Asia
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Niromi de Soyza [de Soyza, Niromi]

Saturday, 26 September was another hot and humid day. As I neared the Nallur Temple, I detected tension in the air. A sickening feeling rose in my stomach. I hurriedly ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Upinder Singh [Singh, Upinder]

Later, Rama restrains Lakshmana when the latter announces that he will kill all the demons: “You must not slaughter all the rākṣasas of the earth on account of a single ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-01 | Author:Daguan Zhou [Zhou, Daguan]

30 UTENSILS Ordinary families have houses but nothing else by way of tables, chairs, jars, or buckets. They use an earthenware pot to cook rice in, and make sauce with ...
( Category: Asia April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-19 | Author:George Peto & Peter Margaritis [Peto, George]

That night, the Japanese planned on making a substantial attempt to try and retake the Point. If they could once again secure this elevated position, they could set up mortars, ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-11 | Author:Philip A. Seaton [Seaton, Philip A.]

Conclusions After the fiftieth anniversary, NHK's survey of war-related programming concluded that Japanese television clearly showed Japan's role as an aggressor in Asia, although the focus on Japanese victimhood was ...
( Category: Asia April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-29 | Author:James MacManus [James MacManus ]

On one occasion, to escape a Japanese advance and to save a vital piece of machinery, Hogg swallowed his principles and hired a rickshaw. The combined weight of a hefty ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Peter B. Golden [Golden, Peter B.]

CHAPTER SEVEN The Later Chinggisids, Temür, and the Timurid Renaissance In the fragmenting Chinggisid world, Mongols were a privileged minority, one increasingly assimilated by their subjects. As al-’Umarî, an Arab ...
( Category: Asia March 31,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Spence [Spence, Jonathan]

( Category: Asia March 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Rongbin Han

Recently, in one of its northern cities, a power has been speeding up construction of an aircraft carrier, which has symbolic significance. … However, under the glossy surface of being ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 29,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Ronald Takaki [Takaki, Ronald]

But an independent and great India would bring respect for them as Asian Indians in America. In the fall of 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, some four ...
( Category: Americas March 28,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Silbey

The effects of the constant shelling and the sniping began to wear on the civilians in the concessions. Most Western civilians had to retreat to the “large cellars” of the ...
( Category: Asia March 28,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-06-06 | Author:Justin Mccarthy [Mccarthy, Justin]

Imperialism and Nationalism The nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire attempted to survive in a world in which imperialism was triumphant. All over Asia and Africa, British, French, German, and Russian armies were ...
( Category: Middle East March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Ian Buruma

Anzu in the dressing room of the striptease theater We took the train to Kawasaki, an industrial slum inhabited by poor Koreans. The streets were shabby and smelled of fermented ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1954-07-14 | Author:Richard Wright [Wright, Richard]

( Category: Social Sciences March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1928-03-25 | Author:Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937.

c 03 o 4. The Gurians, living chiefly in the Osurghet District of Kutais Province. The population is about 93,000. 5. The Adshar, are according to Marr, Gursinized Megrels. They ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2018 )