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The Making of Land and the Making of India by Nikita Sud
epub |eng | 2020-11-29 | Author:Nikita Sud [Sud, Nikita]

1 Businessman, interviewed in Chennai, 14 August 2012. 2 Official, interviewed in Chennai, 15 August 2012. 3 Official, interviewed in Chennai, 15 August 2012. 4 Businessman, interviewed in Chennai, 14 ...
( Category: Economics June 18,2021 )
Caught! by Georgia Bragg
epub |eng | 2019-09-17 | Author:Georgia Bragg [Bragg, Georgia]

Mary Mallon had used the fake name Mrs. Brown to keep cooking. Interesting name choice for a person who wasn’t washing her hands after going number two! Was it a ...
( Category: American History June 18,2021 )
The Ray Wood Story by Reggie Wood & Lizzette Salado
epub |eng | 2021-02-12 | Author:Reggie Wood & Lizzette Salado

February 16, 1965 Ray had just shut his eyes when he received a phone call that abruptly woke him. He was asleep in his Bronx apartment located at 1640 Topping ...
( Category: Biographies June 18,2021 )
The Western Front by Nick Lloyd
epub |eng | 2021-02-02 | Author:Nick Lloyd

The possibility that France, like Russia, would fall to revolution was eagerly discussed at OHL, with every scrap of intelligence being pored over for evidence that the end was near. ...
( Category: World History June 18,2021 )
Dr. Benjamin Rush by Harlow Giles Unger
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [GILES UNGER, HARLOW]

CHAPTER 8 “You Cannot Die Now, Doctor!” THE SELF-PROCLAIMED SUCCESS of Rush’s Thunderbolts in curing yellow fever drew crowds of patients to the doctor’s home day and night, slipping notes ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 18,2021 )
Knowledge Worlds by Reinhold Martin
epub |eng | 2021-12-03 | Author:Reinhold Martin

7.9 John Galen Howard, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, University of California, Berkeley, 1907. Mining laboratory. “The New University of California,” Architectural Record 23, no. 4 (April 1908), 287. Because in ...
( Category: American History June 18,2021 )
Canada, a Working History by Jason Russell
epub |eng | 2021-03-23 | Author:Jason Russell [Russell, Jason]

23 THE 1980s: ALMOST EVERYTHING CHANGES In Canada, the 1980s brought some key departures from the 1970s. The decade started off with a Liberal government, but almost halfway through was ...
( Category: Economics June 18,2021 )
The Bears of Brooks Falls by Michael Fitz
epub |eng | 2021-02-02 | Author:Michael Fitz

* The US Fish and Wildlife Service maintained a weir at the head of Brooks River from the 1940s to the early 1960s. Counts of salmon passing through the weir ...
( Category: American History June 17,2021 )
Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland by Oren Falk
epub |eng | 2021-03-10 | Author:Oren Falk [Falk, Oren]

( Category: European History June 17,2021 )
Red Flags by Wendy L. Patrick
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy L. Patrick

Taking a Drive on the Wild Side The silver lining was that the case landed on my desk as a reckless driving with injury instead of a vehicular homicide. One ...
( Category: Self-Help June 17,2021 )
The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King
epub |eng | | Author:Ross King

* * * Besides refuting the pugnacious George of Trebizond, Cardinal Bessarion had also been eager, as he put it, to “gather and preserve almost all the works of the ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 17,2021 )
Until Justice Be Done by Kate Masur
epub |eng | 2021-02-13 | Author:Kate Masur

AMID THE POLITICAL FERMENT of the 1850s, the question of whether the US government recognized free African Americans as national citizens also came to the fore. Until then, much of ...
( Category: American History June 17,2021 )
France by Jeremy Black
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Jeremy Black

9. From Napoleon I to Napoleon III, 1799–1870 In 1800, war dominated national attention, but vaccination against smallpox, introduced into France that year, may have been more significant. Within a ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 17,2021 )
Iraq Under Siege, Updated Edition: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War by Anthony Arnove
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony Arnove [Arnove, Anthony]

2 US General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination, GAO/NSIAD-93-90 (Washington, DC: GAO, 1993). 3 See Bill Clinton, ‘“A Clear and ...
( Category: Middle East History June 17,2021 )
Valcour by Jack Kelly
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Kelly [Kelly, Jack]

* * * British workmen and British ingenuity had accomplished a near miracle—the completion of the Inflexible, from the laying of her keel to sailing, had taken twenty-eight days. The ...
( Category: Historical Biographies June 17,2021 )

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