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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:Rachel Sherman [Sherman, Rachel]

Giving back, like working hard and consuming prudently, involves emotion, disposition, and behavior. It means feeling aware and appreciative, being “nice” to others, and, to different extents, giving time and ...
( Category: Economics January 19,2020 )
Terrorism by Charles Townshend
epub |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Charles Townshend

The case of Irish republicanism The longest-lived of them, so far, is the Irish republican movement, whose most recent armed campaign lasted thirty years, and which can confidently trace its ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 19,2020 )
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It by Susan Crawford
epub |eng | 2018-12-11 | Author:Susan Crawford [Crawford, Susan]

( Category: Mobile & Wireless January 19,2020 )
Fifth Sun by Townsend Camilla;
epub |eng | 2019-09-06 | Author:Townsend, Camilla;

8 The Grandchildren 1570s–1620s A grandmother speaks to her grandchildren. The Bodleian Libraries, the University of Oxford, Codex Mendoza, MS. Arch. Selden. A.1,folio 71r. The bells were chiming six o’clock ...
( Category: Aztec January 19,2020 )
The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and Its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors by Janet Jacobs
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Janet Jacobs

Extended Family Members: The Social Relations of Kinship and Family in Postgenocide Culture While relationships within the multigenerational family formed the core of relational ties for descendants, participants also cited ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling January 19,2020 )
Seeing the World by unknow
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:unknow

CHAPTER 5 Numbers and Languages Academics have long mused and often worried about their own intellectual cacophony. Clark Kerr, a chief architect of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, ...
( Category: Architecture January 19,2020 )
Radical Markets by Posner Eric A.; Weyl E. Glen;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Posner, Eric A.; Weyl, E. Glen; [Posner, Eric A.; Weyl, E. Glen;]

Effortless Capitalism The logic of shareholder capitalism suggests that investors wish to do as little work as possible while gaining a maximal stable return. Starting in the 1950s, economists developed ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece by Duplouy Alain; Brock Roger W.; & Roger W. Brock
epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Duplouy, Alain; Brock, Roger W.; & Roger W. Brock

2. Ancient Citizenship They managed these things very differently in the ancient Graeco-Roman world—or rather, since in this case ‘Greece’ and ‘Rome’ are very different from each other, in the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 19,2020 )
Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary Across a Millennium by Joel Blecher
epub |eng | 2017-11-10 | Author:Joel Blecher [Blecher, Joel]

A NEW GENEALOGY OF HADITH COMMENTATORS IN COLONIAL INDIA As European colonial power expanded in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Islamic world as a whole witnessed tremendous changes ...
( Category: Hadith January 19,2020 )
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kathryn Tempest [Tempest, Kathryn]

Terror at Rome For the remaining months of Cicero’s life, we must make do without any speeches or letters from his hands. It makes little difference; by then Cicero had ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
English Pastoral Music: From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955 by Eric Saylor
epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Eric Saylor [Saylor, Eric]

Example 4.7. Ivor Gurney, Ludlow and Teme, I, “When smoke stood up from Ludlow,” mm. 54–63. To be sure, not every setting of Housman's poetry rises to these levels of ...
( Category: Music January 19,2020 )
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America by Robert Wuthnow
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Robert Wuthnow [Wuthnow, Robert]

WASHINGTON IS DISTANT The most common refrain in rural people’s criticisms of Washington parallels Reverend Patterson’s remarks. Washington is distant from their communities, geographically and culturally. As far as they ...
( Category: National January 19,2020 )
The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage by Lewis A. Erenberg
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Lewis A. Erenberg

6 ROPE-A-DOPE They call it rope a dope, I was the dope. GEORGE FOREMAN, “TOTAL FAILURE: HOW GEORGE FOREMAN’S LOSSES SHOWED HIM THE LIGHT,” NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, MAY 24, 2017 ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 19,2020 )
Democracy and Truth by Sophia Rosenfeld
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Sophia Rosenfeld [Rosenfeld, Sophia]

Chapter 4 Democracy in an Age of Lies It’s one of the oldest dreams around. One day, a single language, a single grammar, a single learning method, or even a ...
( Category: Democracy January 19,2020 )
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution by Rebecca L. Spang
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Rebecca L. Spang

Money: Stuff and Politics In the face of war, civil war, and the nearly complete collapse of governance in some parts of western and southern France, the National Convention began ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy January 19,2020 )

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