Author: Beijing Institute of Architectural
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: beijing, architecture, olympic
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2008-08-27
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 376438834X
ISBN-13: 9783764388348

Without a doubt the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not only attract worldwide attention for the sporting contests, but also for the architectural settings and arenas. The exemplary and prestigious stadiums will remain of interest long after the games are over. Olympic Architecture, Beijing 2008 is a comprehensive survey of all the venues for the 29th Olympic Games. It provides detailed insights into the specialized stadium architecture with an abundance of visual material such as bird s-eye views, illustrations of details, plans/elevations/sections, and rendering drawings. Part One of the vo

Author: Pat DePaolo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: games, beijing
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2007-11-26
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1434340872
ISBN-13: 9781434340870

THE BEIJING GAMES is a break-neck international thriller depicting a China-led conspiracy involving the most unlikely cabal of Washington insiders, a giant U.S. retailer, a private European banker, and a Chinese conglomerate controlled by the PLA. Their black goal is to eliminate all import restrictions on Chinese-made goods, and effectively destroy large segments of the U.S. manufacturing industry in order to dictate spending decisions of millions of Americans for years to come. Set in 2008/2009, the only person standing in their way is 48-year-old failed businessman, Justin Gatt, an unlikely

Author: Henning Mankell
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: beijing, man
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-02-16
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0307271862
ISBN-13: 9780307271860

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor—a gang master on the American transcontinen

Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, coma, beijing
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0312428367
ISBN-13: 9780312428365

Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier’s bullet and fell into a deep coma. But as the millennium draws near, he begins to emerge from unconsciousness, and to sense the massive changes in his country. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, and a seminal story of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian’s masterpiece. Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. He worked as a watch—mender’s apprentice, a painter of propaganda boards, and a photojournalist. At the age of thirty, he le

Author: Henning Mankell
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: beijing, man
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-02-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0307397858
ISBN-13: 9780307397850

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes an extraordinary stand-alone novel - both a mystery and a sweeping drama - that traces the legacy of the nineteenth-century slave trade between China and America.January 2006. In the small Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, a horrific scene is discovered: nineteen people have been tortured and massacred an the only clue is a red silk ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has a particular reason to be shocked by the crime: her mother’s adoptive parents, the Andréns, are among the victims. Investigatin

Author:
Publisher: daab
Keywords: design, amp, architecture, beijing
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2008-11
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3866540736
ISBN-13: 9783866540736

Apart from being one of Asia’s largest metropolises, Beijing is an ultimate visual challenge. The country’s growing economy and construction boom has attracted the attention of the world’s finest architects eager to create masterworks in this city. The new is rapidly replacing the old in the country’s political, economic and cultural center. When Beijing won the bid in 2001 to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the city started a somewhat controversial transformation. Olympic-driven developments - from sports and cultural infrastructure to business buildings and commerc

Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, coma, beijing
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0374110174
ISBN-13: 9780374110178

Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he was struck by a soldier’s bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a member of the outlawed Falun Gong sect. But during a government crackdown, the Master was arrested, and Dai Wai’s mother—who had fallen in love with himâ€