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Erasmus, Man of Letters by Jardine Lisa; Jardine Lisa;
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Jardine, Lisa; Jardine, Lisa;

21. Title page of the Epistolae D. Erasmi Roterodami ad diuersos (Basle, 1521). By definition, the letter makes the absent vividly present in writing. Unlike the classic oration or the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 14,2018 )
Generalship of Muhammad by Rodgers Russ;
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Rodgers, Russ;

6 The Surge After the destruction of the Banu Qurayzah in January 627, Muhammad allowed his fighters to take a well-deserved break. It would seem that during this interlude he ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy by Frank McLynn
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Frank McLynn [McLynn, Frank]

13 The Twilight Years The history of Genghis Khan and the Mongols can sometimes seem no more than an endless recital of massacres with pyramids of skulls. Yet Genghis and ...
( Category: Asia April 14,2018 )
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time by Clark Blaise
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-11-20 | Author:Clark Blaise [Blaise, Clark]

The Victorian mantra is simple and ringing: Be of practical use to society, serve mankind. What good is theory if it does not improve the lives of common man? This ...
( Category: Physics April 14,2018 )
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:Booker T. Washington

Chapter XI. Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them A little later in the history of the school we had a visit from General J.F.B. Marshall, the Treasurer ...
( Category: Ethnic & National April 14,2018 )
Wounded by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER THIRTEEN I ROLLED OVER and looked at the clock. It was almost six-thirty, and as usual my internal clock had woken me up just before the alarm could. I ...
( Category: Historical April 14,2018 )
Love Among the Ruins by Smith Harry Leslie
epub |eng | | Author:Smith, Harry Leslie

CHAPTER 14 Spring When spring came to Hamburg in 1946, it was a hard thaw. Bitter rain fell and made the city miserable, damp and dirty. Enthusiasm over winter’s passing ...
( Category: Memoirs April 14,2018 )
Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs by Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-27 | Author:Fanya Gottesfeld Heller [Heller, Fanya Gottesfeld]

. . . 23 . Sidor was kneeling by the bed in front of the crucifix saying his Paternoster. Illiterate, he garbled words he had learned by hearing them over ...
( Category: World April 14,2018 )
Portsmouth Women by Laura Pope
epub |eng | 2013-04-13 | Author:Laura Pope

Mary and Allen Baker’s Gloucester House Saloon on the corner of Marcy and State Streets in 1897, one of several bordellos on Marcy Street’s red-light district. Patch Collection, Strawbery Banke ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 13,2018 )
The same man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in love and war by David Lebedoff
epub |eng | 2008-08-05 | Author:David Lebedoff [Lebedoff, David]

It’s strange the way a writer’s fame begins slowly creeping up to him and then racing so that after a while he seems to be a poor relation of his ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2018 )
Suicide by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

The reactions of therapists to a client’s suicide Therapists work with suicidal clients almost every day of their lives. However, when one of these clients commits suicide, how is the ...
( Category: True Crime April 13,2018 )
Reagan and Thatcher by Richard Aldous
epub |eng | 2012-02-19 | Author:Richard Aldous

Despite Reagan’s gesture in the autumn of of 1984, it was clear as winter set in that uneasiness still pervaded the relationship. For Thatcher, her acceptance of “how large powers ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 13,2018 )
Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Sachs Albie;
epub |eng | 2009-04-13 | Author:Sachs, Albie;

SACHS J: Fairness to an incumbent about to be relieved of a high profile position in public life presupposes the display of appropriate concern for the reputational consequences. People live ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 13,2018 )
The Decade (Images of Modern America) by Means Gabby
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Means, Gabby [Means, Gabby]

When asked about his time at The Decade recently, Bon Jovi related it to his hometown bar in New Jersey: “Like the Fast Lane in Asbury Park, The Decade was ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2018 )
Pontius Pilate by Aldo Schiavone
epub |eng | | Author:Aldo Schiavone

PILATE LEAVES JESUS, THEN, and once again steps outside the Praetorium, toward the waiting priests. The sun must by now have been high in the sky. Difficult hours lay ahead. ...
( Category: Historical April 13,2018 )

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