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CUBA: Diary of a Revolution by Deena Stryker
azw3 |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Deena Stryker [Stryker, Deena]

Chapter IX A Socialist Carnival Sunday, February 23, 1964 At Santa Maria, a beach located about twelve miles from Havana, what was previously a club for millionaires is now more ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 14,2018 )
The Umayyads: The Rise of Islamic Art: 1 (Islamic Art in the Mediterranean) by Ghazi Bisheh & Fawzi Zayadine & Mohammad al-Asad & Ina Kehrberg & Lara Tohme
azw3 |eng | 2000-06-01 | Author:Ghazi Bisheh & Fawzi Zayadine & Mohammad al-Asad & Ina Kehrberg & Lara Tohme [Bisheh, Ghazi]

One of the most striking features of Umm al-Jimal is the black basalt stone from which the buildings were constructed. The dark stone, which gives the town and even the ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 14,2018 )
A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
epub |eng | 2004-07-20 | Author:Surendranath Dasgupta [Dasgupta, Surendranath]

Pralaya and the disturbance of the Prak@rti Equilibrium. But how or rather why prak@rti should be disturbed is the most knotty point in Sâ@mkhya. It is postulated that the prak@rti ...
( Category: Philosophy March 14,2018 )
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall
epub |eng | 2007-02-01 | Author:John Marshall [Marshall, John]

Closely connected in subject with the Symposium is the Phaedrus. As Professor Jowett observes: "The two dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2018 )
The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-06-03 | Author:John Cowper Powys [Powys, John Cowper]

CHAPTER VIII. THE NATURE OF LOVE The secret of the universe, as by slow degrees it reveals itself to us, turns out to be personality. When we consider, further, the ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2018 )
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip
epub |eng | 2007-11-09 | Author:Alexander Philip [Philip, Alexander]

* * * Intellectualism and sensationalism have both broken down. The world of speculation is anxiously looking for a new clue. Witness the pathetic eagerness with which it clutches at ...
( Category: History March 14,2018 )
The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G.E. Partridge
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:G.E. Partridge [Partridge, G.E.]

I. The Essential World Idea Our present situation has plainly made it necessary for us to understand the world in which we live far better than we have in the ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting March 14,2018 )
The Seductions of Darwin by Matthew Rampley
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Rampley

Theoretical Questions The discussion so far has focused on the issue of domains of knowledge and the status of neuroscience for art history. My basic contention is that at best ...
( Category: Evolution March 14,2018 )
Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East by Esanu Octavian;
epub |eng | | Author:Esanu, Octavian;

Painting the Bint al-Balad The heritage of the Orientalist pictorial tradition played a significant part in establishing other criteria and meanings for the feminine nude. Orientalist paintings were among the ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 14,2018 )
Confessions (Modern Library) by Augustine
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Augustine

21. Where does this bizarre phenomenon come from? Let your mercy light my way, and I’ll inquire, in case by any chance the lurking punishments inflicted on mankind and the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 14,2018 )
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-10-22 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

AS MARCO veered back toward the east, heading for Hangzhou, he traveled the rivers of China. Although he was familiar with the sight of the canals of Venice teeming with ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2018 )
Mickey Cohen by Tere Tereba
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Tere Tereba

Distressed Sale: to pay for his tax trials Mickey Cohen, wearing his promotional hat, sells all his visible assets. 1951. Potential bidders and the curious were entranced by luxury novelties ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 14,2018 )
THE COWBOY PRESIDENT by Michael F. Blake
epub |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Michael F. Blake

He was all teeth and eyes . . . He was scratched, bruised, and hungry, but gritty and determined as a bulldog . . . As I approached him he ...
( Category: Historical March 14,2018 )
A New History of Ireland, Volume III:Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691 by T. W. Moody & F. X. Martin & F. J. Byrne
mobi |eng | 1991-10-24 | Author:T. W. Moody & F. X. Martin & F. J. Byrne [Moody, T. W.]

CHAPTER XVI The Irish coinage, 1534-1691 MICHAEL DOLLEY THE striking of coin in Ireland appears to have petered out, rather than to have been formally discontinued, quite late in the ...
( Category: History March 14,2018 )
The Story of Spain by Mark Williams
mobi |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Mark Williams [Williams, Mark]

Napoleonic wars. Madrid: National Library founded in 1711 by Felipe V has one of La Granja Palace near Segovia was a perfect re-creation of a French palace for the royal ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2018 )

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