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Rome by Reid Bramblett
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Reid Bramblett

Maccheroni The fans and airy rooms wrapped around an open kitchen have a Parisian bistro look. The menu is staunchly Roman though. Piazza delle Coppelle 44 06 6830 7895 €30–40 ...
( Category: Europe December 21,2017 )
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Maya Jasanoff [Jasanoff, Maya]

III. From Kaveri to Nile As visitors filed in by the hundreds to crank up Tipu’s Tiger in the India Museum, and as the Clives settled into Powis with their ...
( Category: Europe December 21,2017 )
Affirming by Isaiah Berlin
epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Isaiah Berlin

TO JONATHAN DANCYfn1743 28 March 1995 [carbon] [Headington House] Dear Dancy, Thank you for your letter about the conflict of values. I am afraid that your account of my views ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 21,2017 )
The Mind of Terror by Tass Saada
epub |eng | 2016-07-01 | Author:Tass Saada

All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth [Ishmael’s firstborn] will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 21,2017 )
The World War II Chronicles by William Craig
epub |eng | 2017-05-05 | Author:William Craig

In the aftermath of the battle around Ostrov, the German Sixth Army counted its booty: “more than fifty-seven thousand prisoners, more than one thousand tanks destroyed.” As a result, General ...
( Category: Asia December 21,2017 )
In Search of the Lost Orient by Olivier Roy
epub |eng | | Author:Olivier Roy

Chapter 14 JIHAD Did you meet foreign jihadists who went to fight in Afghanistan? Yes. They were both Salafists (partisans of a normative and literalist Islam) and jihadists (people for ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 21,2017 )
Unsuspecting Souls by Barry Sanders
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Barry Sanders

A PROMISING STAGE MAGICIAN named Georges Méliès owned the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, in Paris, but when he came across the new cinema, he found a more powerful kind of magic. He ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
454107 by Michael Coney
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Coney

( Category: Science Fiction December 21,2017 )
Eveline by Anonymous
epub |eng | | Author:Anonymous

I had one of my headaches next morning. I have not always the remedy for them at hand. On this occasion I had left it in London. I thought the ...
( Category: Classics December 21,2017 )
Dara by Anonymous
epub |eng | | Author:Anonymous

PART FOUR. WEDDED BUT NOT BEDDED Shortly after my arrival in New York I was sitting in Pfaff's Beer-Cellar pondering idly whether to have another beer or move on to ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II by Karen Dolby
epub |eng | 2017-11-28 | Author:Karen Dolby

Upon his return from a four-month solo tour of the Commonwealth in 1957 – during which time he had grown an impressive array of facial hair – the Duke of ...
( Category: Historical December 21,2017 )
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story by Papagianni Dimitra & Morse Michael A
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Papagianni, Dimitra & Morse, Michael A.

A modern human skull found at Qafzeh, Israel, dated to around 100,000 years ago. Researchers were surprised to discover that the first modern humans reached northern Israel, and probably the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 21,2017 )
How Not to Get Rich by Alan Pell Crawford
epub |eng | | 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: Americas December 21,2017 )
The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic by Randall L Bytwerk
epub |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Randall L Bytwerk [Bytwerk, Randall L]

Moreover, propaganda presented facades of overwhelming public acceptance. The media, the arts, the schools, everyday activities—all suggested that nearly everyone else was in general sympathy with the state. Not only ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 21,2017 )
Shanghai Faithful by Jennifer Lin
epub |eng | 2017-12-21 | Author:Jennifer Lin [Lin, Jennifer]

In 1948, months before two of the Lin sons departed for the United States, the family posed for a final portrait. Ni Guizhen tucked a copy of the photo inside ...
( Category: Ethnic & National December 21,2017 )

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