Prepare Yourself for China: The Visitor's Survival Guide to China
ISBN: 9781467935265 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is a whole other planet (and you're the alien). Hit the ground running with this essential know-how and friendly advice based on a decade of personal experience and the hard-earned wisdom of dozens of veteran expats. Expert advice straight from the horse's mouth to make sure you avoid making the same mistakes as the countless thousands who have gone before you. Indispensable knowledge from the school of hard knocks, punctuated with real life anecdotes, this essential survival guide gives you the confidence to take China in your stride and prepare for the extraordinary everyday...
China is a whole other planet (and you're the alien). Hit the ground running with this essential know-how and friendly advice based on a decade of per...
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28,74 zł |
The Little World
ISBN: 9781849024181 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The Little World- is a fascinating travel book, in which Benson describes her travels around the world, concentrating on China and the USA.
-The Little World- is a fascinating travel book, in which Benson describes her travels around the world, concentrating on China and the USA.
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93,11 zł |
Across Thibet: Being a Translation of de Paris Au Tonkin À Travers Le Tibet Inconnu
ISBN: 9781108046343 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853 1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English translation by C. B. Pitman of the 1889 90 French original was published in 1891. It describes Bonvalot's expedition across Europe and Asia to French Indochina. Accompanied by Prince Henri d'Orleans whose father, the Duc of Chartres, financed the expedition, Bonvalot left Paris in July 1889. In Volume 2, the expedition succeeds in gaining formal permission to enter Tibet, despite the Lhasa government's usual policy of turning away foreigners. Bonvalot...
The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853 1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English transla...
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221,24 zł |
Across Thibet: Being a Translation of de Paris Au Tonkin À Travers Le Tibet Inconnu
ISBN: 9781108046336 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853 1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English translation by C. B. Pitman of the 1889 90 French original was published in 1891. It describes Bonvalot's expedition across Europe and Asia to French Indochina. Accompanied by Prince Henri d'Orleans whose father, the Duc of Chartres, financed the expedition, Bonvalot left Paris in July 1889. In Volume 1, the expedition crosses first Russia and then Siberia, making its way south to Tibet. The obstacles encountered are considerable, with temperatures...
The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853 1933) travelled widely in Central Asia in the 1880s. This two-volume English transla...
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221,24 zł |
Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from That Country in the Years 1816 and 1817: Containing an Account of Lord Am
ISBN: 9781108045995 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clarke Abel (c.1780 1825) was Chief Medical Officer accompanying Lord Amherst's unsuccessful diplomatic embassy to China in 1816. Encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks, he acted as official naturalist to the expedition, which penetrated further into China than had been possible for previous western visitors. Although most of his large collection of botanical and mineralogical specimens was lost during the return voyage, survivals included several new species, some of which were named after him. This work, published in 1818, made Abel's reputation, and he was elected to the Royal Society the...
Clarke Abel (c.1780 1825) was Chief Medical Officer accompanying Lord Amherst's unsuccessful diplomatic embassy to China in 1816. Encouraged by Sir Jo...
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436,70 zł |
Urban Tourism in China
ISBN: 9780415623827 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past 30 years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010. This collection of research reports examines issues such as consumer behaviour, the social impact of tourism, and urban destination image.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research
China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past 30 years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympi...
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709,67 zł |
Faith in Heritage: Displacement, Development, and Religious Tourism in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9781611320732 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the example of China's Wutai Shan--recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park--Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chinese applications of western notions of heritage management within a non-western framework. What does the concept of world heritage mean for a site practically unheard of outside of China, visited almost exclusively by Buddhist religious pilgrims? What does heritage preservation mean for a site whose intrinsic value isn't in its historic buildings or cultural significance, but for its sacredness within the Buddhist faith? How does a society...
Using the example of China's Wutai Shan--recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park--Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chines...
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709,67 zł |
Faith in Heritage: Displacement, Development, and Religious Tourism in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9781611320749 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the example of China's Wutai Shan--recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park--Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chinese applications of western notions of heritage management within a non-western framework. What does the concept of world heritage mean for a site practically unheard of outside of China, visited almost exclusively by Buddhist religious pilgrims? What does heritage preservation mean for a site whose intrinsic value isn't in its historic buildings or cultural significance, but for its sacredness within the Buddhist faith? How does a society...
Using the example of China's Wutai Shan--recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park--Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chines...
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210,22 zł |
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries
ISBN: 9781108045919 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1847, this is an important description of what were then little-known parts of China by the botanist Robert Fortune (1812 80). Son of a hedger, Fortune rose to be one of the most famous gardeners, botanists and plant hunters of his day, making several visits to China to bring out commercially important plants, especially tea for introduction to British India, and ornamental plants (many now bearing the name fortunei) which were enthusiastically taken up by Victorian gardeners. His three years in China took him to areas newly open to Europeans after Chinese defeat in the...
First published in 1847, this is an important description of what were then little-known parts of China by the botanist Robert Fortune (1812 80). Son ...
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326,06 zł |
Life under the Eastern Sky
ISBN: 9781466222427 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays about Contemporary Chinese Culture This book offers an intimate picture of life in modern China, by focusing on the past and the present. The essays are informal, easy to read, but filled with crucial information that a traveler, businessman, or student needs to know when traveling, living or working in China. One author is a native Chinese; one author is a native American; one is male; one is female. They have cooperated together for many years as educators and both desire to give their readers an engaging perspective on life in the PRC. You will find the scope of knowledge broad but...
Essays about Contemporary Chinese Culture This book offers an intimate picture of life in modern China, by focusing on the past and the present. The e...
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41,33 zł |
China or Bust!: a rookie's guide to living and surviving in China as an ESL teacher
ISBN: 9781475266528 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lana, staid, predictable, suffering from 'empty nest syndrome' needed a change. After spending most of her 40 years of marriage rearing her family and caring for elderly parents, she proposed a change of mammoth proportions After attending an information evening about teaching English in China, she and her husband go back to school; get qualifications; arrange a job in a small university; book their flights and head off to the unknown, where they can't speak one word of the language. Their first 24 hours were a roller coaster experience of crazy taxi drivers; pick pockets; hotel staff that...
Lana, staid, predictable, suffering from 'empty nest syndrome' needed a change. After spending most of her 40 years of marriage rearing her family and...
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77,93 zł |
Finding Compassion in China: A Bicycle Journey into The Countryside
ISBN: 9780985009656 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discovering a largely forbidden country, Cindie Cohagan cycled across China's most arduous landscapes including daring ascents over some of the highest Himalayan passes in the world. Her journey is not only a stunning physical adventure, but also a mental and spiritual quest that pushes her towards and eventual conversion to Buddhism. Cindie's honest portrayal of the strangers she meets in this foreign land touch the heart. Finding Compassion in China speaks of fragile yet beautiful encounters with a country and its people: from angry authorities, to enthusiastic prostitutes to simple...
Discovering a largely forbidden country, Cindie Cohagan cycled across China's most arduous landscapes including daring ascents over some of the highes...
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73,51 zł |
On Leaving Bai Di Cheng: The Culture of China's Yangzi Gorges
ISBN: 9781550210835 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is the product of a private Canadian expedition to China in 1992. Its members sought to gauge the potential cultural destruction of the daunting and controversial Three Gorges Dam project, which was actively supported by the Canadian government and by corporate sectors.What cultural losses will accompany the expected economic and political gains? What will China, Canada, and the world community lose? How might we, as Canadians, view the purpose and impact of the project, which is now well under way? Using a government-sponsored assessment of the cultural artifacts destined to be... The book is the product of a private Canadian expedition to China in 1992. Its members sought to gauge the potential cultural destruction of the da... |
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56,70 zł |
Kina: A Selyemuton
ISBN: 9781479163823 / Węgierski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Kina a Selyemuton" konyvecske ket reszbol all. Az elso a csaszarkori bolcselkedeseket, vallasi hagyomanyokat es azoknak tarsadalmi es muveszeti hatasait targyalja. Ezek a folyamatos csaszari uralomnak az alapjai. A masodik resz muveszetuk valos, jellegzetes kinai szepsegerol, a nok sorsarol es emberi problemakrol szol. A megfigyeleseim a kinai utazasom szemelyes elmenyeire epulnek. Sok kep beillesztesevel probalom a mult hangulatat visszavarazsolni. English title: China on the Silk Road The first part of the book narrates the historical background on which the continuity of the imperial...
