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The Battle for Las Vegas by Dennis N. Griffin
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis N. Griffin [Griffin, Dennis N.]

Judge Troubles Within two weeks of the lawsuit being filed, three judges were disqualified in an unquestioned basis or after admitting they had opinions on the case. The fourth judge ...
( Category: True Crime October 6,2017 )
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1 by Theodore W. Allen
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Theodore W. Allen [Allen, Theodore W.]

Labor competitions given an abnormal “racial” form Prior to 1840, a wide range of industrial employments (from longshoring to coachman), service occupations (from stableman to table-waiting), as well as domestic ...
( Category: Sociology October 6,2017 )
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Friedrich Engels

II. Proletarians and Communists In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties. ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States (Verso World History Series) by Ellen Meiksins Wood
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Ellen Meiksins Wood [Wood, Ellen Meiksins]

One modification should be introduced into this argument – a modification that would make it more internally consistent. If German Junkers remained an aristocratic military caste in the traditional pre-capitalist ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Mike Davis [Davis, Mike]

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 October 6,2017 )
Liberty and Property by Ellen Meiksins Wood
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Ellen Meiksins Wood

7 THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION Between late October and early November of 1647, in the midst of civil war, something extraordinary happed at Putney, south of London. Certainly one of the ...
( Category: Philosophy October 6,2017 )
Staging the People by Jacques Ranciere
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Jacques Ranciere

It is this question of change and constancy that we have to dwell on for a moment. Beyond the grudges of some, the ambition or venality of others, something more ...
( Category: Philosophy October 6,2017 )
Citizens to Lords by Ellen Meiksins Wood
epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Ellen Meiksins Wood

The Culture of Property: Stoic Philosophy in Rome The topography of a social world shaped by a distinctive property regime is visible also in Roman philosophy, particularly in its variants ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
South Of Broad by Pat Conroy
mobi | | 2009-09-15 | Author:Pat Conroy

Every city has its Tenderloin. It’s the part of town where you can feel the air change as you break through some invisible epidermis of squalor, a down-at-the-heels, joyless place ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 6,2017 )
Norman Mailer by J. Michael Lennon
epub |eng | | Author:J. Michael Lennon

ELEVEN DEATH WISHES: GILMORE AND ABBOTT Gary Gilmore was in the news at the end of 1976. The Utah double murderer had not merely acquiesced in his death sentence. Speaking ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 5,2017 )
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER 44 What’s New? The crowd lives upon news and upon rumour. Elizabeth I recalled that, as a princess, she had asked her governess, “What news was at London?” On ...
( Category: Europe October 5,2017 )
Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:John Julius Norwich

Athena and Poseidon on a red-figure krater from south Italy. Traditionally the two deities fought for ‘ownership’ of Athens – Athena eventually winning out. By linking the city to the ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 5,2017 )
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-06 | Author:Joyce Appleby [Appleby, Joyce]

WAR AND DEPRESSION IN 1914 WAR CAME to Europe through the measured minuet of mobilizing armies. It was a slow dance. When discretion suggested to some countries to start early ...
( Category: Economics October 4,2017 )
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740 - 1832 by Stella Tillyard
epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

PART THREE ‘Are you not delighted with our dear little Sally’s thinking herself with child?’ Caroline to Emily, 14 June 1768. ‘I am very glad you have bought that place ...
( Category: Europe October 4,2017 )
The Bang-Bang Club by Greg Marinovich; João Silva
mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Greg Marinovich; João Silva

( Category: Photography & Video October 3,2017 )

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