Forbidden Nation

Author : Jonathan Manthorpe
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250126412

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Forbidden Nation by Jonathan Manthorpe Pdf

For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan's story is the curse of geography that placed the island on the strategic cusp between the Far East and Southeast Asia and made it the guardian of some of the world's most lucrative trade routes. It is the story of the dogged determination of a courageous people to overcome every obstacle thrown in their path. Forbidden Nation tells the dramatic story of the island, its people, and what brought them to this moment when their future will be decided.

Author : Jonathan Manthorpe
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1403969817

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Forbidden Nation by Jonathan Manthorpe Pdf

A history of Taiwan and its strained relations with China explains how the country is compromised by its geographical location at the mouth of some of the world's most lucrative trade routes, tracing 400 years of colonial exploitation and other challenges while predicting the region's imminent fight for independence.

Author : Jean-Charles Brisard,Guillaume Dasquié
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1560254149

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Forbidden Truth by Jean-Charles Brisard,Guillaume Dasquié Pdf

Contends that a secret diplomatic oil agreement between the United States and the Taliban thwarted the search for Osama bin Laden and precipitated the September 11 attacks. Original.

Author : William Elliot Griffis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Korea
ISBN : HARVARD:HWCPZN

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Corea, the Hermit Nation by William Elliot Griffis Pdf

Author : Griffis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00108477

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Corea, the Hermit nation by Griffis Pdf

Author : Andrea Spalding,Alfred Scow
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459817609

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Secret of the Dance Read-Along by Andrea Spalding,Alfred Scow Pdf

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure he knew. Aboriginal elder Alfred Scow and award-winning author Andrea Spalding collaborate to tell the story, to tell the secret of the dance.

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525483922

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The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When this relentless rogue FBI agent comes knocking, her adversaries will have to answer—with their lives—in this thrilling Jane Hawk novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Corner. “Koontz continues the incredible saga of the robust character of Jane Hawk, and it’s as terrific as the others in the series.”—Associated Press “We’re rewriting the play, and the play is this country, the world, the future. We break Jane’s heart, we’ll also break her will.” She was one of the FBI’s top agents until she became the nation’s most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society’s terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn’t save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills—and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice—Jane has struck major blows against the insidious cabal. But Jane’s enemies are about to hit back hard. If their best operatives can’t outrun her, they mean to bring her running to them, using her five-year-old son as bait. Jane knows there’s no underestimating their capabilities, but she must battle her way back across the country to the remote shelter where her boy is safely hidden . . . for now. As she moves resolutely forward, new threats begin to emerge: a growing number of brain-altered victims driven hopelessly, violently insane. With the madness spreading like a virus, the war between Jane and her enemies will become a fight for all their lives—against the lethal terror unleashed from behind the forbidden door. Don’t miss any of Dean Koontz’s gripping Jane Hawk thrillers: THE SILENT CORNER • THE WHISPERING ROOM • THE CROOKED STAIRCASE • THE FORBIDDEN DOOR • THE NIGHT WINDOW Praise for The Forbidden Door “Compelling and enthralling.”—New York Journal of Books “Mind-blowing. . . [a] gripping series . . . a thrill ride. [Dean Koontz is] able to distract you for hours.”—Bookreporter “Koontz is on another roll with a new series that boasts a juicy premise and a compelling star. . . . Pure gold.”—Booklist

Author : Terry Nation
Publisher : Red Fox
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099463903

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Rebecca's World by Terry Nation Pdf

It was the eleventh day of the school holidays and Rebecca was bored. But events take a dramatic turn for the better (or worse) when she finds herself transported to a distant planet whose people are terrorized by jelly-like monsters called Ghosts. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008795

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Author : Ted Gup
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307472915

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Nation of Secrets by Ted Gup Pdf

Award winning journalist Ted Gup exposes how and why our most important institutions increasingly keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve.Drawing on his decades as an investigative reporter, Ted Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security, patriotism, and privacy--in whose name secrecy is so often invoked. He explores the blatant exploitation of privacy and confidentiality in academia, business, and the courts, and concludes that in case after case, these principles have been twisted to allow the emergence of a shadow system of justice, unaccountable to the public. Nation of Secrets not only sounds the alarm to warn against an unethical way of life, but calls for the preservation of our democracy as we know it.

Author : Himani Bannerji
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1551301725

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The Dark Side of the Nation by Himani Bannerji Pdf

These feminist Marxist and anti-racist essays speak to important political issues. Though they begin from experiences of non-white people living in Canada, they provide a critical theoretical perspective capable of exploring similar issues in other western and also third world countries. This reading of 'difference' includes but extends beyond the cultural and the discursive into political economy, state, and ideology. It cuts through conventional paradigms of current debates on multiculturalism. In particular, these essays take up the notion of 'Canada' - as the nation and the state - as an unsettled ground of contested hegemonies. They particularly draw attention to how the state of Canada is an unfinished one, and how the discourse of culture helps it to advance the legitimation claim which is needed by any state, especially one arising in a colonial context, with unsolved nationality problems. The myth of the 'two founding peoples', anglos and francophones, has always conveniently ignored the reality of First Nations. who may have a history of being indentured and politically marginalised and only begin struggling for political enfranchisement in their new homeland.

Author : Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590455045

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Contemplations upon the principal passages of the Old and New Testaments by Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : LLMC
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Indian Affairs. Laws and Treaties by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Sumner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368867058

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The True Grandeur of Nations by Charles Sumner Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

Author : Anna North
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635575439

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Outlawed by Anna North Pdf

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON EDITORS' CHOICE * WASHINGTON POST BEST OF THE YEAR The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.