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J J Smith
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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Lillian China Smith
Space Boy is a heart-warming story for children about a young boy named Harry and his daddy, who is an inventor. Harry’s dad turns his bed into a magical rocket…
Lillian Smith has been a writer on her illness in print and online media and helped many people by sharing her story with others. This book began as an idea…
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Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the 1980s. It traces developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China…
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Alex Baratta, Rui He, Paul Vincent Smith
This book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at "China English" through the academic writing of Chinese students at a British university…
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith
As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ever.
From trade wars and pandemic…
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith
RELEVANT TOPIC PULLED FROM THE HEADLINES: In recent years barely a news cycle goes by without some mention of China's supposed maleficence. This focus is unlikely to abet anytime soon…
China Smith
China Smith was born and raised in Sarasota, Florida in humble circumstances, but with a dream in his heart to be a Champion Boxer. China, who turned professional at age…
Linda Paige Shelby
Author Linda Paige Shelby is the daughter of the late baseball great Satchel Paige. In Satchel Paige at The State Fair she recounts a childhood memory of the day her…
Albert Smith
To China and back. Being a diary kept, out and home (1859). This book, To China and back, by Albert Smith, is a replication of a book originally published before…
Sid Smith
Sid Smith completes his acclaimed trilogy with this dazzling new novel
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Despite increasing globalization it remains true that many countries can best be understood on the village level. For example China where, in the face of the political and economic upheavals…
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China Mieville
A gorgeous and hilarious picture book about the most unusual breakfast two sisters ever ate.
Mark Gonzalez
Over 650 color photos display dinnerware shapes by Taylor, Smith and Taylor from 1899 to 1981, Avona, Belva, Capitol, Ever Yours, Garland, Holly & Spruce, Iona, Lu-Ray Pastels, Marvel, Octagon…
Arthur H Smith
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Frederick Porter Smith
Title: The Rivers of China.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research…
Arthur Henderson Smith
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Richard Smith
Authoritarianism, capitalism and destruction: why China is leading the world to ecocide
Christine Juarez
Travel to China. Find out the facts about this country in Asia.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we…
Richard L Smith (Ferrum College Virginia USA)
Warren W. Smith, Jr.
This groundbreaking book explores China’s efforts to assimilate Tibet, in the process rewriting Tibetan history to conform to its own goals. Warren W. Smith Jr. argues that Beijing fears any…
Arthur Henderson Smith's gripping account of the 1911 Chinese Revolution offers a vivid portrait of a nation in crisis. Drawing on his own experiences as a Christian missionary in China…
Mark Wm Smith
When you get a friend in trouble... You're responsible to get him out. Whatever the cost!
Air Force crew chief Connor Pierce wants to help his lonely assistant get comfortable…
Franklin H Smith
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Christopher J. Smith
China in the Post-Utopian Age is an interdisciplinary book about China in the post-utopian age, focusing on the transformations that have occurred during the leaderships of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang…
An outgrowth of the earlier comprehensive A guide to the mammals of China (Smith and Xie 2008) –Pref.
William L G Smith
Gain a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and society with these insightful observations from William L. G. Smith. Covering everything from language and literature to politics and economics, this book…
Observations on China and the Chinese is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research…
In this collection, 17 leading scholars based in Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship…
Norman Smith
Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China’s Northeast during the first half of the twentieth century.
Martin A. Smith
This engaging introduction explores the shifting configurations of power in the contemporary global order. Focusing on the changing international role, status and capacities of the United States, Russia and China…
Power has been compared to the weather: people discuss it all the time, but very few really understand it. This book seeks to demystify this complex concept by providing students…
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Sheila A. Smith
The first in-depth analysis of the geostrategic change that has reshaped Japan’s social and political relationship with China.
S. A. Smith (University of Essex)
A unique account of how the experience of capitalist modernity changed the social identities of peasants who left their villages to settle in St Petersburg and Shanghai. Steve Smith explores…
The volume traces UK-China relations from the Cultural Revolution in 1967 to the exchange of Ambassadors in 1972, using documents from Foreign Office, Cabinet Office and Prime Ministerial files.
