It describes the last phase of nomadism as a viable system of social organization; the effects on Central Asian economies of the shift of the main lines of international trade from the Great Silk Route to the oceanic routes; the various schools of art; the last great age of classical Persian literature and the growth of Turkic literatures; and, finally, in the religious sphere, the Shi'ite triu…
The Torture Papers document the so-called ‘torture memos’ and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. These documents present for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have existed only piecemeal in the public domain. The Bush Administrati…
By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. In The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans chronicles the incredible story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. As those who were deemed unworthy to be counted among the German people were dealt with in in…
Europe is one area that we Americans have a grasp of-think again. The great stories of the century-the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism- are self-evident in their importance. But behind the politics and the ideologies lies another history: the history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans and the lives of men and women around the world. These are stori…
It begins some 4,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as chocolate. This was centuries before chocolate was consumed in generally unsweetened liquid form and used as currency by the Maya and the Aztecs after them. The Spanish conquest of Centra…
Pada peringatan dua puluh tahun berakhirnya Perang Dingin, Conor O'Clery telah membangun narasinya yang menarik dan dibangun dengan cemerlang tentang kejatuhan Uni Soviet sekitar suatu hari, 25 Desember 1991, tanggal Gorbachev mengundurkan diri dan Uni Soviet secara efektif tercatat dalam sejarah. Dari sana, O'Clery melihat kembali peristiwa-peristiwa enam tahun sebelumnya: kebijakan reformasi …
Contents: 1. The founders 2. The global struggle 3. War and strategy 4. The hydrocarbon age 5. The battle for world mastery.
The contents of this book: - Domestic Bank Chapter 1: A Quetion of Purpose Chapter 2: Putting the Bank in Its Place Chapter 3: A Place to Work
Contents: 1. Welcome to Indonesia! 2. Shocks 3. On Bahasa Indonesia 4. First impressions 5. Climate 6. Bugs and health 7. Food 8. Eating out, etc.
The Contents of this book Part One: Post-War: 1945-1953 Part Two: Prosperity and Its Discontents: 1953-1971 Part Three: Recessional: 1971-1989 Part Four: After the Fall: 1989-2005