Янцзы, самую длинную реку в Китае, называют великой. Благодаря ей процветают Цзяннань, Чэнду, Сучжоу и Ханчжоу – живописные и богатые земли Поднебесной. В этой книге вы прочтете о разных названиях Янцзы, ее истоке и притоках, каналах, соединяющих ее с другими реками. Автор уделяет много внимания горам и озерам, соседствующим с Янцзы, а также мифам и легендам о ней. Издание предназначено для широкого круга читателей. ...
Multiculturalism has been a topic of scholarly exploration for almost fifty years. Most recently, these explorations have sought to respond to growing public sentiment that the multicultural ideal, borne out of Western liberalism, has failed. Indeed, ‘multiculturalism is dead’ has been a popular catch cry in Anglo- and Western-European countries for the past decade. Significantly, the continued discussion about the success or otherwise of multic ...
Die kulturgeschichtlichen Beziehungen zwischen Italien und Polen sind vielfaltig und werden in ihren unterschiedlichsten Facetten als innereuropaischer Kulturtransfer gedeutet. Die hier versammelten Beitrage zeigen wechselseitige Beziehungen in der Geschichte, der Literatur, der Sprache und verschiedenen Bereichen von Wirtschaft (Bergbau, Porzellan) und Kultur (Kino, Kuche, Architektur) auf. Es kommen dabei Expertinnen und Experten aus Italien, ...
This vintage book contains W. E. B. Du Bois' 1903 work, «The Souls of Black Folk». A classic work of American history and sociology, it constitutes a seminal piece of African-American literary history. It contains essays chiefly on the subject of race and is based on the author's own experiences as an African-American in the late nineteenth century. «The Souls of Black Folk» is a seminal early work in the field of sociology and is high ...
[b]A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The PBS Newshour/ New York Times Book Club January 2020 selection Selected by Emma Watson for her «Our Shared Shelf» Book Club" Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection «A sledgehammer. . . . Her experiments with structure and language . . . are in the service of trying to find new ways to think about the p ...
Winner of the ASLE Creative Writing Award Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation Finalist for the PEN American Open Book Award Finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Book Award Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Shortlisted for the Orion Book Award "I stand in awe of Lauret Savoy's wisdom and compassionate intelligence. Trace is a crucial book for our time, a bound sanity, not ...
