From Sea to Shining Sea, Second Series puts you on the right track. Each title is your ticket for a tour of the states or territories of the United States

A collection of speeches and well-to-do people

This book provides a practical guide to PPP, how governments can enable and encourage PPP, how PPP financing works

Pakistan Culture constitutes an elective subject in the course of studies for foreign students at the Intermediate level. However no single book covers the prescribed syllabus. Teachers and students feel handicapped on this account and have often voiced the need for duch a comprehensive publication. This book embodies the response to this need. It atttempts in a single concise volume, to portray Pakistan rich cultural heritage which is as variegated as its geographic environments - with mountains, plains, deserts, river valleys full of natural beauty and grandeur, the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges in the north and the delta of the mighty Indus in south which also was the citadel of one of the earliest civilization

The relationship between heritage and identity is a subject that is becoming increasingly important amid the growing risks arising from a globalization that is eroding people s cultural and civilizational specificities, as well as from the incessant international changes impacting ideas, perceptions, opinions and positions expressed by human cultures and civilizations, however their multiple backgrounds and diverse sources. This is particularly true at this critical moment in human history where identities run the risk of melting in the dominant sweeping identity

The indispensable guide for all who take an interest in Finland. Who was Alvar Aalto? Why is Finland a musical superpower? What have the Finns achieved with their sisu - in the Winter War, in technology, in the economy and in sport? Did you know that Nokia is a Finnish company? Portraying Finland is a wide-ranging introduction to a fascinating country in the north of Europe. Finnish experts discuss the nation s history, social development, culture and scientific achievement, plus the economy and nature, and the Finnish way of life

This book contains the records of interviews made by reporters with 100 academicians in their homes

Traditional Chinese drama grew out of many sources including farce and balladry but its basic feature is the perfomance of stories through song and dance

Published by the Smithsonian’s Asian Cultural History Program, this full-color, exquisitely illustrated, bilingual monograph (available in English-Georgian or English-Azerbaijani versions) presents research by Paul Michael Taylor, Christopher R. Polglase, Najaf Museybili, Jared M. Koller and Troy A. Johnson, summarizing and interpreting the archaeological finds uncovered by teams of Azerbaijani, Georgian, Turkish, British, and American archaeologists during the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and adjacent South Caucasus (SCP) pipelines, from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean