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Journey Through Bali & Lombok by Greenway Paul
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Greenway, Paul [Greenway, Paul]

Worshippers on the rocky islet where the temple is located sometimes have to wait for the tide to recede before they can walk back to the shore. One of the ...
( Category: Asia December 5,2016 )
The People's Money by Paola Subacchi
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Paola Subacchi

BUILDING A PAYMENT SYSTEM The other key consideration for a well-functioning offshore market is infrastructure—in particular, the payment system. This is the means by which banks and firms in mainland ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy December 1,2016 )
Midnight in Broad Daylight by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
epub |eng | 2015-10-23 | Author:Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

20 Taking New Guinea Harry fumed in the briefing tent at Finschhafen, New Guinea. His next landing would be with the 163rd RCT of the 41st Division. The 163rd members ...
( Category: Asia December 1,2016 )
Rogue Elephant by Simon Denyer
epub |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Simon Denyer

9 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? The heart of India’s democracy, parliament, is barely beating ‘Whatever the Constitution may or may not provide, the welfare of the country ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 27,2016 )
Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan by Rath Eric
epub |eng | | Author:Rath, Eric

THE IDEAL OF COOKBOOKS The evidence we have examined thus far points to a disparity between the contents of Edo-period culinary books and the daily diet and experience of the ...
( Category: Asia November 15,2016 )
Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun by Homare Endo
epub |eng | | Author:Homare Endo

* * * * * How long did we walk, and where, I have no clear memory. Only certain scenes remain in my mind. When the sun went down and ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 28,2016 )
The End of Imagination by Roy Arundhati;
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Roy, Arundhati; [Roy, Arundhati]

On the morning of the 13th of December 2000, I learned that people from the Narmada valley had gathered outside the gates of the Supreme Court. When I arrived at ...
( Category: Canadian September 20,2016 )
Batik by Rudolf Smend
epub |eng | | Author:Rudolf Smend

Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java Inger McCabe Elliott For much of my professional life I saw the world in black and white. Buddhists and Catholics killing each other in the ...
( Category: Fashion Design September 14,2016 )
Pakistan at the Crossroads by Christophe Jaffrelot
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Christophe Jaffrelot

PAKISTAN’S POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1947–2008 When Pakistan achieved independence, it did not have the capacities of a functioning state. That was not the case for India, which could simply take over ...
( Category: Asia September 8,2016 )
The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin
epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Ji Xianlin

IN THE COWSHED (1) WE WERE ABOUT to be herded into the prison we had built with our own hands. As the novelist Hu Feng said, “There is life to ...
( Category: Historical September 6,2016 )
The Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam
epub |eng | | Author:David Halberstam

Even in Kien Hoa Province the Vietcong forged a remarkable record. During a long period of time in 1962 and early 1963, when they were laying low militarily, they had ...
( Category: Military September 4,2016 )
Chinese Alchemy by Cooper Jean;
epub |eng | | Author:Cooper, Jean;

– 10 – THE FIVE ELEMENTS In an early treatise, written about 135 BC, we read: Earth has its place in the centre and is the rich soil of Heaven. ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality August 25,2016 )
Death on the Hellships by Gregory F. Michno
epub |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Gregory F. Michno

THE SUMMER SHIPS The threat of the approaching Americans made the tropical Philippine atmosphere even more feverish in the summer of 1944. Prisoners were shifted among the islands and from ...
( Category: World War II August 21,2016 )
South of the Yangtze by Bill Porter
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Bill Porter

Artisan carving an inkstone After visiting the workshops, we finally went into the factory store. The supervisor told us that most of the designs were developed by the factory but ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 3,2016 )
The Path of Modern Yoga by Elliott Goldberg
epub |eng | 2016-07-09 | Author:Elliott Goldberg

Shauca (Purification) Unique to any bodybuilding/strength-training system, Iyer’s regime included Nauli and Uddiyana, which he considered to be internal purification practices, performed in conjunction with a water enema, that “stir ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality July 31,2016 )

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