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Escape from North Korea by Melanie Kirkpatrick
epub |eng | 2013-08-12 | Author:Melanie Kirkpatrick

The American evangelist Billy Graham visited Pyongyang in 1994 at the invitation of Kim Il Sung, who was then 81 years old and nearing the end of his life. Graham ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 3,2015 )
The Real North Korea: Life And Politics In The Failed Stalinist Utopia by Lankov Andrei
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lankov, Andrei [Lankov, Andrei]

THE CITY OF MONUMENTS Pyongyang is usually presented as an ancient city. And this, in a sense, is really the case. The area has been the site of a major ...
( Category: Asian March 3,2015 )
Empire of the Sikhs by Patwant Singh
epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Patwant Singh

Coping with his women must have been no less daunting a task for Ranjit Singh than dealing with the many adversaries he faced during his eventful reign. They numbered literally ...
( Category: India & South Asia March 3,2015 )
88 Days to Kandahar : A CIA Diary by Grenier Robert L
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Grenier, Robert L. [Grenier, Robert L.]

Chapter 28 * * * A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS NOVEMBER 17, 2001 HEY, CHIEF.” THE COPS (Chief of Operations) was leaning through my doorway. “Jalil’s on the line. He sounds ...
( Category: Afghan War March 3,2015 )
88 Days to Kandahar : A CIA Diary (9781476712093) by Grenier Robert L
epub |eng | | Author:Grenier, Robert L.

Chapter 28 * * * A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS NOVEMBER 17, 2001 HEY, CHIEF.” THE COPS (Chief of Operations) was leaning through my doorway. “Jalil’s on the line. He sounds ...
( Category: Afghan War March 3,2015 )
Chinese Gung Fu by Bruce Lee
epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Bruce Lee [Lee, Bruce]

FIG 2 Fig. 2 – Side Bend Assume the position in Fig. 2 with the hands on the hips. With the toes raised, bend sideways and touch the right foot ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 3,2015 )
Who Discovered America? : The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas (9780062236777) by Menzies Gavin; Hudson Ian
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Menzies, Gavin; Hudson, Ian

THE SUBSTANCE OF LIU GANG’S MAP Liu Gang’s map provides remarkable information about Zheng He’s voyages. A full rendering of every place-name and the nomenclature of mountains, rivers, bays, inlets, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 3,2015 )
Valley of Death by Ted Morgan
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Ted Morgan [Morgan, Ted]

I Feel the Situation Can Only Deteriorate Further The mid-March reverses made Castries short-tempered and depressed. In an uncharacteristic scene, the normally debonair cavalry colonel lashed out at a sergeant, ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 3,2015 )
How China Became Capitalist (International Economic Association) by Coase Ronald & Wang Ning
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Coase, Ronald & Wang, Ning [Wang, Ning]

6 From Capitalism to Capitalisms In the concluding speech at the close of the 2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Market Transformation on July 18th, 2008, Ronald Coase pronounced that “the ...
( Category: Economic History March 3,2015 )
The Upstairs Wife by Rafia Zakaria
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Rafia Zakaria [Zakaria, Rafia]

AUGUST 14–17, 1988 We always woke early on Independence Day to the sound of the flag flapping proudly against the post we had attached to the upstairs balcony a solid ...
( Category: India & South Asia February 15,2015 )
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Pillsbury Michael
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Pillsbury, Michael [Pillsbury, Michael]

9 A CHINA WORLD ORDER IN 2049 “The guest becomes the owner.” —The Thirty-Six Stratagems For more than two decades, the United States has been the world’s only superpower. America’s ...
( Category: Diplomacy February 11,2015 )
Kim Jong-il Production : The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power (9781250054289) by Fischer Paul
epub |eng | | Author:Fischer, Paul

19 The Hunger Strike In Prison Number 6, Shin passed the time in remaking all his films. “In the torture position, which I had to assume immediately after breakfast,” Shin ...
( Category: Korea February 11,2015 )
Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts by S Hussain Zaidi
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:S Hussain Zaidi [Zaidi, S Hussain]

Yeba Yaqub When Tiger had begun assembling his group, Yaqub, swept by a wave of enthusiasm, had pledged his support, though he had not known precisely how he could help. ...
( Category: India February 7,2015 )
The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Art by Stephen K. Hayes
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Stephen K. Hayes [Hayes, Stephen K.]

The hour of our ninjutsu demonstration for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department had arrived. Our show had been preceded by demonstrations of judo, traditional Japanese swordsmanship, kendo, and two types ...
( Category: Martial Arts February 3,2015 )
The Arts of Thailand by Van Beek Steve
mobi |eng | 2012-07-01 | Author:Van Beek, Steve

The brick chedi of Chiengsaen's Wat Pasak, probably built in 1295, bas niches around the base and the upper tier to hold standing Buddha images. The city of Wiang Kungam ...
( Category: Criticism February 2,2015 )

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