Across Many Mountains - Prijzen

Encountering China

Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explo...

Islamic Thought in China

The essays in this volume tell the stories of Chinese Muslim intellectuals trying to create satisfying, safe and coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures.

Ancient Greece and China Compared

Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and con...

Asia and the Historical Imagination

This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores lo...

The Colonel Of Tamarkan

Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the dogmatic, but brittle commanding officer in David Lean's film The Bridge on the River Kwai . While a brilliant performance, it owed more t...

Samurai

With their flamboyant clothing and armour, their adherence to Bushi-do - the Way of the Warrior - and the images of lone chivalrous sword-wielding Japanese knights, the Samuri has long been a fascinat...

Guts 'n Gunships

The Long March

Author of The Second Sex, and one of the 20th century's most brilliant writers, Simone de Beauvoir turns her attention eastward to China and paints a masterly picture of that nation in modern times. H...

Grendel Vs The Shadow

Sparks fly and bullets blaze when the original Grendel, Hunter Rose, is transported to 1930s New York and faces off with the original dark-night avenger, the Shadow! Two pulp-noir icons go head to hea...

America Pacifica

Hundreds of miles off the frozen coast of what was once California is America Pacifica, where those who fled the dawn of the new ice age have tried to recreate their former home . . . America Pacif...

Savanna Food Chains

''This photo-illustrated book introduces early fluent readers to the relationship between predator and prey in the savanna environment. Includes glossary and index.''--

Lucy the Octopus

Lucy is an incurably uncool teen, and an octopus. For no reason at all (other than that she isn't very girly ), she is very unpopular, and even her parents don't like her! The only friend who will ha...