Best Western In China - April 2024

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts.  Frankopan re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101912375
• ASIN: 1101912375
• ISBN: 1101912375
• Brand: VINTAGE
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of livesThe science is clear. The results are unmistakable.You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found when combined with findings in Colin’s laboratory, opened their e... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01LYGP469
• ASIN: B01LYGP469
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: BenBella Books

Business Leadership in China: How to Blend Best Western Practices with Chinese Wisdom

In this revised edition of Frank Gallo's best-selling book, the author brings the story of leadership in China right up to date. With new material on Chinese leadership styles and the challenges of going global, the book is ideal for any international manager who wants to better understand how to blend the best practices of Western leadership with traditional Chinese wisdom. The content comes from a combination of English and Chinese literature, interviews with practicing executives in China as well as the author's own experience as a leader in China. Dr. Frank Gallo, the Greater China Chief L... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470827300
• ASIN: 0470827300
• ISBN: 0470827300
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Art in China (Oxford History of Art)

China boasts a history of art stretching over 5,000 years and embracing a vast array of forms--objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls and fans, sculptures in stone, bronze and wood, and murals. With more than 130 halftone illustrations, including almost eighty in full color, this new edition of Art in China presents the finest one-volume introduction to all forms of Chinese art. The book examines Chinese art in a variety of contexts--as it has been designed for tombs, commissioned by rulers, displayed in temples, created by the men and women of the educated elite, and bought a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0199217343
• ASIN: 0199217343
• ISBN: 9780199217342
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast

This classic, bestselling field guide features 794 species of plants commonly found along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens. Areas covered are the coastal region from shoreline to alpine, including the western Cascades -- from tide pools to rain forests and meadows.Included in this massive, indispensable guide are 1100 color photographs; more than 1000 line drawings and silhouettes; clear species descriptions and keys to groups; descriptions of each plant's habitat and range; 794 range maps in color... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1772130087
• ASIN: 1772130087
• ISBN: 1772130087
• Brand: Pojar Jim
• Manufacturer: Partners Publishing

Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition (Peterson Field Guides)

Peterson The best-selling field guides of all timeMedicinal plants are increasingly well regarded as supplements and sometimes as alternatives for prescription drugs. Steven Foster and James A. Duke have used recent advances in the study of medicinal plants and their combined experience of over 100 years to completely update the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants. The clear and concise text identifies the key traits, habitats, uses, and warnings for more than 530 of the most significant medicinal plants in the eastern and central United States and Canada including both native and alien... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547943989
• ASIN: 0547943989
• ISBN: 0547943989
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin
• Size: One Size
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Dewey in China: To Teach and to Learn (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Shows how John Dewey’s visit to China from 1919 to 1921 influenced his social and political thought.Combining biography with philosophy, this book explores John Dewey’s two-year trip to China (1919–1921) and its legacy for him as a teacher and a learner. Jessica Ching-Sze Wang looks at how Dewey was received in China, what he learned, and how he was changed as a result. She examines the intriguing dynamics shaping China’s reactions to Dewey and Dewey’s interpretations of China, and details the evolving process in which Dewey came to understand China on its own terms, rather than from... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0791472043
• ASIN: 0791472043
• ISBN: 0791472043
• Manufacturer: SUNY Press

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China's rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. But what if the "China Dream" is to replace us, just as America replaced the Br... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00IWUI7B4
• ASIN: B00IWUI7B4
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America, Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guides)

• ASIN: 0547152701
• ASIN: 0547152701
• ISBN: 0547152701
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin
• Size: One Size
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

#1 National BestsellerFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307387097
• ASIN: 0307387097
• ISBN: 0307387097
• Brand: Vintage Books USA
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Spark in the Machine: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine

Why can salamanders grow new legs, and young children grow new finger tips, but adult humans can't regenerate? What is the electricity that flows through the human body? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? If so, what does Chinese medicine know, that western medicine ignores? Dan Keown's highly accessible, witty, and original book shows how western medicine validates the theories of Chinese medicine, and how Chinese medicine explains the mysteries of the body that western medicine largely ignores. He explains the generative force of embryology, how the hearts of two people in love (... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1848191960
• ASIN: 1848191960
• ISBN: 1848191960
• Brand: Singing Dragon
• Manufacturer: Singing Dragon

Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking

A James Beard Award Winner "A must-have for anyone who wants to cook Chinese food at home, home cooks and professionals alike." ―David Chang, MomofukuFuchsia Dunlop trained as a chef in China’s leading Sichuan cooking school and possesses the rare ability to write recipes for authentic Chinese food that you can make at home. Following her two seminal volumes on Sichuan and Hunan cooking, Every Grain of Rice is inspired by the vibrant everyday cooking of southern China, in which vegetables play the starring role, with small portions of meat and fish.Try your hand at stir-fried potato sliver... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393089045
• ASIN: 0393089045
• ISBN: 0393089045
• Brand: W W Norton Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dyingGraced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is "immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise." Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as “a tremendous accomplishment,” this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world literature, practices t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143104942
• ASIN: 0143104942
• ISBN: 0143104942
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit: And Its Impact on World History

Jews for Jesus versus Jews against Jesus; Christians versus Jews; Christians versus Judaizers. This book is the story of such contests played out over 2000 turbulent years. In his most ambitious work yet, Dr. E. Michael Jones provides a breathtaking and controversial tour of history from the Gospels to Julian the Apostate to the Hussites to the French Revolution to Neoconservatism and the End of History. A Must Read.

• ASIN: 0929891074
• ASIN: 0929891074
• ISBN: 0929891074
• Manufacturer: Fidelity Press

Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game

An insider reveals what can—and does—go wrong when companies shift production to China In this entertaining behind-the-scenes account, Paul Midler tells us all that is wrong with our effort to shift manufacturing to China. Now updated and expanded, Poorly Made in China reveals industry secrets, including the dangerous practice of quality fade—the deliberate and secret habit of Chinese manufacturers to widen profit margins through the reduction of quality inputs. U.S. importers don’t stand a chance, Midler explains, against savvy Chinese suppliers who feel they have little to lose by pl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470928077
• ASIN: 0470928077
• ISBN: 0470928077
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Classic Westerns: 10 Movie Collection (DVD)

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• UPC: 32404732
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 4.0

The Heart of Chinese Poetry : Fifty-Seven of the Best Traditional Chinese Poems in a Dual-Language Edition

Greg Whincup offers a varied and unique approach to Chinese translation in The Heart of Chinese Poetry. Special features of this edition include direct word-for-word translations showing the range of meaning in each Chinese character,

• UPC: 46768236
• Rating: 4.556

The New Astrology A Unique Synthesis Of The World's Two Great Astrological Systems : The Chinese & Western

This blend of Western and Chinese astrology offers 144 distinct signs of the zodiac, with detailed analyses of each sign including individualized sections on love, sex, business, money, career, and home

• UPC: 480247

Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life : Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science

Deepak Chopra meets Christiane Northrup in this women's health guide, which uses Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese Medicine to achieve hormonal balance and optimal

• UPC: 15046716

Paper Quilling Chinese Style : Create Unique Paper Quilling Projects that Bridge Western Crafts and Traditional Chinese Arts

Uses traditional Chinese arts to create an array of paper quilling projects with a distinctly Chinese

• UPC: 37279347

Qi Stagnation - Signs of Stress : Putting Chinese Medicine Into English This Book Explains Stress from Its Earliest Appearance Right Through to Severe Disease, Whether Physical, Emotional or Mental. Unlike Western Medicine, This Model of Disease Has Been in Development for 3000 Years.

We all get stressed. Stress is part of life and can even be good for us, stimulating us to adapt. Unresolved, it causes discomfort, pain and disease. If you are already ill, it makes it

• UPC: 290624363

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds - eBook

"Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both

• UPC: 224360926
• Rating: 5.0

The Chan's Great Continent : China in Western Minds

Enlightenment thinkers, spinners of the cult of Chinoiserie, and American observers such as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and Eugene O'Neill convey Western thought on

• UPC: 25674765
• Rating: 5.0

When China Rules the World : The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

According to even the most conservative estimates, China will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. In this far-reaching investigation, Jacques offers provocative answers to some of the most pressing questions about

• UPC: 13920518
• Rating: 3.5

Bilingual Introduction to Chinese and Western Poetry (Simplified Chinese) - eBook

• UPC: 119551277

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