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The Convict's Daughter by Kiera Lindsey
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Kiera Lindsey [Lindsey, Kiera]

On a crisp morning on the first day of 1849, the air was full of magpie warble as James Butler Kinchela stepped through the front gate of Parramatta Gaol and ...
( Category: Women November 16,2016 )
Truevine by Beth Macy
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Beth Macy

11 Adultery’s Siamese Twin The money—first from the change cup on the porch, then from the Ringling settlement and the funds being sent home—changed everything at Ten-and-a-Half Street. The food ...
( Category: United States November 13,2016 )
A Radical Faith by Eileen Markey
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Eileen Markey

CHAPTER 8 Mission to the United States Maura woke in her dusty room on October 22, 1976, the cries of the neighborhood roosters and the rattletrap buses already noisy on ...
( Category: Nicaragua November 13,2016 )
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
epub |eng | 2016-10-14 | Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

Chapter Sixteen “Isolationism Is Impossible”: The Politics of Rescue Varian Fry arrived in Marseilles on 15 August 1940, carrying a short list of two hundred notable artists, writers, musicians, “immediately ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 11,2016 )
How Change Happens by Duncan Green
epub |eng | 2016-10-26 | Author:Duncan Green [Green, Duncan]

7 How the International System Shapes Change ‘Shame!’ roared the bearded activist, pointing an accusing finger as, uncomfortably besuited, I wended my way through the police lines. Attending an international ...
( Category: Economic Conditions November 10,2016 )
The Thieves of Threadneedle Street by Nicholas Booth
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Booth

In his later writings, Austin Bidwell claims that he left London ‘serene and confident of the future’, two days before the first batch of forged bills had been sent in ...
( Category: Europe November 10,2016 )
The Terror Years by Lawrence Wright
epub |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Lawrence Wright

POSTSCRIPT Many of the people I interviewed in this piece are now in exile, along with millions of other Syrians. Ossama Mohammed is in Paris. Orwa Nyrabia was arrested and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 9,2016 )
All Out War by Tim Shipman
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Tim Shipman

17 Aunty Beeb Craig Oliver was furious. He had just tuned in to his first BBC bulletin of the day, and his former employers were leading with a row orchestrated ...
( Category: European November 7,2016 )
Autobiography of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill
epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:John Stuart Mill [Mill, John Stuart]

Chapter VI 1830-1840 Commencement of the Most Valuable Friendship of My Life--My Father's Death--Writings and Other Proceedings Up to 1840 It was the period of my mental progress which I ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 7,2016 )
The Daily Stoic by Holiday Ryan & Hanselman Stephen
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Holiday, Ryan & Hanselman, Stephen

July 15th DOING THE RIGHT THING IS ENOUGH “When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement November 6,2016 )
Becoming Jane Jacobs by Peter L. Laurence
epub |eng | | Author:Peter L. Laurence [Laurence, Peter L.]

“Pavement Pounders and Olympians” In April 1956, a few months after Jacobs came to understand East Harlem’s plight, she presented an enthusiastically received paper at the first Urban Design Conference ...
( Category: Women in History September 30,2016 )
Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun by Homare Endo
epub |eng | | Author:Homare Endo

* * * * * How long did we walk, and where, I have no clear memory. Only certain scenes remain in my mind. When the sun went down and ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 28,2016 )
Prince of Medicine by Mattern Susan P.;
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mattern, Susan P.;

Chapter Seven GALEN AND HIS PATIENTS t this point we lose the narrative thread of Galen’s life. We know—from one vague reference—that he suffered in the reign of Marcus’s son ...
( Category: Rome September 26,2016 )
The Photographer and the President by Richard Lowry
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard Lowry [Lowry, Richard]

Dedication Ceremonies, by Alexander Gardner, Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 (illustrations credit 3.17) ONE account of Lincoln’s speech tells of the crowd’s distraction by a photographer hurrying to get his camera ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 23,2016 )
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Andrey Kurkov [Kurkov, Andrey]

Saturday 1 March First day of spring, but no one is thinking about that. We arrived in Lazarevka last night. On our way out of Kiev, the central traffic police ...
( Category: Human Rights September 17,2016 )

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