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China and Iran have featured heavily in the news in recent years.
China is both a military and an economic superpower with 20% of the
world's population; Iran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons
and arming terrorists, and sits on the world's second-largest oil
and gas reserves. They are also surprisingly close geographically:
Iran is only 700 miles across Afghanistan from China's extreme
western border. A 25-year, $100 billion deal for Iran to supply
China with oil and gas and the large number of Chinese companies
operating in Iran shows that the two are moving increasingly close
in both political and economic terms. But what does this mean for
the rest of the world, and especially for "the West?" Edward Burman
examines how the strikingly similar histories of these two ancient
civilizations can inform what the likely consequences for the world
of an alliance between them might be.
China: The Stealth Empire asks why it is that China despite its
size and once advanced culture and technology did not become a
world power centuries ago? Burman traces the answer through Chinese
innate sense of superiority which made foreign conquest and trade
an irrelevance. This is about to change with the evolution of what
is termed the Stealth Empire characterised by world dominance in
the production of consumer goods, a growing share of world
manufacturing and a strong sense of nationalism. The Chinese
believe that they need to do nothing as they evolve by the middle
of the century into the dominant world power. Burman's book opens a
window onto this history and growing sense of national destiny. It
will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand what is
going on in the Stealth Empire.
Tourism in Sardinia is booming, yet there is nothing in print that
deals with the island's incredibly rich history and culture, which
stretches back to the Neolithic period. Everyone from the
Phoenicians to the Carthaginians and Aragonese invaded Sardinia,
which is covered with some of the most fascinating historical and
archaeological sites in Europe - from thousands of nuraghi, Bronze
Age towers and settlements, to 'giant's grave' and 'fairy house'
tombs. It also holds eccentric festivals, from Barbagia's carnival
parade of ghoulish mamuthones, said to banish winter demons, to the
death-defying S'Ardia horse race in Sedilo. There are shipwrecks
off Cagliari's coast, underwater caves and submerged Roman ruins in
addition to ancient castles, churches, undisturbed hilltop villages
and 2,000 miles of some of the most beautiful coastline in the
world.
Terracotta Warriors provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date
account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated
with a wealth of original photographs, this is the first book
available for the general reader. In one of the most astounding
archaeological discoveries of all time, the Terracotta Warriors
were discovered by chance by farmers in 1974. We now understand
that the excavated pits containing nearly eight thousand warriors
and hundreds of horses are only part of a much grander mausoleum
complex. There is a great deal still to be discovered and
understood about the entire area whichis now thought to cover
around 100 square kilometres. And there is the tantalising
possibility of the opening of the imperial tomb.
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