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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Doctor Franklin's medicine by Finger, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…The colonist and medicine -- pt. 2. Medicine in Great Britain -- pt. 3. Le docteur in France -- pt. 4. …”
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The radio communication handbook.

Notes and queries on anthropology.

Schindler's Ark / by Keneally, Thomas

Donkey wisdon / by White, Paul

Hiroshima the world's bomb / by Rotter, Andrew Jon

Table of Contents: “…The world's atom -- Great Britain : refugees, air power, and the possibility of the bomb -- Japan and Germany : paths not taken -- The United States I : imagining and building the bomb -- The United States II : using the bomb -- Japan : the atomic bombs and war's end -- The Soviet Union : the bomb and the Cold War -- The world's bomb -- Epilogue : nightmares and hopes.…”
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Missionary...Heroes : stories of heroism on the mission field / by Michael, Charles D.

The day of the jackal / by Forsyth, Frederick

Christianity and other religions /

English phonology : an introduction / by Giegerich, Heinz J.

Students in the old testament prophecy / by Rowley, H. H.

Sex and society / by Walker, Kenneth

The four swans : A novel of cornwall 1795-7 / by Graham Winston

Problems of sociology in education / by Girod, Roger

The novel today : contemporary writers on mordern fiction /

The first salute / by Tuchman, Barbara W.

Structural semantics : an analysis of part of the vocabulary of plato / by Lyons, John

A million shillings : escape from Somalia / by Fazzina, Alixandra

A scrap of paper : breaking and making international law during the Great War / by Hull, Isabel V.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : what we have forgotten -- Belgian neutrality -- The "Belgian atrocities" and the laws of war on land -- Occupation and the treatment of enemy civilians 191-279 -- Great Britain and the blockade -- Breaking and making international law : the blockade, 1915-1918 -- Germany and new weapons : the submarine, zeppelin, poison gas, flame thrower -- Unrestricted submarine warfare -- Reprisals : prisoners of war and allied aerial bombardment -- Conclusion.…”
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