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Staking Claims to a Continent by James Laxer
epub |eng | 2016-06-16 | Author:James Laxer

Later that day, when the assembly met, Macdonald rose to tell the members that the governor general had agreed to a dissolution of the House, and then revealed that a ...
( Category: Americas September 6,2016 )
My First Life by Hugo Chavez
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Chavez

10 Conspiring and Recruiting Gently flowing water – The Power Within You Sandinista victory in Nicaragua – Marx and Bolívar ‘About-Turn’ – First micro-cell – Winning over cadets Crisis theory ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2016 )
Necessary Trouble by Sarah Jaffe
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Sarah Jaffe

IT HAS ONLY BEEN RELATIVELY RECENTLY THAT ABORTION AND GAY rights were assumed to be the major concerns of people of faith. For much of US history, when politicians took ...
( Category: Human Rights September 5,2016 )
Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski
epub |eng | | Author:Witold Rybczynski

Paimio lounge chair (Alvar and Aino Aalto) Most of the Paimio furniture made its way into production. The two lounge chairs, the waiting room armchair, and the reading room chair ...
( Category: Furniture Design September 5,2016 )
Marina and Lee by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Priscilla Johnson McMillan [McMillan, Priscilla Johnson]

— 22 — The Sanction For Marina, the month of February 1963 was far and away the worst in all her married life. Lee had been hitting her ever since ...
( Category: United States September 5,2016 )
1920 by Eric Burns
epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:Eric Burns

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Closed Door in the White House IT WAS PONZI WHO MADE headlines late in the summer of 1920, but there was a much more important story in ...
( Category: Americas September 5,2016 )
The Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam
epub |eng | | Author:David Halberstam

Even in Kien Hoa Province the Vietcong forged a remarkable record. During a long period of time in 1962 and early 1963, when they were laying low militarily, they had ...
( Category: Military September 4,2016 )
The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
epub |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:Laurence Leamer

A Political Prisoner AS ROBERT SHELTON sat at the witness table at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings in October 1965, he looked not so much thin as emaciated, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 4,2016 )
The Future of the Jews by Stuart E. Eizenstat
epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Stuart E. Eizenstat [Eizenstat, Stuart E.]

5 Israel and the New Challenge of Delegitimization A Global Force of the twenty-first century with particular impact on the State of Israel and world Jewry is the rise of ...
( Category: World September 4,2016 )
Wild Roads Washington by Seabury Blair Jr
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Seabury Blair Jr. [Blair, Seabury]

Snowbanks hang out along the road to Nason Ridge as late as mid-July. Beyond the trailhead parking area, the road makes a sweeping switchback in open alpine slopes where you ...
( Category: Exercise & Fitness September 4,2016 )
Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher

14 * * * Empire About thirteen hundred miles southeast of Moscow, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, a gleaming thirty-three-story building rose ...
( Category: Elections August 24,2016 )
American Witches by Susan Fair
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Susan Fair

Well, that was unexpected. The Mathers’ baby had been cut open and examined. The first official autopsy performed in America, on little Elizabeth Kelly in 1662, was most likely Mather’s ...
( Category: Wicca August 24,2016 )
67 Shots by Howard Means
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Howard Means

The dearth of compassion often came with a caveat. “This is all very tragic,” a husband and wife wrote to the Record-Courier, “yet if this is what it takes to ...
( Category: State & Local August 21,2016 )
The Lost World of the Old Ones by David Roberts
epub |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:David Roberts

During the last two decades, I’ve made about sixteen backpack trips into various corners of the Navajo Reservation, lasting as long as twelve days. Several of my trips were solo ...
( Category: Americas August 21,2016 )
To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture by Jorge Fornet
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Jorge Fornet

Jury of the 1964 Casa de las Américas Prize: Lisandro Otero, Camila Henríquez Ureña, Italo Calvino, Fernando Benítez, Ángel Rama. Courtesy of the Archive of Casa de las Américas. In ...
( Category: Cuba August 19,2016 )

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