Tag: RAT

Vietnam’s Year of the Rat Elbridge Durbrow, Ngo Đinh Diệm and the Turn in U.S. Relations, 1959-1961


Free Download Ronald Bruce Frankum Jr., "Vietnam’s Year of the Rat: Elbridge Durbrow, Ngo Đinh Diệm and the Turn in U.S. Relations, 1959-1961"
English | ISBN: 0786478152 | 2014 | 264 pages | PDF | 27 MB
Vietnam’s Year of the Rat explores the lunar New Year 1960 and the dynamic relationship between two competing groups vying for control in the Republic of Vietnam. One group, led by United States Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow, worked toward directing Vietnam towards an American-style democracy that focused on forcing reforms within the Saigon government. The other group, headed by Republic of Vietnam President Ngo Đinh Diệm, attempted to navigate the demands of Durbrow and the State Department and to confront internal opposition and an emerging external threat while trying to further the goals of the Republic.

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Rat City Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun


Free Download Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Jon Adams, Edmund Ramsden
English | July 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1685890997 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 8.23 MB
Behind the internet’s viral "Universe 25" experiment and Robert C. O’Brien’s iconic novel, Mrs. Frisby and the Secret of NIMH, was one scientist who set out to change the way we view our fellow man – using rats . . .

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The View From Rat Lake [Audiobook]


Free Download John Gierach, David Colacci (Narrator), "The View From Rat Lake"
English | ASIN: B0CJRXNPMY | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~07:34:00 | 226 MB
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
"In the world of fishing there are magic phrases that are guaranteed to summon the demon. Among them are: ‘remote trout lake,’ ‘fish up to thirteen pounds,’ ‘the place the guides fish on their days off,’" writes John Gierach in this wonderful collection of thirteen essays inspired by a fishing trip to Rat Lake, a remote body of water in Montana. Once again John Gierach does what he does best-explain the peculiarities of the fishing life in a way that will amuse novices and seasoned fly fishers alike. The View from Rat Lake deftly examines man in nature and nature in man, the pleasures of fishing the high country, and the high and low comedy that occasionally overcomes even the best-planned fishing trip.

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Year of the Rat How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash


Free Download William C. Triplett II, "Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0895263335, 0895262495 | EPUB | pages: 275 | 0.9 mb
1996-year of Bill Clinton’s reelection and the Chinese Year of the Rat. In this explosive book, Timperlake and Triplett deliver the detailed evidence that could’ve brought down the Clinton presidency.

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Holler Rat A Memoir [Audiobook]


Free Download Holler Rat: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFBDT9RM | 2023 | 8 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Anya Liftig
Narrator: Anya Liftig

Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother’s upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore the contradictions and unanswered questions of her life. But when the world Anya was building for herself shattered, she was forced to reconcile where she’d come from with who she was and who she wanted to be.

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