Restless Valley

Author : Philip Shishkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300185987
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restless Valley written by Philip Shishkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning foreign correspondent’s vivid account of Central Asia’s recent history “reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism” (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan). Here are the stories of two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger-than-life characters who may be villains, heroes, or possibly both. Restless Valley is a gripping, contemporary chronicle of Central Asia from a veteran journalist with extensive experience in the region. Both Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have struggled with the challenges of post-Soviet, independent statehood, and both became entangled in America’s Afghan campaign when the United States built military bases within their borders. Meanwhile, the region was becoming a key smuggling hub for Afghanistan’s booming heroin trade. Through the eyes of local participants—the powerful and the powerless—Shishkin reconstructs how Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have ricocheted between extreme repression and democratic strivings; how alliances with the United States and Russia have brought mixed blessings; and how Stalin’s legacy of ethnic gerrymandering continues to incite conflict today. “The weird, the strange, the corrupt, and the grand are all evident . . . [Shishkin] relentlessly pursues and then tells the stories of the most corrupt and powerful and also the most sincere and admirable characters who inhabit these mountains.” —Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books

Author : Piscataquis County Historical Society, Dover, Me
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collections of the Piscataquis County Historical Society written by Piscataquis County Historical Society, Dover, Me and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Piscataquis County Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Collections of Piscataquis County, Maine written by Piscataquis County Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susanna Greer Fein
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444733
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Love Songs and Laments written by Susanna Greer Fein and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Fein presents highly emotional Middle English lyrics to a new audience of students and teachers of the Middle Ages. These Middle English poems, drawn widely from two hundred years of literary tradition, lead readers in devotion to God by invoking an emotional response to God's love. In this meditative tradition, readers would be brought closer to intellectually understanding God through their affective responses. With its copious footnotes, introductions, and glosses, this volume is ideal for classes on medieval spirituality and English lyrical poetry alike.

Author : Adeeb Khalid
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501701355
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Uzbekistan written by Adeeb Khalid and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John McCain
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501178024
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Restless Wave written by John McCain and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. ‘I have loved my life,’ he writes. ‘All of it.’ The Restless Wave is a fitting valedictory for a man who seldom backed down.” —The Guardian (US) “A book-length meditation on what it means to face the hard challenges of long life and the sobering likelihood of imminent death…A reflection on hardship, a homily on purpose, a celebration of life — and a challenge to Americans to live up to their values and founding principles at a time when both are in jeopardy.” —The Boston Globe In this candid political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life and what matters most. “I don’t know how much longer I’ll be here. Maybe I’ll have another five years…Maybe I’ll be gone before you read this. My predicament is, well, rather unpredictable. But I’m prepared for either contingency, or at least I’m getting prepared. I have some things I’d like to take care of first, some work that needs finishing, and some people I need to see. And I want to talk to my fellow Americans a little more if I may.” So writes John McCain in this inspiring, moving, frank, and deeply personal memoir. Written while confronting a mortal illness, McCain looks back with appreciation on his years in the Senate, his historic 2008 campaign for the presidency against Barack Obama, and his crusades on behalf of democracy and human rights in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Always the fighter, McCain attacks the spurious nationalism and political polarization afflicting American policy. He makes an impassioned case for democratic internationalism and bi-partisanship. He recalls his disagreements with several presidents, and minces no words in his objections to some of President Trump's statements and policies. At the same time, he tells stories of his most satisfying moments of public service and offers a positive vision of America that looks beyond the Trump presidency. The Restless Wave is John McCain at his best.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Author : Ellen Bromfield Geld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangers in the Valley written by Ellen Bromfield Geld and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Huiyao Wang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137578130
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Goes Global written by Huiyao Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainland China businesses are going global, transforming the country from a manufacturing export platform into an overseas investment powerhouse. China Goes Global is the most thorough and up-to-date empirical analysis of the accelerating effort of Chinese companies to go global by investing overseas. It details the overall trends of this activity with respect to its sectors, channels, overseas targets, and particular firms, along the role of Chinese Government policy in facilitating business enterprise globalization. The book offers readers an enterprise level of view outward expansion by Chinese firms that is focused not only on the big-names, but also less well-known, but equally important trailblazing enterprises. In doing so it offers practical suggestions on how firms can tackle the challenges encountered when expanding outward.