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Explores Chinese culture from ancient times to the present, providing information about food, fashion, law, art, and religion.

Readers will learn about the important relationship between producers and consumers as well as buyers and sellers and how they all work together to create a healthy economy. This instructive volume defines basic economic concepts like goods and services and explains production with examples of the different types of production. It also covers the primary and secondary industries that produce goods. Concepts such as marketing and advertising are also covered, for a well-rounded view of this fascinating aspect of the economy.

La anciana tía Patente desea plantar un peral en su jardín. Pero cuando cava el hoyo, la pala choca contra un jarrón bastante rústico. Lo que ignora la buena señora es que el extraño dueño del jarrón desea recuperarlo. ¿Quién iba a decir que la tranquila vida de tía Patente se iba a complicar de esta manera? Una desternillante historia en la que se muestra que nunca es tarde para vivir emociones de nuevo.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...