The Magic Thread

This collection includes, 'The Cat-hood of Maurice', 'The Mixed Mine', 'Accidental Magic', 'The P...

《Lily 與魔法之門》（Lily and the Magic Door）是一部充滿想像力與溫暖寓意的兒童英文繪本。故事中的小女孩 Lily 非常喜歡照顧她的小花園。有一天，她發現一顆閃閃發光的...

《Carrot Magic》是一則關於兔子創意與分享的故事。牠厭倦生胡蘿蔔，嘗試各種方法，最後找到烹煮的妙招，並邀請朋友一起享受美味。Carrot Magic is a charming tal...

The four children acquired the magic carpet when they found a special fire egg -- it hatched in t...

A house full of books is one that’s bursting with the magic of stories. Even when away from...

Taking The 70’s Biweekly—an independent youth publication in the 1970s Hong Kong—as the main thread, this edited volume investigates an unexplored trajectory of Hong Kong’s cultural and art production in the 1970s that represents the making of a dissent space by independent press and activist groups in the city. The 70’s Biweekly stands out from many other independent magazines with its unique blending of radical political theories, social activism, avant-garde art, and local art and literature creations. By taking the magazine as a nodal point of social and cultural activism from and around which actions, debates, community, and artistic practices are formed and generated, this book fills gaps in studies on how young Hong Kong cultural producers carved out an alternative creative and political space to speak against established authorities. Split into three parts, this book provides readers with a panoramic view of the political and cultural activisms in Hong Kong during the 1970s,

This is a novel, not a text book, although the reader may like to use some of the content of this book for German language teaching or learning. This is a novel that is intended to serve a dual purpose: For reading pleasure and for picking up and/or boosting one’s existing knowledge of German. The book should be read chapter by chapter, starting from Part I all the way to the end of Part II, as the story and the progression of the language instruction and discussion follow a linear thread. As far as the story goes, the reader will find the two main characters, William and Becky from Hong Kong, both college students who have just completed their first year of a degree programme and are now on exchange to University of Freiburg in Germany for a semester – August to December, which eventually turns out to be a bit longer, extending to end of February. This is part of an internationalization programme that they are going through and capitalizing on. On arrival in Germany their first stop

A Japanese magic-lantern show is essentially dramatic. It is a play of which the dialogue is utte...

'One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, at p. 77, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I...

An invisible princess, a magic ring, and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Ge...

The fourth book in Baum's Oz series, Dorothy returns to lands of magic and fantasy with her cousi...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an enormously popular and widely known childhood fantasy of all time. The author tells the story of Alice, a little girl finding herself in Wonderland after falling through a rabbit hole. After tasting some magic cake and drink, she experiences changes in body sizes, which allows her to explore Wonderland and meet various kinds of talking animals and other amazing characters. Are these adventures nothing more than a bizarre dream? Or do they really happen? Let’s get into Wonderland with Alice and find out more!

《The Tales of Mother Goose》起源於歐洲各地的童話故事，由17世紀的法國作家Charles Perrault集結並加以改編出版，直到18世紀由Charles Welsh譯成英文，譯筆簡明流暢，活潑生動，全書並佐以優雅的插畫，適合作為中級閱讀教材及課外讀物。書中收錄了8篇名聞遐邇的經典童話故事，如〈灰姑娘〉(Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper)、〈睡美人〉(The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)、〈穿靴子的貓〉(The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots)、〈藍鬍子〉(Blue Beard)、〈小紅帽〉(Little Red Riding-hood)等等。 Visits these eight classic tales written in the language of days gone by. A language that weaves a romantic web using the magic of fairy spells and curses, the tricks of wily wolves and ogres, and the bravery of heroes and heroines.

“…free my life with words that I felt , /not with words because they rhymed, /but because they touched my soul…” Indeed, Julia only writes what touched her soul, and in so doing takes us with her on a literary journey filled with her thoughts, visons, dreams, joys, and at times, her sorrows. Dr. Chiu Ha Ying Medical Practitioner and Paediatrician With obvious joy and mischief, she picks up each ‘stone’, lovingly and painstakingly cuts, chisels and polishes, bringing out the facets and the sparkles, turns us to the light, revealing all the radiance in a spectrum and multitude of shades and colours. Sharon Evans Partner, Foo and Li, Solicitors and Notaries Like the best portrait artists, Julia has the amazing ability to convey the essence of a person in a few brush strokes and to bring them to life. Barbara Meynert Business and thought leader …the way she “sees beauty in her eyes, hears music in her ears, says words of love from her lips...” makes this world a better place for thos

Where do all the missing socks go? This gentle mystery follows a child wondering about disappeari...

