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The Light that Failed by Ivan Krastev
epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Ivan Krastev

Not the Slavophile classics in the Kremlin library, but Russia’s unique combination of African mortality rates and European birth rates is what best explains the conservative turn in Kremlin political ...
( Category: Democracy February 22,2020 )
The Point of Departure by Robin Cook
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Cook

Saturday 20 July Hospitals are not restful places. Paradoxically, I suspect that most patients are keen to get home to have a good night’s sleep. I do not think I ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People February 21,2020 )
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

This table was also frequented by commercial people, financiers and contractors, but extremely polite, and such as were distinguished amongst those of the same profession. M. de Besse, M. de ...
( Category: Philosophers February 21,2020 )
Thomas Harriot by Robert Fox
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Fox

2J.D. North, 'Thomas Harriot and the first telescopic observations of sunspots', in J.W. Shirley (ed.), Thomas Harriot. Renaissance scientist (Oxford, 1974), pp. 129-65. 3Roche, 'Thomas Harriot's astronomy', op. cit. (note ...
( Category: Historical February 21,2020 )
Beyond Nationalism by Deák István;
epub |eng | 1990-02-20 | Author:Deák, István;

Other Crimes and Military Court Procedures The basic principle of the Habsburg military jurisdiction was that all infractions of the code of behavior as well as all crimes ought to ...
( Category: Europe February 21,2020 )
The Fortress by Alexander Watson
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Alexander Watson

There was a coda to Gayczak’s experience, which made the episode even more awful. It could be harder to kill a man than one might think: Suddenly Lieutenant Tyro approached ...
( Category: Europe February 20,2020 )
The Rough Guide to Cyprus by Rough Guides
epub |eng | | Author:Rough Guides

Pomos The first village of any size, 20km east from Polis, is POMOS. It straggles along the main road around an attractively rocky bay, and although there’s a tiny boat ...
( Category: Architecture February 20,2020 )
Budapest 1900 by John Lukacs
epub |eng | | Author:John Lukacs

The general crisis of nineteenth-century Liberalism has not yet found its general historian. Almost all historians and political thinkers have dealt with the devolution of Liberalism on the economic or ...
( Category: Europe February 20,2020 )
A History of Milan Under the Sforza by Cecilia Ady
epub |eng | | Author:Cecilia Ady

LODOVICO SFORZA AND THE FIRST FRENCH INVASION (1492-1498) TO THE STUDENT OF Italian history the year 1492 may well seem the beginning of the end — the end, that is, ...
( Category: Europe February 20,2020 )
The People's Princess by Larry King
epub |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:Larry King

DIANE LOUISE JORDAN Diane Louise Jordan is a British television presenter best known for her role in the long-running children’s program Blue Peter, which she hosted from 1990 until 1996. ...
( Category: Historical February 20,2020 )
Vox Populi by Peter Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Jones

This passage is striking for its public revelation of the intimate, private details of the relationship between a man and his wife. Men and women indoors presented a different face ...
( Category: Aging February 20,2020 )
Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey by Rick Stein
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Stein

SERVES 4 4 x 350g sea bream, snapper, silver perch or sea bass, gutted and scaled For the marinade: 25g shallots, roughly chopped 15g garlic, roughly chopped 1 red bird’s ...
( Category: Southeast Asian February 20,2020 )
Snowball Oranges - One Mallorcan Winter by Peter Kerr
epub |eng | 2017-04-13 | Author:Peter Kerr

The dog never moved a muscle. 'Perro – isn't that an unusual name for a perro?' I suggested, breaking the silence. 'You know – a dog called Dog?' 'Unusual? Certainly ...
( Category: Historical European Biographies February 20,2020 )
A Short History of Romania by James Samuelson
epub |eng | | Author:James Samuelson

FROM THE DEATH OF MICHAEL THE BRAVE (A.D. 1601) TO THE DEPOSITION OF PRINCE COUZA (A.D. 1866). TURKISH EXACTIONS AFTER MICHAEL’S FALL—TRANSITION from native to Greek Voivodes—Matthew Bassarab (Wallachia) and ...
( Category: Europe February 20,2020 )
The Famine Ships by Edward Laxton
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Laxton

13 Flags for Convenience During the 19th century, thousands of ships plied the seaways, rivers and canals, loaded with cargoes and passengers. Sea transport was a haphazard and ill-regulated trade ...
( Category: Minority Studies February 20,2020 )

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