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Abortion in Asia by Andrea Whittaker
epub |eng | 2018-07-06 | Author:Andrea Whittaker

( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments June 28,2020 )
Evil in the Mahabharata by Meena Arora Nayak
epub |eng | 2018-01-18 | Author:Meena Arora Nayak [Nayak, Meena Arora]

1 Here, the word lakṣaṇa is used not in its philosophical meaning of ‘definition’, but as ‘something symptomatic’—a characteristic or distinguishing feature. In the rest of this book, lakṣaṇa will ...
( Category: Asia June 27,2020 )
The Martial Arts of Vietnam: An overview of the history and styles by Augustus John Roe
epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Augustus John Roe [Roe, Augustus John]

ĐỘC LƯ THƯƠNG This form translates as poison spear, and according to the traditional Martial Arts Association of Vietnam, it originated in the western highlands (modern day An Khe, Gia ...
( Category: Exercise & Fitness June 27,2020 )
The Art of Japanese Architecture by Young David & Michiko Young
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Young,David & Michiko Young [Young, Michiko]

Typical metal ornaments and handles used on doors. Constructing the wall of a building. After the posts and beams are in place, the space between the posts is filled with ...
( Category: Interior Decorating June 27,2020 )
The Terracotta Army by John Man
epub |eng | | Author:John Man

Work on the statues began. Not that it was precisely the same as Wang’s in every detail. The Qin sculptors did not use moulds to make the heavy legs, or ...
( Category: Architecture June 27,2020 )
The Chinese Machiavelli by Dennis Bloodworth & Ching Ping Bloodworth & Peter Li
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis Bloodworth & Ching Ping Bloodworth & Peter Li

18 Third-Party Risk The key that would open the first lock to the empire was the city of Nanchun. It had been the imperial capital of Ch'u during the Warring ...
( Category: Asia June 27,2020 )
Sixteen years in Siberia - Some experiences of a Russian revolutionist by Leo Deutsch
epub |eng | 2017-02-06 | Author:Leo Deutsch [Deutsch, Leo]

CHAPTER XXI THE CHIEF OF POLICE AT IRKUTSK—MEETING WITH EXILED COMRADES—FROM IRKUTSK TO KARA—STOLEN FETTERS—A DUBIOUS KIND OF DECABRIST—ANOTHER CONTEST—ARRIVAL AT OUR JOURNEY’S END The detailed narrative of all that ...
( Category: Historical June 27,2020 )
The Russian Revolution 1917 by Nick Shepley
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Nick Shepley

Chapter Four: The Revolution in the countryside The revolution was not contained to Petrograd, it spread into the countryside but it manifested itself in a distinctly different way. Anger and ...
( Category: Asia June 26,2020 )
The Flower Art of Japan by Mary Averill
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Mary Averill

Line Pictures of Ships Home-bound, Anchored, and Outward-bound Line Pictures of Ships Stopping, with Cargo, and Becalmed Line Pictures of Ships Swift-sailing, Sailing, and Coasting Star Viewing Boat Anchored Boat ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 26,2020 )
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt
epub |eng | 2020-06-22 | Author:Matt Alt

* * * — 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 25,2020 )
The Rat People by Patrick Saint-Paul
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Patrick Saint-Paul

CHAPTER 7 YOUTH DENIED A plastic statuette in garish colors, mass produced by the millions in one of those countless factories in the southern reaches of the world’s workshop, in ...
( Category: Asia June 24,2020 )
The Art of Japanese Architecture by David Young
epub |eng | | Author:David Young

Typical metal ornaments and handles used on doors. Constructing the wall of a building. After the posts and beams are in place, the space between the posts is filled with ...
( Category: Interior Decorating June 24,2020 )
To the End of Revolution by Xiaoyuan Liu
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Xiaoyuan Liu

Besides reassuring the Dalai Lama that reform would not reach Tibet any time soon, Zhou also refuted an idea attributed to the Dalai Lama’s brothers that the Tibetans might receive ...
( Category: Asian June 22,2020 )
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Volume 6, No. 1 (2020) by Julie Fedor
epub |eng | 2020-03-19 | Author:Julie Fedor [Gergana, Fedor, Julie; Makarychev, Andrey; Umland, Andreas; Dimova,]

Use of the Crimean Tatar Language among Crimean Tatar IDPs Crimean Tatar is a Turkic language with three main dialects based on the geography of the peninsula: northern, middle, and ...
( Category: Asia June 21,2020 )
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Phuket by DK Eyewitness
epub |eng | | Author:DK Eyewitness

Jim Thompson: www.jimthompson.com Thai silk is not as fine as the Chinese variety, but it is lustrous and hangs well in clothing. The best source is Jim Thompson, named for ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums June 20,2020 )

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