Grandma, Auntie, mommy always call the Goblin when Patty is up tosome mischief. But what does the...

《穿越裂隙的旅程》（Journey Through the Rift）是一部充滿想像力與科學探索精神的科幻冒險小說。在浩瀚宇宙中，一道被稱為 「The Veil」 的神秘裂隙出現在星空之中，看起...

Noel Croucher was a legend in his own time – a raconteur, yet a recluse, conventional yet eccentric, extremely rich yet mean to himself. And all the while, he had a secret penchant for philanthropy. From simple beginnings in England, he arrived in Hong Kong at the turn of the century to live through eight decades of change on the China Coast. Mystery surrounded Noel Croucher. Seen as tightfisted by some yet loved by others, he endowed Hong Kong with its richest academic charity in the Croucher Foundation. He became Commodore of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and Chairman of the Stock Exchange. To many, he was a throwback to the glory days of empire. Yet he battled prejudice to get ahead in the colony. That era has now passed. This fresh look at the lives lived on the Coast – through Noel Croucher’s life story – brings out the realities of those times. Hundreds of interviews, thousands of letters and extensive research in Britain and Hong Kong, together with access to the unique Carl

The Sublime Object of Orientalism proposes that globalised Asian physical cultural practices such as taiji, qigong, yoga, and meditation can be understood by examining the intimate connection between Western orientalism and the Romantic aesthetic notion of the sublime. The book recasts ‘orientalist physical culture’ as practices animated by the sublime and argues that this relationship is stronger than has hitherto been recognised by commentators. Bowman combines new readings of philosophers and cultural critics such as Slavoj Žižek and Jane Iwamura with analyses of film, media, and Asian physical practices and their entrepreneurial forms to shed light on the quest to articulate a philosophy of orientalist physical culture. He also explores ways to make sense of orientalist physical culture in the contemporary world and evaluate the often-problematic ideologies that circulate around these cultural practices without either uncritically accepting their value or rejecting them outright.

本期內容簡介封面人物：桂綸鎂 – THE ICON ISSUE封面人物：安藤櫻 – THE ICON ISSUE 封面故事：桂綸鎂 – 暫停的勇氣 封面故...

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The Sublime Object of Orientalism:Asian Physical Culture in the West (東方主義的崇高客體:亞洲體育文化在西方)

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The Power of Wind introduces young readers to the energy of moving air. Children learn how wind c...

“Taking up the many loose threads of people’s memories, the author weaves them into ...

Zakhuma, a forest ranger and wildlife photographer, protects the animals and forests he loves. As...

The Woman Who Read Rocks tells the inspiring true story of Sudipta Sengupta, a geologist who expl...

The Cuckoo Who Couldn't Sing tells the story of a little cuckoo who tries to sing through the...

Ken is pulled underwater by a giant water snake and discovers a hidden world beneath the river. W...

Two siblings living in a home shadowed by fear learn that silence protects the wrong person. With...

