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

China's shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history.

Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last U.

Welcome to the wonderful and exhilarating world of Vietnam!

Blending physics with the study of ancient Chinese science, technology, and culture is a unique and highly effective way to present the fundamentals of physics to non-science majors.

To understand modern science as a coherent story, we must recognize the achievements of the ancient Hindus and this book tells their stories through painstaking research of historical and scientific sources.

Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.

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Orthodox Christianity is one of the world's major religions, and the Russian Orthodox Church is by far its largest denomination.

Afghanistan Without Borders: The Haqqani Network and the Road to Kabul is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen.

From fascination to disillusionment and back, a memoir of one man's quest for Zen and spirituality in America and Japan.

This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group's historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries.

The crisis of addiction in the world is severe, being declared a Public Health Emergency in 2017 and increasing in severity so that the United States witnessed the number of deaths from overdoses exceeding one hundred thousand in a twelve-month period for the first time between April 2020 and April 2021.

The Three Kingdoms Period in Korean history consisted of the kingdoms of Silla, Koguryo and Paekche.

This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip.

Sino-US relation that has great influence on international relations is considered as the most important bilateral relation in the world today by politicians and scholars from both of the two countries.

There are 56 separate ethnic groups in China, some with histories going back thousands of years.

Based on extensive archival research, Sterling Michael Pavelec recounts the adventures of the handful of aviators and their aircraft during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Fille d'un veteran de l'armee americaine qui a combattu sur le front europeen pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, je felicite mon ami Jean Senat Fleury pour la publication de son livre Le Desastre de L'Empire du Japon.

This book delves into the lives of various East Indian indentured servants bound to British sugar plantations in the Caribbean between 1838 and 1917.

In this book, we incorporate wisdom from Zoroastrianism on the angels of transformation and the Archangel of the Earth; from Ibn 'Arabi on the barzakh (the interface between manifestation and subtle reality), creative imagination, and the human-divine relationship; from Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat, and Pir Zia on contemporary Sufi teachings which state that every desire begins with a divine impulse and that the purpose of spirituality is awakening of divinity in life; as well as from realizations from the authors' meditations, inspirations, and spiritual dialogues which form the basis what they call the Gabrielite Work.

In 1975, author Elizabeth Jacks Scott was a young matron from New York with a husband and two small children and the new owner of an old sail loft building in Tenants Harbor, Maine.

The book demonstrates that, even if during the first period of the Shwa era (1931-1945) the real driving force to war was the Japanese military, Hirohito, as supreme commander, gave full support to the army.

Ancient History of Korea.

India had its own ups and downs with its history well known throughout the world before and after the Colonial period.

According to New China's long-term development plan, the Chinese military will complete its modernization by 2035.

The growing interest in the relationship between religion and law is, in the case of Christianity, often viewed in monolithic terms.

"e;A real page turner: a must read for devotees of America's struggle for Liberty, and for scholars and students of the Military Art of Leadership.

Forgotten Battles and American Memory is a military history book that brings to life long-ignored important conflicts through personal stories.

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A Legacy Magnified: A Generation of Chinese Americans in Southern California, 1980's-2010's (?

A Legacy Magnified: A Generation of Chinese Americans in Southern California, 1980's-2010's (?

Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history.

Cid, a Filipino musician who defied being away from a loving and protective family, dared to go to Japan during the time when the story of Maricris, a Filipina entertainer who was allegedly killed by a yakuza by plunging his sword to her vagina, was all over the news back home.

The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters.

The Korean War left too many stories untold.

»Ein atemberaubend ehrgeiziges und gut gemachtes Stück Geschichte, das nur schwer zu übertreffen ist«, schreibt History Today über Gary Bass' einzigartiges Standardwerk zum wichtigsten Kriegsverbrecherprozesses neben den Nürnberger Prozessen.

Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait.

Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait.

In the 10th century, the Turks separated the Tajiks, a Central Asian community, from their Iranian kinfolk.

For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life.

Protecting the Afghan Women focuses on the injustices women in Afghanistan face on a regular basis and has a strong focus that uses many examples throughout to back up its claims.

With this short statement, I will try and give a snapshot of my life at that time, and why I wrote this book.

Translated in full for the first time, this fourth volumeimmerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel.

The entire trilogy book is designed to show that true faith can accomplish just about anything in a person's life.

This is a story of a child during the Vietnam-French war to regain independence.

Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts.