Shahua is a very magical cat, who can cross time and space, bringing luck and good fortune to those hoomins who deserve it. In Taiwan Mark and Kitty save Shahua from certain death. She/he magically brings good fortune to Kitty and her family of cats. Twenty years later Mark meets Ping, "the cat lady" in Australia. He helps her feed the cats, and coming to know her they fall in love. But Ping thinks she is ugly because of her deformity. Mark helps with Ping's life and together they discover...

The various chapters of this book focus on systemic problems and issues that lay much—but not all—of the ills of EFL teaching/learning and education generally in Taiwan squarely at the door of MoE and the various teaching institutions. Beginning with a brief overview of pre-school education and EFL, Part 1 focuses on direct observations of and reports on numerous actual teaching episodes in schools, from pre-school to University education levels. Five papers form a series of studies employ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Online business ideas are just like any other business idea. Before starting a small business online, you will want to research your market and the competition, create a plan for your online business and determine how much money you can make from it.To get started, first determine what type of online business you would like to create. Do some research on the topic and read about businesses that are similar to yo...

Historical or ancestral research can involve putting flesh on ancient bones of some quirky characters, providing insights into how late colonialists lived through good and hard times of NSW. Take, for example, Anthony Egan and his wife, Ann Ryan, who were originally from the Bathurst/Orange region beginning in 1855, then later moved on to Dubbo and Narromine. Their first son, George A Egan, was born in 1880 in Cudal. Of interest is that one Paddy Egan also was born in 1880 in a place unkno...

What do "foreigners" think of Taiwan ? How long do they stay ? What do they do ? Are Taiwanese really friendly & smart ? Should Taiwan be part of China ?These questions and curiosities are answered in this study, the first of its kind in Taiwan.The government will hate it, you will love it !Find out what these strange "white monkeys" get up to in this Formosa…..I like Taiwan; I am really comfortable here and plan to stay the rest of my life.I have never f...

The National Book Award–winning translation of Valéry’s singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousnessPaul Valéry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is Monsieur Teste. Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valéry’s only novel is a profoundly personal book, a portrait of a character whose mind is shown ...

Why would sovereigns ever grant political or economic liberty to their subjects? Under what conditions would rational rulers who possess ultimate authority and who seek to maximize power and wealth ever give up any of that authority? This book draws on a wide array of empirical and theoretical approaches to answer these questions, investigating both why sovereign powers might liberalize and when.The contributors to this volume argue that liberalization or democrat...

A collection of Valéry writings on politics and international affairsPaul Valéry was deeply interested in politics and actively involved in international affairs as a spokesperson for the League of Nations and as France’s representative to two of the League’s bodies—the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation and the Permanent Committee on Arts and Letters. This volume presents some sixty of Valéry’s essays, addresses, and other writings—spanning from 1895 to 1945—i...

London, 2044. The St. James Park pelicans have gone missing—the day before its rookie, celebrity president unveils the British Republic's new pelican flag. At the same time, British intelligence uncovers coded messages about possible anti-government activity. Who are the bird-nappers and what do they want? And who is behind the secret messages? Agent Howie Pond—license to lunch—reluctantly agrees to try and find out.Howie's fiancée, Britt, has a secret mission of her own— ...

The lives of Cielo, a sex-worker, and Angie, a bureaucrat, briefly but antagonistically intersect in Manila. Several years later Angie seeks the help of Cielo, but neither are aware now of who the other is. They both come to realize that each has barely a foothold in life and that they both want the same things: family, love, respect, dignity. In their respective struggles to attain these, each girl recognizes the other as fundamentally mabait (good at heart). Just as we may judge a book b...

A new virus was sweeping the globe. How far would it challenge or sweep aside the endless diseases of desire, of human yearnings—of love, lust, passion, greed, ambition, selfishness, and calamities of poverty, tempest and soullessness?Mark was soul sick. Once again he was alone, and hence vulnerable. His psyche was howling for a new role in life he could call his own, his soul was screaming to be loved and nurtured. It was at this point that he excavated his own life from the dismal...

This book explores the discourses of bio-medicine (ie. Family Planning), nationalism and citizenship specifically in the Philippines. Little has been researched into how the biomedical discourse has helped constitute the nature of citizenship of the Filipino for the purpose of building a nation-State; that is, who is a "medically" proper and fit person to be a citizen of and to reproduce the nation-State. Prior analyses of FPPs have often focused on their failure in terms of either blind p...