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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
epub |eng | | Author:Yuval Noah Harari

Humanist Religions – Religions that Worship Humanity These positions did not change simply because new scientific research was published. Sociological and political developments were far more powerful engines of change. ...
( Category: World April 18,2018 )
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Matt Ridley
epub |eng | 1994-10-05 | Author:Matt Ridley [Ridley, Matt]

The Rewards of Violence If reproduction has been the reward and goal of power and wealth, then it is little wonder that it has also been a frequent cause, and ...
( Category: Evolution April 18,2018 )
American Patriot's Handbook by George Grant
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:George Grant

* * * THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO JOAQUIN MILLER On February 23, 1836, while garrisoned in a little Franciscan mission church at San Antonio de Valero, a beleaguered group ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 18,2018 )
Sells Like Teen Spirit by Ryan Moore
epub |eng | 2009-11-21 | Author:Ryan Moore [Moore, Ryan]

Henry Rollins, former Black Flag singer, in a Gap billboard ad. From The Encyclopedia of Punk. Brian Cogan. New York: Sterling, 2008. The culture industry was successful in making Seattle ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 18,2018 )
Fragrant by Mandy Aftel
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Mandy Aftel

MOMENTS OF PERFECTION The transcendent powers of scent are a reminder that our relationship to the material world is not merely purposeful, industrious, progressive. Fragrance is fleeting and elusive and ...
( Category: Industries April 18,2018 )
City of Quartz by Mike Davis
epub |eng | 2012-02-16 | Author:Mike Davis

CHAPTER FOUR FORTRESS L. A. The carefully manicured lawns of Los Angeles’s Westside sprout forests of ominous little signs warning: ‘Armed Response!’ Even richer neighborhoods in the canyons and hillsides ...
( Category: Sociology April 18,2018 )
The New Negro by Alain Locke
epub |eng | | Author:Alain Locke

* * * 1. “Tappin” and “Brer Buzzard” were collected by Mr. Fauset in the South, August, 1925. B’RER RABBIT FOOLS BUZZARD ONCE upon a time B’rer Rabbit an’ B’rer ...
( Category: Americas April 18,2018 )
Global Intellectual History by Moyn Samuel; Sartori Andrew;
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Moyn, Samuel; Sartori, Andrew;

Saving the Ottoman Empire or Doing Justice to the Muslim World The political demands associated with the idea of a Muslim World exhibited all the complexities of identity politics, religious ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 18,2018 )
Moonshine by Kevin R. Kosar
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin R. Kosar

Comic of parliamentary debate, 1816, where it is said that English soldiers sent to stop poteen production end up as poteen drinkers. How this basic government-media-political dynamic plays out varies ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine April 17,2018 )
The Scots by Alistair Moffat
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Alistair Moffat [Alistair Moffat and James F. Wilson]

By ‘Caledonia’, Tacitus meant the region of eastern Scotland north of the Tay and at least as far up as the Dee. Later evidence also places the Caledonii in the ...
( Category: Europe April 17,2018 )
Navigational Instruments by Richard Dunn
epub |eng | 2016-04-17 | Author:Richard Dunn

Top of a marine barometer similar to those issued to James Cook for his Pacific voyages, by Nairne & Blunt, about 1775. (NAV0805, detail) It is important to recognise, however, ...
( Category: Europe April 17,2018 )
Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts
epub |eng | | Author:Randy Shilts

DECEMBER 14, 1982 COURT OF MILITARY APPEALS Lieutenant Joann Newak’s Attorney, Faith Seidenberg, had argued that Joann’s right to counsel had been violated by the twisted conflicts of interest of ...
( Category: LGBT April 16,2018 )
The Statue of Liberty by Barry Moreno
epub |eng | 2017-04-16 | Author:Barry Moreno

Three INTO THE AMERICAN ERA FLOAT OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. Redfield Brothers was the official publisher of the postcards and programs for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909. The event ...
( Category: Americas April 16,2018 )
The Making of Selim by Cipa H. Erdem;
epub |eng | 2017-04-16 | Author:Cipa, H. Erdem;

Conclusion “THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD. It’s not even past,” wrote William Faulkner.1 For early modern Ottomans, memories of Selīm were neither dead nor part of a long-forgotten past but ...
( Category: Middle East April 16,2018 )
Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring by Kathleen E. Smith
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Kathleen E. Smith [Smith, Kathleen E.]

Fig. 08-03 Student volunteers working on a state farm in the Kostanai region of Kazakhstan in the summer of 1956. Photograph by Semyon Fridlyand. Courtesy Dalbey Photographic Collection at the ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 16,2018 )

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