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A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-08 | Author:Jennifer Egan

8 Selling the General Dolly’s first big idea was the hat. She picked teal blue, fuzzy, with flaps that came down over the general’s large dried-apricot ears. The ears were ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
The Infatuations by Marías Javier
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-06 | Author:Marías, Javier [Marías, Javier]

I took a deep breath and opened the door, ready to play my part, and I knew then that I was already blushing, even before Ruibérriz had entered my field ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 25,2014 )
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Thomas Hardy

XXXIII ANGEL FELT THAT HE would like to spend a day with her before the wedding, somewhere away from the dairy; as a last jaunt in her company while they ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction March 25,2014 )
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Paul Johnson

Other famous German creators were more circumspect but equally dismissive. At the spectacular meeting of kings and princes at Erfurt in the autumn of 1808, Goethe, as Germany’s leading writer ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-12 | Author:Claire Tomalin

17. The Secret Scientist Pepys became a member of the Royal Society in 1665 and went on to become its president in 1684. As president his name appears on the ...
( Category: U.K. Prime Ministers March 25,2014 )
The Age of Chivalry by Hywel Williams
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Hywel Williams

RIGHT The Great Mosque of Córdoba, now a Christian cathedral, was built over a period of 200 years and completed by 987. Attachment to Arianism gave a group identity to ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Stephen Greenblatt

lies on the ground naked, speechless, and utterly helpless as soon as nature has cast it forth with pangs of labor from its mother’s womb into the shores of light. ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
World War One: History in an Hour by Rupert Colley
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Rupert Colley

Passchendaele While Pétain was waiting for tanks and Americans, and determined not to expose his men to any more fruitless offensives, the onus fell on Britain. Unfortunately for the British ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World by Holger H. Herwig
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Holger H. Herwig

* A term famously coined by Muhammad Ali for the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in October 1974 at Kinshasa, Zaire. *Interestingly, in 1934 King Albert of Belgium ...
( Category: France March 25,2014 )
This Sceptred Isle by Lee Christopher
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Lee, Christopher [Lee, Christopher]

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE 1721–6 Robert Walpole (1676–1745) was a short, stout, ruddy-faced Norfolk farmer who hunted most of the season. In 1721 he became Britain’s first Prime Minister – a title ...
( Category: General Broadcasting March 25,2014 )
The Forge of Christendom by Tom Holland
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Tom Holland

Jesus Wept By 1010, reports of the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre had reached as far as Aquitaine. As southern France was racked by widespread violence and upheaval, the shock ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe by Christopher Caldwell
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-18 | Author:Christopher Caldwell

Chapter 8 Rules for Sex Sexual freedom as a nonnegotiable European demand—Virginity and violence—Islam or custom?—The appeal of sharia—Arranged marriages—The Danish marriage law—Controversies over the headscarf—The French veil law—Compulsory liberation ...
( Category: Social Policy March 25,2014 )
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Official portrait from the swearing in of Aguirre as lehendakari. The oath, in Euskera, is printed on the portrait. (Sabino Arana Foundation, Bilbao) Children who grew up in the 1930s ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

20 Iustitia On one of the three exposed corners of the ducal palace, there is a sculpture concerning the judgement of Solomon. On the west façade of the palace is ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-15 | Author:Rick Atkinson

Mackensen’s troops poked and jabbed for two more days, but without conviction. Kesselring late on Saturday proposed suspending his counteroffensive, and Hitler agreed. “In the end, many hounds will kill ...
( Category: Italy March 25,2014 )

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