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The Call of the Farm: An Unexpected Year of Getting Dirty, Home Cooking, and Finding Myself by Bilow Rochelle
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Bilow, Rochelle [Bilow, Rochelle]

LATE AUGUST Because Stonehill functioned as a year-round CSA, the crops grown and offered in the summer and early fall months were chosen, in part, because of their preservation-friendly qualities. ...
( Category: Memoirs January 19,2018 )
A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Geoff Manaugh [Manaugh, Geoff]

Secret Keys Hidden in the Objects Around Us TOOOL was founded in the Netherlands by security researcher and lock expert Barry Wels. TOOOL describes itself as “a growing group of ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 19,2018 )
Last Night in the OR by Bud Shaw
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Bud Shaw

• • • Rebecca’s grandmother died on Sunday morning, a week after she suffered the stroke and fell and bruised her arm but didn’t break it. We were at home ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments January 19,2018 )
Significant Figures by Stewart Ian
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Stewart, Ian

The lecture was a triumph, even though the only person present who was likely to understand it fully was Gauss. Riemann’s originality made a big impression on Gauss, who told ...
( Category: Mathematics January 19,2018 )
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers by Lawrence G. McDonald & Patrick Robinson
epub |eng | 2009-07-21 | Author:Lawrence G. McDonald & Patrick Robinson [Lawrence G. McDonald & Patrick Robinson]

8 The Mortgage Bonanza Blows Out These were people who, in the five thousand years of recorded human house construction, never would have been granted a mortgage to purchase even ...
( Category: Biography & History January 18,2018 )
Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad
epub |eng | 2017-10-01 | Author:Roben Farzad [Farzad, Roben]

He regrets nothing, he told the Herald. Morales said he would gladly bomb the Cubana Airlines DC-8 again if he thought it was necessary. “I don’t repent doing it, despite ...
( Category: True Crime January 18,2018 )
Obeying Evil by Ryan Green
epub |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:Ryan Green [Green, Ryan]

Part 3: Open Warfare Ronald drew in a breath of the stale, sickly sweet air and let his sticky eyes open onto the total darkness of his room. Out of ...
( Category: True Crime January 18,2018 )
The Rise and Fall of a Casino Mobster by Frank Cullotta
epub |eng | 2017-04-25 | Author:Frank Cullotta [Cullotta, Frank]

13 King of the Strip When I got into Vegas in 1979 my first stop was at Tony’s Gold Rush jewelry store on West Sahara. Tony and Herb “Fat Herbie” ...
( Category: Specific Groups January 18,2018 )
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-18 | Author:Diana Athill

9 NO LESS INTENSELY than drawing, but much more consistently, gardening has been an activity which has given me, and still gives me, great pleasure. In my early youth it ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 18,2018 )
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders
epub |eng | 2017-12-24 | Author:Cait Flanders

7 january: rewriting the rules months sober: 24 income saved: 56% confidence I can complete this project: 90% I returned to my apartment in Port Moody on New Year’s Eve, ...
( Category: Motivational January 18,2018 )
Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution by Lee Edwards
epub |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Lee Edwards [Edwards, Lee]

Goldwater campaigned as he had in California rather than New Hampshire, making two or three major speeches a day in heavily populated areas and depending on the news media to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 18,2018 )
The Mommie Dearest Collection by Christina Crawford
epub |eng | 2017-09-13 | Author:Christina Crawford

CHAPTER 23 I hadn’t seen much of my brother during this time. I’d heard that he’d had a bad time of it at his last several schools and been transferred ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People January 18,2018 )
Garden State Gangland by Scott M. Deitche
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Scott M. Deitche

The Blue Mirror, Longy Zwillman’s hangout in the 1930s and 1940s. Source: Author’s collection. Site of the Casablanca Club in Newark, a major underworld hangout owned by Longy Zwillman. Source: ...
( Category: True Crime January 18,2018 )
Philo of Alexandria by Maren R. Niehoff
epub |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:Maren R. Niehoff [Niehoff, Maren R.]

PART 3 Young Philo among Alexandrian Jews 9 Biblical Commentary Having appreciated Philo in his later works, which he wrote in the context of his embassy to Rome, we are ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs January 18,2018 )
A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours by John Allen Paulos
epub |eng | 2015-11-10 | Author:John Allen Paulos [Paulos, John Allen]

CHOOSING A SPOUSE, MEETING MY WIFE, SHEILA Logical seduction aside, a number of other ideas from game theory, probability, and various mathematical disciplines tangentially are relevant to the issue of ...
( Category: Mathematics January 17,2018 )

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