1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464078803321

Autore

Confiant Raphaël <1951->

Titolo

Dictionnaire des titim et sirandanes : devinettes et jeux de mots du monde creole / / Raphael Confiant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Matoury, French Guiana : , : Ibis Rouge Editions, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

2-84450-537-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p. )

Disciplina

398.609729

Soggetti

Riddles

Plays on words

Creole dialects, French

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794505003321

Autore

Chow Christie Chui-Shan

Titolo

Schism : Seventh-Day Adventism in post-denominational China / / Christie Chui-Shan Chow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, IN : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-268-20051-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 pages)

Collana

Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities

Disciplina

286.732

Soggetti

Seventh-Day Adventists - China - History

History

China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Appendix A. Biographies of Key Figures Involved in the Schisms -- Appendix B. "Sixteen Lyrics" -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 China's Adventist Century and Wenzhou -- Chapter 2 To Pray or Not to Pray? The First Schism -- Chapter 3 Come Out of "Babylon": The Wilderness Schism -- Chapter 4 Hybrid Identity: The Wheatfield Schism -- Chapter 5 "Sisters, You Should Also Help!": The Case of Horizontal Dyke Village -- Chapter 6 Divide and Divide: The Case of Stone Ground Village -- Chapter 7 A Brief Coalition: The Case of South Pond -- Conclusion



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965135003321

Autore

Mallory James

Titolo

""Fear God and walk humbly"" : the agricultural journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013

ISBN

0-585-20037-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (712 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MalloryJames

McWhineyGrady

MooreWarner O

PaceRobert F

Disciplina

976.1

976.1/6105/092

976.16105

976.16105092

Soggetti

Farm life -- Alabama -- Talladega County

Farmers -- Alabama -- Talladega County -- Diaries

Mallory, James, 1807-1877 -- Diaries

Talladega County (Ala.) -- Social life and customs

Farm life - Diaries - Alabama - Talladega County

Farmers - Talladega County - Alabama

Regions & Countries - Americas

United States Local History

History & Archaeology

Talladega County (Ala.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1834-1842; 1843; 1844; 1845; 1846; 1847; 1848; 1849; 1850; 1851; 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1865; 1866; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870; 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876; 1877; Appendix; James Mallory's Last Will and Testament; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

James Mallory was an uncommon Southerner. Most inhabitants of the



Old South, especially the plain folk, devoted more time to leisurely activities--drinking, gambling, hunting, fishing, and just loafing--than did Mallory, a workaholic agriculturalist, who experimented with new plants, orchards, and manures, as well as the latest farming equipment and techniques. A Whig and a Unionist, a temperance man and a peace lover, ambitious yet caring, business-minded and progressive, he supported railroad construction as well as formal education, even for girls. His cotton production--four bale