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I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom's Highway by Greg Kot
epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Greg Kot [Kot, Greg]

23 Back to the motherland It was a party fifty thousand feet in the sky, a summit of entertainers from the worlds of soul, gospel, and jazz stuffed into a ...
( Category: Rhythm & Blues December 18,2015 )
Failures of the Presidents by Thomas J Craughwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Thomas J Craughwell

NATIONAL REGRET A movement for redress gathered force in the late 1960s and early 1970s and gradually, belatedly, won some concessions from the government. In 1976, President Gerald Ford rescinded ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 18,2015 )
The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Popham

PART FOUR HEIRS TO THE KINGDOM 1 ALONE ON the day they placed me under arrest,” Suu told an American journalist who visited her at home in 1995, “this garden ...
( Category: Political December 18,2015 )
The Auschwitz Kommandant by Barbara Cherish
epub |eng | 2010-12-17 | Author:Barbara Cherish [Barbara U. Cherish]

Childhood fantasies and Stories told Were of Angels and Cherubs to behold, These Angelic forms with extended wings Forever back to my childhood brings, These words still echo, so few ...
( Category: Fascism December 18,2015 )
Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch by Ben Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Ben Thompson [Thompson, Ben]

So Colonel Chamberlain, a schoolteacher in his regular life (kind of like Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan), completely out of ammo and with the entire fate of the Civil ...
( Category: Humor December 17,2015 )
The Western Front 1915 by Peter F Batchelor
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Peter F Batchelor

Battle of Festubert After sixty hours – the longest artillery bombardment of the war to date – the battalion, having moved up to its assembly positions during the night, prepared ...
( Category: Veterans December 17,2015 )
Somme 1916 by Gerald Gliddon
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Gerald Gliddon

On 8 August Coury was made a full lieutenant, but he had decided to transfer to the RFC and on 28 August joined No. 13 Squadron at Savy Aubigny, north-west ...
( Category: General December 17,2015 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
The Obamas by Kantor Jodi
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kantor, Jodi [Kantor, Jodi]

PERHAPS THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT the relationship between the president, the first lady, and the advisers was the sheer expansion it measured in the Obama union. That was the singular ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 17,2015 )
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction by Guy John
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-10 | Author:Guy, John [Guy, John]

The Court of Philip and Mary Philip was accorded his own royal household. The queen’s household was located in what, during her father’s and brother’s reigns, was the part of ...
( Category: Great Britain December 14,2015 )
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas by Cass R. Sunstein
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cass R. Sunstein

THE WRONGDOER IDENTITY PROBLEM The current stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is a result of the behavior of people from the past. Many of them are now dead. ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies December 10,2015 )
The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II by Winston Groom
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-11-10 | Author:Winston Groom [Groom, Winston]

ON FEBRUARY 21, 1938, Jean MacArthur presented her husband with a seven pound, eight ounce boy who was christened Arthur MacArthur IV. He was tended to by Jean and a ...
( Category: World War I December 7,2015 )
Law of the Jungle by John Otis
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:John Otis

“IT’S EASY TO CRY OVER SPILLED milk,” Clara Rojas later wrote. “But if the president’s attitude had been different on that day, we very probably would not have been kidnapped.” ...
( Category: Military December 6,2015 )
Cameron at 10 by Anthony Seldon
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Anthony Seldon

TWENTY-FOUR Warfare Over Welfare May 2010–December 2014 ‘We will all need to hold our nerve,’ Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith tells Cameron early in the New Year. ‘Everything is happening ...
( Category: Leadership December 5,2015 )
Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender
epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Brent Schlender [Schlender, Brent]

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify ...
( Category: Rich & Famous December 5,2015 )

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