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Fritjof Capra by The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
mobi |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

ARISTOTLE’S SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE For science at the time of the Renaissance, the most important Greek philosopher was Aristotle. A student of Plato, Aristotle was by far the most brilliant ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

PART EIGHT War: The Triumphant Genius 1942–1945 39 The Supremo of Stalingrad During Stalingrad, the Supremo usually fell asleep wearing all his clothes on the metal camp bed that stood ...
( Category: Russia August 28,2017 )
Lincoln by Donald David Herbert
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Donald, David Herbert [Donald, David Herbert]

IV Naming Rosecrans and Burnside was a shrewd move. Burnside, in particular, was a happy choice. In addition to having some military reputation from his expedition against Roanoke Island, he ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 28,2017 )
Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon by David Landau
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-01-10 | Author:David Landau [Landau, David]

MINGLING For Ariel Sharon, it was to be time well spent. Few people today, even inside Israeli politics, remember that he served as foreign minister; he left no lasting mark ...
( Category: Middle East August 28,2017 )
Arik - The Life Of Ariel Sharon by David Landau
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-10 | Author:David Landau [Landau, David]

MINGLING For Ariel Sharon, it was to be time well spent. Few people today, even inside Israeli politics, remember that he served as foreign minister; he left no lasting mark ...
( Category: Middle East August 28,2017 )
Letters From Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship by Kerstin Lieff
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Kerstin Lieff

The first rays of daylight poked through the windows before I became conscious of where I was, and the idea that I was on my way to freedom filled me ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
Lara by Anna Pasternak
epub |eng | 2016-07-05 | Author:Anna Pasternak

What is the hour? It’s dark. Must be three. Again, I fear, I shall not sleep a wink. The cowherd in the village will crack his whip at dawn, And ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
Alan Bristow by Alan Bristow
epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Alan Bristow

CHAPTER 16 World Expansion In the 1950s the aviation industry in Britain had begun to coalesce into two camps – the government-supported publicly subsidised airlines BEA and BOAC, and the ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues by Paul Martin
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Paul Martin

Hetty Green Alone and unprotected, the gray-haired lady in the shabby black dress and frowsy bonnet marched down the derelict-filled streets of New York City’s Bowery district on a winter ...
( Category: Historical August 28,2017 )
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
epub |eng | 2008-04-10 | Author:Peter Godwin [GODWIN, PETER]

THAT NIGHT, I sleep in the converted garage, with the dogs groaning contentedly in their creaking wicker baskets outside. And on the bedside table still sits the Greek mythology book ...
( Category: Africa August 28,2017 )
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family by Tamara Chalabi
mobi |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:Tamara Chalabi [Chalabi, Tamara]

In spite of the nationalist leanings of many of her acquaintances, Bibi was vehemently opposed to Hitler. She knew that he had started this war, and for that she would ...
( Category: Memoirs August 28,2017 )
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neil Sheehan
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-02 | Author:Neil Sheehan

41. AN ASSAULT FROM AN UNEXPECTED QUARTER Having bested McNarney and Lanphier, Bennie was astonished in mid-February to find himself suddenly involved in a totally unexpected fracas with Air Force ...
( Category: Military August 28,2017 )
The House of Rothschild, Volume 1 by Niall Ferguson
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-02 | Author:Niall Ferguson

However, when French troops were marching into Belgium to impose terms on the Dutch the following November, it was James’s turn to think twice when the Belgian minister approached him ...
( Category: Economics August 28,2017 )
The Bridge at Andau by James A. Michener
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

A stranger to Hungarian history is tempted to say of the AVO terror that it was the worst in the experience of this long-troubled nation. But in certain respects that ...
( Category: Europe August 28,2017 )
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Annia Ciezadlo [Ciezadlo, Annia]

The next day was hot and humid. Over strenuous objections from his wife, Abu Hassane walked to the neighborhood pharmacy to pick up some medicine. He collapsed outside the pharmacy ...
( Category: Regional & International August 28,2017 )

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