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Veni, Vidi, Vici by Peter Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Jones

IX AD 14 – 96 TIMELINE AD 14–37 Tiberius emperor AD 26 Tiberius retires to Capri AD 31 Sejanus’ conspiracy uncovered AD 37 Pontius Pilate relieved of control of Judaea ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 12,2018 )
Gay New York by George Chauncey
epub |eng | | Author:George Chauncey [Chauncey, George]

Figure 9.2 Harlem’s leading newspaper, the Amsterdam News, regularly carried pictures of the winning contestants in the costume competition at the Hamilton Lodge ball, New York’s biggest drag ball. In ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 12,2018 )
The New York Times The Times of the Seventies by Clyde Haberman
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Clyde Haberman

ALL ABOUT: Sneakers Sneaker selection a few years ago rarely troubled anyone. Girls got white sneakers, boys got black, and both usually bought the cheapest in the store. These days, ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 11,2018 )
The New York Times: The Times of the Eighties by William Grimes
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:William Grimes

APRIL 16, 1989 If Fashion Is Changing, it Must Be Almost 1990 Bernadine Morris Working on the collections introduced in Europe last month and in New York last week, fashion ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 11,2018 )
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Kendi Ibram X
azw3 |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Kendi, Ibram X. [Kendi, Ibram X.]

AN ARMISTICE SIGNED on November 11, 1918, ended the fighting in World War I. It took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference for colonial powers to come ...
( Category: Americas July 10,2018 )
Don't Make Me Pull Over! by Richard Ratay
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ratay

* * * I. The Orange Krate was a bike of almost indescribable beauty. It was one of Schwinn’s Sting-Ray bicycles, a line of bikes designed to resemble the top ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 8,2018 )
Dancing With the Devil in the City of God : Rio De Janeiro on the Brink (9781476756271) by Barbassa Juliana
epub |eng | | Author:Barbassa, Juliana

* * * I. In addition to not helping remedy Rio’s low-income housing deficit, building the Vila do Pan required the removal of about one hundred favela houses. The reason ...
( Category: Sociology July 5,2018 )
How to Stop Living and Start Worrying by Simon Critchley
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Critchley

Humour CARL CEDERSTRÖM: Humour is a recurring theme in many of your books and in 2002 you published a book dedicated exclusively to the topic of humour. Could you begin ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources July 4,2018 )
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels & Gareth Stedman Jones
mobi |eng | 2002-08-27 | Author:Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels & Gareth Stedman Jones

PART II Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO A Note on the Text The text of the Manifesto reproduced here is Samuel Moore’s translation of the second German ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 2,2018 )
The Right People by Stephen Birmingham
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Birmingham

13 The Company Town: West Hartford, Conn. 06107 Hard by every major United States city it is possible to encounter at least one suburban stretch containing the styles and attitudes ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources July 1,2018 )
Empire of Booze by Henry Jeffreys
epub |eng | 2016-10-20 | Author:Henry Jeffreys

Guiness poster from 1930s designed by James Gilroy Another example of their eye for marketing was the Guinness Book of Records. It was originally created in 1955 purely as a ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine June 28,2018 )
How Should We Live? by Roman Krznaric
epub |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Roman Krznaric

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750). The couple’s property in rural Suffolk extends as far as the eye can see, a vision not just of naturalistic beauty but of ...
( Category: Personal Transformation June 24,2018 )
Class War, USA by Weber Brandon;
epub |eng | 2018-04-09 | Author:Weber, Brandon;

Note on photo reads: “All that was left of his home after ‘Tulsa Race Riot’ 6-1-1921” WHY TULSA? Oklahoma, rich in oil deposits, became a state in 1907. It offered ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 23,2018 )
The French Foreign Legion by Douglas Porch
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Porch

Chapter 18 “THE GREATEST GLORY WILL BE HERE” IN ONE RESPECT, the crisis, both in manpower and morale, that the Legion weathered in the summer of 1915 proved a great ...
( Category: Engineering June 21,2018 )
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell [THOMAS SOWELL]

The Japanese have no consistent income advantage in families with one breadwinner (see above), and in almost no category do they have an economic advantage as large as their 32 ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 20,2018 )

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