Professionals & Academics
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Roald Dahl, Donald Sturrock (Editor)

Roald, shortly after he began his RAF flying training in Nairobi, 1939. Of the sixteen people with whom he did his initial training, only three survived the war. Ultimately I ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-11 | Author:Sebastian Mallaby [Mallaby, Sebastian]

Twenty-one THE ZIPSWITCH CHAIRMAN Orange County, California, is the home of Disneyland—and therefore of the Sleeping Beauty Castle. In late 1994 it became notorious for a fantasy castle of the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Winterburn

9 ORDER IN THE SKIES While their English friends and colleagues might have looked upon the revolutions in France and America with excitement, the Herschels had already lived through enough ...
( Category: World November 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-21 | Author:Harry Ognall

In my latter years as a Silk my practice took on an overseas dimension. For that reason alone, my last two inclusions deserve to come from abroad. In the spring ...
( Category: Criminal Law November 7,2017 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Ray Monk [Monk, Ray]

16 LANGUAGE-GAMES: The Blue and Brown Books AFTER WITTGENSTEIN’S RETURN to Cambridge for the academic year of 1933–4, Wittgenstein and Skinner were rarely to be seen apart: they both had ...
( Category: Philosophy November 6,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:John Steinbeck

MUSSOLINI LONDON, August 9, 1943—The ship was in mid-ocean when Mussolini resigned. Rumor ran among the soldiers and the crew and the Army nurses that something important had happened. Then, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Kamkwamba, William [William, Kamkwamba,]

TWO WEEKS AFTER BURYING my dog, Cholera swept the district. The epidemic had started in November in the southern region near Mwanza. A farmer from that area traveled to a ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Kidder, Tracy [Tracy, Kidder,]

In his conscious mind, Deo was aware of being afraid, not of dying, but of dying the way his uncle the doctor had, or the family in the house in ...
( Category: Africa November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Eric Blehm

Some considered the backcountry rangers arrogant. They generally associated only with each other and made little effort to talk to the other rangers at training. Their behavior wasn’t endearing. “My ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Flavius Josephus [Josephus, Flavius]

Book VIII CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE YEARS. FROM THE DEATH OF DAVID TO THE DEATH OF AHAB. CHAPTER 1. HOW SOLOMON, WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED THE ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-30 | Author:Hilary Liftin [Liftin, Hilary]

The next night, I called Neal. “Today is my birthday,” I told him. “Right,” he said. “Happy birthday.” Devil’s Candy You try to end things with candy. You tell candy ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Michael D'Antonio [D'Antonio, Michael]

10 TRUMP THE SPECTACLE I am the creator of my own comic book, and I love living in it. —DONALD TRUMP Donald Trump never went bankrupt. He would frequently and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Laura Furman

“There was more, but I can’t remember it.” “Many waters,” said Val with his eyes closed, “cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-02-01 | Author:Joseph Pistone [Pistone, Joseph]

bookmaking operation goes on seven days a week. We were now entering August, and football season was about to start. Special agent Joseph Pistone, operating undercover as jewel thief “Donnie ...
( Category: True Crime November 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:J R Moehringer [Moehringer, J R]

Along the way, however, Sidney had a change of heart. She said she’d decided to drop me in Darien, where I could catch the shuttle the rest of the way. ...
( Category: Memoirs November 1,2017 )