"Kina a Selyemuton" konyvecske ket reszbol all. Az elso a csaszarkori bolcselkedeseket, vallasi hagyomanyokat es azoknak tarsadalmi es muveszeti hatas...
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183,90 zł |
Dancing on the Frontier: Travels by Land through China and Tibet
ISBN: 9781479701568 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a memoir of a year I spent off the beaten track in China. From the Pacific coast to the dusty heart of Central Asia, I travelled 10,000 miles through virtually every region of that vast country. My backpacking adventures were much more than just a young man s solitary wanderings. I taught myself Mandarin so that I could communicate with anyone and everyone I came across. My book is a personal account, yes, but it is also reveals China through the eyes of the Chinese. I spoke to people in every part of the nation, from politically-disillusioned artists in Shanghai to... This is a memoir of a year I spent off the beaten track in China. From the Pacific coast to the dusty heart of Central Asia, I travelled 10,000 mil... |
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91,91 zł |
The Story of China Studies
ISBN: 9781622120888 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,35 zł |
An Intrepid Traveller: An Olympic Year
ISBN: 9781466965133 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is an amazing country, a place that needs time and complete immersion to be able to understand. I took a job as a tour leader and instantly I was out of my depth. I experienced places and situations that I could never have been prepared for and all with a group of paying tourists who were looking to me for guidance. However, it was not long before I saw that the people who had saved up for their holiday of a life time were far less prepared than I was. Over the first season I visited many parts of the vast country, sampling the culture and learning much about what China is. I had some...
China is an amazing country, a place that needs time and complete immersion to be able to understand. I took a job as a tour leader and instantly I wa...
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99,57 zł |
Expat in China: A Family Adventure
ISBN: 9781480139572 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At age 40, Greg and Heidi Rhodes kept a rash promise to each other made 17 years earlier, when the naive, mortgage-free expats swore to return to China with their own children. Arriving back in the Middle Kingdom in 2005, they were surprised to find their former home city, Chengdu, unrecognizable. Familiar landmarks and expectations had been swept away by China's rushing tide of progress, replaced by glass skyscrapers, McDonald's restaurants, and a frenetic scramble to get ahead.
At age 40, Greg and Heidi Rhodes kept a rash promise to each other made 17 years earlier, when the naive, mortgage-free expats swore to return to Chin...
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59,72 zł |
An American Teacher in Taiwan
ISBN: 9781491045138 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One writer's experience about living, working, dating, finding love, and raising kids in a foreign country. If you've ever thought about teaching English in an Asian country, then this book is for you. You'll learn what to expect when you arrive, how to pick a good school, what qualifications you'll need, how to come up with interesting ways to teach foreign kids, and much more. But this book goes much deeper than just teaching. The writer shares some very personal information about dating and finding a deep and meaningful relationship while living abroad. What starts out as a helpful guide...
One writer's experience about living, working, dating, finding love, and raising kids in a foreign country. If you've ever thought about teaching Engl...
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45,93 zł |
The China Diary: An American Professor's Humorous Adventures In Communist/Capitalist China
ISBN: 9781482014075 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author has returned to China five times over the past five years as a university professor. During that time he has been able to witness first hand the cultural and economic miracle that has transformed China into a dominant world power. His adventures to neighboring Vietnam and Outer Mongolia will add to the reader's understanding of Asian countries today. The author's insightful experiences will both entertain and enlighten the reader.
The author has returned to China five times over the past five years as a university professor. During that time he has been able to witness first han...
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36,78 zł |