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Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Warren P. Lombard went to the University of Michigan as a professor of physiology. Only Boas was left without an academic position. Possibly Harper decided not to offer Boas a ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kathryn Tempest [Tempest, Kathryn]

Terror at Rome For the remaining months of Cicero’s life, we must make do without any speeches or letters from his hands. It makes little difference; by then Cicero had ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage by Lewis A. Erenberg
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Lewis A. Erenberg

6 ROPE-A-DOPE They call it rope a dope, I was the dope. GEORGE FOREMAN, “TOTAL FAILURE: HOW GEORGE FOREMAN’S LOSSES SHOWED HIM THE LIGHT,” NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, MAY 24, 2017 ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 19,2020 )
George Washington by John Rhodehamel
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:John Rhodehamel [Rhodehamel, John]

9 “The Destiny of Unborn Millions” AMERICA’S FIRST CITIZEN returned home after an absence of eight and a half years to find his private affairs in disarray. Mount Vernon was ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream by Julia L. Mickenberg
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Julia L. Mickenberg [Mickenberg, Julia L.]

She was invited to dinner at the home of Andrei Goncharov, a portraitist. Pudovkin was at the dinner, but so was his wife, Anna Nikolaevna Zemtsova, a prominent film critic ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty by Stephen Brumwell
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Stephen Brumwell [Brumwell, Stephen]

* * * Inclined to downplay fears for his own safety, Washington remained alive to the possibility that the British might yet take advantage of the ice to launch further ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
Lessons From a Dark Time and Other Essays by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | 2018-08-30 | Author:Adam Hochschild [Hochschild, Adam]

* * * * As with many Indian cities, in recent years its name has been restored to its original form in the local language, Thiruvananthapuram. THIRTEEN The Brick Master ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
Blueprint by Robert Plomin
epub |eng | 2018-10-26 | Author:Robert Plomin

12 The DNA fortune teller It has been known for decades that the heritability of psychological disorders and dimensions is caused by many DNA differences, not just one or two ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert Lerner
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Robert Lerner [Lerner, Robert]

CHAPTER 14 Flight ERNST KANTOROWICZ LOST HIS “LEISURE WITH DIGNITY” painfully in 1938. Upon his return from Paris his passport was taken away from him, meaning that he could no ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Love Deeper Than a River by Lila Banks Cockrell
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Lila Banks Cockrell [Cockrell, Lila Banks]

Lady Bird Johnson, the First Lady (center), visited San Antonio in 1966 to celebrate our Cleanest City award. After several rounds of telephone calls and correspondence, the schedule was approved, ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death by Brian R. Dirck
epub |eng | 2019-02-06 | Author:Brian R. Dirck

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I have no taste for war; My joy is not in fire and fight, In cannon’s roar and bullet’s flight, And nasty pools ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role by Jeanne E. Abrams
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Jeanne E. Abrams

Abigail Adams became the second First Lady of the United States on February 8, 1797, when, at the age of sixty-one, John Adams was formally elected president, although he did ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
The Last Pagan Emperor by Teitler H. C.;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Teitler, H. C.;

Chapter 2 1. CONSTANTINE: PLRE I, Constantinus 4; Kienast 19962, 298–303; cf., e.g., Neri 1992, Lenski 2006, Schuller and Wolff 2007, Van Dam 2011, Barnes 2011, Maraval 2011, Bardill 2012, ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America by Beth Holmgren
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Beth Holmgren [Holmgren, Beth]

Modjeska as Rosalind in As You Like It at Booth’s Theatre, New York, 15 December 1882. Courtesy of the Warsaw Theatre Museum One of the most articulate and ardent members ...
( Category: Historical January 19,2020 )
Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso’s Civil War by John R. Kelso & Christopher Grasso
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:John R. Kelso & Christopher Grasso [Kelso, John R. & Grasso, Christopher]

( Category: Historical January 19,2020 )

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