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by Gilad Soffer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2015
"1001+ Ejercicios español - coreano" es una colección de más de 1.000 ejercicios para personas de habla español. Cada ejercicio es una frase en español y 5 opciones de traducción en coreano que debe elegir. Ejercicios divididos en secciones como...
Lucky Child
A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant...
Chai, Chaat & Chutney
a street food journey through India
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Explore exciting new recipes from the streets of India's four biggest cities.
Simple Thai Food
Classic Recipes from the Thai Home Kitchen: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Thai takeout meets authentic, regional flavors in this collection of 100 recipes for easy, economical, and accessible Thai classics--from the rising star behind the blog She Simmers.
Who can say no to a delicious plate of Pad Thai with Shrimp; a fresh, tangy Green Papaya Salad; golden Fried...
Taste of Persia
A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year, International (2017)
Winner, IACP Award for Best Cookbook of the Year in Culinary Travel (2017)
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by The Boston Globe, Food & Wine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review,...
Cambodia's Curse
The Modern History of a Troubled Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.
A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history--the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers...
Mourning Headband for Hue
An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
“An intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom.” —Publishers Weekly
Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives...
Spies in the Himalayas
Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage.
After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both justifiably concerned....
In Pharaoh's Army
Memories of the Lost War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.
by Michael Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Eccentric Explorers was Winner of the Biographycategory at the 2009 Indie Excellence Book Awards, California, USA. In this extensively researched book, the rich culture and history of Tibet are viewed through a rather special lens--through the eyes of ten wild and wacky adventurers, each bent on unlocking the strange riddles and secrets of Tibet.
Street of Eternal Happiness
Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China.
Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day...
India After Gandhi Revised and Updated Edition
The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
From one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material
Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India’s wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting...
Landing in Hell
The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. This island chain lay in the main line of the American advance eastward. The Pacific High Command saw the conquering of this...
by Susan Gilson Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Morocco is notable for its stable and durable monarchy, its close ties with the West, its vibrant cultural life and its centrality to regional politics. This book, by distinguished historian Susan Gilson Miller, offers a richly documented survey of modern Moroccan history. Arguing that pragmatism...