epub |eng, eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Urton, Gary,von Hagen, Adriana & Adriana von Hagen [Urton, Gary & Hagen, Adriana von]

HUACA Often glossed as “sacred place,” huaca is a term used frequently by the Spanish chroniclers to invoke a concept that they clearly understood to be a core principle, or ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

Thompson was not the only soldier to venture to the Little Bighorn on his own initiative. Henry Mechling and another soldier from Benteen’s H Company also headed down the ravine ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-12-07 | Author:Lawrence Block

The sun was down when I left her apartment, and the sky was darkening. I set out intending to walk back to my hotel, but I was breathing heavily before ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Amartya Sen [Sen, Amartya]

11 Women and Men* Many Faces of Gender Inequality Inequality between women and men can appear in many different forms – it has many faces.1 Gender disparity is, in fact, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Charles C. Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Milton, Giles [Milton, Giles]

“A wyfe ought to be chaste, pacyent and sober,” reads one Elizabethan guide for housewives. She also needed to be hardworking, for her daily routine included baking, brewing, harvesting, spinning, ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Calloway, Colin G.

FIGURE 6.2 George Bent and his Cheyenne wife, Magpie, 1867. Magpie gave birth to a daughter on the opening day of the Medicine Lodge council. (Courtesy of History Colorado, Scan ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Bill Gammage

9 A capital tour Until 1788 almost no-one in Australia imagined attack from the sea. Sea and shore belonged to the Dreaming, eternal eddies. Only in Sydney and Adelaide did ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kent Nerburn

13 “Our People Are Hungry and Weak” A HUNDRED MILES farther ahead, the Nez Perce sensed the weakening pursuit. Attacks by the Crow and Bannock had dwindled to almost nothing. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Dennis J. Stanford & Bruce A. Bradley

FIGURE 7.3. Bladelet and blade cores: (a) Solutrean bladelet core; (b-d) pre-Clovis bladelet cores; (e) face and top view of Solutrean polyhedral blade core; (f) face and top view of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Walter L. Hixson [Hixson, Walter L.]

The Killing Fields of California Preceding the dispossession of the Plains tribes was a genocidal campaign against of the California Indians. In a recent study, Benjamin Madley found “evidence of ...

azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:

In one of Samson Occom’s sermons in Bristol in the 1770s, he spoke of a natural human resistance to the Bible, and the importance of supernatural inspiration in receiving the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

7 THREE SIMPLE STORIES I IWAS A NORMAL eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting. At least, all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like ...