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Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead by Ed Mead
epub |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Ed Mead [Mead, Ed]

Yes, I was disappointed by the response of Seattle’s left to our initial bombing, but rather than blame them, I looked for ways to build bridges. We knew that without ...
( Category: Social Activists February 10,2016 )
The Elimination by Rithy Panh
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Rithy Panh [Panh, Rithy]

I study Louis Althusser’s For Marx and some of Étienne Balibar’s texts on Marx and historical materialism. The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt. Adorno’s The ...
( Category: Asia February 8,2016 )
The Triumph of William McKinley by Karl Rove
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Rove

CHAPTER 23 Change Course or Fail The McKinley men gloated over Bryan’s nomination. They could not believe that anyone so young, inexperienced, and extreme had won the Democratic nomination. Bryan’s ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 6,2016 )
One Man Against the World by Tim Weiner
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Weiner

CHAPTER NINETEEN “We have produced a horrible tragedy” AT 12:45 A.M. on Saturday, June 17, CREEP’s security chief, James McCord, and his crew of four Cuban Americans tiptoed into the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 4,2016 )
Lady Bird and Lyndon by Betty Boyd Caroli
epub |eng | | Author:Betty Boyd Caroli

14 LINCHPIN IN THE LAUNCH OF THE GREAT SOCIETY ON JANUARY 20, 1965, as thousands gathered on the side of the Capitol and millions more tuned in on TV to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 2,2016 )
Adele by Chas Newkey-Burden
epub |eng | 2015-12-28 | Author:Chas Newkey-Burden [NEWKEY-BURDEN, CHAS]

Adele in full flow in 2011. © Rex Features Barnstorming the Brits in 2011. © Rex Features The BRITS school helped to make Adele a star. © Rex Features The ...
( Category: Popular January 31,2016 )
33 Days: A Memoir by Leon Werth
mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Leon Werth [Werth, Leon]

Aufresne is washing and polishing his unusable car, which has a leaky piston rod. He prunes a hedge. He knows how to kill a rabbit and turn its skin inside ...
( Category: World War II January 30,2016 )
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician by Allen Shawn
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Allen Shawn

His will. In Bernstein’s work, the Kaddish text, which is traditionally recited by men, is sung three times through by the soprano solo, chorus, and boys’ choir. His treatment of ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians January 27,2016 )
Himmler by Peter Padfield
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Peter Padfield [Peter Padfield]

Eventually a compromise was achieved whereby Clauberg was given facilities within the new camp at Auschwitz–Birkenau, closer to his clinic than Ravensbrück was, where he experimented on young married Jewesses ...
( Category: Germany January 26,2016 )
Interventions A Life in War and Peace (NF8) by Kofi Annan
epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Kofi Annan [Annan, Kofi]

AFRICA EMPOWERED My role in mediating the violent 2008 Kenyan political crisis, backed by a remarkable international and African support network, was one for which, in some ways, I had ...
( Category: Political January 26,2016 )
Fidel: A Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-12 | Author:Tad Szulc [Szulc, Tad]

CHAPTER 9 The crossing of the Granma from Tuxpán on the Mexican coast of the Gulf to the coast of Oriente province in Cuba was pure nightmare, lasting seven days ...
( Category: Political January 26,2016 )
Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons From an Emerging Missional Church (The Leadership Network Innovation) by Mark Driscoll
mobi |eng | 2006-04-18 | Author:Mark Driscoll

I was not a Christian when I came to the church. Today I am a pastor. 0310270162_confess_rev.indd 115 02/03/06 11:44:50 AM Jesus, Why Am I Getting Fatter and Meaner? 350 ...
( Category: Pastoral Resources January 26,2016 )
Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph (9780804170826) by Lawrence T. E
epub |eng | 2013-08-12 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T.E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph by Lawrence T. E
mobi |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Lawrence, T. E. [Lawrence, T. E.]

CHAPTER LX VESSELS steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: World War I January 26,2016 )
Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG by Yarborough Tom
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Yarborough, Tom [Yarborough, Tom]

CHAPTER 7 STANDING UP IN A HAMMOCK 1 October 1970: A Rustic FAC went down in Cambodia. The Head Covey told us that the O-2 was hit by automatic weapons ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 24,2016 )

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