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The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret Macmillan
epub |eng | 2008-09-11 | Author:Margaret Macmillan

Anyone who has ever had an argument and said, “You always do that” or “I trusted you” or “You owe me one” is using history to gain an advantage in ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 11,2017 )
The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sarah Wise

ELEVEN At the Bailey At eight o’clock on the morning of Friday, 2 December, the public gallery of the Sessions House in the Old Bailey was already crowded, and surgeons ...
( Category: Europe September 11,2017 )
A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred by Will George
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Will, George [Will, George]

Getting things not quite right is something of a tradition around Wrigley Field. Another statue outside the ballpark is of broadcaster Harry Caray, who sang “Take Me Out to the ...
( Category: Baseball September 11,2017 )
The Embrace of Unreason by Frederick Brown
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Frederick Brown [Brown, Frederick]

Drieu raised hopes of marriage with political factions as well as with women, and so it was that after reading his letter of divorce from the Surrealist group in the ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 10,2017 )
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael Paterson

Sermons Discoursing on these matters was often a struggle for the young. Molly Hughes (or Molly Thomas, as she was at the time), whose family lived in London and attended ...
( Category: Europe September 10,2017 )
In Our Prime by Patricia Cohen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Patricia Cohen

The Middle-Aged Brain and Intelligence Until the twenty-first century, the prevailing view was that mental decline started in midlife. There were reasons to think so. At around 40, the brain, ...
( Category: Mid-Life September 10,2017 )
Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
epub, azw3 |eng | 1892-01-01 | Author:Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins]

CHAPTER XIV HARRY LEROY It was several weeks after Iola had written to her brother that her letter reached him. The trusty servant to whom she delivered it watched his ...
( Category: Classics September 10,2017 )
Baby Boom by P. J. O'Rourke
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:P. J. O'Rourke

We’d already lost our sense of humor about our parents. If we’d had one. Anything a parent said or did we took personally. (I don’t think our children have made ...
( Category: Humor September 10,2017 )
American Fun by John Beckman
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:John Beckman [Beckman, John]

Risk-loving flappers dance the Charleston—in high heels—on the ledge of Chicago’s Sherman Hotel, December 11, 1926. (Courtesy of Underwood & Underwood, CORBIS images.) As so many twenties writers would have ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 10,2017 )
Listen if it Rains: Life in a revolting century by Lambert Claude
epub |eng | 2016-11-18 | Author:Lambert, Claude [Lambert, Claude]

Or maybe Dad was like me, disappointed by the way the world turned out to be. You do the best you can, it is not enough. Like many in his ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 10,2017 )
Geeks by Jon Katz
epub |eng | 2000-04-18 | Author:Jon Katz

GEEK VOICES Hi, Jon, What is being a geek all about? Anarchy. Pure and simple. It’s not throwing spherical bombs and wearing a cape and wide-brimmed hat and plotting to ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 10,2017 )
A Sea of Words by Dean King
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Dean King [King, Dean]

J jabot A ruffled or pleated fall of cloth or lace, worn by men, attached to the front of a neckband and descending along the front and center of a ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 10,2017 )
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who by Ewalt David M
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Ewalt, David M. [Ewalt, David M.]

* * * By the summer of 1978, TSR had eighteen full-time employees, several dozen successful products, and at least a hundred thousand devoted fans of its games around the ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 9,2017 )
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Todd S. Purdum
mobi |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Todd S. Purdum

PART THREE THE SENATE 8 You Listen to Dirksen! TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1964 AFTER LYNDON JOHNSON’S WEEKLY White House breakfast meeting with the Democratic congressional leadership, his old friend Hubert ...
( Category: Constitutional Law September 9,2017 )
The Missing Ink by Philip Hensher
epub |eng | 2014-06-27 | Author:Philip Hensher [Hensher, Philip]

The Marion Richardson alphabet. Richardson’s programme aims towards a free cursive handwriting, and she says, as A.N. Palmer was saying shortly before her, that it should use ‘only easy movements ...
( Category: Other Media September 9,2017 )

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