United States
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Ted Gioia [Gioia, Ted]

Cool Jazz Bebop never found a large commercial audience, but it did attract a cadre of sophisticated devotees while earning begrudging respect from the general public as cutting-edge music, the ...
( Category: United States May 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Annie Hauck-Lawson

NOTES 1. Thomas F. De Voe, The Market Book: A History of the Public Markets of the City of New York (1862; repr., New York: Kelly, 1970), 15, 28–29. 2. ...
( Category: State & Local May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Parker

Perryman was right about the economy. Texas is a big, highly diversified and urbanized economy. The drought would do powerful damage but alone could not stop the economy’s growth. But ...
( Category: State May 14,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:James Schefter [Schefter, James]

8 Two weeks after his momentous declaration, Jack Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev for face-to-face talks in Vienna. Over lunch, Kennedy suggested that the two countries cooperate on a lunar program. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Phil Schermeister [Geographic, National]

Antelope jackrabbit Information How to Get There From Tucson, AZ, 13 miles southeast of the park, take Speedway Blvd. west to Gates Pass Rd. and go north on Kinney Rd. ...
( Category: General May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Bypassing Rabaul The World War II strategy of island-hopping—isolating and bypassing enemy strong points—had many fathers. The Japanese, consciously or not, employed a version of it when they ...
( Category: World War II May 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Pamela Haag

THE MYSTIQUE OF THE WINCHESTER GUN COULD NOT HAVE BEEN more removed from the Winchester gun business, and in a way, that was precisely the point, and precisely the gun’s ...
( Category: Conventional May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Kidd, Thomas S.

Virginia’s turn to slavery transpired over a longer period of time, as its supply of African slaves in the early and mid-1600s was limited by imperial and economic factors in ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Jean Medawar [Medawar, Jean]

EDITH BüLBRING Edith Bulbring’s father was a professor of English at Bonn University, which must have been an advantage for her. When Karl, Edith’s father, died young, his brother took ...
( Category: Holocaust May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Jonathan Dimbleby

12. Beating the Drum In January 1942 the neon signs along the eastern seaboard from thousands of restaurants, bars and casinos from Miami to New York sent a spiral of ...
( Category: World War II May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Tim Mahoney

THE CLEANUP MAN Wallace Jamie, boy wonder, was a criminologist, a rare thing for his day. This 24-year-old teetotaler and vegetarian had a University of Chicago education and a pedigree: ...
( Category: State & Local May 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-06 | Author:Toland, John [Toland, John]

Here, I felt, all were my brothers, not merely in a figurative sense, but literally as sons of the same Mother Asia. Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Manchukuoan, Filipino, Burmese, Indian—Asiatics all, ...
( Category: Japan May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Denise A. Spellberg [Spellberg, Denise A.]

JEFFERSON’S TREATY WITH TRIPOLI AND THE QUESTION OF ISLAM, 1806 Religion had never figured previously in Jefferson’s diplomatic dealings with North African states, but the language of his treaty with ...
( Category: Islam May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Turner, Katherine Leonard

SOUTHERN TEXTILE MILL VILLAGES Textile workers in mill villages throughout the South lived suspended between rural and industrial life. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, low crop prices ...
( Category: United States May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Neuwirth [Neuwirth, Jessica]

DISCRIMINATORY LAWS “Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. I have three ...
( Category: General May 6,2016 )