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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
ISBN: 9780060826598 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes. A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In... |
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84,35 zł |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780231112710 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin-era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary--who edited the first edition in 1960--and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated...
For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic...
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209,96 zł |
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
ISBN: 9780312423377 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically connected China to the outside world through its nearly one thousand miles of navigable waters. To travel those waters is to travel back in history, to sense the soul of China, and Simon Winchester takes us along with him as he encounters the essence of China--its history and politics, its geography...
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching ...
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97,71 zł |
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AIP Physics Desk Reference
ISBN: 9780387989730 / Angielski / Twarda / 888 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published by the American Institute of Physics as the Physics Vade Mecum, this third edition has been completely updated to reflect contemporary modern physics. It is a concise compilation of the most frequently used physics data and formulae with their derivations, and this edition contains six new chapters, with outdated chapters dropped, and new chapters added on atmospheric physics, electricity and magnetism, elementary particle physics, fluid dynamics, geophysics, nonlinear physics, particle accelerators, polymer physics, and quantum theory. A new, final chapter deals with...
Originally published by the American Institute of Physics as the Physics Vade Mecum, this third edition has been completely updated to reflect contemp...
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729,31 zł |
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Faces of China: From Mao to Now
ISBN: 9780595444564 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Watch Hong Kong Harbour awake
Experience a local bus ride Visit out-of-the-way walled cities Experience Chinese huge material changes Share the highs and lows of a foreign resident Read between the lines of the English China Daily newspaper Explore cross-cultural confusions Watch Hong Kong Harbour awake
Experience a local bus ride Visit out-of-the-way walled cities Experience Chinese huge material changes ... |
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97,49 zł |
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China's New Creative Age
ISBN: 9780837166711 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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472,66 zł |
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Across China on Foot - One Man's Incredible Quest
ISBN: 9780979415456 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1900s a man named Edwin John Dingle embarked on a remarkable mapping expedition of China. Overcoming incredible odds and many dangerous situations that threatened his life, he succeeded in his mission, crossing areas of China where no Westerner had ever been before, and eventually reached Tibet. There, he became one of the first Westerners (if not the first) to study in a Tibetan monastery. Upon his eventual return to the West, he shared what he had learned in China and Tibet with others and came to be known to thousands as Ding Le Mei. Here, in his own words, is Edwin Dingle's...
In the early 1900s a man named Edwin John Dingle embarked on a remarkable mapping expedition of China. Overcoming incredible odds and many dangerous s...
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76,73 zł |
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The Road to China - Adventures of a Photographer turned English Teacher
ISBN: 9781411697027 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August, 2003 I made arrangements to teach English in China, but when I got there, there was no job. So begins a very interesting six-month stay in Beijing. Within these pages you'll hear stories of college life, the move to a market economy, corruption, burnout, mobsters, government as benevolent parent, the surprising gravitation to all things Western, and the tribulations of a foreigner trying to start a new business. (Oh, yes, and the experiences of a newbie teaching English in a foreign land!) You are also introduced to some of my students, who in their own words talk about their...
In August, 2003 I made arrangements to teach English in China, but when I got there, there was no job. So begins a very interesting six-month stay in ...
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110,79 zł |
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The Lady and the Tiger: A memoir of Taiwan, the Republic of China
ISBN: 9781418437749 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,30 zł |
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Self and Society in Ming Thought
ISBN: 9781597401999 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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615,62 zł |
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China Behind the Smile
ISBN: 9781844015757 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is a country in transition, a country of contradictions and a country worthy of being discovered without bringing in preconceptions, because China is the country with the immortal smile and its all up to you what you find behind the beaming lips.
Rowin Mulder is not your typical tourist, but a traveller bent on discovering new horizons, on exploring the real China, the hidden China, the China behind the smile. The road less travelled is a difficult one and full of unexpected hazards, twists and turns, but unfazed, our keen explorer plunges headlong into the muddle of smells, colours... China is a country in transition, a country of contradictions and a country worthy of being discovered without bringing in preconceptions, because Chi...
