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Free Download Nicholas Thomas, "Democracy Denied: Identity, Civil Society and Illiberal Democracy in Hong Kong"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1840147601, 113831109X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.7 mb
Published in 1999, this book is designed to provide the reader with a detailed understanding of Hong Kong’s social and political development. It offers a contemporary, holistic understanding of Hong Kong, which will not only complement existing works but also provide the reader with a solid foundation for understanding future developments in the territory. The book is divided into three sections: Identity, Civil Society and Politics. The first two sections provide a discrete understanding of the issues involved. This analysis is then utilised to explain the particular path of political development Hong Kong experienced in the 1980s and 1990s. Due to the in-depth analysis provided this work will be of use either to academics or to members of the general public seeking to understand the development of Hong Kong.

Free Download John McCain, "Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America’s Longest-Held Prisoner of War"
English | 2012 | pages: 512 | ISBN: 0393342816 | EPUB | 6,2 mb
Now hailed as a classic, one of the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written about the Vietnam War.

Free Download An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay By Martin Harwit (auth.)
1996 | 477 Pages | ISBN: 1468479075 | PDF | 13 MB
At 8:15 A.M., August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay released her load. For forty three seconds, the world’s first atomic bomb plunged through six miles of clear air to its preset detonation altitude. There it exploded, destroying Hiroshima and eighty thousand of her citizens. No war had ever seen such instant devastation. Within nine days Japan surrendered. World War II was over and a nuclear arms race had begun. Fifty years later, the National Air and Space Museum was in the final stages of preparing an exhibition on the Enola Gay’s historic mission when eighty-one members of Congress angrily demanded cancellation of the planned display and the resignation or dismissal of the museum’s director. The Smithsonian tnstitution, of which the National Air and Space Museum is a part, is heavily dependent on congressional funding. The Institution’s chief executive, Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman, in office only four months at the time, scrapped the exhibit as requested, and promised to personally oversee a new display devoid of any historic context. In the wake of that decision I resigned as the museum’s director and left the Smithsonian.