～讓行星來引導你，信任身體的內在智慧～ ★中文版由女巫阿娥審定 【本書特色】 ◎從星盤、元素深入瞭解個人的先天體質，讀懂身體本性的使用說明書。 ◎從宮位判讀身體全貌、日常體質、慢性體質、隱藏體質，啟動掃描雷達。 ◎運用行星的行運整合能量，規劃符合時節的自我照護、飲食計畫。 【專業推薦】 ◎文筆優秀、圖解精美、技術紮實，《身體占星學》是送予占星社群的真正禮物。克萊兒協助我們釐清行星與食物之間的複雜關聯，並提供令人感到安心的建議來強化或緩解個人的星象配置。身為常把自己搞到累死的牡羊太陽，外加一顆腦霧的雙魚水星，我一定會把克萊兒的補救建議緊記在心！ ──Madeline DeCotes，Honeycomb Collective的創始者之一 ◎我們的身體是複雜的系統，諸星亦是如此。在這本大眾亟需的星象營養及健身指南當中，克萊兒提供全面且引人入勝的醫療占星學方法，無論讀者是占星的門外漢還是通曉此道者均能運用。她摒棄健身的流行及飲食的文化，轉而採取根植於防護及賦能的整體模式。《身體占星學》是包容性頗高的工具，它超越過度簡化的太陽星座占星學，並反映出我們的健康與身體真正具有的複雜性。我可以預見自己在未來幾年都會經常參考這本書，不論是在個人還是在工作上都是如此。 ──Kyle Jean Rhodes，東方醫學博士（DSOM）、持照針灸師（LAc） ◎總算來了！！！這是以占星學為中心的傑出作品，教你如何在身、心、靈層面妥善照顧自己的健康。 ──Renee Hubka，自然醫學醫師（ND）、持照針灸師（LAc） ◎看到克萊兒從她所擁有的龐大智慧當中摘取些許來出版這本書，讓我十分驚喜。她那歷經數十年的研究、個人經驗，還有相當接地氣的宇宙智慧，終於凝聚成垂手可得的幾張書頁，也是人們長久以來想在醫療占星領域看到的著作。這本書不但立論新鮮，且易於消化、容易實用，為每個人提供開啟各自的健康與活力的鑰匙。這真是一份了不起的知識禮物──我很高興看見這項知識已向大家開放，就連我自己都因此更加瞭解自己在能量、運動、活力、健康與療癒方面的起伏變化過程，這是過往大家都無法覺察到的部分。真是感謝你，克萊兒。 ──Kerry Kershaw，「The Magic of I.」占星規劃手冊（Astrological Planner）創作者 你的身體獨一無二，而你可以透過自己的星象組合來瞭解它的運作方

In this book, I trace the winding paths of my life: the fragile beginnings of childhood, the shaping of character and personality, the search for health and wholeness, the awakening of faith, the long seasons of formation, the call to consecrated life and priesthood, and the outward journeys of mission and ministry. Alongside the joys, I speak also of the shadows—the doubts and struggles, the inner conflicts and external storms that tested my roots. I share how I learned to make peace with what I could not change, and to integrate what once felt broken into something whole. Woven through these stories are the theoretical voices of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, theology, missiology and spirituality—threads of wisdom that helped me make sense of my experience, and that my experience, in turn, has made more real and whole. The narrative takes root in a landscape of critical reflection and scholarly inquiry, making the personal and the academic converse with each other—experience b

“In order to afford their readers optimal access to a text that has been poorly understood and unfairly denigrated over the years, in addition to their definitive English translation and their critical Chinese text, Ian Johnston and Wang Ping have provided us with the broadest interpretative context imaginable.” —ROGER T. AMES Peking University The Liezi is a work attributed to the Daoist Lie Yukou, who, according to the traditional account, lived during the later part of the fifth and first part of the fourth centuries BCE. This places him between the first wave of philosophers of the pre-Han “Hundred Schools” (notably Lao Zi, Confucius, Mo Di, and Deng Xi) and the second wave, from mid-fourth to the end of the third centuries BCE. Thus, he may be said to have responded to the former and prefigured the latter. The Liezi we have today is the recension by the Xuanxue (Dark Learning, third to fifth centuries CE) scholar Zhang Zhan and is accompanied by Zhang’s commentary, which is a ph

Travelogue of the Steppe Silk Road through China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and more, presenting the author’s modern-day experiences alongside ancient history.

◎This book is the first to explain the core principles and training methods of Guangzhou Wing Chun ◎From knowing nothing about Wing Chun to fully mastering the Wooden Dummy training movements and application techniques of Wing Chun. ◎This book serves as the teaching material for the Guangzhou Wing Chun Martial Arts Association, covering 51 core topics, 133 Wooden Dummy techniques, and 16 group movements. ➤ The Wooden Dummy is not just a tool; it is a reflection of the core philosophy and techniques of Wing Chun, as well as a testament to the bond of master and disciple. This book, for the first time in a comprehensive and systematic manner, uses the Wooden Dummy to delve deeply into the core principles and training methods of Guangzhou Wing Chun. Even if you are a beginner with no prior experience in Wing Chun, you will find guidance and confidence here to begin your journey. ➤ Guangzhou Wing Chun primarily consists of two major lineages: the Yuen Kay Shan lineage and the Sum Nung l

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