The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle and the looming threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ball of mud, Taiwan ha...Loe edasi...
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle—and the renewed threat of invasion by China.Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’,...Loe edasi...
Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over 23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokémon and plushies. In this comprehensive guide, Jonathan Clements chronicles the produc...Loe edasi...
Getting to financial independence can seem like an impossible journey, but there are proven routes to freedom and wealth. To help you make your own way to true and lasting financial independence, acclaimed personal finance writer Jonathan Clements ha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Nov-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368654)
A fascinating history of Finland from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. The modern nation of Finland is the heir to centuries of history, as a wilderness at the edge of early Europe, a borderland of the Swedish empire, a...Loe edasi...
A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the countrys modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition FUCHSIA DUNLOP...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781913368463)
A guide to the history of China’s capital, from before its rise to prominence as the seat of empires to the 2022 Winter Olympics. Before China’s capital became a sprawling megacity and international center of business and culture, it...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781912208975)
Tokyo, which in Japanese means the &;Eastern Capital,&; has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the city that is now Tokyo was a sprawling fishing town by the bay named Edo. Earlier sti...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at Chinas history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not ful...Loe edasi...
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2017, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Haus Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781909961371)
The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts. For thousands of years its history has been a traveler’s history, of...Loe edasi...
From Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a new history of the evolution of East Asian styles of unarmed combat, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu....Loe edasi...
In 1638, the ruler of Japan ordered a crusade against his own subjects, a holocaust upon the men, women and children of a doomsday cult....Loe edasi...
