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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Combat Poverty Agency
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ann Jones
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466827653
A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and investigating the city's prison for women, Jones enters a large community of female outcasts: runaway child brides, pariah prostitutes, cast-off wives, victims of rape. In the streets and markets, she hears the Afghan view of the supposed benefits brought by the fall of the Taliban, and learns that regarding women as less than human is the norm, not the aberration of one conspicuously repressive regime. Jones confronts the ways in which Afghan education, culture, and politics have repeatedly been hijacked—by Communists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Western free marketeers—always with disastrous results. And she reveals, through small events, the big disjunctions: between U.S promises and performance, between the new "democracy" and the still-entrenched warlords, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own.
Author : Judith Freeman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400095179
Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture. Visiting Chandler's many homes and apartments, Freeman uncovers vestiges of the Los Angeles that was Chandler's terrain and inspiration for his imagination. She also uncovers the life of Cissy Pascal, the older, twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924. A revelation of a marriage that was a wellspring of need, illusion, and creativity, The Long Embrace provides us with a more complete picture of Raymond Chandler's life and art than any we have had before.
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951002214374G
Author : David Halberstam
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781401389642
"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy. Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu River and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures--Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order. As ever, Halberstam was concerned with the extraordinary courage and resolve of people asked to bear an extraordinary burden. The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It is a book that Halberstam first decided to write more than thirty years ago and that took him nearly ten years to complete. It stands as a lasting testament to one of the greatest journalists and historians of our time, and to the fighting men whose heroism it chronicles.
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:555073630
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Long-range weather forecasting
ISBN : UCSD:31822009605916
Author : Joshua Hale Fialkov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1632152274
Abe, Fist, Skull, and Dog live in a house, get into fights, murder gnomes, and punch each other in the nuts. A lot. Vomit-out-loud comedy guaranteed! From Joshua Hale Fialkov (The Bunker, The Life After, I, Vampire) and Kody Chamberlain (Sweets, The Ride: Southern Gothic) comes a book unlikely to become a blockbuster movie. Much to their chagrin. Collecting Punks: The Comic issues #1-5.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015035989311
Author : Matthew Baker
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Arithmetical algebraic geometry
ISBN : 9780821844687
"In recent decades, p-adic geometry and p-adic cohomology theories have become indispensable tools in number theory, algebraic geometry, and the theory of automorphic representations. The Arizona Winter Schoo1 2007, on which the current book is based, was a unique opportunity to introduce graduate students to this subject." "Following invaluable introductions by John Tate and Vladimir Berkovich, two pioneers of non-archimedean geometry, Brian Conrad's chapter introduces the general theory of Tate's rigid analytic spaces, Raynaud's view of them as the generic fibers of formal schemes, and Berkovich spaces. Samit Dasgupta and Jeremy Teitelbaum discuss the p-adic upper half plane as an example of a rigid analytic space and give applications to number theory (modular forms and the p-adic Langlands program). Matthew Baker offers a detailed discussion of the Berkovich projective line and p-adic potential theory on that and more general Berkovich curves. Finally, Kiran Kedlaya discusses theoretical and computational aspects of p-adic cohomology and the zeta functions of varieties. This book will be a welcome addition to the library of any graduate student and researcher who is interested in learning about the techniques of p-adic geometry."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jonathan L. Ramseur,Larry Parker
Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781587332128
Author : Peng Er Lam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136235818
The Fukuda Doctrine has been the official blueprint to Japan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia since 1977. This book examines the Fukuda Doctrine in the context of Japan-Southeast Asia relations, and discusses the possibility of a non-realist approach in the imagining and conduct of international relations in East Asia. The collapse of 54 years of Liberal Democratic Party rule and the advent of a new Democratic Party of Japan raises the question of whether the Fukuda Doctrine is still relevant as a framework to analyse Tokyo’s policy and behaviour towards Southeast Asia. Looking at its origins and norms amidst three decades of change, the book argues that the Fukuda Doctrine is still relevant to Japan-Southeast Asian relations, and should be extended to relations between China and Japan if an East Asian Community is to be built. The book goes on to discuss the Fukuda Doctrine in relation to the power shift in Asia, including the revitalization of Japan’s security role. By providing a detailed understanding of a non-western perspective of Japan’s relationship with Southeast Asia, this book is a useful contribution for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations.
Author : Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231143752
"In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation about whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's next proliferators." "With these two major interpretations, Ganguly and Kapur tackle all sides of an urgent issue that has profound regional and global consequences. Sure to spark discussion and debate, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb thoroughly maps the potential impact of nuclear proliferation."--Cubierta.
Author : B.M. Jain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317117339
In the initial phase of the Obama administration, India’s ruling class and strategic community formed a perception that the spirit of strategic partnership between the two countries might be diluted on account of China looming large in the priorities of this administration. Despite occasional hiccups in their relationship, this perception was overshadowed by the administration’s recognition of India’s role as counterweight to China in the Asia-Pacific region. This book addresses and re-evaluates the perceptions, policies and perspectives of public policy makers and bureaucratic elites in both India and the US in setting and articulating the tone, tenor and substance of the multi-faceted ties between the two countries. The scope of the book is not exclusively limited to the bilateral relationship in the critical areas such as the Indo-US nuclear deal, defence, security and strategic partnership. Its concerns and ramifications are much wider in global and regional contexts, covering/involving security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, the interface between terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), China as a factor in India-US relations, and the fallout of the New Delhi-Washington partnership on South Asia.
Author : A. Héritier,M. Rhodes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230306455
Based on the research of the EU-6th framework funded research consortium on 'New Modes of Governance in the European Union', this volume explores the roots, execution and applications of new forms of governance and evaluates their success.
