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Politics by Nick Clegg
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Clegg

Douglas’s theory built upon the thinking of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French structural anthropologist, who proposed the theory of binary opposites. According to Lévi-Strauss, meaning derives from the relationship between things ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 27,2017 )
Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot by Michael Arntfield
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Michael Arntfield [Arntfield, Michael]

Familiar Figure Back in the vicinity of the Main King Tap, the sketchy watering hole east of the Capitol Square where Julie Ann Hall was last seen alive in June ...
( Category: Americas December 27,2017 )
Royal Romances by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine spent the next several days weeping, convinced that she would never be able to survive without him. “Prince Potemkin did me a cruel turn by dying! The whole burden ...
( Category: Europe December 27,2017 )
Shadow of an Indian Star by Bill Paul & Cindy Paul
epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Bill Paul & Cindy Paul [Paul, Bill & Paul, Cindy]

Chapter 8 1876-1878: Smith Paul’s Valley Sam’s “love fest” with Fannie resulted in the birth of his only daughter, Mattie in June, 1876. As Fannie’s pregnancy became more obvious, she ...
( Category: United States December 27,2017 )
Texas Blood by Roger D. Hodge
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Roger D. Hodge

Falfurrias checkpoint Come daylight, after consuming plates of breakfast tacos, Agent Milian and I traveled to the Falfurrias checkpoint, which consistently maintains the highest seizure rate of any checkpoint in ...
( Category: Americas December 27,2017 )
Roosevelt by Brett Harper
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Brett Harper [Brett Harper]

FOR YEARS, REPUBLICANS had advocated high protective tariffs on imported goods and had credited the levies with producing the nation’s prosperity. But the tariffs had come under Democratic attack for ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 27,2017 )
The Book of Joe by Jeff Wilser
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Jeff Wilser

In 1991, Patricia Ireland was the acting president of the National Organization of Women (NOW). “This is not to say that there’s anything good about the Thomas hearings,” she says, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 27,2017 )
Dr. Feelgood: The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating & Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, & Other Prominent Figures by Lertzman Richard A. & Birnes William J
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Lertzman, Richard A. & Birnes, William J. [Lertzman, Richard A.]

Chapter 7 The Vienna Summit Just a few short months after his inauguration, the young President Kennedy, now firmly addicted to Jacobson’s medication, faced two tough tests: the Bay of ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2017 )
Best Little Stories from the American Revolution by C. Brian Kelly
epub |eng | | Author:C. Brian Kelly [Kelly, Brian. C]

Murder Most Foul SHE WAS YOUNG AND OH, SO FAIR, WITH LONG, AUBURN HAIR, BLUE EYES, AND A creamy white complexion. And she was in love with a young Loyalist ...
( Category: Americas December 27,2017 )
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Amanda Mackenzie Stuart [Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie]

The American woman’s suffrage campaign had, by the time Alva joined it in March 1909, stagnated to the point of torpor. The energy of the first phase of the movement, ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 27,2017 )
The Last 100 Days by David B. Woolner
epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:David B. Woolner

ACCORDING TO THE METICULOUS NAVAL LOGS OF FDR’S JOURNEY TO Yalta, the president had traveled 13,842 miles in the previous five weeks. It was an extraordinary expedition, particularly for a ...
( Category: Historical December 25,2017 )
Wait Till Next Year by Goodwin Doris Kearns
epub |eng | 1997-10-01 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

Giant Bobby Thomson swings for a home run against Dodger Ralph Branca to make the “shot heard round the world” and win the 1951 National League pennant. The Giants mob ...
( Category: Biographies December 25,2017 )
A Clear Case of Genius by Reginald 'Blinker' Hall
epub |eng | | Author:Reginald 'Blinker' Hall

28.7.17 ID Minute. I do not recommend approval of this proposal. The BIR1 can carry out research on lines suggested by the Admiralty. The extension of circulation of these reports ...
( Category: Historical December 24,2017 )
Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky by Boris Sokolov
epub |eng | 2015-03-19 | Author:Boris Sokolov

Here’s how Rokossovsky recalled the start of the battle: In the early morning hours of 5 July, German sappers, who were clearing minefields, were captured in the sector of the ...
( Category: Historical December 24,2017 )
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance by Gatti Hilary;
epub |eng | | Author:Gatti, Hilary;

Notes 1 Weiner, A.D. (1981), ‘Expelling the beast: Bruno’s adventures in England’, Modern Philology, May, p. 2. 2 Cf. ibid., and Ciliberto, M. (1992), Giordano Bruno, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ch. 2 ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 24,2017 )

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