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The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernandez
epub |eng | 2020-03-05 | Author:Walter Thompson-Hernandez

Both Randy and Keenan had grown up listening to rap groups like N.W.A but had never had someone speak to them the way Kendrick’s music did. His music provided a ...
( Category: Riding April 29,2020 )
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:Rebecca Henderson [HENDERSON, REBECCA]

Learning from History: Black Smoke in the White City The great industrial cities of the nineteenth century were incredibly polluted, and some of the earliest attempts at industry self-regulation were ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 28,2020 )
Bill James Handbook 2015 by Bill James
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Bill James [James, Bill]

For some players Swings and Misses, Fouls, and Balls in Play do not add up to overall Swings. This is because of the rare occasions when a swing results in ...
( Category: Sports April 27,2020 )
A Chequered Brilliance by Jairam Ramesh
epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Jairam Ramesh [Ramesh, Jairam]

Rajaji was then India’s home minister, having succeeded Sardar Patel. He would indeed retire from active public life in November 1951 but that retirement was to last just five months ...
( Category: Leadership April 26,2020 )
On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

LECTURE V. THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. [May 19, 1840.] Hero-Gods, Prophets, Poets, Priests are forms of Heroism that belong to the old ages, make their ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2020 )
U.S. Presidents For Dummies by Marcus A. Stadelmann
epub |eng | 2020-03-29 | Author:Marcus A. Stadelmann [Stadelmann, Marcus A.]

DETERMINING THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I World War I (WWI) broke out in Europe in August 1914 and lasted until November 1918. The war proved to be the bloodiest ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 24,2020 )
Every Drop of Blood by Edward Achorn
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Edward Achorn [Achorn, Edward]

CHAPTER 11 ANDY AIN’T A DRUNKARD Saturday, noon, March 4, 1865 Well-dressed white men and women, eager to get out of the rain and the muck, swarmed to the doors ...
( Category: American Civil War April 24,2020 )
Redress by John Tateishi
epub |eng | | Author:John Tateishi

AN AMERICAN TESTIMONIAL When the JACL national council of delegates voted in 1978 to approve the Salt Lake City Guidelines, in typical fashion it didn’t have adequate funds to back ...
( Category: Asian American Studies April 24,2020 )
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Gomes Eannes de Azurara
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Gomes Eannes de Azurara [Azurara, Gomes Eannes de]

And although Gil Eannes refused at first to remain, yet seeing how the request became a command (since he who made it was his captain), and especially as all the ...
( Category: Historical April 23,2020 )
The Abandonment of the West by Michael Kimmage
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Michael Kimmage [KIMMAGE, MICHAEL]

Ghana, Zambia, Tanganyika and Nigeria are so busy fighting their own battles against poverty, illiteracy and the subversive influence of neo-colonialism that they offer little hope to Angola, Southern Rhodesia ...
( Category: Diplomacy April 23,2020 )
Just Watch Me by John English
epub |eng | 2020-04-17 | Author:John English [English, John]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE FALL OF PIERRE TRUDEAU For Pierre Trudeau, the world was not unfolding as it should. When, on election night, he spoke of a beautiful world despite all ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State April 21,2020 )
Conversations with Einstein by Carlos Calle
epub |eng | 2020-04-13 | Author:Carlos Calle

Your sketch does help me to understand it. So the bending-of-light prediction was confirmed? Yes, that prediction was confirmed by the British astronomical expedition of 1919. This measurement isn’t easy ...
( Category: Historical April 21,2020 )
Bill Slim by Robert Lyman
epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:Robert Lyman

Slim with Lady Aileen Slim at Imphal after the ceremony. (IWM, SE 2716) By September 1944 the climate had improved sufficiently for Mountbatten to secure from the Octagon Conference, meeting ...
( Category: Historical April 20,2020 )
The Roman History by Cassius Dio
epub |eng | 1987-04-18 | Author:Cassius Dio

6. While these events were in progress, Augustus visited Sicily to settle affairs in that island and in other territories, and travelled as far as Syria. While he was still ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Rome in Crisis by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Plutarch

45. On the next day the Romans covered their advance more effectively, and when the Parthians attacked they met with a severe shock. They rode up expecting to have nothing ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )

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