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New Thick Stainless Steel Grapefruit Spoon, Dessert Spoon, Serrated Edge, Set of 6 $7.95 Set of 6 commercial grade mirror polish stainless steel grapefruit spoons. Serrated edge on spoon’s bowl allows for quick and easy removal of grapefruit sections.Length: 6.5″Price is for a set of six spoons…. |
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Peter Sadler Brown 55 Ounce Tea Pot $12.95 The Brown 10 cup teapot from Fox Run has the look of a traditional “Brown Betty” style teapot designed by Peter Sadler. It is made of earthenware and features a stay cool handle, easy pour spout, and a D-shape opening for better lid retention while pouring…. |
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Fox Run White Porcelain Egg Cups 6227, Set of 2 $4.49 These attractive and functional egg cups will hold extra large eggs nicely and with the wide base will not be prone to tipping when in use. There are many other possible uses for these cups, as well. For example, use it as a mini bud vase on the table, or as a serving dish for those rich, exotic desserts. They are the ideal serving dish for chocolate covered strawberries or for serving melted b… |
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Cirque du Soleil – Dralion $19.94 The Chinese consider the lion a symbol of good luck, so it’s a half-dragon, half-lion–a dralion–that is the symbol of the East-meets-West fusion of this Cirque du Soleil show, in which 36 Chinese acrobats join the renowned Canadian troupe. Celebrating the four elements as represented in four colors– blue (air), green (water), red (fire), and ochre (earth)–Dralion combines ancient Chinese ci… |
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The First Album $10.49 11 Tracks CD / Digipack / Distributed by S.M. Entertainment. Made in Korea 2007…. |
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Red Cliff International Version – Part I & Part II [Blu-ray] $18.99 Director John Woo’s Red Cliff boasts some mighty impressive numbers. It took four screenwriters to adapt the 800,000-word source material, a 14th-century Chinese novel called Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There are also three editors, two directors of photography, hundreds of horses, and a combined cast and crew numbering in the thousands, making it reportedly the most expensive movie ever made i… |
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Chinatown Kid [VHS] $9.98 … |
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P3 International P4400 Kill A Watt Electricity Usage Monitor $29.99 Empowers You to Save Hundreds on Electric Bills Electricity bills are rising. Now you can cut down on costs and find out what appliances are actually worth keeping plugged in. Simply connect these appliances to the Kill A Watt, and it will assess how efficient they really are. The large LCD display counts consumption by the kilowatt-hour, the same as your local utility. You can calculate your elec… |
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China Run $4.99 When the Chinese government wants to take back the baby that an American woman has just adopted, she goes on the run with no knowledge of Chinese and the full power of a police state against her. David Ball makes this edge-of-the-seat chase tale completely believable. China Run is original, brilliant, and breathtaking. |
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Tao : On the Road and on the Run in Outlaw China $17.27 No Synopsis Available |
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1756 Disestablishments: Dzungar Khanate, Zunghar Khanate, Erdeni Batur, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Sengge, the Connoisseur, First Newcastle Ministry $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The First Newcastle Ministry was a British government that existed from 1754 until 1756, headed by the Duke of Newcastle . After the death of the previous Prime Minister, his brother Henry Pelham , Newcastle had formed a fresh administration. It lasted until 1756, when it collapsed following the fall of Minorca and the fierce criticism that Newcastle had come under for his handling of the the war that was engulfing Europe .One of the most influential members of the Ministry was Henry Fox , who served as Leader of the House of Commons .Newcastle later returned to head a second government in 1757 in alliance with William Pitt . A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Connoisseur (by Mr. Town , Critic, and Censor-General. 2 vols. 140 nos. (January 31, 1754 – September 30, 1756), was a London weekly 18th century newspaper chiefly run by George Colman the Elder and Bonnell Thornton as a ‘plebeian’ counterpart to Edward Moore ‘s The World , a periodical of about the same time, which dealt more with the interests of aristocrats.James Boswell says in his Life of Johnson :The Connoisseur , founded in 1901, was a British antiquarian magazine published nine times a year.A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Zunghar Khanate ( ) was the last great independent nomadic power on the steppe. It covered the area called Dzungaria and stretched from the west end of the Great Wall of China to present-day eastern Kazakhstan , and from present-day northern Kyrgyzstan to southern Siberia (most of this area is part of Xinjiang nowadays).In 1678 Galdan received from the Dalai Lama the title Boshogtu Khan. This confirmed the Zunghars as the new leading tribe of the Oirats . However, the Zunghar rulers bore title of Khong Tayiji (originally meaning crown prince) while their state was |
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1994 Books (Study Guide): The Bell Curve, Design Patterns, a Fisherman of the Inland Sea, the Beak of the Finch, Technics and Time, 1 $60.89 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Bell Curve, Design Patterns, a Fisherman of the Inland Sea, the Beak of the Finch, Technics and Time, 1, the Informers, the Culture of Critique Series, the Age of Extremes, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, United Kingdom Election Results, the Late Shift, Book of Common Order, Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China, Stocks for the Long Run, the Clear Word, Reports From the Holocaust: the Story of an Aids Activist, the Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs, the Jesus Conspiracy, to the Stars: the Autobiography of George Takei, Life After God, 1994 in Literature, the World’s Most Dangerous Places, the Language Instinct, the Ascent of Wonder: the Evolution of Hard Sf, the Power of Shazam!, Revolution in the Head: the Beatles’ Records and the Sixties, the Best American Poetry 1994, Pale Blue Dot, Shadows of the Mind, Killing Time, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, the 50 Greatest Cartoons, Eight Little Piggies, Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse, Mind Fields, Special Tasks, the Wrong Way Home, Pigs in Heaven, Future Primitive and Other Essays, Diplomacy, Captive Hearts, Captive Minds, Get in the Van, Grey Area, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club, Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi, I Am Wings, Blood of Elves, Life 102, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, the Unix-Haters Handbook, the Astonishing Hypothesis, the Oxford Companion to Wine, It Happened to Nancy: by an Anonymous Teenager, Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, First Things First, the Early Fears, the Watertower, Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland, Shadows Over Innsmouth, the Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, Killing for Culture, |
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2011 Fuzhou, Jiangxi Bombings $47.96 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 2011 Fuzhou bombings were three separate, synchronized explosions at government buildings in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China on the morning of 26 May 2011. At least three people died, and at least seven were injured. The perpetrator, 52-year-old Qian Mingqi, was initially reported possibly among those killed in the blasts, leading China’s state run news agencies to lab |
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2011 Fuzhou, Jiangxi Bombings $35.67 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 2011 Fuzhou bombings were three separate, synchronized explosions at government buildings in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China on the morning of 26 May 2011. At least three people died, and at least seven were injured. The perpetrator, 52-year-old Qian Mingqi, was initially reported possibly among those killed in the blasts, leading China’s state run news agencies to la |
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2011 Fuzhou, Jiangxi Bombings $47.96 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 2011 Fuzhou bombings were three separate, synchronized explosions at government buildings in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China on the morning of 26 May 2011. At least three people died, and at least seven were injured. The perpetrator, 52-year-old Qian Mingqi, was initially reported possibly among those killed in the blasts, leading China’s state run news agencies to la |
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2011 Fuzhou, Jiangxi Bombings $35.67 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 2011 Fuzhou bombings were three separate, synchronized explosions at government buildings in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China on the morning of 26 May 2011. At least three people died, and at least seven were injured. The perpetrator, 52-year-old Qian Mingqi, was initially reported possibly among those killed in the blasts, leading China’s state run news agencies to lab |
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A Chinese Honeymoon $36.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Chinese Honeymoon is a musical comedy in two acts by George Dance, with music by Howard Talbot and additional music by Ivan Caryll and others, and additional lyrics by Harry Greenbank and others. The piece opened at the Theatre Royal in Hanley, England on 16 October 1899 and then toured extensively. After that, it played at the Royal Strand Theatre in London, managed by Frank Curzon, opening on 5 October 1901 for an astonishing run of 1,075 performances. It also played at the Casino Theatre, in New York, opening on 2 June 1902 for a run of 376 performances. In London, Lily Elsie took over the role of Princess Soo-Soo from Beatrice Edwards in early 1903 and was in turn succeeded by Kate Cutler. It also starred Louie Freear, and Arthur Williams took over the role of Mr. Pineapple. A Chinese Honeymoon was the first musical to run for 1,000 performances. The story concerns couples who honeymoon in China and inadvertently break the kissing laws (reminiscent of The Mikado). |
