Shanghai Almanac is a systematic record that illustrates different aspects of Shanghai Municipality, concerning its geographical facts, the political, economical and cultural events as well as the social situation. This large-scale book, a literature of data, is the yearly book under the special series of state press and publication. Shanghai Almanac 2012 records and illustrates the overal conditions of Shanghai in 2011. By retaining a fundamental stability in the structure of the former edition, the 2012 English version has inserted the account of those events that newly appeared in 2011

Shanghai Almanac is a systematic record that illustrates different aspects of Shanghai Municipality, concerning its geographical facts, the political, economical and cultural events as well as the social situation. This large-scale book, a literature of data, is the yearly book under the special series of state press and publication. Shanghai Almanac 2011 records and illustrates the overal conditions of Shanghai in 2010. By retaining a fundamental stability in the structure of the former edition, the 2011 English version has inserted the account of those events that newly appeared in 2010

Editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have turned to 50 of the finest, funniest, and foremost writers in America to create a state by state celebration of their country: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island-the list goes on. At turns poignant and hysterical, and uniformly insightful, these fifty writers capture the beauty, the kitsch, the unexpected and the quintessential things that make America. There is something and someone in "State by State" for everyone. With a roster of bestsellers and award winners, from Ann Patchett to Rick Moody to Myla Goldberg, Wilsey and Weiland have culled the best of the best from the literary creme de la creme to write on something all Americans are interested in: our country

The Silk Road conjures up images of fabled cities and exotic lands, of long-gone empires and great conquerors. Place names such as Samarkand, Bukhara, Khotan or Chang`an continue to fascinate with the richness of their past. In this authoritative book, Luce Boulnois explores the encounter between East and West across the vast continental expanse that separates the Mediterranean world from the Chinese one

This book chronicles the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, digital publishing, and it is also a book about innovation

It is real life of slavers. They do many things and achieve their goals in order to make a journey to freedom

Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children