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History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
epub |eng | 1889-05-31 | Author:George Rawlinson [Rawlinson, George]

Coin of Cossura. Several Greek writers speak of a Phœnician goddess corresponding to the Grecian Athene,[1047] and some of them say that she was named Onga or Onca.[1048] The Phœnician ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 13,2018 )
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson) by Bill Bryson
azw3 |eng | 2010-01-23 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

20 SMALL WORLD It’s probably not a good idea to take too personal an interest in your microbes. Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and bacteriologist, became so preoccupied with ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary March 13,2018 )
Fire Woman by Josephine Reynolds
epub |eng | | Author:Josephine Reynolds [Reynolds, Josephine]

CHAPTER 11 Making Plans for Nigel ‘Sub, are you sure this is a good idea?’ It was my first Saturday night out with my new work colleagues and I was ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria by Adeoye O. Akinola
epub |eng | | Author:Adeoye O. Akinola

6.6 Pipelines Product Marketing Company Reorganization within the NNPC was imminent. In 1988, the Pipelines Product Marketing Company (PPMC) was established as a subsidiary of the NNPC to ensure the ...
( Category: Business & Money March 13,2018 )
Cracking the SAT Subject Test in World History by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Princeton Review

The Dominance of the Medieval Church in Christian Europe The Church during the medieval period was a supranational power that in large part replaced the political and administrative system that ...
( Category: SAT March 13,2018 )
Santeria: African Spirits in America by Joseph M. Murphy
azw3 |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Joseph M. Murphy [Murphy, Joseph M.]

PART 3 Santería is a miracle of spirit brought out of crushing human suffering. Its history shows that a people placed under the most difficult conditions imaginable can fashion a ...
( Category: Sociology March 13,2018 )
Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905 by Mary Furner
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-12 | Author:Mary Furner [Furner, Mary]

9 Permissible Dissent A cartoon on the cover of Life showed the dignified figure of a university president and former economist leaving the college gate with his suitcase, while a ...
( Category: History March 13,2018 )
Planned Obsolescence by Fitzpatrick Kathleen;
epub |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Fitzpatrick, Kathleen;

Standards One of the first issues we must consider in thinking about the durability of digital texts is the format in which those texts are produced and encoded. A format ...
( Category: Anthropology March 13,2018 )
Eight Days A Week by Graham Hutchins
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Graham Hutchins

A new era. Young people just wanted to see the Beatles. And despite their elements of Englishness, the Beatles became popular with Maori people, for whom music, particularly of the ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 13,2018 )
Spirit of Tolerance in Islam, The (Occasional Papers) by Reza Shah-Kazemi
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:Reza Shah-Kazemi [Shah-Kazemi, Reza]

In the Qurʾān the Prophet himself is told to supplicate as follows: ‘My Lord, increase me in knowledge’ (20:114). If this is incumbent upon the Prophet, it is even more ...
( Category: History March 13,2018 )
Mind Wars by Jonathan D. Moreno
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan D. Moreno

Other studies propose to develop software to support automated workstations “for the monitoring of the operator’s cognitive state”; technology that “would analyze brainwave patterns associated with higher order executive processing” ...
( Category: Military March 13,2018 )
The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920 by Glenn A. Knoblock
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Glenn A. Knoblock

The Pioneer Line New York merchant John Ogden started this line that ran from New York to San Francisco as early as 1852, and possibly even earlier. He had previously ...
( Category: Transportation March 13,2018 )
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History by Ted Steinberg
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-05-09 | Author:Ted Steinberg [Steinberg, Ted]

WATER AND POWER By the 1920s, California overtook Iowa as the nation’s leading agricultural state. Roughly nine million orange trees and 73 million grapevines spread out across the landscape, amid ...
( Category: Americas March 13,2018 )
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Robert Dallek [Dallek, Robert]

CHAPTER 12 Faux Neutral That Europe was again at war left people across the continent bewildered and horrified. Whether in France or Britain or Italy or in any of Europe’s ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
The Wisdom of Wolves by Jim Dutcher & Jamie Dutcher
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Jim Dutcher & Jamie Dutcher

SEEING JUST HOW MUCH the Sawtooth Pack played, we wondered about their wild cousins. Were wolves in the wild, who were more burdened by survival issues such as being hunted ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 13,2018 )

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