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A Course in Programming with QBASIC $19.85 New – This book was originally published in China in 1995. This is the first English edition. This book is a complete text book on QBASIC programming. It assumes that the reader knows very little and builds up to quite an advanced level. It contains some obsolete material, such as MS-DOS. This was intentional, as it is intended to match the original Chinese edition. QBASIC still continues to be used. Nowadays if people want QBASIC to run on their computer, they need to download QB64. The latest |
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A Course in Programming with QBASIC $19.85 Used – This book was originally published in China in 1995. This is the first English edition. This book is a complete text book on QBASIC programming. It assumes that the reader knows very little and builds up to quite an advanced level. It contains some obsolete material, such as MS-DOS. This was intentional, as it is intended to match the original Chinese edition. QBASIC still continues to be used. Nowadays if people want QBASIC to run on their computer, they need to download QB64. The latest |
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A Course in Programming with QBASIC $13.07 Used – This book was originally published in China in 1995. This is the first English edition. This book is a complete text book on QBASIC programming. It assumes that the reader knows very little and builds up to quite an advanced level. It contains some obsolete material, such as MS-DOS. This was intentional, as it is intended to match the original Chinese edition. QBASIC still continues to be used. Nowadays if people want QBASIC to run on their computer, they need to download QB64. The latest |
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A Course in Programming with QBASIC $13.07 New – This book was originally published in China in 1995. This is the first English edition. This book is a complete text book on QBASIC programming. It assumes that the reader knows very little and builds up to quite an advanced level. It contains some obsolete material, such as MS-DOS. This was intentional, as it is intended to match the original Chinese edition. QBASIC still continues to be used. Nowadays if people want QBASIC to run on their computer, they need to download QB64. The latest |
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A Heart for Freedom $22.99 The dramatic and fascinating story of Chai Ling, commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death for her leadership role in the student democracy movement, she was on the run in China for ten months while being hunted by the authorities. She eventually escaped to the U.S., completed her education at Princeton and Harvard, found true love, and became a highly successful entrepreneur. But her desperate quest for freedom, purpose, and peace–which she had sought in turn through academic achievement, romantic love, political activism, and career success–was never satisfied until she had an unexpected encounter with a formerly forbidden faith. Her newfound passion for God led to her life”s greatest mission: Fighting for the lives and rights of young girls in China. |
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A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China’s Daughters $13.3 New – “A Heart for Freedom” tells the story of the commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death for her leadership role, she was on the run in China for 10 months. She eventually escaped to the U.S., completed her education at Princeton and Harvard, found true love, and became a highly successful entrepreneur. But her desperate quest for freedom, purpose, and peace was never |
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A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China’s Daughters $13.92 New – “A Heart for Freedom” tells the story of the commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death for her leadership role, she was on the run in China for 10 months. She eventually escaped to the U.S., completed her education at Princeton and Harvard, found true love, and became a highly successful entrepreneur. But her desperate quest for freedom, purpose, and peace was never |
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A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China’s Daughters $15.03 New – “A Heart for Freedom” tells the story of the commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death for her leadership role, she was on the run in China for 10 months. She eventually escaped to the U.S., completed her education at Princeton and Harvard, found true love, and became a highly successful entrepreneur. But her desperate quest for freedom, purpose, and peace was never |
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A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China’s Daughters $13.99 New – “A Heart for Freedom” tells the story of the commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death for her leadership role, she was on the run in China for 10 months. She eventually escaped to the U.S., completed her education at Princeton and Harvard, found true love, and became a highly successful entrepreneur. But her desperate quest for freedom, purpose, and peace was never |
