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Introduction to Japanese Culture by Daniel
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel

In the past the taue rites were communal affairs involving the entire local community. Tree branches were sometimes placed at the minakuchi (sluice gates for irrigation of the paddy), and ...
( Category: Asia May 29,2017 )
Chinese Furniture by Karen Mazurkewich
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Mazurkewich

Fig. 292 Couch bed, with open scroll fretwork on the top rail and scroll cabriole legs resting on balls, yumu (northern elm), late Qing period. The lacquer is original but ...
( Category: Asia May 26,2017 )
Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W. Tuchman
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman

* * * *1 The military habit of giving code names to people and projects partly accounts for the prevalence if not the nature of the nicknames Stilwell used. *2 ...
( Category: Asia May 22,2017 )
Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws by Laura Pedersen
epub |eng | 2016-06-27 | Author:Laura Pedersen

Down South India has forty-seven hundred miles of coastline and the South is the place to enjoy lolling on white sand beaches and canoeing through tropical rainforests that haven’t changed ...
( Category: General May 21,2017 )
The 13: Mission's End Book One by Perry M.M
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Perry, M.M. [Perry, M.M.]

Eight Naomi squinted in the dim light of the barracks. The Military unit was about as different as could be from the shuttle bay. Bodies were strewn about the floor. ...
( Category: Historical May 21,2017 )
Notes from China by Barbara W. Tuchman
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman

If Mao Had Come to Washington in 1945 An Essay in Alternatives I ONE OF THE great “ifs” and harsh ironies of history hangs on the fact that in January ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design May 21,2017 )
HEAT (Montgomery Men Book 2) by C.A. Harms
epub |eng | 2017-04-09 | Author:C.A. Harms [Harms, C.A.]

SHANELLE “He’s an arrogant asshole,” I said as I flopped down on the couch next to Kim. She and Rick were in the middle of watching a movie, but they ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense May 21,2017 )
The AK-47 by Gordon Rottman
epub |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Gordon Rottman

An East German sergeant coaches a recruit firing an MPi-K (AK-47). A mirror device is slipped on to the top of the rifle behind the rear sight, allowing the coach ...
( Category: Photography & Video May 21,2017 )
The Souls of China by Ian Johnson
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Ian Johnson

I always found this part of the meditation slightly dubious. We were to focus on something we wanted and pull it into us, making it our own. Of course, it ...
( Category: General May 6,2017 )
The Mongols and the Islamic World by Peter Jackson
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Jackson

Pluralism and false reports of conversion In chapter 11 we saw how Mongol attitudes towards the numinous led khans and their lieutenants to be open to the techniques employed by ...
( Category: Asia May 3,2017 )
Leyte 1944 by Clayton Chun
epub |eng | 2015-04-25 | Author:Clayton Chun

Troop movements on Leyte were sometimes inhibited by dug-in Japanese defenders in entrenched positions. After landing on Red Beach and moving towards Palo, these 24th Infantry Division soldiers faced an ...
( Category: Asia April 26,2017 )
Fu-go by Ross Coen
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Ross Coen [Coen, Ross]

7 Canada On January 20, 1945, shortly after the third confirmed balloon incident in Canada, Brigadier General Maurice Pope sent a priority memorandum to William Lyon Mackenzie King, the nation’s ...
( Category: Asia April 21,2017 )
The Imperial Capitals of China by Arthur Cotterell
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Arthur Cotterell [COTTERELL, ARTHUR]

CHAPTER 7 Almost Paradise: Northern Song Kaifeng Two huge frolicking dragons, covered with blue cloth and stuffed with straw, were placed on the left and the right of the palace ...
( Category: Asia April 20,2017 )
Democracy and Islam in Indonesia by Künkler Mirjam; Stepan Alfred;
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Künkler, Mirjam; Stepan, Alfred;

Force So far the story is a familiar and perhaps even comforting one: a democratizing regime tries to survive the wave of popular mobilization that accompanies its birth by granting ...
( Category: Asia April 11,2017 )
Everything Under the Heavens by Howard W. French
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Howard W. French

Recently Kissinger visited China and it was he who took the initiative, and why can’t we have some discussion with him? [Nikita] Khrushchev traveled to Camp David in the United ...
( Category: Asia April 6,2017 )

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