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Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa
epub |eng | | Author:Fariba Nawa

My father gave my mother the name Nafasgul, meaning “the breath of a flower,” as was tradition in their generation—husbands often gave their wives endearing nicknames when they first married. ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 28,2015 )
History and Popular Memory by Cohen Paul A
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
A Lonely Kind of War by Marshall Harrison
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Marshall Harrison [Harrison, Marshall]

PART 5 Over the Fence THEY FOUND ME A BUNK FOR THE NIGHT IN the squadron quarters in Bien Hoa. The air-conditioning and tile floors felt as if I were ...
( Category: Vietnam War December 26,2015 )
A Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air Controller, Vietnam by Marshall Harrison
mobi |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Marshall Harrison

PART 5 Over the Fence THEY FOUND ME A BUNK FOR THE NIGHT IN the squadron quarters in Bien Hoa. The air-conditioning and tile floors felt as if I were ...
( Category: Vietnam War December 26,2015 )
Striking Beauty by Allen Barry
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Allen, Barry [Allen, Barry]

I differentiated sport and dance in terms of expressive intentionality. Dance movements are endotelic and look it. Sport movements are competitive, contesting, and look it. Martial arts movements are weapons, ...
( Category: Taoism December 26,2015 )
Fanshen; a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village by Hinton William
mobi, pdf |eng | 1967-03-15 | Author:Hinton, William [Hinton, William]

As part of his self-criticism, Yu-hsing made a surprising admission. "Halfway to the field I got hungry. I ate one bun. I delivered 35 instead of 36. I will pay ...
( Category: Asian December 21,2015 )
The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Harrison Salisbury [Harrison E. Salisbury]

In these conditions to talk of mounting a counteroffensive was impossible. The best Voroshilov had been able to do was to carry out local counterattacks. Voroshilov’s presentation was accurate. It ...
( Category: Asian December 18,2015 )
The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Popham

PART FOUR HEIRS TO THE KINGDOM 1 ALONE ON the day they placed me under arrest,” Suu told an American journalist who visited her at home in 1995, “this garden ...
( Category: Political December 18,2015 )
At Home in Japan by Rebecca Otowa
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Otowa

For Japanese people, the time of the cherry blossoms is evocative of new beginnings in all walks of life. Children in brand new school uniforms and gleaming bags walk on ...
( Category: General December 14,2015 )
Hell from the Heavens by John Wukovits
epub |ara | 2015-02-17 | Author:John Wukovits

Admiral Ugaki made certain of that. The commander had been placed in charge of the 6th Air Army for the third kikusui, scheduled for April 16. The optimistic admiral thought ...
( Category: Japan December 14,2015 )
Mao A Very Short Introduction by Delia Davin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Delia Davin

Chapter 5 The Great Leap Forward and its aftershocks Mao’s impatience with the pace of economic growth in China was increased by his second and final visit to the Soviet ...
( Category: Leadership December 12,2015 )
The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the Individual (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Hinsch, Bret [Hinsch, Bret]

The Song author Li Qingzhao (1081–ca. 1141), one of the most erudite women of her age, captures the increasingly cultured atmosphere of tea drinking with a lively vignette.[27] Although famous ...
( Category: China December 10,2015 )
The Rise of Tea Culture in China by Hinsch Bret
epub |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Hinsch, Bret

The Song author Li Qingzhao (1081–ca. 1141), one of the most erudite women of her age, captures the increasingly cultured atmosphere of tea drinking with a lively vignette.[27] Although famous ...
( Category: China December 10,2015 )
Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba by Stephen Tankel
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Stephen Tankel [Tankel, Stephen]

Pakistan’s Gas Stove Although Pakistan was clamping down on militancy, eliminating its proxy capability would rob the state of what some in the army and ISI perceived to be a ...
( Category: Asian December 10,2015 )
The Emperor's Codes by The Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers
epub |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:The Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers

14 CENTRAL BUREAU’S BIG BREAK Despite Fabian’s efforts to have Eric Nave sent ‘home’ to Britain as part of the terms of the Anglo-US Agreement, the Australian code-breaker had been ...
( Category: Japan December 9,2015 )

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