S Great Urban

S Great UrbanShanghai is Chinas largest city, comparable to New York or Tokyo, and in recent decades it has experienced a building boom on a scale that is simply unprecedented in world history. Shanghai now has more skyscrapers than New York City. Pridmore tells a story that combines art, technology, capitalism, and Communism in vivid prose backed up by extensive reporting and illustrated with superb photographs. After surveying Shanghais traditional Chinese and

he has also launched actors' careers including those of Nicholas Cage and Tom Cruise

From facing locker thieves and battling diabolical cats to having absolutely no idea what to build for her science project

this is an essential companion for book-lovers everywhere

and buddies Pierce and Hector

Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft

For years experts have told us that eating fat is bad

This book includes some of the very best places that underline that message -places so special they lift our souls

a wonderfully rich and entertaining story

Doug goes from downloading information about farm animals to actually interacting with them

for a huge reward

Adam uncovers a conspiracy that calls into question the core principles of how and why we think about the future--and the past

who has been called "a vital and permanent poet" (Harold Bloom)