Americas
epub |eng | 2001-08-13 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

5 CHICAGO Horror on Lake Michigan The wretchedness of that night who can tell! the despondency that filled the hearts of all, not so much in regard to the present ...
( Category: Pre-Confederation March 12,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:M. Stanton Evans

TWO final suspects in this roster of midlevel McCarthy cases may be handled rather briefly. One was Prof. Frederick Schuman, who, despite a record of Communist-front affiliation exceeding that of ...
( Category: United States March 11,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-24 | Author:Andrew Coe [Coe, Andrew]

This one of the earliest accounts we have of the mixed stir-fry, one of the Pearl River Delta’s village specialties, that would have an outsized influence on the American perception ...
( Category: Chinese March 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Horowitz, David [Horowitz, David]

BETTY THE EVENT TO WHICH I TOOK ABBY WAS A SUNDAY-MORNING SERVICE AT the Son of Man Temple, a secular church of Huey’s invention housed in the auditorium of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Robert Kurson [Kurson, Robert]

Mattera had one more appointment to keep. In ways, he looked forward to this one most of all. Carl Fismer had a reputation for being a maestro in a business ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-29 | Author:Justin Fox [Fox, Justin]

FOR THE LONGEST TIME, THE author of the efficient market hypothesis was a mere spectator to these unsettling events. Eugene Fama did have a front-row seat—he was on Bänz’s dissertation ...
( Category: United States March 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Lynne Olson [Olson, Lynne]

CHAPTER 18 “WELL, BOYS, BRITAIN’S BROKE” At the moment Roosevelt was celebrating his election victory at Hyde Park, Luftwaffe bombers were returning to their bases in France after their fiftieth ...
( Category: World War II March 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scott Sumner [Sumner, Scott]

In the preceding three chapters we have seen evidence of rapid inflation in an extremely depressed economy, rapid change in real wages (even before implementation of the NIRA), and industrial ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Michael V. Hayden [Hayden, Michael V.]

THIRTEEN GOING HOME PITTSBURGH, PA, 1945–2014 In the 1997 hit film Grosse Pointe Blank, John Cusack plays an assassin back in town for his high school’s ten-year reunion. Searching for ...
( Category: United States March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Donovan

Thursday, October 24 The courtroom was crowded and it was a hot day. I was pleased in this case that under the rules I would sum up first. My appeal ...
( Category: Nuclear March 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Cowan

Chapter Thirteen For anyone who understood politics, power, and the parliamentary realities of nominating conventions, the outcome should have been clear by the time the 1912 Republican Convention opened on ...
( Category: Elections March 7,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sally Denton

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The Hydra-Headed American Giant “Bechtel arrived in Iraq quietly,” wrote Dahr Jamail, among the relatively few unembedded journalists to report from occupied Iraq during the war and its ...
( Category: Business March 7,2016 )
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2008-05-29 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

On Friday, July 31, Reynolds was aboard the Vincennes, at anchor beside the Peacock off Vanua Levu, talking with William May. May was at work on a chart of the ...
( Category: Americas March 6,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-02-10 | Author:Rauchway, Eric [Rauchway, Eric]

Notes 1. Isaiah Berlin, “President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” in The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer (London: Chatto and Windus, 1997), 629. ...
( Category: European March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Edwards

AFGHANISTAN After a string of notable foreign policy successes, the Soviets were about to encounter an unexpected setback. In October 1979, Hafizulah Amin, a formerly reliable communist politician, engineered a ...
( Category: European March 5,2016 )