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The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World by Dane Kennedy
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Dane Kennedy

Burton's late-blooming antagonism toward Jews is a subject that requires serious attention in any consideration of his life and thought.46 Anti-Semitism is a kind of racism, so it is hardly ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers January 4,2018 )
The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marcus Aurelius [Aurelius, Marcus]

BOOK VIII. 1. This reflection also tends to the removal of the desire of empty fame, that it is no longer in thy power to have lived the whole of ...
( Category: World January 4,2018 )
Then They Came For Me by Maziar Bahari & Aimee Molloy
epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Maziar Bahari & Aimee Molloy [Bahari, Maziar & Molloy, Aimee]

Chapter Thirteen The next morning, Brown Sandals came to my cell early, and with my breakfast, he gave me a pen and six pieces of paper with the names of ...
( Category: Middle East January 4,2018 )
The Diary of Olga Romanov by Helen Azar
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Helen Azar [Azar, Helen]

— Saturday. 31st December. We 2 to Znamenie and to the infirmary. Rita was helping to replace Val.[lentina] Iv.[anovna]30 in the operating room, and I was [helping] a little on ...
( Category: Russia January 4,2018 )
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country by Andrew J. Bacevich
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Andrew J. Bacevich [Bacevich, Andrew J.]

10 TRAHISON DES CLERCS Those who sit at the high table of American intellectual life pride themselves on their capacity to detect inconsistencies, contradictions, and hypocrisy. Yet that instinct does ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 4,2018 )
Laughing Bill Hyde by Rex E. Beach
epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Rex E. Beach [Beach, Rex E.]

Anderson lacked courage to ask the fellow to come along, but stumbled out into a snow-filled areaway lighted by a swinging incandescent which danced to the swirling eddies. Compartment! He ...
( Category: Children's Books January 4,2018 )
Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome by Richard A. Bauman
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Richard A. Bauman

Document Outline Book Cover Title Contents Preface List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTION TRIAL BY MAGISTRATE AND PEOPLE TRIAL BY JURY CICERO ON PUNISHMENT THE NEW COURTS: AUGUSTUS AND TIBERIUS THE MATURING ...
( Category: History January 4,2018 )
Top Secret Files: The Civil War: Spies, Secret Missions, and Hidden Facts from the Civil War by Stephanie Bearce
epub |eng | 2015-02-25 | Author:Stephanie Bearce [Bearce, Stephanie]

The Sanchez Sisters Lola Sanchez was angry. Her town had been invaded by Union soldiers, her father was wrongly accused of spying and imprisoned, and now the Union soldiers had ...
( Category: History January 4,2018 )
The Art of War Visualized by Jessica Hagy
epub |eng | 2015-01-04 | Author:Jessica Hagy

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: 1. Recklessness, which leads to destruction; 2. Cowardice, which leads to capture; 3. A hasty temper, which can be provoked ...
( Category: Engineering January 4,2018 )
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: Historical January 3,2018 )
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Ian Johnson [Johnson, Ian]

I always found this part of the meditation slightly dubious. We were to focus on something we wanted and pull it into us, making it our own. Of course, it ...
( Category: Asia January 3,2018 )
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino
mobi |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Kevin Peraino [Peraino, Kevin]

17 NO DEVIL SHALL ESCAPE On the morning of August 17, in the free moments before his regular staff meeting, Truman peered down at a number of weather maps that ...
( Category: Americas January 3,2018 )
Red Team by Micah Zenko
epub |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Micah Zenko

Conclusion From its earliest days under trailblazers like Stephen Sloan, red teaming within the homeland security field has struggled to convince others of its usefulness and necessity in preventing terrorist ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 3,2018 )
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Thant Myint-U [Myint-U, Thant]

The old Naxi kingdom had emerged in a world that no longer exists. It was founded during the time of Byzantium and the Vikings in Europe, the Crusaders and the ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 3,2018 )
The Life of Katherine Swynford by Weir Alison
epub |eng | | Author:Weir, Alison

The Life of Katherine Swynford SEVEN Turning Away the Wrath of God At the beginning of June 1381, as John of Gaunt lay at Knaresbor-​ough, an army of yeomen and ...
( Category: Historical January 2,2018 )

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