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81) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
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"A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest-and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest,...
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Explore the history of ancient Malaysian civilizations as a fascinating journey that takes back thousands of years, unveiling the diverse cultures and influences that shaped the region. Malaysia's strategic location at the crossroads of trade routes made it a melting pot of different civilizations, and its early inhabitants were quick to capitalize on the maritime resources that surrounded them.
83) Historia de Bali: Una guía fascinante sobre la historia de Bali y el impacto que esta isla ha ten
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Descubra la magia de la isla indonesia de Bali en este fascinante libro sobre su historia, desde los orígenes de la formación geológica de Bali hasta los tiempos modernos.
Bali es conocida como "la Isla de los Dioses", con sus decenas de miles de templos y santuarios que se remontan a más de un milenio de los exóticos imperios indios de Java que influyeron enormemente en Bali. Aunque fue testigo de la antigua Ruta Marítima de la Seda del Sudeste...
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Descubra la fascinante Filipinas en este interesante libro sobre su historia, desde los orígenes de los primeros pueblos del archipiélago hasta los tiempos modernos.
Filipinas es posiblemente la nación más intrigante del sudeste asiático marítimo. El archipiélago cuenta con casi ocho mil islas que forman el vértice del Triángulo de Coral del Pacífico asiático, así como con una abundante vida marina que constituye casi la mitad de la megadiversidad...
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The current conventional Harappan and Indo-European timelines are impossible. Believing in them means endorsing the idea the Harappan, arguably the largest civilization of the Bronze Age lagged thousand years technically behind the minor nations that surrounded them. Likewise, it means their major trading partners, the Sumerians, Elamites, and Akkadians were all technology backwards, compared to the minor nations of India, Central Asia, and even the...
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Surrounded by larger and more populous nations in the heart of the Muslim Malay world, Singapore has been acutely aware of its vulnerability since separating from the Malaysian federation in 1965. Singapore's government has met its defense needs with characteristic determination, building powerful, well-equipped and highly-trained armed forces based on a relatively small professional core and much larger numbers of conscript and reservist citizen...
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Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de Camboya siga leyendo...¿Sabía que en Camboya se encuentra Angkor Wat, el edificio religioso más grande del mundo?
En 2009, un historiador camboyano hizo varios recorridos a pie por el país devastado por la guerra. Tomó fotos, y una de ellas muestra una estatua budista rota y abandonada entre las verdes hierbas bajo sus pies. El artefacto data posiblemente del siglo I de nuestra era. Sin embargo, yacía...
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By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were widespread across southern Afghanistan in 2006, and logistics...
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No Lack of Courage is the story of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Operation Medusa, the largely Canadian action in Afghanistan from 1 to 17 September 2006, to dislodge a heavily entrenched Taliban force in the Pashmul district of Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. At stake, according to senior Afghan politicians and NATO military commanders, was nothing less than the very existence of the reconstituted state of Afghanistan, as well as the...
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¿Qué tanto sabe usted del Sudeste Asiático? ¿Le gustaría saber más? El Sudeste Asiático tiene una historia larga y complicada. Los múltiples elementos de su historia se encuentran a menudo enredados con muchas otras épocas, lugares y personalidades políticas. Puede ser un poco difícil desenredar los hilos de estas poderosas civilizaciones del Sudeste Asiático, pero este libro realmente ha recorrido toda la gama en lo que respecta a encontrar...
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The world was watching when footage of the "tank man"-the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square-first appeared in the media. The furtive video is now regarded as an iconic depiction of a government's violence against its own people. Throughout the twentieth century, states across East Asia committed many relatively undocumented atrocities, with victims...
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Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de Tailandia siga leyendo...¿Sabía que Tailandia es el único país del sudeste asiático que no ha sido colonizado por una potencia europea? Tailandia ha vivido su buena ración de luchas. En la actualidad, el gobierno tailandés lucha por encontrar su lugar en el mundo, oscilando entre la democracia y los regímenes autoritarios. Aunque su nombre se traduce como "Tierra de la Libertad", parece que el país...
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Si l'on se fie à tous les principes de la guerre et à la logique militaire, le soutien logistique de la force opérationnelle Orion du Canada aurait dû s'écrouler en juillet 2006. Peu de pays posent un défi logistique aussi important que l'Afghanistan, et pourtant les soldats canadiens l'ont relevé avec brio, en 2006, dans ce dangereux théâtre international. Cette réussite représente un accomplissement militaire monumental. Les opérations...
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Pivotal to Asia's future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which offers valuable insights for other medical education systems as well. The populations in these rapidly growing countries rely on healthcare systems that can vigorously respond to the concerns of shifting demographics, disease, and epidemics. The collected...
95) Mountains
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers to mountains. Includes a map, infographics, an activity, glossary, and index."--
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We are told that in the very beginning, "Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yo not yet divided." This reminds us of other cosmogony stories. The In and Yo, corresponding to the Chinese Yang and Yin, were the male and female principles. It was more convenient for the old Japanese writers to imagine them coming into creation not very remote from their manner of birth. In Polynesian mythology, we find pretty much the same conception,...
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This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. Stretching for nearly 2000 miles and encompassing almost 7000 islands, Japan has the fourth largest GDP and the tenth largest population in the world. Japan is a country of paradoxes, a modern nation steeped...
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'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/ history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the one thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years.' Tom Keneally, author of Australians
The Phoenix Years tells the riveting story of China's rise from economic ruin to global giant...
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Japan was a physical and psychological wasteland at the end of World War II. With over 3 million dead, 39 percent of city populations homeless, 40 percent of all urban areas flattened, 80 percent of all ships destroyed, and 33 percent of all industrial machine tools rendered inoperable, the country was devastated and demoralized.
And yet, just 19 years later, Japan stood proud-modern, peace-loving, and open-welcoming the world as the host of the...
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To the Western imagination, Tibet has always been a mysterious place. For centuries its capital, Lhasa, was known as a Forbidden City: it was ruled by a priest-king, and its medieval society was not welcoming to foreigners. But the exile of the Dalai Lama and his followers half a century ago, the destruction of the monasteries, and the plight of the Tibetan people who remained, evoked continuing sympathy. Jonathan Gregson places the religious and...
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