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The Art Of War by Tzu Sun
epub |eng | 1944-01-02 | Author:Tzu, Sun [Tzu, Sun]

VIII. VARIATION IN TACTICS [The heading means literally “The Nine Variations,” but as Sun Tzu does not appear to enumerate these, and as, indeed, he has already told us (V ...
( Category: Military August 19,2017 )
The Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham
epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Andrew X. Pham

THAT night, people buried Mr. Nhi with his father. Monks blessed their graves under a pale crescent moon. In the wee hours, more than twenty young men, single women, and ...
( Category: Asia August 19,2017 )
Sikunder Burnes by Craig Murray
epub |eng | 2016-11-23 | Author:Craig Murray

Neither Burnes nor Witkiewicz give any account of joint meetings with the Emir. But plainly the Qazi believed Ranjit’s sympathies to be with Russia. He also reported that Burnes had ...
( Category: Historical August 18,2017 )
The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Amartya Sen

11 Women and Men* Many Faces of Gender Inequality Inequality between women and men can appear in many different forms – it has many faces.1 Gender disparity is, in fact, ...
( Category: Asia August 17,2017 )
The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 by Donald Richie
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Donald Richie [Richie, Donald]

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: Asia August 17,2017 )
The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir by Huang Wenguang
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:Huang, Wenguang [Huang, Wenguang]

Part Two 13. THAW Chairman Mao was dead, and his successor, Hua Guofeng, began to clean house in October 1976, starting with the “counterrevolutionary clique” led by Mao’s wife, Jiang ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
Road of Bones by Fergal Keane
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Fergal Keane [Keane, Fergal]

* * * * Warren and the remainder of 161 Indian brigade – 1/1 Punjab regiment, 4/7 Rajput and a mountain artillery battery – were unable to follow Laverty into ...
( Category: Military August 17,2017 )
Beautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Sonia Faleiro

Shetty drove up to Leela’s flat in his navy blue Tata Sumo, and it said a lot that he was willing to risk being seen with her outside the dance ...
( Category: World August 17,2017 )
Bend, Not Break by Ping Fu
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Ping Fu

THE PERSONAL FACTORY: 1996–1999 THE YEAR 1996 was nearing its end and I was determined to get a company started. Xixi was three, sweet and chatty, and I truly enjoyed ...
( Category: Memoirs August 17,2017 )
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-02 | Author:David Vine [Vine, David]

Figure 9.1 “Try It and You’re Stuck” (Mauritian Kreol proverb), Baie du Tombeau, Mauritius, 2002. Photo by author. Many instead used both rounds of compensation and the sale of land ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 17,2017 )
The Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappe
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Ilan Pappe

I would like to bring the following item to the government’s attention. The international press brings horror stories on the extent of the flight from the West Bank and the ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 17,2017 )
In Exile From the Land of Snows by John Avedon
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:John Avedon [Avedon, John]

IV 9 Tibet Enslaved 1959–1965 The following order is hereby proclaimed. Most of the kalons of the Tibet local government and the upper-strata reactionary clique colluded with imperialism, assembled rebellious ...
( Category: Asia August 16,2017 )
Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah by Llewellyn-Jones Rosie
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-01 | Author:Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie [Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie]

5 AT GARDEN REACH Life in the Bengal palaces, as Wajid ‘Ali Shah recreates the vanished world of Lucknow. He is wildly extravagant and continually in debt, which is made ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong
epub |eng | | Author:Euny Hong [Hong, Euny]

What made this weird, in addition to already being weird, is that Korea didn’t have crayons when I was growing up. It was a source of some wistfulness in my ...
( Category: Industries August 16,2017 )
A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts by Christiane Bird
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Christiane Bird

At the Kesnazan tekiye In contrast to the rest of us, Othman was almost silent. He had close ties to the tekiye, and had seen the ceremony hundreds if not ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 16,2017 )

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