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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jack Weatherford

Esen had united the Mongols and defeated the Muslim ruler and the Ming emperor, but in the most important confrontation of his career, he could not overcome the determined will ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Simon Winchester

Joseph Needham would remain in China for eighteen months more. By the time he left he had visited 296 Chinese institutes, universities, and research establishments; he had arranged for the ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India by Joseph Lelyveld
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Joseph Lelyveld

He may have meant to offer Ambedkar “the gentlest treatment,” may not have been thinking of Ambedkar at all, when he led off with a political barb, noting in the ...
( Category: Historical India & South Asia Biographies March 25,2014 )
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-02-01 | Author:Greg Mortenson

CHAPTER 14 EQUILIBRIUM The seeming opposition between life and death is now cut through. Do not thrash or lunge or flee. There is no longer a container or anything to ...
( Category: Non-Governmental Organizations March 25,2014 )
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Tobias Wolff

DOC MACLEOD AND I went into My Tho for some fish soup that evening. As we drove in from the airfield it started to mist up and by the time ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 25,2014 )
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
mobi, epub |eng | 1975-10-21 | Author:Tim O'Brien

In the rather limited reading I’ve done lately, I’ve discovered the poet Robinson Jeffers. His writing is harsh yet beautiful, and it makes me think of April, and April turns ...
( Category: Southeast Asia March 25,2014 )
India by Diana L Eck
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Diana L Eck [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: History March 25,2014 )
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by Malhotra Rajiv
epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Malhotra, Rajiv [Malhotra, Rajiv]

Sanskrit and Contexts Sanskrit texts, by their very nature, require interpretation in a given context. Content cannot be separated from context or given an absolute meaning. A.K. Ramanujan explains: No ...
( 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
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Martin Jacques [Jacques, Martin]

open economy, is far more multifarious - as a market for the products of the region, as an exporter and as a multifaceted investor. Figure 24. Growing importance of Chinese ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Blaine Harden

PART TWO 14 Their plan was simple – and insanely optimistic. Shin knew the camp. Park knew the world. Shin would get them over the fence. Park would lead them ...
( Category: North March 25,2014 )
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Katherine Boo

In July, when Asha and her family stepped off the train after a thirteen-hour journey north to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, their village relatives inspected their faces, finding evidence ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Wars of the Roses by Conn Iggulden
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Conn Iggulden [Iggulden, Conn]

18 The city of Rouen lay around a hundred miles south and west of Calais. In normal times, William would have counted it a stronghold. As the capital of English ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
The City & The City by China Miéville
mobi, epub |pt | 2010-03-11 | Author:China Miéville

Chapter Fourteen SIT HIM IN A COFFEE SHOP—a teahouse, really, we were in Ul Qoma—and Dhatt’s aggressive energy dissipated somewhat. He still drummed his fingers on the edge of the ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 25,2014 )
The 47 Ronin Story by John Allyn
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:John Allyn

The report from Kataoka that night was not encouraging. About half the men they had counted on had reneged, leaving less than sixty. Kataoka, too, had found much misery, including ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
epub |eng | | Author:Greg Mortenson

CHAPTER 10 Sarfraz’s Promise Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Sun Also Rises Two sisters in UNHCR earthquake refugee camp, Pakistan While ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )

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