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How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander & John Bruning
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-27 | Author:Matthew Alexander & John Bruning [Alexander, Matthew]

Twelve PREACHER OF HATE RANDY IS MORE agitated at the morning meeting than usual. The task force commander called earlier looking for an update and found his report wanting. We’re ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Jack Weatherford by Genghis Khan;the Making of the Modern World
mobi |eng | 2005-03-22 | Author:Genghis Khan;the Making of the Modern World

7 Warring Queens Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men. MONGKE KHAN WHILE THE MONGOL men stayed busy on the ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
Charles A. Siringo by A Texas Cowboy or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:A Texas Cowboy or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

CHAPTER XVIII. Seven weeks among Indians. ON OUR ARRIVAL back to the ranch, Moore rigged up a scouting outfit to do nothing but drift over the Plains in search of ...
( Category: Americas October 6,2017 )
Abigail Adams by Woody Holton
epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Woody Holton

Abigail had not yet digested the news of all these domestic broils when she received distressing information of an altogether different order: the farmers of western Massachusetts had launched a ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )
Mrs Kennedy : missing history of the Kennedy years by Leaming Barbara
epub |eng | 2002-04-12 | Author:Leaming, Barbara [Leaming, Barbara]

Kennedy's meeting with Rusk and the others was the last on his schedule for Monday. He left the Oval Office at twenty past seven and headed upstairs for the night. ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )
Jack Weatherford by Genghis Khan & the Making of the Modern World
epub |eng | 2005-03-22 | Author:Genghis Khan & the Making of the Modern World [Khan, Genghis & World, the Making of the Modern]

The refugees spread information about the Mongols across Europe, as can be seen from the chronicle written by Matthew Paris, a monk of the Benedictine abbey at St. Albans in ...
( Category: Asia October 6,2017 )
Trampling Out the Vintage by Frank Bardacke
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Bardacke

Meanwhile, back on the farm, the UFW had a mixed record. In Salinas, InterHarvest–United Brands was under orders from its CEO, Eli Black, to cooperate with the union, and had ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Return by Ghada Karmi
epub |eng | | Author:Ghada Karmi

CHAPTER 10 Evenings with My Father I awoke the next morning to the sound of birdsong coming from the direction of Margo’s room. She was in the habit of putting ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )
Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Bernie Sanders [Sanders, Bernie]

© University of Chicago Library 2015 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) meeting (1962). I was a steering committee member, and here I’m standing beside George Beadle, University of Chicago president. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 6,2017 )
The Eitingons by Mary-Kay Wilmers
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Mary-Kay Wilmers

CHAPTER 23 Spain These are some of the things that you can buy in the main food market in Valencia: sheep’s heads with eyes, hens’ eggs straight from the hen’s ...
( Category: Russia October 6,2017 )
Arguing the World by Joseph Dorman
epub |eng | 2000-10-06 | Author:Joseph Dorman

Nathan Glazer Even though we were Zionists, in Avukah we were against the Jewish state and for binationalism. In retrospect it was politically impossible. Hannah Arendt was writing long articles ...
( Category: Regional U.S October 6,2017 )
Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite by Robert D. Kaplan
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1995-06-30 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

In a word, Kissinger thought of FSOs as a bunch of missionaries, out to do good and to meet villains halfway, at the expense of the national interest. Kissinger’s brilliance ...
( Category: Americas October 6,2017 )
Mark Twain by Ron Powers
epub |eng | 2005-10-06 | Author:Ron Powers

LIVY GAVE birth to her second daughter on the morning of June 8, after hours of severe labor pains, in the main Quarry Farm house. She was assisted by one ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 6,2017 )
The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:McKenzie Wark [Wark, McKenzie]

9Divided We Stand “Newell Street, London, E14 7HR. £1,250,000: A beautiful Grade 2 listed house formerly headquarters of The British Sailors Society. Built circa 1802 for one of Horatio Nelson’s ...
( Category: Philosophy October 6,2017 )
Gandhi by Kathryn Tidrick
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:Kathryn Tidrick [Tidrick, Kathryn]

He referred to other incidents which had taken place in recent weeks, including the forcible takeover of town halls at Shahajanpur and Jajjar. ‘I have bitter complaints about Jajjar’, he ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )

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