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Book Synopsis Stealing Ho Chi Minh's Gold by : Jim Miller
Download or read book Stealing Ho Chi Minh's Gold written by Jim Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelley Price is out-of-work and out of ideas in New Jersey when learns of an inheritance from his uncle, a long forgotten Vietnam Vet. The estate turns out to be worth millions with properties and businesses all over Hawaii. But where did the money come from? Kelley goes to collect and discovers the uncles extensive ventures might include human trafficking and drug smuggling. As he digs deeper, it gets more bizarre, as he discovers the tale of hijacked Vietnamese gold that funds a criminal empire. Even more important, he meets the uncles beautiful but mysterious step daughter.
Book Synopsis The New Craft Beer World by : Mark Dredge
Download or read book The New Craft Beer World written by Mark Dredge and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more amazing beers available than ever before, it's hard to know which ones to choose. That's where The New Craft Beer World comes in. Gathering together over 400 of the most innovative and tastiest beers you need to try, and divided into 50 different categories, you will find the best of the best each style has to offer. Every category comes with an explanation of the key characteristics of the style – whether it's an American IPA bursting with citrusy C-hops or an Imperial Stout full of dark roasted malts – along with an example of a classic brew and a selection of cutting edge versions that are certain to become instant favourites. So whether you're looking for bitter beers or balanced flavours, a hit of hops or a hint of coffee, the reviews will point you in the right direction to find the perfect beer to suit your tastebuds. Also included are interesting nuggets of beer information, covering everything from the catalyst that has caused the astonishing growth in craft beer through to matching beer with food and how to serve your drinks.
Book Synopsis Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City by : Allison J. Truitt
Download or read book Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City written by Allison J. Truitt and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expanding use of money in contemporary Vietnam has been propelled by the rise of new markets, digital telecommunications, and an ideological emphasis on money's autonomy from the state. People in Vietnam use the metaphor of "open doors" to describe their everyday experiences of market liberalization and to designate the end of Vietnam's postwar social isolation and return to a consumer- oriented environment. Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City examines how money is redefining social identities, moral economies, and economic citizenship in Vietnam. It shows how people use money as a standard of value to measure social and moral worth, how money is used to create new hierarchies of privilege and to limit freedom, and how both domestic and global monetary politics affect the cultural politics of identity in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with shopkeepers, bankers, vendors, and foreign investors, Allison Truitt explores the function of money in everyday life. From counterfeit currencies to streetside lotteries, from gold shops to crowded temples, she relates money's restructuring to performances of identity. By locating money in domains often relegated to the margins of the economy-households, religion, and gender- she demonstrates how money is shaping ordinary people's sense of belonging and citizenship in Vietnam.
Book Synopsis Forests Are Gold by : Pamela D. McElwee
Download or read book Forests Are Gold written by Pamela D. McElwee and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century—from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics—as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or conservation for nature’s sake, but about managing citizens and society, a process Pamela McElwee terms “environmental rule.” Untangling and understanding these practices and networks of rule illuminates not just thorny issues of environmental change, but also the birth of Vietnam itself.
Download or read book Fire Destroyer written by D.N. Leo and published by Narrative Land Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When dark magic descends and super technology fails, power rises from the heart. Lyla was born to lead the most prosperous kingdom in the multiverse. She has it all: beauty, intelligence, the protection of her royal family, and a legion of supernatural soldiers. Her parents came from Earth. So, she knows she isn't ready for the leadership until she understands how to be human in the multiverse. When a glitch in the computer system weakens the multiverse's border security, she goes to Earth as she's confident that she could fix the issue in the blink of an eye. Michael was a New York street kid before Lyla's father took him to the multiverse and mentored him. Now, as the Commander in Chief of a new universe, he is the only one who could protect Lyla on her brief mission to Earth. She knows technology. He knows human. She's righteous. He's compassionate. She's witty. He's street smart. It sounds like a fairy tale until they figure out that the most dangerous group of supernatural mercenaries are waiting for them on Earth. The mission fails. Disconnected from their people, relying on magic, the source of power they don't understand, every choice they make could be their last. No war is without casualties. No victory is without sacrifices. Do they have what it takes to win the battle and return home? Fire Destroyer is a romantic and contemporary fantasy set in South East Asia. If you love intriguing mysteries, witch business, quirky magic, and explosive action, you'll love this series. Scroll up, grab this series and enjoy the journey to the multiverse.
