This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years.
This book offers the first in-depth study of three major Hong Kong public cultural architecture works, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Shatin Town Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC), built in the late-colonial years.
During China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and '70s, zhiqing (educated youth) or the lost generation were sent to the countryside to receive reeducation from poor peasants, as decreed by Chairman Mao Zedong.
Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan's political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations.
An international team of ten specialists in Japanese and American foreign relations address the crucial question: what role should Japan play in international affairs?
Del autor de Amazing Grace, uno de los autores de mayor éxito editorial según el New York Times, llega esta biografía innovadora sobre Dietrich Bonhoeffer, uno de los más grandes héroes del siglo XX, el hombre que se irguió frente a Hitler.
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "e;lucky child,"e; the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind.
Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.
In December 1962, nationalists in Brunei, the hugely wealthy small kingdom on the North Coast of Borneo, formed the Army of North Kalimantan (TNKU) and, demanding greater democracy, engineered a rebellion against the Sultan and seized a large number of hostages.
Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture.
Niemand hat die internationalen Krisenregionen so oft bereist und die Situationen vor Ort so kenntnisreich beurteilt wie der große Journalist Peter Scholl-Latour.
En esta recopilación se recogen algunas de las sentencias de sabiduría más célebres del sufismo seleccionadas de los más grandes maestros de la tradición sufí, tales como Sidi Abu Mayan, Ibn Ata Allah o Al Alawi entre otros.
En este provocador nuevo estudio, el historiador napoleónico Alexander Mikaberidze reconsidera la campaña napoleónica de 1812 y vuelve a relatar la apasionante historia de la batalla de Borodinó, terrible y épica a partes iguales, en la que conjuga con espíritu crítico un abrumador compendio de fuentes francesas, alemanas, británicas y, por supuesto, rusas.
For the exhausted, the hurting, and the faithful, The After Party helps reframe our political identity away from the "e;what"e; of political positions and toward the "e;how"e; being centered on Jesus.
Most of the historical works written on Medieval India depict it as an era of dark ages, replete with oppression, atrocities, injustices, forcible conversion, and destruction of holy places.
To provide an understanding of financial globalization from a historical point of view, this book sheds light on international banking in Asia before World War II.
