Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one of a small group of students to be sent to the countryside to work on a project that will further the Cultural Revolution. Clever, curious and eager, she tries to fit in with her hosts and the rur[...]

With its distinctive double-cockpit design, the Mi-24 'Hind' is arguably the most recognizable war machine of the Cold War, and has achieved near-legendary status in the annals of military history. The first Soviet helicopter to function as both a gunship and an assault transport, it served extensiv[...]

As noted in the introduction, in contemporary Korea, "poems are found on mountain boulders, on cafe walls, on placemats, T-shirts, and television game shows." And though Americans may know something of Korea's modern history of tumult--division and repression--little of the country's rich and varied[...]

Few poets of the last thirty years have approached his diversity of formal innovations; few have communicated so intensively via performances and recordings, as often as not with integral musical settings; and few have proved so effective politically a living modern classic for real. "London Magazin[...]

In this contemporary classic Chester Raccoon seeks love and reassurance from his mother as he ventures out into the world to attend his very first day of school.[...]

Durante el camino hacia Santiago de Compostela, el peregrino se sumerge en una experiencia que transforma su vida. El camino lleva a uno a tener unas experiencias que muchas veces producen sentimientos inesperados que le mueven a la reflexi n, al encuentro con Dios y con uno mismo. Este libro narra [...]