Why does global media feel a need to denigrate China? Why does discussion and analysis fall back on obvious tropes and polemics, when in reality China is raising living standards, developing its economy and introducing human rights. In this book, Maxime Vivas draws a picture of China from the perspective of the French media and France's political ......
Memories of a London Art Dealer is the distillation of a lifetime's experience and expertise in the art world. Neither an autobiography nor a traditional memoir, the book consists of reflections, anecdotes, telling conversations, encounters, touches of humour and a choice selection of the triumphs and disasters, heroes and villains ......
The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, in collaboration with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Eotvos Lorand University Momentum, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seals and Divine World Research Group, is organising a temporary exhibition aimed at presenting the heritage and culture of ancient Mesopotamia.
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 ......
Monemvasia is a unique Byzantine city located on a rock in the southern Peloponnese; the central fortified are is known as the Castro. Poul Rasmussen, a Danish photographer, captured a period of physical and social change between 1968-1992. The local families were deserting the old buildings of the Castro, and moving to the mainland for work and ......
An outstanding collection of historic photographs of the people of Monemvasia, illustrating the social bonds and institutions, which hold a society together within a unique physical and historic environment.
In this new study of personal relationships within the British (including Canadian) Command in 21st Army Group during the campaign in North-West Europe in 1944-1945, Malcolm Pill considers the scope and depth of these relationships, ranging from those of the Secretary of State for War to the Corps Commanders. Montgomery is central. His great ......
Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
Monumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America's first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor.