Columbus Day Book Highlights: Celebrating the Italian American Heritage
Columbus Day Cambria Press Book Highlights: Celebrating the Italian American Heritage
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Seeking Bipartisanship by Secretary Ray LaHood Makes Front-Page News
Seeking Bipartisanship, the new book by Secretary Ray LaHood with Frank H. Mackaman of the Dirksen Congressional Center, made front-page news this weekend. An online article is also available. It notes that like Secretary LaHood, the atypical politician: The writing for the book also followed an atypical pattern. LaHood and…
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Baojuan (Precious Scrolls) of China explained by Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University)
What are the baojuan 寶卷 (precious scrolls) of China? Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University) explains: Precious scrolls (baojuan) is the name of a genre of prosimetric texts (texts written in an alternation of prose and verse) on religious subjects and written in vernacular Chinese. The most recent catalogue of…
