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The true history behind the Netflix original series Marco Polo, here is the remarkable story of the world's most famous traveler, retracing his legendary journey from Venice to China, the moment East first met West.

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This book discusses how China’s transformations in the last century have shaped its arts and its philosophical aesthetics. For instance, how have political, economic and cultural changes shaped its aesthetic developments? Further, how have its long-standing beliefs and traditions clashed with modernizing desires and forces, and how have these changes materialized in artistic manifestations? In addition to answering these questions, this book a...

John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia and China.He is the author of Alpha Beta on the roots of the Roman alphabet, The Gutenberg Revolution on the origins and impact of printing, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Kublai Khan, The Terracotta Army and The Great Wall.

John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford , the other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His GOBI: TRACKING THE DESERT (Weidenfeld, 1997) was the first book on the subject in English since the 1920s. He is also the author of THE ATLAS OF THE YEAR 1000, (Penguin 1999), A...

Excerpt from How Shakespeare's Skull Was Stolen and FoundAgain he came to Alcester, and, assisting his former employer, was well known in the neighbourhood as a jovial, light-hearted fellow.Two or three years pass without record, until he mentions the arrival of Lord William Seymour on a visit to his brother, Lord Hertford, at Ragley Hall, a splendid mansion overlooking, like a haughty custodian.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hun...

Aktual'noj problemoj sozdaniq gidropnewmopriwodow (GPP) s ciklowym uprawleniem, ostanowka ispolnitel'nyh mehanizmow w kotoryh osuschestwlqetsq s pomosch'ü zhestkih uporow, qwlqetsq razrabotka sposobow i sredstw tormozheniq ätih mehanizmow dlq isklücheniq udarow i kolebanij ispolnitel'nyh mehanizmow. V nastoqschej rabote postawlena zadacha razrabotki principow sozdaniq gidrawlicheskih dempfiruüschih ustrojstw, obladaüschih swojstwami samonastro...

The story of Saigo Takamori, whose death marked the end of the Samurai era in Japan. His life offers a window into the hundreds of years of culture and tradition that defined the samurai. Now in paperback.

Excerpt from The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition, Vol. 1: Family Penaeidae The Penacidae collected by the Siboga Expedition ought to be considered as a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of these interesting animals and to the Fauna of the East Indian Archipelago. No less than 54 species and 2 varieties have been collected and of the species 19 or 20 proved to be new to science. Of the 34 or 35 already known species only 13 or 14 h...

Excerpt from Coal and Coke: An Account of the Holiday Excursion of the Boys and Girls Among the Coal Mines "Coal is entitled to be considered as the mainspring of our civilization. By the power developed in its combustion all the wheels of industry are kept in motion, commerce is carried with rapidity and certainty over all portions of the earths surface, the useful metals are brought from the deep caves in which they have hidden themselves, ...

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Excerpt from The Maid of the Doe: A Lay of the Revolution I have thought my fellow-citizens might receive not unfavorable an attempt to present them with any scenes or soldiers of the Revolution in poetry, for circumstances have made me equally familiar with the richest and poorest classes of our country, and I have found the same interest pervading all in relation to the events and personages of that period of our history. Yet the reader sho...