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The Voice of the People by C. J. Storella & A. K. Sokolov
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:C. J. Storella & A. K. Sokolov

Life among the Comrades Distance from the political summit, lack of trustworthy information, ignorance, anti-Semitism, fear, and other factors contributed to people’s willingness to lend credence to the most outlandish ...
( Category: Real Estate March 23,2020 )
The Funeral Casino by Klima Alan
epub |eng | | Author:Klima, Alan

THE VALUE OF THE DEAD The integration of the Thai economy with the new vision of the world market was fairly well completed by the time I returned to Thailand ...
( Category: Asia March 23,2020 )
Blood, Dreams and Gold by Richard Cockett
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Cockett

The ghost town of Hpa-An – and the catastrophe of drugs If the Karen civil war fatally wounded the early post-independence Burmese state, it eventually did far more damage to ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
Insecurity & the Rise of Nationalism in Putin’s Russia by Suzanne Loftus
epub |eng | | Author:Suzanne Loftus

( Category: Asia March 22,2020 )
A History of Counterinsurgency by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Gregory Fremont-Barnes

LABOUR MUSCLE AND THE GROWTH OF URBAN TERRORISM IN ADEN Aden was first occupied by the British in 1839. Then its population stood at only 500, but with the opening ...
( Category: Engineering March 22,2020 )
Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei by Paul R. Goldin
epub |eng | | Author:Paul R. Goldin

For the Mohists, Confucian particularism was nothing more than a “spinning potter’s wheel” which pointed in a different, random direction, according to the whim of each Confucian. Instead, the Mohists ...
( Category: Asia March 22,2020 )
Silence Was Salvation by Cathy A. Frierson
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Cathy A. Frierson [Frierson, Cathy A.]

Irina Andreevna Dubrovina’s high school graduating class, ca. 1947; she is the first student on the left in the front row (Private collection of I. A. Dubrovina) CF—Before that, did ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2020 )
Insight Guides Explore Tokyo (Travel Guide eBook) by Insight Guides
epub |eng | 2019-08-04 | Author:Insight Guides

Relatively few visitors to Tokyo make it east across the Sumida River, even though the area is steeped in history and has a relaxed old Edo atmosphere and some notable ...
( Category: General Japan Travel Guides March 22,2020 )
The Book of Yokai by Foster Michael Dylan
epub |eng | | Author:Foster, Michael Dylan

Figure 11. Ninmenju. Original illustration by Shinonome Kijin. The process demonstrates one of many ways in which “Japanese” yōkai come into being. It turns out that a seemingly indigenous monster ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 22,2020 )
Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan by Nicole L. Freiner
epub |eng | | Author:Nicole L. Freiner

Notes 1. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade . 1986. Text of the Agreement. Available at https://​www.​wto.​org/​english/​docs_​e/​legal_​e/​gatt47.​pdf. Accessed December 1, 2017. 2.Ibid. 3.Ibid. 4.Ibid. 5.Rayner, A. J., K. A. Ingersent, ...
( Category: Economics March 22,2020 )
Psychiatry and Chinese History by Chiang Howard
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Chiang, Howard

these two subjects had hardly been taught in Central and South China; neurology only very briefly in connection with internal medicine, psychiatry [was] not at all included in the medical ...
( Category: Asia March 22,2020 )
Millennial Monsters by Cross Gary Allison Anne
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Cross, Gary, Allison, Anne

Fragmentation of Demand: The Globalization of Sailor Moon The model of “fashion action” developed by the product(ion) of Sailor Moon and trafficked as kids’/girls’ mass culture in the global marketplace ...
( Category: Asia March 22,2020 )
Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema by Salazkina Masha Kaganovsky Lilya & Masha Salazkina
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Salazkina, Masha, Kaganovsky, Lilya & Masha Salazkina

Recording Technique and Style The new technological possibilities of the second sound revolution of the 1950s also meant innovations for the voice. The advent of stereo sound did not affect ...
( Category: Music March 22,2020 )
Last Stand at Khe Sanh by Gregg Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Gregg Jones [Jones, Gregg]

CHAPTER 14 “Proud to Be a Marine” Friday, February 23 was the most hellish day of all for the defenders of Khe Sanh. Over seven terrifying hours, beginning in the ...
( Category: Asia March 22,2020 )
The Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Sylvain Tesson [Tesson, Sylvain]

APRIL 14 The winter just won’t quit. Last night: 5° F. No sign of a thaw. Snowflakes fall from dawn to dusk, making a silky rustling. I spend the day ...
( Category: Natural History March 22,2020 )

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