mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Minxin Pei

Crime and Punishment The breakdown of the monitoring system is accompanied by an increasingly dysfunctional system of punishing corrupt officials—despite the frequent use of the death penalty against high-profile offenders. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Sarah Rose

Behind the gentlemanly façade of the East India Company there were often hidden rivalries and simmering tensions, and within the Indian network of company gardeners this friction often centered on ...

mobi |eng | 2001-03-28 | Author:Kerr

Zoning – the political and social science of making the most efficient use of different types of land – is a crucial skill that Japan's bureaucrats have failed to master. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

The story became even more complicated in July 2006, when the Secretary of the Army, Francis Harvey, wrote a letter to Republican Congressman Christopher Shays of the House Committee on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:David Wise

Chapter 15 ROYAL TOURIST IN JULY 1997 Robin Lee was annoyed when an outlet in the kitchen of her house in Manhattan Beach, California, suddenly stopped working. She unscrewed the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Sheehan, Neil [Sheehan, Neil]

They met in Critic’s ice cream parlor on the Sunday before Christmas, 1943. It was around 3:00 in the afternoon. Mary Jane and her girlfriend, Nancy, always went there for ...

mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Kenji Yoshino

SEX-BASED COVERING The portraits that range the walls of this Yale Law School classroom are, with one exception, of men. They figure honored graduates—judges, professors, and deans. As the seats ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Chol-hwan Kang; Pierre Rigoulot

ELEVEN MADNESS STALKS THE PRISONERS In the summer of 1982, my situation improved further. I finally made a friend. The camp had received two new prisoners, space aliens practically, whose ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Eri Hotta

Nomura conveyed this message to the president on August 28. Roosevelt complimented the “tone and spirit of it” and again mentioned Juneau as a meeting place. To Nomura, the location ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Martin Jacques [Jacques, Martin]

open economy, is far more multifarious - as a market for the products of the region, as an exporter and as a multifaceted investor. Figure 24. Growing importance of Chinese ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Katherine Boo

In July, when Asha and her family stepped off the train after a thirteen-hour journey north to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, their village relatives inspected their faces, finding evidence ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Walter Laqueur

Israel and Jordan: “The London Document” (April 11, 1987) Invitation by the UN Secretary General: The UN Secretary General will send invitations to the five permanent members of the Security ...

epub |eng | | Author:Greg Mortenson

CHAPTER 10 Sarfraz’s Promise Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Sun Also Rises Two sisters in UNHCR earthquake refugee camp, Pakistan While ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-19 | Author:Wu, Emily & Engelmann, Larry [Wu, Emily]

34 After school each day the children immediately went to work. Their principal task was collecting animal droppings for fertilizer. I learned how to do this and soon was working ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Dennis Dalton

By the end of 1946 India was drifting rapidly to chaos. The real power had passed from British hands; senior officials, anxious about their future, were conscious that they were ...