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The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau by Julie Ferry
epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Julie Ferry

Prince Leopold would always hold Minnie in high esteem, and even after her marriage he still wrote to her frequently, his letters filled with compliments. ‘You were much admired yesterday, ...
( Category: Women in History April 22,2017 )
Indigenous Identity and Resistance by Brendan Hokowhitu
epub |eng | | Author:Brendan Hokowhitu

Elsewhere in the British Empire, native races were supposed to enjoy the status of British subjects, although they were not always treated accordingly. What was remarkable in New Zealand was ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 15,2017 )
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Ian Mortimer

8 Where to Stay The practicalities of finding accommodation vary from age to age. One of the problems of the Restoration period is the sheer number of people on the ...
( Category: Europe April 15,2017 )
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Eric Weiner [Weiner, Eric]

* * * I’m walking along the Royal Mile one day, feeling pleased with my progress, when I spot a church. Called St. Giles, it is impressive with its crown-shaped ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2017 )
The Sex Effect by Ross Benes
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Ross Benes

HONG KONG’S MAN SHORTAGE While mainland China has a shortage of women, Hong Kong actually has a female surplus, with roughly 855 men for every 1,000 women.84 The gap is ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion April 8,2017 )
Reporting War by Ray Moseley
epub |eng | | Author:Ray Moseley

Before the Italian surrender, correspondents heard reports it was near. “I expected that,” Reynolds Packard told Quentin Reynolds. “I have complete faith in the Italians. They’ve double-crossed every ally they ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 6,2017 )
The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Ian Buruma [Buruma, Ian]

TOKYO The law court in Nuremberg looks solid—indestructible almost—in a city that lacks solidity. The restored medievalism of the old town center gives the city a stagey atmosphere, as though ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2017 )
The Sons of Molly Maguire by Bulik Mark;
epub |eng | 2015-04-04 | Author:Bulik, Mark;

11 Mars in Mahantango You may have Pottsville laid in ashes and a thousand barbarities committed. —Gen. Darius Couch, 1863 On March 3, 1863, Congress approved an unprecedented expansion of ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2017 )
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Tim Wu

Eventually, one thing led to another. “Of course, I had no idea what I was saying; much of what I said was based on what I had seen on General ...
( Category: Direct March 22,2017 )
City of Dreams by Tyler Anbinder
epub |eng | | Author:Tyler Anbinder

Jacob Riis’s photograph of Bandit’s Roost (an alleyway between 57 and 59 Mulberry Street) helped establish Mulberry Bend’s reputation as one of the most decrepit and dangerous blocks of tenements ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration March 22,2017 )
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Steven Pinker

Pre-Debate Interviews malcolm gladwell in conversation with rudyard griffiths Rudyard Griffiths: Welcome to our pre-debate interviews for the Munk Debate on Progress. We’ll be debating the resolution, “Be it resolved: ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2017 )
Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Hsu Madeline Y
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Hsu, Madeline Y. [Hsu, Madeline Y.]

The depths of exclusion Japanese Americans faced high levels of antagonism, despite and partially due to their very successes in demonstrating their capacities to attain key markers of good citizenship ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 22,2017 )
I Thought My Father Was God by Paul Auster
epub |eng | 2017-02-26 | Author:Paul Auster

CHRISTMAS MORNING, 1949 A LIGHT DRIZZLE WAS FALLING as my sister Jill and I ran out of the Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents Santa ...
( Category: United States March 22,2017 )
Brave New Weed by Joe Dolce
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Joe Dolce

Simpson doesn’t sell oils and he gives the formula away for free. His goal, he says, is not profit but to spread the cannabis oil gospel to anyone who’ll listen. ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 21,2017 )
Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Nisbet

8 THE TOTAL COMMUNITY “I think,” wrote the brilliant Tocqueville in 1840, “that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 19,2017 )

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