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Remaking Berlin (Infrastructures) by Timothy Moss
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-29 | Author:Timothy Moss

Serving the “Better” Berlin Following the political division of Berlin in 1948–1949, the Eastern sector of the city possessed a number of strategic advantages over its Western counterpart. First and ...
( Category: Arts & Photography July 17,2021 )
The Sword and the Cross by Fergus Fleming
epub |eng | 2003-07-14 | Author:Fergus Fleming

12 TOWARDS THE HOGGAR As 1904 drew to a close, three figures could be discerned on the dusty track that ran from Ghardaia to El Goléa. They moved slowly and ...
( Category: History July 17,2021 )
The Battle for Burma, 1942–1945 by Philip Jowett
epub |eng | 2021-06-29 | Author:Philip Jowett

Soldiers of an Indian Army unit prepare to go out on patrol around Imphal in the build-up to the main Japanese assault. Indian troops followed several religions and supplying the ...
( Category: Biographies July 17,2021 )
Six Concepts for the End of the World by Steve Beard
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Steve Beard [Beard, Steve]

8.3 Effect: Jet Plane Accidents The first Boeing 707 on a commercial flight to crash was Sabena flight 548. Flying from New York to Belgium, it crashed as it approached ...
( Category: History July 17,2021 )
Highcastle: A Remembrance by Stanislaw Lem
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Stanislaw Lem [Lem, Stanisław]

Chapter V The director of our school was Stanisław Buzath, a small man with a big, commanding voice, but he was also a good historian and a decent person. Geography ...
( Category: Biographies July 17,2021 )
Scramble: The Dramatic Story of a Young Fighter Pilot's Experiences During the Battle of Britain & the Siege of Malta by Tom Neil
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Tom Neil [Neil, Tom]

30. The author with crew: Aircraftmen Jones and Steadman, both about 20, who kept in touch with the author for many years thereafter. 31. Winter 1940. From left to right: ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation July 17,2021 )
The Regulation of International Trade by Mavroidis Petros C.;
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Mavroidis, Petros C.; [Mavroidis, Petros C.]

It is probably high time that trade negotiators reflect on this and similar ideas that have been advanced.100 A new agreement that would combine the stringent procedural requirements in the ...
( Category: Business & Money July 17,2021 )
Deserting from the Culture Wars by Maria Hlavajova
epub |eng | 2020-09-11 | Author:Maria Hlavajova [Hlavajova, Maria]

Working groups at Jonas Staal's Organizational Art Training in the framework of Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 13 November 2019, photo: Tom ...
( Category: History July 17,2021 )
Bull's-Eyes and Misfires: 50 People Whose Obscure Efforts Shaped the American Civil War by Clint Johnson
epub |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Clint Johnson

Gen. Joseph Reid Anderson (1813-1892) THE CONFEDERACY ’S IRONMAKER BULL’S-EYE THE SOU TH HAD MANY MILITARY GENERALS LEADING soldiers on the battlefield. It had only one businessman general leading factory ...
( Category: History July 17,2021 )
Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation by Robert J. Norrell
epub |eng | 2015-11-10 | Author:Robert J. Norrell [Norrell, Robert J.]

8 The Black Family Bible Lisa Drew handed Haley the copyedited manuscript of Roots on January 23, 1976. Promising to return it with the editor’s queries answered a week later, ...
( Category: Biographies July 17,2021 )
Witches by Nigel Cawthorne
epub |eng | 2019-08-06 | Author:Nigel Cawthorne [Cawthorne, Nigel]

* In April 1631, when the persecution in Bamberg was dying down, the witch prison still held twenty-two inmates, including the Bishop’s treasurer. Their combined property, which had already been ...
( Category: History July 17,2021 )
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City by Peter D. Norton
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-21 | Author:Peter D. Norton [Norton, Peter D.]

The Gasoline Tax For practical reasons, streets have been a public responsibility. Users could not be charged for each use, and the street was the original home of the free-rider ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation July 17,2021 )
Weirdest War Two: Extraordinary Tales and Unbelievable Facts from the Second World War by M. J. Trow
epub |eng | 2021-07-09 | Author:M. J. Trow

If Day !!! F ur traders settled along the Red River in Canada before 1763 and the area was protected by the army at Fort Garry. A settlement quickly grew ...
( Category: History July 17,2021 )
All That Glitters: Anna Wintour, Tina Brown, and the Rivalry Inside America's Richest Media Empire by Thomas Maier
epub |eng | 2019-08-07 | Author:Thomas Maier [Maier, Thomas]

Si Newhouse’s dream of restoring Vanity Fair was now complete, an unparalleled feat in publishing, of transforming a dead “book” from the 1920s into the liveliest read of the 1990s. ...
( Category: Biographies July 17,2021 )
The News by Jeffrey Brown
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Jeffrey Brown [Brown, Jeffrey]

Battles and beauty? Norman O. Brown took a word, polemos, beyond “war” to “strife” “struggle” through time: Apollo chasing Daphne into centuries to come (he’ll never catch her). One thing—keep ...
( Category: Arts & Photography July 17,2021 )

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