Islam, South Asia and the Cold War (Noorani A.)(Pevná vazba)

Islam, South Asia and the Cold War (Noorani A.)(Pevná vazba)

Islam, South Asia & The Cold War is a collection of articles written by A. G. Noorani over the last twenty-five years, and published in various dailies and journals to which he has been a regular contributor, including Frontline, The Statesman, The Indian Express, The Illustrated Weekly of India

Far East & Australasia 2000(Pevná vazba)

A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This book keeps up to date with economic and political developments. It presents over 1300 pages of statistics, directory material and

Latin America and the Global Cold War (Field Thomas C.)(Pevná vazba)

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary

Capital Market Integration in South Asia: Realizing the Saarc Opportunity (Aiyer Sourajit)(Pevná vazba)

Capital Market Integration in South Asia: Realizing the SAARC Opportunity discusses the potential Capital Market Products/Activities which can create closer inter-linkage of the South Asian capital markets and help local/global investors benefit from this economic opportunity. While some ideas may

Global Development: A Cold War History (Lorenzini Sara)(Pevná vazba)

In the Cold War, 'development' was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds

British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. It is based largely on unpublished and previously classified official documentation, and to the extent allowed by security

Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year (Steve Cold War)(Pevná vazba)

Back with a vengeance, collage superstar Cold War Steve goes viral, casting a scathing view on the past year on Plague

A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Hong Christine)(Paperback)

Tamil: A Biography (Shulman David)(Pevná vazba)

Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of

Tourism Planning and Development in South Asia (Stylidis Dimitrios)(Pevná vazba)

Tourism has huge significance as a global economic and social phenomenon, and given the growing reliance on the industry by service dependent economies around the world, the lack of focus on tourism planning and development in the South Asian area is surprising. Current issues including social,

The Lost Samurai: Japanese Mercenaries in South East Asia, 1593-1688 (Turnbull Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below (Ozorak Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Operation Morthor - The Last Great Mystery of the Cold War (Somaiya Ravi)(Pevná vazba)

Poems of the American South(Pevná vazba)

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically

U.S. Military Service: A Reference Handbook (Watson Cynthia)(Pevná vazba)

The end of the Cold War ushered in a new kind of war that has already made conventional tactics and strategy obsolete. How has the U.S. military responded?In U.S. Military Service: A Reference Handbook, Cynthia Watson, professor of strategy at the National War College, analyzes the major issues

Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (Glajar Valentina)(Pevná vazba)

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no

Dtente: The Chance to End the Cold War (Crowder Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name D tente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, hoped to forge a new relationship

Global Art and the Cold War (Curley John J.)(Pevná vazba)

In this readable and highly original book, Jay Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination of artworks drawn from America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Australia, he demonstrates the inextricable nature of art and politics in this

Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin (Bauer Karin)(Pevná vazba)

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the 'New Berlin' is at the same time a rich site of

Capitalism Versus Communism - The Cold War (Hichens Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The conflict played out between communism and capitalism for most of the second half of the twentieth century came quickly to be termed the Cold

Birds of South-East Asia (Arlott Norman)(Pevná vazba)

This comprehensive new field guide is an excellent addition to the world-renowned series - the ultimate reference book for travelling

Japan Runs Wild, 1942-1943 (Harmsen Peter)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive view of World War Two in the Asia Pacific.In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and sailors of the Rising Sun conquered an area even

Beneath the Restless Wave: Memoirs of a Cold War Submariner (Couzens-Lake Edward)(Pevná vazba)

The vivid and engaging biography of Tony Beasley, a telegraphist working on submarines during the Cold War.Tony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialization as a telegraphist to being

Tornado Gr1: An Operational History (Napier Michael John W.)(Pevná vazba)

Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable 'swing-winged' Tornado GR1 provided Britain's strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 1980s, equipping some 10 RAF squadrons. During the Gulf War, Tornado GR1 crews led Britain's