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Texas Wildflowers by Campbell Loughmiller
epub |eng | 2006-04-02 | Author:Campbell Loughmiller

Ocotillo grows commonly on rocky slopes west of the Pecos. If a stem is cut and stuck in the ground, it will root and grow well. In Mexico we have ...
( Category: Flowers April 3,2016 )
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford by Richard Snow
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Richard Snow [Snow, Richard]

CHAPTER 12 Terrible Efficiency The Crystal Palace; taking the work to the worker; speeding up; the twentieth century’s only industrial revolution; the workers hate it. Of course the Model T ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 2,2016 )
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Jesse Jarnow [Jarnow, Jesse]

AND, OH SHIT, here come the bad trips. There’ve been bummers before, but the reaper has arrived in Grateful Deadland, and the karmic Hells Angels are pushing their way to ...
( Category: United States April 2,2016 )
Serve the People by Karen Ishizuka
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Ishizuka

Posters: Art for the People The most iconic art form of the Sixties was the silk-screen poster. Poster art was a practice of politically engaged cultural production that not only ...
( Category: Asian American Studies April 1,2016 )
The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy by Sabato Larry J
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Sabato, Larry J. [Sabato, Larry J.]

Nixon’s memory was selective, though. His administration extensively used the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and the CIA to serve its political needs just as his predecessors had. The age ...
( Category: Executive Branch April 1,2016 )
Black Mass by Dick Lehr
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dick Lehr

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Shades of Whitey By 1984 Billy Bulger was securely on top of the State Senate, running it smoothly and firmly with vinegar and honey. Yet he had ignored ...
( Category: State & Local March 31,2016 )
Postwar America: 1945 – 1971 by Howard Zinn
epub |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

( Category: World War II March 31,2016 )
City on a Grid by Gerard Koeppel
epub |ara, eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Gerard Koeppel

Our perpetual dead flat, and streets cutting each other at right angles, are certainly the last things in the world consistent with beauty. —Walt Whitman, Sunday Dispatch, 1849 The time ...
( Category: State & Local March 28,2016 )
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Philippe Petit

So here I am, just days before the walk, often till two in the morning, attempting to make sense of the elements upon which my life depends. Who believes that? ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2016 )
THE RECKONING by Michael Moran
epub |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Michael Moran

At the core of this argument is a basic misunderstanding of monetary policy. There is no free market in currencies, as there is in wheat or bananas. Currencies trade in ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2016 )
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
epub |eng | | Author:Clarence Lusane

Condoleezza Rice, March 1, 2005 As president, Bush mostly evaded the issue, primarily because he had very little to say beyond conservative clichés and bromides. When asked about his civil ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2016 )
Camelot's Court by Robert Dallek
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Robert Dallek

Kennedy did not dispute the failure to do big things at home. But for the time being, he felt that foreign dangers still had to command his primary attention. And ...
( Category: Executive Branch March 25,2016 )
Room 1219 by Merritt Greg
epub |eng | 2013-03-22 | Author:Merritt, Greg

After Arbuckle’s testimony and over the prosecution’s objection, the deposition of Dr. Maurice Rosenberg was read into the record. (He had been interviewed by defense attorney Brennan in Chicago.) Rosenberg ...
( Category: State & Local March 23,2016 )
The Money Makers by Eric Rauchway
epub |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Eric Rauchway

A week later, on Sunday morning, December 14, 1941, with the US officially at war with both Japan and Germany, Morgenthau called White and asked him to draw up a ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy March 19,2016 )
Duel With the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Paul Collins [Collins, Paul]

AARON BURR WAS NOT IMPRESSED BY THE CASE AGAINST HIS client. “Gentlemen of the jury,” he began, as he arose and solemnly paced the packed courtroom. “I know the unexampled ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 15,2016 )

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