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The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment by Mark Pendergrast
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:Mark Pendergrast [Pendergrast, Mark]

Because of their history, their inherent difference from clinical syndromes, and a mystique that developed around many of their names (e.g. “Psychopath,” “Histrionic,” “Borderline”), the personality disorders were always particularly ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 12,2020 )
Twin Tracks by James Burke
epub |eng | | Author:James Burke

AND FINALLY … Some time around 1882, Paul Ehrlich, a German medical researcher working with Koch and using Fanny Angelina Eilshemius’s agar tissue cultures, discovered that methylene blue would stain ...
( Category: Technology March 12,2020 )
Kidnapped in Yemen by Mary Quin
epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Mary Quin [Mary Quin]

14 Fighting Back with Feminism In November 1999, my mother died. Her long decline into the clouded confusion of Alzheimer’s disease was over. Thankful for Ray’s emotional support, I flew ...
( Category: Historical March 12,2020 )
The Importance of Being Civil by Hall John A
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Hall, John A.

1 The aphorism was not published, but it is cited in J. A. Hall, Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography (London: Verso, 2010), 76. 2 A. Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 12,2020 )
A Billion Lives by Jan Egeland
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Jan Egeland

My colleagues from Geneva and our Japanese hosts are thrilled that their hard work for development and prevention of disasters has, for the first time ever, gotten worldwide attention. More ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 12,2020 )
Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser
epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

Chapter Six Losing THE LAST MAJOR SERVICE Hamilton performed for President Washington was drafting his Farewell Address. Washington had asked Madison to prepare a farewell as early as 1792, when ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
The Spying Game by Al Cimino
epub |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Al Cimino

CIA involvement in Afghanistan Succeeding Carter in 1981, Ronald Reagan quickly increased the intelligence budget and by 1985 it was at least $1,500 million. The number of committees overseeing covert ...
( Category: Espionage March 12,2020 )
Rations, A Very Peculiar History by David Arscott
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:David Arscott

Calling all handymen The war years were a great time for do-it-yourself enthusiasts – if they had the time, of course. After all, the great challenge was to make the ...
( Category: Europe March 12,2020 )
Dark Fleet by Len Kasten
epub |eng | 2019-12-26 | Author:Len Kasten

Fig. 10.1. SS General Hans Kammler From January 31, 1945, Kammler became head of all missile operations at Peenemünde, Germany. This meant that Wernher von Braun, the German pioneer in ...
( Category: Occultism March 12,2020 )
Abuse of Evil by Bernstein Richard J.;
epub |eng | | Author:Bernstein, Richard J.;

5 * * * Evil and the Corruption of Religion The popular post-9/11 discourse about good and evil corrupts religion. There is no doubt that the religious right in the ...
( Category: World March 12,2020 )
Tremendous Trifles by G.K. Chesterton
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:G.K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G.K.]

XXII. The Orthodox Barber Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it ...
( Category: European March 12,2020 )
Between War and Peace by Col. Matthew Moten
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Col. Matthew Moten

THE MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE SEDAN-VERDUN AND VICINITY September-October 1918 Pétain had a point: the challenge was daunting. Five of the attack divisions had never seen combat, and many more troops were ...
( Category: Essays March 12,2020 )
Condensed Novels: New Burlesques (World Classics) by Bret Harte
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Bret Harte

But this I do know, that, having some conceit of a shipman’s ways and of pirates, I did conceive at this time a pretty song for my comradoes, whereof the ...
( Category: Classics March 12,2020 )
While America Slept by O'Brien Robert C.;
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:O'Brien, Robert C.;

China’s Next Move A Naval Base in the South Atlantic? I recently returned from Walvis Bay, Namibia, the country’s sole deepwater port and former South Atlantic home to the Royal ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 12,2020 )
The O'Reilly Factor by Bill O'Reilly
epub |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:Bill O'Reilly

2. THE MONEY factor NOTE TO HILLARY CLINTON: Why keep coming up with more government programs to give our tax money away, when you could teach us all how to ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 12,2020 )

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