Science & Math
epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]
CHAPTER ELEVEN A WEARY WAY TO GO… Kono kuso ame! While the Japanese language has no real equivalent to the western notion of swearing, this phrase loosely translates to ‘this ...
( Category:
World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Tim Harper & Tim Harper
MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category:
Asia
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Emma Larkin
MONKS IN MANDALAY were said to be holding out against the soldiers. Whenever soldiers approached the monasteries there, the temple bells were rung and monks would mass together to form ...
( Category:
Asian
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman [Klingaman, William K. & Klingaman, Nicholas P.]
8. THE PRICE OF BREAD “There has not been this whole summer one day of steady sunshine, not one day of heat, nor one night when a coverlet and blanket ...
( Category:
Climatology
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester
The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...
( Category:
Volcanology
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Julia Lovell
Chapter Fourteen THE TREATY OF NANJING In April 1842, a seventy-one-year-old Manchu called Yilibu received some terrible news. His distant relative, the emperor, had revoked his sentence of banishment to ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]
In January 1938, not one shop was officially open in Nanking except for a military store and the International Committee’s rice shop. The harbor was practically empty of ships. Most ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1985-1962 by Frank Dikötter
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-23 | Author:Frank Dikötter [Dikötter, Frank]
As cash lost its purchasing power, ration coupons became a form of surrogate money. They were required for most essential goods, ranging from oil, grain, pork and cloth to thermos ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]
Softly, very softly, we turned to Tiziano and asked, "If you were in India, what would you be saying?" And softly, very softly, Tiziano Terzani, stirring sugar into his coffee ...
( Category:
United States
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:David Isby [Isby, David]
Land and Water Conflicts over land and water rights underlie a lot of Afghanistan’s internal strife, including those relating to corruption and even terrorism. Arable land and water are both ...
( Category:
History of Technology
March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]
In Chapter 7 I introduced the distinction between bearing and caring. I said that mixed strategies, combining bearing and caring, would normally evolve. In Chapter 5 we saw that mixed ...
( Category:
Biology
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Switek, Brian
FIGURE 53 - An illustration of Koch’s Hydrarchos as it appeared on display. To Koch’s surprise, the fossils were among the salvage and were sent to New York on the ...
( Category:
Organic
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]
V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...
( Category:
Greece
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Neil Postman [Postman, Neil]
Is this the story Freud hoped humanity’s maturity would lead us to? Can we believe in such a story? I suppose we can in some corner of our brain, but ...
( Category:
Science & Math
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown
a b c Fig. 4.—Seal impressions from tablets of the Murashu archive (after Philadelphia 810, 846, 891) a b c Fig. 5.—Seal impressions from tablets of the Murashu archive (after ...
( Category:
Science & Math
March 26,2014 )
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