Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2016-02-24 | Author:Sunil Khilnani [Khilnani, Sunil]

As the Swadeshi movement gained traction across India, British administrators scrambled to react and repress. Between the summers of 1906 and 1907, the British prosecuted nine newspapers, and deported several ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs April 8,2016 )
epub |eng, jpn | 2013-02-05 | Author:Donna Jackson Nakazawa

* * * I RECALL READING The work of researchers at Cornell University, who recently discovered that during adolescence the brain actually employs mechanisms to suppress its most fearful memories ...
( Category: Medical April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Jacqueline Morley

One of the plays that opened the Globe’s first season was Will’s Julius Caesar. Luckily for us, a Swiss tourist called Thomas Platter went to a performance of it on ...
( Category: Authors April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laurie Lee [Lee, Laurie]

5. Castillo of the Sugar Canes We had come down now to the warm south coast, to a small fishing village which I shall call Castillo – though this is ...
( Category: Political April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Saroo Brierley

8. Resuming the Search By now, I should have been used to life’s many unexpected twists and turns. But things still manage to take me completely by surprise, and though ...
( Category: Australian April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Otto Dov Kulka [Dov Kulka, Otto]

22. 23. 24. The immutable law of the Great Death, the immutable law which recurs in that dream in infinite permutations, which in one place I called ‘the eternal death ...
( Category: Holocaust April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-17 | Author:John Bingham [Bingham, John]

Chapter 11 They say that jealousy is caused by fear, or a lack of self-confidence, or a feeling of insecurity; but I am under the impression that I felt supremely ...
( Category: Arts & Photography April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Daniel J. Boorstin [Boorstin, Daniel J.]

Leonardo could not have painted the work so sporadically if it had been fresco, which would have incorporated his labors into the body of the wall. Fresco had to be ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Erskine Clarke [Clarke, Erskine]

LEIGHTON WAS DEEPLY impressed by the Mpongwe during his early years at Baraka. He had seen much of the West Coast of Africa, from Sierra Leone in the north to ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Sydell Waxman

The First Cut For a long, long time, Emily couldn’t bring herself to cut the insect. Finally she relaxed and opened the insect. Practising helped. She went to her dissection ...
( Category: Arts & Photography April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Srinivas, Rukmini

By three o’clock in the afternoon, the time mentioned by the astrologer as auspicious, a few close friends of the family arrived and soon, the house was packed with invitees. ...
( Category: Culinary April 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-05 | Author:Buddy Levy [Levy, Buddy]

This portrait highlights Crockett’s high cheekbones, which he described as “Red Rosy Cheeks that I have carried so many years.” (David Crockett. Watercolor drawing by James Hamilton Shegogue, 1831. Smithsonian ...
( Category: Religious April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer

In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nicola Sly [Sly, Nicola]

17 ‘To kill is one thing; to commit murder is another’ Woodhouse Mill, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1893 At just after thre o’clock on the morning of 16 February 1893, ...
( Category: True Crime April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Flinn, Kathleen [Flinn, Kathleen]

No-Knead Artisan Bread for Busy People This recipe is adapted from the master recipe in the excellent book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë ...
( Category: Culinary April 8,2016 )