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The last emperor
By Edward Behr. 1987
Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of 3. From a charmed…
existence in the Forbidden City, he was swept into the political intrigues of Asia and became the despised figurehead of Japan's Manchurian regime. 1987.The Himalayan kingdoms, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim
By Bob Gibbons, Bob Ashford. 1983
The new religions
By Jacob Needleman. 1972
Red land, Yellow River: a story from the Cultural Revolution
By Ange Zhang. 2004
In 1966, Zhang was a teen in Beijing when Mao Zedong began the Cultural Revolution. Though he was the son…
of a "bad guy" (a famous writer), he became swept up in the revolution, until the violence and his father's arrest made him question its goals. In 1968 was sent to a small village to learn how to farm, where he discovered his true calling - art. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2004.Religions of Japan: many traditions within one sacred way (Religious traditions of the world)
By H. Byron Earhart. 1984
Shinto, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, the folk religions and the so-called New Religions are surveyed, both as individual traditions and as…
interrelating aspects within the whole of Japanese society and culture. 1984.Beds in the East
By Anthony Burgess. 1959
Burgess dissects the racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the chaotic upheaval of independence. Through a succession of…
colourful characters he delineates the conflict and confusion arising from the enforced mingling of cultures.Letters from Burma
By Aung San Suu Kyi. 1996
Since 1995, Aung San Suu Kyi has been writing a column in a Japanese newspaper in which she gives her…
impressions of the political, cultural and social scene in Burma today. Subjects range from what the Burmese have for breakfast, through a description of her first visit after release from house arrest to a national shrine, to overt political pieces on the repression in the country.Age of ambition: chasing fortune, truth and faith in the new China
By Evan Osnos. 2014
Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China’s story. It is a story that…
unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world’s largest authoritarian regime. In a nation riven by contradictions the defining clash taking place today is between the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. National Book Award in Non-Fiction 2014.L'oeuvre complète de Tchouang-tseu
By Chuang-Tseu, Kia-Hway Liou. 1969
Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir (Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series)
By Meenal Shrivastava. 2018
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that…
of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, the daughters begin to understand the source of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit. In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely forgotten or unacknowledged women who, threatened with imprisonment for treason and sedition, relentlessly and selflessly gave toward the revolution.The rising sun: the decline and fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
By John Toland. 1971
Chronicles well-known military actions of World War II, such as Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, and Hiroshima, from the Japanese perspective.…
Also details individual motivations and perceptions underlying Japan's military decisions before and during the war. Violence and some strong languageKorea's place in the sun: a modern history
By Bruce Cumings. 1997
Traces the history and transformation of Korea, describing its ancient heritage, its opening to commerce after 1860, its annexation by…
Japan in 1910, its post-World War II partition, its war between North and South in the early 1950s, and its emergence as an industrial power and political force in the worldThe Middle East: a brief history of the last 2,000 years
By Bernard Lewis. 1995
A perspective on historical transformations of the Middle East over twenty centuries. Chronicles the cultural and economic influences of Christianity,…
Islam, and other forces, as well as the "rapid and enforced change" brought about by modern Western technologyJerusalem: one city, three faiths
By Karen Armstrong. 1996
This companion to History of God (DB 38536) explores the history of Jerusalem as a holy city for Jews, Christians,…
and Muslims. Examines the myth and symbolism of a transcendent "sacred place," where believers can reconcile with God. Laments the absence of charity and social justice in the city's tumultuous pastOne of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation,…
which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxietiesstresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past traumaand as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By Ronen Bergman. 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, hailed…
by The New York Times as "an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject." WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JENNIFER SZALAI, THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist The New York Times Book Review BBC History Magazine Mother Jones Kirkus Reviews The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel's DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively. In this page-turning, eye-opening book, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman-praised by David Remnick as "arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter"-offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions. Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of many current and former members of the Israeli government, including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the country's military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Mossad (the world's most feared intelligence agency), Caesarea (a "Mossad within the Mossad" that carries out attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an internal security service that implemented the largest targeted assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism). Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel's most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israel's targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the entire world. "A remarkable feat of fearless and responsible reporting...?mportant, timely, and informative."-John le CarreInglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
By Shashi Tharoor. 2018
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries…
of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift"-from the railways to the rule of law-was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialization and the destruction of its textile industry. In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.Saddam Hussein (Témoignage)
By Judith Miller. 1990
"[...] Dans ce livre à trois voix, les auteurs, ardents partisans de la paix au Moyen-Orient, s'interrogent sur le désarroi…
actuel du monde arabe en retraçant les grandes étapes du siècle écoulé : la naissance des Etats du Levant, la politique des mandats, les luttes d'indépendance, la création de l'Etat d'Israël, la succession des conflits israélo-arabes, la guerre au Liban, les guerres du Golfe, les Intifadas, le choc du 11 septembre et l'exacerbation du terrorisme. [...]" -- 4e de couvL'Inde (Culture guides)
By Michel Angot. 2012
Une introduction à la culture indienne à travers son histoire et sa géographie : de la culture harappéenne (ou civilisation…
de l'Indus) à l'indépendance, en passant par les empires avant l'islam, le temps des conquêtes musulmanes, la conquête britannique et l'Empire des Indes. Avec aussi un panorama des religions, du brahmanisme au sikhisme.