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Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip Pan
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Philip Pan

ON BOTH OCCASIONS that Chen Lihua agreed to meet with me, she gave me presents. At the end of my interviews with her, she would tell me to turn off ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
China Witness by Xinran
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Xinran

8 Across Mountain and Grassland: a Witness to the Long March Mr and Mrs Changzheng, in PLA uniform, in their wedding photo, 1947. Renewal of their wedding vows, 1997. MR ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
The Wars of Afghanistan by Peter Tomsen
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Peter Tomsen

The leaders of the commanders’ shura returned to Peshawar from their Islamabad meetings with Beg and Durrani in high spirits. Abdul Haq later boasted to me that he had conducted ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Tamim Ansary

PART IV: OLD AFGHANISTAN ERUPTS Nadir Shah and his family had resumed the project launched by Dost Mohammed, the project that consumed Abdu’Rahman and Amanullah. The Musahibbans moved more cautiously, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Charlie Wilson's War by Crile George
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-06 | Author:Crile, George [Crile, George]

CHAPTER 20 Gust and the Eldorado NO WASPS NEED APPLY Avrakotos was not a morning person. By the time he left his row house in McLean, Virginia, and placed his ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Thomas Barfield

Musahiban Policies: Stability über Alles For the Musahibans nothing was more important than preserving the internal stability of Afghanistan, which they defined as maintaining their own rule over the country. ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Caligula by Aloys Winterling
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-12-12 | Author:Aloys Winterling

RESHAPING THE EMPEROR’S ROLE The conspiracy of Agrippina, Livilla, and Lepidus had presented Caligula with the same threat in extreme form that had always been present under the rule of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Ancient Chinese Warfare by Ralph D. Sawyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

EARLY CHINESE BOWS Despite its primal importance in Chinese warfare, there has been a surprising dearth of articles on the bow and arrow. However, from the few attempts,40 numerous archaeological ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
A War Like No Other by Victor Hanson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Victor Hanson

How to Take a Polis In an obscure fourth-century military treatise about protecting poleis from besieging armies and intriguers within the walls, a shadowy Greek author, Aeneas Tacticus, who may ...
( Category: Greece March 25,2014 )
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

In summary, Britain’s follies were not so perverse as the Popes’. Ministers were not deaf to rising discontent, because they had no chance to be; expressed by their equals, it ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jared Diamond

The 1657 Meireki fire, and the resulting demand for timber to rebuild Japan’s capital, served as a wake-up call exposing the country’s growing scarcity of timber and other resources at ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Niall Ferguson

In that sense, it might make more sense for historians to talk about an Industrial Evolution, in Darwin’s sense of the word. As the economists Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 by Douglas Brinkley
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

III World War II transformed Alaska, seemingly overnight, from a backwater territory to a major strategic asset that was well worth defending. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert Stinnett
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-14 | Author:Robert Stinnett

Radio silence was ignored as more Japanese naval broadcasts hit the airwaves. The first military intercept that specified Pearl Harbor as the target came from Japan’s highest naval commander, Admiral ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )
Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen by David Hilfiker
mobi |eng | 2003-09-02 | Author:David Hilfiker

It is no coincidence that social insurance programs are administered by the federal government using nationally uniform standards and benefits pegged to inflation. Public assistance programs, on the other hand, ...
( Category: Poverty March 25,2014 )

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