China Horizon, The: Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State (Zhang Weiwei)(Paperback)

China Horizon, The: Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State (Zhang Weiwei)(Paperback)

This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best-known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's 'China Trilogy', which is a best-seller in China, with over one million copies sold. The book in itself is a centerpiece of the unfolding debate within

Nelson: A Dream of Glory (Sugden Dr John)(Paperback / softback)

Nelson: A Dream of Glory is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vivid and compelling

The Rise of the Civilizational State (Coker Christopher)(Paperback)

In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world. Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational

Public Spending and the Role of the State (Schuknecht Ludger)(Paperback)

Given high government spending, debt and the new challenges on the horizon, the themes of this work are more relevant than ever: the essential tool of spending by the state, its 'value for money', likely risks in the future, and the remedies to create lean, efficient and sustainable government

Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (Zhang Meng)(Paperback)

In the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the

Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (Zhang Li)(Paperback)

The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological

Conversations (Weiwei Ai)(Paperback)

Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career. These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the

Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China (Cong Lin William)(Paperback)

Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs in the financing of private innovations in China. While country-level innovation can take many forms, the focus is on the funding of business start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures. The monograph

China Mountain Zhang (McHugh Maureen F.)(Paperback / softback)

Imagine a world where Chinese Marxism has vanquished the values of capitalism and Lenin is the prophet of choice. A cybernetic world where the new charioteers are flyers, human-powered kites dancing in the skies over New York in a brief grab at glory. A world where the opulence of Beijing marks a

Land of Milk and Honey - Zhang C Pam

A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the worldA smog has spread. Food crops are disappearing. A chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, her enigmatic

Huawei Goes Global: Volume I: Made in China for the World (Zhang Wenxian)(Pevná vazba)

Huawei Goes Global provides a much-needed, comprehensive, and scholarly examination of the business environment and the striving global operations of China's technology giant. With theoretical research, case studies, data analysis, and empirical studies, this two-volume work tells a fascinating

The Glory of God Revealed (Rigney Donna)(Paperback)

The Glory of God RevealedAs you read The Glory of God Revealed, you will be amazed at the wonderful things Donna Rigney saw and learned on her many spiritual encounters with Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. Her vivid, detailed accounts of a special golden mountain in Heaven, and all that glorious

Death or Glory Volume 2 (Remender Rick)(Paperback)

Glory is back-and barreling toward the Mexican border in hopes of delivering the liver for her father's life-saving transplant. Time, fuel, and hope are running out, but no one outruns Glory! Don't miss the concluding chapter of RICK REMENDER and BENGAL's runaway smash hit! Collects DEATH OR GLORY

Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination (Bill Franck)(Paperback)

From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil. Conceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how

Sports Journalism: A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology (Washburn Patrick S.)(Paperback)

Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and

Up: My Life's Journey to the Top of Everest (Fogle Ben)(Paperback)

My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest.Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen hundreds of times in photographs and films but never in real life.In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben

The State and Revolution: Russian-English Edition (Lenin Vladimir)(Paperback)

The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. It is considered to be Lenin's most

George W. Bush and China: Policies, Problems, and Partnerships (Wang Chi)(Pevná vazba)

This study analyzes United States policies regarding China during the administration of President George W. Bush. Chi Wang examines the relationship between the United States and China from its tense origins to its current

The Power and the Glory (Greene Graham)(Paperback)

One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence back to Dostoyevsky and forward to Cormac McCarthy. Named one of the

The Heroic Legend of Arslan 14 (Tanaka Yoshiki)(Paperback)

The epic of palace intrigue and battlefield glory, from the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, that became a hit anime franchise! THE PRINCE OF IRE Arslan's army has returned with a new resolve to turn back the Tūrа̄nian forces besieging Peshawar. Though they have succeeded in foiling each attempt

Guardian of the Horizon (Peters Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to flee to Germany to avoid temptation. Then a mysterious visitor changes

Tales of Boomtown Glory: Complete Lyrics and Selected Chronicles for the Songs of Bob Geldof (Geldof Bob)(Paperback)

The Arts of China, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded (Sullivan Michael)(Paperback)

Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related topics, but as a continuous story. With updated

Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility (Zhang Dongyong)(Paperback)

This book explores the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) across the developing world, with a particular focus on China and sustainable development. Through an extensive review of the literature and relevant case studies, the book examines whether CSR can make a contribution to