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Historic Homes and Inns of Carmel-by-the-Sea by Alissandra Dramov & Lynn A. Momboisse
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Alissandra Dramov & Lynn A. Momboisse [Dramov, Alissandra]

REV. GEORGE M. DORWART HOUSE. M.J. Murphy built the Tudor Revival–style house in 1926 on the southeast corner of San Antonio and Eighth Avenues. Reverend Dorwart was affiliated with the ...
( Category: Houses & Hotels June 27,2020 )
Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City by
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:

Figure 8.9. Excavation profile (north wall) from Corriental Reservoir. Note that the depth of the Late Classic deposition was laid down in fine layers, mostly loess, and except for the ...
( Category: Mayan June 27,2020 )
Soft City by David Sim
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:David Sim [Sim, David]

01./02. Melbourne, Australia (left) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (right). Kiosks in central districts bring a feeling of security to the streets in areas that otherwise lack nighttime population. Integrating ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 27,2020 )
Lifted by Andreas Bernard
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-13 | Author:Andreas Bernard [Bernard, Andreas]

Blanche Hildebrand, a woman elevator operator, at Marshall Field’s and Company, Chicago, 1918. Photograph by Chicago Daily News, negative DN-0070326. Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum. PUSH-BUTTON CONTROLS AND THE ...
( Category: History of Technology June 27,2020 )
Places in Italy: A private grand tour (3rd edition) by Francis Russell
azw3 |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Francis Russell [Russell, Francis]

Palazzo dei Consoli, south façade. Gubbio produced one of the more engaging figures of the International Gothic movement, Ottaviano Nelli. His masterpieces are in two churches on the east of ...
( Category: Criticism June 27,2020 )
The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy by Thomas Penn
azw3 |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Thomas Penn [Penn, Thomas]

* * * During the first months of 1474, Edward’s French war still seemed a long way off. Parliament had reassembled briefly, expecting an update on his plans, before again ...
( Category: Royalty June 27,2020 )
A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial by James Reston
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:James Reston [Reston, James]

Chapter Ten DEDICATION Maya Lin flew in from Boston several days before the dedication, having finally been invited as something of an afterthought following the 60 Minutes embarrassment. She was ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 27,2020 )
The Decline and Rise of Democracy by David Stasavage
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:David Stasavage

Massachusetts In the case of Massachusetts, after a few decades, settlements were dispersed across a wide territory, making the exercise of hierarchical control from Boston difficult if not impossible. Nothing ...
( Category: Americas June 27,2020 )
The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Rodney Stark

Birth Control The Romans had an adequate understanding of the biology of reproduction and developed a substantial inventory of preventive measures. Medical historians now are convinced that various plants such ...
( Category: Urban June 27,2020 )
Two Histories of England by Jane Austen Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Jane Austen, Charles Dickens

( Category: Essays June 27,2020 )
On the Heavens (World Classics) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Aristotle

That the stars are spherical and are not selfmoved, has now been explained. Part 10 With their order-I mean the position of each, as involving the priority of some and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 27,2020 )
The Ethnography of Malinowski by Michael W. Young
epub |eng | | Author:Michael W. Young

6 The significance of urigubu Let us focus our attention on the group consisting of mother and children and the mother's brother. This group, as we know, forms the real ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 27,2020 )
American Fiction 1865 - 1940 by Brian Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Lee

Alexandra and Carl are driving back to see her dying father, John Bergson. He is one of the many defeated figures in the novel, a Swedish immigrant who unsuccessfully tried ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 27,2020 )
Stanley Kubrick by Nathan Abrams
epub |eng | | Author:Nathan Abrams [Abrams, Nathan]

Mr. Barry Kubrick Kubrick identified with Barry, perceiving in him an avatar. As an American Jew living in an English country house in rural Hertfordshire, Kubrick surely felt removed from ...
( Category: Individual Directors June 27,2020 )
The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
epub |eng | | Author:Khalil Gibran Muhammad

5 FIGHTING CRIME: POLITICS AND PREJUDICE IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE The pace of crime prevention among progressives that began at the dawn of the twentieth century accelerated during ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 27,2020 )

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