This book is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritage learners, and professionals. It will help improve vocabulary and grammar competence, and foster reading strategies and writing and translation skills, for use in academic and professional settings.

Paint Feet on a Snake

*is available in full-form and simplified character editions

*is aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items

*is suitable for...

The Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900-2300 BC) is found in a large area, from Russia to the Netherlands and from Scandinavia to Switzerland. Supra-regional elements include beakers decorated with cord and/or spatula imprints, battle-axes, and a funerary customs involving crouched inhumations under barrows with gender-specific placement of the body gender-specific funerary gifts.Analysis of ceramics from well-preserved settlements from the Dutch coastal zone have provided very valuable new informat...

Costas Papaikonomou is one of the founders of Happen.com, one of the fastest growing creative innovation agencies of the 21st century. A career in innovation – studying, dreaming, creating, researching and realizing new products. It’s been an amazing journey, playing in the birth chambers of mass market multinationals. Nevertheless he’s quite grumpy.

Why are so many brilliant ideas culled before they’ve had a chance to shine in the real world?

Why are so many awful ideas pushed throug...

What a journey it has been over the past 11 years! Way back in 2004 I just happened to attend a talk in The Hague about Crop Circles. Not knowing that this would be the beginning of a story in which I was confronted about my own past but also given the opportunity to receive help on how to enlighten myself and grow spiritually in this fast moving world. It's not been easy, but everything I learnt gave me insight on how to make changes in my life. A story where two people who are the main char...

Hoe kan nanotechnologie gebouwen en steden in de toekomst veranderen? Stel je een nieuwe stof voor, dat je zelf kunt aansturen en veranderen. Stel je voor dat dit een nanomateriaal wordt, dat zijn vorm kan veranderen, dat krimpen kan en groeien - dat bijna alles kan doen... Wij noemen dit materiaal Barba. Met Barba zouden wij in staat zijn om onze omgeving aanpassen aan welke wens en behoefte dan ook. Het nieuwste boek uit The Why Factory's Future Cities Series verbeeldt hoe nanomaterialen on...

Climate change can no longer be ignored. It is globally recognised that the evidence for climate change is unequivocal and that action needs to be taken in order to address its negative effects. These effects, such as warmer and drier summers and more extreme rainfall, may threaten the quality of life of those living in urban environments. To limit these threats, a number of climate change adaptation measures can be taken to pre-empt the negative effects of climate change.

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The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history.History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic ...

Over the past decade, the European Union has fallen into a drawn-out crisis, politically as well as economically. In this book, the authors argue that analyses of this crisis miss an important element: culture. Faith in politics, like faith in a European currency, is first and foremost a cultural issue. Democracy is a matter of political culture, just as good economic relations are a matter of economic culture. So, culture as a shared frame of reference and as something that lends meaning to ...