Asia
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rahul Pandita

My father continually urged me to study. But it was very difficult. I wanted some private space, and that was impossible. I would sometimes hang a sheet between the television ...
( Category: India May 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Giles, Lionel, Minford, John, Tzu, Sun

CHAPTER 4 tactical Dispositions 形篇第四 1 形 is a very comprehensive and somewhat vague term. Literally, "from," "body," it comes to mean "appearance," "attitude" or "disposition;" and here it is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 14,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kenneth Barrett

The building of the enormous Buddha image at Wat In took sixty years to complete. Our way now takes us across the third moat, the final line of defence around ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums May 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

XI IN THAT YEAR WHEN the rice harvest was ripe to be cut and while the grain stood yellow in the fields, the enemy sent men everywhere to see to ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-02-22 | Author:Wang Anyi

Sasha Sasha was a half-breed child of the revolution—a product of the Comintern. He was by right one of the city’s new masters, but his heart had no home here. ...
( Category: Central Asia May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William T. Vollmann

He had read Snow Country long ago one Arctic summer in Pond Inlet when people were hunting narwhals. Pond Inlet lies considerably north of Churchill, and the landscape is different. ...
( Category: Short Stories May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-07 | Author:William Dalrymple

THE SPEED OF BAKHT KHAN’S fall was exacerbated by his hard-line “Wahhabi” views. There were suggestions that he did not “supply the wants” of high-caste Hindus, who duly applied to ...
( Category: Asia May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-04 | Author:Starr, S. Frederick

TURKIC VICTORY TOWERS Specialists have long known that such tall, cylindrical towers or minarets originated in Central Asia and Afghanistan, and that they spread from there to India in the ...
( Category: General May 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Michael Morpurgo

OCTOBER 25TH I LOVE THE SMELL OF PAINT IN THE SUNSHINE. Today we painted the gig outside the boathouse – Father and me together – and he began talking about ...
( Category: Action & Adventure April 28,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Shambaugh, David [Shambaugh, David]

China’s Discourse on International Image, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy The concept of soft power, usually translated in Chinese as ruan shili ,17 has percolated in Chinese academic discourse for ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 23,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Spence, Jonathan D. [Spence, Jonathan D.]

And we enter the hexagram P’i’s world of stagnation and declining powers: Evil people of the time of standstill do not further the perseverance of the superior man. The great ...
( Category: Royalty April 23,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Kaplan, Robert D. [Kaplan, Robert D.]

“We had to make a living, to persuade investors to put their money into manufacturing plants and other businesses in Singapore. We had to learn to survive, without the British ...
( Category: Asian April 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Dhar, Anuj [Dhar, Anuj]

With this setting in mind, he opined: It would be unrealistic for us to expect the Russian authorities to allow our scholars access to KGB archives. What we can do ...
( Category: India April 16,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-04 | Author:Akash Kapur

Selvi was also looking ahead, thinking of higher salaries and better jobs. She, too, was planning for the future. But she wasn’t as ambitious as Hari. She wasn’t planning to ...
( Category: Asian April 14,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Perry Anderson

1 Judith Brown, Nehru: A Political Life, New Haven 2003, p. 87. 2 An Autobiography, London 1936, pp. 72, 374, 84–85, 370–371, 507–508, 591; Brown, Nehru, p. 133. 3 An ...
( Category: Asian April 13,2014 )