Pacific Currents

Pacific Currents
Author: Evan S. Medeiros
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0833044648

China's importance in the Asia-Pacific has been on the rise, raising concerns about competition the United States. The authors examined the reactions of six U.S. allies and partners to China's rise. All six see China as an economic opportunity. They want it to be engaged productively in regional affairs, but without becoming dominant. They want the United States to remain deeply engaged in the region.

Scandal at High Chimneys

Scandal at High Chimneys
Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480472433

A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a “faultless formal puzzle in detection” In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes to him in a panic, begging Clive to help him marry off his sister to a cash-poor marquis whose affections reek of gold-digging. Victor doesn’t care. Something sinister lurks at High Chimneys and he wants his sisters out of the house before their lives are put in danger. Old Matthew Damon, their father, has long been dogged by scandalous rumors of solitary visits to the cells of women about to be hanged for murder. But when murder is done at High Chimneys, Strickland and private investigator Jonathan Whicher will have to sort out the rumors and look behind the discreetly drawn curtains of High Chimneys for a killer.

Pacific Island Heritage

Pacific Island Heritage
Author: Jolie Liston
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1921862483

"This volume emerges from a ground-breaking conference held in the Republic of Palau on cultural heritage in the Pacific. It includes bold investigations of the role of cultural heritage in identity-making, and the ways in which community engagement informs heritage management practices. This is the first broad and detailed investigation of the unique and irreplaceable cultural heritage of the Pacific from a heritage management perspective. It identifies new trends in research and assesses relationships between archaeologists, heritage managers and local communities. The methods which emerge from these relationships will be critical to the effective management of heritage sites in the 21st century. A wonderful book which emerges from an extraordinary conference. Essential reading for cultural heritage managers, archaeologists and others with an interest in caring for the unique cultural heritage of the Pacific Islands".

Pagan Papers

Pagan Papers
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1894
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Years before he wrote The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame published a very different sort of book: Pagan Papers, a wry, witty, wide-ranging collection of eighteen irresistible essays. Strolling, loafing, smoking, collecting books and pondering, the author muses on the human condition. What to do about relatives who are in the way? What is the proper punishment for a bookbinder who takes too long at his job? Are free libraries an unmixed blessing? More seriously: Can nothing make it worth our while not to quarrel with our fellows? Which is more desirable: memory or forgetfulness? Are we irrevocably cut off from the natural world, or might there still be a way back to it?

The Court Masque

The Court Masque
Author: Enid Welsford
Publisher: Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1927
Genre: English drama
ISBN:

Pagan Christs

Pagan Christs
Author: John Mackinnon Robertson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1903
Genre: Messiah
ISBN:

121 Chess Problems

121 Chess Problems
Author: Joseph William Abbott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1887
Genre: Chess problems
ISBN:

This book collects many chess problems for personal study.