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A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Albert Hourani

PART IV THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES (1800–1939) The nineteenth century was the age when Europe dominated the world. The growth of large-scale factory production and the changes in methods ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber
mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Benjamin R. Barber

13 Jihad Within McWorld: “Transitional Democracies” THE PARADOXICAL INTERFACE of Jihad and McWorld is nowhere more in evidence than behind the crumpled iron curtain in the “transitional” or “emerging democracies”—which ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 25,2014 )
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Richard J. Evans

II The complacent belief of Franz von Papen and his friends that they had Hitler where they wanted him did not last long. The Nazis occupied only three cabinet posts. ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Anne Applebaum

We consumed the half pint of barley coffee we received for breakfast, the soup and vegetable we got for lunch and the vegetable served us as dinner standing on the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: Fascism March 25,2014 )
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Victor Cha

We have some problems with this. This comment by the DPRK Six-Party negotiator on a U.S. draft of a verification protocol of the North’s nuclear declaration started the cycle back ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
The Cleanest Race by B. R. Myers
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:B. R. Myers

† I say “current,” because the myths have changed over the decades. It was not until the mid-1960s, for example, that the Text began claiming Kim Il Sung had defeated ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
Unit 731 by Gold Hal
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Gold, Hal [Gold, Hal]

Soviet demands that Emperor Hirohito face trial for war crimes caused the Japanese great distress, as this recently (1995) released note from the Foreign Ministry to SCAP shows. Pingfang's double ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generation by Karl Taro Greenfeld
mobi |eng | 1995-08-10 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld

“Hello, uh, this is Takehiro Hashimoto speaking, may I please speak with Keiko Nakagami?” “That is me.” “Uh. Thank you very much for coming to lunch with my family and ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Husain Haqqani
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:Husain Haqqani

Ansari’s description shows a Zia ul-Haq who believed that his policies of Islamization at home would strengthen Pakistan against those conspiring to move Pakistan away from Islam. By codifying Islamic ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Instant City by Steve Inskeep
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Steve Inskeep

10 EMERGENCY NUMBERS This is where we last encountered Dr. Seemin Jamali, the “Incharge” of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital. On February 5, 2010, an argument was boiling at ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
When China rules the world: the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the western world by Martin Jacques
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-25 | Author:Martin Jacques

CHINA’S NEW TURN At the beginning of the 1990s China, with the reform era already a decade old, still existed for the most part in a state of splendid isolation, ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
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 )

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