DescriptionSounds and The City presents the aural DNA of major Asian cities, informative narration blended with actual location recordings from each city. Presented as a day in the city, the journey covers each city's art and architecture, history and economy, as we…
DescriptionWill the Asian economies emerge strong or weak when the crisis is finally over? Professor Raj Aggarawal, Chair and Professor of Finance at John Carroll University, discusses. He spoke to The City Club in June, 1998.
DescriptionThe international media has been predicting the 21st Century as China's century. This book explains why. Subjects include international relations, the economy, trade, government, technology, and media. A collection of independent essays on the future of China from the very top specialists in the field. China's Century is one of the most wide-ranging books on China yet published. Offering not just another Western view of China, the essays feature Chinese experts as well as those Westerners with extensive experience of this remarkable country.
DescriptionIn his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth. It is a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1, 800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China. Penetrated but never conquered…
DescriptionChina today is visible everywhere: In the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-po…
