Found 4,000 results for "HISTORY / Asia / China"
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
Guns, germs, and steel
by Jared M. Diamond
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunche...
Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread l...
Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʾib al-asfār
by Ibn Batuta, A. R. Gibb
Ibn Battuta, who was born at Tangier in North Africa in 1304 and died not far from there some sixty-five years later, wa...
The Silk Roads
by Peter Frankopan
From the beginning of time, the centre of Asia was where Empires were made.
Food in history
by Reay Tannahill
In the very earliest times nature was in charge and the problem of the food supply was good deal simpler than it is now ...
Why Nations Fail
by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Este libro trata de las enormes diferencias en ingresos y nivel de vida que separan a los países ricos del mundo, como E...
