india

Little Kim meets an amazing man, a Tibetan llama, who descended from the mountains to the plains of India in search of a wonderful river. The Lama is kind, modest, but full of knowledge and driven by the idea of the Way and Wheel of life. Kim immediately becomes sympathetic to him and joins the llama on his journey. Kim feels that he would like to understand this man, to know him, "to appropriate him."...

A set of melodramatic love stories, first published in 1917 by the hugely successful English writer of popular romances. This collection contains five of Ethel M. Dell’s best short stories: „The Safety Curtain”, „The Experiment”, „Those Who Wait”, „The Eleventh Hour”, „The Place of Honor”. In „The Safety Curtain”, a dragonfly-like dancing girl is „rescued” by a subaltern when he offers her a marriage...

First published in 1923, this is a magnificent story about an ill-treated but fiercely proud heroine. A young lady meets a mysterious stranger at a farm called Tetherstones, where Druids in ancient times used to perform their human sacrifices. The master of Tetherstones is a large brute of a man, more gladiator than farmer, and the heroine finds herself strangely attracted by him. Is a new start possible...

W jaki sposób Chiny zbudowały i od wieków utrzymują swoją potęgę oraz dlaczego teraz grozi im upadek i porażka w wyścigu z Zachodem. Chińskie społeczeństwo od czasów starożytnych jest kształtowane przez model EAST (egzaminy, autokrację, stabilność i technikę). Od funkcjonującego od 587 roku egzaminu do służby cywilnej, znanego jako keju, po system zarządzania kadrami Komunistycznej Partii Chin (KPCh)...