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Argues that during each of the three occasions when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises coastal states took the initiative at a time when China was divided. Maritime trade and exploration subsequently peaked when China was strong and unified, but then declined when Chinese power weakened. These cycles of maritime activity, each lasting roughly five hundred years, corresponded with cycles of cohesion and division, strength and weakn...

This expansive set provides an in-depth guide to more than 100 of the world's core industrial enterprises, from accounting services through manufacturing industries through video game design and much more.Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem History.

Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges, China's Ha Jin, India's Salman Rushdie, and Russia's Alexander Puskin. New writers include Japan's Haruki Murakami, and Jamaican Michelle Cliff.

Discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The 66 essays include such writers as Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes, Dante, and Anais Nin.

Includes Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Alice Munro, and Roald Dahl. New writers to this edition are David Malouf, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright.

Provides authoritative, essential information on complementary and alternative medicine in easy-to-understand language. The set was designed for general readers and offers a unique perspective on this growing and constantly changing field.

Critical Survey of Short Fiction profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major writers. Originally published in 1981 and revised in 2001, the latest edition adds an additional 145 writers, covering 625 writers in total. Now, for the first time, the essays have been arranged in several subsets, so that libraries can choose the complete set, or only the titles they are interested in. Plus, complimentary online access is provided...

The latest title in the Salem Heath series, Infectious Diseases and Conditions provides comprehensive, non-specialist information on an array of topics. Essays discuss prevention, diagnosis, treatment as well as epidemiology, history and social concerns. Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem Health.

This volume brings together in one place all the appendices and indices. It includes a chronological and geographical index of writers and essays, a categorised index, a subject index, a list of major awards, a list of web resources and a complete bibliography.