Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City, Hardcover - Isabella Jackson

Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. Th...

Reducere. Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"--a key fo...

In this new edition, Tim Summers brings his analysis of the politics of Hong Kong fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of ...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Roni WeinsteinNumber of pages: 262Collection: Anthem Intercultural Transfer StudiesPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. A little girl's belief in Santa is restored in this ode to the magic of Christmas. This is a holiday gift readers will treasure for years to come! ...

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economi...

Contributing to discussion over China's higher education development, this book takes a theoretical approach to address the topic of university aca...

Reducere. This book contains a collection of works showcasing the latest research into global health economics conducted by leading experts in the field from...

This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colon...

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 ...

Reducere. If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species's ...

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

Countering colonial ideas about Indigenous peoples being frozen in time and without a future, this provocative book explores the ways in which memb...

A timely book that introduces young readers to the work of twenty-six contemporary Black artists from Africa and of the African diaspora.Publisher:...

Reducere. It's safe to say that few people have lived lives as thoroughly devoted to plants as Peter H. Raven has. The longtime director--now president emeri...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is about China's role in the world to come and includes the author's recent explorations of China's readiness to assume a glob...

Reducere. As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the...

Reducere. How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history Novel ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Benjamin (University of Virginia, USA) BennettNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2021Di...

Reducere. Parizianul este un roman captivant si complex, plin de suspans, inspirat din viata strabunicului autoarei, prin intermediul careia se reconstituie ...

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...

Australia will need to engage heightened levels of diplomacy to forge relations with countries of opposing principles. It will need to be agile in ...

Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sarah (Australian Catholic University, Australia) BendallIllustration(s): 150 color and bw illusNumb...

The Willing World: Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity - James Bacchus

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of p...

DescriptionDitch the tourist crowds and get to the real heart of a place with Secret City; an essential guide to getting to know the most interesti...

Photographer Chris Jackson has been by the Royal family's side on domestic visits and overseas tours for the past fifteen years, resulting in an un...

Whether you have a roof terrace, a tiny balcony or just a window sill, there's no excuse not to do some gardening. In Modern Container Gardening, I...

Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to sh...

Reducere. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments ...

Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by displacement and domination, and reveals the ways ...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Betty LiuNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 259 x 32Cover type: Hardback...

The reality of autonomous machines with artificial intelligence is becoming more real every day. The ability of machines to think and learn fascina...

DescriptionA richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their liv...