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Eyes of the Eagle: F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968

March 22, 2015

When Gary Linderer reached Vietnam in 1968, he volunteered for training and duty with the F Company 58th In, the Long Range Patrol Company that was “the Eyes of the Eagle.” F Company pulled reconnaisssance missions and ambushes, and Linderer recounts night insertions into enemy territory, patrols against NVA antiaircraft emplacements, and some of the […]
The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan

March 22, 2015

As the bloodshed in Iraq intensified in 2005, Afghanistan quickly faded from the nation’s front pages to become the “other war,” supposedly going well and largely ignored. In fact, the insurgency in Afghanistan was about to break out with renewed force, the drug problem was worsening, and international coordination was losing focus. That July, Ronald […]
Singapore: An Atlas of Perpetual Territorial Transformation

March 22, 2015

Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental transformation and innovation. The government of the small island republic, which currently covers about 720 sq km, has thoroughly transformed and extended the lands under its control to serve the needs and ambitions of its […]
Conflict And Terrorism in Southern Thailand (Regionalism & Regional Security)

March 22, 2015

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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

March 22, 2015

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college […]
The Prevention of Malaria in the Federated Malay States: A Record of Twenty Years’ Progress

March 22, 2015

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. […]
Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography

March 22, 2015

John Flowerdew shows how the critical analysis of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide both insights for discourse analysis and understanding of a real world political process, thereby demonstrating the potential role for critical discourse analysis in historiography, the writing of history. The political process in […]
The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet

March 22, 2015

A virtuoso work of narrative history about two societies whose relationship is of urgent interest todayThe High Road to China traces two extraordinary journeys across some of the harshest and highest terrain in the world: the first British mission to Tibet, and the Panchen Lama’s state visit to China to mark the emperor’s seventieth birthday.In […]
The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon

March 22, 2015

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Sale Price:buy at discount B0083ZRHVY
The Struggle over Singapore’s Soul: Western Modernization and Asian Culture (De Gruyter Studies in Organization, 70)

March 22, 2015

Singapore is viewed as a model of an orderly, economically developing successful society on the Pacific Rim. Based on eight years of field work, the author analyzes how modernization effects an Asian society and which value conflicts prevail. The Singapore government’s program to shape its version of a modern, yet Asian national identity is described […]

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