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December 2018The Street of Happiness
by He Dun
The novel aims to depict the social reality. Being deft at describing the underclass and social outcasts, He Dun, the author, continues to take the underclass people as the main roles in the novel. Compared to The Street of Huangniportraying the youth full of vigor and hope from urban underclass, the protagonists of the novel are a gang of young people from a small town. Ranging from 1950s till now, the novel has narrated the experience of those young people during “the Cultural Revolution” and Working in the Countryside and Mountainous Areas in a chronological way, and also told of their stories during the Reform and Opening-Up.
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Children's & YANgofero’s Happiness
by Jean de Dieu Munyurangabo
It is a reading book about the happiness of Ngofero the poor man living in montaign region. The rich girl noticed that to be happy don’t need modern and beautiffull things. It comes from a satisfied heart .
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FictionOctober 2018Happiness Is Like a Flower
by Shi Zhongshan
Du Juan, a female soldier of the Cultural and Art Corps, is obsessed with her dance career. She never believed that happiness would come to her until she received two letters of courtship, which were from two excellent men: the son of the army’s head, Bai Yang and Lin Bin from the cultural Ministry. Du Juan couldn't make a choice at the moment, but she didn't want to give up either of them. She had to try two roads at the same time.What kind of happiness will Du Juan harvest in the pure love atmosphere? Will her happiness bloom like a flower?“Happiness Is Like a Flower” is a masterpiece of the famous screenwriter Shi Zhongshan. It was once adapted into TV series. This book also includes Shi Zhongshan's "Happiness" series of short stories: How Far Is Happiness, The Perfection of Happiness, Happiness Like Flowers and Grass, etc. Most of them have been adapted into popular TV series, affecting the love concept of a generation.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrightsJuly 2013Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage
by Felicity Dunworth
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2023Missionaries and modernity
Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910
by Felicity Jensz
Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for non-Europeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multi-colonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to anti-British sentiments.
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Happiness Education
by Yang Jiujun
Writing from the angle of “what is happiness in education”, the author systematically elaborates on how to create the feeling of joy in education – which he describes as running a happy school and having teachers who enjoy teaching. This entire book takes a very down-to-earth approach towards the reader, and narrates about the “happiness” of education, explains profound insights in simple, easy to understand language, and boasts impressive readability. This book offers significant guidance towards professors, teaching, and life in general.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Missionaries and modernity
by Felicity Jensz, Alan Lester
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2010Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage
by Felicity Dunworth, Rebecca Mortimer
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July 2013Missions and Media
The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century
by Herausgegeben von Jensz, Felicity; Herausgegeben von Acke, Hanna
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Child & developmental psychologyJaron on the Quest for Happiness
by Fabian Grolimund, Stefanie Rietzler
Things couldn’t be worse for Jaron, the young fox: His strict father makes him play soccer even though he really doesn’t like to train. His best friend suddenly prefers to spend time with two bullies, who are constantly teasing Jaron. And then the teacher also puts him in a girls’ group for the big project! But then daring hare Lotte announces: “Let’s explore what makes us happy!” She carries the distressed Jaron along – on an adventurous quest for happiness. A story about the big and small questions of life, about the courage to be true to yourself and the transformative power of friendship. For:• children of elementary school age(between 8 and 12 years)• parents and relatives• teachers• therapists• anyone who is still young at heart
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2015Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
by Felicity Stout, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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