China in Africa

DescriptionNever before has a single volume been devoted exclusively to the intrepid and disparate band of pilots who could claim to be Gladiator a...

Reducere. An American climber in the Himalayas stumbles on a shipment of backpack nuclear weapons headed into Tibet for use against China. Pursued by spy age...

Reducere. "Jenkins is one of America's top religious scholars." --Forbes magazineThe Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary vi...

An exceptional examination that "plays the role of an intellectual Indiana Jones, expertly guiding readers through crumbling, vine-laden Mayan temp...

Descopera cum functioneaza sasiul afacerii tale si cum poti creste numarul de clienti, cifra de afaceri si profitul. Poti sa vinzi piulite sau avio...

Reducere. "A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life." --The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and...

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

Reducere. DescriptionFire blazes from heaven, and a stone altar erupts in flame. So begins a spiritual awakening, the kindling of a revival fire still burnin...

Reducere. A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. Pre...

Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, a...

Reducere. Five tribes. One leader. A treacherous journey across three continents in search of a new home. Written in the spirit of Jean Auel, Survival of the...

A visual record of all the armies involved in the Battle for Burma during the Second World War from the British, American, Chinese, Indian, Burmese...

PROSEIn The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how internationa...

Reducere. This book argues that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa must invest in the productivity of ordinary citizens to avoid or escape the mi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael C. GrumleyIt began in Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of years ago. When a handful of genetic mutations caused evol...

Reducere. Over 600 hundred years ago, Emperor Zhu Di of China decided to build the greatest naval fleet the world had ever seen to befriend and trade with co...

DescriptionThe Spanish translation of this "beautifully written, thought provoking" (School Library Journal, starred review) novel in verse by Youn...

Reducere. Christianity Today Book AwardTheorists of -secularization- have for two centuries been saying that religion must inevitably decline in the modern w...

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart o...

Reducere. Christianity Today Book AwardThe 2014 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner (Missions/Global Affairs)2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the...

The unicorns' sleepover gets spooky in the third book of this sparkly new chapter book series that follows the trials and triumphs of young foals a...

The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the...

Reducere. Have you ever heard that Christ was Black? What about the Buddha? They weren't alone. Many of the world's first deities and divinities, both male a...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard M. Hannula"RADIANT: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History" RADIANT records the triumph of the gospel as Christia...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aaron Shepard"Folktales on Stage" is a collection of reader's theater scripts for young readers, adapted by award-winning c...

Reducere. Someday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, o...

Reducere. Praised as "utterly remarkable" and "deeply resonant" by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilli...

Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...

This study develops a 'Pathways to De-dollarization' framework and applies it to analyze the institutional and market mechanisms that BRICS (Brazil...

Reducere. DescriptionGet ready for Halloween with this child-friendly collection of spooky stories from all over the world. Feel your pulse race and your ski...

Contributor(s): Author: Harm de BlijIn recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by signific...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19--its origins, its wide-ranging repercu...

Reducere. The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white Am...

Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the wor...

Reducere. Underneath the desert sands, a forgotten culture awaits your discovery...Its pyramids jut like wind-ravaged arrowheads from the ground, dominating ...

Reducere. In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to expl...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Daniel LargeNumber of pages: 250Collection: China TodayPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 210 x 25Cover type...

DescriptionCaptain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the F...

Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies analyses the role of the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - in the international cl...

Reducere. The mere mention of red hair calls to mind vivid pictures. Stereotypes of redheaded women range from the funloving scatterbrain, like Lucille Ball,...

Reducere. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of im...

"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soo...

26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar. 21 counties: France, China, Sing...

DescriptionRussia's leadership in establishing the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is emblematic of its desire to end ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

Reducere. Reframing the House continues the conversation of global theology as the future of the church. Jennifer Buck tells how women's voices from Africa, ...

An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a...

In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive exa...

Reducere. DescriptionExistential-Psychology East-West(Volume 2) emerged from continued dialogues on existential psychology, particularly existential-humanist...

Reducere. China today has become a world economic giant in just three decades. The country's central bank holds more than $3.5 trillion in foreign exchange r...

In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived th...

Reducere. Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it. In Fea...

Reducere. Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map ...

Reducere. The book discusses what led to US involvement in Eritrea after World War II. In length, it details, the why, the how, the people behind the moves, ...

DescriptionThis open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial re...

From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the air war over Korea. The Korean War holds a unique plac...

Looking back to the evolution of foreign aid during the Cold War, David C. Engerman invites us to recognize the strategic thinking at the heart of ...

What unites these dwellings is authenticity, a love of detail, and a zest for individual expression that will never go out of fashion.Includes inte...

This powerful book explores new global human rights duties through four case studies: mass incarceration in the United States, LGBT rights in Afric...

Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. E...

Reducere. A critical look at how the world is responding to China's rise, and what this means for America and the world. China is advancing its own interests...

Reducere. About This BookFrom the earliest times in human history, across various cultures and civilisations, uniqueness and individuality of each person has...

Written in plain language, the book proposes a new perspective of Chinese development. Coevolutionary transformation is the key. Effects of China-A...

Reducere. Chronological events are supplemented by thematic ones, such as the development of cities and trade, the spread of religions and the idea of the la...

Reducere. Kehinde Wiley's acclaimed World Stage series inserts into the language of old master portraiture the very ethnicities and ethnic iconography that w...

One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and underst...

Reducere. DescriptionThe conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy...

A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from anc...

DescriptionSouth Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African me...