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A Maniac Commodity Trader’s Guide to Making a Fortune: A Not-So Crazy Roadmap to Riches $18.64 New – An inside look at how to trade the commodity markets successfully The past three years have been nothing but a bonanza for commodity investors. China and India’ s fast paced growth has blown away even the most optimistic estimates from top analysts. And the two fastest-growing economies in history have driven the price of resources to all-time highs. Despite the short-lived recent correction, commodities are in line for a long-term bull run ready to charge for another eight to 10 year |
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A Maniac Commodity Trader’s Guide to Making a Fortune: A Not-So Crazy Roadmap to Riches $21.92 New – An inside look at how to trade the commodity markets successfully The past three years have been nothing but a bonanza for commodity investors. China and India’ s fast paced growth has blown away even the most optimistic estimates from top analysts. And the two fastest-growing economies in history have driven the price of resources to all-time highs. Despite the short-lived recent correction, commodities are in line for a long-term bull run ready to charge for another eight to 10 year |
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A Maniac Commodity Trader’s Guide to Making a Fortune: A Not-So-Crazy Roadmap to Riches $16.53 An inside look at how to trade the commodity markets successfully The past three years have been nothing but a bonanza for commodity investors. China and India s fast paced growth has blown away even the most optimistic estimates from top analysts. And the two fastest-growing economies in history have driven the price of resources to all-time highs. Despite the short-lived recent correction, commodities are in line for a long-term bull run ready to charge for another eight to 10 years. That s exactly why Kevin Kerr, a gentleman uniquely qualified to help investors turn enormous profits in commodities, created this book. In A Maniac Commodity Trader s Guide to Making a Fortune in the Market, Kerr shares the insights and techniques that he s honed through 18 years of experience on the trading floor and in the pits right next to such legends as Paul Tudor Jones. With this book, Kerr demystifies the language and ritual of the commodity markets and explains the secrets that only floor traders and select investors know secrets that will help to allay many of the traditional fears of these dynamic markets, and offer clear-cut guidance on how to enter them with confidence, make the right trading decisions, and build significant wealth. Kevin Kerr (Baltimore, MD) is a lifelong student of commodities and resource trading. He currently is the editor of Resource Trader Alert and coeditor of Outstanding Investments for Agora Publications. Kerr also is a correspondent for Dow Jones MarketWatch.com, and a frequent contributor to Barron s, the Wall Street Journal, and several international trade magazines, publications, and news services. He has appeared onCNBC and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and can be heard on hundreds of radio stations across the nation. |
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A Memoir of Misfortune $10.17 New – When this memoirist’s name appeared on a most-wanted list in China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Su, a journalist, was secreted out of the country, with his son and wife escaping two years after him. However, the family’s bad luck had not yet run its course when they were reunited in the United States–a car accident severely disabled Su’s wife. This memoir tells of that trying incident, interspersed by Su’s reflections as a Chinese political immigrant, drawing on his deep k |
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A Memoir of Misfortune $8.66 New – When this memoirist’s name appeared on a most-wanted list in China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Su, a journalist, was secreted out of the country, with his son and wife escaping two years after him. However, the family’s bad luck had not yet run its course when they were reunited in the United States–a car accident severely disabled Su’s wife. This memoir tells of that trying incident, interspersed by Su’s reflections as a Chinese political immigrant, drawing on his deep k |
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A Sailor-Boy’s Log-Book From Portsmouth To The Peiho $21.18 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER H. At Spithead—Admiral’s Inspection—Sail to Plymouth—Departure from England—My first Look-out—How to see—Phosphorescent Waves—Making Sail—Our two Gun-boats—The Plover’s Hawser breaks—A Growl—Calms and Breezes—A Day’s Routine—Work and Watches—Land ho! The Peak of Teneriffe—Anchor off Santa Cruz—A Run on Shore—Mules, Fishwomen, and Shopkeepers—To Sea again—A Taste of Black List—Strike me lucky—Guy Fawkcs —Equatorial Weather—Coming down anyhow—A Bit of Fun— Buckets and Hoses—A Drencher for Captain and Chaplain—Cross the Line — Shaving and Bathing — Besiegers and besieged—An Officer’s Honour, and a Pig’s Feathers—Make him speak, Bulldogs —Shipmates and Messmates—A rough Lick and Black-List. On the 2nd of October, 