"A photographic journey of China's most famous cultural and natural sites"--Jacket. The 29 sites in China on the World Heritage list are introduced and illustrated in this striking reference guide. Filled with photographs and presented in an easy-to-access format, this book takes you on an information-filled journey to the sites of wonder in China, man-made and natural: the Great Wall of China; the Terracotta Warriors, the Forbidden City, the holy Taoist mountain of Wudang Shan; the sacred Buddhist pilgrimage site of Emei Shan; the massive irrigation project of Dujiangyan; and the elegant classical gardens of Suzhou. A great reference guide for the traveller of the world. – The Great Wall: This is one of the greatest engineering projects in human history. Built from the 7th century BC to the 15th century AD, it extends for almost 4000 miles. – The Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing dyn
The forbidden kingdom (DVD)
The forbidden kingdom
On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress - but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cor
LEGO-sæt nr. 75967 med Harry Potter tema, kaldet 'Forbidden Forest: Umbridge's Encounter'. Dette sæt indeholder figurer og scener fra Harry Potters verden, inklusive træer, centaurer, og karakterer som Hermione Granger og Harry Potter. Det anbefales til børn fra 8 år og opefter. uåbnet (ny)
A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The vagina monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement--V-Day--to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again. Titel: The Vagina Monologues Udgave: V-Day edition Genre: Drama Sammendrag: A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complex
The forbidden kingdom med jackie chan (DVD)
Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the Prehistoric Age. From its earliest developments, architecture changed over time and in different cultures in response to changing cultural needs, aesthetic interests, materials, and techniques. The A to Z of Architecture provides information on architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Tadao Ando, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov, as well as on famous structures like the Acropolis, the Colosseum, the Forbidden City, Machu Pichu, Notre Dame, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and the World Trade Center. The dictionary examines the development of architecture over the centuries through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entri
