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Korea: A Very Short Introduction by Michael J. Seth
epub |eng | 2020-01-23 | Author:Michael J. Seth [Seth, Michael J.]

Wartime totalitarianism Korea’s colonial experience took an increasingly authoritative and coercive turn in the 1930s. As the Great Depression engulfed much of the world, and the international trading system was ...
( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
Druids by Cunliffe Barry;
epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Cunliffe, Barry; [Cunliffe, Barry;]

They are believed to be the most just of men and are therefore entrusted with the decision of cases affecting either individuals or the public; indeed in former times they ...
( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
Yiddish: Biography of a Language by Jeffrey Shandler
epub |eng | 2020-11-15 | Author:Jeffrey Shandler [Shandler, Jeffrey]

Cover of the August 1932 issue of Der apikoyres (The heretic), an anti-religious propaganda magazine, published in Moscow. The spelling of the magazine’s name exemplifies the Soviet Union’s reform of ...
( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
Diary of Charlotte Forten: A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War by Charlotte Forten
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Charlotte Forten [Charlotte Forten]

Amelia Jenks Bloomer and the Bloomer Costume Amelia Jenks Bloomer was a women’s rights activist who lived from 1818 to 1894. Bloomer thought it was unfair that women were expected ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies December 11,2021 )
Pentecostalism: A Very Short Introduction by William K. Kay
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:William K. Kay [Kay, William K.]

Exorcism Pentecostals, from the beginning, believed in exorcism. Exotic stories told by missionaries returning from faraway places might include reference to exorcism but, until the charismatic movement in the 1960s ...
( Category: Christian Bibles December 11,2021 )
Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin by Lisa T. Sarasohn
epub |eng | 2021-09-21 | Author:Lisa T. Sarasohn [Sarasohn, Lisa T.]

The actions of the flea may be disgusting and bloody, says the author, but that does not stop him from wishing to become metamorphosed into a flea, and “wandering under ...
( Category: Automotive December 11,2021 )
The Contemplative Foundations of Classical Daoism by Harold D. Roth
epub, pdf |eng | 2021-05-01 | Author:Harold D. Roth [Roth, Harold D.]

( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
Park Life: Around the World in 50 Parks by Tom Chesshyre
epub |eng | 2021-09-09 | Author:Tom Chesshyre [Chesshyre, Tom]

Yet during the Battle of Omdurman a total of 48 of the British/ Egyptian force had died compared with 12,000 Sudanese, as mentioned previously. General Kitchener, in charge, described the ...
( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
The Way of Zen by Alan W Watts
epub |eng | 2021-07-15 | Author:Alan W Watts [Watts, Alan W]

We have already mentioned the incident between Ma-tsu and Huai-jang, in which the latter compared sitting in meditation to polishing a tile for a mirror. On another occasion Huai-jang said: ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies December 11,2021 )
Modern Ireland: a very short introduction by Senia Pašeta
epub |eng | 2003-02-15 | Author:Senia Pašeta [Pašeta, Senia]

Chapter 6 Independent Ireland What one nationalist described as nationalist Ireland’s ‘desperate homesickness for a Split’ once again reared its ugly head in the aftermath of the vote on the ...
( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction by John H. Holland
epub |eng | 2014-06-28 | Author:John H. Holland [Holland, John H.]

In a binary coding, only a few positions are required to provide for hundreds of distinct tags (ten positions suffice for over 1,000 distinct tags). Thus, tag diversity is easily ...
( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico by Ed Morales
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Ed Morales [MORALES, ED]

We interviewed the lead banker on Goldman’s Puerto Rico team in 2005, who was identified by GDB management and in contemporaneous documents, as having proposed the legislation or advocated for ...
( Category: Accounting December 11,2021 )
The American West: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Aron
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Stephen Aron [Aron, Stephen]

Reconstructing races and rights Struggles over the place of Indians were entwined with broader debates about race, rights, and the relationship between individuals, states, and the federal government that convulsed ...
( Category: African History December 11,2021 )
Into Wild Mongolia by George B. Schaller
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:George B. Schaller [Schaller, George B.]

The empty shells of Russian apartment buildings and a damaged statue of Lenin in the town of Saynshand. We leave UB and drive toward Bayan Tooroi, the Gobi Park headquarters. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies December 11,2021 )
The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie
epub |eng | 2021-10-05 | Author:Jennifer Higgie [Higgie, Jennifer]

Holmes must have been harsh, as he wrote her a letter of apology, but within a month he had died. Nora was deeply depressed. She was broke, disheartened, cold. She ...
( Category: Architecture December 11,2021 )

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