1856, we steamed out of harbour to Spithead, where we bent sails, got powder aboard, and prepared for admiral’s inspection. Sir George Seymour, Port-Admiral, came next day, mustered and inspected us. No sooner was the business ended, and he over the side, than it was ” up anchor,” ” loose sails;” and before half an hour had elapsedthe Highflyer was under all plain sail, and heading away for Plymouth Sound, where we had to pick up a couple of gun-boats—the Opossum and Plover—for convoy to China. We ‘beat’ all the way in the teeth of a westerly gale, with plenty of rain and cross lumpy sea, and entered the Sound on the 4th, during the afternoon, and anchored inside the breakwater. We could see nothing of importance, as the two days we lay there were miserably wet and boisterous, and some of the men, natives of the place, said, ” ‘Twas regular west-country weather, for Plymouth was the last |
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A Sailor-Boy’s Log-Book From Portsmouth To The Peiho $27.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER H. At Spithead—Admiral’s Inspection—Sail to Plymouth—Departure from England—My first Look-out—How to see—Phosphorescent Waves—Making Sail—Our two Gun-boats—The Plover’s Hawser breaks—A Growl—Calms and Breezes—A Day’s Routine—Work and Watches—Land ho! The Peak of Teneriffe—Anchor off Santa Cruz—A Run on Shore—Mules, Fishwomen, and Shopkeepers—To Sea again—A Taste of Black List—Strike me lucky—Guy Fawkcs —Equatorial Weather—Coming down anyhow—A Bit of Fun— Buckets and Hoses—A Drencher for Captain and Chaplain—Cross the Line — Shaving and Bathing — Besiegers and besieged—An Officer’s Honour, and a Pig’s Feathers—Make him speak, Bulldogs —Shipmates and Messmates—A rough Lick and Black-List. On the 2nd of October, 1856, we steamed out of harbour to Spithead, where we bent sails, got powder aboard, and prepared for admiral’s inspection. Sir George Seymour, Port-Admiral, came next day, mustered and inspected us. No sooner was the business ended, and he over the side, than it was ” up anchor,” ” loose sails;” and before half an hour had elapsedthe Highflyer was under all plain sail, and heading away for Plymouth Sound, where we had to pick up a couple of gun-boats—the Opossum and Plover—for convoy to China. We ‘beat’ all the way in the teeth of a westerly gale, with plenty of rain and cross lumpy sea, and entered the Sound on the 4th, during the afternoon, and anchored inside the breakwater. We could see nothing of importance, as the two days we lay there were miserably wet and boisterous, and some of the men, natives of the place, said, ” ‘Twas regular west-country weather, for Plymouth was the last |
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A Spy’s Journey $5.5 For thirty-five years, Floyd Paseman served in the Operations Directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency. From spy in the field to the top ranks of the Company’s career agents, he experienced it all as well as seven different presidential administrations. While Paseman’s account of his long service has enough real-life derring-do to keep the reader engaged, of even greater interest, however, are Paseman’s observation on politics and the CIA, especially how change of presidential administrations could bring sweeping, and often negative changes to the agency.- Johnson – declined to run for a second full term, broken by Vietnam- Nixon – resigned in disgrace after ending Vietnam and opening relations with China- Ford – never elected caretaker – Carter – hoist on the petard of fundamentalist Islam in Iran- Reagan – first full, two-term president since Eisenhower and declared war on the evil empire and brought the USSR to its knees with the threat of a still fanciful Star Wars- Bush the father – won the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapsed and coalitioned Saddam out of Iraq- Clinton – leader of the new world order, peace in our time, and dead Rangers in the streets of Mogadishu- Bush the son – 9/11, Afghanistan, and IraqIn March 1967 author Paseman joined the CIA following successful service as an army armor officer in Germany. Highly trained in the Chinese language, most of his service was in the far east. Paseman served as chief of the East Asia division at Langley and was also station chief Germany, considered the agency’s toughest Cold War field posting.About the AuthorFloyd L. Paseman retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in January 2001 after a thirty-five year careerin operations. He now lives in southern Virginia outside Williamsburg where he works as an international security consultant. |
