wyszukanych pozycji: 64
Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State
ISBN: 9781848138193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards democracy with Chinese characteristics'. But to many involved in them, the elections have been mired by corruption, vote-rigging and cronyism. This book looks at the history of these elections, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going, exploring the specific experience of elections by...
Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with a...
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443,44 zł |
Xi: A Study in Power
ISBN: 9781785788086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,74 zł |
The Story of the Fool
ISBN: 9780244574499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,91 zł |
My Grit Journal: Set goals, cope with set-backs and be unstoppable
ISBN: 9781912615308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,99 zł |
China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One
ISBN: 9781350267244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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104,34 zł |
China's World: The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower
ISBN: 9780755636129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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72,99 zł |
The Lost Tavern: A Pirate's Odyssey
ISBN: 9781452082097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When young Maria Hallett meets the worldly Sam Bellamy and they fall in love, the stage is set for heartbreak, a tragic betrayal, the wreck of a fabulous pirate ship, and a fiery conclusion. Set in colonial America and ranging from Boston to Cape Cod to the Caribbean, The Lost Tavern, a historical fiction, encompasses in 250 pages the worlds of two lovers, pirate crews, and an evolving New England culture of merchants, seamen, and already vanishing Indian tribes. All of these worlds come together in one way or another at Samuel Smith's island tavern, which was rediscovered and excavated in... When young Maria Hallett meets the worldly Sam Bellamy and they fall in love, the stage is set for heartbreak, a tragic betrayal, the wreck of a fa... |
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117,89 zł |
China in Five Cities: From Hohhot to Hong Kong
ISBN: 9781838900151 / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,39 zł |
Warrior Leadership: A Transformation of Mind, Body & Spirit for Everyday Life and the Workplace
ISBN: 9781981188925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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100,85 zł |
Sikh Art and Literature
ISBN: 9780415202893 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sikh Art and Literature traverses the 500-year history of a religion that dawned with the modern age in a land that was a thoroughfare of invading armies, ideas and religions and arts of the East and West.
Essays by art curators, historians and collectors and religion and literary scholars are illustrated with some of the earliest and finest Sikh paintings. Sikh modernism and mysticism is explored in essays on the holy Guru Granth Sahib; the translations and writings of the British Raj convert, M.A. Macauliffe; the fathers of modern Punjabi literature, Bhai Vir Singh and Puran... Sikh Art and Literature traverses the 500-year history of a religion that dawned with the modern age in a land that was a thoroughfare of inv...
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198,19 zł |
The Lost Tavern: A Pirate's Odyssey
ISBN: 9781452082080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When young Maria Hallett meets the worldly Sam Bellamy and they fall in love, the stage is set for heartbreak, a tragic betrayal, the wreck of a fabulous pirate ship, and a fiery conclusion. Set in colonial America and ranging from Boston to Cape Cod to the Caribbean, The Lost Tavern, a historical fiction, encompasses in 250 pages the worlds of two lovers, pirate crews, and an evolving New England culture of merchants, seamen, and already vanishing Indian tribes. All of these worlds come together in one way or another at Samuel Smith's island tavern, which was rediscovered and excavated in... When young Maria Hallett meets the worldly Sam Bellamy and they fall in love, the stage is set for heartbreak, a tragic betrayal, the wreck of a fa... |
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74,21 zł |
China's World: The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower
ISBN: 9781350543355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From Africa to the Arctic, Central Asia and beyond, China's foreign policy will affect us all. Here, noted China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and its increased displays of military prowess - including huge investments in cyber warfare. Brown also assesses China's extraordinary plan to create a `New Silk Road' across Central Asia - one of the biggest infrastructure projects in modern history. In doing so he seeks to answer a simple...
From Africa to the Arctic, Central Asia and beyond, China's foreign policy will affect us all. Here, noted China expert Kerry Brown guides us through ...
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72,99 zł |
China
ISBN: 9781509541478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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247,12 zł |
Contemporary China
ISBN: 9781352004946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The third edition of this concise core textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China's recent history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The third edition of this concise core textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture and society of modern C...
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172,11 zł |
The Rise of the Dragon: Inward and Outward Investment in China in the Reform Period 1978-2007
ISBN: 9781843344810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Chinese economic reform has been undertaken through a series of phased reforms. The goal of Chinese economic reform was to generate sufficient surplus value to finance the modernization of the mainland Chinese economy. This book provides an assessment of where investment stands today and it's likely future role in China. It reviews China's interaction with the rest of the world as the country advances towards superpower status.
Chinese economic reform has been undertaken through a series of phased reforms. The goal of Chinese economic reform was to generate sufficient surplus...
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417,35 zł |
China's Dream: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power
ISBN: 9781509524570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "China's Dream is the first book to explore the Communist Party as a cultural, rather than a political, entity. Kerry Brown takes us on a fascinating journey through the least understood aspect of China today - not the economic revolution in the material world, but the deep cultural revolution already underway in Chinese people's daily lives"--
"China's Dream is the first book to explore the Communist Party as a cultural, rather than a political, entity. Kerry Brown takes us on a fascinating ...
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87,72 zł |
The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
ISBN: 9780241694305 / Twarda / 2024 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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98,04 zł |
Sikh Art and Literature
ISBN: 9780415202886 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An introduction to Sikhism through its rich artistic culture. Using an assortment of rare imagery and literature, the text explores the fruitful world of the Sikhs. Essays by art curators, historians and collectors, and religion and literary scholars are illustrated with some of the earliest and finest Sikh paintings, the commonly overlooked Janam Sakhi genre, and recent works of rising stars in contemporary Sikh art. Many illustrations are reproducd and there are excerpts from journals of visitors to the court of the dimunutive and new translations of early-20th-century poetry.
An introduction to Sikhism through its rich artistic culture. Using an assortment of rare imagery and literature, the text explores the fruitful world...
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704,29 zł |
China's World: The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower
ISBN: 9781784538095 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and its increased displays of military prowess - including huge investments in cyber warfare. Brown also assesses China's extraordinary plan to create a 'New Silk Road' across... In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there... |
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234,76 zł |
Lost Calls: 64 Poems
ISBN: 9780692614921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Poems. This sequence of 64 short poems represent an inquiry on the theme of absence and the complex feelings and associated language and images it gives rise to. Written between 2014 and 2015, partly in Australia, partly in the UK, and in Taiwan and Hong Kong, each one distils a moment in which affections and memories are reawakened towards a person, and places or experiences they are associated with. They record the various ways in which absence in the life of someone present figures constantly as a source of struggle, disquiet, and tension, and figure ways in which this disruption is...
Poems. This sequence of 64 short poems represent an inquiry on the theme of absence and the complex feelings and associated language and images it giv...
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45,63 zł |