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The Changing Face of San Antonio by Nelson W. Wolff
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Nelson W. Wolff

FOUR Therapeutic Justice WHEN I BECAME MAYOR in 1991, violent crime was rampant in San Antonio, as in many other American cities. Since 1978 drugs and gang turf wars, both ...
( Category: United States March 27,2019 )
The Man of Numbers by Keith Devlin
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Keith Devlin

Hence, if xn is an approximation of the solution that is too high (respectively, too low), then is an approximation that is too low (high). It follows that the average ...
( Category: Educators March 26,2019 )
Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa by Stuart Laing
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Stuart Laing [Laing, Stuart]

“Tippu Tip’s grand canoes going down the Congo”: a typical scene of traditional traffic on the great river, as depicted in The Illustrated London News of 21 December 1889. It ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 26,2019 )
My Young Life by Frederic Tuten
epub |eng | | Author:Frederic Tuten

* * * 11THE BEINECKE LIBRARY AND ME E. J. Beineke was one of the founders of the Beinecke Library at Yale, where, many years later, I did research for ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
Thomas by K Webster
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:K Webster

The End Make sure you check out Like Dragonflies—an Eden Books exclusive! You may enjoy some of these K Webster titles… The Wild Hale Bad Bad Bad This is War, ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 24,2019 )
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
mobi, epub |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Paul Brickhill

15 Behind a tidy desk sat the austere Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, eyes pale and cold under tufty eyebrows and lips pursed in the craggy face. Known as ...
( Category: Military Technology March 24,2019 )
Washington's crossing by Fischer David Hackett 1935-
epub |eng | 2004-03-23 | Author:Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-

The Battle at Princeton g£P> hLI?»- > 77i£ Z)^/z of General Hugh Mercer, a sketch by John Trumbull (1786). The defiant American leader refused British orders to surrender and was ...
( Category: United States March 23,2019 )
Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915 by Harlan Louis R
epub |eng | 1986-03-23 | Author:Harlan, Louis R

274 Booker T. Washington land, the Lumbwa Industrial Mission in Kenya, and industrial institutes in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, as well as an experimental African Training Institute at Colwyn ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 23,2019 )
Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity by Tyrone Tillery
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Tyrone Tillery [Tillery, Tyrone]

McKay was especially outraged that his poems had been published in the same publication that had castigated his Home to Harlem. As Claude vehemently put it, "I particularly resent the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 23,2019 )
The Age of Napoleon by Alistair Horne
epub |eng | 2004-04-26 | Author:Alistair Horne [Horne, Alistair]

As is so frequently the story with autocratic regimes, with the passage of time, corruption set in. At the top, starting from a zero base, all the Bonaparte family amassed ...
( Category: Political March 23,2019 )
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello by Cynthia A. Kierner
epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Cynthia A. Kierner

Governor’s Mansion. Thomas Mann Randolph was the fourth Virginia governor to live in this splendid house, which was completed in 1813. Martha lived here with her husband during the winter ...
( Category: American Revolution March 23,2019 )
The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Margaret Leslie Davis

TELEGRAM RECEIVED. NOT INTERESTED. —MRS. E. L. DOHENY15 There are worse things, though, than being “saddled” with a Gutenberg Bible whose discovery becomes front-page news in the New York Times. ...
( Category: Historical March 20,2019 )
First by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Evan Thomas

Four days later, the O’Connors were packing for summer vacation when they got word that President Reagan had nominated Robert Bork, a conservative judge, to replace Justice Powell. Bork had ...
( Category: Women March 20,2019 )
James Monroe by Gary Hart
epub |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Gary Hart

that Jackson took Pensacola only because the Governor threatened to drive him out of the province by force if he did not withdraw; that Jackson was only executing his orders ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2019 )
Jefferson and the ordeal of liberty by Malone Dumas 1892-1986
epub |eng | 1962-03-15 | Author:Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986

This is an admirable description of liis position while Jefferson was in office with him, and it is a sufficient answer to the unwarranted claim, sometimes advanced by admirers of ...
( Category: Historiography March 15,2019 )

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