Asian history

When Peter J.

How is it that the person who created and defined the field of Black Studies and drafted Dr.

Charlotte Harris Rees is an independent researcher, a retired federal employee, and an honors graduate of Columbia International University.

This is the first full-length study of the medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, who graduated from the medical school at the University of Michigan in 1896 and then ran dispensaries, hospitals, and nursing schools in China from the 1890s to the 1930s.

The church in the United States faces a dilemma: How is it possible for Christ's followers to worship faithfully in a nationalistic environment where religion and politics enjoy a vigorous affiliation while the separation of church and state is celebrated as the standard for the relationship between nation and faith?

Confucius was the most popular philosopher in Ancient China.

One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way.

One of the finest travel memoirs ever written, with a new Introduction and Afterword.

Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War.

Alternating between the loveable irrascibility and self-mocking humor reminiscent of the poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Budbill's poems view the modern world from the viewpoint of a New England hermit-scholar.

Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.

Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country.

In February 1971, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched an incursion into Laos in an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy North Vietnamese Army (NVA) base areas along the border.

A Companion to St.

An American soldier vividly recounts leading a platoon through the most chaotic and significant year of the Vietnam War.

Few morose thoughts permeate the brain when Yosemite Sam calls Bugs Bunny a ';long-eared galut' or a frustrated Homer Simpson blurts out his famous catch-word, ';D'oh!

Today, when India is certainly once more emerging as one of the most important social experiments in the world, it is more than ever incumbent to explore and re-discover the underlying reasons and philosophy that marginalized the Indian consciousness in terms of caste, ethnicity, religion and the like.

First-person accounts chronicling the 3/7 Marines engaging in intense street-by-street fighting to put down an uprising in Iraq in April 2004.

Pocket manuals bring together a wealth of information from a wide variety of training manuals and tactical documents.

Fallujah Redux is the first book about the Fallujah Awakening written by Operation Iraqi Freedom military veterans who served there, providing a comprehensive account of the turning of Fallujah away from the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2007.

"e;The ugly wife is a treasure at home"e; is not just an idle expression in China.

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The connections between religion and violence are complex and multifaceted.

Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century.

Adventures and contemplations throughout the world by a master storyteller, critic, and expatriate writer.

The untold story of US Special Forces in Laos, one of the longest secret wars of the Cold War-by a military historian and Special Forces veteran.

Learn about the land of kimchi - Korea!

With picture books, a child can see, feel, hear and even smell India.

Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble.

For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens.

In history many Empires have risen and fallen.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, no Canadian band rocked harder, louder or to more hardcore fans than Teenage Head.

The artist is dead.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

The First World War was the first 'total war'.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932.

What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class?

This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

The phrase ';martial arts studies' is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest.

In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engine bomber.

The German General Staff launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 assuming the eastern campaign would last only three months.

"e;The Muslim Heritage of Bengal is a multidimensional work.

Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service.

Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War.

This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China.

In November, 1950, the United States Army suffered one of its most devastating defeats ever, in the frozen mountains of North Korea at the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.