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The Rough Guide to Great Britain by Rough Guides
epub |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Rough Guides

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( Category: Europe December 12,2018 )
A Penny Pilfered: Picking Ben Franklin's Pocket by Beattie Tom
epub |eng | 2018-04-28 | Author:Beattie, Tom

TMI Ben seems to have had a thing for fresh air. He considered it conducive to good health and spent many an early morning stark naked in his chamber with ...
( Category: Historical December 12,2018 )
Redemption Song by Mike Marqusee
epub |eng | 2016-12-11 | Author:Mike Marqusee

Ali’s outburst came eighteen months after the United States Congress had approved the Tonkin Gulf resolution licensing direct US attacks on North Vietnam. Johnson assured the electorate that “we will ...
( Category: Biographies December 12,2018 )
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Ben S. Bernanke

( Category: Economics December 12,2018 )
The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War by Harold J. Cook
epub |eng | | Author:Harold J. Cook

The Valtellina and Rome Descartes again traveled to a place at the heart of current affairs: to the Alpine valleys known as the Valtellina. The French would postpone military action ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Pamela Mensch & James Miller
epub |eng | 2018-02-19 | Author:Pamela Mensch & James Miller

Book 9 HERACLITUS fl. c. 500 bc XENOPHANES c. 570–c. 475 bc PARMENIDES fl. early 5th cent. bc MELISSUS fl. 441 bc ZENO fl. early 5th cent. bc LEUCIPPUS late ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 11,2018 )
The Elizabethan World by Lacey Baldwin Smith
epub, azw |eng | 2015-07-02 | Author:Lacey Baldwin Smith [Lacey Baldwin Smith]

Sixteenth-century diplomacy had most of the more insane qualities of the Mad Hatter’s tea party. Periodically everybody changed seats, but the same old dirty plates remained; ambassadors never meant what ...
( Category: Europe December 11,2018 )
The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
epub |eng | 2018-12-10 | Author:Arturo Barea [Arturo Barea]

5. FAREWELL MAJOR TABASCO CALLED ME to his room and gave me a batch of handwritten pages. “Will you please type this for me, with as many copies as possible? ...
( Category: Literary December 11,2018 )
The Victory by Author
epub |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Author

( Category: Arts & Literature December 11,2018 )
Jefferson's Treasure by Gregory May
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory May

Hannah and Albert Gallatin and their three children sailed for France in June 1816 on the Peacock, a Navy sloop refitted for their trip. Gallatin told Monroe that he still ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
Fighters and Quitters by Theo Barclay
epub |eng | 2018-12-10 | Author:Theo Barclay [Theo Barclay]

PETER MANDELSON TO TONY BLAIR Dear Tony, I can scarcely believe I am writing this letter to you. As well as being one of my closest friends you are a ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 11,2018 )
Churchill's Bunker by Richard Holmes
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Richard Holmes

The reshaping of the CWR As a secure meeting place for the War Cabinet, the underground rooms had their heyday in the autumn and winter of 1940–41. Thereafter the War ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
The Other Custers by Bill Yenne
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Bill Yenne

In Boston’s letters, we also find a rare glimpse of a rare view of the Custer half-siblings who are rarely, if ever, mentioned by Custer biographers. The conventional wisdom is ...
( Category: Historical December 11,2018 )
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real by wendy s. painting
epub |eng | 2018-07-27 | Author:wendy s. painting

Flynn’s November 1997 article, entitled “Who Painted The Phony Trail Of Guilt,” announced that skinhead leader Johnny Bangerter believed authorities were trying to frame him in the Oklahoma City bombing ...
( Category: Americas December 11,2018 )
The Splendid Century by W. H. Lewis
epub |eng | 2016-08-07 | Author:W. H. Lewis

Much has been made of the severity with which the seigneur extorted from the villager the uttermost farthing of his feudal dues; but what was the unfortunate man to do? ...
( Category: Europe December 11,2018 )

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