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0393079422.(N) by Soufan Ali H. & Freedman Daniel
epub |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Soufan, Ali H. & Freedman, Daniel [Freedman, Daniel]

It inspires horror in the harbor and in the open sea. She sails into the waves Flanked by arrogance, haughtiness and false power. To her doom she moves slowly A ...
( Category: United States November 26,2015 )
The End of the Cold War by Service Robert
epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Service, Robert

29. THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN Strange as it may seem, questions about East Germany, Hungary and even Poland cropped up little in the talks between America and the Soviet Union. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 25,2015 )
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Thomas Evan
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Thomas, Evan [Thomas, Evan]

Like Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev felt comfortable around scientists. Awarded an engineering degree from the Stalin Industrial Academy, he was “very creative and curious” about technology, according to his son Sergei.21 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents November 25,2015 )
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2015 )
Lincoln's Final Hours by Kathryn Canavan
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Kathryn Canavan

Booth escaped over the Navy Yard Bridge into Maryland. Credit: National Archives Gurley said, “I will speak to God.” Stanton replied, “Do it just now.”32 Gurley dropped to his knees ...
( Category: Civil War November 23,2015 )
Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care by Altman Stuart
epub |eng | | Author:Altman, Stuart.

The Birth of DRGs The HEW team had three goals in designing the new Medicare hospital payment system. It wanted to end cost-based payments, create an annual budget for hospital ...
( Category: Social Policy November 23,2015 )
The Point of Vanishing by Howard Axelrod
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Axelrod

The week after the party, I found myself taking more walks than usual, examining faces more closely beneath the porticoes on Via Irnerio. Wherever I went, Milena’s presence felt close ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2015 )
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
mobi |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Christian Wolmar [Wolmar, Christian]

EIGHT THE END OF THE AFFAIR By the end of the century the railways were by far the biggest business enterprise in the United States. Their mileage had increased to ...
( Category: History November 22,2015 )
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New by Chomsky Noam
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Chomsky, Noam

5 International Terrorism: Image and Reality (1989) There are two ways to approach the study of terrorism. One may adopt a literal approach, taking the topic seriously, or a propagandistic ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 22,2015 )
LAPD '53 by James Ellroy
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:James Ellroy [Ellroy, James]

* * * FREDERICKS * * * APRIL 14 We’re back to that “walls-are-closing-in-on-me” job. Richard and Ruth Hilda Fredericks had three kids. Richard was an office clerk. Ruth Hilda ...
( Category: State & Local November 22,2015 )
Gumption by Nick Offerman
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Nick Offerman [Offerman, Nick]

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is coldhearted and abstract, lacking the heat and even the courage of a personal hatred. Categorical condemnation is the ...
( Category: United States November 21,2015 )
Fire Outside My Window by Sandra Millers Younger
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sandra Millers Younger

Retirees Bob and Barbara Daly had also been forced back by the flames. Awakened by the sound of the wind rearranging their patio furniture, Bob Daly had immediately roused his ...
( Category: State & Local November 21,2015 )
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace by Peter Janney
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Peter Janney [Janney, Peter]

By 1962, Philip and Katharine Graham’s marriage had come apart and was in freefall. Estranged from Katharine, drinking heavily amid manic-depressive episodes, Phil and his new mistress, Newsweek reporter Robin ...
( Category: Executive Branch November 19,2015 )
Barksdale's Charge by Phillip Thomas Tucker
epub |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Phillip Thomas Tucker

Map courtesy of Bradley M. Gottfried “The guiding spirit of the battle” MEANWHILE, BARKSDALE CONTINUED to lead the 13th, 17th, and 18th Mississippi northeast up the Emmitsburg Road, smashing resistance ...
( Category: Civil War November 19,2015 )
The Year of Fear by Joe Urschel
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Urschel

The Courier-Journal got a similar note of appreciation from the Bureau’s director. While Hoover was accepting the praise for his department and ramping up its publicity machine, the hunt for ...
( Category: United States November 18,2015 )

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