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Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
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Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China's age-old sense of itself being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the "barbarians" at its borders. But behind the wall's intimidating exterior-and the myths that have built up around it-is a complex history that has both defined and undermined...
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The Great Wall of China served as protection and transportation for centuries, and now stands as a proud symbol of China. Full-color photos and illustrations depict the evolution of the wall from rammed earth to brick and stone. Readers will come to appreciate the rich history of one of the world's most recognized manmade structures.
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Visiting distant planet Endemo, with its mysterious huge alien wall, Matti-Jay and the crew of the Blue Defender expect some quiet sightseeing. But with hidden secrets, the wall, and the locals seem impenetrable. Matti-Jay struggles, racing to unravel the truth as things fall apart around her.Visiting distant planet Endemo, with its mysterious huge alien wall, Matti-Jay and the crew of the Blue Defender expect some quiet sightseeing. But with hidden...
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The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the 2nd century BC to the late-20th century. Abraham Ortelius' pioneering world atlas, the unexpected origins of wolf smoke, the proliferation of the blunderbuss in the fifteenth century Great Wall theatre of war, even Kafka's classic short story, 'At the Building of the Great Wall', are some...
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Introducing "The Great Wall of China: 221 BCE-1644 CE", a book bundle that delves into the 2,000 years of construction of the world-renowned Great Wall of China.
Book 1, "The Great Wall and the Qin Dynasty: Uniting China Through Engineering", explores the earliest construction of the Great Wall and how it played a crucial role in the unification of China under the Qin Dynasty. Discover the engineering feats and techniques that were employed to construct...
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As the election year approaches, Addison Landon, an investigative reporter and political analyst, is about to uncover the most elaborate plot she, or anyone else for that matter, has ever seen. An actual plot to create the largest contiguous land empire in human history that began 646 years ago. What she uncovers is not an army that plans to overthrow governments by force, but a secret society that has ultimate political aspirations. Woven into the...
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As an economic superpower, China has become an increasingly important player in the international monetary system. Its foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and its exchange rate policy has become a major subject of international economic diplomacy. The internationalization of the renminbi (RMB) raises critical questions in international policy circles: What kinds of power is China acquiring in international monetary relations? What...
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We've been building and making things ever since we stumbled out of Paradise. Some of those things are incredible continuations of God's creation, while others are nothing but ambitious catastrophes. We continue making, says Russell Rathbun, but we've lost ourselves in the process.
So how do we find ourselves again-rebuild our connections to each other, the earth, maybe even God? In search of an answer, Rathbun drives cross-country to the Salton...
16) The Great Wall
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Examines the building of the Great Wall of China and the thousands of years of conflict that preceded it.
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More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname--the longest cemetery on earth. Through the story of the wall, Patricia Brennan Demuth is able...
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Beyond the Great Wall (The Rich Get Richer)
2290- In a future world where people can buy and sell intelligence, citizens are each allocated 100 1.Q. points at birth. When they turn sixteen they can make a choice either to remain as 100s and be cared for by the state, or they can gamble with their intelligence. Those who succeed become high I.Q.s and enjoy all of the benefits this brings; those who fail lead squalid lives and some eventually become...
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"The Great Wall of China was built to stop intruders from invading the country. Construction began more than 2,000 years ago. The wall took more than 1,000 years to build. Find out more in The Great Wall of China, a title in the Structural Wonders of the World series. These books identify some of the worlds best-known structures, exploring their history, the people responsible for their creation, and the science behind their construction."--Provided...
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The gods have always looked out for the Middle Kingdom, and that's evident through the years of successes and failures. China is not only rich in culture and traditions, it is also the home to one of the world's biggest man-made infrastructures. So let's learn about China and be in awe of the breathtaking beauty of The Great Wall. Grab a copy of this book now!
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