China's Urban Revolution - Understanding Chinese Eco-Ci...
By 2025, China will have built fifteen new `supercities ea...
Making Chinese Australia: Urban Elites, Newspapers & Ch...
Making Chinese Australia: Urban Elites, Newspapers & Chinese...
Urban Transformation: Understanding City Design and For...
Urban Transformation: Understanding City Design and Form - U...
Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Rev...
Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revoluti...
Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Rev...
Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revoluti...
The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History
Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently availab...
Australian Urban Land Use Planning: Principles; Systems...
Urban and regional planning is increasingly central to publi...
Cities: Skylines - Green Cities DLC Steam CD Key
Cities: Skylines - Green Citiesis a new expansion for the ci...
The New Chinese - How They Are Shaping Australia
Bridge the gap between the china you know and the real china...
The Third Revolution - Xi Jingping and the New Chinese ...
In The Third Revolution, Elizabeth Economy, one of America...
China's Urban Revolution - Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities
The China Mirage - The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia. Christian Science Monitor James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americansincluding FDRs grandfather, Warren Delanowho in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants ...
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyles great work The French Revolution. `The best story I have written was Dickens own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this...
Essential Chinese
This portable; userâfriendly Chinese language guide and phrasebook is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Chinese before and during your trip.If you only want one Chinese language bookâEssential Chinese is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing'sEssential Phrasebooks Series; it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of China and Taiwan and is also designed a...
Dragon and Kangaroo - Australia and China's Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country our intertwined history from colonial times to today. Chinese presence in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here right through to the present day, with Chinese activities ranging from being the main customer for our iron o...
Chinese Whispers - China Thriller 6
GRUESOME MURDERS His victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijings serious crime squad, must stop him. FEARSOME LETTERS Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killers cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions. CHINESE WHISPERS Theres no way Li can misin...
The Great Zoo of China
Reilly has
written a novel that will have his die-hard fans rejoicing Canberra Times It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists are invited to see its fab...
China's Urban Revolution - Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities
By 2025, China will have built fifteen new `supercities each with 25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 `Eco-cities as well: clean, green, car-free, people-friendly, high-tech urban centres. From the edge of an impending eco-catastrophe, we are arguably witnessing historys greatest environmental turnaround an urban experiment that may provide valuable lessons for cities worldw...
Little Soldiers - An American Boy, a Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve
I couldnt put this book down. Whip smart, hilariously funny and shocking. A must-readAmy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother In 2009, Lenora Chu, her husband Rob, and toddler Rainey, moved from LA to the Chinese megacity Shanghai. The US economy was spinning circles, while China seemed to be eating the planets economic lunch. Whats more, Shanghai teena...
Real Food of China
The Real Food of China is the definitive guide to home-style Chinese cuisine. It is inspired by the authors personal travels to China and the realisation that what is commonly perceived as Chinese food in the Western world, is only part of the story. While there is a growing appreciation of regional Chinese food in larger cities outside China, a lot of authentic regional cuisine still go...
The Cities Book
Lonely Planets bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised and updated, its a celebration of 200 of the worlds most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed and packed with trip advice and recommendations from our experts making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next. - Highlights and itineraries help travellers plan their perfect tri...
Happy City - Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this centurys problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living This is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in? As Charles Montgomery reveals, its not how much money your neighbours earn, or how pleasant the climate is that makes the most difference. Journeying to ...
Great Books of China
Discover or rediscover the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from suc...
Chinese Philosophy
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time to recognize traditional concepts that continue to inform Chinese thinking today China, an emerging superpower, ...
Assassinâs Creed Chronicles: China Uplay CD Key
Assassinâs Creed Chronicles: China Uplay CD KeyPlatform:UplayRelease Date: 21 Apr, 2015 Product DescriptionA thrilling new saga in the Assassins Creed Universe, Assassins Creed Chronicles take players to three distinct civilizations and time periods throughout history: the start of the Ming Dynasty crumble, the Sikh Empire going at war in India and the aftermath of Red October revolution. D...
The People's Bard - How China Made Shakespeare its Own: Penguin Specials
The story of Shakespeare in China is one of cultural blending and reinvention. Peopled by devoted evangelists, theatre directors and dogged interpreters intent on bridging divisions of language and politics, it tracks the trajectory of modern Chinese history and the development of theatre arts. Four hundred years after Shakespeares death, Nancy Pellegrini pulls back the curtain on how the Bard o...
The Urban Sketching Handbook - Understanding Perspective
A good sketch starts with good bones. Often challenging and overwhelming to sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or dont provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when youre out in the bu...
Urban Pioneer - Interiors Inspired by Industrial Design
More than half the worlds population now lives in cities as we flock to urban centres in search of jobs, easy commutes, cultural institutions and a thriving social life. The resulting pressures on housing mean that homeowners and renters are boldly converting ex-industrial and non-residential spaces into innovative contemporary homes. The conversion of such buildings into residential spaces fir...
The Tragedy of Liberation - A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijings Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikoetter interweaves the stories of millions ...
China's Great Wall of Debt - Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle
The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the countrys economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk. Once dominated by four state-owned banks, the nations financial system is a tangle of shadow banking entities, informal financial institutions, and complex corporate funding arrangements that threaten growth, stability, ...
The Bronze Dog - Stories of the Chinese Zodiac, A Story in English and Chinese
This beautifully illustrated multicultural childrens book tells the story of two young brothers and a magical dog in both English and Chinese. Once upon a time, at the foot of the mountains called Zhongnan in the Shaanxi Province of China, there were two brothers who lived alone and depended on each other. One day, the elder one dug out a bronze dog while tilling which made the brothers very hap...
Chinese Commercial Legal System
The economic power and influence of The Peoples Republic of China continues to grow. Accordingly, an appreciation of the commercial environment of China has never been so important. The Chinese Commercial Legal System provides a valuable insight into significant features of commercial law and culture in China. Written by specialists on Chinese business law from Australia, South-East Asia and Chi...