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Underground by Haruki Murakami
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-08-11 | Author:Haruki Murakami [Murakami, Haruki]

I had such trouble finding a job after college; every place was “No,” straight down the list. I’d wanted to go into fashion design, but the big fashion manufacturers weren’t ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
The Wonga Coup by Adam Roberts
epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Adam Roberts

A New Plan, a New Steyl A resourceful British soldier, trained to think around problems, Mann decided to simplify his plan. The unreliable Congolese rebels and shoddy aircraft were dropped. ...
( Category: Asia October 5,2017 )
The Vietnam War by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

A resident of the Cholon neighborhood watches helplessly as fire creeps toward her home during the fierce fighting that engulfed parts of Saigon during “Mini-Tet” in May 1968. Some thirty ...
( Category: Americas October 5,2017 )
Tokyo From Edo to Showa 1867-1989: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City by Edward Seidensticker; Donald Richie; Paul Waley
mobi |eng | 2010-12-10 | Author:Edward Seidensticker; Donald Richie; Paul Waley

Entrance to the new subway in Asakusa The subway company put up high buildings at each of its two original terminuses, Asakusa and Ueno. (For the Asakusa terminus, see page ...
( Category: Sociology October 3,2017 )
Set Adrift upon the World by James Hunter
epub |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:James Hunter

* Like most Scottish tolbooths, Inverness’s served various functions: as a toll or tax collecting point, a town council meeting place, a courthouse and a jail. * Prior to the ...
( Category: World September 29,2017 )
The Samurai and the Sacred by Stephen Turnbull
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-16 | Author:Stephen Turnbull

Cocks’ main dealings with the samurai class were mediated through the Matsuura family who ruled the territory where the English factory was located and had to be kept sweet. This ...
( Category: Asia September 29,2017 )
Islam by Mahmoud Ayoub
epub |eng | | Author:Mahmoud Ayoub

THE SIX CANONICAL ḤADĪTH COLLECTIONS The science of ḥadīth criticism as outlined above was not perfected and fully implemented until the middle of the third/ninth century. It was actually an ...
( Category: Islam September 28,2017 )
Act of War by Jack Cheevers
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Jack Cheevers

CHAPTER 12 AN UNAPOLOGETIC APOLOGY With the U.S. presidential race picking up summertime momentum, the Pueblo standoff was becoming a distinct liability for the Johnson administration and its Democratic allies ...
( Category: Asia September 27,2017 )
World, the World by Norman Lewis
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]

Chapter Nine I BECAME TIRED OF London, although by no means tired of life, and although Dr Johnson’s celebrated views on this subject might have been reasonable when the milkmaids ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Norman Lewis [Norman Lewis]

March 26 The streets of Naples are full of people hawking personal possessions of all kinds: pieces of jewellery, old books, pictures, clothing, etc. Many of them are members of ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
Vanished by Wil S. Hylton
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Wil S. Hylton [Hylton, Wil S.]

TEN WASTELAND As Franklin Roosevelt steamed away from his meeting with Nimitz and MacArthur, the strategy for the war was settled, but it remained top secret. In fact, Roosevelt’s trip ...
( Category: Military September 27,2017 )
Hong Kong by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Jan Morris [MORRIS, JAN]

8 Nevertheless buying and selling, even speculating and servicing, are no longer the chief functions of Hong Kong. Since 1950, when the United Nations clamped an embargo upon trade with ...
( Category: Asia September 27,2017 )
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce S. Feiler
epub |eng | 2004-04-21 | Author:Bruce S. Feiler [Feiler, Bruce S.]

For most of my first days in Sano, I participated in introductions of this kind, known formally as aisatsu. In less than five days I was introduced to all the ...
( Category: Asia September 26,2017 )
Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II by Stuart D. Goldman
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Stuart D. Goldman

Map 5. July 1–3 Japanese Offensive On the night of July 1, as Soviet reinforcements were being brought up, Komatsubara began the first phase of his attack. His 23rd Division, ...
( Category: Military September 26,2017 )
In Search of the Niinja by Antony Cummins
epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Antony Cummins

• The art of the ‘Tono’ Fire • The art of the Attack Torch • The art of the ‘Pulling’ Rope • The art of ‘Osei’ Gunnery • The art ...
( Category: Asia September 26,2017 )

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