The Pulse of Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pulse of Asia write by Ellsworth Huntington. This book was released on 1907. The Pulse of Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia write by Mohsin Hamid. This book was released on 2013-03-05. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid's] book is nearly that good." –Alan Cheuse, NPR "Marvelous and moving." –TIME Magazine From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy’s quest for wealth and love His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and exceeds it. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia.” It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts. And it creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.
The Future of Nature
The Future of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of Nature write by Libby Robin. This book was released on 2013-10-22. The Future of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability from a global perspective, it explores the meaning of the future in the twenty-first century. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals, and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices.
When Asia Was the World
When Asia Was the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Asia Was the World write by Stewart Gordon. This book was released on 2008. When Asia Was the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the important influence of Asia's great civilization on the West, as traveling merchants, scholars, philosophers, and religious figures brought the wisdom of China and the Middle East to medieval Europe during the Dark Ages.
Science between Europe and Asia
Science between Europe and Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science between Europe and Asia write by Feza Günergun. This book was released on 2010-12-09. Science between Europe and Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well as the use of medical techniques such as pulse taking and electrotherapy. While human mobility played a significant role in the exchange of knowledge, translating European books into local languages helped the introduction of new knowledge in mathematical, physical and natural sciences from central Europe to its periphery and to the Middle East and Asian cultures. The book argues that the process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and complex cultural process of selection and transformation where ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. The book explores the issue from a different geopolitical perspective, namely not focusing on a singular recipient and several points of distribution, namely the metropolitan centres of science, medicine, and technology, but on regions that are both recipients and distributors and provides new perspectives based on newly investigated material for historical studies on the cross scientific exchanges between different parts of the world.
