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Empires of Vice by Diana S. Kim;
epub |eng | 2019-12-12 | Author:Diana S. Kim;

Lasting Significance The problem of fiscal dependency in British Malaya was thus solved internally, and swiftly; the colonial administration introduced a set of reforms that demonstrated the British Empire’s resolve ...
( Category: True Crime March 18,2020 )
Hiroshima Diary by Hachiya Michihiko; Wells Warner; Wells Warner
epub |eng | 2010-03-17 | Author:Hachiya, Michihiko; Wells, Warner; Wells, Warner

NOTES 1 A hibachi is a wooden, metal, or earthenware container partly filled with ashes, usually of straw, in which is placed a small charcoal fire. Except in unusual circumstances ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 18,2020 )
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields by Lafcadio Hearn
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]

In the portrayal of maturer types the lines are more numerous and more accentuated,--illustrating the fact that character necessarily becomes more marked in middle age, as the facial muscles begin ...
( Category: Shintoism March 18,2020 )
Claudius Bombarnac: The Adventures of a Special Correspondent (Extended Illustrated And Annotated Edition) by Jules Verne
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Jules Verne [Verne, Jules]

I then give a gentle knock on the panel. There is no reply. However, the sound of breathing is not so marked as before. I knock more loudly. This time ...
( Category: Geography & Cultures March 18,2020 )
Assault from the Sea by unknow
epub |eng | | Author:unknow

Marianas, 1944. All these had to assemble in the Marshalls in a specified order at particular times and then move out according to a carefully computed timetable toward the target ...
( Category: Asia March 18,2020 )
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | | Author:Ivan Turgenev

VII .................. THE NEXT DAY WAS SUNDAY, and Natalya got up late. The day before she had been very silent all day; she was secretly ashamed of her tears, and ...
( Category: Russian March 18,2020 )
Little Daughter by Zoya Phan & Damien Lewis
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Zoya Phan & Damien Lewis

Chapter Fifteen A TIME OF DARKNESS We had arrived in the refugee camp in February 1995. By April most people had finished building their homes, and we turned our minds ...
( Category: Memoirs March 18,2020 )
Daughter Of The East: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto
epub |eng | | Author:Benazir Bhutto [Bhutto, Benazir]

10 TWO MORE YEARS ALONE IN SUB-JAIL Familiarity. Comfort. Home. Leaving aside the fact that the paramilitary Frontier Forces were once more posted inside the compound walls and a prison ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
Nowhere to Be Home by Maggie Lemere
epub |eng | 2019-09-19 | Author:Maggie Lemere

I WROTE MY THESIS ON CHIN CULTURE In April of 1999, I went to Kachin State to start training and working as a missionary. I don’t know the connection exactly, ...
( Category: Asian March 17,2020 )
The Invaders and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

* * * POLIKUSHKA. A STORY. * * * I. "As you may please to order, madame. But it would be too bad to send any of the Dutlofs. They ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
Paradise Divided by Alex Klaushofer
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Alex Klaushofer

Unfreedom Damascus is a shock. The bus abruptly terminates on a street which looks exactly the same as the miles of others we’ve driven through and suddenly I’m on the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 17,2020 )
The Cold War in the Classroom by Barbara Christophe & Peter Gautschi & Robert Thorp
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Christophe & Peter Gautschi & Robert Thorp

The curriculum requires that ‘blame for the Cold War’ be taught and learnt through the presentation of different interpretations and differing points of view (ibid., 25). China, Cuba and Vietnam ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 17,2020 )
The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy by Arturo Giraldez
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Arturo Giraldez [Giraldez, Arturo]

Chapter Six The Economy of the Line China and Silver in the Modern Era “The avidity of the Chinese for silver established a commercial epoch for the international economy.” To ...
( Category: Economic History March 17,2020 )
The Diary of Prisoner 17326 by john k. stutterheim Mark Parillo
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:john k. stutterheim, Mark Parillo

chapter fifteen THE DISEASE OF DESPAIR In the Indies there is a small and generally welcome nocturnal lizard, called a tokè, or gecko, a harmless tropical insectivore, six to ten ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
Serpentine: The True Story of a Serial Killer's Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia by Thomas Thompson
epub |eng | 2016-12-12 | Author:Thomas Thompson [Thompson, Thomas]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE For several listless days, Marie-Andrée moped around the Rajah Hotel in Bangkok, her physical being assaulted by jet lag and her emotions torn by the puzzling and painful ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )

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