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Alibaba : the house that Jack Ma built
Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on interviews to explore how the company and Jack Ma have become icons and leading employers in China's booming private sector.
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Epic Journey Displayed Our Spirit
NEARLY 200 YEARS AGO, in late November of 1805, the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition huddled near the mouth of the Columbia River, having become the first American citizens to cross the continent by land. Far from home and pinned down for weeks by a relentless Pacific storm that William Clark (in his own imaginative spelling) called \"tempestous and horiable,\" the small band of explorers nevertheless found a tangible way to commemorate their remarkable achievement: They began carving their names into tree trunks - so many times, it appears from Clark's journal entries, that few trees near their sodden campsites escaped their knife blades. Those tree markings (and in most cases the trees themselves) have long since disappeared. But the story the Corps of Discovery left behind remains embedded in our national consciousness, and each generation etches it anew with a fresh flourish. The overwhelming public response to our recent PBS documentary - in some cities it even outdrew the primetime commercial networks - is merely the latest evidence of the persistent appeal of Lewis and Clark. Why is that?
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Alibaba : the house that Jack Ma built
Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on interviews to explore how the company and Jack Ma have become icons and leading employers in China's booming private sector.
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Vertical Living
In 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realize their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of the capital city of Wellington. More than just an association of architects, the Centre furthered education, published a magazine— Design Review—hosted modernist exhibitions in its gallery, staged an audacious campaign for political influence called \"the Project,\" and fought for better planning, better design, and better built environments in Wellington. Charting these activists and their projects over the years, Julia Gatley and Paul Walker also offer a history of urban Wellington from the 1940s to the 1990s and beyond. The book reminds us that, in modernist ideology, architecture and urban planning went hand-in-hand with visual and craft arts, graphic and industrial design. In recovering the multidisciplinary history, politics, and planning of the Architectural Centre, Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in New Zealand.
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Andalucâia
Lonely Planet Andalucia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience Alhambra's perfect blend of architecture and nature, visit the Spanish Royals' residence at the Alcazar, or hike to the rugged clifftop town of Ronda; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Portugal
Lonely Planet's Portugal is your passport to the most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the labyrinthine alleyways of Lisbon's Alfama district; discover the baroque churches and plazas of Ribeira in Porto; and play in the waves in the Algarve - all with your trusted travel companion.
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