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Why Read: Selected Writings 2001–2021 by Self Will
epub |eng | 2023-01-01 | Author:Self, Will [Self, Will]

How Should We Read? How should we read? The S-word makes it sound, like it or not, like a moral injunction – deep, passionate and enthusiastic readers we may well ...
( Category: Essays September 15,2024 )
Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing Obama's Dream of the Socialist States of America by Savage Michael
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Savage, Michael [Savage, Michael]

Chapter 8 Tyranny of Treating Our Friends Like Enemies and Our Enemies Like Friends In the 1950s, when I was growing up, they were called eggheads. Today they’re called nerds. ...
( Category: 21st Century September 15,2024 )
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Kean Sam
epub |eng | 2019-07-09 | Author:Kean, Sam [Kean, Sam]

CHAPTER 30 Beautiful Peenemünde In the second half of 1943 the British began seeing signs that, as the German generals had promised, the “fun” with the V-weapons was about to ...
( Category: Conventional September 14,2024 )
The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King by Kent Princess Michael Of
epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Kent, Princess Michael Of [Kent, Princess Michael Of]

(Is there another lady who possesses such knowledge of mathematics? Is there in the whole world a princess who better understands painting, the ways of nature, and the music of ...
( Category: Renaissance September 14,2024 )
The New World by Churchill Winston S
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Churchill, Winston S. [Churchill, Winston S.]

At this decisive moment England’s monarchy might well have conformed to the absolutism which was becoming general throughout Europe. Events however took a different turn. The King was by no ...
( Category: United Kingdom September 14,2024 )
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Kendi Ibram X
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Kendi, Ibram X. [Kendi, Ibram X.]

AN ARMISTICE SIGNED on November 11, 1918, ended the fighting in World War I. It took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference for colonial powers to come ...
( Category: Black & African Americans September 13,2024 )
Sea of Troubles by Rutledge Ian;
epub |eng | | Author:Rutledge, Ian;

In Istanbul, the European powers and the Porte met to try to establish a form of government for Mount Lebanon which would put an end to the sectarian conflict. But ...
( Category: Turkey September 13,2024 )
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919 - 1920 and the Miracle on the Vistula by Davies Norman
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Davies, Norman [Davies, Norman]

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( Category: Germany September 13,2024 )
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Jager Eric
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Jager, Eric [Jager, Eric]

On the same day, a tall man who had been hiding since Wednesday night at the Hôtel of Artois also slipped out of the city with several accomplices. “Having changed ...
( Category: England September 13,2024 )
Under Siege: P.L.O. Decisionmaking During the 1982 War by Khalidi Rashid
epub |eng | 1985-12-15 | Author:Khalidi, Rashid [Khalidi, Rashid]

Had the French message conveyed by Ibrahim Souss stopped at this point, Haig’s claims regarding France’s position might have stood some chance of substantiation. But Souss added a further passage, ...
( Category: Lebanon September 13,2024 )
Oak Openings: Or, the Bee Hunter by Cooper James Fenimore
epub |eng | 1848-01-01 | Author:Cooper, James Fenimore [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XVII * Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's, soothe a dying hour; With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing As e'er ...
( Category: History September 13,2024 )
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, Volume 2 by Emerson Ralph Waldo
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times, Efficacious rhymes; – Wait his returning strength. Bird, that from the nadir's floor To the zenith's top can soar, The ...
( Category: History September 13,2024 )
We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace by Kiernan Denise
epub |eng | 2020-11-10 | Author:Kiernan, Denise [Kiernan, Denise]

* * * Losses and blockades had taken their toll early in 1865, and more and more Confederate troops had begun deserting. Though not yet ratified, the Thirteenth Amendment to ...
( Category: Women September 13,2024 )
A History of the Settlement of Oregon and the Interior of Upper California: And of Persecutions and Afflictions of Forty Years' Continuance Endured by the Author. by Kelley Hall J
epub |eng | 2012-02-23 | Author:Kelley, Hall J. [Kelley, Hall J.]

Some Kind of Way His set in stone face and blank eyes had the opposite of his desired effect, telling me what I fully suspected. He heard what I said. ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2024 )
Ra Expeditions by Heyerdahl Thor
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Heyerdahl, Thor [Heyerdahl, Thor]

stomach. Round it was tied a thick piece of twine, and from the twine four small leather pouches hung against the small of his back. "With these, nothing can happen ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries September 13,2024 )

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