Biographies & Memoirs
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

III However, the economic development of this period contains one gigantic paradox: France. On paper no country should have advanced more rapidly. It possessed, as we have seen, institutions ideally ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David North [North, David]

25 Thatcher, pp. 14-17. 26 Thatcher claims that “Deutscher simply puts thoughts into his subjects’ heads for which there is no evidence.” Thatcher cites a passage from Deutscher “which compares ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

PART THREE When the luminary full moon Drifts across the vault of the sky And its light, shining out, Begins to play on the azure horizon; When the nightingale’s whistling ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Spence

8 Taking Over IN THE MIDSUMMER OF 1945, no one in China guessed that the war with Japan was just about to end. Because security in Chongqing was so poor, ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

Malenkov was always punctilious in his reports but even the meticulous Zhdanov was sometimes distracted by battle, provoking another reprimand: “It’s extremely strange that Comrade Zhdanov feels no need to ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:John Berger

THE AMBASSADORS BY HOLBEIN 1497/8–1543 It is painted with great skill to create the illusion in the spectator that he is looking at real objects and materials. We pointed out ...
( Category: Medieval March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |rus | 2011-11-07 | Author:Yu Hua [Hua, Yu]

In the 1990s, as the tide of economic development swept over China, a similar situation began to reappear. In the fields surrounding one large steel plant in eastern China, backyard ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:Curtis Cate [CATE, CURTIS]

CHAPTER 27 Incipit tragoedia – ‘Love is the danger of the loneliest, love of everything, if only it is alive! Laughable, verily, are my folly and my modesty in love!’ ...
( Category: Philosophers March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Carney, Scott [Carney, Scott]

WHILE THE CLINICS OF Cyprus sometime feel like frontier outposts, the ones in Spain seem like established fortresses. Spain has been the top destination for European fertility tourists since the ...
( Category: Anatomy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Cheney, Dick & Reiner, Jonathan [Cheney, Dick]

CHAPTER 11 Treating the Vice President DR. REINER The summers in Washington are long, but on this early September morning, the cooler air and crystalline light offered a whispered promise ...
( Category: Cardiology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles R. Cross

Chapter 15 EVERY TIME I SWALLOWED SEATTLE, WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 1991–OCTOBER 1991 Every time I swallowed a piece of food, I would experience an excruciating, burning, nauseous pain in the upper ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Meredith Maran [Maran, Meredith]

I got sober twenty years ago. I wrote my first two books of poetry while I was still drinking. I revised the second one in the loony bin. I knew ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes [Allen, Jonathan & Parnes, Amie]

ELEVEN Below the Waterline Leon Panetta had a secret. And it was time for the CIA director to let Hillary in on it. During a Situation Room meeting at the ...
( Category: Leadership March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Nicholas Epley [Epley, Nicholas]

TOO MUCH FROM TOO LITTLE Brilliant statisticians can look stupid when they conduct analyses on incomplete data. Four days before the 1936 U.S. presidential election, having polled 2.4 million Americans, ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Hibbert [Hibbert, Christopher]

Chapter 17 Duke of the Romagna "FROM ALL PARTS COME REPORTS OF THE ILL INTENTIONS OF THE POPE AND THE DUKE" CESARE RODE OUT OF ROME on October 2, 1500, ...
( Category: Italy March 26,2014 )