Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1593392257
This book provides an overview of China including history, politics, government, and economy.
Author : Encyclopedia Britannica
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762433674
An in-depth and authoritative account of China, this volume is a comprehensive introduction to the people, and their culture and history spanning 3,500 years of civilization. It also gives a thorough picture of the rise of modern China as a superpower and what that means for the rest of the world.
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615300643
By their very nature, inventions change the status quo. The innovations highlighted in this book have done so in a most dramatic, memorable, or effective fashion. Through engaging narrative and accompanying images, this volume gives readers a deeper appreciation for the inventions that have made their lives easier, more aesthetically pleasing, or otherwise better.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615300651
There was a time when every voyage contained an element of the unknown. Today, however, the world spreads out before us carefully mapped and plotted. One must credit explorers with this transformation. Readers will devour these tales of explorers who have pushed geographic and personal boundaries, leaving virtually no corner of the globe off limits.
Author : Heather M. Campbell Senior Editor, Geography and History
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2009-12-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615300163
Discusses the most influential political and social movements and their roles in the history of modern world politics, including liberalism, conservatism, facism, and religious fundamentalism.
Author : Scott D. Seligman
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9888139894
Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847–1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term “Chinese American,” Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to win their rights. A trailblazer and a born showman who proclaimed himself China’s first Confucian missionary to the United States, he founded America’s first association of Chinese voters and testified before Congress to get laws that denied them citizenship repealed. Wong challenged Americans to live up to the principles they freely espoused but failed to apply to the Chinese in their midst. This evocative biography is the first book-length account of the life and times of one of America’s most famous Chinese—and one of its earliest campaigners for racial equality.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615300635
There was a time when people assumed that the world was flat. Once an alternate theory was proposed, however, that conceit was challenged and, eventually, disproved. In short, theories and ideas can be potent agents of changenone more so than those that are extensively detailed in this book.
Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1593398506
The Britannica Guide to Russia offers a panoramic view of Russia, telling the history of the nation since 1917 as well as the story of its culture, religion, arts, and literature in the twentieth century and beyond. Russia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world attracting billions of dollars of investment every year. As the nation re-emerges from the Cold War it is increasingly important to know where it is heading. Russia is a land of superlatives, it is also a country of extremes and by far the worlds largest country, it extends across the whole of northern Asia and the eastern third of Europe, spanning eleven time zones. The guide also covers the major places to visit such as Moscow, St Petersburg, and Kiev as well as a particular focus on the contemporary nation since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Out of the ashes of the cold war, a new super power has emerged including the rise of the Oligarchs, the presidency of Vladimir Putin, and the role of Russia in the new world order.
