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The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Jams, Jellies and Preserves by The Duchess of Northumberland
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-12 | Author:The Duchess of Northumberland

BLANC MANGER FOR ONE THAT IS SICKE Take almondes and beate them verie fine and beate withal rosewater and verie fine suger and straine it thorough a fine clothe. Let ...
( Category: Great Britain April 3,2016 )
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Philippe Petit

So here I am, just days before the walk, often till two in the morning, attempting to make sense of the elements upon which my life depends. Who believes that? ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2016 )
We Cannot Escape History by Neil Davidson
epub |eng | 2015-12-02 | Author:Neil Davidson

7 WHEN HISTORY FAILED TO TURN: PIERRE BROUÉ ON THE GERMAN REVOLUTION INTRODUCTION “This not a German event. There no longer are any ‘German events.’”1 With these words to the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2016 )
Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore
epub |eng | 2013-03-23 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

JANE AUSTEN 1775–1817 Like Shakespeare, she took, as it were, the common dross of humanity, and by her wonderful power of literary alchemy, turned it into pure gold. Yet she ...
( Category: Historical March 24,2016 )
Emerging from Turbulence by Leon Grunberg
epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Leon Grunberg

John Lorie Because of the loss of pride in the company, because if you think, “Oh, I’m just a number here, I’m here just to get paid. I’m doing my ...
( Category: Infrastructure March 23,2016 )
The Future of Nostalgia
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Svetlana Boym [Boym, Svetlana]

The main feature of Berlin in transition is a cohabitation of various nostalgias and a superimposition of Eastern and Western ways of commemoration. Recent postcards of Berlin incorporate the nostalgias ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 23,2016 )
The Sociologist and the Historian by Bourdieu Pierre; Chartier Roger; & Roger Chartier
epub |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Bourdieu, Pierre; Chartier, Roger; & Roger Chartier

Notes 1 In Michel Deguy, Choses de la poésie et affaire culturelle (Paris: Hachette, 1986). 2 Bourdieu and de Saint Martin, ‘La sainte famille: L'épiscopat français dans le champ du ...
( Category: Sociology March 20,2016 )
People's History of the United States, A (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

The mails are supposed to be sacred. . . . But let us call the American Protective League sometimes almost clairvoyant as to letters done by suspects. . . . ...
( Category: Democracy March 19,2016 )
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life by Goodman Ruth
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Goodman, Ruth [Goodman, Ruth]

Painters Tradesmen and craftsmen seem at first glance to have had very different working lives from those on the land, and some of them did. But there was also a ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 14,2016 )
Paper by Ian Sansom
epub |eng | 2013-04-26 | Author:Ian Sansom

9 THE SQUIGGLE GAME This game that I like playing has no rules. I just take my pencil and go like that . . . D.W.WINNICOTT, “The Squiggle Game” (1968) ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar March 14,2016 )
Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett
epub |eng | | Author:Angelica Garnett

7 At Home in Sussex Meanwhile life at Charleston continued, bathed it seemed in the glow of a perpetual summer. The household fell into two halves: on the one hand ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
Elizabeth's London by Liza Picard
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Liza Picard

Marriage Marriage involved a change of status. The woman moved from the power and responsibilty of her father, to that of her husband. The only women who were not treated ...
( Category: England March 11,2016 )
Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States by Andrew Coe
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-24 | Author:Andrew Coe [Coe, Andrew]

This one of the earliest accounts we have of the mixed stir-fry, one of the Pearl River Delta’s village specialties, that would have an outsized influence on the American perception ...
( Category: Chinese March 10,2016 )
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

5 Central to modern expectations, and modern ethical feeling, is the conviction that war is an aberration, if an unstoppable one. That peace is the norm, if an unattainable one. ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 8,2016 )
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Goto-Jones Christopher
epub |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Goto-Jones, Christopher [Goto-Jones, Christopher]

9. Modernity at the crossroads, c.1928 For the first time in modern history, Japan became a net creditor nation. Historians often overlook Japan’s role in World War I: it joined ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 6,2016 )

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