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From the author: Outcome measures for students enrolled in separate sections of a manual communication course taught by the same instructor were compared. One group received instruction in a traditional university classroom setting. The other group received instruction through asynchronous, videostreamed online delivery. No statistically significant differences in expressive manual communication skills, as well as content knowledge, were found. There was a significant difference in the receptive comprehension of manually communicated information, even though the difference was only 6%. Results are discussed in terms of potential for online instruction to aid in addressing the critical shortage of personnel needed to provide services for students who are deaf and hard of hearing.

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Title: Online versus traditional classroom delivery of a course in manual communication.
Author: Nanci A. Scheetz
Publication: Exceptional Children (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Council for Exceptional Children
Volume: 71Issue: 1Page: 109(15)

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Title: Going Online: Helping Technical Communicators Help Translators.(Medtronic Inc.)
Author: Patricia Flint
Publication: Technical Communication (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1999
Publisher: Society for Technical Communication
Volume: 46Issue: 2Page: 238

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Thus beginneth the tale, telling how that King Beli ruled over Sogn-land; three children had he, whereof Helgi was his first son, and Halfdan his second, but Ingibiorg his daughter. Ingibiorg was fair of face and wise of mind, and she was ever accounted the foremost of the king's children.


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The following stories cover almost all of the songs of the Kalevala, the epic of the Finnish people. They will lead the English child into a new region in the fairy world, yet one where he will recognise many an old friend in a new form. The very fact that they _do_ open up a new portion of the world of the marvellous, will, it is hoped, render them all the more acceptable, and perhaps, when the child who reads them grows up to manhood, will inspire an actual interest in the race that has composed them. ... Read more

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otel de Louvre, January 6th, 1858.--On Tuesday morning, our dozen trunks
and half-dozen carpet-bags being already packed and labelled, we began to
prepare for our journey two or three hours before light. Two cabs were at
the door by half past six, and at seven we set out for the London Bridge
station, while it was still dark and bitterly cold.There were already
many people in the streets, growing more numerous as we drove city-ward;
and, in Newgate Street, there was such a number of market-carts, that we
almost came to a dead lock with some of them.At the station we found
several persons who were apparently going in the same train with us,
sitting round the fire of the waiting-room.Since I came to England
there has hardly been a morning when I should have less willingly
bestirred myself before daylight; so sharp and inclement was the
atmosphere.We started at half past eight, having taken through tickets
to Paris by way of Folkestone and Boulogne.

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There was a man called Thorstein, the son of Egil, the son of Skallagrim, the son of Kveldulf the Hersir of Norway. Asgerd was the mother of Thorstein; she was the daughter of Biorn Hold. Thorstein dwelt at Burg in Burg-firth; he was rich of fee, and a great chief, a wise man, meek and of measure in all wise. He was nought of such wondrous growth and strength as his father Egil had been; yet was he a right mighty man, and much beloved of all folk. ... Read more

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The epigrams in the book are given both in Greek and in English. This text includes only the English. Where Greek is present in short citations, it has been given here in transliterated form and marked with brackets. A chapter of Notes on the translations has also been omitted.

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At length, my friend, the far-sent letters come,
Charged with thy kindness, to their destin'd home,
They come, at length, from Deva's2 Western side,
Where prone she seeks the salt Vergivian tide.3
Trust me, my joy is great that thou shouldst be,
Though born of foreign race, yet born for me,
And that my sprightly friend, now free to roam,
Must seek again so soon his wonted home.
I well content, where Thames with refluent tide
My native city laves, meantime reside,10
Nor zeal nor duty, now, my steps impell
To reedy Cam,4 and my forbidden cell.5
Nor aught of pleasure in those fields have I,
That, to the musing bard, all shade deny.
Tis time, that I, a pedant's threats6 disdain,
And fly from wrongs, my soul will ne'er sustain.
If peaceful days, in letter'd leisure spent
Beneath my father's roof, be banishment,
Then call me banish'd, I will ne'er refuse
A name expressive of the lot I chuse. 20
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Award-winning author Mary Jo Putney captivated the hearts of readers everywhere with her breathtaking hardcover debut, The Wild Child. Now, in her spectacular new novel The China Bride, she has created another brilliantly moving love story, and a very special heroine--a rare beauty torn between two cultures who valiantly struggles to discover the woman she is destined to be.

Born to a Scottish father and now living in China, Troth Montgomery grew up speaking several languages and thinking of faraway England as home. Enduring life as a concubine, she never imagined that one day she would leave the Orient, arriving in bitter winter at the estate of a stranger--the brother of the man who had briefly been her husband. Kyle Renbourne, Viscount of Maxwell, had taken Troth as his bride shortly before his apparent execution in a Chinese prison. Now, as his widow, she is entitled to the home she always dreamed of but remains haunted by the memory of a dashing husband and the brief, forbidden love they shared.

Then Kyle seemingly returns from the dead. Though he has survived, his mind and body are badly wounded. He needs time to heal and retreats from the exotic wife he barely knows. Bitterly aware that she will never be a fitting English wife, Troth defiantly embraces her foreign traditions, hoping that the ancient arts of her ancestors will restore Kyle's spirit and her own battered heart. Together they embark on a miraculous journey of hope and faith as Kyle becomes enchanted with the intimate tranquillity he shares with his bewitching Troth. But before he can win back his China bride, Kyle must first face a deadly menace that has followed them halfway across the world. . . .

