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Among the Tibetans by Isabella Bird
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Isabella Bird

CHAPTER IV - MANNERS AND CUSTOMS Joldan, the Tibetan British postmaster in Leh, is a Christian of spotless reputation. Every one places unlimited confidence in his integrity and truthfulness, and ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 28,2020 )
Lao-tzu's Taoteching by Lao Tzu
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Lao Tzu [Lao Tzu]

42 The Tao gives birth to one one gives birth to two two gives birth to three three gives birth to ten thousand things ten thousand things with yin at ...
( Category: Taoism June 28,2020 )
Putin's People by Catherine Belton
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Catherine Belton

11 Londongrad When Roman Abramovich headed out to serve as governor of the far east region of Chukotka, a remote, ice-locked area across the Bering Strait from Alaska, it was ...
( Category: Historical June 28,2020 )
Pure Invention by Matt Alt
epub |eng | 2020-06-23 | Author:Matt Alt [Alt, Matt]

* * * — THE YEAR 1995 was the roughest yet. In January, an earthquake leveled large parts of the city of Kobe. The government so thoroughly dithered its response, ...
( Category: Globalization June 28,2020 )
Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945-1953 by Jamil Hasanli
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Jamil Hasanli [Hasanli, Jamil]

Chapter Five Soviet Plans on the Straits and Their Failure In summer 1946, Turkey was the scene of heated political passions. Pressured by the Soviets and experiencing troubles of the ...
( Category: Asia June 28,2020 )
Screening Soviet Nationalities by Sarkisova Oksana
epub |eng | 2017-06-14 | Author:Sarkisova, Oksana

Chechnya As It Is: Native and Tourist Gazes Among the many images of the Caucasus, the films about Chechnya evoke particular interest as sensitive indicators of changing visual and nationality ...
( Category: Performing Arts June 28,2020 )
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Isaiah Berlin [Berlin, Isaiah]

Belinsky was not torn between incompatible ideals. He was an integrated personality in the sense that he believed in his own feelings, and was therefore free from the self-pity and ...
( Category: Essays June 28,2020 )
Experimental Legislation in China between Efficiency and Legality by Madeleine Martinek
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Madeleine Martinek

28Sun (2007), p. 87; Sun (2015b), p. 63; Huang and Zhu (1986), p. 9. 29Heilmann (2008b), p. 13. 30See Sect. 3.​3.​3.​2.​2. 31Concerning this principle, see above, Sect. 3.​3.​3.​2.​2; Zhang (1995), ...
( Category: Economics June 28,2020 )
Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750 by Kaushik Roy
epub |eng | 2019-11-23 | Author:Kaushik Roy

5 Military Systems and Societies of Asia Introduction Historians more or less agree that West Europe had a unique culture that aided the West European polities in integrating gunpowder weapons ...
( Category: Engineering June 28,2020 )
Fodor's Tokyo by Fodor's Travel Guides
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Fodor's Travel Guides [Fodor’s Travel Guides]

DEPARTMENT STORES Matsuya (松屋) DEPARTMENT STORES | On the fourth floor, this gleaming department store houses an excellent selection of Japanese fashion, including Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto. The European-designer ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums June 28,2020 )
The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution by Alexander Riley
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Alexander Riley

Richard Pipes was among those who stressed the continuity between the Tsarist past and the Soviet present: “The Communist bureaucracy . . . quite naturally slipped into the ways of ...
( Category: Asia June 28,2020 )
Indian Unrest by Ignatius Chirol
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Ignatius Chirol

CHAPTER XV. THE NATIVE STATES. One of the chief features of the original scheme of constitutional reforms submitted to the Secretary of State by the Government of India was the ...
( Category: Asia June 28,2020 )
The Battle of Stalingrad by 50Minutes.com
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:50Minutes.com

To do this, the defenders of the city edged quietly closer to the positions of the enemy to surprise them during the attack and, during the night, they moved through ...
( Category: Engineering June 28,2020 )
Classic Russian Novels (Golden Deer Classics) by unknow
epub |eng | 2017-02-18 | Author:unknow

( Category: History & Criticism June 28,2020 )
Britannia and the Bear by Victor Madeira
epub |eng | 2014-05-23 | Author:Victor Madeira [Madeira, Victor]

Chapter 1 The Committee 1. Major Ernest Walter Brudenell Gill, Royal Signals, ‘Policy on Organisation for Detection of Illicit Wireless Transmissions in Time of War 1939–45, November 1940’, vol. 2, ...
( Category: Asia June 28,2020 )

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