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The World That Trade Created by Pomeranz Kenneth Topik Steven
epub |eng | | Author:Pomeranz, Kenneth,Topik, Steven

5.1 The Logic of an Immoral Trade America was created by immigrants. We have all been taught that their hard work and ingenuity carved civilization out of the wilderness. Where ...
( Category: Economic History February 24,2017 )
At the Table: Food and Family around the World by Albala Ken; Albala Ken;
epub |eng | | Author:Albala, Ken; Albala, Ken;

One of the family’s daughters sits with her husband. The husband is dipping taboon bread into a plate of hummus topped with olive oil. (Courtesy of Fatina Dahli Photography) Mlukhiya ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions February 24,2017 )
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Francis Wheen [Francis Wheen]

8 Candles in the wind Ours is an evangelical culture. So many people convinced that they’ve been saved by Jesus, cured by homeopathy or the laying on of hands, abducted ...
( Category: United States February 23,2017 )
Must We Divide History Into Periods? by Le Goff Jacques; DeBevoise Malcolm;
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Le Goff, Jacques; DeBevoise, Malcolm;

1492. A glorious year? I have already said that it was indisputably a decisive moment. But its influence on the course of history can be interpreted in different ways, which ...
( Category: Renaissance January 8,2017 )
Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Chris Wickham

CHAPTER TEN Defining society: gender and community in late medieval Europe When we get into the later middle ages, the information we have about Europeans, particularly western Europeans, increases exponentially. ...
( Category: Europe December 8,2016 )
Just Enough by Azby Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Azby Brown

Like their counterparts around Japan, these town-houses are models of natural climate control for high-density urban areas. Most have been designed with tiny gardens in back, and quite a few ...
( Category: Residential December 8,2016 )
They Fought In The Fields by Nicola Tyrer
epub |eng | | Author:Nicola Tyrer

When the call for duty rang out, I was one of those thousands who decided that our homes and farms were worth fighting for. We left behind those who were ...
( Category: World War II December 3,2016 )
1956 by Simon Hall
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Hall

Back in the United States, President Eisenhower – who was in the midst of a gruelling re-election campaign against Adlai Stevenson, the former governor of Illinois – struggled to formulate ...
( Category: Historical November 29,2016 )
Dolce Vita Confidential by Shawn Levy
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Shawn Levy [Levy, Shawn]

* It wasn’t all cheery news and delightful novelties. On a morning in November 1954, a man’s nude body lay on the sidewalk outside the Hotel Eden on Via Ludovisi, ...
( Category: Performing Arts November 27,2016 )
Home from the Dark Side of Utopia by Clifton Ross
epub |ara, eng, eng | 2016-07-03 | Author:Clifton Ross

Chapter Fourteen: The Election I watched the election results that Sunday evening, April 14 from a dark room smelling of Pinesol in a cheap hotel in Cúcuta where I fell ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American November 24,2016 )
Water: A Global History (Edible) by Miller Ian
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Miller, Ian [Miller, Ian]

Its roughness in the throat, sir. ’Tis true that yankees are most shrewd, And wooden nutmegs make, sir; But who’d have thought Port wine was brew’d This side the big ...
( Category: Environmental November 23,2016 )
Close Encounters of the Furred Kind by Tom Cox
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Cox

Advice for New Owners of a Formerly Homeless Cat Getting Your Homeless Cat Accustomed to His New Environment The first week or two with a homeless cat are always the ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers November 13,2016 )
Panaesthetics by Daniel Albright
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Albright

Marcello is profoundly suspicious of static nouns: he would like to banish solid objects from serious attention by musicians. This makes sense, in that the denotative functions of language have ...
( Category: Criticism November 7,2016 )
Play It Loud by Brad Tolinski
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Brad Tolinski

The 1968 Fender Stratocaster that Hendrix played at Woodstock sold for $2 million in 1998. chapter 8 THE REVOLUTION WILL BE AMPLIFIED Facing the largest audience he’d ever played to ...
( Category: Music November 5,2016 )
Cyclogeography by Jon Day
epub |eng | 2016-09-24 | Author:Jon Day [Jon Day]

When we hit Oxford Street the pack swerves hard right, round the front of a bus. Its passengers stare through the glass at us as we pass. We’re gone before ...
( Category: Cycling September 25,2016 )

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