The Yangtze Valley and Beyond
ISBN: 9789881732620 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travelers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. In describing the journey, Isabella provides a rich mix of observations and describes two occasions when she is almost killed by anti-foreign mobs. It many ways, Isabella created the model for travel writing today, and this one of her greatest works.
Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travelers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China an...
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111,93 zł |
The Peace Correspondent
ISBN: 9789881815460 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a fresh and often hilarious perspective, this account chronicles journalist Garry Marchant s travels around Asia during a 30-year period. Covering familiar and lesser-known points in the East, this detailed guide reflects upon the similarities and differences between various Asian locales and demonstrates how the region has evolved in recent decades. Written by a curious and well-seasoned traveler, this remarkable record is filled with invaluable information as well as amusing anecdotes."
Offering a fresh and often hilarious perspective, this account chronicles journalist Garry Marchant s travels around Asia during a 30-year period. Cov...
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87,59 zł |
Gus Greenbear and the Beijing Fortune Cookie Caper
ISBN: 9780984619108 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark and Gus, both martial-arts and visual artists, surprisingly get mixed up in mystery, intrigue, and strange encounters in the Far East. While Mark explores oriental paintings, practices kung-fu forms, finds culinary treats, and visits popular Beijing sights, his stuffed companion, Gus Greenbear, drops into a time warp full of historical figures in the guise of teddy bears.
Mark and Gus, both martial-arts and visual artists, surprisingly get mixed up in mystery, intrigue, and strange encounters in the Far East. While Mark...
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73,03 zł |
Walk Beijing: Walking Guide to Beijing
ISBN: 9781419659072 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walk Beijing is a tourist friendly guide to 5 walks in the heart of Beijing. Suzy will lead you through both the famous and the unique sites of this vibrant capital city. Each walk bears the name of one of the FuWa (Olympic mascots): BeiBei, JingJing, HuanHuan, YingYing, and NiNi. The walks begin and end in different districts of the city to enable you to see the most of Beijing in the shortest amount of time. Unlike other walking guides, Walk Beijing gives you the information you need to arrive at your destination: point-to-point maps;1 day agendas; Direction Keys in English, Pinyin and...
Walk Beijing is a tourist friendly guide to 5 walks in the heart of Beijing. Suzy will lead you through both the famous and the unique sites of this v...
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77,55 zł |
Life in China: My Story
ISBN: 9781456898670 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,40 zł |
Life in China: My Story
ISBN: 9781456898687 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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155,14 zł |
The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang
ISBN: 9780415666251 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China's hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest one another to ready Lijiang for tourist consumption. Using rich material from insightful interviews and quantitative data, the authors show how complex tourism development can be even as it strives to do good for the community. Su and Teo investigate the practices of contestation and... This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China's hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling... |
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229,49 zł |
China: Perspectives of A Transplanted Mango
ISBN: 9781448639830 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author calls herself a mango, yellow on the outside and yellow on the inside. She is Chinese, a descendent of generations of Chinese ancestry. Like a mango, she is the fruit of a strong family tree, nurtured from roots that are anchored deeply in rich Chinese soil. She has been living in the United States for five years. After being bathed in the East Coast sunshine and absorbing the nutrition of the American soil she has observed and analyzed the culture with a dual perspective of both the inside and the outside. She is a transplanted mango. The author reflected on personal stories that...
The author calls herself a mango, yellow on the outside and yellow on the inside. She is Chinese, a descendent of generations of Chinese ancestry. Lik...
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67,42 zł |
Travels in China
ISBN: 9780745650807 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. While they were welcomed by writers and academics, the travelers were required to follow a pre-established itinerary, visiting factories and construction sites, frequenting shows and restaurants that were the mainstay of Western visitors to China in the 70s.
Barthes planned to return from the trip with a book... In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in Chi...
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274,58 zł |
The Thin White Line
ISBN: 9780916182205 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by an experienced expat who lived in Hangzhou for many years and rode his bicycle nearly every day through heavy traffic, monsoon rains, snow, and other conditions, this work is the definitive guide to the start of one's bicycling adventures on the streets of China's major cities.
