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The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush & Larry Sloman
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-09 | Author:William Kalush & Larry Sloman

The Weiss siblings (l to r): Nat, William, Harry, Dash, Leopold, Gladys. From the collection of Dr. Bruce Averbook While he held her in his arms, she looked at him ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 9,2016 )
Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character by Matthew Spalding & Patrick J. Garrity & Daniel J. Boorstin
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Matthew Spalding & Patrick J. Garrity & Daniel J. Boorstin [Spalding, Matthew & Garrity, Patrick J. & Boorstin, Daniel J.]

Mather’s work became a survey of diseases. One of the proposals for its printing called it “An Essay upon the Common Maladies of Mankind: offering, first, The Sentiments of Piety, ...
( Category: Leadership January 9,2016 )
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Eliza Merrett knew very little of books—indeed, she was barely literate. But when she saw how keenly Doctor Minor collected and cherished his old volumes, and when she listened to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2016 )
John Barleycorn by London Jack
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XIX When I was with people who did not drink, I never thought of drinking. Louis did not drink. Neither he nor I could afford it; but, more significant ...
( Category: Authors January 9,2016 )
Saddam Hussein by Efraim Karsh
epub |eng | | Author:Efraim Karsh

Saddam's pragmatic maneuvering was sufficient for rallying the international community behind the Iraqi war effort. However, in his struggle to survive the window of extreme personal vulnerability to which he ...
( Category: Political January 7,2016 )
Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Braddon [Russell Braddon]

CHAPTER XIII OLD ENEMIES AND NEW FRIENDS DENIS had had terrible difficulty catching up with Nancy and Hubert. ‘My dear, swarms of Germans chasing me everywhere,’ he vowed. Now that ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2016 )
Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made by Richard Toye
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Richard Toye [Toye, Richard]

IV Menzies was no lone critic, however. The war was not going well and Churchill had to work constantly to maintain his position in Parliament. The German invasion of the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2016 )
The King of Vodka by Linda Himelstein
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Linda Himelstein

They [the Smirnovs] will terrorize you because of me! They will torment you! They are animals, monsters!…Your father, though he gave you both education and good breeding, he still remains ...
( Category: Russia January 4,2016 )
Yosef Haim Brenner by Shapira Anita Berris Anthony
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Shapira, Anita,Berris, Anthony [Shapira, Anita]

Eight Wartime, 1914–1918 The thunder of the cannons in August 1914 heralding the outbreak of war in Europe was also heard in faraway Palestine. The Yishuv was cut off from ...
( Category: Middle East January 3,2016 )
149392799X by Unknown
epub |eng | 2015-10-29 | Author:Unknown [Unknown]

Similar observations were found for cow’s authors’ experience with pilot plant and labora- milk (Chen, 2013 ). In a comparison study, 25 tory experiments on cow’s milk and goat’s milk ...
( Category: Horror January 1,2016 )
Ho Chi Minh by William J. Duiker
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William J. Duiker

Even after signing the September 14 agreement, to the exasperation of his hosts Ho Chi Minh still seemed reluctant to return to Vietnam (in an extended biographical essay on Ho, ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 1,2016 )
The Lost Art of Dress by Przybyszewski Linda
epub |eng | | Author:Przybyszewski, Linda [Przybyszewski, Linda]

5 Revolt The Fall of the Dress Doctors MAGAZINE WRITER HAZEL RAWSON CADES explained to her Girl Scout readers in 1927 that girls needed to choose the right handkerchief when ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 30,2015 )
Biography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Hermione Lee
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:Hermione Lee [Lee, Hermione]

One answer to this intractable difficulty, an evasive and playful one, was to rewrite biography as comic, parodic fiction. Flush (1933) told the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning through the ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 27,2015 )
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Nicholas Phillipson [Phillipson, Nicholas]

The civil Law is digested into a more regular System than the English Law has yet been, and tho’ the Principles of the former are in many respects different from ...
( Category: Great Britain December 23,2015 )
Goering and Goering: Hitler's Henchman and his anti-Nazi Brother by Wyllie James
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Wyllie, James [Wyllie, James]

The run in to the Anschluss began in February 1938 with a meeting between Hitler and Schuschnigg, during which the Führer, flanked by his generals, subjected the Austrian chancellor to ...
( Category: Fascism December 23,2015 )

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