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Frantz Fanon by Zeilig Leo;
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Zeilig, Leo;

Studies in a Dying Colonialism Alice Cherki gives a wonderfully vivid picture of Fanon’s writing process. In early spring 1959, while still in Tunis, he contacted his secretary, Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, ...
( Category: African August 6,2016 )
Palestine by Richard Falk
epub |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Richard Falk

Divestment at the University of California, Santa Barbara April 16, 201318 A few days ago I spoke to a student audience in support of a divestment resolution that was to ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 5,2016 )
The Fall of Heaven by Andrew Scott Cooper
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Scott Cooper

16 FIVE DAYS IN MAY My headstrong lord, consider now and say Whether you want to fight or run away! —THE PERSIAN BOOK OF KINGS The Americans want to eliminate ...
( Category: History & Theory August 3,2016 )
Dante by Marco Santagata
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Marco Santagata [Santagata, Marco]

Baldo d’Aguglione’s amnesty In the year when Henry’s prospects were beginning to fail, the other actors on the scene were busy in diplomatic exchanges and some major military activity. Clement ...
( Category: Italy July 21,2016 )
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-25 | Author:Eleanor Brown

fourteen MARGIE 1924 Like my mother and me, Margie and her mother had never been close. And like my mother and me, Margie had always felt a thin thread of ...
( Category: Family Life July 20,2016 )
The Drone Eats with Me by Atef Abu Saif
epub |eng | 2014-07-17 | Author:Atef Abu Saif [Saif, Atef Abu]

Southern Gaza Saturday, 2 August DEATH IN RAFAH MY THROAT HAS GROWN WORSE. It’s excruciatingly dry and has been joined by a pain in my chest and a weakness all ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 18,2016 )
Gordon Welchman by Joel Greenberg
epub |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:Joel Greenberg

Forrester and Project Whirlwind were unpopular with most of the computer community, which was mainly concerned with mathematical and scientific problems. He was fighting for a fast universal machine that ...
( Category: Great Britain July 18,2016 )
Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd
epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Olivier Todd [Todd, Olivier]

Chapter Thirty The Island with Three Rivers On January 31, 1946, in Washington, D.C., Frederick B. Lyon, head of the State Department’s Foreign Activity Correlation division, wrote to FBI director ...
( Category: France July 17,2016 )
Hanging Ruth Blay: An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy by Carolyn Marvin
epub |eng | 2010-06-04 | Author:Carolyn Marvin [Marvin, Carolyn]

The law regarding concealment repeated in the preface to the Reverend Shurtleff’s execution sermon for Sarah Simpson. Courtesy of the New Hampshire Historical Society. In the published laws of 1759 ...
( Category: United States July 17,2016 )
Eye of the Sixties by Judith E. Stein
epub |eng | | Author:Judith E. Stein

15 WRONG MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME It’s a wonder that the Green had a fifth year at all. “I don’t know, Jim. I just don’t know … I don’t ...
( Category: United States July 17,2016 )
Eve of a Hundred Midnights by Bill Lascher
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Bill Lascher

When Mel wasn’t running around in circles trying to find a marriage license, he often took in the vista from his room at the aptly named Bay View Hotel. Over ...
( Category: World War II July 13,2016 )
Catullus' Bedspread by Daisy Dunn
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Daisy Dunn [Daisy Dunn]

Murder, adultery, injustice, and careless disregard for the gods were rife. Near the beginning of the poem, in contrast, Catullus praised the Heroic Age: ‘Heroes, born in the moment most ...
( Category: Rome July 12,2016 )
Bush by Jean Edward Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Jean Edward Smith [Smith, Jean Edward]

* * * I. Powell’s views were more than vindicated in October 2004, when Charles Duelfer, who had succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Study Group, submitted a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents July 11,2016 )
Jasper Tudor: Godfather of the Tudor Dynasty by Debra Bayani
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Debra Bayani

The homecoming of Jasper and Henry Tudor was probably not as easy as they had imagined. Essentially, much of it depended on sheer good luck whereby everything had to happen ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )
Catherine Carey in a Nutshell by Adrienne Dillard
epub |eng | 2015-10-09 | Author:Adrienne Dillard [Dillard, Adrienne]

Catherine at Henry VIII’s court When an opening became available in the crowded court of the reigning monarch, there was often a scramble for the highly coveted positions. Each time ...
( Category: Great Britain July 11,2016 )

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