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A Colony of Citizens (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) by Dubois Laurent
epub |eng | 2012-11-30 | Author:Dubois, Laurent [Dubois, Laurent]

Citizen-Soldiers In 1802, General Antoine Richepance blamed the “ignorance” of the Republican black soldiers for the insurrection he had just defeated. The island of Guadeloupe, he complained, had been “under ...
( Category: European History October 19,2021 )
Marvels of Pond-life Or, A Year's Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-bears and Polyzoa by Henry James Slack
epub |eng | 2011-07-29 | Author:Henry James Slack [Slack, Henry James]

When any of the monads swarm, there are sure to be plenty of other creatures to eat them up, and in this instance the predaceous animalcule, already described, was not ...
( Category: African History October 19,2021 )
The Persistence of the Palestinian Question by Massad Joseph
epub |eng | 2006-09-26 | Author:Massad, Joseph [Massad, Joseph]

This is too absurd a book for me to respond to. Who made the intifada in Gaza? He, in America, did not make the intifada! . . . The PLO ...
( Category: Middle East History October 19,2021 )
Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
epub |eng | 2005-07-01 | Author:Hugh Macmillan [Macmillan, Hugh]

One of the most valuable results of the expedition of the great Napoleon to Egypt, ostensibly for scientific and antiquarian purposes, but really for military glory, was the acquisition of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 19,2021 )
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
epub |eng | 2007-11-14 | Author:Mayne Reid [Reid, Mayne]

* * * Chapter Twenty Two. The Trapper Trapped. “Well, then,” began Redwood, “the thing I’m agoin’ to tell you about, happened to me when I war a younker, long ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
Social Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre
epub |eng | 2006-05-07 | Author:Jean-Henri Fabre [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

Here is a partial explanation of the double system of the Hymenoptera with their carnivorous larvæ—the system of dead or paralysed insects followed by honey. But here the point of ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 19,2021 )
Bramble-Bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre
epub |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Jean-Henri Fabre [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

CHAPTER 9. THE COTTON-BEES. The evidence of the Leaf-cutters proves that a certain latitude is left to the insect in its choice of materials for the nest; and this is ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
The Story of the Country House by Clive Aslet
epub |eng | 2021-07-21 | Author:Clive Aslet

This amounted to ‘a kind of revolution in the whole system of this useful and elegant art’. The idea that taste could be subject to revolutions was itself new. One ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
The House Fly and How to Suppress It by F. C. Bishopp & L. O. Howard
epub |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:F. C. Bishopp & L. O. Howard [Bishopp, F. C. (Fred Corry)]

TREATMENT WITH CALCIUM CYANAMID AND ACID PHOSPHATE. Many experiments with mixtures of commercial fertilizers were tried to determine whether fly larvæ would be killed by any substance the addition of ...
( Category: African History October 19,2021 )
War & War by László Krasznahorkai
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-04-16 | Author:László Krasznahorkai

V • TO VENICE 1. It was about quarter past two at night and even from a distance you could tell that he was very drunk, since from the moment ...
( Category: Military History October 19,2021 )
The disciple by Paul Bourget
azw3 |eng | 1889-01-01 | Author:Paul Bourget

The smallest accidents appear in my mind to state general problems. Every event of my destiny leads me to some theory on the destiny of all. Here, where another man ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-09 | Author:Claire-Louise Bennett [Bennett, Claire-Louise]

A week or so before Christmas I was standing at the kitchen worktop in my friend who lives nearby’s house, maybe we were sharing some kind of toasted snack, I ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Hilary Mantel

II The Image of the King Spring–Summer 1537 Hans does not like the pavonazzo. You cannot have a king who is purple from one angle, blue from another, green from ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul by Julius Evola
azw3, pdf |eng | 1961-01-01 | Author:Julius Evola [Evola, Julius]

With regard to the problems of inner orientation in our epoch, I have always valued ideas present in traditional esoteric doctrines. This also applies to what I have just said. ...
( Category: European History October 19,2021 )
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Roger Scruton [Scruton, Roger]

The soul Kant’s discussion of the soul, and of the concept of the ‘self’ from which it gains its initial description, is among the most subtle parts of his philosophy. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )

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