Written by an experienced expat who lived in Hangzhou for many years and rode his bicycle nearly every day through heavy traffic, monsoon rains, snow,...
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109,76 zł |
The Civilization of China
ISBN: 9781618950192 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the near present period of rapid and startling transition. It has been written, primarily, for readers who wish to expand their world view and knowledge on China's civilization in the hope that it may succeed in alluring them to a wider and more methodical research.
The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the near present period of rapid and startl...
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74,88 zł |
The Olympic Tour of China: Seeing Sports, Venues, Cities and Parks All Together
ISBN: 9780976118336 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Olympic Tour of China: Seeing Sports, Venues, Cities and Parks All Together in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao and Shenyang The holding of the 2008 Olympics is an important event in the history of China. Many Chinese see it as a symbol of China's growing power and its increasingly important role in international arenas and thus have made tremendous efforts to make it successful. For many outside China, it is a great opportunity to travel to China and see the 2008 Olympic Summer Games as well as the transformation of the cities of China, even as a post Olympic tour. This...
The Olympic Tour of China: Seeing Sports, Venues, Cities and Parks All Together in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao and Shenyang The h...
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115,34 zł |
Feminism and Socialism in China
ISBN: 9780415519151 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women's movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards, Professor Croll provides an opportunity to study its construction, its ideological and structural development over a number of decades, and its often ambiguous relationship with a parallel movement to establish socialism. Based on a variety of material including eye witness accounts, the author...
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each toward...
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965,13 zł |
Yin-Yang: American Perspectives on Living in China
ISBN: 9781442212701 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspectives and locales for Westerners considering the leap. This unique collection of letters offers a rarely seen, intimate, and refreshingly honest view of living and working in China. Here, ordinary people--recent college graduates, teachers, professors, engineers, lawyers, computer whizzes, and parents-- recount their experiences in venues ranging from classrooms to marketplaces to holy mountains. The writers are genuine participants in the daily...
China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspec...
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164,75 zł |
An Intrepid Traveller: Breaking China with the Idiots Abroad
ISBN: 9781426994876 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,74 zł |
Learning English Through Phonetics
ISBN: 9781453587263 / Wielojęzykowe / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,10 zł |
Learning English Through Phonetics
ISBN: 9781453587270 / Wielojęzykowe / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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181,00 zł |
Yes China!: An English Teacher's Love-Hate Relationship with a Foreign Country
ISBN: 9781463718695 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yes China is a funny, self-deprecating, and brutally honest travelogue/memoir about teaching English in modern China. The author, an American fish out of water, shares a unique perspective on the Chinese classroom as well as what it's like growing up post Mormonism and how living abroad helped him overcome those insecurities. If you have a sense of humor (seriously, that part's important) and any interest in what it's like to teach English in China, then this book is for you. Nielsen describes in vivid detail moments from his elementary, middle school, and adult training school classes,...
Yes China is a funny, self-deprecating, and brutally honest travelogue/memoir about teaching English in modern China. The author, an American fish ou...
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41,03 zł |
Twilight in the Forbidden City (Illustrated and Revised 4th Edition): Includes bonus previously unpublished chapter
ISBN: 9781466288126 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,89 zł |
Chopsticks Culture: Your Photo Guide to Exploring Chinese Cuisine
ISBN: 9781466335288 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chopsticks culture: Your Photo Guide to exploring Chinese cuisine, is an additional guide to the smart phone app of the same name. It can be used alone. The app is a cool flashy and boisterous program that will remind you of a trip to Chinatown. What's its primary use? Challenge your friends in a game and see who can match a mouth-watering Chinese dish with its name in English Chinese and phonetics. If that's too simple for your taste or your liking try the app's main use: master the way of ordering Chinese dishes in Cantonese or Mandarin with the help of our adorable Madam Chu and cool...
Chopsticks culture: Your Photo Guide to exploring Chinese cuisine, is an additional guide to the smart phone app of the same name. It can be used alon...
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59,29 zł |