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Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis
epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Marjorie Hillis [HILLIS, MARJORIE]

CASES Case XV: Miss W.—Miss W . is twenty-seven and has a good secretarial position, with the usual limited salary. She has, also, the Domestic Instinct. So she found herself ...
( Category: Women's Studies March 16,2018 )
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell by Chas Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Chas Smith

13 Girls, We Run This Motherfucker. Or, a Wander and an Explanation. I drive past Ted’s into the Chevron. I need a pack of Parliament Lights to clear the fuzz ...
( Category: Water Sports March 16,2018 )
The Year of the Pitcher by Sridhar Pappu
epub |eng | | Author:Sridhar Pappu

THE DEATH OF A DREAM: Robert Kennedy, speaking at the Ambassador Hotel after midnight on June 5, 1968, following his win in the California primary, began with a congratulations to ...
( Category: Biographies March 16,2018 )
Arendt and America by Richard H. King
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-09-24 | Author:Richard H. King [King, Richard H.]

Chapter 10 Against the Liberal Grain Among Hannah Arendt’s major works, On Revolution (1963) has received the most uneven treatment.1 Perhaps because Arendt scholars have tended to be historians of ...
( Category: Historical March 16,2018 )
My House in Damascus by Diana Darke
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Diana Darke

11 The Law and Educational Corruption May God protect the vineyard from its watchman. Arab proverb Legal nightmares, I was soon to discover, were part of normal life in Syria. ...
( Category: Middle East March 15,2018 )
Empires of the Plain by Lesley Adkins
epub |eng | 2017-02-18 | Author:Lesley Adkins [Lesley Adkins]

Fourteen: Battling with Babylonian At Baghdad the raft with Layard’s Black Obelisk arrived, and on 6 January 1847 Rawlinson, suffering from a very bad cold, wrote to say that ‘yesterday ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2018 )
Gilded Suffragists by Johanna Neuman
epub |eng | | Author:Johanna Neuman

7 The Tactical Turn Militant political action . . . had broken down hitherto unimaginable taboos. . . . An emotional earthquake had shattered the intangible yet suffocating prison of ...
( Category: World March 15,2018 )
War in the Wilderness by Tony Redding
epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Tony Redding

Keeping contact: a Royal Signals Detachment and wireless. (Peter Allnutt) A Japanese fighter decided to have a go at us in bright moonlight. It was “interesting” to see the glowing ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 15,2018 )
Astral Weeks by Ryan H. Walsh
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Ryan H. Walsh

* * * • • • IT’S NO COINCIDENCE that Lyman’s acid evangelism took root in Boston, the true birthplace of American hallucinogenic culture. The year was 1949, the location ...
( Category: Americas March 15,2018 )
Law & Disorder by Bruce Chadwick
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Chadwick

CHAPTER TWELVE Out with the Old, In with the New The prevention of crime being the most important object in view, your exertions must be constantly used to accomplish that ...
( Category: Historical March 15,2018 )
Levittown by David Kushner
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:David Kushner

Outside the Wechslers’ window, the mob forming in plain view of the police told a different story of America. Ordinarily, the Levittowners would be home tonight watching Dragnet or The ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Eisenhower by Louis Galambos
epub |eng | | Author:Louis Galambos

Part III Becoming the Leader of the Free World Nine A Republican poster from the 1952 presidential election. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Duty, Honor, Party In 1943, in ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel by Julia Keller
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Julia Keller

CHAPTER SIX "A LITTLE GATLING MUSIC ” I remember the ceaseless bombing thunder that shook the house, like an earthquake, the futile popping of revolvers, the whining shells overhead . ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
LINCOLN & CHURCHILL by LEWIS E. LEHRMAN
epub |eng | 2018-01-12 | Author:LEWIS E. LEHRMAN

Churchill did not cease his diplomacy on behalf of Poland. (Similarly, Lincoln never stopped trying to help Union loyalists in eastern Tennessee break away from the Confederacy.) After trying to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 14,2018 )
A Study in Solitude by Iris Origo
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Iris Origo [Iris Origo]

Their master cries, ‘But how does a man know that he is dead?’ They do not answer. ‘Children, don’t you hear me? The quarter of an hour must have passed. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )

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