Product Description: A stunning visual celebration of the animal kingdom combining amazing giant-sized images with the latest scientific and zoological research on the natural history and conservation status of hundreds of animals From nature lovers to conservationists, wildlife watchers to budding zoologists, this visual celebration of animals is an ideal reference that will entertain, inform, and enthrall readers of all ages...read more

Product Description: 'The seven christians stood together in the bright sunlight, bound with ropes singing a hyme to their foreign saviour as the spearmen advanced. Around them a croud of jostling men, women and children, more than sixty thousand strong...read more

Product Description: En 1856 el emperador Hsien Feng, según una antigua tradición, volteó una placa de jade depositada cerca de su alcoba y leyó el nombre de su nueva concubina, y sin querer selló el destino de la dinastía manchú...read more

In 1856 Emperor Hsien Feng turned over an ornately carved jade name-plaque next to his bedchamber, an action with which he brought a much-desired new concubine to his bed and unwittingly sealed the fate of the Manchu dynasty. A centuries-old prophecy had foretold that Manchu rule in China would be brought to ruin by a woman from the Yeho-Nala tribe; in the darkness of the bedchamber those words became reality. The Emperor was entranced with the young woman he had chosen, and from that time her power over him was ensured. Her name was Yehonala. Forced to enter the Forbidden City at the age of sixteen Yehonala lost her family, her betrothed and the life she had sought. She was entering a world of opulence, scholarship, intrigue and power struggles; a world that had remained for centuries untouched by the outside world or the passing of time, ruled by etiquette and tradition but with danger in every word or gesture. The beautiful young girl proved herself equal to all the court. She rose to be one of the greatest female autocrats in history, the most powerful person in China, maintaining her power with a mixture of seduction, intrigue, manipulation and even murder.

Long before the Da Vinci Code was the tale of a lost Templar treasure that could be even more significant than the Grail itself.

Provides a region-by-region assessment of the ecological status of China's unique species and habitats and discusses the work that is being done to preserve and protect China's ecology

Looks at the giant panda and the red panda, discussing their habits and behavior, their life in remote parts of China, and the animals with whom they share the bamboo forests

Using speech-training programs developed for autistic children, Keith Laidler explains how he taught a two-year-old orangutan to communicate