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78,29 zł |
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Guide to Hiking China's Old Road to Shu
ISBN: 9780595425518 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,14 zł |
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Meanwhile Don't Push and Squeeze: A Year of Life in China
ISBN: 9781770093850 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vividly capturing the tastes, sounds, and smells of Hangzou, China, this entertaining and witty travelogue details a year spent teaching creative writing at Zeijang University and the experiences of being a fish out of water. Containing contributions from the author as well as his students, this memoir fondly depicts China's galloping economy, respect for ancient texts, and everyday people.
Vividly capturing the tastes, sounds, and smells of Hangzou, China, this entertaining and witty travelogue details a year spent teaching creative writ...
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88,82 zł |
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Twilight in the Forbidden City (Illustrated and Revised 4th Edition)
ISBN: 9780968045954 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the British-born Tutor to the Dragon Emperor, Johnston was the only foreigner in history to be allowed inside the inner court of the Qing Dynasty. Johnston carried high imperial titles and lived in both the Forbidden City and the New Summer Palace.
Twilight in the Forbidden City reflects his eyewitness accounts of the memorable events of the time. He provides an first hand account of daily life in the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and gives many detailed descriptions of ceremonies including Pu-yis wedding. Johnston provides a good deal of anecdotal material for the last days of... As the British-born Tutor to the Dragon Emperor, Johnston was the only foreigner in history to be allowed inside the inner court of the Qing Dynasty. ...
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146,35 zł |
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From Peking to Mandalay
ISBN: 9780968045978 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating journey details the local traditions and characteristics of a China that has since disappeared. With tales of the mystic temples and monasteries, stories of a 1000 year old monk, and areas not yet open to the modern railway or airplane, Johnston's writings could easily have been the inspiration for James Hilton's Lost Horizon. Johnston, who eventually became tutor to the boy emperor, was district officer and magistrate of Wei-hai-wei, and was well qualified, both linguistically and by travel in other parts of China, to undertake the expedition described in the present work....
This fascinating journey details the local traditions and characteristics of a China that has since disappeared. With tales of the mystic temples and ...
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119,70 zł |
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China Readies for Its Close-Up
ISBN: 9781436315227 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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211,37 zł |
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Peking - A Historical and Intimate Description of Its Chief Places of Interest
ISBN: 9780968045985 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Step back in time to Beijing as it was in the 1920's as Juliet Bredon guides the reader to a magnificent time of the past. The more one studies this fascinating city, old, proud and secretive, the more one realises the tantalizing difficulties of learning, even from the Chinese themselves, anything but the merest outline of its history and monuments, many of which are in existence today. Who can forget the soft enchantment of Buddhist temples, the green peace of tombs haunted by fearless things, doves that flutter down at call, fishes rising to be fed? Having lived in Peking Juliet can truly...
Step back in time to Beijing as it was in the 1920's as Juliet Bredon guides the reader to a magnificent time of the past. The more one studies this f...
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128,58 zł |
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The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang
ISBN: 9780415478083 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the politics of tourism development in China, looking at Lijiang Ancient Town, a destination that has been used by the Chinese state as an exemplar of policy-making. The authors examine the relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they ready Lijiang for tourist consumption.
This book examines the politics of tourism development in China, looking at Lijiang Ancient Town, a destination that has been used by the Chinese stat...
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765,14 zł |
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The Gobi Desert - The Adventures of Three Women Travelling Across the Gobi Desert in the 1920s
ISBN: 9781906393120 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mildred Cable and Francesca French wrote this remarkable travel book about their esperiences of many years (1923-1936) in the Gobi Desert. They were the first English women to cross the Gobi Desert after twenty years of working as missionaries in the Shansi province of China. This is the kind of travel book which is the result of 13 years of continous travel and thorough knowledge of the region. They describe the Chinese Inns, the monasteries, the archaeological sites, the abandoned cities and the life in the oasis towns. This book brings alive the Gobi Desert and shows how relevant it is...
Mildred Cable and Francesca French wrote this remarkable travel book about their esperiences of many years (1923-1936) in the Gobi Desert. They were t...
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124,36 zł |
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Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys
ISBN: 9780226448565 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. "Hong Kong" is a tour of the city s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and i... |
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399,92 zł |