Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: book, violence, children, landlocked
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-10-11
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060976659
ISBN-13: 9780060976651

In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement’s leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness. Landlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing’s classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our

Authors:Stephen Kotkin, Bruce Elleman,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: cosmopolitan, landlocked, century, mongolia
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-02
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0765605368
ISBN-13: 9780765605368

The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia itself has been the object of imperial rivalry. For most of the 20th century it was under Soviet domination. Mikhail Gorbachev began the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Mongolia in 1989, a process completed in 1992. By 1996 a coalition of opposition parties triumphed in national elections, and Mongolia launched itself on a new course. It is perhaps the most intriguing of the post-community "transition

Author: United Natio
Publisher: United Natio
Keywords: trade, studies, investment, asia, landlocked, facilitation, selected, countries
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-12-14
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 9211204933
ISBN-13: 9789211204933

The present study was conducted with the aim to increase understanding of the specific trade facilitation issues and conditions in the selected landlocked countries of the Caucasus and Central Asian sub-region. Part One looks at trade facilitation in Asia Pacific region in general and at the problems, challenges and needs of landlocked countries. It also provides policy recommendations to enhance institutional infrastructure of landlocked countries for trade facilitation. Part Two provides country case studies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.