Asia
epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Ivan B [Ivan B]

Robert was walking with Marcia through a restaurant, he could see men ogling Marcia as they passed by, but he didn’t care as Marcia was on his arm. They ate ...
( Category: Fashion September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-02 | Author:Graham Seal

Yanks Down Under After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Australia turned towards America for strategic support in the Pacific war. Australia rapidly became an extended American base, with ...
( Category: Military September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-06 | Author:Kushanava Choudhury

PART III Crossing the Canal ‘Work hard, play hard.’ That had been the mantra when I was at Princeton, which really meant ‘work work work’ until you forget what ‘play’ ...
( Category: Historical September 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-29 | Author:Vincent Cronin [Cronin, Vincent]

chapter nine Within the Forbidden City The year turned and with it their fortune. In mid-January a letter was dispatched to Ma T’ang, the contents of which Ricci learned a ...
( Category: Asia September 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-05-07 | Author:Jawaharlal Nehru [Nehru, Jawaharlal]

125 Imperialism and Nationalism in Persia January 21, 1933 You are entitled to have a grievance against me. I have given you sufficient provocation by rushing backwards and forwards in ...
( Category: World September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-18 | Author:Evans, Karin [Evans, Karin]

Kelly observed her second Halloween dressed as a pumpkin. When we marked the Autumn Moon Festival the same month, she wore her Chinese jacket from Guangzhou. In December we gathered ...
( Category: Asia September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-02 | Author:Robert E. Peavey

WE WAITED UNTIL AFTER SUNDOWN before we took up a position on the battalion's line. There wasn't any need to make it any easier for Mr. Charles to plan an ...
( Category: Military September 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Barbara Tuchman

In summary, Britain’s follies were not so perverse as the Popes’. Ministers were not deaf to rising discontent, because they had no chance to be; expressed by their equals, it ...
( Category: World September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-17 | Author:Max Hastings

The sea below was black and the lower bases of the clouds a dark, dull gray. Then, almost as if in response to a drum roll, there was an explosion ...
( Category: Asia September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Eunsun Kim & Sébastien Falletti [Kim, Eunsun & Falletti, Sébastien]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Jeff Koehler

Although ousted as colonial rulers, the British still controlled the tea sector until 1974.5 On the first day of that year the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) of 1973 was ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-08 | Author:Delphine Schrank

THE BOTHER, then, about this sudden spot of trouble in which Nway found himself—hounded out of Rangoon by intelligence agents—was that he needed to be back in the action, not ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 15,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-03-16 | Author:Catherine B. Asher & Cynthia Talbot [Asher, Catherine B.]

Figure 5.12 Raja Man Singh’s Govinda Deva temple (1590) at Vrindavan reflects Islamicate styles used in imperial Mughal architecture. Man Singh built several other temples that were intended both to ...
( Category: Asia September 14,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-09-18 | Author:R.S. Sharma [Sharma, R.S.]

Financial Crisis The enormous expenditure on the army and payment to the bureaucracy created a financial crisis for the Maurya empire. As far as we know, in ancient times the ...
( Category: Anthropology September 14,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-05-04 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

As far as the rebels were concerned, the 9 July attack on the British was certainly the most successful yet. But expectations in both the Palace and the city had ...
( Category: Asia September 14,2017 )