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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
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Philip Short
In the history of the 20th century, the horrors of the Pol Pot regime in what was once known as Cambodia and later as Kampuchea are ranked with those of Hitler and Stalin in order to convey their magnitude and scope. Yet, like those two other dictators, Pol Pot's life and career have an elusive quality that defies the historical record. When ...
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Mao: A Life
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Philip Short
In this large-scale biography of Mao Zedong, a scholar assesses him as a man of enormous vision and achievement while acknowledging the great toll of human lives that resulted from his dictatorial rule. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
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In Pursuit of Plants: Experiences of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Plant Collectors
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Philip Short
These accounts are a mix of adventure, images from a lost world, and stories of the practical problems of plant collecting.
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Self-Efficacy in Sport
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Deborah L Feltz, Sandra E Short, Philip J Sullivan
This book provides a reference for sport psychology lecturers, students, coaches and other professionals with an interest in the field. Self-belief, known as 'self-efficacy' by sports psychologists is widely believed to be an essential component of sporting success. This book examines the nature of efficacy as it applies to sporting behaviour in ...
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The dragon and the bear : China & Russia in the eighties
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Mao
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La memoria colectiva que es la historia se nos aparece hoy mucho menos como el mero relato de lo ocurrido en el pasado que como un instrumento de analisis del presente. Al termino de un siglo de expectativas fallidas, y ante un futuro incierto, necesitamos revisar criticamente esta memoria y asentaria sobre nuevas bases de conocimiento. Mas ...
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Banda
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Mao Tse-Toung
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
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Philip Short
Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, his country descended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression.In the three-and-a-half years of his rule in Cambodia, more than a million ...
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The dragon and the bear : inside China and Russia today
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Pol Pot History of a Nightmare
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Short Philip
The man the world knew as Pol Pot headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times. In the three-and-a-half years of his rule in Cambodia, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from hunger and disease. A supposedly gentle, carefree land of slumbering temples and smiling peasants ...
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