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Basti by Intizar Husain & Frances W. Pritchett & Asif Farrukhi
mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Intizar Husain & Frances W. Pritchett & Asif Farrukhi

SIX YAR ZAKIR! I first send you the usual salutations. I’m fine, and I hope everything’s well with you too. You must be wondering at my foolishness: “What a time ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
The Penguin History of Early India by Romila Thapar
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Romila Thapar

Cultural Interactions Although coin hoards from the Roman maritime trade were more evident in southern India, the impact of Greco-Roman ideas and artefacts was obvious in the north. This was ...
( Category: India March 25,2014 )
When China rules the world: the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the western world by Martin Jacques
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-25 | Author:Martin Jacques

CHINA’S NEW TURN At the beginning of the 1990s China, with the reform era already a decade old, still existed for the most part in a state of splendid isolation, ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
The Last Manchu by Henry Pu Yi
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Henry Pu Yi

Two Emperors of the same Continent wish to be almighty and deserving of respect, While seven guests, passengers on the same ship, speak of Imperial coexistence. It is not an ...
( Category: China March 25,2014 )
Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip Pan
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Philip Pan

ON BOTH OCCASIONS that Chen Lihua agreed to meet with me, she gave me presents. At the end of my interviews with her, she would tell me to turn off ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Nanjing Requiem: A Novel by Ha Jin
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Ha Jin

25 LOCAL AUTHORITIES, uprooted by the war, no longer existed in many areas. According to what refugees told us, guerrillas had caused a good deal of trouble in the country. ...
( Category: China March 25,2014 )
Beijing Welcomes You by Tom Scocca
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Tom Scocca

Within two weeks of the earthquake, Sichuan was in the Bird’s Nest, running and jumping. TV and radio were still full of disaster reports and fund-raising specials; orphans were everywhere. ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
1434 by Gavin Menzies
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Gavin Menzies

Chinese irrigation design. The Nung Shu illustrates all manner of techniques for the vital task of regulating water supply to the rice fields—many types of bucket and chain pumps, locks ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 25,2014 )
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Tamim Ansary

THE MOGHULS (ROUGHLY 900 TO 1273 AH) The Moghuls were every bit the equal of the Ottomans in wealth and strength. About 20 percent of the world’s current population lives ...
( Category: Islam March 25,2014 )
Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Tamim Ansary

THE MOGHULS (ROUGHLY 900 TO 1273 AH) The Moghuls were every bit the equal of the Ottomans in wealth and strength. About 20 percent of the world’s current population lives ...
( Category: Islam March 25,2014 )
The Wars of Afghanistan by Peter Tomsen
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Peter Tomsen

The leaders of the commanders’ shura returned to Peshawar from their Islamabad meetings with Beg and Durrani in high spirits. Abdul Haq later boasted to me that he had conducted ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Tamim Ansary

PART IV: OLD AFGHANISTAN ERUPTS Nadir Shah and his family had resumed the project launched by Dost Mohammed, the project that consumed Abdu’Rahman and Amanullah. The Musahibbans moved more cautiously, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Charlie Wilson's War by Crile George
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-06 | Author:Crile, George [Crile, George]

CHAPTER 20 Gust and the Eldorado NO WASPS NEED APPLY Avrakotos was not a morning person. By the time he left his row house in McLean, Virginia, and placed his ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds by Ronald Glasser M.D
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Ronald Glasser M.D.

13. THE BLEEDING WARS In its view, the “bleeding wars” offer the best opportunity to defeat the United States. Enlarging the war in Afghanistan is exactly what Al Qaeda wants, ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:Colin Thubron

Chapter 8 Tashkent A familiar Soviet gloom permeated Samarkand’s railway station. Its gangways clanged to the trudge of labourers, and the air stank with diesel and steam spurting from vents ...
( Category: General Asia Travel Books March 25,2014 )

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