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books:

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time

1088 reviews
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

Tantor Media, 2006

'Abdu'l-Baha's View on Educating Females
From an Orthodox Baha'i perspective, this book could not have been more welcome and heartwarming. 'Abdu'l-Baha said it best many, many years ago, long before the frightening state that the world has entered into. `Abdu'l-Bahá laid great stress on Education. He said "The girl's education is of more importance today than the boy's, for she is the mother of the future race. It is the duty of all ...

Phantom Shanghai

7 reviews
Greg Girard

Magenta Publishing for the Art, 2007

Must-have reading of Shanghai
This book provides the reader a clear picture, as well as insight, into what Shanghai must have looked like in the past, the effects of the passage of time on its society and how it describes its resulting present-day reality. The accompanying narrative sets a deeper understanding of the well-laid out and stunning photographs of featured buildings, structures, places, and other vestiges ...

City of Darkness

6 reviews
Greg Girard, Ian Lambot

Ernst,Wilhelm & Sohn,Verlag fur Architektur und Technische Wissenschaften Gmbh.,Germany, 1993

One of the best books I've ever seen!
Everyone who I have ever shown this book to has had a deep reaction to it. I wouldn't handicap this book by calling it a photography book alone, although the photos are very powerful and prominent, but the text deserves recognition aswell. Plenty of personal stories of how people made this decaying city their home. Both epic and intimate. A testament of the human animal's ability to adapt and ...