One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment, Hardcover

An award-winning Hong Kong-based architect with decades of experience designing buildings and planning cities in the People's Republic of China tak...

Reducere. DescriptionMao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Lan...

What has happened to the secret babies born under China's one child policy, so many of whom are now adults?

Reducere. The first generation of children born under China's one-child family policy is now reaching adulthood. What are these children like? What are their...

Reducere. In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120, 000 children--mostly girls--have left China through international adopti...

DescriptionWhere is the justice in a corrupt and crumbling empire? Thirteenth century China, and the Song Empire is crumbling due to endemic corrup...

DescriptionIf the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science, " then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As ...

The water vole is one of Britain's most endangered mammals. Popularised as 'Ratty' in The Wind in the Willows, it is a cherished resident of our wa...

Reducere. The Last Cowboy is the true story of an undercover agent with unconventional methods who became one of the most highly decorated agents in the hist...

Publisher: Holiday House IncAuthor(s): Andrea WarrenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 208 x 233 x 18Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Brown Hares in the Derbyshire Dales by Christine Gregory is a written and photographic celebration of one of the Peak District's most secretive and...

A true story of surviving child abuse and the lessons learned. This is a courageous and inspiring book written by a man who was abused as a child, ...

A funny and intimate travelogue of one woman's unexpected adventures in Japan. French illustrator Julie Blanchin-Fujita arrived in Tokyo for what s...

Reducere. DescriptionLEBRON JAMESThis book aims to serve as a biography-to-date of the basketball superstar, LeBron James, covering his life both on and off ...

Taking the reader through the remote wilds of the jungle, showing the parching heat and the relentless rain that these men experienced, Rhodes Jame...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kate SkylarkAuthor: Lucy GilbertThe second of Kate Skylark's co-written true child abuse stories. Steve Gilbert is a charmi...

'No Escape is what the world needs to read' Nathan Law, Nobel Peace Prize nominee A devastating account of China's genocide of the Uyghurs, by a le...

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Reducere. Description KOBE BRYANTAre you interested in learning more about the beginnings, career, milestones, and future plans of one of the stalwarts of pr...

Reducere. DescriptionSTEPHEN CURRYOnly in his thirties, Stephen Curry has achieved in a short span of time what many individuals could not achieve in a lifet...

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Reducere. Give one kind word, one loving phrase, and know you just made someone else's day.How can you do just one thing to change the world today? Be it a c...

Reducere. This book describes the story of how a collaboration of several hundred physicists from Europe and North America formed in 1988 to design, construc...

DescriptionThe author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human--and the ways we are (and aren't) unique...

Reducere. Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You'll want to join her. --Laura Miller, Slate Deeply moving...fu...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

Reducere. ``THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD`` IS MORE THAN JUST A CLICHE. God goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people. That is what The Story is...

Reducere. In the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thi...

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaqu n Archivaldo "El Chapo" Guzm n Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz's revelato...

Reducere. DescriptionEscaping the Horoch w ghetto was just the beginning for twelve-year-old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and runnin...

Reducere. In September 2015 Haier and Zhang Ruimin won the prestigious Thinkers50 Ideas into Practice award for their mixture of relentless change, teamworki...

Reducere. Celebrate of the history and significance of both the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster for the company's 75th anniversary in this combined editio...

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Footprints: An Interactive Journey Through One of the Most Beloved Poems of All Time explores each line of Margaret Fishback Powers' timeless poem ...

Reducere. Bursting with adventurous and humorous spirit, Julia Child captures post-war Paris with wonderful vividness and charm.

Reducere. Is it possible to find meaning in life after the death of a child? This is the question that steered Linda Kolsky to a quest for answers after she ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrea PerronRoger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The A...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the best way possible. . . No...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Notre-Dame de Paris, then keep reading...It was with horror and sadness that the people of the w...

Reducere. Little Ewe would rather jump on logs and investigate spider webs than follow the shepherd when he calls. But what happens when she gets lost? How w...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill EducationAuthor(s): Chuck MoxleyNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 200 x 235 x 30Cover type: HardbackRede...

The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause c l bre in seventeenth-century Rome, how ...