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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Obama Barack
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Obama, Barack [Obama, Barack]

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 27,2014 )
Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening by Mary Lutyens
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-10-11 | Author:Mary Lutyens

Krishna’s own account follows. It was sent at the same time as Nitya’s but the latter part was written only two days after the events described: Ever since I left ...
( Category: Indian October 27,2014 )
The Flight of the Eagle by Krishnamurti
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:Krishnamurti

Questioner: Can one be free instantly and live without conflicts or does it take time? Krishnamurti: Can one live without the past immediately or does getting rid of the past ...
( Category: Eastern October 27,2014 )
Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee by Thomas J. Craughwell
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Thomas J. Craughwell [ Craughwell, Thomas J.]

As for French fries, Jefferson knew them as pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches, or potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings. Of course, baking macaroni with ...
( Category: French October 27,2014 )
Oil and Honey by Bill McKibben
epub |eng | 2014-10-17 | Author:Bill McKibben

5 ON THE ROAD AGAIN Pandemonium! We were in one of Kirk’s big beeyards on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, breaking down big hives into small colonies that would ...
( Category: Social Activists October 27,2014 )
Knife Fights by John A. Nagl
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:John A. Nagl

Stability operations are a core US military mission that the Department of Defense shall be prepared to conduct and support. They shall be given priority comparable to combat operations and ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars October 27,2014 )
Bakunin by Mark Leier
epub |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Mark Leier

11 LIBERTY WITHOUT SOCIALISM IS INJUSTICE; SOCIALISM WITHOUT LIBERTY IS SLAVERY By 1867, Bakunin, always physically, mentally, and politically restive, had had enough of Italy and the relatively quiet activism ...
( Category: Anarchism October 27,2014 )
Level Zero Heroes by Michael Golembesky
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Golembesky

14 PRO 6 AND THE ENTOURAGE WEST HELO PAD, FOB TODD Sherman’s remains lay within a flag-draped body bag atop a stretcher. Six of his brothers stood ready beside him. ...
( Category: Afghan War October 27,2014 )
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Kara Cooney

She continues with a section on how temple building is akin to marking herself as the chosen one. The temple of the mistress of Qusae, which had (completely) fallen into ...
( Category: Women October 27,2014 )
Young Titan by Michael Shelden
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shelden

XVIII SOUND AND FURY The tall, creamy stucco house at one end of Eccleston Square—Number 33—was in a quiet part of London in those days, a leafy enclave tucked between ...
( Category: Great Britain October 27,2014 )
Nehru by Shashi Tharoor
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shashi Tharoor

8 “Commanding Heights”: 1947–1957 One man did not join the celebrations that midnight. Mahatma Gandhi stayed in Calcutta, fasting, striving to keep the peace in a city that just a ...
( Category: India October 16,2014 )
The Joys of Love by Madeleine L'engle
epub |eng | 2011-08-08 | Author:Madeleine L'engle

Act III SUNDAY ON SUNDAYS practically no one had breakfast at the Cottage. Elizabeth and Ben sat out in the kitchen with Mrs. Browden, eating chicken livers on toast. John ...
( Category: New Experiences October 16,2014 )
Secret Lives of the Tsars by Michael Farquhar
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]

* * * *1 While her son disdained all the ceremony and glitter of sovereignty, and opted to live quietly, his haughty, cold, and categorical mother, Dowager Empress Maria, reveled ...
( Category: Russia October 16,2014 )
Polka King by Jimmy Sturr
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Sturr [Sturr, Jimmy]

Phil Niekro, number 35, dancing the polka at Yankee Stadium with the band in the background. The following spring—right in the middle of spring training—our band was playing a show ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians October 16,2014 )
Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World by Gary Lachman
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Gary Lachman [Lachman, Gary]

EIGHT IN AND OUT OF THE ABBEY OF THELEMA Crowley’s exit from New York in late 1919 was not auspicious. He had arranged for a publisher in Detroit to bring ...
( Category: Rock October 16,2014 )

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