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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

by Simon Schama

Instead of a dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital & inventive, infatuated with novelty & technology.

A fresh view of Louis XVI's France.

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Plain Tales from the Raj : Images of British India in the Twentieth Century by Charles Allen..

The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown.

Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a Desire for the advancement of their country.

Charles Allen's classic oral history of the period that marked the end of British rule was first published a generation ago.

Now reissued as the imperial century closes, this brilliantly insightful and bestselling collection of reminiscences illustrates the unique experience of British India - the sadness and luxury for some - the joy and deprivation for others.

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A good Thailand blog...

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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I'

by Anna Harriette Leonowens..

Anna Leonownes' memoir of her six year as a governess in the Royal Palace of Bangkok was the inspiration for the beloved Broadway musical The king and I, as well as two award-winning films. First published in 1870.

Leonowens' memoir is the true story of a proper English governess who is hired by the King of Siam to tutor his many children.

A delightful portrait of an unlikely friendship between two headstrong personalities, it is also a revealing peak at two very different cultures.

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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins..

 

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning.

She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens.

She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life - as she sees it -i s perfect.

If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough.

Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar.

Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train...

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Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies by Michelle Malkin..

The era of hope and change is dead...and it only took six months in office to kill it.

Never has an administration taken office with more inflated expectations of turning Washington around.

Never have a media-anointed American Idol and his entourage fallen so fast and hard. In her latest investigative tour de force, author Michelle Malkin delivers a powerful, damning, and comprehensive indictment of the culture of corruption that surrounds Team Obama's brazen tax evaders, Wall Street cronies, petty crooks, slum lords, and business-as-usual influence peddlers.

In Culture of Corruption, Malkin reveals: - Why nepotism beneficiaries First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are Team Obama's biggest liberal hypocrites-bashing the corporate world and influence-peddling industries from which they and their relatives have benefited mightily - What Secrets the ethics-deficient members of Obama's cabinet-including Hillary Clinton-are trying to hide..

Why the Obama White House has more power-hungry, unaccountable "czars" than any other administration -How Team Obama's first one hundred days of appointments became a litany of embarrassments as would-be appointee after would-be appointee was exposed as a tax cheat or had to withdraw for other reasons..

How Obama's old ACORN and union cronies have squandered millions of taxpayer dollars and dues money to enrich themselves and expand their power -How Obama's Wall Street money men and corporate lobbyists are ruining the economy and helping their friends In Culture of Corruption, Michelle Malkin lays bare the Obama administration's seamy underside that the liberal media would rather keep hidden.

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Adventures in consciousness: an introduction to aspect psychology

by jane roberts..

In 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert F. Butts, had been experimenting with a Ouija Board when a personality calling himself "Seth" began forming messages.

Soon Miss Roberts began passing into a trance and speaking with Seth's distinctive voice. Her own The Seth Material was followed by Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality, both dictated by a personality "no longer focused in physical reality."

But increasingly, Seth's voice was simply a springboard to further experiences which baffled Miss Poberts and her ESP class. Individuals clashed heatedly over events that had transpired, apparently, in past lives.

But if "past" lives are indeed finished, why did Robert Butts seem transformed into the still-present self he had "been" in late Roman times.

With Seth's vibrant and original personality before them, why did some class students speak for "selves" that seemed drab and colorless by comparison?

Why do the same transcendent perceptions that Miss Roberts enjoys frequently lead others into psychiatric breakdowns? And what of the Sumari, gracious entities that sing through Miss Roberts in a non-syntactical languange that listeners imediately understand?

Even in the light of the most advanced psychology, the least of these "adventures in consciousness" simply make no sense. Miss Roberts sets out to account for this entire range of "unofficial" experiences.

And what emerges is nothing less than a whole new theory of human personality - an "Aspect Psychology" that encompasses and explains the full, incredibly versatile, multidimensional range of man's normal psyche.

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25 Years of Terror: IRA's War Against the British by Martin Dillon...

A survey of the IRA's bombing campaign in Britain before and after World War II.

The text looks at the IRA's flirtation with Nazism and Eire's wartime neutrality and how that conditioned subsequent British policy towards Ireland, and examines the campaigns of the 1970's and 1980's.

It also discusses the political and military mistakes which made British cities the most venerable in Europe to terrorist attack and why Government agencies failed to eradicate the threat.

This book includes material on what the IRA called its "England Department", on how that IRA cell functioned and its objectives, and what was behind the IRA's reluctance to denounce the Downing Street Declaration.

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Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of S*x and Death on the Internet by John E. Douglas & Stephen Singular..

Legendary FBI profiler & author John Douglas explores the shocking case of John Robinson, a harmless, unassuming family man whose criminal history began with embezzlement and fraud - and ended with his arrest for the savage murders of six women and his suspected involvement in at least five disappearances.

Most disturbing was the hunting ground in which Robinson seduced his prey: the world of cyberspace.

Haunting chat rooms, targeting vulnerable women, and exploiting the anonymity of the Internet, his bloody spree was finally halted by a relentless parole officer who spent ten years trying to nail Robinson as a cold-blooded killer.

A cautionary tale set in a virtual world where relationships are established without the benefit of physical contact, and where mainstream Americans can be drawn down a dark path of temptation and death, Anyone You Want Me To Be is a contemporary real-life drama of high-tech crime and punishment.

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis..

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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

by Jan Wong..

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution.

A true believer and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University - her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory.

In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States.

She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China.

Red China Blues is Wong's startling and ironic - memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism (which crumbled as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism); her dramatic firsthand account of the devastating Tiananmen Square uprising; and her engaging portrait of the individuals and events she covered as a correspondent in China during the tumultuous era of capitalist reform under Deng Xiaoping.

In a frank, captivating, deeply personal narrative she relates the horrors that led to her disillusionment with the "worker's paradise." And through the stories of the people - an unhappy young woman who was sold into marriage, China's most famous dissident, a doctor who lengthens penises - Wong reveals long-hidden dimensions of the world's most populous nation.

In setting out to show readers in the Western world what life is like in China, and why we should care, she reacquaints herself with the old friends and enemies of her radical past, and comes to terms with the legacy of her ancestral homeland.

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The Manila hotel : The Heart and Memory of a City by Beth Day Romulo..

The Manila hotel which opened in 1912 and extensively remodeled in the 1970's, is a Philippine landmark, home to high society and often a scene of historic events.

This book tells the colorful history of a landmark!

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Intel: Inside Indonesia's Intelligence Service by Ken Conboy...