Crossing the Street in Hanoi

Crossing the Street in Hanoi
Author: Carol Wilder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781783201495

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Crossing the Street in Hanoi is a study of media and cultural artifacts that constitute the remembrance of a tragic war as reflected in the stories of eight people who lived it. Using memoir, history adn criticism, this book is based on scholarly research, teaching and writing, as well as extensive personal journals, interviews and exclusive primary source material.

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt
Author: Michael G. Vann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2019
Genre: Hanoi (Vietnam)
ISBN: 9780190602697

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"Tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam. This book offers a case study in the history of imperialism, highlighting the racialized economic inequalities of empire, colonization as a form of modernization, and industrial capitalism's creation of a radical power differential between "the West and the rest." On a deeper level, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt will engage the contradictions unique to the French Third Republic's colonial "civilizing mission," the development of Vietnamese resistance to French rule, the history of disease, and aspects of environmental history"--

Hanoi

Hanoi
Author: Mason Florence
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Hanoi (Vietnam)
ISBN: 9780864427991

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Exploring the exciting city of Hanoi is made easy with practical recommendations on the best places to stay and eat, smart tips for finding bargains in this shopper's paradise, and a valuable chapter on the Vietnamese language. Also featured are helpful hints for day and weekend side-trips outside the city.

Hanoi's War

Hanoi's War
Author: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2012-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807882690

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While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that peace never had a chance in Vietnam. Hanoi's War renders transparent the internal workings of America's most elusive enemy during the Cold War and shows that the war fought during the peace negotiations was bloodier and much more wide ranging than it had been previously. Using never-before-seen archival materials from the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as materials from other archives around the world, Nguyen explores the politics of war-making and peace-making not only from the North Vietnamese perspective but also from that of South Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States, presenting a uniquely international portrait.

The Hanoi Commitment

The Hanoi Commitment
Author: James Alfred Mulligan
Publisher: Rif Marketing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1981
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Harbin to Hanoi

Harbin to Hanoi
Author: Laura Victoir
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9888139428

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Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered and unpredictable. This book uncovers the regional diversity of the colonial built form found from Harbin to Hanoi, varied experiences of the foreign powers in Asia, flexible interactions between the colonizers and the colonized, and the risks entailed in building and living in these colonies and treaty ports.

Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton

Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton
Author: Amy Shively Hawk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 162157556X

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With a foreword by Senator John McCain. In 1967, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home his girlfriend moved on and married another man. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved ones, Shively contemplated suicide. Yet somehow he found hope and the will to survive--and he became determined to help his fellow POWs. In a newspaper interview several years after his release, Shively said, "I had the opportunity to be captured, the opportunity to be interrogated, the opportunity to be tortured and the experience of answering questions under torture. It was an extremely humiliating experience. I felt sorry for myself. But I learned the hard way life isn't fair. Life is only what you make of it." Written by Shively's stepdaughter Amy Hawk--whose mother Nancy ultimately reunited with and married Shively in a triumphant love story--and based on extensive audio recordings and Shively's own journals, Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton is a haunting, riveting portrayal of life as an American prisoner of war trapped on the other side of the world.

Hanoi Jane

Hanoi Jane
Author: Jerry Lembcke
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781558498150

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A provocative analysis of how and why Jane Fonda the person became Hanoi Jane the myth

The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths

The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths
Author: Andreas M. Hinz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034802374

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This is the first comprehensive monograph on the mathematical theory of the solitaire game “The Tower of Hanoi” which was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. The book comprises a survey of the historical development from the game’s predecessors up to recent research in mathematics and applications in computer science and psychology. Apart from long-standing myths it contains a thorough, largely self-contained presentation of the essential mathematical facts with complete proofs, including also unpublished material. The main objects of research today are the so-called Hanoi graphs and the related Sierpiński graphs. Acknowledging the great popularity of the topic in computer science, algorithms and their correctness proofs form an essential part of the book. In view of the most important practical applications of the Tower of Hanoi and its variants, namely in physics, network theory, and cognitive (neuro)psychology, other related structures and puzzles like, e.g., the “Tower of London”, are addressed. Numerous captivating integer sequences arise along the way, but also many open questions impose themselves. Central among these is the famed Frame-Stewart conjecture. Despite many attempts to decide it and large-scale numerical experiments supporting its truth, it remains unsettled after more than 70 years and thus demonstrates the timeliness of the topic. Enriched with elaborate illustrations, connections to other puzzles and challenges for the reader in the form of (solved) exercises as well as problems for further exploration, this book is enjoyable reading for students, educators, game enthusiasts and researchers alike.

Painters in Hanoi

Painters in Hanoi
Author: Nora A. Taylor
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780824826130

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"By presenting artists as individuals actively involved in national life, Painters in Hanoi offers a truly innovative perspective on modern Vietnamese history. The book's ethnographic approach, grounded in discussions with artists, critics, and collectors, sheds light on a diverse art world, making the work of significant interest to anthropologists and art historians as well as students and scholars concerned with interdisciplinary research on culture and society."--BOOK JACKET.