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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry
mobi |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Richard Lloyd Parry

15. GEORGE O’HARA Instead of Azabu Police Station, where they would have interrogated the suspect in a more routine case, Superintendent Udo’s detectives took Joji Obara to the fortresslike headquarters ...
( Category: True Crime October 7,2017 )
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de
epub | | 2009-12-13 | Author:Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de [Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de]

-Pues con ese beneplácito -respondió el cura-, digo que mi escrúpulo es que no me puedo persuadir en ninguna manera a que toda la caterva de caballeros andantes que vuestra ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese October 7,2017 )
Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan
epub |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Philip P. Pan [Pan, Philip P.]

ON BOTH OCCASIONS that Chen Lihua agreed to meet with me, she gave me presents. At the end of my interviews with her, she would tell me to turn off ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 7,2017 )
Scattered Sand by Hsiao-Hung Pai
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Hsiao-Hung Pai

My mother seemed a little apprehensive about our next visit, to Red River village, where Grandmother came from. Grandmother’s marriage to Grandfather had been arranged through a matchmaker, the normal ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Tibet on Fire by Tsering Woeser
epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Tsering Woeser

International Media One very cold afternoon in 2013, the weather in Beijing terrible as always, I sat in a coffee shop with a French journalist from Le Monde and a ...
( Category: Death & Grief October 6,2017 )
The Bullet and the Ballot Box by Aditya Adhikari
epub |eng | | Author:Aditya Adhikari

At the Mercy of the People On the night of 18 March, 2004, Ganga Bahadur Lama came to Chhailung VDC in Lamjung district as political commissar of a group of ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
Jack Weatherford by Genghis Khan;the Making of the Modern World
mobi |eng | 2005-03-22 | Author:Genghis Khan;the Making of the Modern World

7 Warring Queens Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men. MONGKE KHAN WHILE THE MONGOL men stayed busy on the ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War by Rohini Mohan
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Rohini Mohan [Mohan, Rohini]

IT WAS MARAN who discovered that grandfather was dead. He had gone inside their tent to look for the steel cup he liked to play with. The old man lay ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 6,2017 )
Jack Weatherford by Genghis Khan & the Making of the Modern World
epub |eng | 2005-03-22 | Author:Genghis Khan & the Making of the Modern World [Khan, Genghis & World, the Making of the Modern]

The refugees spread information about the Mongols across Europe, as can be seen from the chronicle written by Matthew Paris, a monk of the Benedictine abbey at St. Albans in ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (Mappings Series) by
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:

Post-Nationalist Foundational Histories It is a tribute to the resilience of the modernizing project inaugurated by Orientalism that the legitimacy of its proponents was challenged before its hegemony was threatened. ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
China's Twentieth Century by Wang Hui
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Wang Hui

in the past, labour was used to designate the reality of a social production and a social objective of accumulating wealth. Even capital and surplus-value exploited it—precisely where it retained ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Gandhi by Kathryn Tidrick
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Kathryn Tidrick [Tidrick, Kathryn]

He referred to other incidents which had taken place in recent weeks, including the forcible takeover of town halls at Shahajanpur and Jajjar. ‘I have bitter complaints about Jajjar’, he ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by John Pomfret
epub |eng | | Author:John Pomfret

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Mission Impossible On November 26, 1945, barely an hour after assuring President Truman that he would be returning to China, Patrick Hurley announced his resignation as ambassador, alleging, ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer by Dhar Maloy Krishna
epub |eng | 2015-03-06 | Author:Dhar, Maloy Krishna [Dhar, Maloy Krishna]

* The popular perception that Maneka was thrown out of 1 Safdarjung Road is not correct. She had meticulously prepared for the event and precipitated the matter by floating a ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
By the Book by Nancy Warren
epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:Nancy Warren [Warren, Nancy Hunter]

* * * Chapter 11 «^» Shari decided to be perfectly grown-up and professional about the fact that Luke's desk was in his bedroom. She'd simply ignore the bed and ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy October 6,2017 )

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