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Accidental State by Hsiao-ting Lin
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Hsiao-ting Lin [Lin, Hsiao-ting]

8.1 General Douglas MacArthur met with Chiang Kai-shek and his top military brass in Taipei. MacArthur’s visit to Taiwan on July 31, 1950, boosted Nationalist morale and strengthened Chiang Kai-shek’s ...
( Category: Americas December 3,2017 )
Natural History by Natural History
epub |eng | 2011-02-24 | Author:Natural History [History, Natural]

* * * 15. The Stolen Note Machen received Glitter’s garbled delivery of information calmly. He had just observed the Lonestar vanish from the traffic-control system, and simultaneously had lost ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 3,2017 )
The Progressive Era by unknow
epub |eng | 2017-10-08 | Author:unknow

Or, as a leading citizen of Boston declared, “the only way to elevate the foreign population was to make Protestants of their children.”[8] Since the cities of the North, in ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
One Wild Bird at a Time by Bernd Heinrich
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

A blue jay carrying an acorn. I had previously seen lone jays call from a treetop, fly off in silence, land in another treetop, call again, and repeat this pattern, ...
( Category: Field Guides December 2,2017 )
Don't Know Much About the Civil War by Kenneth C. Davis
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-12-23 | Author:Kenneth C. Davis

chapter six 1863 “The Great Task Remaining” The winter was severe, the snow deep. The soldiers were discouraged. They knew that they had fought bravely but there had been mismanagement ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 2,2017 )
Erma's Attic by Deanna Edens
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Deanna Edens [Edens, Deanna]

Sissonville, West Virginia April 11, 1981 {{11}} The following morning I woke up in a big featherbed with a serious crick in my neck. I drowsily wandered toward the scent ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon
epub |eng | | Author:Robert J. Gordon

Figure 11–9.U. S. Commercial Airline Passenger Fatalities Per 100 Billion Passenger-Miles, Seven Year Moving Average, 1940–2013. Sources: HSUS Df1120, Df1133, Df 1231, Df1236 before 1997, MIT Airline Data Project RPM ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children by Dorie McCullough Lawson
mobi |eng | 2004-04-12 | Author:Dorie McCullough Lawson

William James and daughter Margaret Mark Twain and family (Clara far left, wife, Olivia, second from left, Jean center, and Susie far right) The Pleasures of Life JOHN ADAMS TO ...
( Category: Historical December 2,2017 )
President Lincoln by William Lee Miller
mobi |eng | 2008-02-04 | Author:William Lee Miller

CHAPTER THIRTEEN In Giving Freedom to the Slave, We Assure Freedom to the Free MY STATION AND ITS DUTIES WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN became president of the United States, as we ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life by Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie Mcnally
mobi |eng | 2009-08-21 | Author:Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie Mcnally

5. Understanding what you’re doing makes it infinitely stronger. You can see then why people who live by integrity in their business life may not seem to get their reward ...
( Category: Success December 2,2017 )
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I by Robert A. Caro
mobi |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Robert A. Caro

AND HE USED THESE MEN. Hawthorne said of Andrew Jackson that “his native strength … compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
Pardon My Hearse: A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood by Allan Abbott & Greg Abbott
mobi, azw |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Allan Abbott & Greg Abbott

Abbott & Hast’s Ford truck, used for transporting veterans to VA cemeteries. 32 Expanding Our Business We rented hearses every year for Halloween parties, birthdays, and weddings. Our most unusual ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification by Paul Roberts
mobi |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Paul Roberts

And yet, while it’s clearly the case that the innovation-jobs machine is nowhere near tapped out, even positive trends such as reshoring and a biotech revolution will be hard-pressed to ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon by F. Paul Pacult
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:F. Paul Pacult

In 1941, Harry Homel and Oliver Jacobson sold their shares in the James B. Beam Distilling Company to Harry Blum, Phillip Blum's son, for around $1 million, making the Blums ...
( Category: Industries December 2,2017 )
Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition by Jack Uldrich
mobi |eng | 2008-01-04 | Author:Jack Uldrich

The captains' "softer, gentler" management style served them extremely well throughout the remainder of the expedition, with one possible exception. After leaving Fort Mandan, military order still pervaded the Corps ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )

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