Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2015-05-23 | Author:Marlene Wagman-Geller

In the early 1960s, two back-to-back tragedies knocked on the door whose patio looked out on the world-famous sign. The first occurred when Ginny left for a weekend and Laura ...
( Category: Women May 24,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Ashlee Vance

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 24,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Jane Hawking

5 Celtic Woodland It was obvious: we were living on the edge of a precipice. Yet it is possible even on the edge of a precipice to put down roots ...
( Category: Scientists May 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Taya Kyle

I called my mom. “Mom, I can’t talk, okay?” I said quickly. “Okay,” she answered. “Chris has been shot. I don’t know where he is. I want you to pray ...
( Category: Military May 19,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Schneer, Jonathan [Schneer, Jonathan]

CHAPTER 10 The Impact of Professor Beveridge IN JUNE 1940, AFTER NEGOTIATIONS WITH MUSSOLINI HAD BEEN RULED out and a fight to the finish against Germany agreed upon, socialists and ...
( Category: History & Theory May 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Schneer, Jonathan [Schneer, Jonathan]

The audience roared its approval. Beaverbrook was at the peak of his powers and riding the crest of the wave. What might he not aspire to, given his reception at ...
( Category: History & Theory May 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Unknown

TRADITIONAL ELITES Workers and the Meaning of Labor On the one hand, workers in war-related industries faced enormous, if not impossible, labor quotas. On the other hand, they enjoyed some ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs May 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Sarah Manguso [Manguso, Sarah]

When I was almost nine months pregnant, my mother-in-law began receiving hospice care. My doctor wouldn’t permit me to cross the ocean to see her. My husband didn’t want to ...
( Category: Authors May 15,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Pete McCarthy

Patsy Cline is singing “Crazy” on the radio as I cross the harbor bridge and head northeast towards Louisville and the ferry to Maria Island, where Smith O’Brien was confined. ...
( Category: Irish May 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-18 | Author:Esther Baker

10 Leaving the temple ‘I am the LORD your God...You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of ...
( Category: Comparative Religion May 14,2015 )
epub | | 2014-12-18 | Author:Michael Peppiatt

Part Three 1963–92 11 ‘A Brilliant Fool Like Me’ 1963–69 Life is so meaningless we might as well try to make ourselves extraordinary. Francis Bacon (in conversation) Francis Bacon’s reputation ...
( Category: Arts & Literature May 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-01 | Author:Neil Daniels [Daniels, Neil]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE HOBBIT IN NEW ZEALAND ‘When people call me an everyman they think it’s a compliment. I want to rip their fucking eyeballs out. I don’t want to ...
( Category: Arts & Photography May 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Zachary Leader [Leader, Zachary]

THAT AUGIE IS JEWISH and speaks an English in which Yiddish inflections, constructions, and expressions are heard, is part of what makes him a Columbus. In recounting his adventures, he ...
( Category: United States May 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:John Lydon & Keith Zimmerman & Kent Zimmerman [Lydon, John & Zimmerman, Keith & Zimmerman, Kent]

SEGMENT 11: STEVE SEVERIN ON THE BROMLEY CONTINGENT STEVE SEVERIN BATTERSEA, LONDON Bromley is in the south of London—the last stop before you hit real countryside. Bromley was its own ...
( Category: Punk May 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-09-12 | Author:Tommy Lee & Anthony Bozza [Lee, Tommy & Bozza, Anthony]

“Hey, man, how are you doin’? What’s up?” “Nothing. I’m just out here enjoying the weather and the beach.” “Oh, really? The beach is behind you. Are you getting gas? ...
( Category: Rock May 13,2015 )