Asia
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

Ululation SHE is lean as a wolf, and very old,—the white bitch that guards my gate at night. She played with most of the young men and women of the ...
( Category: Japan September 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-30 | Author:William Blake [Blake, William]

* * * MY PRETTY ROSE TREE A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said, ‘I’ve a pretty rose tree,’ And I ...
( Category: European September 4,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Anne de Courcy

14 ‘Where every Jack has someone else’s Jill’ The Hills The hill stations – the small towns and stations where the altitude gave welcome coolness in the summer months – ...
( Category: Women in History August 30,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Isenberg, Lynn [Isenberg, Lynn]

During the cab ride to the airport, I make phone calls and send e-mails putting my vendors and strategic partners into high gear. Two days later, under sunny skies, Mr. ...
( Category: Humorous August 28,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Zha, Jianying [Zha, Jianying]

6. After our dinner, Zhang Weiying e-mailed me a number of his articles on university reform. Unlike the author of the cool, technical, official Beida documents, Zhang in these articles ...
( Category: Asian August 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Osnos, Evan [Osnos, Evan]

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: China August 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:McHugo, John [McHugo, John]

THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF SYRIA SHOWING MAJOR TOWNS CHAPTER FOUR Hafez al-Assad, 1970–2000 Foreign Policy Challenges I When Hafez al-Assad seized power on 13 November 1970, it was the start ...
( Category: World August 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

“Whores of War” Regardless of the controversy that later erupted over the various contractual relationships, the original contract between Blackwater/Regency and ESS, signed March 8, 2004, called for “a minimum ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

If Irwin and his policemen thought Gandhi’s arrest might end their troubles, as it had done in 1922, they were sorely mistaken. Noncooperation intensified over the next ten months. The ...
( Category: India & South Asia August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Ethan Gutmann

Wang Yuzhi was outside the yard, facing the door to her mother's house. In past dreams she had tried to go to that door many times. There had been a ...
( Category: Human Rights August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

Plate I. The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his sons, Henry VI, King of the Romans and Frederick, Duke of Swabia. Plate II. Constantinople from the Asiatic coast. The sea of ...
( Category: Asia July 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

Baldwin of Alost Robert of Normandy and Stephen of Blois decided to spend the winter comfortably in Calabria. But Robert of Flanders moved on almost at once to Bari with ...
( Category: Asia July 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jung Chang

Mao found the idea of peaceful progress suffocating. A restless military leader, a warrior-poet, he needed action violent action and regarded permanent human snuggle as necessary for social development. His ...
( Category: China July 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr. [Buswell, Robert E. Jr. & Lopez, Donald S. Jr.]

nirmāṇarati. (P. nimmānarati; T. ’phrul dga’; C. huale tian; J. kerakuten; K. hwarak ch’ŏn 化樂天). In Sanskrit, “enjoying creations” or “enjoying emanations,” the fifth (in ascending order) of the six ...
( Category: Dictionaries July 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Eck, Diana L. [Eck, Diana L.]

Devotees, come for the darshan of Minākshī in Madurai In the yearly round of spring festivals, the marriage of Shiva and Mīnākshī is celebrated every year during the month of ...
( Category: Hinduism July 16,2014 )