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The People's Republic of Amnesia by Lim Louisa
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Lim, Louisa

In an essay dating from 1991, Liu Xiaobo wrote, “When we look at those ‘Tiananmen Mothers’ who so tirelessly persist in seeking justice for victims, can elite survivors like us ...
( Category: Asian March 5,2016 )
Samurai Tales by Romulus Hillsborough
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-22 | Author:Romulus Hillsborough

The condemned man’s arms were tightly bound to his torso with heavy rope. Another rope was tied around his neck. He was blindfolded with a piece of soft white paper ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2016 )
Last Jews Of Kerala, The by Edna Fernandes
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Edna Fernandes

The raj proved pivotal in the fortunes of all the Jews of India. The rise of Bombay under the British led to Cochin’s eventual demise as the premier trading port ...
( Category: Travel March 5,2016 )
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Alice Albinia [Albinia, Alice]

327 BCE ‘The Indus is bigger than any river in Europe…This was the river which Alexander crossed with his army, and so entered India.’ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, c. 145 CE ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2016 )
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-04-14 | Author:Brian Keenan

THE HAMMAM MAIL WHEN LUNCH WAS brought I asked where John was. ‘I do not know,’ came the reply. ‘If you have hurt him . . .’ The door banged ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 2,2016 )
Sinophone Studies by Shu-mei Shih
epub | | 2012-12-02 | Author:Shu-mei Shih

Proletarian Fiction: Nativist and Critical Modernity The New Taiwan Literature Movement of the 1920s and 1930s tried to change people’s worldviews to assist in political and social modernization. Eventually it ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 2,2016 )
On Revolution (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-09-26 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

CHAPTER FIVE FOUNDATION II: NOVUS ORDO SAECLORUM Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. —Virgil 1 Power and authority are no more the same than are power and violence. We have ...
( Category: History & Theory February 29,2016 )
Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott
epub |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

[Pg 154] Crœsus decides in favor of Delphi. His costly gifts. Of course, Crœsus decided that the Delphic oracle was the one that he must rely upon for guidance in ...
( Category: Greece February 23,2016 )
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Anchee Min [Min, Anchee]

As a comrade with a good record, my case was dropped. I was to be sent to the Shanghai Film Studio to be trained as an actress. The headquarters held ...
( Category: China February 21,2016 )
Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age by Sam Tranum
epub |eng | 2010-09-25 | Author:Sam Tranum [Tranum, Sam]

19. My Three-Part Plan In the United States it would have taken me a week to put together an Internet center. One day driving around strip malls, shopping at hardware, ...
( Category: Asia February 15,2016 )
The Most Wanted Man in China by Fang Lizhi
epub |eng | | Author:Fang Lizhi

12. TURN TOWARD ASTROPHYSICS My work at the brick factory came to an end less than a month after I got back from Huangshan. The authorities reassigned me to the ...
( Category: Asian February 13,2016 )
The Elimination by Rithy Panh
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Rithy Panh [Panh, Rithy]

I study Louis Althusser’s For Marx and some of Étienne Balibar’s texts on Marx and historical materialism. The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt. Adorno’s The ...
( Category: Asia February 8,2016 )
The Japan Journals by Donald Richie
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Donald Richie

With Jim Jarmusch, 1990. UNIFRANCE FILM 17 AUGUST 1990. In any event, all other concerns eclipsed in the press by Iraq. What timing. Just when the U.S.A. had lost its ...
( Category: Japan February 6,2016 )
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:W. David Marx [Marx, W. David]

Two examples of G.I. style in Men’s Club during the mid-1970s. (Courtesy of Hearst Fujingah) During the Fifties’ fashion craze, some teens even started dressing like U.S. Army privates—the classic ...
( Category: Fashion Design January 31,2016 )
Gandhi, an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi & Mahadev Desai
epub |eng | 1925-01-01 | Author:Mahatma Gandhi & Mahadev Desai [Gandhi, Mahatma & Desai, Mahadev]

22 Faith on its Trial Though I had hired chambers in the Fort and a house in Girgaum, God would not let me settle down. Scarcely had I moved into ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 23,2016 )

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