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Silk (Italian: Seta) is a 1996 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. It was translated into English in 1997 by Guido Waldman. It was translated into English in 1997 by Guido Waldman. A new English translation by Ann Goldstein was published in 2006.
The Divination by Astrological and Meteorological Phenomena (Chinese: 天文氣象雜占; pinyin: Tiān Wén Qì Xiàng Zá Zhàn), also known as Book of Silk is an ancient astronomy silk manuscript compiled by Chinese astronomers of the Western Han dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD) and found in the Mawangdui of Changsha, Hunan, China in 1973.
Tao Te Ching : The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-07005-3. Edward L. Shaughnessy (1997). I Ching = The classic of changes, the first English translation of the newly discovered Mawangdui texts of I Ching. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-36243-8. Harper, Donald ...
For bamboo manuscripts, the strips can go from as short as 9 cm to as long as 45 cm. The width is more consistently around 0.6 cm. The writing proceeds vertically, from right to left. Strips were bound together with hemp, silk, or leather and used to make a kind of folding book, called jiǎncè or jiǎndú.
The Silkworm is a crime fiction novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. [1] It is the second novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was published on 19 June 2014.
Part of the list of comet sightings from the Book of Silk (ca. 400 BCE) Mawangdui is an archeological site, comprising three Han-era tombs, found near Changsha in modern Hunan Province (ancient state of Chu). In December 1973, archeologists excavating "Tomb Number 3" (dated at 168 BCE) discovered an edifying trove of silk paintings and silk ...
The Artificial Silk Girl is a novel by Irmgard Keun, published in Berlin in 1932. The protagonist Doris writes about how she struggles to survive, first in her hometown and then in pre-war Berlin. The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany, until the Nazis banned it in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies. It is Keun's ...
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a 2015 non-fiction book written by English historian Peter Frankopan, a historian at the University of Oxford. A new abridged edition was illustrated by Neil Packer. [1] The full text is divided into 25 chapters. The author combines the development of the world with the Silk Road.