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Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child." In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. 

Bushido significa muchas cosas, pero todas pueden resumirse en una: el alma de Japón. Este antiguo código guerrero japonés supone un tratado con todos los preceptos interiorizados por el pueblo japonés desde tiempos inmemoriales, y supone una radiografía pormenorizada de su identidad, su historia y su razón de ser.

ഡോ. എം. ഗംഗാധരന്‍ രചിച്ച മലബാര്‍ കലാപം 1921-22 എന്ന പുസ്തകത്തില്‍ നിന്ന് തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ഭാഗങ്ങളാണ് ഈ പുസ്തകത്തില്‍...

‘A tour de force of luminous writing.’ Mark Cocker, Spectator ‘In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there...

आता मावळा गेम खेळता खेळता ऐका, 'स्वराज्याची भूषणे'मधून शिवरायांच्या विविध सरदारांचे पराक्रम...

In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians feared a future under Hirohito. The fate of half of mankind was hanging in the balance.

കേരളത്തിന്റെയും രാഷ്ട്രീയ സാമൂഹിക ചരിത്രപഠനത്തില്‍ ഒഴിവാക്കാനാകാത്ത ഗ്രന്ഥം. ഒപ്പംതന്നെ രാജ്യം മറ്റൊരു...

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal.

In Good Faith is the first of a two-volume, accessible narrative history of America's involvement in Indochina, from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The books charts the course of America's engagement with the region, from its initially hesitant support for French Indochina through the advisory missions following the 1954 Geneva Accords, then on to the covert war promoted in the Kennedy years, and then escalation to total war in the Johnson era....

The oldest surviving graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a peoples' food obsessions; sculptures that reveal facets of the human-animal relationship. In Time Pieces, award-winning historian Nayanjot Lahiri sifts through clues left behind by the early inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent - in plaques and inscriptions, fragments of jewellery, bones and tools, poetry, art and pottery - to reveal to us our ancient land in all its variety, splendour and contradictions.

A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya’s booksIn 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison...

1857-ലെ ഒന്നാം സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യ സമരം മുതല്‍ 1946-ലെ നാവികകലാപം വരെയുള്ള സായുധ സമരങ്ങളാണ് ഈ കൃതിയില്‍ വിവരിക്കുന്നത്...

Brought to you by Penguin. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this...

When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, the last commander of the army of the Afghan republic, was still fighting to the end. In this firsthand account, he reveals how his troops were starved of ammunition for two years before the final pullout, while America was glad-handing the Taliban.

Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.  

In December of 1971, a war broke out on both India’s eastern and western fronts and within a mere 13 days gave Indian armed forces its greatest victory and Pakistan its worst defeat. In this, Manthan was born a new nation: Bangladesh. We bring you: the heroic stories about this war & conflict: the bravery and glory of the Indian armed forces through this audiobook. So hold your breath and don’t miss this scintillating journey that will make you proud to be an Indian.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is much more than an ancient treatise on military strategy: it is a timeless guide on how to face challenges, make wise decisions, and win intelligently. This complete edition, translated into modern English and enriched with annotations and analyses, has been designed to make this masterpiece accessible and relevant in today’s world.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'संभाजीराजे जन्म' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक...

Im kommenden Jahr wird der Dalai Lama 90 Jahre alt. Was bedeutet das nahende Lebensende des aktuellen Dalai Lamas für den Fortbestand der tibetischen Kultur? Werden die Chancen für mehr Freiheit weiter schrumpfen, die bereits seit der Eingliederung des Landes in die VR China in den fünfziger Jahren immer weiter beschnitten wurde? Und warum ist die Strategie des Dalai Lama gegenüber Peking gescheitert? 

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of Northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,000 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.