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This book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar era of simultaneous decolonization and Big Science.

The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in the western suburbs of the Quing capital, Beijing, was begun by the great Kangxi (r.

Foreign Exchange: Counterculture behind the Walls of St.

A firsthand report on contemporary Vietnam presents a portrait of a nation that is struggling under the hold of Communism and places the Vietnam war in the perspective of a four-thousand-year-old history.

The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign is the fourth installment in the Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series.

The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign is the eagerly awaited companion volume to Bradley M.

The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign is the eagerly awaited companion volume to Bradley M.

Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation.

In Knowledge before Action, Amina M.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937–45 is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45.

The Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is a revered eight-hundred-year-old Zen Buddhism classic written by the Japanese monk Eihei Dogen.

In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class.

';The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.

Sheds crucial new light on the epochal U.

This book explores the historical and legal importance of two principles, Quod Omnes Tangit, and Tianxia Wei Gong, which have played significant roles in European and Chinese political and legal history.

Iraq in 2009 was a strange netherworld, not quite war but not yet peace.

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably Americas worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century.

An untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan historyFrom 1956 to 1962, devastating military conflicts took place in China's southwestern and northwestern regions.

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In AU JAPON (1904), de Guerville recounts with mostly comical gaze-and perhaps a touch of imagination-his experiences in the Far East during the years 1892 and 1894.

A self-help work on the inhibiting inner fears that either motivate or debilitate.

In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb.

The killing of Osama bin Laden spotlighted Pakistan's unpredictable political dynamics, which are often driven by conspiracy theory, paranoia, and a sense of betrayal.

“A comprehensive and impressively written history of the Korean War.

For many in the West, North Korea is a secretive, reclusive, and enigmatic country, a rogue state that threatens the world with its nuclear program and ballistic missiles.

This work attempts to present Rumi to the English-speaking world and to shed light on his life as seen from within the Islamic mystical tradition.

The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves.

Refine your heart and mind with the wisdom of Islamic spirituality"e;To live a meaningful life-one that brings us joy, contentment and fulfillment-we have to do the inner spiritual work of becoming a more complete human being.

Discover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur'an itself.

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably Americas worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century.

Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U.

This unprecedented photographic collection contains 125 stunning black and white photographs of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

For nearly 800 years since his death in 1227 archeologists, treasure hunters, scientists and explorers have been searching for the tomb of Chinggis Qa'an (aka erroneously Ghengis Khan), the 13th century Mongol emperor who conquered and ruled more of the world than anyone before or since.

This is the story of Gandhis spiritual evolution the turning points and choices that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence.

Preeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West.

The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theorists and contagionists from 1880 to 1940.

Truth really is stranger than fiction -- just look at the film industry.

As the country grows increasingly diverse and complicated, Americans seek, and occasionally find, a common thread to unite them.

Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry.

An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm"e;Mysticism"e; in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in the religious landscape of Safavid Iran that led to the marginalization of Sufism and the eventual emergence of 'irfan as an alternative Shi'i model of spirituality.

In his analysis of insurgency war, Donald Hamilton first attempts to provide insight into a strategic concept he believes is little understood today, and to explain its complicated relationship to American policy failures in Southeast Asia during the post-1945 era of containment.

A guide to meaningful life choices for living an ethical life without theology or religious faith.