The Asian countries seek to dominate global markets not only in the areas of science, technology and management, but also in the area of design, which is playing an increasingly crucial role in their strategic economics plans. One of their clear trends is the conscious use of traditional themes in combination with contemporary styles. Whether kimonos or packaging, Shinto shrine...(展开全部)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...(展开全部)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...(展开全部)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...(展开全部)

For sheer global reach and dogged research, attention must be paid to Lonely Planet…' --Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2003

This revised edition of a comprehensive single-volume Australian history reference incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary debate on relevant issues. In addition to frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations, the volume covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the "Pacific solution."

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells ow they imposed themselves on the land, and describes how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It rela...(展开全部)

Endless sunshine, endless beaches, wildlife like you've never seen it - and a boomtown city perched on the edge of a vast desert. Western Australia is best done slowly, so set the speedometer to 'snail' and drink it in. This revised edition focuses on the must-visit destinations, including Margaret River and the Southwest Coast and includes a new "Travel with Children" chapte...(展开全部)

被称为业界传奇LoneIy Planet出版公司的创始人托尼．惠勒和莫琳·惠勒已经出版了很多的旅行指南，这些指南覆盖了这个星球的每一个国家。 Lonely Planet创立于1973年，当时惠勒夫妇自己动手出版了一本非常独特的旅游指南：《便宜走亚洲》。之后他们又出版了《鞋带上的东南亚》，这本书很快被人们称为背包客的“圣经”。当时他们勇敢地踏入了别的旅游出版商未曾涉足的市场，他们专为一个新兴的自助旅行人群服务，而这些人群的出现要远远早于大众旅游市场的兴起。

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two...(展开全部)