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Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical by Sciabarra Chris
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Sciabarra, Chris [Sciabarra, Chris]

MASTER AND SLAVE As we have seen, The Fountainhead provided Rand with the first opportunity to present a complex psychological portrait of those individuals whom she described as “second-handers.” As ...
( Category: Russia May 19,2016 )
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Tim Blanning [Blanning, Tim]

JOSEPH II Frederick’s skepticism turned out to be entirely justified. The mediators’ final prediction was soon proved to be completely wrong. Far from opposing any Austrian designs, Catherine was now ...
( Category: Germany May 17,2016 )
1443436909 (N) by Ron MacLean
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Ron MacLean

You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You? At the 2005 Juno Awards in Winnipeg, k.d. lang sang Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.” It was transcendent. Kathryn Dawn Lang attended Red Deer ...
( Category: Hockey May 17,2016 )
1455564222 by Jane Hamilton
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Jane Hamilton [Hamilton, Jane]

13. The Mistake, the Worst Mistake A few days later in that endless two-week vacation I was wandering around looking for my father when I noticed May Hill and Philip ...
( Category: Literary May 16,2016 )
The Golden Cage by Shirin Ebadi
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shirin Ebadi

A week later we were invited to Evin to see the doctor. Evidently Iran’s “justice system” was functioning fine, as long as you knew who to pay. My father asked ...
( Category: Middle East May 13,2016 )
0718021835 (N) by Eric Metaxas
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Eric Metaxas

Two triangles, King David’s star. No insult, this ancestral blazon. It indicates a noble way. It marks a chosen nation. May you, stamped by this seal, this star of David, ...
( Category: Historical May 12,2016 )
The Way Around by David Good
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:David Good

September 9, 2011 11:12 A.M. UPPER ORINOCO, YANOMAMI TERRITORY The Yanomami women, they gossip as they walk. These treks, they’re not just about collecting food and other resources needed to ...
( Category: Venezuela May 12,2016 )
Os Generais de Hitler by Correlli Barnett
mobi |por | 1990-12-01 | Author:Correlli Barnett

Dados cronológicos | EWALD VON KLEIST 1881, 8 ago Nasce em Braunfels am der Lahn, Hesse 1900, 13 mar Fahnenjunker, 3º Regimento Real de Artilharia de Campanha 1901, 18 ago ...
( Category: Historical May 11,2016 )
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture by Pamela Haag
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Pamela Haag

THE MYSTIQUE OF THE WINCHESTER GUN COULD NOT HAVE BEEN more removed from the Winchester gun business, and in a way, that was precisely the point, and precisely the gun’s ...
( Category: Conventional May 10,2016 )
Sonderkommando by Shlomo Venezia
epub |pol | 2014-09-25 | Author:Shlomo Venezia [Venezia, Shlomo]

Rozdział V Bunt Sonderkommanda i zburzenie krematoriów Idea buntu zrodziła się na długo przed moim przyjazdem do obozu. Zdołała przetrwać mimo kolejnych selekcji dzięki takim kapo, jak Lemke czy Kamiński, ...
( Category: Holocaust May 7,2016 )
Lenin's Brother by Philip Pomper
epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Philip Pomper

BY THE LATE 1880s relations between police and institutions of higher education had become virtually routine—not necessarily a good thing for the authorities. Students expected police agents to show up ...
( Category: Historical May 6,2016 )
Bruce Lee, Letters of the Dragon by Bruce Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Lee

To Linda July 3, 1967 Linda, Am on the airplane heading for New York—left Bo at Susan’s with food and all, got everything straightened out and nearly missed the plane ...
( Category: Martial Arts May 6,2016 )
We Could Not Fail by Richard Paul
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Richard Paul [Paul, Richard]

Clyde Foster, seen here in front of the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1965, got more black workers jobs, advanced the education of more black engineering students, and cleared the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 5,2016 )
The Cost of War by A.C. Ellas
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:A.C. Ellas [Ellas, A.C.]

* * * * Exhausted, injured and pregnant, the stress of translating took its toll on Zala. She collapsed on the midnight black grass that fronted the Hall of Night. ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 4,2016 )
Ebert's Bests by Roger Ebert
epub |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:Roger Ebert [Ebert, Roger]

The Best—Some Introductory Words Movie critics are required by unwritten law to create a list of the ten best films of every year, and although I avoid “best” lists whenever ...
( Category: Guides & Reviews May 4,2016 )

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