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The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Are
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 35.00Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to the threshold of divinity and a philosophical temperament... more...
The Lahu Minority in Southwest China
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system, with the highest suicide rate in the world,... more...
Geschichte Russlands
C.H. Beck 2013; US$ 45.29Hauptbeschreibung Von den dunklen Anfängen in der Kiever und der mongolischen Epoche führt dieses Buch uns in das Zeitalter Iwans des Schrecklichen, das Jahrhundert Peters des Großen und durch das 18. und 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Untergang des Zarenreiches. Souverän die internationale Forschung beherrschend, gekonnt in der Darstellung, differenziert... more...
Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies... more...
The Dark Road
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 22.67Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm... more...
Let Them Play
Redleaf Press 2012; US$ 34.95The best learning is done when children are allowed freedom to play. more...
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 147.00Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. Divided into two sections closely linked by extensive cross-references, it covers: traditional grammatical categories such as phrase order, nouns, verbs and specifiers language functions... more...
Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.95The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a... more...
Renewable Energy Sources
Spon Press 1990; US$ 360.00Presents and analyses the sources of renewable energy, including advantages and disadvantages, projects implemented internationally, cost and environmental implications, and the benefits of system integration. more...
Media, Technology and Copyright
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00Economic consultant Einhorn combines discussion of law and economics in his examination of copyright and other intellectual property issues of media content. Eight chapters consider such topics as the economic uncertainty produced by the fair use regime, the economics of digital rights management. more...









