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Death's Jest Book
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Reginald Hill [Hill, Reginald]

( Category: Murder June 20,2014 )
Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan by Fariba Nawa
mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Fariba Nawa [Nawa, Fariba]

My father gave my mother the name Nafasgul, meaning “the breath of a flower,” as was tradition in their generation—husbands often gave their wives endearing nicknames when they first married. ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction June 20,2014 )
India After Gandhi
mobi |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Guha, Ramachandra [Guha, Ramachandra]

( Category: India June 20,2014 )
India unbound by Das Gurcharan
epub |eng | 2000-06-08 | Author:Das, Gurcharan

wholesalers and retailers, Dhirubhai Ambani was hustling nearby in Bombay's Mulji Jetha wholesale market. He was peddling imported nylon yarn, which he had acquired through the export of rayon fabric. ...
( Category: Asian June 9,2014 )
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Drèze Jean & Sen Amartya
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Drèze, Jean & Sen, Amartya [Drèze, Jean]

Proportion of BPL households who did not get any foodgrains from the PDS in the last 3 months (%) 35 0 Average foodgrain purchases of BPL households from the PDS ...
( Category: Democracy June 9,2014 )
Rascals in Paradise by James A. Michener & A. Grove Day
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:James A. Michener & A. Grove Day [Michener, James A. & Day, A. Grove]

* Actually the Quirós report was apparently set down by a young poet, Luis de Belmonte Bermudez, who acted as the Chief Pilot’s amanuensis aboard ship. 7 Bully Hayes, South ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 6,2014 )
India After Independence: 1947-2000 by Chandra Bipan
epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:Chandra, Bipan [Chandra, Bipan]

Indira Gandhi—An Evaluation Any assessment of Indira Gandhi has to acknowledge that she was a highly complex person, full of contradictions, and which made her extremely controversial. During her twenty ...
( Category: India May 30,2014 )
Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969 by Keith Nolan
epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Keith Nolan [Nolan, Keith]

Chapter Ten I Am Sorry, Sir, But My Men Refused To Go 23 August 1969. Lieutenant Colonel Bacon had four companies of Task Force 3–21 in position for the final ...
( Category: Regiments May 29,2014 )
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikotter
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Frank Dikotter [Dikotter, Frank]

One of the many paradoxes of the planned economy, therefore, was that everybody traded. People speculated by buying in bulk, betting on the fact that shortages and inflation would push ...
( Category: China May 29,2014 )
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Tim O'Brien [O'Brien, Tim]

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. April went on without lilacs. Without rain. When ...
( Category: Southeast Asia May 29,2014 )
Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise by Carl E. Walter & Fraser J. T. Howie
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Carl E. Walter & Fraser J. T. Howie [Walter, Carl E. & Howie, Fraser J. T.]

The rapid growth in the China Development Bank’s funding and lending activities coincides with the ascension of the new Party and government leadership in 2003 and the start of a ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 29,2014 )
Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in the Deep Heartland by Susan Richards
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Susan Richards [Richards, Susan]

TICKET TO THE END OF THE EARTH This morning I finally heard from Vera. As soon as I reached Novosibirsk, I sent her a telegram. I had not rated my ...
( Category: Asia May 29,2014 )
The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It by Robert Gandt
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968 by Keith William Nolan
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-11-27 | Author:Keith William Nolan [Nolan, Keith William]

At 1413 on 1 May 1968, Col. Louis Gelling, the 196th LIB commander, ordered Lieutenant Colonel Snyder to execute the 3-21st Infantry’s contingency plan to deploy to the DMZ. Other ...
( Category: Vietnam War May 29,2014 )
India Since Independence by Chandra Bipan
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Chandra, Bipan [Chandra, Bipan]

This growth pattern went a long way in reducing India’s near-total dependence on the advanced countries for basic goods and capital equipm ent, which was necessary for investm ent or ...
( Category: Asian May 26,2014 )

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