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A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts by Christiane Bird
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Christiane Bird

At the Kesnazan tekiye In contrast to the rest of us, Othman was almost silent. He had close ties to the tekiye, and had seen the ceremony hundreds if not ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 16,2017 )
Evelina by Frances Burney
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frances Burney [Burney, Frances]

Letter Eighteen Mr Villars to Evelina Berry Hill Displeasure? my Evelina! – you have but done your duty; you have but shewn that humanity without which I should blush to ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
The World Split Open by Ruth Rosen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Rosen [Rosen, Ruth]

THE FBI Both feminists and the FBI suffered from legitimate fears as well as paranoia. Activists often imagined that agents were everywhere and that the FBI viewed the women’s movement ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 16,2017 )
Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi by Timmerman Kenneth R
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Timmerman, Kenneth R. [Timmerman, Kenneth R.]

13 BAITING THE TRAP As U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens had a full plate: He was encouraging the new government to develop democratic institutions, managing the cleanup of Qaddafi’s weapons, and ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 16,2017 )
Spinoza by unknow
epub |eng | 2002-08-16 | Author:unknow

i See Supplementary Note 7. ii See Supplementary Note 8. 1 [The title of the book that Spinoza cites is the Hebrew title for Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed.] CHAPTER ...
( Category: Arts & Photography August 16,2017 )
Vanishing New York by Jeremiah Moss
epub |eng | 2017-05-19 | Author:Jeremiah Moss

18 THE TROUBLE WITH TOURISTS Street art by Ivan Orama, with added graffiti, a contemporary take on the classic anti-tourism slogan. Jeremiah Moss, 2014 GROUSING ABOUT TOURISTS HAS LONG BEEN ...
( Category: Sociology August 16,2017 )
The Gladius by M.C. Bishop
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:M.C. Bishop

Hone or whetstone from Carlisle (Cumbria, England). (Drawing: M.C. Bishop) Decoration and display The advent of the principate, founded by Augustus, saw new forms of display introduced into state art ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 15,2017 )
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Anne Applebaum

Hunger for Love: male prisoners peering over the fence into the women’s zone—a drawing by Yula-Imar Sooster, Karaganda, 1950 Such letters, remembered Leonid Sitko, were written on tiny pieces of ...
( Category: Russia August 15,2017 )
Confessions by St. Augustine & Henry Chadwick
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:St. Augustine & Henry Chadwick [Augustine, St. & Chadwick, Henry]

BOOK IX Cassiciacum: to Monica’s death i (1) ‘O Lord, I am your servant, I am your servant and the son of your handmaid. You have snapped my chains. I ...
( Category: History August 15,2017 )
Protect, Serve, and Deport by Amada Armenta
epub |eng | | Author:Amada Armenta

THE ATTACK OF EL PROTECTOR In 2006, debates over unauthorized immigrants’ driving privileges were in full swing (see chapter 2). Undocumented residents lost eligibility for driver’s licenses in 2004 and ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
Drunks by Christopher Finan
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Christopher Finan [Finan, Christopher M.]

Bob had always pictured alcoholics as Bowery bums. Bill was no bum. It didn’t really matter whether alcoholism was a disease. Bob discovered that he wasn’t alone. The two men ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart
epub |eng | 2013-08-15 | Author:David Bentley Hart

V 5. Intentionality. The Latin verb intendere means, among other things, to “direct toward,” “aim at,” or “reach for.” In the philosophy of mind, the term “intentionality” refers not simply ...
( Category: Philosophy August 15,2017 )
India before Europe: by Catherine B. Asher & Cynthia Talbot
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-15 | Author:Catherine B. Asher & Cynthia Talbot

Figure 5.12 Raja Man Singh’s Govinda Deva temple (1590) at Vrindavan reflects Islamicate styles used in imperial Mughal architecture. Man Singh built several other temples that were intended both to ...
( Category: Asia August 15,2017 )
Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts by Hussain Zaidi
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:Hussain Zaidi

Yeba Yaqub When Tiger had begun assembling his group, Yaqub, swept by a wave of enthusiasm, had pledged his support, though he had not known precisely how he could help. ...
( Category: Asia August 15,2017 )
Royal Renegades by Linda Porter
epub |eng | 2016-12-01 | Author:Linda Porter [Porter, Linda]

Her brothers Charles and James have been criticized for failing to visit her tomb but the seventeenth century did not have our modern preoccupation with public outpourings of grief and ...
( Category: Europe August 15,2017 )

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