The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of...
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Author:Kwarteng, KwasiSummary: -
Author:Ulysse, CollectifSummary:Ce chapitre propose 10 itinéraires différents, pour décourvrir des lieux de villégiature ou des expériences de plein air en Asie. Au menu, des parcours au Sud de la Thaïlande, au Sri Lanka ou encore au Kazakhstan, avec chacun leurs...
- Author:Namioka, LenseySummary:
Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. But Ailin loves to run...
- Author:Shors, JohnSummary:
Ian and his 10-year-old daughter Mattie are struggling with the passing of Kate--wife and mother--after her long battle with cancer. When Ian finally opens a letter Kate handed him before her death, he is surprised at the request inside...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling's finest...
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Author:Frankopan, PeterSummary:From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to Western imperialism and the great wars of the twentieth century, this epic, magisterial work...
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Author:Steven, Peter, Springer, JaneSummary:"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail Too...
- Author:Heng, RachelSummary:
Winner of the New American Voices Award. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Town & Country, Kirkus, Electric Literature, and BookPage....
- Author:Theroux, PaulSummary:
"I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it," confesses the author. Take the train with him through Europe and Asia.
- Author:Ulysse, CollectifSummary:
Ce chapitre propose 12 itinéraires différents, pour partir sur les traces de l'histoire en Asie. Au menu, des parcours en Chine, au Cambodge ou encore en Inde du Nord, avec chacun leurs propres points forts. Préparés par des rédacteurs...
- Author:Ulysse, CollectifSummary:
Ce chapitre propose 9 itinéraires différents, pour partir sur les traces de la spiritualité en Asie. Au menu, des parcours au Tibet, au Bhoutan ou encore au Népal, avec chacun leurs propres points forts. Préparés par des rédacteurs...
- Author:Jung, JessicaSummary:
An instant New York Times bestseller! Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this knock-out debut about a Korean American teen who is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung, K-pop...
- Author:Gerald, HorneSummary:
Japan’s lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their occupation of so many Asian nations? And how did they find...
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Author:Durant, WillSummary:The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, this volume chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. Readers will learn about places like Sumeria, Babylonia, Persia, India, and more.
- Author:Said, Edward W.Summary:
Orientalism is a profoundly influential and controversial study of the way in which, for at least 2,000 years, ever since the wars between the ancient Greeks and the Persians, the west has fought with, and largely dominated, the east...
- Author:Steves, RickSummary:
A—New York Times Bestseller—Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was...
- Author:Parfitt, TroySummary:
Parfitt takes a look at Korea's fever-pitch nationalism and gives an assessment of the world's only Chinese democracy, has a run-in with a Nepalese rhinoceros and one or two equally volatile Vietnamese tour guides and ponders the...
- Author:Wong, LindsaySummary:
Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China. Iris Wang is...
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Author:Whitfield, SusanSummary:In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the...
- Author:Payette, SylvieSummary:
Le groupe de K-pop auquel s'est jointe Mia comme danseuse s'apprête à entamer sa tournée. Son succès semble prometteur, malgré les règles de conduite contraignantes imposées aux membres de la troupe. Mia retrouve Soon Ki à...
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