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Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia by Unknown
epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Unknown

After Empire? Clearly, in order to make sense of the incident with the Samarkand Opera and Ballet Theater, and to understand issues of cultural sovereignty in post-Soviet Central Asia, we ...
( Category: Asia March 12,2020 )
State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan by Christine Noelle
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Noelle

The Babakr Khel Ghilzais The prominent position of the Babakr Khel of Tizin can be traced back to the eighteenth century, when they ingratiated themselves with Nadir Shah by showing ...
( Category: Asia March 12,2020 )
Aim High in Creation! by Anna Broinowski
epub |eng | 2016-03-11 | Author:Anna Broinowski

When we get back to the forty-seventh floor, Ms. K is waiting. She gives me an old DVD player and a stack of discs. She has scrawled the titles in ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 12,2020 )
Exciting India by Bikram Grewal
epub |eng | | Author:Bikram Grewal

A 7-m figure of the reclining Buddha, depicting his parinirvana (ultimate enlightenment or liberation), in one of the Ajanta caves. An Ajanta fresco-these frescoes are in grave danger of obliteration ...
( Category: Asia March 12,2020 )
Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: An Intellectual History by Tariq Rahman
epub |eng | 2018-10-07 | Author:Tariq Rahman [Rahman, Tariq]

2:190 Defensive war is permitted but do not transgress (Vol. 1: 272). Literal meaning 2:191 Fight those who began hostilities such as attacking you and expelling you from your homes ...
( Category: Asia March 12,2020 )
Animosity at Bay by Pallavi Raghavan
epub |eng | 2020-03-11 | Author:Pallavi Raghavan

Princely Claims N. D. Gulhati, an official who had been retained in an advisory capacity to the Ministry of Science and Power, headed by Gopalaswami Ayyangar, made a critical reference ...
( Category: Asia March 12,2020 )
Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan by Kamm Björn-Ole Kam Thiam Huat Galbraith Patrick W
epub |eng | 2015-04-03 | Author:Kamm, Björn-Ole,Kam, Thiam Huat,Galbraith, Patrick W.

Traversing fantasy in Otaku no Video The term ‘fantasy’ is often understood to be a particular genre of creative works, which depict magical and fictional universes that do not exist ...
( Category: Asia March 12,2020 )
Art of Siberia by Valentina Gorbatcheva
epub |eng | | Author:Valentina Gorbatcheva [Valentina Gorbatcheva, Marina Federova]

Vasily Surikov, A Shaman, sketch for ‘The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak’, 1893. Oil on canvas, 25 x 23 cm. Krasnoyarskiy Kraevoy Musey, Krasnoyarsk. III: SHAMANISM INTRODUCTION Shamanism is understood ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 12,2020 )
The Communist Century by Chris Kostov
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Chris Kostov

Chapter Five Anti-communism in the Soviet Bloc In Africa, Asia and Nicaragua, anti-communists preferred to use civil wars in order to overthrow communist regimes. The anti-communist forces were also encouraged ...
( Category: Asia March 11,2020 )
The M14 Battle Rifle by Leroy Thompson
epub |eng | | Author:Leroy Thompson

US Marines in small boats approach the beach for an amphibious assault in the Rung Sat Zone, 35 miles from Saigon. They are among 1,200 Marines taking part in Operation ...
( Category: Asia March 11,2020 )
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Slavoj Žižek

The Jew and Antigone We come across this ‘Che vuoi?’ everywhere in the political domain, including the 1988 American election struggle in which, after Jesse Jackson’s first successes, the press ...
( Category: History & Theory March 11,2020 )
China’s Assistance Program in Xinjiang by Li Yuhui;
epub |eng | | Author:Li, Yuhui;

( Category: Asia March 11,2020 )
Romances of Old Japan by Yei Theodora Ozaki
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Yei Theodora Ozaki [Ozaki, Yei Theodora]

O Tatsu ... took her stand behind Urasato and with deft fingers put the disordered coiffure to rights "O Tatsu Sama," answered Urasato, "in spite of all you say, I ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths March 11,2020 )
Chinese Religious Art by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
epub |eng | 2013-12-07 | Author:Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Figure 10.7. Scene of the Ascension of the Tomb Master, engraved stone sarcophagus, Six Dynasties period, 150 cm long, Luoyang Ancient Art Gallery, Henan Province. (After Masterworks of Chinese Figure ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 11,2020 )
The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union by Melanie Ilic
epub |eng | | Author:Melanie Ilic

Klenova, the Far North and Far South One of the remarkable achievements of Klenova’s career as a polar explorer was her participation in the expedition of 1932 on a small ...
( Category: Asia March 11,2020 )

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