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The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 by Robert S. Mcelvaine
epub, mobi |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Robert S. Mcelvaine [McElvaine, Robert S.]

( Category: Americas November 13,2017 )
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:John Lanchester

FIVE THE MISTAKE And yet the financial industry could still have got away with it. All the things described up until now could have been survived, and the resulting chaos ...
( Category: International November 13,2017 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 Volumes by Edward Gibbon
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Edward Gibbon

Note: It is difficult to answer Middleton's objection to this statement of Irenae us: "It is very strange, that from the time of the apostles there is not a single ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 13,2017 )
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Javier Moro
epub |eng | 2009-05-29 | Author:Javier Moro [Moro, Javier]

29 “My Beautiful Plant Was Losing Its Soul” The young engineer who had risked his life escorting the first barrels of MIC from Bombay to Bhopal could not believe it. ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 13,2017 )
The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Philip Bobbitt [Bobbitt, Philip]

If we take this idea—the creation of a constitution for the society of states4 from the settlement of an epochal war—in light of the relation between such wars and the ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 13,2017 )
Speed Tribes: Days and Night's With Japan's Next Generation by Karl Taro Greenfeld
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld

VI HIRO AND YOSHIHARA THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST Hiro Ikeda, a chubby, bespectacled boy about to turn eighteen, studied the pass list posted on the wrought-iron gates of the ...
( Category: Asia November 13,2017 )
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970 by John Darwin
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:John Darwin [Darwin, John]

Hughes’ frustration was the greater because, as he readily admitted, ‘there is only one course open to us in practice and that is to follow Britain’.99 Unless Australia spoke as ...
( Category: Europe November 13,2017 )
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
epub, mobi | | 2011-06-30 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

4 Nitrous oxide was not without risks. It was considered a lethal gas by both Priestley and the American chemist Dr Samuel Mitchill.52 But Davy went ahead anyway. He heated ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 13,2017 )
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific by James Campbell
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:James Campbell

East of the Girua River, as Colonel Smith began moving on the Triangle, he was heartened by the arrival of Major Stutterin’ Smith’s 2nd Battalion. Smith, too, was happy to ...
( Category: Military November 13,2017 )
Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-reverte
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Arturo Perez-reverte [Perez-reverte, Arturo]

Of course, when the future Charles the First inquired about the possibility of greeting his betrothed in person, exchanging even so much as a simple "Good evening," the Conde de ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers November 13,2017 )
Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Beyond: A Mud Marine's Memoir of the Pacific Island War by William W. Rogal
epub |eng | 2010-07-04 | Author:William W. Rogal

My platoon's survivors shortly before leaving Guadalcanal. All but seven are replacements. The arrow points to the author. Col. Wood Kyle, in his memo reviewing the Report, objected to statements ...
( Category: Military November 13,2017 )
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson; Joshua Rosner
mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Gretchen Morgenson; Joshua Rosner

If the ratings agencies were doing excellent work on behalf of the banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they continued to do shoddy work for investors and taxpayers. After ...
( Category: Finance November 13,2017 )
Hiding by Masters Sarah
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-12 | Author:Masters, Sarah [Masters, Sarah]

Chapter Eleven Oliver woke to the sound of a baby wailing, the noise like sandpaper on a raw, open wound. He blinked, momentarily forgetting where they were. The sight of ...
( Category: Europe November 13,2017 )
Other Japan by David Suzuki & Keibo Oiwa
epub |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:David Suzuki & Keibo Oiwa

The Korean Mirror “The problem is the Koreans. Outwardly, they appear to be submissive, but inwardly, they resist... We should adopt the same kind of policy Hitler has used against ...
( Category: Asia November 13,2017 )
Oklahoma City by Andrew Gumbel
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Andrew Gumbel

ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1994, PRESIDENT CLINTON APPROVED A TEN-YEAR assault weapons ban, and McVeigh wondered if he hadn’t been plunged into the opening chapter of The Turner Diaries, in which ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 13,2017 )

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