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Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life by Marta McDowell
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Marta McDowell

In the Dickinson meadow, the goldenrod is yellow, the asters purple. Bees gather nectar and pollen into hives, building winter stores. In the hills around Amherst the gentians bloom a ...
( Category: Arts & Photography October 3,2019 )
The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Tamim Ansary

THE CONCEPT OF EUROPE The first crusaders came from France, so Levantine Muslims called all of them Franks. The crusaders meanwhile called all their adversaries by a single name too: ...
( Category: History October 3,2019 )
Crisis of Conscience by Tom Mueller
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Tom Mueller

* * * — Of the many contractors in the nuclear power, weapons and cleanup business that dupe the US government, the DOE and the American taxpayer, Bechtel is the ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 3,2019 )
Double Crossed by Matthew Avery Sutton
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Matthew Avery Sutton

THIRTEEN “The Thorough Beating They So Richly Deserve” IT DID NOT TAKE LONG FOR STEWART HERMAN TO IMPRESS THE STAFF at OSS headquarters in Washington. Just a few months after ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 3,2019 )
Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher by Armand D’angour
epub |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Armand D’angour

Plato’s ascription to Theaetetus of a ‘unique’ combination of brains and brawn seems ironic in view of the fact that he effectively attributes, across a number of dialogues, precisely such ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 3,2019 )
Renia's Diary by Renia Spiegel
epub |eng | | Author:Renia Spiegel

OCTOBER 10, 1941, FRIDAY17 It’s so sad at home. Today the piano was taken away, so the flat is empty; today Arianka went to Mama, so the soul is empty. ...
( Category: Jewish October 3,2019 )
The United States of Trump by Bill O'Reilly
epub |eng | | Author:Bill O'Reilly

Bad is bad. What the anti-Trump media never understood is the insults, hyperbole, and bombastic presentation isn’t chump change; it’s Trump-change—meaning, it’s insignificant. Millions of Americans believe they are lied ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 2,2019 )
Betrayal in Berlin by Steve Vogel
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Steve Vogel

RUDOW, EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 22 The Army installation went on high alert. Soldiers were roused in the barracks in the middle of the night and told to report to ...
( Category: History October 2,2019 )
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Rachel Maddow

* * * — Shell’s opportunities for new learnings about functioning in Arctic conditions had not been entirely extinguished at the end of that November, thanks to the Kulluk and ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union October 2,2019 )
Killing the SS by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard

16 MAY 31, 1962 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA LATE EVENING Zvi Aharoni may soon confront the Angel of Death. The Israeli spy nervously fingers his passport, just moments away from entering ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs October 2,2019 )
How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice by Robert Pondiscio
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Robert Pondiscio

CHAPTER 16 Plan of Attack A sign has appeared on the double doors leading into the fourth-grade wing. In bold type, it warns that there are seventy-five days left until ...
( Category: Social Policy October 1,2019 )
Confronting Christianity by 2019
mobi |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:2019

1. Alex Rosenberg, The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without the Illusions (New York: Norton, 2011), viii. 2. Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and ...
( Category: Christian Living October 1,2019 )
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts [1994] by Andrew Chaikin
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-05-31 | Author:Andrew Chaikin [Chaikin, Andrew]

CHAPTER 8 The Story of a Full-up Mission APOLLO 14 I: Big Al Flies Again Some memories are so bright that the passage of time cannot dim them. For Alan ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 30,2019 )
The Complete U.S. Army Survival Guide to Tropical, Desert, Cold Weather, Mountain Terrain, Sea, and NBC Environments by Department of the Army
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Department of the Army

Figure 4-49 Square knot. b. Checkpoints. (1) There are two interlocking bights. (2) The running end and standing part are on the same side of the bight formed by the ...
( Category: Survival & Emergency Preparedness September 30,2019 )
Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area by Harry M. Caudill
epub |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Harry M. Caudill [Caudill , Harry M.]

Chapter Fifteen: The Legacy of the Thirties The massive passing of coal companies shut thousands of miners off from even the scanty benefit of two or three workdays per week ...
( Category: Poverty September 30,2019 )

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