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The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Darnton

In short, d‘Hémery took stock of the literary world with sympathy, humor, and an appreciation of literature itself. He shared some of the values held by the people under his ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
epub |eng | | Author:David Talbot

21 THE EMPRESS OF CHINATOWN LIKE WILLIE BROWN, her longtime political comrade, Rose Pak mastered San Francisco by walking it. Young Willie, a transplant from the sleepy East Texas railroad ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
Doing Oral History by Ritchie Donald A
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Ritchie, Donald A.

Fortunately, by the late 1960s Columbia had reversed this policy and has since been saving its tapes. Oral historians and archivists began to view both the sound recording and transcript ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
The Argentine Fight for the Falklands by Martin Middlebrook
epub |eng | 2013-02-14 | Author:Martin Middlebrook

The last personal account of this day’s action comes from First Lieutenant Luna, the Dagger pilot whose friends thought he had flown into a hill. But Luna had been shot ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2018 )
Folk Legends from Tono by Morse Ronald A. Kunio Yanagita Kizen Sasaki
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Morse, Ronald A., Kunio, Yanagita, Kizen, Sasaki [Morse, Ronald A.]

Gonzo was a pro at river fishing. In the summer, when he was not in the mood for blacksmithing, he became absorbed with fishing. One time, when he went fishing ...
( Category: Asia March 11,2018 )
Devoted to Nature by Berry Evan
epub |eng | | Author:Berry, Evan

Let me plead with you to [protect roadside timber in Washington State] on a big scale. If you spend . . . now you will receive a great deal for ...
( Category: Theology March 11,2018 )
Symbols, Signs and Signets by Lehner Ernst
epub |eng | 2012-10-13 | Author:Lehner, Ernst

MONSTERS AND IMAGINARY FIGURES OUR ANCESTORS IN BYGONE times blamed their misfortune and good luck, their fears, and hates and hopes on all kinds of invisible beings. To lessen the ...
( Category: Graphic Design March 11,2018 )
Owning the Earth by Andro Linklater
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Andro Linklater

Chapter Fifteen The End of Serfdom and Slavery In the 1850s, a Russian aristocrat who owned an estate, Yasnaya Polyana, about 120 miles south of Moscow kept a detailed diary ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 11,2018 )
Ship Decoration: 1630-1780 by Andy
epub |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Andy

Details of carved work on the Annapolis Britannia model: poop bulkhead; royal arms on the quarterdeck stern rail; beakhead bulkhead carvings. (By courtesy of Grant Walker) Two male portraits are ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies March 11,2018 )
Weimar Culture by Peter Gay
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Gay

V / THE REVOLT OF THE SON: Expressionist Years I Next to the Bauhaus, probably the most celebrated artifact of the Weimar Republic was a film released in Berlin in ...
( Category: Europe March 11,2018 )
African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights ERA by Christopher Waldrep
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Waldrep

CHAPTER FIVE Facing Dynamite In the twentieth century, violent white racists turned to terrifying new technologies, substituting dynamite for the rope, allowing lynching to take new forms toward familiar goals. ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 9,2018 )
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

( Category: Americas March 9,2018 )
The Great Depression by Robert S. McElvaine
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Robert S. McElvaine

In those families where there was turmoil during the Depression, the children often suffered. Fathers (and mothers) might take out their frustrations on the children. As the effects of unemployment, ...
( Category: Americas March 9,2018 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 2) by Edward Gibbon
mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Edward Gibbon

Part VI. Athanasius had indeed escaped from the most imminent dangers; and the adventures of that extraordinary man deserve and fix our attention. On the memorable night when the church ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 9,2018 )
The Brewer's Tale by William Bostwick
epub |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:William Bostwick

Ninkasi and the gods of grain have been dethroned. In today’s beer world, all hail the hop. Craft brewers outbitter one another with double, triple, imperial IPAs and fight pun ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine March 9,2018 )

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