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After Iraq $20.33 As the year 2001 unfolded, the United States stood at the apex of global power, possessing unrivalled military capabilities, a vibrant economy, and–most of all–great self-confidence about its security. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 shattered America’s prevailing illusions of invulnerability, prompting the world’s sole superpower to embark on a revolutionary national strategy that led to a preventive war against Iraq. Will the United States be safer and more secure as a result? This book shows why America’s new assertively unilateral foreign policy will actually create perils for thenext generation of Americans. Written by two seasoned scholars, After Iraq conducts a sweeping survey of America’s present position in the global arena and identifies the opportunities and risks that the United States will likely face once the war in Iraq draws to a close. Kegley and Raymond provide an insightful overview ofthe U.S. response to the unconventional threats posed by global terrorism as well as a searching assessment of the challenges created by the rise of China and other emerging competitors. They argue that the current course of American foreign policy will harm the country by setting dangerousprecedents that undermine the moral and legal restraints–which were built painstakingly over the past century–on when and how states may use force. Drawing upon a rich array of historical parallels and empirical evidence, the book illuminates instances in which previous great powers embarked onsimilar self-defeating strategies. Like the U.S. today, these states once stood at the pinnacle of world power. But due to misperceptions about what they could accomplish withunilateral, preventive uses of military force, they made short-run decisions that undermined their long-term strategicinterests. With Americans facing questions about how to combat global terrorism, how to diffuse the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea, how to adjust to the growing pow |
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After Iraq: The Imperiled American Imperium $1 As the year 2001 unfolded, the United States stood at the apex of global power, possessing unrivalled military capabilities, a vibrant economy, and–most of all–great self-confidence about its security. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 shattered America’s prevailing illusions of invulnerability, prompting the world’s sole superpower to embark on a revolutionary national strategy that led to a preventive war against Iraq. Will the United States be safer and more secure as a result? This book shows why America’s new assertively unilateral foreign policy will actually create perils for the next generation of Americans. Written by two seasoned scholars, After Iraq conducts a sweeping survey of America’s present position in the global arena and identifies the opportunities and risks that the United States will likely face once the war in Iraq draws to a close. Kegley and Raymond provide an insightful overview of the U.S. response to the unconventional threats posed by global terrorism as well as a searching assessment of the challenges created by the rise of China and other emerging competitors. They argue that the current course of American foreign policy will harm the country by setting dangerous precedents that undermine the moral and legal restraints–which were built painstakingly over the past century–on when and how states may use force. Drawing upon a rich array of historical parallels and empirical evidence, the book illuminates instances in which previous great powers embarked on similar self-defeating strategies. Like the U.S. today, these states once stood at the pinnacle of world power. But due to misperceptions about what they could accomplish with unilateral, preventive uses of military force, they made short-run decisions that undermined their long-term strategic interests. With Americans facing questions about how to combat global terrorism, how to diffuse the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea, how to adjust to the growing power of |
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American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin $24.95 The Japanese army’s brutal occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as the rape of Nanking . As they slaughtered an estimated three hundred thousand people, the invading soldiers raped more than twenty thousand women — some estimates run as high as eighty thousand. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected ten thousand Chinese women and children and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.Vautrin, who came to be known in China as the Living Goddess or the Goddess of Mercy , joined the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and went to China during the Chinese Nationalist Revolution in 1912. As dean of studies at Ginling College in Nanking, she devoted her life to promoting Chinese women’s education and to helping the poor.At the outbreak of the war in July 1937, Vautrin defied the American embassy’s order to evacuate the city. After the fall of Nanking in December, Japanese soldiers went on a rampage of killing, burning, looting, rape, and torture, rapidly reducing the city to a hell on earth. On the fourth day of the occupation, Minnie Vautrin wrote in her diary: There probably is no crime that has not been committed in this city today…. Oh, God, control the cruel beastliness of the soldiers in Nanking .When the Japanese soldiers ordered Vautrin to leave the campus, she replied: This is my home. I cannot leave . Facing down the blood-stained bayonets constantly waved in her face, Vautrin shielded the desperate Chinese who sought asylum behind the gates of the college. Vautrin exhausted herself defyingthe Japanese army and caring for the refugees after the siege ended in March 1938. She even helped the women locate husbands and sons who had been taken away by the Japanese soldiers. She taught destitute widows the skills required to make a meager living and provided the best educati |
