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Savonarola by Donald Weinstein
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Donald Weinstein

CHAPTER 16 I Can’t Live without Preaching “Well, we’re still here; we haven’t run away. By now they should be content with all the lies they’ve told. They say we’ve ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 18,2017 )
The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Morley

12. He is writing as the Actor some sleeve notes to Hunky Dory, but leaving most of what’s going on open to interpretation. He’s only giving so much away because ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 15,2017 )
The End of Protest by Micah White
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Micah White [White, Micah]

Strategic Insight The Ghost Dance is a crucial example for activists to consider. It validates voluntarism and theurgism. Protest does not need to directly challenge power in order to be ...
( Category: Political Advocacy January 15,2017 )
The New Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev
epub |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

Ordeal by global crisis Russia, and not only she, was soon to face another test of her resolve, a global financial crisis. When it broke, I was in the United ...
( Category: European January 15,2017 )
Mary Astor's Purple Diary by Edward Sorel
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Sorel

Mary’s worried attorney read the tabloids and asked her whether there were going to be any more surprises at the trial. Mary swore the revelations were bogus. Woolley believed her, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous January 9,2017 )
The Complete History of Black Sabbath: What Evil Lurks by Joel McIver
epub |eng | 2016-01-08 | Author:Joel McIver

Metallica, fronted by James Hetfield, opened for Ozzy’s band during the Ultimate Sin tour. PARENTAL ADVISORY Less amusing developments were in store for Ozzy in 1986. One of his old ...
( Category: Popular January 9,2017 )
Peter The Great: Autocrat And Reformer by Michael W. Simmons
epub |eng | 2016-12-17 | Author:Michael W. Simmons [W. Simmons, Michael]

When the interrogations were finished, there were so many prisoners to execute that they had to be killed in batches throughout the fall and winter. Twelve hundred men were executed, ...
( Category: Royalty January 9,2017 )
The Purple Diaries by Joseph Egan
epub |eng | 2016-10-30 | Author:Joseph Egan [Egan, Joseph]

• • • The press also reported that Kaufman had made a plane reservation for a “quick dash back to New York” where, according to Kaufman, New York “would seem ...
( Category: Rich & Famous January 8,2017 )
Wearing God by Lauren F. Winner
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Lauren F. Winner

But let us imagine an alternative: let us imagine that Joseph and the midwives’ absence from the birth imply not that Mary had an effortless labor but rather that God—who ...
( Category: Meditations January 8,2017 )
Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood by Dori Katz
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Dori Katz [Katz, Dori]

CLOSE CALLS, 1942 “Don’t ask how I managed after your father’s arrest,” said Golda. “We went to my brother Fischel, and we stayed there for a while. I was afraid ...
( Category: World January 8,2017 )
George Washington's Secret Spy War by John A. Nagy
epub |eng | | Author:John A. Nagy

Eleven DECEPTION BATTLE PLAN: THE OBJECTIVE At the beginning of 1781 the war was not going well for the Americans. In the south, Charles Town (now known as Charleston), South ...
( Category: American Revolution December 11,2016 )
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Foote Shelby
epub |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:Foote, Shelby [Foote, Shelby]

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War December 10,2016 )
Hemingway at War by Terry Mort
epub |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Terry Mort

To Hemingway, Paris was a city of memory and nostalgia, the place where he had served his apprenticeship as a writer, the place where he and his first wife, Hadley, ...
( Category: World War II December 9,2016 )
Empire and Revolution by Richard Bourke
epub |eng | 2015-12-06 | Author:Richard Bourke

X A DREADFUL STATE OF THINGS MADRAS AND BENGAL, 1777–1785 10.1 Introduction As Burke pondered the implications of a formal pact with the American colonies that might help bring to ...
( Category: History & Theory December 7,2016 )
Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
epub |eng | 2015-01-08 | Author:Henepola Gunaratana

CHAPTER 11 Dealing with Distractions I AT SOME TIME, every meditator encounters distractions during practice, and methods are needed to deal with them. Many useful strategies have been devised to ...
( Category: Meditation December 6,2016 )

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