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Joseph A. Adler, "The Yijing: A Guide "
English | ISBN: 0190072466 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Despite its enduring popularity both in China and worldwide, the Yijing is often poorly understood. As a divinatory text, it has a devoted following in the western hemisphere, even as it represents a foundational text of both Confucianism and Daoism. A fascination with the Yijing has been evident among western scholars since the Enlightenment, as well as in notable modern literary and artistic figures. This book provides an introduction for the general reader to this classic sacred text. Joseph A. Adler explains its multi-layered structure, its origins, its history of interpretation from the early first millennium BCE up to the present day, its function of divination, its significance in the history of Chinese thought, and its modern transformations. He explores why the
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Ruth Mostern, "The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History "
English | ISBN: 0300238339 | 2021 | 376 pages | EPUB | 101 MB
A three-thousand-year history of China's Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape
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The Tet Offensive and Invasion of Cambodia The History of the Vietnam War's Most Important Campaigns
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The Tet Offensive and Invasion of Cambodia: The History of the Vietnam War's Most Important Campaigns by Charles River Editors
English | December 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1540747611 | 129 pages | EPUB | 3.17 Mb
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren't so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese President Diem's regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy's administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy's assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam. By the end of 1967, with nearly half a million troops deployed, more than 19,000 deaths, and a war that cost $2 billion a month and seemed to grow bloodier by the day, the Johnson administration faced an increasingly impatient and skeptical nation. Early in 1968, a massive coordinated Viet Cong operation - the Tet Offensive - briefly paralyzed American and South Vietnamese forces across the country, threatening even the American embassy compound in Saigon. With this, the smiling mask slipped even further, inflaming the burgeoning antiwar movement. Although American soldiers didn't lose a battle strategically during the campaign, the Tet Offensive made President Johnson non-credible and historically unpopular, to the extent that he did not run for reelection in 1968. By then, Vietnam had already fueled the hippie counterculture, and anti-war protests spread across the country. On campuses and in the streets, some protesters spread peace and love, but others rioted. In August 1968, riots broke out in the streets of Chicago, as the National Guard and police took on 10,000 anti-war rioters during the Democratic National Convention. By the end of the decade, Vietnam had left tens of thousands of Americans dead, spawned a counterculture with millions of protesters, and destroyed a presidency, and more was still yet to come. As the results of the Tet Offensive made clear, American forces were hamstrung by political constraints and a wide range of self-imposed limitations, and the United States struggled to deal with the greater strategic nimbleness of the North Vietnamese during the late 1960s. The tremendous power of the American military, blending technological strength and professional skill, gave the Americans the advantage in many, though of course not all, tactical encounters. On the strategic and operational level, however, the North Vietnamese held many of the trump cards. Constrained by a heavily defensive strategy, the U.S. found itself mostly forced to respond to the North's initiatives, and a reactive strategy placed even an extremely potent combatant at a severe disadvantage. This strategic situation changed briefly, however, during the 1970 Cambodian Campaign, when American and South Vietnamese forces crossed the border into Cambodia and brought the battle to the previously immune enemy there. The Tet Offensive and Invasion of Cambodia: The History of the Vietnam War's Most Important Campaigns chronicles the most influential campaigns of the war and the effects it had on both sides.
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James Wasserman, "The Temple of Solomon: From Ancient Israel to Secret Societies"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1594772207 | 384 pages | AZW3 / EPUB / MOBI | 28.5 MB
The spiritual heart of many esoteric societies, the Temple of Solomon was located on top of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a site venerated by the three great monotheistic religions as the intersection of Divine and human. Built by King Solomon at the peak of ancient Israel's power, the Temple of Solomon housed the golden Ark of the Covenant in its Holy of Holies, a sacred chamber where one could communicate directly with God. Centuries after the temple's destruction, the Temple Mount was used as the headquarters for the Knights Templar during the Crusades and countless legends have come down through the centuries about the secrets they may have uncovered there, including discovery of the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant.
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The Strength Training Workouts Bible for Seniors 60+: [7 in 1] The Most Complete Guide of 200+ Simple Exercises that Elderly of Any Level Can Do Step by Step at Home by Dorian Ritter
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BP7XQHR4 | 241 pages | MOBI | 4.27 Mb
Improve Your Strength, Increase Your Balance and Safely Perform Quick & Easy-to-Follow Exercises with Almost No Training Equipment
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The Story of a Life (NYRB Classics) by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Douglas Smith
English | February 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1681377225 | True EPUB | 816 pages | 1.8 MB
One of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer's coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the Soviet era. This is the first unabridged translation of the first three books of Konstantin Paustovsky's magnum opus.
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The Station Cat by DK
English | April 7, 2022 | ISBN: 0241488095 | 50 pages | PDF | 35 Mb
A stunning picture book to teach little ones all about the power of kindness and hope.
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Eric Waldman, "The Spartacist Uprising Of 1919 And The Crisis Of The German Socialist Movement: A Study Of The Relation Of Political Theory And Party Practice"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1258162679, 1258058235 | EPUB | pages: 260 | 0.7 mb
This study aims at exploring the crisis of the German socialist movement which grew in intensity from the time of the open split of the Social Democratic Party during the war until its climax in the bloody fighting between the radical left and moderate socialists during the so-called Spartacist Uprising of January 1919. In the course of this primary pursuit, two subsidiary aims are served: an analysis of the relationship existing between the theory and practice of the German Communists during their period of political infancy; and an examination of the impact of the Communists on the course of the German Revolution.
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Samuel K. Byrd, "The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City "
English | ISBN: 1479860425 | 2015 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants' access to the American dream and musicians' dreams of success. Instead, Latin music has become a way to form community, debate political questions, and claim cultural citizenship.
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Samantha Verant, "The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1984806998 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2.9 MB
A disgraced chef rediscovers her passion for food and her roots in this stunning novel rich in culture and full of delectable recipes.
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