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The journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans,...

OVER 35 COLLEGE students die each week from alcohol related incidents and a military warrior commits suicide every 36 hours - National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense. Reading the above heart breaking statistics was my primary motivation for writing this book. For 30 years I have worked...

The revenue of France was near twenty millions when Lewis XVI., finding it inadequate, called upon the nation for supply. In a single lifetime it rose to far more than one hundred millions, while the national income grew still more rapidly; and this increase was wrought by a class to whom the ancient...

First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book does not contain a history of New Zealand, but something of the story of many full and stirring days. Almost like the ghost the Maori thought him, Tasman came swiftly out of the rosy West, struck a blow which harmed his country more than it hurt those upon whom it fell, and yet more swiftly...

This sweeping study surveys nearly a century of diverse American views on the relationship between the United States and the Canadian provinces, filling out a neglected chapter in the history of aggressive U.S. expansionism. Until the mid-nineteenth century, many believed that Canada would ultimately...

A Successful Formula is a motivational book about making significant strides and major changes in our lives. It provides concrete, specific examples about people--past and present--and their unique lifes experiences, who were influential in shaping our society. It shows how to not use violence as...

Of the numerous works that have been written on London, by which I mean more especially the City of London, few have been devoted to an adequate, if indeed any, consideration of its political importance in the history of the Kingdom. The history of the City is so many-sided that writers have to be content...

Two high-ranking officers defied the British Admiralty to tell the tale of World War I’s first naval battle against Germany. The Royal Navy had ruled the sea unchallenged for one hundred years since Nelson triumphed at Trafalgar. Yet when the Grand Fleet faced the German High Seas Fleet across...

First published in 1926, this is a scholarly work on Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (July 6, 1781 - July 5, 1826), a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811-1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817-1822), best known for his founding of Singapore. He was also heavily involved...

Thirty of the most creative, eloquent, and energetic Tibetan Buddhist teachers of Westerners in recent decades are featured in this collection of teachings that are certain to be highly treasured by all students of Buddhism. The contributors are masters who helped establish Buddhism in the West, founding...

In 1933, the Admiralty banned "Blinker" Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. See what the renowned spymaster had to say about the British Naval Intelligence—the pinnacle of the world's secret intelligence...

Imagination is the source that creativity spawn from, without it the soul would be void. This book basically reach those places in your mind that you try to reach in dreams and fantasies. I addressed the beauty of love, life, heartbreak, death and many other subjects. Each poem I collected over a...