Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 1988-08-16 | Author:Sally Morgan

Where to next? ‘It’s a wonderful story.’ Mum had tears in her eyes when she finished reading Arthur’s story. Like me, Mum now felt that at last we had something ...
( Category: Memoirs August 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Ali, Tariq;Stone, Oliver [Ali, Tariq;Stone, Oliver]

Pakistan becomes a key component in our Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Yes, and the Pakistani military henceforth becomes a very valued asset of the United States, with direct links to ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Corrado Augias [Augias, Corrado]

After Liberation, during the postwar period the city seemed to have lost the impassioned energy of those exceptional days. In his reportage-infused novel La pelle (The Skin, 1949),11 the controversial ...
( Category: Europe August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Christopher Finan [Finan, Christopher M.]

Bob had always pictured alcoholics as Bowery bums. Bill was no bum. It didn’t really matter whether alcoholism was a disease. Bob discovered that he wasn’t alone. The two men ...
( Category: Americas August 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yang Jisheng

THE HORROR OF CANNIBALISM Liang Zhiyuan recorded a large number of cases of cannibalism. He found, The extensiveness of the practice, the number of incidents, and the length of time ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 15,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Hahn, Emily [Hahn, Emily]

Slowly, with longing for the departed night, the little white street woke up. It was still so early that in the valley beneath, where the side of the road dropped ...
( Category: Historical August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Rumer Godden

19 Sister Philippa brought the seed lists to the office. In the evenings she had spent hours making them out. Her work in the garden was almost at a standstill ...
( Category: Historical August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Delmont, Matthew F.

The public school system didn’t teach us anything about our culture or our heritage or anything like that. So the Girard College demonstrations sort of opened my eyes to discrimination. ...
( Category: Sociology August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-08 | Author:Walter Scheidel [Scheidel, Walter]

may have relied on stereotypes and hyperbole but nonetheless put the finger on a pressing problem—the ongoing concentration of landed wealth. The most extravagant disparities were created at the very ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Rachel Cooke [Cooke, Rachel]

Ann Todd in The Seventh Veil (ITV Global/The Kobal Collection.) The Seventh Veil opened on 22 October 1945 at the Leicester Square Theatre; its title and the names of its ...
( Category: World August 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Larry Zuckerman

The memory of famine, so vivid that decades of relative security couldn’t erase it, formed a large part of what inspired the peasantry to save and conserve. The threat of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Julie Summers [Summers, Julie]

( Category: Europe August 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-29 | Author:Summerscale, Kate [Summerscale, Kate]

Although people had kept records of their domestic and spiritual lives for hundreds of years, the practice spread dramatically in the early-nineteenth century. Before then, most journals had been household ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:E. Norman Gardiner [E. Norman Gardiner]

The frescoes of the Tomba delle Bighe (Fig. 75) may be dated about 500 B. C. and might be the work of a Greek artist. At either end of the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 3,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pieter Spierenburg

A View Toward the Present The female share in preindustrial murder, as perpetrators and victims, continued to be modest. Women more often killed someone close to them than they did ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 3,2017 )