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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:John le Carré [Carré, John le]

It must have been after midnight. For some time they had been travelling an unmade road, partly through a wood and partly across open country. Now they stopped and a ...
( Category: Espionage July 21,2020 )
A History of Modern Burma by Michael W. Charney
epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Michael W. Charney [Charney, Michael W.]

Figure 6.1 Present-day Burmese deliver unhusked rice to mill by boat The insurgencies In April 1963, the Revolutionary Council offered amnesty to insurgents who would lay down their arms, and ...
( Category: Asia July 21,2020 )
The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Svetlana Boym [SVETLANA BOYM]

Bohemian Ruins:Tacheles In the good and bad old days of the GDR, Oranienburger Strasse was a street of ruins. The ruin of the New Synagogue stood not far from another ...
( Category: Historical Events July 21,2020 )
Taiwan by Moiz Azra; Wu Janice; Nevins Debbie
epub |eng | | Author:Moiz, Azra; Wu, Janice; Nevins, Debbie

THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY The Confucian focus on group solidarity and harmony is best seen in the family model. The family is not only the most important unit of society ...
( Category: Asia July 21,2020 )
Malaysia by Lorien Holland
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lorien Holland [Holland, Lorien]

A funicular railway runs up to Penang Hill, the first of the colonial hill stations in Malaysia. Passengers rise 800 m (2,625 ft) over the two kilometre journey and the ...
( Category: Photography & Video July 21,2020 )
Rule Play (Saints of Love Book 1) by Elizabeth Perry
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Elizabeth Perry [Perry, Elizabeth & Perry, Elizabeth]

13 Adrian I’m not sure why I’m feeling the way that I am. After all, I’m just picking up Mia. Mia, the woman who is pretending to be my girl ...
( Category: Satire July 21,2020 )
The Legacy of the Cold War by Mastny Vojtech; Liqun Zhu; Kramer Mark
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Mastny, Vojtech; Liqun, Zhu; Kramer, Mark

Europe’s Place in the World Of all international organizations, the European Union takes the pride of place in its rules-based system with a common political vision and clear commitment to ...
( Category: Engineering July 20,2020 )
Five Gentlemen of Japan by Frank Gibney
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Gibney

Footnotes * I have purposely juggled and slightly falsified the circumstances of these three incidents, to avoid giving embarrassment to any of the men involved, all of them loyal and ...
( Category: Asia July 20,2020 )
Sanskrit Astronomical Tables by Clemency Montelle & Kim Plofker
epub |eng | | Author:Clemency Montelle & Kim Plofker

1–27 Avadhis in a year (nonlinear) Epoch elongation value. 6s,29∘;24,36 is incorporated into the first value of this table for Śaka 1603 (=1681 CE). Paratext. The table heading reads atha ...
( Category: Asia July 20,2020 )
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Dream-Figures in Sunlight Why buy Bret Harte, I asked, when I was prepared to supply home-grown fiction on the hoof? —RUDYARD KIPLING, Something of Myself I wake up in the ...
( Category: Love Poems July 20,2020 )
Black Sun (aka Doomsday) by Graham Brown
mobi |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Graham Brown

Professor McCarter sat in a public plaza, hiding among a crowd of people and the chaos of a traffic jam caused by the midafternoon blackout. He tried to concentrate on ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense July 20,2020 )
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
mobi |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Max Hastings

But Luc also affected a red scarf with the words ‘Pledge Resolutely to Sacrifice for the Nation’s Survival’ stitched into its fabric, and was wearing it when he was killed ...
( Category: Asia July 20,2020 )
Kipling Sahib by Charles Allen
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Charles Allen [ALLEN, CHARLES]

A Snider squibbed in the jungle, Somebody laughed and fled, And the men of the First Shikaris Picked up their Subaltern dead, With a big blue mark in his forehead ...
( Category: Authors July 19,2020 )
Ikigai by Yukari Mitsuhashi
epub |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Yukari Mitsuhashi

1. Rika Yajima Founder of Japanese manufacturer aeru At the age of 19, Rika Yajima’s strong interest in Japanese traditional crafts took her all over Japan as a writer for ...
( Category: Happiness Self-Help July 17,2020 )
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )

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