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"Penang at War 1914-1945 offers the first detailed account of Penang during and between the First and Second World Wars. It seeks not only to explore the specific story of Penang during these great conflicts but to see how it responded to, and was changed by, powerful forces well beyond its shoreline." -- back cover.
This book draws together words and images of the people who live and work across Australia's farthest horizons, together with the staff of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) and its successor Frontier Services, who have devotedly served remote families and provided vital services which they would not otherwise have received.
'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR 'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS 'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY The real scoop isn't on the front page 'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making and political calculation, often in moments of crisis. These diaries offer snapshots of leadership in an age of upheaval...' Lionel Barber was Editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, and mainstream media's fight for survival in the age of fake news. In this unparalleled, no-holds-barred diary of life behind the headlines, he reveals th...
Referred by his close confidante and once colleague Mahesh Sahay, Doctor Anand Kashyap, a young and vibrant molecular biologist associated with the Indian National Academy of Sciences, was asked to be part of one of the Indian Navy’s most unique and ambitious projects, ‘Operation Samudradristi.’ What was to be a dreary advisory role for Anand, metamorphosed into the discovery of an ancient tool lying dormant in the blue abyss of the Arabian Sea – a tool capable of deciding the fate of anything living… Two thousand miles away and ten years earlier, that something had woken up. An age-old parasite had found its way into the blood of the masters of the earth. For millions of years, th...
Issues for 1860, 1866-67, 1869, 1872 include directories of Covington and Newport, Kentucky.