epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-21 | Author:Mehta, Suketu [Mehta, Suketu]

IT WAS JAIMAN who had first pointed her out to me. Jaiman, the first Marwari editor of Russian Playboy and a friend of mine from New York, had half a ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Stark, Rodney [Stark, Rodney]

Why Were the Americas Behind? These days, whenever anyone asks why the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere were so far behind Europe, at least in terms of science and technology, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Matthew White [White, Matthew]

And the young letter writer, Adolf Hitler, survived the war. Elsewhere More than most wars, the First World War killed people you might encounter in other contexts. Henry Moseley, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Jared Diamond [Diamond, Jared]

Just a stick in the ground The most recent of the three episodes related in this chapter unfolded many years after my canoe accident had convinced me of the virtues ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...

epub | | | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

epub, mobi | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Jared, Diamond,]

Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER O N JULY 3, 1 9 0 8 , ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-07 | Author:Bee Wilson [Wilson, Bee]

My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Butler Shaffer [Butler Shaffer]

1Calaprice, ed., The Expanded Quotable Einstein, p. 317. 2Economist.com, October 9, 2008. 3Tim Wise, Red-Baiting and Racism: Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman. August 10, 2009, redroom.com. 4New York Times.com, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-02 | Author:David R. Montgomery

Figure 15. Map of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States showing the net depth of topsoil eroded from colonial times to i98o (modified from Meade i98z, 241, fig. ...

mobi | | | Author:The Occult, a History

Chapter Six The Nineteenth Century – Magic and Romanticism IN THE FIRST YEARS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY there died a man whose name deserves to be better known to students ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:Scott, Emmet [Scott, Emmet]

[2]Encyclopedia Britannica, Micropaedia Vol. 2, “Boethius”. [3] Thompson and Johnson, op cit., p. 222 [4] Carl Stephenson, Medieval History: Europe from the Second to the Sixteenth Century (Harper and Row, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-23 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

AS MARCO veered back toward the east, heading for Hangzhou, he traveled the rivers of China. Although he was familiar with the sight of the canals of Venice teeming with ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-05 | Author:Cyril Mango

Byzantium in the tenth century was realizing the benefits of the unglamorous strengths which it had built up in the struggle for survival in the seventh and eighth centuries, and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

In summary, Britain’s follies were not so perverse as the Popes’. Ministers were not deaf to rising discontent, because they had no chance to be; expressed by their equals, it ...