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  • China: People's Republic

    by Stephen Platt ...
    This was a culturally sensational trip, yet we only scratched the surface of this ancient empire and ultra modern people’s republic, visiting Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing. China is vast and complex – the world’s most populous country, the second largest in land area, with nearly 300 living languages and 7 mega cities with over 10 million inhabitants. We went on our way back from Australia and ... Read more

    $4.69 USD

  • New Zealand: Long White Cloud

    by Stephen Platt, Scharlie Platt ...
    Because of its remoteness, New Zealand was one of the last places to be settled by humans who arrived only 7-800 years ago from Polynesia and founded what today is a strong and highly influential Maori culture. We went to study recovery after the 2012 earthquake and stayed with Scharlie’s cousin John and his wife Mollie in Christchurch. We interviewed key people involved in planning the ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • Turkey: East Meets West

    by Stephen Platt, Scharlie Platt ...
    The city of Van on the Silk Road in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It was hit by an earthquake on Sunday 23 October 2011. People were killed and many more made homeless. I went there a year later to see how well the city is recovering. Scharlie, my wife, came for the first week in Izmir where we stayed with Bahar, a former PhD student of mine, and her parents. With the help of a guide, Harun, I visited ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • France: Massif Central

    by Stephen Platt ...
    The Massif Central is a highland in south-central France and historically the region, the Auverne, was a barrier. It was formed by ancient volcanic activity over many ages and was raised by the Alpine and Pyrenean uplifts. The rock is granite and metamorphic and the region contain hundreds of extinct volcanos or Puys. I was unfamiliar with the region and had never considered visiting it until ... Read more

    $3.42 USD

  • 80 Tales of DBA Impact – 80 récits d'impacts du DBA

    2013-2023

    by Michel Kalika, Stephen Platt, Frédéric Branger, Aline Closse ...
    Series series Business Science Institute
    80 Tales of DBA ImpactThe Doctorate of Business Administration is more than just another qualification on a CV: it is the recognition of a deep engagement, of a transformation, of taking a step back from one’s professional practice and expertise... It is also a formidable generator of impact for an individual, a company, a sector of activity, even a country.The 80 portraits of Business Science ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Corsica: Mare a Mare Nord

    by Stephen Platt ...
    The Mare a Mare Nord traverses Corsica from sea to sea. It’s nearly 100 miles long (152 km), involves nearly 7000 metres of ascent and descent and took me 11 days. I sailed to Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, on the west coast, and the walk climbed thickly wooded valleys before crossing the GR20 and the mountainous backbone of Corsica at the Col de Vergio. From Corte, the town in the middle of the ... Read more

    $5.19 USD

  • Ecuador: Climbing Volcanos

    by Stephen Platt, Scharlie Platt ...
    We went to Ecuador to visit my daughter Frances. In Quito we stayed with Ecuadorian friends who introduced us to culinary delights such as calf’s foot soup (good for hangovers), cow’s udder (like eating Pirelli tyre rubber) and guinea pig (like roast chicken on a spit). We planned to climb volcanos, acclimatising slowly, starting from Loma Lumbisi at 3039 m and building up to Chimborazo at 6,268 m ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • Colombia: Barrios and Beaches

    by Stephen Platt ...
    I first met Maria Ximena when she talked about Cazuca, a barrio to the south west of Bogota and I visited Colombia three times. Working with young architects from the Universidad Piloto and a Women's Foundation we devised plans to improve the neighbourhood. I also describe visits to Cartagena, Santa Marta, Valledupar and the Tayrona National Park where I met and talked to Kogi Indians. ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • Japan: After the Tsunami

    by Stephen Platt ...
    We went Japan to study recovery after the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. This was a major disaster for Japan. For the country most prepared for earthquakes this was a shocking event that will take years and trillions of dollars to repair. Fifteen months after the disaster, when we made our field trip, recovery was already underway. New embankments were being constructed along the coast of the Sendai plain ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • Italy: Valleys of Rock

    by Stephen Platt, Scharlie Platt ...
    In the summer of 2004 we went climbing with Dimitri in the Valle Garrafano in the Apuane Alps, a limestone area famous for its Carrara marble. Dimitri had been a tenant of ours in Cambridge when he had a sabbatical working in the University Library. We returned the following summer and were whisked off again to the rocky valleys of Italy’s far northwest. We climbed in the Valle Maira and Valle ... Read more

    $4.79 USD

  • Morocco: Sahara and Atlas

    by Stephen Platt, Scharlie Platt ...
    We had a trip to Morocco in mind for some years, since Frances, our daughter, went there on buying trips twenty years ago. But this time we visited parts that were new to her. From Fez we crossed the Atlas Mountains and went south into the desert, then west along the mountains to Finnt, across to Marrakesh and back along the northern flank to Fez. I’m glad we went now because Morocco is changing. ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

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    German South West Africa: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Biggest African Colony

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Stephen Platt ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a ... Read more

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