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Two Solitudes by MacLennan Hugh;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:MacLennan, Hugh; [MacLennan, Hugh;]

PART TWO 1919 – 1921 TWENTY-SEVEN The war had been over for six months, and now the first battalions were coming home. Some of them had lived through half a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
Clearer Than Truth: The Polygraph and the American Cold War by John Philipp Baesler
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:John Philipp Baesler

Bush therefore raised the issue of the nexus between the polygraph’s methodology of eliciting personal secrets and the CIA’s mission to protect national security secrets. “At this point, Mr. Blake ...
( Category: True Crime January 19,2020 )
Catch-67 by Micah Goodman
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Micah Goodman [Goodman, Micah]

PART III THE SPHERE OF PRAGMATIC DISCOURSE Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have understood neither the theory ...
( Category: Theology January 19,2020 )
Money and Government by Skidelsky Robert
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Skidelsky, Robert [Skidelsky, Robert]

Figure 36. Post-crash outcomes: Germany, Greece and Eurozone47 Figure 37. UK austerity – counterfactual medicine48 Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University calculates the cost of austerity up to 2017 as between ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
The Hand of God: Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925-1971 by Michael Gauvreau
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Michael Gauvreau [Gauvreau, Michael]

9 “We Choose the Canadian Hypothesis” Defining the Ethics of Federalism, 1964 Those who have never lived this ideal are now compelled to grope towards its achievement. Those who have ...
( Category: Historical January 19,2020 )
Nuclear Summer by Louise Krasniewicz
epub |eng | 2017-09-23 | Author:Louise Krasniewicz

Between the ritual processes of separation and reintegration, the encampment offered participants an opportunity to pass through a state of liminality as well, a state of transition and reflection. As ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Information Hunters by Kathy Peiss
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Kathy Peiss

Chapter 6 Book Burning—American Style Even as American libraries expanded their collections through relationships with the military, the American occupation government faced its own problem of mass acquisitions. The Allies ...
( Category: General January 19,2020 )
Revolution Against Empire: Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence by Justin du Rivage
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Justin du Rivage [Rivage, Justin du]

The Politics of Economic Independence Facing a concerted campaign for authoritarian reform that spanned the empire, colonial radicals responded forcefully and decisively. The Sons of Liberty organized the harassment of ...
( Category: Accounting January 19,2020 )
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men by Foner Eric;
epub |eng | 1970-01-15 | Author:Foner, Eric; [Foner, Eric;]

There is one duty we would earnestly urge upon the plain good sense and just feeling of our adopted citizens. It is the duty of thoroughly Americanizing themselves. . . ...
( Category: Political Parties January 19,2020 )
American Justice 2018 by Todd Ruger
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Todd Ruger [Ruger, Todd]

The Supreme Court could hardly avoid deciding such a high-profile case, and it was clear the justices would be seen as partisan by one side or the other. The divide ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Fossils by Thomson Keith;
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Thomson, Keith; [Thomson, Keith;]

Chapter 6 Bringing fossils to life Palaeontology is rarely a glamorous saga of digging up whole skeletons or entire communities preserved intact in a nice soft rock; most often it ...
( Category: Ichthyology January 19,2020 )
After Europe by Ivan Krastev
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Ivan Krastev

This is how pro-EU Europeans feel today. In twentieth-century Europe, nondemocratic empires disintegrated under democratic pressure brought to bear by their own subjects. Democrats were the ones who destroyed empires; ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
Black Lives Matter and Music by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Unknown

Figure 3.3 A line of SLABs at the Houston SLAB Parade and Family Festival. October 20, 2013. Photo by author. The SLAB community also helped bring a sense of authenticity ...
( Category: Music January 19,2020 )
I Like Ike by John Robert Greene
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:John Robert Greene

“Let’s Talk Sense to the American People” A brief recess was ordered before the nominee was presented to the convention. Truman appeared to a polite ovation, and his introduction of ...
( Category: Historical January 19,2020 )
Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Lisa Duggan [Duggan, Lisa]

During the mid-1940s, the political atmosphere was shifting as the world war ended and the Cold War ramped up. Rand’s ideas moved from the margins toward the center of U.S. ...
( Category: Politics January 19,2020 )

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