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The Korean War: History in an Hour by Andrew Mulholland
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Andrew Mulholland [Mulholland, Andrew]

Entrenched: Peace Talks and Military Stalemate Initial Peace Talks, July–August 1951 The first round of peace talks during the Korean War was to prove a frustrating failure. Their breakdown at ...
( Category: Korea January 18,2015 )
The Vietnam War: History in an Hour by Neil Smith
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Neil Smith [Smith, Neil]

An anti-Vietnam demonstrator offers a flower to military police at the Pentagon. Arlington, Virginia, October 1967 NARA The real successes of the anti-war movement occurred during Richard Nixon’s presidency. His ...
( Category: United States January 18,2015 )
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...
( Category: Nuclear January 18,2015 )
Killing Machine : The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare (9781595589439) by Gardner Lloyd C
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gardner, Lloyd C. [Gardner, Lloyd C.]

The Lead-in to Neptune’s Spear The compound at Abbottabad, a midsize city only an hour’s drive from Islamabad, was where Osama bin Laden had lived in secret for six years. ...
( Category: Executive Branch January 18,2015 )
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
mobi |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 17,2015 )
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) by Abbott Edwin Abbott
azw |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Abbott, Edwin Abbott [Abbott, Edwin Abbott]

PART II: OTHER WORLDS "O brave new worlds, that have such people in them!" Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland It was the last day but one ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 17,2015 )
America's Bitter Pill by Steven Brill
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Steven Brill [Brill, Steven]

THE $28,000 AMBULANCE A few months after someone in a Minnesota emergency room fetched Bruce Folken’s wallet for him so that he could pay before he was treated, David Cramer, ...
( Category: Americas January 17,2015 )
Abuse by Nikki Sex
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Nikki Sex [Sex, Nikki]

Chapter 7. “You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather.” ― Pema Chödrön ~~~ Renata Koreman André’s passionate about everything: food, fashion, love, relationships and sex. No subject is ...
( Category: United States January 14,2015 )
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart [Rinehart, Mary Roberts]

CHAPTER XVIII A HOLE IN THE WALL My taking the detective out to Sunnyside raised an unexpected storm of protest from Gertrude and Halsey. I was not prepared for it, ...
( Category: Cozy January 13,2015 )
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Webb Gary
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-06-30 | Author:Webb, Gary [Webb, Gary]

15 "This thing is a tidal wave" That summer, three years after crack exploded in South Central L.A., the national news media finally figured out M what was happening. Within ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction January 13,2015 )
Empire of Sin by Gary Krist
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Gary Krist [Krist, Gary]

UP on Esplanade Avenue—far from the ongoing turmoil in Black and White Storyville—retired madam Josie Arlington had fallen gravely ill. Sometime in early 1913, right around the time of the ...
( Category: State & Local January 12,2015 )
Belonging: A Culture of Place by Bell Hooks
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-22 | Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]

10 Earthbound: On Solid Ground Kentucky hills were the place of my early childhood. Surrounded by a wilderness of honeysuckle, wild asparagus, and sheltering trees, bushes shielding growing crops, the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 12,2015 )
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-05-04 | Author:Robert Stone [Stone, Robert]

33 LUCAS WENT HOME through the early morning markets, by way of Jaffa Gate. In the middle of the morning he called Sonia. "I don't think we should see each ...
( Category: Political January 12,2015 )
Nixon's Secrets by Stone Roger Colapietro Mike
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-11 | Author:Stone, Roger, Colapietro, Mike

NOTES 1. Richard Nixon, In the Arena, p. 255. 2. Ibid. 3. Stephen Ambrose, Nixon: The Education of a Politician, p. 650. 4. Jules Witcover, Resurrection of Richard Nixon, p. ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies January 12,2015 )
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brandon Stanton [Stanton, Brandon]

( Category: State & Local January 11,2015 )

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