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How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain by Alan Pell Crawford
mobi |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Alan Pell Crawford

WHEN TWAIN MET PAIGE and saw Paige’s work in progress, he was greatly impressed. He went to the Colt Armory, “promising myself nothing,” but came away eager to invest. Paige ...
( Category: Humor January 13,2018 )
Where White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Means

Exactly a month into the siege—the night after the press left—the feds initiated one of the fiercest firefights of the struggle. Fifty-caliber tracer rounds rained on Wounded Knee, skipping off ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 13,2018 )
Debriefing Elsipogtog by Miles Howe
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Miles Howe

On June 21, 2013, Canada’s National Aboriginal Day, in the on-going anti–shale gas protests, another dozen people were arrested. Pictured is Segewa’t Naguset, one of the fire keepers at the ...
( Category: History January 13,2018 )
Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard
epub |eng | 2017-01-13 | Author:Robyn Maynard

CHAPTER SIX “OF WHOM WE HAVE TOO MANY” Black life and border regulation Immigrant detention and deportation stretch the harmful effects of imprisonment and family separation across national borders. (Loyd, ...
( Category: Sociology January 13,2018 )
A Christmas Cornucopia by Mark Forsyth
epub |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Mark Forsyth

Of course, the Puritans tried to hold out against the relentless waves of fun that rolled across the Atlantic. They condemned and castigated, but that was only because there was ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts January 13,2018 )
The Doctor and the Saint by Arundhati Roy
epub |eng | 2017-04-12 | Author:Arundhati Roy

▼ If one of Gandhi’s first major political actions was the ‘solution’ to the problem of the Durban Post Office, Ambedkar’s was the Mahad Satyagraha of 1927. In 1923, the ...
( Category: Sociology January 13,2018 )
Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia: Little Tubes of Mighty Power by Agbe-Davies Anna S
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-03 | Author:Agbe-Davies, Anna S [Agbe-Davies, Anna S]

“Jamestown” as a Category Another angle from which to approach the pipe fragments from Jamestown is to group them. Here, I analyze these artifacts as one assemblage among six, the ...
( Category: History January 13,2018 )
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (The Middle Ages Series) by Phillips Jr. William D
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Phillips Jr., William D.

Epilogue: The Wider Extensions of Iberian Slavery The long history of slavery in Iberia from ancient to modern times has unfolded in this book, beginning with the Romans, passing through ...
( Category: Sociology January 13,2018 )
After the Civil War by James Robertson
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:James Robertson [Robertson, James]

GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE LAYING THE TRACKS FOR EXPANSION JAY GOULD OWNED the Union Pacific Railroad, but the man most responsible for its creation was Massachusetts native Grenville Mellen Dodge. A ...
( Category: Americas January 13,2018 )
Spaceport Earth by Joe Pappalardo
epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Joe Pappalardo [PAPPALARDO, JOE]

A view of an Ariane 5 rocket approaching the launch pad in French Guiana. The crawler painstakingly delivers the upright rocket from its assembly building to the launch pad. It ...
( Category: Engineering January 13,2018 )
Striking Distance by Charles Russo
epub |eng | 2016-05-13 | Author:Charles Russo [Russo, Charles]

As seemed to always be the case, opinions were split on Bruce and the perspective he was putting forward. Dan Inosanto, still having only just met Bruce, remembers the polarized ...
( Category: Americas January 13,2018 )
Loaded by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
epub |eng | | Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The more that gun-control advocates raise the issue of government regulation, particularly federal government regulation, the more ammunition is provided to those who hold the Second Amendment sacred to stand ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2018 )
The Finest Building in America by Edwin G. Burrows
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Edwin G. Burrows

True, Silliman and Goodrich acknowledged, the effect of good taste “is much too subtle to be exactly appreciated. It is not possible to determine just how much it benefits a ...
( Category: Americas January 12,2018 )
Something Has Gone Wrong by Steve Ramsey
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Steve Ramsey [Steve Ramsey]

For Geoffrey Pattie, junior minister at the DTI, the situation felt basically normal, though ‘probably a bit more vicarious’. More of the communication was done by memos sent back and ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 12,2018 )
The Somme by Peter Hart
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Peter Hart [Hart, Peter]

The surviving German machine guns gave the Australians the unwanted chance to judge the killing potential of these guns in the relatively open fields of the Somme battlefields compared to ...
( Category: Military January 12,2018 )

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