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Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of people with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes listeners into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom. The story begins in 1839, at the dawn of the First Opium War, and follows Chinese history through Mao's Cultural Revolution and up to the present day. Rutherfurd chronicles the rising and falling fortunes of members of Chinese, British, and American families, as they negotiate the tides of history.

Styvie Savard was a damn good cop - before she made a mistake that cost her everything. Now she lives in her car, works a dead-end job, and scrapes by on the fumes of a dwindling savings account. Life couldn’t get much worse, until it does. One morning on the way to work, Styvie hits a 16-year-old, Dharma, with her car. When the injured girl flees the scene, Styvie finds that she can’t leave well enough alone.

Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through Chairman Mao and the current economic transformation of the country.

Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. On China illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and tight line modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, and Richard Nixon’s historic trip to Beijing.

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America.

China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun. Has China Won? is the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of these ambitious and eccentric superpowers.

Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division, traces his company's movements and charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific. He reflects on his duty in the ancient city of Peiping (now Beijing) and recounts the difficulty of returning to his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and resuming civilian life haunted by the shadows of close combat.

In this 16th entry in the best-selling China Bayles series, our teashop owning heroine discovers a dead body while gathering herbs by the railroad tracks. On top of that, her brother unearths new evidence suggesting their father's death was no accident, and China is soon dragged into both mysteries.

As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission - this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III.

Max celebra el Año Nuevo chino con Lily y su familia. ¡Hay flores, naranjas y unos dulces especiales!

Dos manuscritos en un libro: Qigong: Una Guía Esencial para Principiantes para Desarrollar Su Chi y Cultivar Energía Curativa y Taichí: Cómo liberar el poder del arte marcial chino mediante sus 24 formas y técnicas de meditación para principiantes. ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la Qigong y Tai Chi!

El secreto de la flor de oro es una obra taoísta china sobre meditación, fue traducida por Richard Wilhelm, amigo de Carl Gustav Jung, también traductor, en los años veinte, del clásico doctrinal chino I ching. De acuerdo a Wilhelm, Lü Dongbin fue el principal origen del material presentado en el libro. La traducción de Wilhelm fue el resultado de su presencia en China, donde aprendió doctrina china clásica de un maestro chino. Jung proporciona comentarios para la traducción, aumentando su aspecto "filosófico".

When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. In Dealing with China, the best-selling author of On the Brink draws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions.

En los últimos años China se ha convertido en una verdadera superpotencia de la IA y el único verdadero contrapeso nacional a Estados Unidos en esta tecnología emergente. Por ello, la forma en que estos dos países decidan competir y cooperar podría llegar a tener consecuencias dramáticas para la economía y la gobernabilidad mundial.

Él tiene el corazón de hielo. Pero por ella, quemaría el mundo. Aunque Ava Chen y Alex Volkov se conocen desde hace años, él siempre se ha mostrado distante y frío. Pero ahora que el hermano de Ava se ha ido y lo ha dejado encargado de la protección de ella, Alex parece algo menos indiferente... Y su relación, poco a poco, se va haciendo más estrecha, hasta que llegan a confiarse sus secretos y traumas más profundos... A ella, su madre intentó ahogarla en un arrebato de locura; mientras que Alex presenció el brutal asesinato de toda su familia.

A través de fragmentos y observaciones, Kafka discute sobre la decisión de edificar la muralla en secciones dispersas, en lugar de hacerlo de manera continua. Esta elección, a simple vista ilógica, se convierte en una alegoría de la comunicación humana, el aislamiento y la fragmentación de la sociedad. Con su tono característicamente introspectivo y una mirada aguda sobre el absurdo humano, Kafka transforma una hazaña arquitectónica en una meditación sobre la naturaleza humana y las complejidades de la cohesión social.

La cicatriz es el segundo volumen de la mítica trilogía «Bas-Lag», el thriller fantástico con que China Miéville redefinió los límites de la fantasía contemporánea y empezó a fascinar a escritores, medios y lectores de cualquier género.

La visión sobre China de una de las grandes figuras de la política internacional en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y Premio Nobel de la Paz.

Bienvenidos a la historia de dos ciudades gemelas, invisibles la una para la otra, cuyos destinos se entrelazan por el asesinato de la joven Mahalia Geary, hallada muerta y con la cara desfigurada en la ciudad de Beszel. Durante la investigación del crimen, el inspector Borlú seguirá las piras desde Beszel hasta la idéntica ciudad vecina, UI Qoma. Allí descubrirá la participación de la joven en una conspiración política y se verá rodeado de nacionalistas, que intentan destruir la ciudad gemela, y de unificacionistas, que sueñan con convertir las dos ciudades en una.