An Ecotourist`s Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys, Silk Robert

Автор: Frankopan Peter
Название: Silk Roads
ISBN: 1408839997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408839997
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts. Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.

Автор: Jefferies, Dinah
Название: The Silk Merchant`s Daughter
ISBN: 0241248620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241248621
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother`s death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi. But who can she trust?

Автор: Hardy-gould, Janet
Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 2: Marco Polo and the Silk Road
ISBN: 0194236390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194236393
Издательство: Oxford University Press
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Описание: Word count 6,700 Suitable for young readers

Автор: Thubron, Colin
Название: Shadow of the Silk Road
ISBN: 0099437228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099437222
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Traces the drifts of the trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. This book recounts the adventures of the author when travelling through the Silk Route.

Автор: Peters Elizabeth, Michaels Barbara
Название: Shattered Silk
ISBN: 0060878223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060878221
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: A reissue of New York Times bestselling Elizabeth Peters’s classic romantic suspense novel, originally written under the pen name Barbara Michaels.

Автор: Yip, Mingmei
Название: Song Of the Silk Road
ISBN: 0758241828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780758241825
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Lily Lin was captivated by photographs of the desert. Now living in New York, Lily is struggling to finish her graduate degree when she receives an astonishing offer. An aunt she never knew existed will pay Lily a huge sum to travel across China`s Taklamakan Desert - and carry out a series of tasks along the way.

Автор: Philippe Foret
Название: The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
ISBN: 9004171657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004171657
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road.

Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.

Автор: Cook Darwyn
Название: Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre HC
ISBN: 1401238920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781401238926
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: As the predecessor to Watchmen, the Minutemen were assembled to fight against a world that have more and more rapidly begun to spin out of control. Can these heroes from completely different backgrounds and with completely different attitudes on crime come together? Or will they fall apart before they begin?

Автор: James A. Millward
Название: The Silk Road A very short introduction
ISBN: 0199782865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199782864
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The phrase silk road evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this
Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, shedding light on the importance of old-world cultural exchange to Eurasian and world history.

On the one hand, historian James A. Millward treats the silk road broadly, to stand in for the cross-cultural communication between peoples across the Eurasian continent since at least the Neolithic era. On the other, he highlights specific examples of goods and ideas exchanged between the
Mediterranean, Persia, India, and China, along with the significance of these exchanges. While including silks, spices, and travelers' tales of colorful locales, the book explains the dynamics of Central Eurasian history that promoted Silk Road interactions--especially the role of nomad
empires--highlighting the importance of the biological, technological, artistic, intellectual, and religious interchanges across the continent. Millward shows that these exchanges had a profound effect on the old world that was akin to, if not on the scale of, modern globalization. He also disputes
the idea that the silk road declined after the collapse of the Mongol empire or the opening of direct sea routes from Europe to Asia, showing how silk road phenomena continued through the early modern and modern expansion of the Russian and Chinese states across Central Asia.

Millward concludes that the idea of the silk road has remained powerful, not only as a popular name for boutiques and restaurants, but also in modern politics and diplomacy, such as U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's Silk Road Initiative for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Автор: Marks, Leo
Название: Between silk and cyanide
ISBN: 0750948353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780750948357
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Описание: In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father`s famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war.

Автор: Gail Tsukiyama
Название: Women of the Silk
ISBN: 0312099436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312099435
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Описание: Set in rural China in 1926, this story tells how a group of exploited silk-workers lead the first strike for better conditions than their village has ever seen. The women combine their courage and strength to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own.