Except for the relatively limited numbers of Westerners who live there, Korea has not yet become a travel destination of wide interest to Occidental tourists. The typical grand tour" of the Far East concentrates on such places as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Thailand only seldom do tour itineraries include even as much as a brief stopover at Seoul. Those fortunate enough to have come to know K…
This is a book about national and international power in the modern"-that is, post-Renaissance-pe riod. It seeks to trace and to explain how the various Great Powers have risen and fallen, relative to each other, over the five centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" of western Europe and the begin nings of the transoceanic, global system of states. Inevitably, it con cerns itself …
Rst 15/8/24
Rst 03/07/24rnIntended for courses in Western Humanities, this best-selling text chronologically explores the major styles as they appear in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from antiquity to present. Using lively anecdotes, Fleming shows how the styles are linked together by common purposes, themes, and ideas.
Validasi 16/05/25rnAsm 06/09/24
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saif 23/01/25
This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared under the auspices of Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a con- venient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political and military institutions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's prese…