Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Hall, Simon

‘Alexandria at the end of July’, wrote the Egyptian journalist Mohamed Heikal, ‘is a holiday city, and with its long palm-lined beaches, its brilliantly lit cafés and shops, a place ...
( Category: World December 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Wade Graham

The Death and Life of Great American Cities was received like an alarm sounding, earning a wide readership eager to understand why, even after billions spent, Urban Renewal seemed to ...
( Category: Sociology December 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-20 | Author:Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain [Lee, Martin A. & Shlain, Bruce]

The Great Summer Dropout Nineteen sixty-seven was a year of stark contrasts. America’s war against the Vietnamese had swollen into a disaster, provoking disgust and condemnation throughout the world. The ...
( Category: Anthropology December 11,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Barbara Demick [Demick, Barbara]

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asia December 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-09 | Author:Tina Cassidy

FERNAND LAMAZE In 1910, lured by Paris and medical school, Fernand Lamaze abandoned life on a farm in the northeast of France. Within a few years, before settling on a ...
( Category: Women's Health December 9,2017 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-06-18 | Author:Rebecca Solnit [Solnit, Rebecca]

AWAKENINGS AND COINCIDENCES One can imagine the characters of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful new history, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, as they ...
( Category: Americas December 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:B. H. Liddell Hart [Hart, B. H. Liddell]

The shortsightedness of expediency We learn from history that expediency has rarely proved expedient. Yet today perhaps more than ever the statesmen of all countries talk the language of expediency—almost ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Alexander Larman [Alexander Larman]

Very merry at, before, and after dinner, and the more for that my dinner was great, and most neatly dressed by our own only maid. We had a fricasee of ...
( Category: Europe December 7,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-12-11 | Author:Kathy Martin [Martin, Kathy]

Jacuzzi – hydrotherapy heaven since 1956 Long before it became synonymous with whirlpool baths, the Jacuzzi name was associated with the aircraft that carried the US mail. The story began ...
( Category: Industries December 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-03 | Author:Nick Jones

Ten models were not converted to Superfast, the reason usually given for this being that they were unsuitable for conversion, but many of the full-size vehicles were no longer being ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Roman Krznaric [Krznaric, Roman]

WHY BEING PRESENT IS NEVER ENOUGH A curious feature of mindfulness techniques, whether of the new scientific or the older Buddhist variety, is that they set us a task – ...
( Category: Philosophy December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-03 | Author:Rosie Serdiville & John Sadler

High summer Rawlinson’s idea – which, as Richard Holmes points out, was the novel one of reinforcing failure – involved more costly and fruitless attacks on those strongpoints where earlier ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-07 | Author:Alan Axelrod

12 July 4, 1863 Vicksburg falls to Grant Why it’s significant: The successful conclusion to Grant’s epic siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863, secured Union control of the ...
( Category: Americas December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-08 | Author:unknow

Or, as a leading citizen of Boston declared, “the only way to elevate the foreign population was to make Protestants of their children.”[8] Since the cities of the North, in ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Tom Shroder [Shroder, Tom]

32. RICK (FULL FLOWER OF DEPRESSION) Many in the ARUPA-Esalen-psychedelic research axis saw the DEA’s defiant dismissal of the judge’s recommendations as a final judgment on MDMA psychotherapy, leaving them ...
( Category: Mental Health December 2,2017 )