India will soon rival China, and perhaps even the United States, on the world stage. We all need to know more about this fascinating country and "India Booms" is the perfect place to begin. This entertaining, up-to-date and informative guide provides all the information readers need on the India of today - and looks to the future to reveal what lies ahead for the India of tomorrow. India is a country with a rich history, but its present and its future are potentially even more dynamic and globally important than its past. The country is experiencing spectacular economic growth and its...
India will soon rival China, and perhaps even the United States, on the world stage. We all need to know more about this fascinating country and "Indi...
With a population of one billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countries in the world. But while it is one of the world's oldest civilizations, China refuses to conform to expectations. The country's controversial policies, ranging from the one-child policy to the repression of opposition groups, have placed it at odds with other world powers, and yet its influence in the world is growing ever stronger. This guide explores the changing face of modern China and its fundamental contradictions, as a communist state...
With a population of one billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countrie...
This guide examines the lives of these butterflies and moths. Myth boxes explore popular stories associated with butterflies, moths and caterpillars and 'Did You Know?' features provide amazing facts about these enchanting creatures.
This guide examines the lives of these butterflies and moths. Myth boxes explore popular stories associated with butterflies, moths and caterpillars a...
From the ever-curious mind that brought you the best-selling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxford and Cambridge University interview questions. How would you poison someone without the police finding out (Medicine, Cambridge)? What makes a strong woman (Theology, Oxford)? Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of IKEA run the country? (Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge)? How do you organize a successful revolution (History, Oxford)? Whether...
From the ever-curious mind that brought you the best-selling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intel...
"It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva," writeseminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of poetry.
Her work draws on her own remarkable life to create startlingly arresting images and metaphors, full of beauty and power, from her series that emerged from her Arctic childhood, to the troubles that beset Ukraine. Her range of influences is wide, and Beethoven, Freud, Sylvia Plath and Byron...
"It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva," writeseminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Ke...
