Traditional Textiles of Central Asia

Reducere. The traditional textiles of Central Asia are unknown treasures. Straddling the legendary Silk Road, this vast region stretches from Russia in the w...

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

The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative develop...

The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interl...

Reducere. Central Asia--a vast and remote area of steppe, semi-desert, and mountains separating Europe from eastern Asia--is home to a diversity of birds. Bi...

For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all...

As China begins its momentous New Silk Road project and expands its influence into Central Asia, the borderlands between China, Tajikistan and Kyrg...

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 ...

Boro is the ultimate slow stitching technique. This collection explores the history of Japanese textile technique boro, and its relevance to the co...

The great river civilization of the Oxus is one of the forgotten jewels of the ancient world. In history, this grand arterial 1, 500-mile waterway ...

'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily Telegraph

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half ...

Reducere. The nomadic peoples of central Asia--Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Mongols--are still known to us for their legendary fighters Attila, Genghis Khan, and ...

Autor: Jean-Paul Roux

This edited volume presents a trans-disciplinary and multifaceted assessment of the strategic and economic impacts of China's Belt and Road Initiat...

Asia Centrala - repere geopolitice

Reducere. Descopera istoria. Imperiile din Asia Centrala. De la Attila la Tamerlan: puterea popoarelor din stepeIstoria imperiilor care au aparut in stepele ...

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

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

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

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Reducere. Descopera istoria. Imperiile din Asia Centrala. De la Attila la Tamerlan: puterea popoarelor din stepe Istoria imperiilor care au aparut in stepele...

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...

Jane Gibson, an established potter, was determined to document the lives, skills and work of the traditional potters of South Asia before their dis...

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 ...

Drawn from one of the world's leading textile collections, this magnificently presented array of traditional weavings from the Indonesian archipela...

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

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

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

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