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DAEHAENG SEON MASTER
A Thousand Hands of Compassion [Text] : The Chant of Korean Spirituality and Enlightenment / S. M. Daehaeng ; [Korean translation by S. M. Daehaeng ; English translation by Hanmaum International Culture Institute ; illustrations by H. Rim]. – Second edition .. – Korea : Hanmaum Seonwon Foundation, 2009. - 123, [3] p., ill.; - Text in Korean and English . . – [n. c.] – 978-89-91857-13-1 (hardcover) : 30 tg.
UDC:
24(519.5)
Shelf code:
Л 2010/30154
Subject headings
- Buddhism in Korea
Annotation
The book "A Thousand Hands of Compassion" unites all the main aspects of Korean Buddhist thought. Master Seon Dehan Avalokiteshvar leads to the idea that the Bodhisattva of Compassion does not exist separately from our inner nature of the Buddha, and the thousands of hands of Avalokiteshvara are a manifestation of the enlightened compassion inherent in all of us
Keywords
buddhist temples in Korea, buddhist philosophy, buddhist traditions in Korea, Korea
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LASKY, KATHRYN
A Journey to the New World : The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple / Lasky, Kathryn ... – USA : Scholastic Inc., 1996. - 173 p., ill., maps;– (Dear America. . . – 0-590-50214-X : 450 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/33145
Subject headings
- Fiction of America. Prose
Annotation
A Pilgrim girl makes the dangerous journey on the Mayflower to a new world filled with promise and unexpected hardships
Keywords
piligrims, juvenile fiction, voyages, diaries, travel-fiction, fiction, english fiction, prose, english prose
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ROTH, PHILIP
American Pastoral / Roth, Philip ... – USA : Vintage Books, 1997. - 423 p.– (National Bestseller. . . – 978-0-375-70142-9 : 400 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35269
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century`s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father`s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him
Keywords
american bestseller, bestseller, novels
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CARROLL, LEWIS
Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There / Carroll, Lewis ... – USA : Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. - 286 p.– (Barnes and Noble Classics. . . – 978-1-59308-015-0, 1-59308-015-8 : 500 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35273
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Alice begins ger adventures when she follows the frantically late White Rabbit down a hole into the magical world of Wonderland
Keywords
novels, stories, american fiction, fiction
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IVES, DAVID
All in the Timing : Fourteen plays / Ives, David ... – New York : A Vintage Original, 1994. - 313 p.– (Vintage books. . . – 978-0-679-75928-7 : 300 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34136
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud"
Keywords
novels, stories, plays in english
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D`AGNESE, JOSEPH
American History Comic Books / D`Agnese, Joseph Silbert, Jack ... – U.S.A. : Scholastic Inc., 2005. - 64 p., ill.; . . – 0-439-46605-9 : 220 tg.
UDC:
821.111
Shelf code:
У 2012/6536
Subject headings
- Английская литература
Annotation
In this collection of engaging and entertaining mini-comic books, students share in the adventures of time traveler Scooter McGinty as he celebrates Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, rides through Lexington with Paul Revere, joins Lewis & Clark`s Corps of Discovery, supports women`s rights, and more. Includes background notes and teaching ideas
Keywords
american history, comics, comic book
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GREGORY, KRISTIANA
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie / Gregory, Kristiana ... – New York : Scholastic Inc., 1997. - 164 p., photos;– (Dear America. . . – 0-540-22651-7 : 250 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34207
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
The book narrates a story of people who immigrated to New World. The story is based on a diary of a young girl. Good supplement material for country-study classes
Keywords
fiction, american fiction, juvenile literature, stories, novels
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ELLIOT, GEORGE
Elliot, George
Middlemarch
The book portrays life in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830–32. The main hero is Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic woman
UDC:
821.111-3
Shelf code:
Г 2006/1007
Subject headings
- English fiction. Prose
Annotation
The book portrays life in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830–32. The main hero is Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic woman
Keywords
novel, fiction story, comedy
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BINCHY, MAEVE
And All for Love ... / Binchy, Maeve ... – New York : Oxford Uiversity Press, 2001. - 142 p. . . – 0-19-422816-9 : 700 tg.
UDC:
821.111
Shelf code:
Л 2006/3899
Subject headings
- English fiction
Annotation
These schort stories are about Love. And at the end of these stories we might be no nearer knowing what love is
Keywords
love stories, literary texts, meaning, pedagogic purposes
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BRADBURY, RAY
A Window on the universe / Bradbury, Ray ... – New York : Oxford Press University, 1995. - 160 p.– (Oxford Bookworms Collection. . . – 0-19-422694-8 : 700 tg.
UDC:
821.111
Shelf code:
Л 2006/3916
Subject headings
- English Fiction
Annotation
Tales of wonder are as old as the hills. These stories send us travelling through time and space, confronting us with new dangers, new dilemmas
Keywords
science-fiction, stories, fantastic, humorous
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CARROLL, LEWIS
ALICE`S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE (2004)
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GREGORY, KRISTIANA
ACROSS THE WIDE AND LONESOME PRAIRIE (1997)
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