Download or read book Ho Chi Minh written by Peter Neville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his often-forgotten involvement with British intermediaries in 1945–46 and with the United States in 1944–45. Ho was the father of his nation, a major protagonist in the Cold War and anti-colonial struggle, and the promoter of a distinctive Vietnamese form of communism. This biography charts his life from his early years and education in Europe to his establishment of the revolutionary pro-communist movement, the Viet Minh, and his subsequent rise to power. Placing important emphasis on his role as a military organizer while stressing his preference for diplomatic solutions, this book contains detailed analysis of the complex talks with France and failure to prevent the Franco-Viet Minh war in 1946. It also follows Ho’s complex relationships with America, China, France, and Russia, and explores the Vietnam War and his legacy. In addition to providing extensive coverage of the 1954 Geneva Conference, the rivalry between Ho and First Secretary Le Duan, and the 1968 Tet Offensive, Ho Chi Minh is also the first English-language biography of Ho to pay close attention to his attitude to women and their role within the communist party. It is the perfect introduction for students of Vietnamese history and twentieth-century history more broadly.
Book Synopsis Wake of the Golden Gryphon by : Lyle A. Way
Download or read book Wake of the Golden Gryphon written by Lyle A. Way and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The threat of death is all in a typical day for iron-willed Raddisson Steele, captain of the Golden Gryphon. While smuggling some top-secret cargo in Asian waters to Korea, he's stealthily followed by insidious Captain Babineaux, a fearsome Cajun pirate. Unaware of the value of the cargo and the many countries and governments after his ship, Captain Steele plans to dump his load and cash in, avoiding confrontation if possible. Meanwhile, among his own slimy crew, Captain Steele's got some strange passengers aboard: there's Stormy, a battle-hardened Chinese prostitute on her way to Vietnam, Tucker, an undercover CIA agent assigned to track the Golden Gryphon, and the mysterious and powerful cook, Abisha. Will these unlikely passengers spell trouble for Captain Steele? What about Babineaux? Will he make it to Korea and his prize? Find out in Lyle Way's suspenseful thriller,The Wake of the Golden Gryphon.
Book Synopsis Confessions Of A Golden Dragon by : Joseph E. Barrera
Download or read book Confessions Of A Golden Dragon written by Joseph E. Barrera and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of love, hate, lust, humor and longing in the time of war. When Jack Defurio, an educated 26 year old Mexican-American, newly married to Donna, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as an infantryman he must cope with the excruciating separation from her, the rigors of jungle warfare and his increasing revulsion for the Army.
Download or read book The Sacred Willow written by Mai Elliott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and of hiding while French troops torched her village, watching while blossoms torn by fire from the trees flutter "like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She makes clear the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families: her eldest sister left her staunchly anti-communist home to join the Viet Minh, and spent months sleeping in jungle camps with her infant son, fearing air raids by day and tigers by night. And she follows several family members through the last, desperate hours of the fall of Saigon-including one nephew who tried to escape by grabbing the skid of a departing American helicopter. Based on family papers, dozens of interviews, and a wealth of other research, this is not only a memorable family saga but a record of how the Vietnamese themselves have experienced their times.
Book Synopsis Honk If You Love J. Edgar Hoover by : Allyn Baskerville
Download or read book Honk If You Love J. Edgar Hoover written by Allyn Baskerville and published by PageFree Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since The F.B.I. Story, a book authored by Don Whitehead in the 1950s which spawned a succesful motion picture starring Jimmy Stewart, has an updated version of the career of an F.B.I. agent been written. The work has changed considerably since the publication of that book. Although Mr. Whitehead's version was somewhat void of humor, the authors of this book have taken the liberty to include some of those humorous occurences which surfaced throughout their careers.
