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THE I CHING DODECAGRAMS. THE I CHING CODE    by Sergei Podoplelov
Price: $4.00 USD. 11850 words. Language: English. Published on June 11, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Asian.

This work provides new actual material found in the Book of Changes ( the I Ching) as well as discoveries that will be useful for broad audience of the readers, who are interested in the issues related to the very sources of our civilization
Mongols In The Middle East    by Corey Walden
Price: $0.99 USD. 4750 words. Language: English. Published on June 6, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Asian.

The military campaigns of the Mongols were successful on a truly legendary level and led to the Mongols forming the largest contiguous empire in history. Despite their success, there were but 700,000 ethnic Mongols to rule over all of Asia, and in this text we investigate how the Ilkhanate was run and held with the use of conversion to the local religion of Islam.
Lời Thề    by Nguyen Quang Vinh
You set the price! 87650 words. Language: Vietnamese. Published on June 5, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Asian.

… “Đường biển ấy là nơi quan yếu, phải dốc sức mà thừa hành để cho công việc được mười phần trọn vẹn. Nếu bất cẩn, sẽ phạm trọng tội…”
A Voice Of The Indian Desert    by Son Lal
Price: Free! 33750 words. Language: English. Published on May 28, 2013. Essay » Sociology.

Tan Dan about fights in the feudal age and the liberation of the feudal serfs in the 1950s. Narrations from his native village. Detha cattlebreeders had clashes with feudal lords, who did not accept any rivalry to their supremacy. Untouchable Hindus worked as humiliated serfs. Among them Harji. Brutally beaten, as his hair was too long. Eventually the suppressed farmers became landowners.
Many Untouchable Castes    by Son Lal
Price: Free! 45560 words. Language: English. Published on May 27, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Asian American.

The book is about caste competition in feudal Rajasthan in the mid-20th century. About groups segregated by highcaste Hindus in the Marvar desert region. Castes heavily burdened by ageold customs prescribed by the feudal elite. The behaviour towards ritual untouchables. Attempts to rise in the society by leaving work disdained by others. As narrated by Tan Dan, a villager of the area.
There Is No Goat    by Jennifer Dunham
Price: $3.49 USD. 60540 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.

A comical, disturbing and engaging look into the Pashtun-Afghan culture, written by a female veteran of the U.S. Army.
The Pride of Edo: Tobi and the Fire Brigades    by Paul Tierney
You set the price! 20170 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Asian.

Fires were so common in Edo that they gave birth to a saying: "fires and fights are the flowers of Edo." The men who formed the backbone of Edo's fire brigades were both feared and admired. They were the pre-cursors to the Yakuza, Japan's mafia. An in-depth look at the development of Edo's fire brigades - the first of its kind in English - this book examines their birth and impact on the city.
Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj    by Marian Fowler
Price: $3.99 USD. 93530 words. Language: English. Published by Bev Editions  on May 21, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Asian.

When the British ruled India, four Victorian women find themselves in a disturbing land, experiencing extremes of decadence amid crushing poverty. Emily Eden, Charlotte Canning, Edith Lytton and Mary Curzon followed husbands or a brother who were appointed Viceroys. In this compelling slice of colonial history we see how India marked them with its heat, mutinies and lascivious secrets.
The Reality of Tamerlane the Great- Part 2 | حقيقة تيمورلنك العظيم- الجزء الثاني    by Mohammad Amin Sheikho
Price: Free! 51200 words. Language: Arabic. Published by amin-sheikho.com  on May 17, 2013. Nonfiction » Religion and Spirituality » Islam / History.

هل تيمورلنك رجل عظيم كما يدّعي أقوام ما وراء النهر ومصلح للعالم الإسلامي!. أم هو قاهر العالم بالطغيان والبغي والقتل والتحريق!... - كيف يذكره أقوام ما وراء النهر ويصلّون عليه كما يصلّون على الأنبياء، وفي البلاد العربية فهو مذموم على كلّ لسان.
The Reality of Tamerlane the Great- Part 1 | حقيقة تيمورلنك العظيم- الجزء الأول    by Mohammad Amin Sheikho
Price: Free! 60380 words. Language: Arabic. Published by amin-sheikho.com  on May 16, 2013. Nonfiction » Religion and Spirituality » Islam / History.

- هل تيمورلنك رجل عظيم كما يدّعي أقوام ما وراء النهر ومصلح للعالم الإسلامي!. أم هو قاهر العالم بالطغيان والبغي والقتل والتحريق!... - كيف يذكره أقوام ما وراء النهر ويصلّون عليه كما يصلّون على الأنبياء، وفي البلاد العربية فهو مذموم على كلّ لسان!