Megatrends Asia: Eight Asian Megatrends That Are Reshaping Our World

This latest work by mega-best-selling author Naisbitt identifies eight Asian megatrends that are reshaping our world. The number eight, considered lucky in Asia, is significant here. Coming political, economic, and cultural changes will soon render Asia the dominant region of the world, and Naisbitt offers advice that will help the reader profit by the changes. The work looks at the region as a whole. In general, things Western are falling out of favor, as key places return to Chinese rule. However, Western problems such as divorce and crime are on the increase. The magnitude and far-reaching effects of the modernization of Asia are emphasized here; Naisbitt even asserts that the changes in modernization are without question the most important events taking place in the world today. Japan has just begun an economic decline that will increase rapidly in the coming years. The book does not linger long on any topic but gives readers snippets of information before moving on. A chart contrasts Asian and American values, shedding light on the respective cultures. Not surprisingly, Americans are said to value individual rights over an orderly society, which may explain the situation in which we currently find ourselves. Extensive notes are provided. Recommended for all public and academic libraries

On the Triangle Run: The Fighting Spirit of Canada's Navy

James Lamb tells us of the struggles of a gallant young navy against the fearsome elements of the North Atlantic, and the dreaded German U-boats. Most dangerous of all, however, was the infamous Triangle Run, the route Canadian convoy ships followed between New York, Halifax, and St. John's before turning over their charges. Lamb tells us of the tragedies that occurred on the Triangle Run, such as the sinking of HMCS Valleyfield, and the "unknown" war in the St. Lawrence.

Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry Among Churchill, Roosevelt and De Gaulle

        Berthon's narrative accompanies his forthcoming PBS telecast about Charles de Gaulle's struggles once France fell to the Nazis in 1940 to play the modern Joan of Arc. Aged 49 and a one-star general for only three weeks, he had flown to London five days before Paris was surrendered. Legally, Marshal Petain's collaborationist regime at Vichy represented France, but de Gaulle almost single handedly established the exile "Free French" to continue the war from England and some of the colonies.
In Berthon's view, de Gaulle had four enemies Germany, Vichy, a skeptical Churchill and a hostile Roosevelt. This hostility, fed by at best half-truths from Roosevelt's rightist links to P‚tain ambassador Admiral Leahy, State Department adviser Charles Murphy and Secretary of State Cordell Hull more than by Churchill, shackled and even undermined de Gaulle. Berthon describes vividly the wartime climate of duplicity and distrust: Churchill tried to "straddle the two Frances"; de Gaulle compensated for his powerlessness with haughty pride; Roosevelt (for whom "France had lost all right to...respect by her abject failure in 1940") excluded de Gaulle from all decisions affecting France.

Deadlock in Korea : Canadians at War, 1950-1953

Deadlock in Korea profiles the personal accounts of ordinary soldiers and transports the reader into the water-logged trenches and insufferable POW camps. Includes 16 pages of black and white photographs and illustrations, as well as seven maps.

Nazi Millionaires : The Cold War Winners

In the confusion that reigned in post-war Europe many Nazis were able, through bribery and other means, to escape with the wealth that they'd stolen during World War Two. Kenneth Alford exposes this phenomenon and uncovers the degree to which American agencies colluded in the escape of some Nazis whilst others stood trial. April 1945. The world was collapsing on the Thousand-Year Reich. With each passing day, it resemble a sinking ship settling a bit further in the water, the rats scurrying from within the dying vessel in a vain attempt to save themselves in the rigging.

Lucy Arlyn by John Townsend Trowbridge

Scarce antiquarian book.    About the author: John Townsend Trowbridge (September 18, 1827  February 12, 1916) was an American author born in Ogden, New York, USA, to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. His papers are located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.  His novels include Neighbor Jackwood (1857), an antislavery novel; The Old Battle-Ground (1859); Cudjo's Cave (1864); The Three Scouts (1865); Lucy Arlyn (1866); Neighbors' Wives (1867); Coupon Bonds, and Other Stories (1873); and Farnell's Folly.Another is Evening At The Farm.  .The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities* [1866, republished two years later with additions by another author as *A Picture of the Desolated States and the Work of Reconstruction, 1865-1868*]. Trowbridge toured much of the defeated Confederacy during the summer of 1865 and the following winter. He observed carefully, and talked with a wide variety of people of both sexes, including freedmen, die-hard Rebels, Unionists, farmers, businessmen, refugees, and Northern entrepreneurs. He lets them speak in their own voices, often adding his own perceptive comments. His book can profitably read with those of John Richard Dennett [*The South As It Is: 1865-1866*] and Whitelaw Reid [*After the War: A Tour of the Southern States, 1865-1866*]. All three accounts are written from the perspective of a loyal and fair Northerner, genuinely concerned about conditions in the South and the evolving policies of the United States towards that section.

Emerson's Essays (World's Famous Books)

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. 

Eugenie: The Empress And Her Empire

Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. She impressed the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck so much that he called her The only man in Paris. In a speech from the throne on 22 January, Napoleon III formally announced his engagement, saying, "I have preferred a woman whom I love and respect to a woman unknown to me, with whom an alliance would have had advantages mixed with sacrifices." The so-called love match was looked upon with some sarcastic comment in the United Kingdom. The Times wrote, "We learn with some amusement that this romantic event in the annals of the French Empire has called forth the strongest opposition, and provoked the utmost irritation. The Imperial family, the Council of Ministers, and even the lower coteries of the palace or its purlieus, all affect to regard this marriage as an amazing humiliation..." A 26-year-old Spanish countess, of legitimate title and ancient lineage, the British newspaper implied with ill-concealed mirth, was not considered good enough for the House of Bonaparte (only two generations removed from obscurity in Corsica).

A Search for the Historical Jesus

This is becoming an untenable proposition. Professor Hassnain, a leading cross-cultural researcher of the life of Jesus, presents another story. Jesus came to teach the known world, not just the Roman Empire. Professor Hassnain has uncovered manuscripts and evidence to demonstrate that: - The secretive Essene Order raised and protected Jesus; - Jesus' missing youth was spent in Persia and India; - Many obscured Gospels reveal that Jesus' work was backed by Essene operations involving far more that twelve male apostles; - Jesus survived the Cross, in an undercover operation which fooled many; - Jesus ministered to Jews in Persia, Afghanistan, India and Central Asia, with Thomas and Simon Peter; - Moses, Jesus and mother Mary, were buried in Kashmir - amongst people of Jewish faith and origins; - The Church in the West, over centuries, has gone to great lengths to remove evidence of this, to strengthen its position as the representative of Christ on earth. Citing many historical sources, Professor Hassnain, himself a Sufi, respectfully questions what we have been taught - and argues that Jesus was a greater man than we realise.

Monte Cassino: The Story Of The Most Controversial Battle Of World War II

Monte Cassino opens in the cold Italian winter of 1943- 44. Germany would lose the war, but they still held much of Italy, leaving the Allies to fight their way north to capture Rome—a route no army had taken since Hannibal traversed the Alps to avoid it. And overlooking the only possible passage stood the ancient Abbey of Monte Cassino. The ultimate decision to bomb Monte Cassino was one of the most controversial—and tragic—events of World War II. The combat that followed was just as tragic: Soldiers from more than a dozen nations fought through that savage winter in a ferocious battle that allowed no advance or retreat. Here Hapgood and Richardson examine the military operations and political machinations that led inexorably to the bombing, explore the personalities of all involved, and in a new afterword reflect on its lingering consequences. This is an epic tale of men and monks at war.