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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Osnos Evan
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Osnos, Evan [Osnos, Evan]

FOURTEEN THE GERM IN THE HENHOUSE The people in sunglasses did not immediately attract attention. When the first portraits appeared on Chinese social media sites in the fall of 2011, ...
( Category: China March 10,2015 )
1493 by Charles C. Mann
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Charles C. Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 7,2015 )
The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century by Thomas L. Friedman
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Thomas L. Friedman [Friedman, Thomas L.]

SIX The Untouchables o if the flattening of the world is largely (but not entirely) unstoppable, and holds out the potential to be as beneficial to American society as a ...
( Category: Economics March 6,2015 )
The Real North Korea: Life And Politics In The Failed Stalinist Utopia by Lankov Andrei
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lankov, Andrei [Lankov, Andrei]

THE CITY OF MONUMENTS Pyongyang is usually presented as an ancient city. And this, in a sense, is really the case. The area has been the site of a major ...
( Category: Asian March 3,2015 )
The Italians by John Hooper
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:John Hooper [Hooper, John]

CHAPTER 12 Family Matters La famiglia è la patria del cuore. The family is the homeland of the heart. Giuseppe Mazzini I described earlier how Italians, in general, have been ...
( Category: General March 3,2015 )
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Friedman Thomas L
mobi |eng | 2007-07-23 | Author:Friedman, Thomas L. [Friedman, Thomas L.]

( Category: Human Geography February 12,2015 )
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Jenny Nordberg [Nordberg, Jenny]

IN HER NEW domestic life, the sudden restrictions on movement bothered Shukria—as a newlywed, it took time to grasp the fact that she could not leave the house when she ...
( Category: Women February 5,2015 )
What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? by Tony Juniper
epub |eng | 2013-01-26 | Author:Tony Juniper

One third of 1 per cent This chain of events and causes and effects is of course far from unique. Across the globe our impact on fresh water only grows. ...
( Category: Economics January 27,2015 )
Not Peace but a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam by Robert Spencer
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Robert Spencer

7 A Shared Sexual Ethic? Indeed, in the area of sexual morality, the correspondence of Islamic statutes with Catholic teaching seems exact. The Qur’an instructs: And approach not fornication; surely ...
( Category: Sociology January 20,2015 )
Belonging: A Culture of Place by Bell Hooks
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-22 | Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]

10 Earthbound: On Solid Ground Kentucky hills were the place of my early childhood. Surrounded by a wilderness of honeysuckle, wild asparagus, and sheltering trees, bushes shielding growing crops, the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 12,2015 )
The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Bill Gammage

9 A capital tour Until 1788 almost no-one in Australia imagined attack from the sea. Sea and shore belonged to the Dreaming, eternal eddies. Only in Sydney and Adelaide did ...
( Category: Historic December 27,2014 )
My Green Manifesto
epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:David Gessner

We paddle hard through the morning until Donna picks us up at the Silk Mill Dam and whisks us ahead, like a lucky roll of the dice in Chutes and ...
( Category: Human Geography December 27,2014 )
Modern China by Rana Mitter
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Rana Mitter

A modern politics? A popular characterization of China’s leaders of the 20th century, particularly Mao, is that they have sought to become new emperors in their own right. Although it ...
( Category: Asian December 8,2014 )
The Seasons of Trouble by Rohini Mohan
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Rohini Mohan

IT WAS MARAN who discovered that grandfather was dead. He had gone inside their tent to look for the steel cup he liked to play with. The old man lay ...
( Category: India November 24,2014 )
Calcutta by Amit Chaudhuri
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Amit Chaudhuri [Chaudhuri, Amit]

Someone I know, also a well-to-do victim of polio and frequenter of the Bengal Club, but one who continues to walk with crutches with a staccato, oppositional ferocity, once told ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 24,2014 )

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