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The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 by Headrick Daniel R
epub |eng | 1991-03-28 | Author:Headrick, Daniel R. [Headrick, Daniel R.]

Propaganda World War I was the first war in which propaganda played a major role. All belligerents used it to keep up the fighting spirit of their own people, to ...
( Category: History & Theory March 23,2020 )
The Edwardian Gardener's Guide by Twigs Way
epub |eng | | Author:Twigs Way

This was evolved from the show type at a later date by the Continental florists, who introduced the bright colours and larger size in the blooms, at the same time ...
( Category: English Gardens March 23,2020 )
Boundaries of Toleration by Taylor Charles Stepan Alfred
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Taylor, Charles, Stepan, Alfred

NOTES I would like to thank the participants of the seminar on toleration at Columbia University with whom I discussed prior versions of this chapter. Moreover, I would like to ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 23,2020 )
Learning from Leonardo by Fritjof Capra
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Fritjof Capra

FIG. 5-8. Water jets falling from a container at four different heights. Codex Madrid I, folio 134v (detail). It is worth noting that Leonardo’s sketch of the four “waterfalls” is ...
( Category: Evolution March 23,2020 )
Blood, Dreams and Gold by Richard Cockett
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Cockett

The ghost town of Hpa-An – and the catastrophe of drugs If the Karen civil war fatally wounded the early post-independence Burmese state, it eventually did far more damage to ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
The Modern World-System IV by Wallerstein Immanuel
epub |eng | | Author:Wallerstein, Immanuel

ETHNIC AND RACIAL MOVEMENTS We have seen that the social/labor movements had great difficulty in accepting the legitimacy of the feminist/women's movements in their demands for the rights of active ...
( Category: History & Theory March 23,2020 )
Peoples of the Old Testament World by Unknown
epub |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Unknown

Triad of King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and two goddesses, 2548-2530 B.C. (height: 32.9"; width: 15.5') Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston After Bakare's brief reign (two years according to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 23,2020 )
Allah's Mountains by Smith Sebastian
epub |eng | | Author:Smith, Sebastian [Smith, Sebastian]

3. PHONY WAR Negotiations to get Dudayev to sign the federation treaty, which would put Chechnya within the Russian Federation, collapsed every time. President Yeltsin was still refusing to meet ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
The American Census by Margo J. Anderson
epub |eng | | Author:Margo J. Anderson

The patriotic images of the “Ten-Year Roll Call” are evident in this 1940 publicity poster. (Library of Congress) Through 1938 and into 1939, therefore, the statisticians discussed how to fit ...
( Category: Statistics March 23,2020 )
James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
epub |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

This letter, as thus cited, is not among the five later produced in 1609; it is a blurred reminiscence of parts of two of them. The reason of these discrepancies ...
( Category: England March 23,2020 )
Dürer Masterpieces in Colour Series by Herbert E. A. Furst
epub |eng | 2012-12-28 | Author:Herbert E. A. Furst [Furst, Herbert E. A. (Herbert Ernest Augustus)]

"The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line." There are a good many "lines" ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 23,2020 )
The Voices of Morebath by Eamon Duffy
epub |eng | | Author:Eamon Duffy

to see an order taken after their conscience for the gathering of the Tenth and Fifteenth for ever hereafter: what every man should pay for his part and again they ...
( Category: Great Britain March 23,2020 )
The President and the Apprentice by Irwin F. Gellman
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Irwin F. Gellman

What about Hells Canyon? The proposal to dam the Snake River at Hells Canyon, near the Oregon-Idaho border, had been controversial throughout the 1950s for both fiscal and environmental reasons. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 23,2020 )
The Accidental Captives by Carolyn Gossage
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn Gossage [Gossage, Carolyn]

Having made his decision, the Inspektor was not about to waste any time setting the wheels of the Canadians’ exodus from Liebenau into motion. Within less than twenty-four hours, he ...
( Category: Women in History March 23,2020 )
We Sell Drugs by Reiss Suzanna
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Reiss, Suzanna

THE NARCOTIC FARM At mid-century, drug development and experimentation (particularly when involving the use of human subjects) tended to occur (or at least get documented) within public institutional settings. In ...
( Category: Economic History March 23,2020 )

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