop
Louis Daniel Brodsky
Manufacturer: Time Being Books
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 1568090277

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The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop is a volume of twenty-nine poems written over a five-year span by Louis Daniel Brodsky. The book, conceived in 1967 but expanded in 1969, is the only complete poetry manuscript that the author produced from mid-1967 to August 1971, and its highly symbolic, imagistic pieces reflect his artistic development during that time, including influences from the social and political climates he observed on the East and West Coasts as well as in the Midwest.

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Rag & bone shop
Earle Birney
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The Rag and Bone Shop
Robert Cormier
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The Rag and Bone Shop

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Three Early Books of Poems by Louis Daniel Brodsky, 1967-1969 : The Easy Philosopher, ' A Hard Coming of It' and Other Poems and the Foul Rag-And-Bone Shop

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Three Early Books of Poems by Louis Daniel Brodsky, 1967-1969 : The Easy Philosopher, ' A Hard Coming of It' and Other Poems and the Foul Rag-And-Bone Shop
Louis Daniel Brodsky
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The Last Cormier.(Robert Cormier's "The Rag and Bone Shop")(Critical Essay): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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The Last Cormier.(Robert Cormier's "The Rag and Bone Shop")(Critical Essay): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Patty Campbell
Manufacturer: Horn Book, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1728 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Last Cormier.(Robert Cormier's "The Rag and Bone Shop")(Critical Essay)
Author: Patty Campbell
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 77 Issue: 5 Page: 623

Article Type: Critical Essay

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George Bowering
Manufacturer: Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia
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