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A Desert Reckoning by Deanne Stillman
epub |eng | | Author:Deanne Stillman

TENDER GOODNESS Sit in the mud, my friend, and aspire to the skies! —Ivan Turgenev, “Enough” FOR TEN YEARS OR SO, DON’S FAMILY HAD NO CONTACT WITH him. There were ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
State by State
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Matt Weiland

Suki says a girl in Bosnia sent him a letter after reading Tom Sawyer. “Dear Editor,” the letter began, “I am a Bosnian girl who has never seen the sea. ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Connections by James Burke
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:James Burke [Burke, James]

A painting (1438) of St. Barbara, incorporating the latest luxuries afforded by the presence of the chimney. Wooden furniture keeps her feet off the tiled floor, glass windows are backed ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
Burning Chrome (Short Stories) by William Gibson
mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:William Gibson

The Winter Market It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterinmate gray. But then there are ...
( Category: Short Stories January 28,2015 )
BOWLING ALONE by Robert D. Putnam
epub |eng | 2000-01-25 | Author:Robert D. Putnam

SOCIAL CAPITAL AFFECTS NOT ONLY what goes into politics, but also what comes out of it. The best illustration of the powerful impact of civic engagement on government performance comes ...
( Category: Curricula January 26,2015 )
Black Hawk : The Battle for the Heart of America (9781466860926) by Trask Kerry A
epub |eng | | Author:Trask, Kerry A.

9 THE GREAT FEAR A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers. James Fenimore ...
( Category: State & Local January 24,2015 )
Black Hawk : The Battle for the Heart of America by Trask Kerry A
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Trask, Kerry A. [Trask, Kerry A.]

9 THE GREAT FEAR A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers. James Fenimore ...
( Category: State & Local January 24,2015 )
How Baseball Explains America by Hal Bodley
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Hal Bodley [Bodley, Hal]

10. The Dream Is Alive in Oakland Across the choppy waters of San Francisco Bay the city of Oakland rises out of the fog, almost like a little boy standing ...
( Category: United States January 20,2015 )
Wrapped in the Flag by Claire Conner
epub |eng | | Author:Claire Conner

Pizza and beer helped my attitude but did nothing to change my problem: Dr. Kendall did not like me. Ironically, my brother—as much a Birch baby as I was—escaped Kendall’s ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 20,2015 )
Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees From Before the Babe to After the Boss by Marty Appel
epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Marty Appel [Appel, Marty]

DIMAGGIO WAITED UNTIL December 11 to make his plans public. Similar to what Ruth had done after his last Yankee season, he toured Japan and Korea with a traveling U.S. ...
( Category: State & Local January 20,2015 )
A Short History of Brazil by Gordon Kerr
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Gordon Kerr [Kerr, Gordon]

6 The Vargas Era 1930 to 1954 Population and Industry in the Nineteen-Thirties Between 1920 and 1940, Brazil’s population increased by slightly more than 25 per cent, from 30,600,000 to ...
( Category: Brazil January 19,2015 )
Can't Anybody Here Play this Game?-The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year by Jimmy Breslin
mobi |eng | 1963-04-28 | Author:Jimmy Breslin

5 “They’re Afraid to Come Out” THE SECOND HALF OF the season for the New York Mets was, generally speaking, a catastrophe. The second half of the season consisted of ...
( Category: State & Local January 19,2015 )
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
epub, mobi |eng | 1807-01-18 | Author:Thomas Paine [Paine, Thomas]

Table of the Prophets, with the time in which they lived before Christ, and also before the books of Kings and Chronicles were written: Name: Isaiah Years before Christ: 760 ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2015 )
JFK: History in an Hour by Sinead Fitzgibbon
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Sinead Fitzgibbon [Fitzgibbon, Sinead]

But amid the optimism and ceremony on that bitter cold January day in 1961, neither Kennedy nor the US people could have known just how soon these lofty ideals would ...
( Category: Leadership January 18,2015 )
GEORGE WASHINGTON: History in an Hour by David B. McCoy
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:David B. McCoy [McCoy, David B.]

Washington leading troops during the Whiskey Rebellion Jefferson and his allies in the Southern States were rooted in the centuries-old agricultural culture. They saw the adoption of Hamilton’s three-pronged plan ...
( Category: Leadership January 18,2015 )

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