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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Peter Hopkirk [Hopkirk, Peter]

9. Von Le Coq Spins a Coin * * * The Buddhist monks who a thousand years ago built the great monastery complex at Bezeklik chose its position with ingenuity. ...
( Category: Asia December 20,2017 )
Alexander McCall Smith by unknow
epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:unknow

Partly in response to Jamie’s advice, and partly because she could not think of any other way of dealing with the situation, Isabel did nothing. Occasionally she reflected on the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 19,2017 )
The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Smith Stephanie J.;
epub |eng | | Author:Smith, Stephanie J.;

The Long Road Home Unfortunately for Reyes, the PCM’s renewed commitment toward a greater inclusion of women came too late. Indeed, on 1 June 1940, La Voz de México published ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 18,2017 )
Modigliani: A Life by Meryle Secrest
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Meryle Secrest

Beatrice Hastings at the turn of the century (image credit 10.2) In Minnie Pinnikin Modigliani has the name of Pâtredor, or Pinarius, and the first chapter is a description of ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 18,2017 )
The Borgias / Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER IX Everything from without was favouring Alexander's encroaching policy, when he was compelled to turn his eyes from France towards the centre of Italy: in Florence dwelt a man, ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
Celebrated Crimes (Complete) by Alexandre Dumas
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER XI The mode of torture employed at Loudun was a variety of the boot, and one of the most painful of all. Each of the victim's legs below the ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present by Tod A Marder
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Tod A Marder

8.1. Madonna and Child icon from the Pantheon, seventh century? (Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome) The Christianized Pantheon may thus have fused the eastern practice of dedicating centralized ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 16,2017 )
Judge Dredd: Deathmasques by Dave Stone
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Stone

THEY CAME THROUGH the double doors and Armitage turned to Steel. 'Take our little friend down to detention. Then you log off and go home. You don't have to do ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 13,2017 )
Introducing Romanticism by Duncan Heath
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Heath

Our search is for a renewal of the initial inwardness of feeling felt by children. The synaesthetic work of art would approximate the childlike ability to assimilate differing sensations into ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 12,2017 )
The Parthenon Marbles by Christopher Hitchens
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This is a poem of, perhaps, more merit in feeling than in execution. It is decidedly superior to Thomas Hardy’s sentimental Christmas in the Elgin Room, which was begun in ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 12,2017 )
The Choice by Mason Lee
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-08 | Author:Mason Lee

Follow Bulldog’s next adventure with Outlaw Wolf (Volume Five – The Transformation)! Or, save money and get Outlaw Wolf: The Complete Collection! All 5 volumes in 1 – now On ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 11,2017 )
Death of a Dissident by Alex Goldfarb
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Alex Goldfarb [Goldfarb, Alex]

Sasha’s trial began in early October. The hearing was closed; Marina had to wait in the hallway. All she could think about was how to catch a glimpse of Sasha ...
( Category: Russia December 11,2017 )
Abomination by Paul Golding
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Paul Golding [Golding, Paul]

Except, of course, that we didn’t. He went off without me. And those questions – Où es-tu? Que fais-tu? Est-ce que j’existe encore pour toi? – seemed to take me ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 11,2017 )
Salomon (Part One) by David Xavier
epub |eng | | Author:David Xavier

He spent a full week mending fence and hinge, and he rode in sunrise and sunset across his land, studying ground and horizon for sign of rider. There was none. ...
( Category: Literary December 11,2017 )
Early American Drama by Various
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Various

CAST OF CHARACTERS. EDWARD MIDDLETON LAWYER CRIBBS WILLIAM DOWTON FARMER GATES FARMER STEVENS OLD JOHNSON SAM FIRST LOAFER SECOND LOAFER MR. RENCELAW LANDLORD BAR KEEPER WATCHMAN MARY WILSON AGNES DOWTON, ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 8,2017 )

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