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China Hands
Rand tells the untold story of the men and women who covered first-hand the Chinese Revolution--legendary names such as Agnes Smedley, Rayna Prohme, Edgar Snow, Theodore White, and Thomas Milard. These journalists brought the world's attention to the plight of a land in chaos. of photos.
Of Mice and Men
THE STORY: Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the fat of the land, have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerousl
One Last Breath
'I was hooked right from the start and couldn't put it down. I stayed up until after 2am to finish it... A non-stop, tense and thrilling read' Reader review, 5 stars A deadly trap. A ticking clock. How long until she has only one last breath? Jessie wakes to darkness, cold, and the rain beating down on her. She reaches out, and her hands meet hard stone. Suddenly she knows where she is. Deep in the woods, far underground, at the bottom of the well where her best friend's lifeless body was found fifteen years ago. After returning to her hometown to investigate a new murder, she now finds herself poised to become the killer's next victim. Jessie gazes up to the circle of night sky above her, t...
Morphosis
The book itself represents Morphosis's unusual method of architectural production: gatefolds and layered vellum pages echo the firm's method of generating and reshaping form throughout the design phase and even beyond--a process from which the name Morphosis is derived. Complementing this rich visual analysis, Richard Weinstein's introduction investigates the firm's work as both in and of its social context to discuss Morphosis's design process and to place the firm within today's architectural debates.
FHA Investigation
Investigates alleged irregularities in FHA apartment house mortgage and finance activities.
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Stand in the Fire
From the first shot fired by his grandfather on a jungle trail in 1903 to the day his father captured plans for the Chinese invasion of South Korea, William Crawford Woods’s family has fought in nearly every American war of the twentieth century. Drawing on his family’s letters, journals, official records, and other artifacts found in his grandmother’s attic, Woods has revived their stories—accounts of his grandfather, who served in the Philippine War and World War I; of his uncle, who rose from a West Point cadet to staff command in the 11th Airborne and died in action in the Battle of Manila in World War II; and of his own father, who transformed himself from a sedentary lawyer int...
The Making of China’s War with Japan
This cutting edge study examines the career of Chinese politician and diplomat Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) and assesses his leadership role in the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) strategy against the Japanese invasion of China which established the foundation for post-World War II Sino-Japanese relations. It considers how Zhou dealt with Japanese imperialism during his midcareer, from the May Fourth Movement to the formation of the second United Front between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the CPC against Japan, which paved the way for the Chinese victory in the second Sino-Japanese War. Addressing significant moments such as the Manchurian Incident and the Xi’an Incident, it prov...
