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Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays) by James B. Stockdale
mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-11-30 | Author:James B. Stockdale

ESSAYS IN PUBLIC POLICY Hong Kong under Chinese Rule: The First Year David Newman and Alvin Rabushka, 1998 Affirmative Action in Higher Education: A Dilemma of Conflicting Principles John H. ...
( Category: Military October 13,2017 )
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Sonia Faleiro [Faleiro, Sonia]

Shetty drove up to Leela’s flat in his navy blue Tata Sumo, and it said a lot that he was willing to risk being seen with her outside the dance ...
( Category: World October 13,2017 )
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest of Times to A.D. 697 (Tuttle Classics) by Aston W. G
mobi |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Aston, W. G. [Aston, W. G.]

XVII. 23. Summer, 4th month, 7th day. Kwi-neung-ma-ta3 Kanki, King of Imna,4 came to Court. [Kwi-neung-ma-ta was doubtless the Arasăteung.] He addressed Kanamura, Ohotomo no Ohomuraji, saying :—“ The several ...
( Category: Asia October 13,2017 )
Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Herbert P. Bix [Bix, Herbert P.]

December 11, 1942: Today the emperor travels to Ise Shrine to worship in person [rather than by proxy]…. December 12:…Departed Kyoto Palace at 6:45 A.M…. arrived at Yamada Station at ...
( Category: Historical October 13,2017 )
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 1330?-1400? & Guanzhong Luo
epub |eng | | Author:Luo Guanzhong, 1330?-1400? & Guanzhong, Luo

Liu Zhang with thirty thousand troops went out to welcome his clansman, and there followed one thousand wagons laden with supplies and rich stuffs. Liu Bei’s advanced guard had arrived ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 13,2017 )
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Twigger

6 The Major is Drowned and to be Auctioned off Today Goodness whispers, evil shouts. Nepali proverb The Tsangpo is not a slow river. North of Sikkim, south of Lhasa, ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 12,2017 )
Magnificent Delusions : Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding (9781610393188) by Haqqani Husain
epub |eng | | Author:Haqqani, Husain [Haqqani, Husain]

WHEN INDIA ANNOUNCED on May 18, 1974, that it had tested a “peaceful nuclear device,” Americans were preoccupied with controversies related to the Watergate scandal. Although the timing of the ...
( Category: Asia October 12,2017 )
Nathaniel's nutmeg by Giles Milton
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-03-16 | Author:Giles Milton

This news alarmed Middleton and he put to sea without further ado. But his woes did not end with his escape from the cannibals. An approaching rowing boat brought the ...
( Category: Industries October 11,2017 )
Hannibal's Oath by John Prevas
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:John Prevas [Prevas, John]

CHAPTER VI Unending War WHEN HANNIBAL LEFT Spain for Italy, he placed his younger brother Hasdrubal in command of the Carthaginian-controlled portion of the country. Hasdrubal was tasked with holding ...
( Category: Asia October 11,2017 )
Amazons by John Man
epub |eng | | Author:John Man

9 A PAINTING, TWO PLAYS AND A SUICIDE IN 1600, THE Amazons were firmly lodged in Europe’s consciousness, placed there by Greek history, confirmed by exploration in the New World, ...
( Category: Asia October 11,2017 )
Castes of Mind by Dirks Nicholas B.;
epub |eng | 2001-10-11 | Author:Dirks, Nicholas B.;

The Colonized Body as Ethnographic Text In 1906, Thurston published a long ethnographic work while he was in the middle of his labors for the ethnographic survey. Entitled Ethnographic Notes ...
( Category: Anthropology October 11,2017 )
Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
epub |eng | | Author:George Bird Grinnell

* * * RED ROBE'S DREAM Long, long ago, Red Robe and Talking Rock were young men in the Blackfeet camp. In their childhood days and early youth their life ...
( Category: Americas October 9,2017 )
A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs by Adeline Yen Mah
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Adeline Yen Mah [Mah, Adeline Yen]

Although Chen’s fame and fortune lasted for barely six months at the end of his life, his name became legendary and his exploits emerged as a major influence after his ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 8,2017 )
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Christopher Goscha [Goscha, Christopher]

RESETTING COMMUNIST VIETNAM AND THE REPUBLIC OF HO CHI MINH Extending DRV Sovereignty above the Seventeenth Parallel In October 1954, Ho’s government returned to Hanoi and began administering the previously ...
( Category: Asia October 7,2017 )
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
epub |eng | | Author:Rory Stewart [Stewart, Rory]

After perhaps 120 feet, I came out into a circular chamber from which a second spiral staircase ascended. Here, the smaller brick steps had fallen away from the wall and ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 7,2017 )

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