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One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season by Tony La Russa
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Tony La Russa

AS GAME 2 GOT UNDER WAY, I FOUND MYSELF THINKING, AS I HAD since August: We have to be realistic in our goals, we have to make this a series. ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois; Farah Jasmine Griffin
mobi |eng | 2005-01-06 | Author:W. E. B. Du Bois; Farah Jasmine Griffin

VIII Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece1 But the Brute said in his breast, “Till the mills I grind have ceased, The riches shall be dust of dust, dry ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Tim Wise

Nothing, of course, serves to inflate uncritical nationalistic hubris like nostalgia, nor does anything else so perfectly play to white fears concerning a changing nation, and it is this commodity, ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Howard Zinn

Chapter 15 Self-Help in Hard Times The war was hardly over, it was February 1919, the IWW leadership was in jail, but the IWW idea of the general strike became ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
Bell Curve (A Free Press Paperbacks Book) by Murray Charles & Herrnstein Richard J
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-05-07 | Author:Murray, Charles & Herrnstein, Richard J. [Murray, Charles]

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: United States March 25,2014 )
The Mountains of California by John Muir
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:John Muir

View of Forest of the Magnificent Silver Fir It is in these woods the great granite domes rise that are so striking and characteristic a feature of the Sierra. And ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:James D. Hornfischer

TASK GROUP 67.4 went to general quarters at 8 p.m. The sea rolled easily under a ten-knot southeasterly wind. The moon had set, leaving the squadron in the dark. The ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
New York at War by Steven H. Jaffe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Steven H. Jaffe

June 5, 1917, dawned fair and cool in New York. Through the morning and afternoon, thousands of men lined up outside neighborhood schools, barbershops, and storefronts to register for Selective ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Nature Noir by Jordan Fisher Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...
( Category: Pacific March 25,2014 )
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | 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 March 25,2014 )
Hero of the Pacific by James Brady
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:James Brady

PART THREE HOME FRONT Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Colonel Merritt A. Edson, Platoon Sergeant Mitchell Paige, and Sergeant John Basilone after receiving their Congressional Medals of Honor at Camp ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace
mobi |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace

Mary Taylor and F. S. Chanfrau in the roles of Mose and his ladyfriend, Lize, in the premier of “A Glance at New York,” 1848. (The New York Public Library ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk through Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-31 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland “THE JIG’S UP—people are having sex in Portland,” says Teresa Dulce. An advocate for Portland’s sex workers and the publisher ...
( Category: Portland March 25,2014 )
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H G Bissinger
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:H G Bissinger

II A week after the game, Republican presidential candidate George Bush came to the Midland-Odessa area for a campaign appearance. The scene on the tarmac at the airport wasn’t as ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity by Kirby David
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Kirby, David [Kirby, David]

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )

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