The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years, Hardcover - Lingchei Letty Chen

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Representing Landscapes: One Hundred Years of Visual Communication offers a detailed account of how past and present landscape architects and pract...

Reducere. When an American college basketball team travels to Beijing for a "friendship" game in the post-Cultural Revolution 1980s, both countries try to te...

Luke Gibbons revisits representations of the Famine, particularly those in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum to argue that images can not only give vis...

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In 2019, China astonished the world by landing a spacecraft and rover on the far side of the Moon, something never achieved by any country before. ...

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Of the one million British and Empire military personnel who were killed in action; died of wounds, disease, or injury; or were missing presumed de...

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The workplace is now smarter and more competitive than ever, so it pays for managers to be alert to the ways that good staff can be attracted and m...

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Clark and Elizabeth Kaines' aspiration to become rich and famous collides with the reality of raising their fourteen children on a harsh cattle ran...

Contributor(s): Author: Lawrence WeschlerWhen this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who ...

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The story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America's iconic theme park While the success of Disneyland...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memor...

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This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and futur...

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Jane has had her baby and is living along with him in a country cottage. The two women start up a shop in the village, and it is their changing for...

Reducere. These quotations from the writings and speeches of Mao Tse-tung, the father of Chinese communism, offer a rare and penetrating insight into the pol...

A road map for landing your dream job. Take the Leap features inspiration and advice from more than sixty-five people who transformed their lives--...

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The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backward, Paperback

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Features steam locomotives on branch and main lines throughout the county from the late 1940s to the early 1970s.