Book Synopsis In the Jaws of History by : Diem Bui
Download or read book In the Jaws of History written by Diem Bui and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the ultimate insider's account of the war from the South Vietnamese side, including the appalling story of how the American intervention actually happened." --Washington Post "This book gives Americans a rare opportunity--the chance to see the Vietnam experience through Vietnamese eyes. Few Vietnamese know their recent history as well as Bui Diem does. And none has told it better." --Ambassador William Jorden "... well-written and at times illuminating... " --Library Journal In the Jaws of History is the most important book written on the Vietnam War from the viewpoint of the South, from an author who was a senior official of the South Vietnamese government and later ambassador to the U.S.
Download or read book Following Ho Chi Minh written by Tin Bui and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-03-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a wealth of gossip level detail about life on the inside at the top in Hanoi--material Hanoi watchers lust after, seldom find." --Indochina Chronology"A rarity. A true North Vietnamese insider speaking candidly." --Book World, 30 April 2000
Download or read book Steel and Blood written by Ha Mai Viet and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify.
Book Synopsis Two Hamlets in Nam Bo by : David Lan Pham
Download or read book Two Hamlets in Nam Bo written by David Lan Pham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was born in 1940 and spent his childhood in two small villages, the paternal and the maternal, in southern Vietnam: Binh Chuan and Tuy An (An Phu). The villages were deeply affected by the powerful political events of the next fifty years. In this memoir (first sentence: "I was born as the Japanese Troops were invading northern Vietnam"), the author writes of what he saw, heard and knew, providing an invaluable social history of the country. Readers will learn about a people who have endured separation, dictatorship, carnage, persistent suffering and poverty, all the while yearning for independence and prosperity. Included are many stories--some funny, some heartbreaking--that reveal how the Vietnamese people lived, as well as their thoughts on war, on the French, Japanese and Americans, on the Nationalist and Communist governments, and on escape. The result is a heartfelt "social painting" of the nation.
Book Synopsis Women and Revolution in Viet Nam by : Arlene Eisen
Download or read book Women and Revolution in Viet Nam written by Arlene Eisen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero by : Robert G. Weiner
Download or read book Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero written by Robert G. Weiner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death. This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the creation of Captain America in light of the Jewish American experience; the relationship between Captain America and UK Marvel's Captain Britain; the groundbreaking partnership between Captain America and African American superhero the Falcon; and the attempts made to kill the character before his "real" death.
Download or read book Dynasty written by Robert Elegant and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: An epic of love and adultery, money and power, set amid the revolutionary turbulence of twentieth-century China, from the author of Manchu and Mandarin. Founder of the Sekloong dynasty of Hong Kong, Sir Jonathan, the illegitimate offspring of an Irish adventurer and his Chinese mistress, overcame colonial prejudice to build a vast and influential trading empire spanning half a century. The marriage of Sir Jonathan’s profligate son Charles to the ambitious and beautiful Mary Osgood comes to embody, on both personal and political levels, the tensions between Orient and Occident, and between Nationalists and Communists fighting for control of postimperial China. Dynasty follows the Sekloongs’ triumphs, tragedies, betrayals, and bloodshed through the decades as they expand and protect their own empire, even as their homeland is torn apart from within by war and ideological upheaval, from the fall of the last emperor to the triumph of Mao Tse-tung. As China turbulently enters the modern world, the Sekloongs also grow in stature and strength—as do their desires and wayward passions. Fluent in Mandarin, author Robert Elegant spent many years in Hong Kong as a journalist and commentator, and has authored many acclaimed books on China. His stirring drama combines vivid writing with a deep understanding of Chinese culture, creating “an action-packed novel . . . conjured up with perception and vigor” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
