The Silk Route was a trade path that connected the Mediterranean region with Central Asia and China. In this book, readers follow the adventures of a band of traders as they travel from China to Byzantium during the time of the Tang Dynasty (a.d. 700). Along the way, the caravan visits Central Asia, Persia, and Arabia. Full-color illustrations and ...
Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In ...
An essential guide to the world's finest literature and thought, this classic reference has been completely revised to include the leading writers of the non-Western world and more women authors than ever. In print for almost 40 years, "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" provides introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature, arranged ...
The essays here each address a work of literature compact enough to fill a single evening of riveting reading. Short books like THE GREAT GATSBY, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, MADAME DE TREYMES and many others are discussed.
History in Quotations is an exciting and original work of historical reference. From the Iraq of ancient Babylon to the Iraq war of 2003 - taking in the histories of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in a grand global sweep - it uses the innovative medium of some 9000 chronologically arranged quotations to tell the story of more than 5000 ...
An essential guide to the world's finest literature and thought, this classic reference has been completely revised to include the leading writers of the non-Western world and more women authors than ever. In print for almost 40 years, "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" provides introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature, arranged ...
This summer the cellist Yo-Yo Ma highlights a year devoted to his Silk Road Project at the spectacular National Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. Through exhibits, concerts, and lectures, the festival celebrates the arts, crafts, and music of the lands along the ancient trade route. Through telling interviews, lavish color photos, maps, and ...
An exploration of the evolution of Chinese dress, from the dragon robes and lotus shoes of the imperial era to the modern "Mao suit". It demolishes the myth of an ancient, unchanging mode of dress. The text is supplemented by six essays by scholars of Chinese dress.
Drawing on numerous primary sources, this volume covers the history of Asia from the reunification of China under the Sui and Tang dynasties from the fifth century CE to Choson Korea in the 16th century, also covering other parts of the continent including India and Japan. This book is designed to serve the seventh grade social studies curriculum ...
Exquisite color photos of more than 800 Navy aviation patches make this a must for the collector or anyone interested in military decorations. Includes patches for Top Gun units, Fighter and Attack squadrons, Aggressor squadrons, and aircraft carriers.
Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the period between 700 and 200 BC, is of great importance in the subsequent development Chinese culture. This book attempts a broad and in-depth analysis of this state, tracing the evolution of the Chu from a vassal state of Zhou to its rise and ...
"A Huguenot on the Hackensack" explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley. There he founded a prosperous family that for nearly three centuries retained local influence and high status before ...
A virtuous young woman journeys to the Land of the Dead to retrieve the still-beating heart of a king; a wily corpse-monster tricks his young captor into setting him free; a king falls under a curse that turns him into a cannibal; a shepherd who understands the speech of animals saves a princess from certain death. These are just a few of the ...
Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, there was created under the Yi Dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks. The present volume is the result of close collaboration between four distinguished historians of Asian science to demonstrate the context, purpose, nature and specific ...
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