Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, Paperback - M. Aurel Stein

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) describes his second expedition to the de...

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DescriptionFinancial inclusion and financial education are becoming increasingly recognized as key requirements for sustainable and inclusive growt...

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Archaeological explorations of magic and witchcraft in Iron Age Transylvania - Aurel Rustoiu

Reducere. Ibn Batt ta was a geographer and traveller who spent decades roaming distant lands; these are his journeys, translated to English by celebrated sch...

„Un autor desavirsit, care aminteste de Freya Stark si Patrick Leigh Fermor... Cu sensibilitate, compasiune si ironie, Thubron surprinde cele mai e...

Reducere. A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTIN...

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At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majo...

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates tha...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests in the late fourth century BC, Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central ...

Reducere. A reporter's vivid account of Central Asia's wild recent history--violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrup It sounds ...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

This book brings together studies conducted by researchers in East Asian countries who seek to better understand the impact of China's rise and the...

Reducere. A Canyon Voyage; The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Yea...

Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instabi...

Reducere. Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinar...

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Reducere. In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working clas...

DescriptionIn the late nineteenth century, a conviction that China was somehow weaker than other political states in Asia and the West spread acros...

Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinar...

Reducere. Experience a "brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite, with three ch...

This volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical ...

Reducere. "Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --"Christian Sci...

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates tha...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

The definitive field guide to the birds of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

Reducere. James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley ...

Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia....

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...

An anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. It illustrates important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and ...

Publisher: Alpha EditionAuthor(s): Terrien De LacouperieNumber of pages: 228Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 20Cover type: Paperback /...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations fro...

DescriptionA penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealt...

DescriptionPyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 3...

Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which Russia and Central Asi...

Legal Lessons examines how China's party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advic...

How has the Chinese central government been able to avoid the crippling hyperinflation that has bedeviled so many developing and centrally planned ...

Reports that, in Europe and Central Asia, food security has improved substantially over the past two decades and the vast majority of the 50 or so ...

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, Paperback