Bøger af Rob Collins

Shanghai is one of the busiest and largest cities in the world, people have been traveling to Shanghai from all corners of the world for a long time now, and there's something for everyone in this city. This travel guide will give you a summary of what Shanghai has to offer. Shanghai is currently the largest city in China, and even the world, with a population of more than 24 million people. The people of Shanghai are mostly Chinese, but the last census showed 31,500 Japanese, 21,000 Americans, and 20,700 Koreans, among other foreigners, to be living in the city of Shanghai. It is a port city that lies on the Huangpu River, where the Yangtze River empties into the East China Sea. Shanghai is China's wealthiest city and is said to have the best shopping, dining, fashion and arts and entertainment in all of China. With so many people and so many places to visit, there is an unlimited number of places to go, foods to eat, and goods to buy in Shanghai. Whether you want to tour the city's streets on a search for high fashion, or you want to eat a fish you've never heard of from a street vendor, Shanghai has something to offer any traveler.

The title refers to the hardship, suffering, hunger and death that began that year and continued for four more heartbreaking years. The title refers to the insensitivity and lack of control on English absentee landlords who took full advantage of the British government's policy to "let them do as they very well please," and they did. Often, an Irish family was evicted from their cottage without notice and for no apparant reason. The book's cover depicts a barran landscape. They are all gone, gone on the ships to Canada, to America to avoid, in many cases, starvation. They were evicted, their homes destroyed, the grounds cleared of rubble to convert pasture to farm land for crops. The British called it "clearance improvements." A land of plenty had not the care or compassion to provide adequate measures to insure the health and the satisfaction of their hunger, their own citizens. The barran landscape depicts the emptiness felt when a son or daughter left for a new life in a foreign land, never to be seen again.

"Get a Life, Not Just a Job" is an unconventional guide to finding your ideal career. It will help you to identify what really makes you tick and discover work that you love. The author describes in detail a tried'n'tested methodology which has been scientifically proven to be approximately 3 billion times better than any career advice you might have received at school or college. WARNING: The book contains swearing, lots of humour and other adult themes.

Presents the significant findings of seven excavation projects focusing on the construction and preservation of Hadrian's Wall..

Artefacts are used to understand the lives of people living in the frontier communities of Hadrian's Wall. The first time objects from collections across the Wall have been combined in one volume. Heavily-illustrated with extended captions.