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Nehru by Shashi Tharoor
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shashi Tharoor

8 “Commanding Heights”: 1947–1957 One man did not join the celebrations that midnight. Mahatma Gandhi stayed in Calcutta, fasting, striving to keep the peace in a city that just a ...
( Category: India October 16,2014 )
The Good Women Of China by Xinran
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-07-03 | Author:Xinran [Xinran]

10 The Woman Who Waited Forty-five Years It is characteristic of the modern Chinese to have either a family with no feelings or feelings but no family. Living conditions force ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos
epub |eng | | Author:Evan Osnos

FOURTEEN THE GERM IN THE HENHOUSE The people in sunglasses did not immediately attract attention. When the first portraits appeared on Chinese social media sites in the fall of 2011, ...
( Category: Asian October 16,2014 )
A Thousand Pieces of Gold by Adeline Yen Mah
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Adeline Yen Mah

Although Chen’s fame and fortune lasted for barely six months at the end of his life, his name became legendary and his exploits emerged as a major influence after his ...
( Category: China October 16,2014 )
Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook by Ann M. Martin
epub |eng | 2013-08-25 | Author:Ann M. Martin [M. Martin, Ann]

On Monday, Claud had a job sitting for the Perkins girls, Gabbie and Myriah. Gabbie’s almost three, and Myriah’s almost six. We all like them a lot. They also have ...
( Category: Asia October 16,2014 )
No Worse Enemy by Ben Anderson
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Anderson [Anderson, Ben]

Back at the base, Captain Sparks wrestled with the biggest surprise of Marjah, the highly-skilled snipers. The tiny roof I’d seen being turned into a watchtower was now walled with ...
( Category: Asian October 16,2014 )
The Future Is Japanese by
mobi |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:

At first Goku thought he was in the wrong room. There was a wire-frame contraption rather than a bed, and the figure suspended in it looked more like a large ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions October 15,2014 )
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Valerie Hansen

CHAPTER 6 The Time Capsule of Silk Road History The Dunhuang Caves If you are going to visit only one Silk Road site, make it Dunhuang. The physical setting is ...
( Category: Cultural October 15,2014 )
American War Machine by Peter Dale Scott
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Peter Dale Scott [Scott]

The Prevalence of Engineered Deception Events Planning for false-flag lethal conspiracies to kill innocent civilians was not unique to the JCS but has been widespread among other nations throughout the ...
( Category: Diplomacy October 11,2014 )
Chinese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-14 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

The Tradition of the Tea Plant SANG A CHINESE HEART FOURTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO: There is Somebody of whom I am thinking. Far away there is Somebody of whom I ...
( Category: Chinese October 10,2014 )
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

Flaubert’s work is so complex and so vast as to make any simple account of his Oriental writing very sketchy and hopelessly incomplete. Nevertheless, in the context created by other ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies October 9,2014 )
What it is Like to Go to War by Marlantes Karl
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Marlantes, Karl [Marlantes, Karl]

7 LOYALTY Warriors have always had to deal with loyalty. Concepts of loyalty change, however, and warriors have to cope with that as well. Through much of history loyalty pretty ...
( Category: Vietnam War October 1,2014 )
L'Amant by Marguerite Duras
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Marguerite Duras [Duras, Marguerite]

Neauphle-le-Château — Paris février-mai 1984 Table of Contents Start
( Category: General Books & Reading October 1,2014 )
The Lake District by Lonely Planet
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Getting There & Away Bike Hire Keswick Mountain Bikes (017687-75202; www.keswickbikes.co.uk; 9am-5.30pm Mon-Sat, 10am-5.30pm Sun) The town’s largest bike shop has three outlets: a workshop and hire centre near the ...
( Category: Drawing September 30,2014 )
Among the Dead Cities by A.C. Grayling
mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:A.C. Grayling

5 Voices of Conscience There were more conscientious objectors in the First than in the Second World War for the good reason that the latter was, from the Allied point ...
( Category: World War II September 29,2014 )

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