Americas
mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Kapcia, Antoni [Kapcia, Antoni]

Chapter 5 Spreading the Revolution: The Evolution of an External Profile Since the Revolution was always as much about achieving and defending real independence as about social change, its external ...
( Category: Cuba November 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Kathryn Canavan

Booth escaped over the Navy Yard Bridge into Maryland. Credit: National Archives Gurley said, “I will speak to God.” Stanton replied, “Do it just now.”32 Gurley dropped to his knees ...
( Category: Civil War November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Altman, Stuart.

The Birth of DRGs The HEW team had three goals in designing the new Medicare hospital payment system. It wanted to end cost-based payments, create an annual budget for hospital ...
( Category: Social Policy November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Axelrod

The week after the party, I found myself taking more walks than usual, examining faces more closely beneath the porticoes on Via Irnerio. Wherever I went, Milena’s presence felt close ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Christian Wolmar [Wolmar, Christian]

EIGHT THE END OF THE AFFAIR By the end of the century the railways were by far the biggest business enterprise in the United States. Their mileage had increased to ...
( Category: History November 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-09 | Author:Noam Chomsky

The Right to Information The immortal collectivist persons are easily able to dominate information and doctrinal systems. Their wealth and power allow them to set the framework within which the ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Chomsky, Noam

5 International Terrorism: Image and Reality (1989) There are two ways to approach the study of terrorism. One may adopt a literal approach, taking the topic seriously, or a propagandistic ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:James Ellroy [Ellroy, James]

* * * FREDERICKS * * * APRIL 14 We’re back to that “walls-are-closing-in-on-me” job. Richard and Ruth Hilda Fredericks had three kids. Richard was an office clerk. Ruth Hilda ...
( Category: State & Local November 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Nick Offerman [Offerman, Nick]

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is coldhearted and abstract, lacking the heat and even the courage of a personal hatred. Categorical condemnation is the ...
( Category: United States November 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sandra Millers Younger

Retirees Bob and Barbara Daly had also been forced back by the flames. Awakened by the sound of the wind rearranging their patio furniture, Bob Daly had immediately roused his ...
( Category: State & Local November 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Peter Janney [Janney, Peter]

By 1962, Philip and Katharine Graham’s marriage had come apart and was in freefall. Estranged from Katharine, drinking heavily amid manic-depressive episodes, Phil and his new mistress, Newsweek reporter Robin ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Phillip Thomas Tucker

Map courtesy of Bradley M. Gottfried “The guiding spirit of the battle” MEANWHILE, BARKSDALE CONTINUED to lead the 13th, 17th, and 18th Mississippi northeast up the Emmitsburg Road, smashing resistance ...
( Category: Civil War November 19,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Urschel

The Courier-Journal got a similar note of appreciation from the Bureau’s director. While Hoover was accepting the praise for his department and ramping up its publicity machine, the hunt for ...
( Category: United States November 18,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carlos Eire

21 Veintiuno The air was a huge, all-enveloping knife. Even through the thickest layers of wool, the wind coming off Lake Michigan, two blocks away, would plunge the blade deep ...
( Category: Cuba November 18,2015 )