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As a daughter of the Gu family, Gu Yun didn't love his father, nor did his mother. She had thought that her life would be passed down in such a mundane manner. Her father would assign her to an ordinary family, and she would be taught a lesson and spend her life in peace. Who would have thought that Imperial Tutor Xiao's playful words would allow Gu Yunchao to be chosen by his gyrfalcon as the Imperial Tutor's wife? After poking a hornet's nest, who didn't know that Grand Tutor Xiao was the lover of Gu Yun's elder sister? Gu Yun had never argued, but he felt that it was unnecessary. However, if he bullied her and tried to steal her man and harm her life, he would never back down or compromise in the slightest!
Moses Maimonides, known by the acronym "Rambam," was unquestionably the foremost intellectual figure of medieval Judaism. Born in Cordova, Spain, forced at an early age to conceal his faith, he emigrated to Morocco and then Palestine before settling in Egypt, where financial necessity compelled him to study medicine and where he eventually became personal physician to Saladin. Although his medical skills were renowned and his writings in this field were widely studied throughout the Western world in the following centuries, Maimonides' primary interest was theology. He devoted ten years to preparing Mishnah Torah and fifteen years to The Guide to the Perplexed - the first written in Hebrew, ...
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This volume contains twenty-one fully illustrated papers by contributors to an international colloquium held in June 2001, jointly organised by the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and the British Museum. It constitutes full publication of an iconic early major masterwork of Chinese figure painting which has been in the British Museum since 1903 but is rarely on display for conservation reasons. The illustrations make use of new high-quality digital photography of every aspect of the world-famous scroll.
This sumptuous book takes as its subject the pair of magnificent picture-scrolls entitled Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Chogonka gakan) held in the Chester Beatty Library's Japanese collection. Created by the Kyoto Kano School master Sansetsu (1590-1651) i
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Building Materials, (3rd CEABM 2013), May 24-26, 2013, Jinan, China