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Tibet, Tibet by French Patrick
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:French, Patrick [French, Patrick]

You could see the history of Tibet through a family, by looking at the way its influence unfolded and retracted over two hundred years. Reincarnation has long been intertwined with ...
( Category: Travel January 22,2015 )
The Afghan Wars: History in an Hour by Rupert Colley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rupert Colley [Colley, Rupert]

The Afghanistan War On 7 October 2001, less than four weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the US launched Operation Enduring Freedom, an assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan. While US-led ...
( Category: Asia January 21,2015 )
The Enigma of Japanese Power by Karel van Wolferen
epub |eng | 1989-04-10 | Author:Karel van Wolferen [Wolferen, Karel van]

Avoiding distinctions Some post-war Japanese intellectuals such as political theorist Maruyama Masao and his followers seem to be bothered by the continued refusal to apply universal principles by which the ...
( Category: Asian January 21,2015 )
The Korean War: History in an Hour by Andrew Mulholland
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Andrew Mulholland [Mulholland, Andrew]

Entrenched: Peace Talks and Military Stalemate Initial Peace Talks, July–August 1951 The first round of peace talks during the Korean War was to prove a frustrating failure. Their breakdown at ...
( Category: Korea January 18,2015 )
A Short History of China by Gordon Kerr
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Gordon Kerr [Kerr, Gordon]

Expansion The traditional area of the Middle Kingdom was extended by the Ming Dynasty rulers. The territories of Yunnan and Guizhou were fully subsumed by the empire in 1381. 200,000 ...
( Category: China January 18,2015 )
Howards END by E. M. Forster
epub |eng | 1910-01-01 | Author:E. M. Forster [Forster, E. M.]

Chapter 20. Margaret had often wondered at the disturbance that takes place in the world's waters, when Love, who seems so tiny a pebble, slips in. Whom does Love concern ...
( Category: Victorian January 13,2015 )
Restless Empire by Odd Westad
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Odd Westad [Westad, Odd Arne]

ANY SOCIETY PUT UNDER the stress of massive warfare will suffer, not just at the time but for years to come. China was no exception. Everywhere the Japanese armies went, ...
( Category: China January 13,2015 )
Sinister Yogis by David Gordon White
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Gordon White

It is in the scriptures of Mahāyāna and tantric Buddhism, however, that rays become the prime media for the transmission of teachings and the transformative process of initiation and yoga.145 ...
( Category: Buddhism January 13,2015 )
The Criminal (1953) by Jim Thompson
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jim Thompson

9 Richard Yeoman The d.a. locked the door on the kid, and handed me a five. Two fifty for me and two fifty for Charlie Alt. He said we should ...
( Category: Murder January 13,2015 )
The Age of Kali by William Dalrymple
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

The next evening at ten o’clock I again made my way along the dusty, pilgrim-clogged streets of Madurai, and through the labyrinth of horn-hooting, rickshaw-squealing lanes leading up to the ...
( Category: General January 10,2015 )
Taliban by Fergusson James
epub |eng | | Author:Fergusson, James

You Americans come here with a stamp You brand one man Osama One man Khalilzad You came here to rebuild this country You build roads and bridges You call that ...
( Category: Afghan War January 10,2015 )
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Stephen R. Platt [Platt, Stephen R.]

The five-year-old heir to the Qing imperial throne was the son of one of Xianfeng’s concubines, a pretty young Manchu woman named Yehonala who had been chosen by Xianfeng to ...
( Category: China January 10,2015 )
Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts by Tang Xiaobing
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-12-30 | Author:Tang, Xiaobing [Tang, Xiaobing]

Coda: Children and truck drivers It should not be surprising that in dramas about husbands and wives there are often children playing supplementary roles, but the involvement of a truck ...
( Category: China January 8,2015 )
The Record of Great Doubts by Kaibara Ekken
epub |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Kaibara Ekken

31 Zhu Xi said, “If people take an attitude that they don’t rely on only one school and are not partial to only one theory, they will get a hodgepodge ...
( Category: Eastern January 8,2015 )
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
mobi | | | Author:Bradley K. Martin

( Category: North January 6,2015 )

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