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Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Offers multiple perspectives on momentous events. This volume provides an overview of the massive earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 followed minutes later by a powerful tsunami, and the next day by an explosion that rocked a nuclear power plant and caused a leak in a reactor.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Frederick Rutland was an accomplished aviator, British WWI war hero, and real-life James Bond. He was the first pilot to take off and land a plane on a ship, a decorated warrior for his feats of bravery and rescue, was trusted by the admirals of the Royal Navy, had a succession of aeronautical inventions, and designed the first modern aircraft carrier. He was perhaps the most famous early twentieth-century naval aviator. Despite all of this, and due...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Performing the Socialist State centers on three founding fathers of modern Chinese drama: Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian. All three traveled abroad in the early 20th century (Tian and Ouyang to Japan, Hong to the US) and returned to China to introduce Western theater technique and style. After the founding of the PRC in 1949, all three became key leaders in the formation of a canon of socialist theater and in the reform of traditional opera....
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Philip Almond's engaging new book is the first to combine a history of early traditions about the Buddha's life with an account of how he and the philosophy inspired by him went 'global'. It shows how the enchanted mythological figure of Buddhism became the disenchanted historical Buddha of the West"--
"Alongside Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is the most significant figure in the history of religion. Philip Almond's engaging new book is the first...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), and South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). Incorporating hundreds of interviews, as well...
Publisher
Routedge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations offers a fresh examination of Australia's past and present. From the complex interactions of First Nations to modern international relations with significant partners and allies, it examines the forces which have influenced the place now called Australia both historically and today. It is a unique history told in two parts. The first half of the book examines the way Australia...
Author
Publisher
Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The complement to the forthcoming BBC2 series, Japanese Gardens, beautifully produced in full colour and with over 200 photographs. Written by Monty Don with photographs by Derry Moore, the duo behind the highly-acclaimed Paradise Gardens. Traditional Japanese gardens combine aesthetics with ethics, beauty with philosophy in a celebration of the natural world. A Japanese garden is the natural world made miniature: rocks represent mountains, ponds...
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