History
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Dana Goldstein [Goldstein, Dana]
The report went on to depict a “rising tide of mediocrity”: a twenty-year decline in SAT scores, electives like cooking and drivers ed considered acceptable substitutes for physics and calculus ...
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Schools & Teaching
November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-12 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]
Another matter bound up with Lincoln’s powers as commander in chief, but involving many other considerations as well, was slavery. Lincoln’s decision in 1862 to issue an emancipation proclamation freed ...
( Category:
Americas
November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Roy Hattersley [Hattersley, Roy]
CHAPTER 24 THE PATRIOT Politicians who want to avoid war have always taken refuge in wishful thinking. Speaking at the Mansion House banquet on 17 July 1914 - three weeks ...
( Category:
Leaders & Notable People
November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Worth [Worth, Jennifer]
AUNT ANNE As I entered Sister Monica Joan’s room she glared at me. “I’ll murder that fellow one of these days. You see if I don’t. The dirty old goat!” ...
( Category:
Memoirs
November 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:The Washington Post [Washington Post, The]
Louisiana State University ecologist Andy Nyman examines a wetlands area in Louisiana's Sawdust Bend Bayou, about 95 miles downriver from New Orleans. A Mississippi River diversion – a gap in ...
( Category:
History
November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Howard M. Sachar [Sachar, Howard M.]
THE STRUGGLE FOR FLEXIBILITY WITHIN ORTHODOXY In the wake of the government’s surrender following the Shalit case, public revulsion against the Orthodox establishment became almost uncontainable. There was widespread identification ...
( Category:
Middle East
November 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff
ON JANUARY 21, 1943, Pappy Turner’s crew dropped a note to the Motorsled Camp with a bundle of wooden stakes and fifty red bandanna handkerchiefs. It described Balchen’s rescue plan ...
( Category:
Military
November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Donald Richie [Richie, Donald]
Japan’s Avant-garde Theater ANY AVANT-GARDE art is predicated upon its newness and its novelty. When these qualities become sufficiently absorbed the art ceases to be avant-garde and becomes establishment. This ...
( Category:
Asia
November 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jon Krakauer
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE In the predawn hours of March 23, 2003, as Jessica Lynch’s convoy rolled across the Euphrates River and entered An Nasiriyah, Pat Tillman was asleep on his cot ...
( Category:
Biographies
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:James Fergusson [Fergusson, James]
The author with Ugandan Colonel John Mugarura, of AMISOM, on the front line in Hawl Wadaag district, Mogadishu. Contingency Commander Paul Lokech during an eve-of-battle briefing. Fighting through this densely ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Benazir Bhutto [Bhutto, Benazir]
10 TWO MORE YEARS ALONE IN SUB-JAIL Familiarity. Comfort. Home. Leaving aside the fact that the paramilitary Frontier Forces were once more posted inside the compound walls and a prison ...
( Category:
Specific Groups
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Letts [Letts, Elizabeth]
15 New Challenges Westport, Connecticut, 1958 Joe “the Pollack” Keswyzk and Jim Troutwell had an ongoing wager with Harry. Not that Harry wanted to bet against his own horse, but ...
( Category:
Memoirs
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:George Will [Will, George]
Chapter Four SENSIBILITIES AND SENSITIVITIES Narcissism as News Time magazine asked a large number of people to name the Person of the Year. They were in a populist mood and ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
November 28,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Shamus Rahman Khan [Khan, Shamus Rahman]
Corporeal Misrecognition I knew Mary reasonably well. She was the advisee of a friend and played in the club soccer league I had coached. One afternoon, between the end of ...
( Category:
Americas
November 28,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Fritz Graf [Graf, Fritz]
Two years later the Romans dedicated a temple to Apollo (Livy 4.29.7): they must have attributed the end of the epidemic – although it was more a tailing-off than a ...
( Category:
History
November 28,2017 )
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