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The Darwin Awards; Countdown to Extinction by Wendy Northcutt
epub |eng | 2010-09-23 | Author:Wendy Northcutt [Northcutt, Wendy]

Reference: The Malaysian Insider DARWIN SAYS, MERITS DEBATED! We are divided about whether to give this man a Darwin Award. Local news reports indicate that inept do-it-yourself vehicle conversions are ...
( Category: Humor January 24,2018 )
Kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain
epub | | 2000-07-15 | Author:Anthony Bourdain [Bourdain, Anthony]

PINO NOIR: TUSCAN INTERLUDE OF ALL THE HIGH-PRESSURE, full mind-body crunches, strange interludes, unexpected twists and 'learning experiences' in my long and largely undistinguished career, my brief Tuscan interlude with ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 24,2018 )
Munitions of the Mind by Philip M. Taylor
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Philip M. Taylor [Taylor, Philip M.]

182 Propaganda in the Age of Total War and Cold War he had done, thereby jeopardizing the code breaking operation. Good fortune, also in the summer of 1915, revealed the ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 24,2018 )
Academica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
epub |eng | 2005-02-08 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

§24. Natura: this word, it is important to observe, has to serve as a translation both of φυσις and ουσια. Here it is ουσια in the broadest sense, all that ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 24,2018 )
The Homesteaders by Robert J. C. Stead
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Robert J. C. Stead [Stead, Robert J. C.]

CHAPTER XII A WHIFF OF NEW ATMOSPHERE Riles found the journey westward a tiresome affair. His was a soul devoid of enthusiasm over Nature's wealth or magnitude, and the view ...
( Category: History January 24,2018 )
The Ax Murders of Saxtown by Nicholas J. C. Pistor
epub |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Nicholas J. C. Pistor [Pistor, Nicholas J. C.]

No foreign hands can we allow to hold the helm of State, or offices of gold No base born serf, to trample on the ground, Or holy principle, by which ...
( Category: Americas January 24,2018 )
The Megalithic Architectures of Europe by Luc Laporte Chris Scarre (ed)
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Luc Laporte, Chris Scarre (ed)

(2) Several communities existed in this area with very long established cultural identities, who built megaliths using very distinct traditional techniques, presumably dating from the Neolithic period. (3) Megalithic enclosures ...
( Category: Arts & Photography January 24,2018 )
A Narco History: How the US and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War by Carmen Boullosa & Mike Wallace
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Carmen Boullosa & Mike Wallace

( Category: History January 24,2018 )
Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen; Ralph Pezzullo
mobi | | 2005-12-09 | Author:Gary Berntsen; Ralph Pezzullo

* Gary Schroen in his CIA-approved book First In refers to several meetings between myself (I’m called Gary 2 in the book) and Engineer Aref. He explains that Engineer Aref ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 24,2018 )
This Kind of War by T. R. Fehrenbach
mobi | | 2000-07-21 | Author:T. R. Fehrenbach

| Go to Table of Contents | 22 Changjin Reservoir Easy Company holds here! — Captain Walter Phillips, commanding E Company, 7th Marines, on a hill above Yudam-ni. THREE DAYS ...
( Category: Military January 24,2018 )
The Utility of Force by General Rupert Smith
mobi | | 2007-10-23 | Author:General Rupert Smith

The Cold War confrontation also provided the overarching structure for another kind of conflict: those resulting from the postcolonial withdrawals from empire. One of the most important examples of this ...
( Category: Business & Money January 24,2018 )
Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon
mobi | | 2006-02-17 | Author:Michael R. Gordon

At Rams, the rest of the regiment’s supply column had finally begun to trickle in. When the soldiers arrived, Captain John Cochran was stunned. As the assistant operations officer for ...
( Category: Middle East January 24,2018 )
A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq by Mark Moyar
mobi | | 2010-01-30 | Author:Mark Moyar

CHAPTER 9 The War in Afghanistan he path to the catastrophic attacks of September ii, 2001, winds through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the ensuing SovietAfghan War. ...
( Category: Middle East January 24,2018 )
Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency by James S Corum
mobi | | 2010-01-27 | Author:James S Corum

The Tet Offensive and a New U.S. Strategy During late fall of 1967 the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese prepared for what would be a major blow to the South ...
( Category: Military January 24,2018 )
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iranian Hostage Crisis by Mark Bowden
mobi | | 2009-12-24 | Author:Mark Bowden

6 A New and Mutually Beneficial Relationship With a secret process in place to secure the hostages’ release, the Carter White House subtly changed its tone. There was no more ...
( Category: History January 24,2018 )

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