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Revolution 2.0 by Wael Ghonim
mobi, epub |ru | 2012-05-21 | Author:Wael Ghonim

* * * Accomplishments of the Egyptian government: 12,000 Egyptians committed suicide during the past four years! 5,000 committed suicide in 2009, and more than 100,000 suicide attempts occurred during ...
( Category: Democracy June 14,2015 )
The Economist Oct 6th by The Economist
mobi |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:The Economist

* * * This article was downloaded by calibre from http://www.economist.com/node/21564272/print | Section Menu | Main Menu | | Next | Section Menu | Main Menu | Previous | * ...
( Category: Macroeconomics June 13,2015 )
A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan
mobi |eng | 2007-08-25 | Author:May Kellogg Sullivan

These children did little quarreling. I cannot remember seeing Eskimo boys angry or fighting, a thing quite noticeable among them, for nowhere in the world, perhaps, could the same number ...
( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
My Traitor's Heart by Malan Rian
epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Malan, Rian [Malan, Rian]

After their expulsion, Sonamuzi and Musa wandered the hills of Zululand, homeless and unwanted. It is said that they settled briefly in the Zulu capital of Mlhabatini, but their secret ...
( Category: African June 13,2015 )
Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties by Steven Watson
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Steven Watson [Watson, Steven]

The third-anniversary issue of Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts featured on its cover a still from Couch. A third of the way into the magazine appeared a piece ...
( Category: United States June 13,2015 )
The Soap Man by Roger Hutchinson
epub |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Roger Hutchinson

6 WITH ME OR AGAINST ME Lord Leverhulme’s charm offensive on the island did not stop at Gress bridge and the school at Back. Within hours of his arrival in ...
( Category: Great Britain June 13,2015 )
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow by James Mauro
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:James Mauro [Mauro, James]

* In today’s dollars, imagine paying someone about $100 to change a lightbulb. Einstein and his sister Maja inspect the Haifa diorama in the Palestine Pavilion. The exhibit’s trick-mirror effect ...
( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
Life on The Mississippi by Mark Twain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXXI A Thumbprint and What Came of It We were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This ...
( Category: East South Central June 13,2015 )
A CHILD AL CONFINO by Eric Lamet
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Eric Lamet

16 Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa The names of North African towns — Tobruk, Tripoli, Bengazi — were on every internee's lips. Was it Feldmarschall Rommel or was it General ...
( Category: World War II June 13,2015 )
The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
epub |eng | 1993-05-31 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

I think Mother believes that Margot and I have a better relationship with our parents than anyone in the whole wide world, and that no mother is more involved in ...
( Category: Holocaust June 12,2015 )
Alison Weir (2010) by Swynford Katherine
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Swynford, Katherine [Katherine, Swynford,]

8 'The Lady of Kettlethorpe' Nearly five years on from the end of their affair, Katherine could perhaps view the prospect of John leaving England for a long period with ...
( Category: England June 12,2015 )
My Prison, My Home by Haleh Esfandiari
epub |eng | 2009-04-04 | Author:Haleh Esfandiari [Esfandiari, Haleh]

THE BARREN YEARS: BUSH II These obstacles only multiplied during the presidency of George W. Bush. The new administration came to office believing that, as the world’s sole superpower, it ...
( Category: Women June 12,2015 )
Edison and the Electric Chair by Mark Essig
epub |eng | 2009-10-04 | Author:Mark Essig

HAVING FAILED to ruffle him on technical questions, Cockran pressed Edison on the rumors of conspiracy. "Now, Mr. Edison, do you know Mr. Brown pretty well?" "Fairly well. I have ...
( Category: Electricity June 12,2015 )
Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Ariel Sabar [Sabar, Ariel]

Yona, right, recording “Mamo” (Uncle) Yona Gabbay’s stories, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, circa 1963. PROFESSOR POLOTSKY’S INTEREST was linguistics: what an informant’s words could reveal about Neo-Aramaic grammar, syntax, and its ...
( Category: Jewish June 12,2015 )

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