Bøger af Christian Tyler

It's 26 Letters in the Alphabet put them together and see what you get...Alphabet and Friends will take you on adventures that are vivid, colorful, entertaining and fun. Each day we use the Alphabet to communicate in different languages around the world. The Adventures of Alphabet will refresh and re-engage non-readers, early readers and adults in learning. Your Imagination is the only limit to reading, writing, thinking and speaking with the Alphabet. This Storybook and its characters will teach life lessons, bring smiles and joy while entertaining the reader and the listener alike. Dr. G and Christian Tyler have created a timeless reading tool that encourages unlimited creativity. Take the Journey with Alphabet and Friends, Enjoy the ride!

Closed to the world for half a century, like a black hole in the Asian landmass, the wilderness of Xinjiang in northwest China is returning to the light. The picture it presents is both fascinating and disturbing. Despite a savage landscape and climate, Xinjiang has a rich past: sand-buried cities, painted cave shrines, rare creatures, and wonderfully preserved mummies of European appearance. Their descendants, the Uighurs, still farm the tranquil oases that ring the dreaded Taklamakan, the world's second largest sand desert, and the Kazakh and Kirghiz herdsmen still roam the mountains. The region's history, however, has been punctuated by violence, usually provoked by ambitious outsiders--nomad chieftains from the north, Muslim emirs from Central Asia, Russian generals, or warlords from inner China. The Chinese regard the far west as a barbarian land. Only in the 1760s did they subdue it, and even then their rule was repeatedly broken. Compared with the Russians' conquest of Siberia, or the Americans' trek west, China's colonization of Xinjiang has been late and difficult. The Communists have done most to develop it, as a penal colony, as a buffer against invasion, and as a supplier of raw materials and living space for an overpopulated country. But what China sees as its property, the Uighurs regard as theft by an alien occupier. Tension has led to violence and savage reprisals. This portrait of Xinjiang should be essential reading for travelers and for anyone interested in today's China and the fate of minority peoples.