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My Life and an Era by John Hope Franklin
epub |eng | 1997-01-15 | Author:John Hope Franklin

7 ARDMORE In the fall of 1906 we sold the farm and all our livestock, except the horse and buggy, and moved to Ardmore, to a home we bought in ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges January 12,2023 )
50 Shades of Greed by Ivor Blumenthal
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Ivor Blumenthal

A matter of accountability From a corporate governance point of view, it was critically important that within the SETA, before a project was initiated, it would need to be approved ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 12,2023 )
All the Light Here Comes from Above: the Life and Legacy of Edward Hitchcock by Robert T. McMaster
epub |eng | | Author:Robert T. McMaster

Year after year too many of the graduates went forth, not to invite and attract students, but to turn them away by reporting that the government was arbitrary, the president ...
( Category: Scientists January 12,2023 )
Raven's Witness by Hank Lentfer
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Hank Lentfer

Kathy’s long hours in the garden paid off, with more radishes, lettuce, onions, and beet greens than they could ever eat. Bushes within a stone’s throw of the house produced ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 12,2023 )
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology by Ira E. Harrison
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Ira E. Harrison

Education Mabel Gwaltney mounted an effort to get John in the program that would give him the best education her visually impaired son could receive. So she wrote a letter ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists January 12,2023 )
The House of Hope and Fear by Audrey Young
epub |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Audrey Young

The following morning, Alice told me that Fred Wirth, the drinker with the gangrenous foot, was back. “I’m bringing him in,” Alice said. “How did he get here?” “He walked. ...
( Category: Medical January 12,2023 )
Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Janisse Ray

JUNGLE Chan Chich Lodge in northwestern Belize will be the last stop on our tour of paradise. Headed there by bus, deep in rainforest, we ask our driver to stop ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 12,2023 )
Killing My Own Snakes by Ann Leslie
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Leslie [Leslie, Ann]

18 Stop the Rot Robert Robinson, chairman of the long-running BBC Radio 4 chat show Stop the Week, was holding forth in the pub which its BBC regulars called the ...
( Category: Journalists January 12,2023 )
Wallace Stegner and the American West by Philip L. Fradkin
epub |eng | 2008-02-12 | Author:Philip L. Fradkin

WHO WAS THIS man through whom Stegner narrated the history of the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century and who briefly became, or so Stegner believed, ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists January 12,2023 )
Baldwin of the Times by Robert Davies
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Davies [Davies, Robert B.]

CHAPTER Korea, 1950–53 The sudden beginning of the Korean War in 1950 caught Baldwin by surprise, as it did many others. The conventional wisdom in the postwar years was that ...
( Category: Journalists January 12,2023 )
JOHNSON V. JOHNSON by Barbara Goldsmith
epub |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Barbara Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Barbara]

I decided, “What’s going on here? Who’s the person I fear the most?” It was Basia. So I said, “Well, I’ll find out. Might as well go right to the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 12,2023 )
The Last Editor by Jim Bellows
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Jim Bellows [Bellows, Jim]

I joined the Los Angeles Times in December 1966. The following years were an explosive era. The Times supported the Vietnam War; Paul Conrad and I, and a few others, ...
( Category: Journalists January 12,2023 )
A Lethal Inheritance by Victoria Costello
epub |eng | | Author:Victoria Costello

In 1982, Ronald Reagan moved into the White House, and the tone of the capital, where Geoff, Alex, and I still lived, changed dramatically overnight. Fortunately, Geoff, working as an ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists January 11,2023 )
Willard Garvey by Maura McEnaney
epub |eng | | Author:Maura McEnaney

WHEAT FOR HOMES: EVERY MAN A CAPITALIST “Property rights are the foundation of individual freedom.”–WWG FROM THE GANGWAY of the M.V. Caronia ocean liner, a squinting 82-year-old Jean Garvey gingerly ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 11,2023 )
Growing Up Boeing by Rebecca Wallick
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Wallick

Flutter Next, in terms of adding data points into the box, come tests of the high speed/high altitude handling characteristics of the airplane—the upper portion of the box. The flight ...
( Category: Scientists January 10,2023 )

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