Historical Study & Educational Resources
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Jacky Colliss Harvey

In fact the days of the smooth and perfect limbs of the Salon nudes were already numbered. Over the Channel the French Impressionists were also creating works in which redheads ...
( Category: Natural History February 3,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Simon Garfield

For all her preoccupation with longing and loss, the loss of Emily Dickinson’s own letters didn’t concern her unduly; the fact that a small percentage of mail wouldn’t make it ...
( Category: Fiction February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-09 | Author:Marzio Barbagli

4.14 The treatment of pain and other illnesses Those suffering from AIDS, multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, kidney failure (undergoing dialysis), spinal cord injuries and cancer have a greater risk of ...
( Category: Suicide January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Edward Baptist [Baptist, Edward]

Image 7.4. An elderly but still pugnacious Andrew Jackson as President, slaying the many-headed Hydra of the nefarious Second Bank of the United States. The head with the top hat ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 16,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Roberts, Jennifer T. [Roberts, Jennifer T.]

Inevitably, Herodotus was somewhat prone to falling into generalization. It was easy for him to seize on individual details he had observed and extrapolate wildly. One can see him in ...
( Category: Greece January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aaron Bobrow-Strain

AFTERMATHS OF ENRICHMENT Synthetic enrichment transformed the way America thought about and ate bread. Thanks to the imperative of building a strong national defense, it did so in a way ...
( Category: Essays January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

XXXIII Angel felt that he would like to spend a day with her before the wedding, somewhere away from the dairy, as a last jaunt in her company while there ...
( Category: Classics January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

Chapter VII Dick Makes Himself Useful The effect of Geoffrey's incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
epub | | 2016-01-06 | Author:Barrett Tillman [Tillman, Barrett]

LCVP: U.S. Army via Martin K.A. Morgan. Landing Craft, Assault (LCA) The British variant of the Higgins Boat (LCVP) differed primarily from the U.S. design in being lightly armored. Consequently, ...
( Category: Military January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Kevin Kenny [Kenny, Kevin]

In the English-speaking Caribbean, Christian slaves deployed supernatural powers both to inflict harm (obeah) and to counteract witchcraft and other forms of evil. The religious practices of convince and kumina, ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-09 | Author:Danny Katch [Katch, Danny]

1. Yeah, I know that these days Ice Cube plays the police in movies instead of shouting “Fuck them!” with NWA. You’re only noticing now that my cultural references are ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism January 7,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]

10 THEBES This has come from my counsel: Sparta has cut the hair of her glory: Messene takes her children in: a wreath of the spears of Thebe has crowned ...
( Category: Greece January 5,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Hatch, Mary Jo [Hatch, Mary Jo]

The politics of identity and diversity Feminists often argue that stereotypes cause us to discredit and devalue some members of society. They point to the fact that the high-paying, prestigious ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Eric Bogosian [Bogosian, Eric]

After the war began in 1914 and Armenian soldiers were conscripted, in May 1915 came the news that the schools had to be shut and that the city’s notables and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Sitwell

Chapter 54 Roly-poly jam pudding 1861 AUTHOR: Isabella Beeton, FROM: Beeton’s Book of Household Management TIME – 2 HOURS. AVERAGE COST – 9D. SUFFICIENT – FOR 5 OR 6 PERSONS. ...
( Category: Essays January 1,2016 )