Ling Zhang 
River, the Plain, and the State [PDF ebook] 
An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128

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This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author describes a service that grew from a handful of specialists in 1946 to a …

The first volume chronologically in a new multi-volume History of Germany, Timothy Reuter”s book is the first full-scale survey to appear in English for nearly fifty years of this formative period o …

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Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This …