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Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords by Charles Pappas
epub |eng | 2017-06-01 | Author:Charles Pappas [Pappas, Charles]

American Philosophical Society The First International Eugenics Congress had been held in London in 1912, convening hundreds of international delegates, including Alfred Ploetz, who later spearheaded Germany’s eugenics movement. “Had ...
( Category: World March 16,2018 )
Socialism, Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Friedrich Engels [Friedrich Engels]

FOOTNOTES: [1] This is the passage on the French Revolution: "Thought, the concept of law, all at once made itself felt, and against this the old scaffolding of wrong could ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 16,2018 )
Once There Were Giants by Jerry Izenberg
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Jerry Izenberg

SEVEN Is This the End of Muhammad Ali? “[Ali] should hang it up. He’s going to get hurt.” —Teddy Brenner He had out-gutted Joe Frazier in the greatest heavyweight title ...
( Category: Individual Sports March 16,2018 )
Bop Apocalypse by Martin Torgoff
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Martin Torgoff

Charley Parker, forgive me— Forgive me for not answering your eyes— By this time Kerouac had become exactly like a Perfect Musician himself—“a jazz poet blowing a long blues in ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 16,2018 )
Disco Demolition by Steve Dahl
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Steve Dahl

Dahl was dressed as a general storming the field. War was declared. By 1980, disco was defeated on mainstream Chicago radio and WDAI switched to the Top 40/oldies mixed format ...
( Category: Americas March 16,2018 )
Vice Capades by Mark Stein
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Mark Stein [Stein, Mark]

Unseen in these headlines is another powerful force that began hobbling burlesque around 1937. Ironically, it was not a group of moral reformers but the entertainment industry’s new, so to ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 16,2018 )
Signs of Resistance by Bonnie Siegler
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Bonnie Siegler

1969 Primo Angeli, design Lars Speyer, photo This poster suggests that the true silent majority were the soldiers killed in Vietnam and buried in a cemetery, with numbers on their ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 16,2018 )
Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age by Bill Kovarik
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Bill Kovarik [Kovarik, Bill]

Figure 6.19 Marlboro Man—This image was crafted in 1954 to embody the rugged American spirit and sell filtered cigarettes to men. The Marlboro Man was considered the top advertising campaign ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 16,2018 )
The Sex Doll by Anthony Ferguson
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Anthony Ferguson

Loners Some evidence suggests that the verisimilitude of the high-end sex doll is leading to a broader appeal of these objects as works of art, in addition to their primary ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling March 15,2018 )
How to Read a History Book by Marshall T. Poe
epub |eng | 2018-01-26 | Author:Marshall T. Poe [Poe, Marshall T.]

If the author lives in a famous hotbed of intellectual activity, this factoid will always be mentioned. Elizabeth lives in Ameless, Iowana, which is not such a place. But if ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 15,2018 )
The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World by Ran Abramitzky
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ran Abramitzky [Abramitzky, Ran]

THE SHIFT AWAY FROM EQUAL SHARING It became increasingly clear that the kibbutz system could not continue to work in the absence of fundamental changes. As early as in 1988, ...
( Category: World March 15,2018 )
The World's Greatest Tanks by Michael E. Haskew
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Michael E. Haskew

Weight 29 tonnes (28.5 tons) Engine 1 × V-12 Rolls-Royce Meteor powerplant generating 447kW (600hp) Speed 61km/h (37.9mph) Armament Main: 1 × 75mm (2.95in) QF gun Secondary: 2 × 7.92mm ...
( Category: Military March 14,2018 )
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gerstle
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Gary Gerstle

Fig. 26. “Jobs and Freedom” at the March on Washington, 1963. Participants in the March on Washington, August 1963. In a line moving right to left at the center of ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 14,2018 )
The Return of Odin by Richard Rudgley
epub |eng | 2018-02-03 | Author:Richard Rudgley

GANDALF’S GARDEN Tolkien’s epic was an icon of the flower power era, and this was exemplified in 1968 with the founding of Gandalf ’s Garden, both a counter-cultural magazine and ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 14,2018 )
Chivalry in Medieval England by Nigel Saul
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Nigel Saul [Saul, Nigel]

Chivalry and Honour What effect, if any, then, may chivalry be said to have had on the problem of knightly violence in medieval society? It has been argued that chivalry ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 14,2018 )

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