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  • "Aid and Comfort"

    Jane Fonda in North Vietnam

    Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Instead, she has made millions, been the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "All the Missiles Work": Technological Dislocations and Military Innovation - Case Study in U.S. Air Force Air-to-Air Armament, Post-World War II through Rolling Thunder - Vietnam, Guns on Planes

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this excellent book by the U.S. Air Force examines the role of technology in military innovation, with a case study of the false faith of the military in air-to-air missiles and the subsequent installation of an external cannon gun on the F-4 Phantom jet aircraft. Some subjects covered include Schriever, Eisenhower, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Farewell the Tranquil Mind": Security and Stability in the Post-Vietnam Era - American Foreign Policy Shortly After Vietnam

    The Vietnam War has now passed into history. Though the outcome of that war was anything but satisfactory to many Americans, it is probably safe to say that the war's end brought a qualified sense of relief to the broad generality of America's citizenry. For they were apt to feel that a solution—any solution—to what had come to be seen as an insoluble problem was better than no solution at all. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "FATALE SBANDATA" tra Manager e Modella

    La fatale sbandata di un General Manager in Multinazionale per una giovanissima modella che faceva già spot televisivi più modella seconda linea d'importante designer di moda. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • "Friends in Peace and War"

    Great friendship existed between the United States and Imperial Russia during the nineteenth century. The Old World Russian autocracy supported the young New World democracy because of the emerging U.S. role as a bulwark against Great Britains ambitions, in Asia and in the North Pacific Ocean region especially. In fact, when the American Civil War threatened to divide the United States, Russia ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • "Getting By"

    Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia

    How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In "Getting By," Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide an ethnographic and historical account of the cultural politics of class conflict and state ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • "Heimat ist da, wo man verstanden wird"

    Junge VietnamesInnen in Deutschland

    Für gewöhnlich hat jeder Mensch nur eine Heimat. Aber schon seit langem ist mir bewusst geworden, dass ich in zwei verschiedenen Welten lebe. Und es gibt Tage, an denen ich nicht genau sagen kann, wohin ich eigentlich gehöre - ein Konflikt, in welchem ich mich zwischen zwei Welten zu entscheiden habe ... Bin ich eine Vietnamesin oder doch mehr eine ausländisch aussehende Berlinerin? Einerseits bin ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "I'm Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place"

    Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War

    Series series Latinos in the United States
    By the time of the Vietnam War era, the “Mexican American Generation” had made tremendous progress both socially and politically. However, the number of Mexican Americans in comparison to the number of white prisoners of war (POWs) illustrated the significant discrimination and inequality the Chicano population faced in both military and civilian landscapes. Chicanos were disproportionately ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • "Kazakh Etiquette" Part I: Structure and expressive means of the Kazakh etiquette

    Series Book 1 - Kazakh Etiquette
    Structure and expressive means of the Kazakh etiquette – the first scientific-popular book from "Etiquette of Kazakh" monograph. The book is written on the base of the literature`s analysis, researches and field materials collected by the author during 20-ty years. In this book there are an ethnic understanding of the universe, life, moral-ethics values, aesthetic priorities of the Kazakh people, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • "My brothers have my back"

    Inside the November 1969 Battle on the Vietnamese DMZ

    by Lou Pepi ...
    In November 1969, what Time Magazine called the "largest battle of the year" took place less than two miles from the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. Three companies of Task Force 1-61 met 2,000-3,000 North Vietnamese. American forces fought for two days, inflicting heavy casualties and suffering eight killed. Late on November 12, it became evident that the American position could be overrun. Alpha ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • "Nonscientific” Traditional Maps of China

    A Study of Traditional Chinese Mapmaking

    by Yinong Cheng ...
    This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient cartographic drawings. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • "Singing a Different Tune"

    The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context

    Series series Film and Media Studies
    A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America’s thirties and forties. Its eastward migration resulted in a barrage of Polish screen musicals that relied on the country’s famous cabaret stars, while in the Soviet Union it inspired the audience-pleasing kolkhoz musicals of Ivan Pyr’ev and ... Read more

    $125.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "The Touch of Civilization"

    Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization

    by Steven Sabol ...
    The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author Steven Sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections between the state ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • "The Triple Whammy" and Other Russian Stories

    A Memoir

    by Luis Menashe ...
    An American historian, film specialist, and documentary filmmaker shares candid stories of his life in Russia during and after the Cold War.A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist, and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Truth Behind Bars"

    Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution

    by Paul Kellogg ...
    Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger strike by socialist prisoners, victims of Joseph Stalin’s repressive regime, resulted in mass executions. In 1953, a strike by forced labourers sounded the death knell for the Stalinist forced labour ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • "Ukraine-Russie: La Guerre Des Deux Voisins"

    by HAROUNI KAMEL ...
    L'Ukraine, pays situé à la croisée des chemins entre l'Est et l'Ouest, a connu de nombreux conflits tout au long de son histoire, dont le plus récent est celui qui a éclaté en 2014 avec la crise de Crimée, suivi de la guerre dans le Donbass. Ce conflit, qui oppose les forces armées ukrainiennes aux séparatistes pro-russes, ainsi qu'aux forces russe engagés dans une opération spéciale, a causé des ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "White Russians, Red Peril"

    A Cold War History of Migration to Australia

    Over 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after World War II – yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in Europe.Many preferred to keep a low profile in Australia, and some attempted to ‘pass’ as Polish, West Ukrainian or Yugoslavian. They had good reason to do so: to the Soviet Union, Australia’s resettling of Russians amounted to ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • "Книга Великой Ясы", или скрижали Чингисхана

    На фоне наиболее значимых исторических событий эпохи Чингисхана реконструированы все этапы процесса формирования и эволюции государственно-правовой системы Великого Монгольского Улуса, читателю представлены и прокомментированы практически все фрагменты «Книги Великой Ясы» Чингисхана, дошедшие до нас из глубины веков. Особое внимание было уделено нашедшим свое отражение в «Книге Великой Ясы» военно ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Красин" сделка незаконна

    В книге подробно, с привлечением документов, описана история борьбы экипажа легендарного ледокола «Красин» за сохранение судна. Издание будет полезно читателям, неравнодушным к судьбе военно-морского флота и отечественного исторического наследия. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • "无责任"的帝国:近代日本的扩张与毁灭 1895-1945

    by 商兆琦 ...
    编辑推荐这50年的历史,我们只知道结果,却从未关心过程;我们看似熟知甲午战争、九一八事变等事件,但其成因、过程、人物的动机,却不甚明了。本书恰恰通过追究此类历史书写中"不甚明了""一笔带过"的重要事件的深层动因和发生机制,填补过往认知中"日本为何以及如何侵略"的关键过程。四条线索、全景式洞悉日本帝国的兴衰起落;提供内政、外交、战争和历史人物四条线索,多维度还原日本帝国崛起与崩溃的多重原因。究竟谁来承担日本帝国堕入深渊的责任?是天皇、政治家,还是官僚、不法之徒,甚至不成熟的民众?恐怕都难逃其责。拿起"微距镜头",还原甲午战争、九一八事变、珍珠港事件等历史转折点前,日本社会的众生百态;本书将历史的"微距镜头"转入"舞台后方"--明治天皇明明不想开战,为何无奈同意并含泪写下著名和歌:"四海之内皆兄弟,何以风波乱世间。"? 几个渔民妻子的井边闲聊,为何直接引发日本民间的全国性大骚乱 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • #Tatastories

    40 Timeless Tales to Inspire You

    by Harish Bhat ...
    A diamond twice as large as the famous Kohinoor pledged to survive a financial crisis; meeting a 'relatively unknown young monk' who later went on to be known as Swami Vivekananda; a photograph that Kalpana Chawla carried along with her on her first mission into space; the fascinating story of the first-ever Indian team at the Olympics; how 'OK TATA' made its way to the back of millions of trucks ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • #Ucrania

    Un conflicto memético

    by Mario Kiektik ...
    Ucrania siempre estuvo ahí, llena de diversidad y mixtura, una nación con idioma, costumbres e historia en común, que resistió ocupaciones mongoles, otomanas, polacas, alemanas y rusas, que muchas veces tuvo una bota en la cabeza y sin embargo sigue ahí.El ucraniano era el lenguaje de los siervos y los pobres de Ucrania y aun sigue ahí, creando, produciendo, viviendo. En Ucrania su música, su ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 'Avant-garde' Art Groups in China, 1979-1989

    by Paul GLADSTON ...
    'Avant-garde' Art Groups in China gives a critical account of four of the most significant avant-garde Chinese art groups and associations of the late 1970s and ’80s. It is made up largely of conversations conducted by the author with members of these organizations that provide insight into the circumstances of artistic production during the decade leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building

    South Korea and Post-Conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
    This book explores South Korean responses to the architecture of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea and the ways that architecture illustrates the relationship between difficult heritage and the formation of national identity. Detailing the specific case of Seoul, Hyun Kyung Lee investigates how buildings are selectively destroyed, preserved, or reconstructed in order to either establish or ... Read more

    $80.99 USD