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The Music of Pythagoras by Kitty Ferguson
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Kitty Ferguson

Plutarch, from a sixteenth-century engraving Of all who thought that Plato derived his ideas from Pythagoras, no other was so convinced and outspoken as Moderatus of Gades, known as the ...
( Category: Greece June 6,2015 )
The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson
epub |eng | 2007-06-03 | Author:Mark Edmundson

Freud had on his desk at 39 Elsworthy Road the third chapter of his Moses book, the chapter that would be by far the most incendiary. When it was completed—if ...
( Category: European June 4,2015 )
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Khlevniuk Oleg V
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Khlevniuk, Oleg V. [Khlevniuk, Oleg V.]

THE STATE DEFENSE COMMITTEE Stalin’s actions during the war’s first days were frenetic, confused, and reactive. Even though he did not grasp the situation and was not qualified to manage ...
( Category: Russia June 4,2015 )
The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink by Pamela Katz
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Pamela Katz

CHAPTER 11 The Beginning of the End Five months after the opening of The Threepenny Opera, Weill was standing before the grand Kroll Opera House, score in hand, taking in ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 2,2015 )
A Croft in the Hills by Stewart Katharine
epub |eng | 2013-08-07 | Author:Stewart, Katharine

CHAPTER XI THE BIG GALE ABOUT the middle of December occurred one of those minor miracles, which are apt to be left out of a normally well-reasoned forecast of events, ...
( Category: Great Britain June 1,2015 )
Head Over Heels in France by Samantha Brick
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Samantha Brick

I sense, although don't ask Pascal outright, that a family camping trip wouldn't be his number one idea of a holiday either. We're not hunting anything, he can't make all ...
( Category: General June 1,2015 )
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

12. THE FACULTY Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes et non de leurs maladies. MOLIÈRE Illness and death were very dreadful at Versailles. As soon as the breath ...
( Category: France June 1,2015 )
A Russian Journal (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

The hay in the little barn was sweet. Rabbits in a cage against the wall rustled and nibbled in the dark. On the other side of the mud wall a ...
( Category: Russia May 30,2015 )
The Alchemy of Air
epub |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Thomas Hager

What Fritz has achieved in these eight years, I have lost—and even more. And what’s left fills me with the deepest dissatisfaction. . . . [E]ven if external circumstances and ...
( Category: Germany May 30,2015 )
A Cool and Lonely Courage by Susan Ottaway
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Susan Ottaway

CHAPTER 15 Didi Vanishes The day after Jacqueline had returned to England the Stationer circuit was sent a new wireless operator. René Mathieu (Aimé) arrived to take over from Maingard ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by Cathy Porter
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Cathy Porter

26th March. It’s a great pity I haven’t kept an accurate account of the various events and conversations that have taken place. What interested me most were all the letters, ...
( Category: Russia May 27,2015 )
Death of Caesar : The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination (9781451668827) by Strauss Barry
epub |eng | | Author:Strauss, Barry

MARCH 17: RECONCILIATION That same day, March 17, the conspirators invited the Roman people to the Capitoline and a large number accepted. Brutus addressed them, speaking, it seems, either in ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2015 )
Kasztner's Train by Anna Porter
epub |eng | 2007-05-26 | Author:Anna Porter [Porter, Anna]

(22) Still Trading in Lives I had no confidence in Horthy or those around him. They were all lacking in courage… We had only one chance to gain time and ...
( Category: Holocaust May 27,2015 )
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Charlotte Gordon [Gordon, Charlotte]

Suicide had become more than an escape from suffering; it was a leap into eternal life. Feeling firm in her convictions and holding on to her vision of immortality, she ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )
Into Africa by Martin Dugard
epub |eng | 2003-05-05 | Author:Martin Dugard

• CHAPTER 20 • Gondokoro May 26, 1871 Gondokoro, the Upper Nile 730 Miles to Livingstone As he stood on the edge of the Nile, with rows and rows of ...
( Category: Great Britain May 27,2015 )

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