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Customer Reviews (41)

Amazingly Different
This book was so amazingly different from any other historical romance novels I've ever read. I give the author so much credit for daring to write about a multi-ethnic relationship during the Victorian time period. I was getting a little tired of reading the same old same old about heroines with red or blond hair. The heroine in this book was great. She could fight! I was a little bit disappointed in thehero because I didn't feel like he loved the heroine as much as he loved his dead mistress. That's my only real complaint though. All in all I loved this book. I wish there were more authors out there that wrote on multi-ethnic relationships in historical novels. I know it's probably rare to find an asian in Victorian England, but hey isn't romance novels mainly fictional? Kudos to Mary Jo Putney for writing this novel.

Loved it!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I couldn't put it down. I finished it in one day! It made me laugh and cry! When a book makes me cry, that's when I know that I love this book!

Exotic
I loved the Chinese setting, the trip to the temple, the companionship, passion and growing love. What I didn't like was that from the very beginning we are told that the journey ends badly, and because of that, I just couldn't enjoy the first part of the book as much as I would otherwise. I was just waiting for that horrible thing to happen. After Kyle returned to England, there were far to many complications. A bit less of the outside events (like her entering the society, finding her family, dealing with a murderer, traveling to Scotland) and a bit more developing their relationship would be welcome. But anyway, this is another masterpiece that you must not miss!

The China Bride - Mary Jo Putney
There's a period of mourning that goes along with finishing a Mary Jo Putney book. She's one of the few authors whom I wish would write longer stories. The China Bride is no exception to this and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The prologue of The China Bride opens with the arrival of a strange Anglo-Asian woman, Troth Mei-Lian Mongomery, at the home of Lord Grahame and his wife Meriel (hero and heroine of The Wild Child). Troth has come to tell Lord Grahame that his twin brother Kyle is dead. She is his widow.

Chapter One takes us back earlier in the year. Kyle Renbourne, tenth Viscount Maxwell arrives in the Portuguese settlement on Macao, China. He is soon given a young Chinese man to serve as his guide in the exotic port. The two set off, with Kyle an avid learner of all things Chinese. As the two get to know each other, Kyle is a bit startled at his attraction to this man. He is, therefore quite relieved when the "male" guide, reveals herself to be Troth Montgomery, an Anglo-Asian woman, the child of a Chinese woman and a Scottish merchant. Since her father's death, Troth has lived in the home of her father's Chinese friend, working with Europeans, and always posing as a man.

Kyle tells Troth that he desperately wishes to travel and to see some of China. This is a dangerous thing, but Troth volunteers to help Kyle on the condition that he pay for her passage to Scotland when they have finished their journey, since she has always wanted to see the home of her father.

Once the trip starts with Kyle and Troth in disguise, The China Bride becomes a road romance. The two become friends and finally lovers. Troth, who has always been told that her body is ugly, is unbelieving when Kyle tells her how lovely she is. She desperately wants to make love because, in thinking that she is ugly, she believes that she would never have the opportunity to make love with any man. Troth falls in love immediately. Kyle guards his feelings more closely. He had been deeply in love with his late mistress, and he has never really gotten over the hurt of her loss.

What happens next, an event that results in Kyle's "death" cannot be revealed here. Suffice to say that Kyle is in terrible danger. To protect Troth and keep his promise to send her to England, he marries her. The love scene that follows is one of the most erotic and moving that I have ever read. It's really something. Let's just say that Troth is a bit more dominant that your average heroine.

When a devastated Troth arrives in England, she is comforted greatly by his brother and sister. Then, to everyone's surprise Kyle reappears. Unfortunately almost the first thing he does is tell this woman, who has risked her life for him, that the two must find an acceptable way to end the marriage.

Talk about heart breaking! I love heartbreaking. Books that make me cry are my favorites and The China Bride tapped into that. Kyle is not cruel. He just doesn't understand what it means to Troth to be rejected in this way. I wanted to scream at the man, "Hey buddy, were you there during that love scene? Don't you know what it means to a woman to give that much of herself?"

But Mary Jo Putney knows this and she has Troth show Kyle in as obvious a way as possible how much he has hurt her. Well done, I thought, now he's going to get it. But he doesn't get it and that, I think is the one flaw in this otherwise very, very good book. When Kyle finally does come to his senses he does so because he begins to realize that he is in love. But Kyle never really understands what Troth sacrificed for him emotionally when the two were in China.

Another small thing that bothered me about this story was Troth's romanticism. The idea of being in love is a western concept. It seemed to me that Troth, who was brought up in a Chinese culture, would not have had the dreams of romance that she harbors in the beginning of the book. Troth's father was Scottish, but she came of age in a Chinese world. Her thoughts throughout the book struck me as far more European than Chinese.

Nevertheless, those are very minor complaints. The China Bride will undoubtedly be one of my favorite books this year. It's got wonderful settings, romance and one of the sexiest love scenes I've read in ages. Now, if only it had been longer.

Another Great Story
I found this story very compelling.The characters are rich and very believable.You will cry with sorrow and joy all within this book.Although, this book isn't as great as The Wild Child, it is still worth reading and very satisfying at the end. ... Read more

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Near the verge of a bold promontory stands the hotel, and looks
southeastward over a sweep of sea unbroken to the horizon. Behind it
stretches the vast forest, which after two hundred years has resumed the
sterile coast wrested from it by the first Pilgrims, and has begun to
efface the evidences of the inroad made in recent years by the bold
speculator for whom Jocelyn's is named
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Dr. Breen's Practice
Set in the late 19th century in a small resort on the shore south of Boston, this book explores the roles of men and women, and career. It is a lovely glimpse into the time period, and carries clear and interesting descriptions of character and place.

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