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The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Finkbeiner Ann
mobi |eng | 2006-04-06 | Author:Finkbeiner, Ann [Finkbeiner, Ann]

In 1981 Jason traded its home with SRI for another one with Mitre, the federal contractor that had originated at MIT, that charged lower overhead than SRI, and that was ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 10,2018 )
Tough Sell by Tom Basile
epub |eng | 2017-02-23 | Author:Tom Basile [Basile, Tom]

Tactical recommendations would then be made for action by the Strategic Communications Office in preparation of a project’s completion. Of course, it was Iraq, so timetables slipped and priorities changed, ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 10,2018 )
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport [Rappaport, Helen]

In the summer of 1918, the road out to the Koptyaki Forest – a dense area of ancient birch and pine forest nine miles north-west of Ekaterinburg – would take ...
( Category: Historical April 10,2018 )
The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich by Feigel Lara
epub |eng | 2016-01-28 | Author:Feigel, Lara [Feigel, Lara]

Culture was now pouring into Germany and it looked as though soon Marshall Plan money would be as well. It would be some time before daily life in Germany became ...
( Category: Historical April 10,2018 )
Republican Character by Donald T. Critchlow
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Donald T. Critchlow

Freshman Senator Goldwater Draws Organized Labor’s Wrath Goldwater entered the Senate in 1953 hoping to get an appointment to the important Armed Services Committee. Instead, Senate Majority Leader Robert Taft ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )
Pirates by Angus Konstam
epub |eng | | Author:Angus Konstam

CHARLES VANE AND HIS DIE-HARDS By the time Charles Vane made his dramatic exit from New Providence in August 1718, he was already seen as one of the toughest pirates ...
( Category: World April 10,2018 )
The Yankee Way Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball by Willie Randolph
epub |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Willie Randolph

THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE team looked very similar to the one we’d been winning with before the strike. In the lead-up to the 1995 season, we did make one major ...
( Category: Biographies April 10,2018 )
Surge of Piety by Christopher Lane
epub |eng | 2016-04-10 | Author:Christopher Lane

VI Religion and Mental Health Rebalanced In the opening issue of the 1960s, Harper’s Magazine lost no time declaring “goodbye to the ’fifties—and good rid- dance.” The Princeton historian Eric ...
( Category: History April 10,2018 )
Springfield by Curtis Mann
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Curtis Mann

In 1955, Franklin Life Insurance Company was the first nongovernmental entity to install an “electronic brain,” the giant Univac. By 1966, the company had set up its third addition to ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
John Aubrey, My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Ruth Scurr

. . . Thomas Pigott tells me that learned Dr Morison has talked to him of the Italian botanists Ambrosinus and Zeno, and shown him plates in Zeno’s book. . ...
( Category: Historical April 10,2018 )
The Latter Days by Judith Freeman
epub |eng | 2016-06-07 | Author:Judith Freeman

PART FOUR The Turquoise Notebook ONE There was a woman in our ward named Annabel Stone. She lived on a street at the very edge of the subdivision where the ...
( Category: World April 10,2018 )
Jefferson Davis by Jefferson Davis
epub |eng | 2004-08-10 | Author:Jefferson Davis

Message to Confederate Congress (PJD) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 18, 1861 The few weeks which have elapsed since your adjournment have brought us so near the close of the year that ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
Never Fear by Ian Strathcarron
epub |eng | 2017-04-09 | Author:Ian Strathcarron [Ian Strathcarron]

Thus in the summer of 1953, at the age of fifty-two, Francis first took to the waves; even he would have been astounded to have known that just thirteen years ...
( Category: Transportation April 9,2018 )
Operation Yellow Star Black Thursday by Maurice Rajsfus
epub |eng | 2017-07-12 | Author:Maurice Rajsfus

1. See pp. 28–29, Operation Yellow Star. 2. See pp. 22–23, Operation Yellow Star. 3 JULY 16, 1942. We had been wearing the yellow star for forty days, but the ...
( Category: World April 9,2018 )
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
epub |eng | 2001-04-09 | Author:Mark Doty [Doty, Mark]

The most beautiful still lifes are never pristine, and herein lies one of their secrets. The lemon has been half-peeled, the wine tasted, the bread broken; the oysters have been ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 9,2018 )

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