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Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni [Goodman, Rob]

When the Germans heard a noise behind them and saw that their families were being slain, they fled out of the camp, throwing away their arms and abandoning their standards, ...
( Category: Historical December 9,2017 )
Miami by Joan Didion
epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Joan Didion

It was said that Monsignor Walsh . . . had practically unlimited authority to issue visa waivers to children in order to “save them from communism.” This episode in our ...
( Category: Americas December 9,2017 )
The Four Books by Confucius & Mencius
epub |eng | 1893-12-09 | Author:Confucius & Mencius

Sacred-texts Confucianism Index Previous Next * * * Mencius Chapter 6 1. Mencius said, 'He who, using force, makes a pretence to benevolence is the leader of the princes. A ...
( Category: World December 9,2017 )
Call the Midwife 01 - A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Jennifer Worth [Worth, Jennifer]

CABLE STREET Pre-war Stepney, just east of the City, with Commercial Road to the north, the Tower and Royal Mint to the West, Wapping and the Docks to the South, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 9,2017 )
Call the Midwife 03 - Farewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth
epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Jennifer Worth [Worth, Jennifer]

Julia went to Poplar early in the morning. She wanted to get there before the Master’s Arms opened. The tram rattled on its rails to an area she had not ...
( Category: Memoirs December 9,2017 )
Leon Trotsky by Paul Le Blanc
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Le Blanc

Destruction of the Soviet Oppositionists In 1937 small groups of dissident Communist heroes and heroines, the men and women of the Left Opposition, waged their final struggle against the bureaucratic ...
( Category: Historical December 9,2017 )
Being Wagner by Simon Callow
epub |eng | 2016-12-12 | Author:Simon Callow

Arthur Schopenhauer was thirty when, the year after Wagner was born, he began writing the first volume of his masterpiece, The World as Will and Presentation; its publication in 1819 ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 9,2017 )
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-06-18 | Author:Rebecca Solnit [Solnit, Rebecca]

AWAKENINGS AND COINCIDENCES One can imagine the characters of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful new history, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, as they ...
( Category: Americas December 8,2017 )
Strange Intelligence: Memoirs of Naval Secret Service by Hector C. Bywater & H. C. Ferraby
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Hector C. Bywater & H. C. Ferraby [Bywater, Hector C. & Ferraby, H. C.]

CHAPTER 10 UNRIDDLING THE SANDS THE IMPERIAL GERMAN Navy possessed twenty-four fortified bases, stations, and depots in its home waters. Nine were situated on the North Sea coast and thirteen ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 8,2017 )
A Geek in China: Discovering the Land of Alibaba, Bullet Trains and Dim Sum by Christensen Matthew B
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Christensen, Matthew B. [Christensen, Matthew B.]

SHOPPING AS A SPORT Shopping in China has been likened to a sport. The younger generation, in particular, are crazy about clothes, shoes and accessories. Nearly every large city has ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 8,2017 )
The Empire Must Die by Mikhail Zygar
epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:Mikhail Zygar

A “SHAMELESS” LAW By the time the Duma is dissolved, a new electoral law has not only been written, but also adopted by the government and the State Council. The ...
( Category: Russia December 8,2017 )
The Oxford Handbook Of Ancient Greek Religion by Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt
epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt

WHERE ARE WE GOING? CURRENT DEBATES This brings us to current scholarship, and the tautological impasse, pointedly criticized by Robert Parker (2004: 57–8): ‘texts assembled in Sokolowski are sacred laws ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 8,2017 )
Unconditional Defeat by Thomas W. Zeiler
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Thomas W. Zeiler

5 THE RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES In the last phase of the war the United States enjoyed the luxury of deciding where and when to go next. The fall of ...
( Category: History December 8,2017 )
The Civil War (Classics) by Caesar Julius
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Caesar, Julius

4. The last stages 26. Meanwhile, Mithridates of Pergamum, a man of high standing at home, skilled and courageous in war, and a loyal and esteemed friend of Caesar’s, had ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 8,2017 )
She Captains by Joan Druett
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2001-12-08 | Author:Joan Druett

I will unfold a circumstance that does to love belong Concerning of a pretty maid who ventur’d we are told Across the briny ocean as a female sailor bold. In ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 8,2017 )

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