United States
mobi |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Richard J. Herrnstein

THE “EDGE” IN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION People may agree that they want affirmative action in higher education until they say more precisely what they mean by it. Then they may disagree. ...
( Category: Demography December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adam Smith

CHAPTER IV. OF DRAWBACKS. Merchants and manufacturers are not contented with the monopoly of the home market, but desire likewise the most extensive foreign sale for their goods. Their country ...
( Category: Colonial Period December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1541-12-31 | Author:Cabeza de Vaca

31 The Tribal Split and News of the Remaining Barge When the six months I had been biding my time were up, the Indians proceeded to the prickly pears thirty ...
( Category: State & Local December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Jim Garrison [Garrison, Jim]

Compared to the brutality wrought on the facts by N.B.C., the Columbia Broadcasting System’s documentary was civilized—although much of it was untrue. It was aired on four successive evenings in ...
( Category: United States December 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

Chapter 16 Spreading the News As uncertain and confused as things were on the rebel side in the first few weeks after April 19, rebel leaders recognized the importance of ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:Farquhar, Michael [Farquhar, Michael]

3 They Just Can’t Be Etruscted Millions of visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art were awed for half a century by two large warrior statues (and a huge ...
( Category: Political December 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Charles Royster [Royster, Charles]

When members of the Dismal Swamp Company met in Richmond, with Reuben Lindsay attending in place of Dr. Thomas Walker, Walker was entering his seventies. His shoulders were rounded, his ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 4,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-21 | Author:Richard Heinberg

Encampment of the Peikann Indians 1840-1843. So how did we arrive at civilization in the first place? It’s a long story, but one worth rehearsing periodically so as to remind ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:David Fiske

IN NEW ORLEANS AND WASHINGTON Two days later, Solomon and Henry were in New Orleans. By this time, they had probably decided to file charges against Birch, and Henry needed ...
( Category: State & Local December 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Bonar Menninger [Menninger, Bonar]

The weapon was inferior in some respects to the M-14 and equal to it in others. Consequently, the gun in no way represented enough of an improvement in the “state ...
( Category: United States December 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Tim McGrath

To fight against the British and win our liberty. We shipped with Captain Whipple who never knew a fear, The Captain of the Providence, the Yankee privateer.40 On it went ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Larson

* * * BOOK III From Mount Vernon to New York 1788–1789 * * * Federalist cartoon from June 1788, portraying the states ratifying the Constitution as rising columns in ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 28,2014 )
epub |rus | 2009-10-31 | Author:Prouty, L. Fletcher & Stone, Oliver [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: U.S. Presidents November 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Josh Ozersky

4 BARBARIANS AT THE GATE By 1969, five years after the sale, the average Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant had annual gross sales of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. ...
( Category: State & Local November 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Martin Greenfield & Wynton Hall

CHAPTER EIGHT THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE During the summer of 1948, I realized Mr. Goldman was right: Helen wasn’t the girl for me. It wasn’t anything she did, but what I ...
( Category: Fashion Design November 26,2014 )