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The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century (The New Cambridge History of India) by B. R. Tomlinson
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-25 | Author:B. R. Tomlinson [Tomlinson, B. R.]

12 Twomey, ‘Employment’, table 5. 13 Ibid.; A. K. Bagchi, Private Investment in India, 1900–1999, Cambridge, 1972, pp. 226–7; Tirthankar Roy, ‘Size and Structure of Handloom Weaving in the Mid-Thirties’, ...
( Category: Economics September 14,2017 )
The American South and the Vietnam War by Fry Joseph A
epub |eng | 2015-05-01 | Author:Fry, Joseph A.

President Lyndon B. Johnson and General William Westmoreland, a South Carolina native and US commander in Vietnam, 1964–1968, who was described as personifying the South’s military tradition. Courtesy of the ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
Legends of the Samurai by Hiroaki Sato
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Hiroaki Sato [Sato, Hiroaki]

TAKEDA SHINGEN AND UESUGI KENSHIN: TWO WARLORDS DURING JAPAN’S “AGE OF WARRING STATES” several outstanding warlords emerged. Among them, Takeda Shingen Harunobu (1521-73), of Kai, and Uesugi Kenshin Terutora (1530-78), ...
( Category: Asia September 13,2017 )
Possession by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

( Category: Literary September 13,2017 )
Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country by Mike Kim
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-28 | Author:Mike Kim [Kim, Mike]

Even in an utterly inhumane place such as the North Korean gulags, there are glimpses of humanity among the victims, moments of humor and generosity. North Koreans are some of ...
( Category: Asia September 12,2017 )
The Badlands by Paul French
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Paul French [French, Paul]

Hatamen Street – the border between the Badlands and the Legation Quarter Advertising hoardings close to the Badlands, 1930s The Dealer Bad Joe Knauf’s Business and Blades American-born Joe Knauf ...
( Category: World September 12,2017 )
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway
epub |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway [Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L.]

Rescorla and his men had been watching the air show appreciatively. "We gathered for the last sweep. Suddenly a fighter-bomber plowed down from above. We buried our noses at the ...
( Category: Military September 11,2017 )
The Philippines by Theodore Roosevelt
epub |eng | | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

The feeling of the people toward the army is different. In some places it is friendly and in others it is hostile, and it is found chiefly to vary with ...
( Category: Asia September 11,2017 )
The Tao Teh King by Lao-tzu
epub |eng | | Author:Lao-tzu

To seek her fortune in another place." corruptible whiteness. To attain to this not only is it necessary to know men but to know one's Self; not only is contentment ...
( Category: Philosophy September 11,2017 )
Golden Boy by Martin Booth
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Martin Booth

Once a month, a cylindrical package arrived for me by sea mail. It was rolled up tightly, wrapped in brown paper and had twine tied round it and running through ...
( Category: Asia September 11,2017 )
Three Famines by Keneally Thomas
epub |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Keneally Thomas [Keneally Thomas]

Evictions and subsequent emigration were not only part of the mythology of the Irish famine, but also of its bitter reality. The government in Westminster always intended that Irish landlords ...
( Category: Africa September 10,2017 )
The Devil Soldier by Caleb Carr
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Caleb Carr [Carr, Caleb]

Thus by year’s end the Taipings were being charged with treachery for having violated the yearlong truce Admiral Hope had negotiated with them in March 1861, and before long Taiping ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2017 )
War by A. C. Grayling
epub |eng | | Author:A. C. Grayling

In the Introduction to this book, war was defined as ‘a state of armed conflict between states or nations, or between identified and organised groups of significant size and character’. ...
( Category: Military September 10,2017 )
Asia's Reckoning by Richard McGregor
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Richard McGregor

CHAPTER TEN The Ampo Mafia Trust me. —Yukio Hatoyama, to Barack Obama, on Okinawa Large-scale deep-water rigs are our mobile national territory and a strategic weapon. —Wang Yilin, Chinese state ...
( Category: Asia September 10,2017 )
Soy un gato by Natsume Soseki
mobi |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Natsume Soseki

Capítulo 8 Antes, cuando he descrito mis ejercicios de equilibrista sobre la valla, debería haber explicado alguna cosa más sobre la cerca de bambú que delimita el jardín del maestro. ...
( Category: Japanese September 10,2017 )

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