A new approach to the teaching of Mandarin Chinese, this course concentrates on the essentials needed for everyday situations while travelling in China, and provides a basis for further study. Based on authentic recordings made on location in Beijing, it exposes the learner to the genuine sound of the language, supported by carefully explained notes and scripted studio recordings with many practice activities. Unlike other Mandarin Chinese courses it focuses heavily on listening and speaking skills, backed up by simple, clear but short grammar explanations and exercises. One page in each of the 15 units is devoted to providing background detail about China and the Chinese. Pinyin is used throughout rather than the Chinese characters. This course is intended for individuals for self-study, and as a Further Education, Adult Education and Higher education adoptable text.

Breakthrough Chinese Mandarin

Brian Hill

Catherine

Mao Yan

Henian Meek

E. Henian

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Sun Kissed

ANDERSON

Jove Book

Close Up And Personal

Deneuve

Orion Publishing Group

65 Pickles Chutneys Relishes

Selectabook Ltd.

The Letters of Catherine of Siena Volume II (Letters of St Catherine of Siena) (Volume 203)

Noffke, Suzanne

Religion & Spirituality

ACMRS Press

Of all of history's great romances, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Their turbulent and complicated relationship shocked their contemporaries and continues to intrigue observers of Russia centuries later. Lovers, companions, and, most likely, husband and wife, Catherine and Potemkin were also close political partners, and for a time Potemkin served as Catherine's de facto co-ruler of the Russian Empire. Their letters offer an intimate glimpse into the lovers' unguarded moments, revealing both ecstatic expressions of love and candid insights on eighteenth-century politics. In February 1774, the Russian empress took Grigory Potemkin for her lover and, it is now believed, secretly married him a few months later. Particularly in the first two years of their relationship, Catherine was consumed by her passion for Potemkin. The hundreds of letters and notes she dashed off to him between assignations in the Winter Palace during this time attest to the giddy exuberance of the new love that so fully embraced her. Love and Conquest contains the most historically significant and personally revealing of these letters, only a few of which have ever before been translated into English. Beginning with Potemkin's letter to Catherine written while off fighting the Turks in 1769 and concluding with his farewell note scribbled the day before his death in 1791, the correspondence spans most of Catherine's reign. The letters are at once personal and political, private and public. Many of Catherine's love letters to Potemkin written during their stormy affair reveal the empress's passionate personality. Potemkin's letters provide rare insight into his arrogant and mercurial character, while serving to dispel the myth of Potemkin as little more than a corrupt sycophant. Love and Conquest reveals the complexity of Catherine and Potemkin's personal relationship in light of dramatic changes in matters of state, foreign relations, and military engagements. After their love cooled, Catherine and Potemkin continued to discuss and debate a wide range of state affairs in their letters, including the annexation of the Crimea, court politics, wars against the Ottoman Empire and Sweden, and the colonization of southern Russia. Together they carried out the most dramatic territorial expansion in the history of imperial Russia, transforming Catherine into a powerful world leader and creating a bond of affection that would never fully fade. Readers will find in the letters new insights on Russia's most famous empress, her passions, and her world.

Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Douglas Smith

Grigorii Aleksandrovich Potemkin

Historical

Northern Illinois University Press

Sexual Life Of Catherine M

Millet

Lembas For The Soul: How The Lord Of The Rings Enriches Everyday Life

Kohman

K&B Products

Pody Poe from Tinhorn Gambler to Kingpin of Organized Crime

Grant-Books, LTD.

Veiled Web

Asaro

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