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Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties by Steven Watson
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Steven Watson [Watson, Steven]

The third-anniversary issue of Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts featured on its cover a still from Couch. A third of the way into the magazine appeared a piece ...
( Category: United States June 13,2015 )
Wall Street: a history : from its beginnings to the fall of Enron by Charles R. Geisst
epub |eng | 2004-03-03 | Author:Charles R. Geisst [Geisst, Charles R.]

( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
Coffin Ship by William Henry
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:William Henry [Henry, William]

Notes [1]Boston Irish Reporter: ‘Cohasset Monument Honors Famine Victims’ (October 1996). Brig St. John of Galway was Cohasset’s Worst Shipwreck, Cohasset Historical Society. John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection. Diary ...
( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
Do Not Ask What Good We Do by Robert Draper
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Draper

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Winning Message On the morning of April 7, 1965, the chairman of the Democratic Study Group, Congressman Frank Thompson of New Jersey, sent out a memo to ...
( Category: Legislative Branch June 13,2015 )
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow by James Mauro
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:James Mauro [Mauro, James]

* In today’s dollars, imagine paying someone about $100 to change a lightbulb. Einstein and his sister Maja inspect the Haifa diorama in the Palestine Pavilion. The exhibit’s trick-mirror effect ...
( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
Higher by Neal Bascomb
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-20 | Author:Neal Bascomb

“John Jakob Raskob, capitalist”—so he signed one of the many documents in the purchase of the two-acre plot west of Fifth Avenue between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. Of the many ...
( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
Life on The Mississippi by Mark Twain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXXI A Thumbprint and What Came of It We were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This ...
( Category: East South Central June 13,2015 )
the Big Short (2010) by Lewis Michael
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Lewis, Michael [michael, lewis,]

CHAPTER SIX Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn't like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction June 13,2015 )
Edison and the Electric Chair by Mark Essig
epub |eng | 2009-10-04 | Author:Mark Essig

HAVING FAILED to ruffle him on technical questions, Cockran pressed Edison on the rumors of conspiracy. "Now, Mr. Edison, do you know Mr. Brown pretty well?" "Fairly well. I have ...
( Category: Electricity June 12,2015 )
Understanding Silicon Valley by Martin Kenney
epub |eng | 2011-08-05 | Author:Martin Kenney [Kenney, Martin]

ANNALEE SAXENIAN This essay analyzes the origins and dynamics of production networks in Silicon Valley from the perspective of the region's computer systems firms. Students of Silicon Valley have focused ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2009-07-14 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

The dinner went pretty fast, after that--although it seemed like forever to Eduardo, who almost applauded when Kelly finally got her ice cream. Once the Chinese take-out boxes were all ...
( Category: Company Profiles June 12,2015 )
Blood and politics by Leonard Zeskind
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Leonard Zeskind

35 Willis Carto Loses Control of the Institute for Historical Review October 15, 1993. At a battle at the Institute for Historical Review’s offices in Costa Mesa, California, Willis Carto ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 12,2015 )
JFK by Stone Oliver & Prouty L. Fletcher
epub, pdf |rus | 2009-10-31 | Author:Stone, Oliver & Prouty, L. Fletcher [Prouty, L. Fletcher]

This is straight out of Mao Tse-tung’s Little Red Book. In other words, all of a sudden the teaching of Mao, the Chinese Communist leader, had become part of the ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
Fordlandia (2010) by Grandin Greg
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Grandin, Greg [Greg, Grandin,]

CHAPTER 14 LET’S WANDER OUT YONDER IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE STORY OF FORDLANDIA WITHout invoking Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that great, indelible allegory of European colonialism ...
( Category: Brazil June 12,2015 )
Perilous Fight by Stephen Budiansky
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Stephen Budiansky [Budiansky, Stephen]

A MONO THE inheritances left by Paul Hamilton to his successor was the ironic one of having finally persuaded Congress to approve the first new warship construction in a decade. ...
( Category: Naval June 12,2015 )

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