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A Political Education by Todd-Breland Elizabeth;
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Todd-Breland, Elizabeth;

{ 6 } CORPORATE SCHOOL REFORM Magnets, Charters, and the Neoliberal Educational Order As one of its first actions in the fall of 1989, the newly elected Local School Council ...
( Category: Americas December 8,2018 )
Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War by Frank Costigliola
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frank Costigliola

Chapter 8 Guns and Kisses in the Kremlin Ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr Encounter Stalin, 1943–46 What the Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth tagged as the wildest Kremlin party since ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 8,2018 )
Alternative War: Unabridged by J.J. Patrick
mobi |eng | 2018-06-20 | Author:J.J. Patrick

Fourteen: Within the somewhat expansive structure of Arron Banks’ complex business network, I discovered a rather plain looking diamond. Parsons Jewellers in Bristol had been in the same family for ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 8,2018 )
Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski
epub |eng | | Author:Witold Rybczynski

Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco introduced a new urban-renewal formula: rehabilitated waterfront buildings + commerce + tourism = downtown activity. Fisherman’s Wharf is an example of successful revitalization based not ...
( Category: Sociology December 6,2018 )
The Point of It All by Charles Krauthammer & Daniel Krauthammer
epub |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:Charles Krauthammer & Daniel Krauthammer

The Washington Post, June 17, 2005 The Tribalization of America One day’s news: — A prominent Tory MP is killed by an IRA car bomb. — Government soldiers in Liberia ...
( Category: Americas December 6,2018 )
Ike's Mystery Man by PETER SHINKLE
epub |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:PETER SHINKLE

16 “LOSING MY RIGHT ARM” In the White House Cabinet Room on Thursday, March 3, 1955, Bobby Cutler led the NSC through a sobering Cold War reality: a new national ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 5,2018 )
Shotguns and Stagecoaches by John Boessenecker
epub |eng | | Author:John Boessenecker

Bill Evans, who was sentenced to life in San Quentin for the murder of Mike Tovey. (California State Archives) Once again, Milt Sharp was suspected. Charles Aull, former Wells Fargo ...
( Category: Americas December 4,2018 )
The Big Book of Senior Moments by Bennett Melville
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Bennett Melville

“I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs all the time. That’s my exercise.” —Betty White A Thought on Health Health nuts ...
( Category: Humor December 4,2018 )
The History of the Future by Edward McPherson
epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Edward McPherson

Chasing the Boundary: Boom and Bust on the High Prairie Once again, the story begins with fire, some primeval attraction to light in the darkness. A time-lapse video looking down ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 3,2018 )
True Ladies and Proper Gentlemen by Sarah A. Chrisman
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Sarah A. Chrisman

5 The recipes in this chapter are for historical reference purposes only. 6 N.B. The green in the original fashion plate faded to brown in the antique illustration. Etiquette in ...
( Category: Business Culture December 3,2018 )
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors by Debby Irving
epub |eng | 2018-12-01 | Author:Debby Irving

William Brown was accused of assaulting Agnes Lobeck, a white woman, in Nebraska. On September 28, 1919, he was brutally and savagely lynched in Omaha. In 1903, a Georgia mob ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2018 )
Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Sam Tanenhaus [Tanenhaus, Sam]

While the grand jury was deliberating, Chambers exited the waiting room and slipped down a back stairway. A group of reporters ran down a different stairway, hoping to intercept him. ...
( Category: World December 1,2018 )
Endeavour by Peter Moore
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Moore

The Shot man had a human tooth hanging at one ear and a girdle of Matting about four inches broad was passed twice round his loins & tied. He had ...
( Category: World December 1,2018 )
Guest of Honor by Deborah Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Davis

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS When Booker T. arrived at the White House on Sunday, September 29, for his scheduled 9:00 PM meeting with TR, the building was quiet. The Roosevelt children ...
( Category: Historical November 30,2018 )
Artifacts from Modern America by Helen Sheumaker
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Sheumaker

SIGNIFICANCE Wheelchairs were invented because there was a need for them. Sometimes individuals suffered illnesses that left limbs paralyzed (see Health and Medicine—Antibiotics Penicillin Sample), such as polio; others suffered ...
( Category: Architecture November 29,2018 )

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