Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from disused railway stations to atmospheric concert halls. It's crossed boundaries and artistic disciplines, leapt over them, determinedly broken them down, to create unique ......
The books also featured the headmaster Grimes, Nigels annoying younger brother Molesworth 2, his best friend Peason, the head boy Grabber and the school wet Fotherington-Thomas.
Time to Heal tells the story of the colourful life of a country doctor towards the end of his career. In turn shocking, sad and funny, they describe a doctor who feels poorly served by the conventional medicine of his time and finds new ways to relieve the suffering of his patients.
An account of the history and magical transformation of the Farsons old brewery in Malta by internationally renowned architects ritchie*studio into perhaps the finest building and landscape Malta has seen for decades.
In the past four decades, China has developed rapidly and become a significant economic power globally. With its deep involvement in globalisation, China also revalued its tradition and innovation with much confidence. Mr Vikram has been making documentary programmes about Chinese growth. His scrutiny of society via a foreign eye can give a unique ......
This book explores contemporary urban development merged with the rapidly flourishing e-commerce and tries to explain 'moderate prosperity' in China, which is opposed to consumerism in major Western developed countries. Chinese e-commerce has endeavoured to produce an efficient and eco-friendly environment for its economic and societal transition ......
A New Era of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
The book explores contemporary Chinese society and its future direction based on direct and close scrutiny. Due to its distance and independent cultural development from the West, China has been the subject of an imagined world for many Westerners. However, the visions of Cathay could not justify the shape of Chinese civilisation. Only by ......
Elstree School celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2023. This is a revised history of the school which gives a lively account of the extraordinary Sanderson family who ran it for 100 years, the other teachers who made it special and which celebrates some of its distinguished old boys. Elstree was a feeder for Harrow, and in its early days, had a ......
