The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City, Hardcover - Juan Du

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...

The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people--from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): With: Amy CordovaWith: Eugene Gollogly Long ago, in a small village in old Mexico, a baby boy was born. A child of the Great Eagle ...

The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who and the Rolling Stones are just as much a part of Lond...

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

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...

'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...

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 ...

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...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Adam BrookesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 241 x 38Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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. "The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one." Don Juan is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1, 000 ...

Reducere. In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan...

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

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 ...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestsellerA five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pion...

Reducere. There's a hawk in the city New York City is known for its sky-scrapers, subways, and hustle and bustle -- not for its wildlife. So everyone is surp...

Publisher: DOM PublishersNumber of pages: 288Collection: Architectural GuidePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 244 x 19Cover type: Paperback /...

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's biggest tech companiesPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Lulu ChenNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Captains of the City Streets is another trip into the world of the legendary Cat Club of Greenwich Village. Two adventurous young cats--Sinbad and ...

Reducere. Discovering the Bible has everything you're looking for in a survey of the Bible. It examines the Bible's amazing message and story of faith in a w...

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

Reducere. "Shenzhen "is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by el...

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The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-...

DescriptionWho are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 19...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Open Message to Bridgestone Corporation Absent government or judicial intervention, if Bridgestone/Firestone Corporation does not aba...

An intriguing thriller set in an all-too- possible future - a world where the lights have gone out for ever. Readership level: 9-11yrs.

Reducere. The Courtroom exploded with accusations and jeers and the middle-aged man stood to receive his sentence. His face was swollen from the beating the ...

Reducere. Use this book to awaken your inner angel, discovering more celestial answers to your every question and even how to access messages from the beyond...

Following the explosions of ingenuity and evolution of London style, this illustrated reference is the perfect guide to embrace the enthralling mix...

Following the evolution of a uniquely elegant capital - describing both the moments of ingenuity and enduring looks and icons that embody the city ...

Share your belongings and start belonging aEURO" the story of Windsor Hill WoodPublisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Tobias JonesNumber of pages:...

Reducere. The Rising Sons: China's Imperial Succession & The Art of War recollects 2, 000 years of China's history by examining how some of its most represen...

Reducere. Carlos is thrilled to travel to Panama's countryside with his parents. He is most excited about the Carnival stories his parents tell him. But when...

PROSEHow New York City subways signage evolved from a "visual mess" to a uniform system with Helvetica triumphant.For years, the signs in the New Y...

DescriptionWith great good humor and a Wagnerian sense of the majesty in an ocean crossing, Juan Corradi makes his sailboat the star of the narrati...

For over one hundred years the Auckland City Mission has been a flagbearer of the city's compassion towards and support for the poor, the marginali...

Reducere. This book tells the fascinating story of Montreal, Canada, from prehistoric time through the 21st century. From the Iroquoian community of Hochelag...

Reducere. Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, st...

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, an...

Reducere. During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place w...

DescriptionEnjoy authentic, delicious, vegan sushi that tastes and looks like the real thing--with over 50 recipes to make at home Once they've had...

Reducere. Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed, and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecd...

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment--the definitive police state...