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Trials of Passion by Lisa Appignanesi
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lisa Appignanesi

IV Naturalizing the Impulsive Feminine In the ultimate pre-First World War trial of passion, it was the press itself that took on the aura of a betraying, abusive and hypnotically ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem October 11,2015 )
A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice by Nicolas Lampert
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Nicolas Lampert [Lampert, Nicolas]

Visual Testimony Okubo was rewarded for her decision not to agitate those who controlled her freedom. She, along with all the other internees who answered “yes” to the key questions ...
( Category: History October 10,2015 )
Floodlights and Touchlines by Rob Steen
epub |eng | | Author:Rob Steen [Steen, Rob]

Collusion A scarcely credible ruse that ultimately and justly netted the players a far from insubstantial fortune in back pay, the appalling saga over collusion stemmed from the baseball owners’ ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 5,2015 )
Of Dice and Men by David M. Ewalt
epub |eng | | Author:David M. Ewalt

* * * By the summer of 1978, TSR had eighteen full-time employees, several dozen successful products, and at least a hundred thousand devoted fans of its games around the ...
( Category: Dungeons & Dragons September 28,2015 )
Better Angels of Our Nature : Why Violence Has Declined by Pinker Steven
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

Today the story leaves us in shock. But in the moral universe of the settlers, allowing the girl to die and actively ending her life were live options. Though we ...
( Category: Violence in Society September 8,2015 )
A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases by Christopher Corèdon
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Christopher Corèdon

I Icknield Way. Prehistoric track which connected the Wash with Salisbury Plain. The meaning of ‘Icknield’ is unknown. Ictus regis. Lit. ‘king’s strike or blow’. The formal exchange of blows ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar September 8,2015 )
The Black Chicago Renaissance by Darlene Clark Hine
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Darlene Clark Hine

One aspect of any renaissance is experimentation against a background of tradition. —CHINWEIZU, Africa and the Rest of Us Either it [Negro writing] crept in through the kitchen in the ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 28,2015 )
In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard J. Evans

III DESPITE the increasing specialization and fragmentation which many have observed in the historical profession in recent decades, there is still in some respects reason to doubt Novick’s pessimistic view ...
( Category: Study & Teaching August 22,2015 )
Progressive Historians by Richard Hofstadter
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Richard Hofstadter

1 An Economic Interpretation, 153, 216; see Douglass Adair, “The Tenth Federalist Revisited,” William and Mary Quarterly, 8 (1951), 48–67. 2 “Making the Fascist State,” New Republic, 57 (1929), 277; ...
( Category: United States August 21,2015 )
Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by E. Randolph Richards & Brandon J. O'Brien
mobi |eng | 2012-11-04 | Author:E. Randolph Richards & Brandon J. O'Brien

So David switches strategies and tries to get Uriah to pass out drunk. He can then have the unconscious Uriah tossed into the front door of his house. But that ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics August 20,2015 )
A History of New York in 101 Objects by Sam Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sam Roberts

● 54 ● “To City” Sign The “Outer” Boroughs The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, “is always the city seen for ...
( Category: State & Local August 19,2015 )
Selling Our Death Masks: Cash-For-Gold in the Age of Austerity by Barragan Yesenia
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Barragan, Yesenia [Barragan, Yesenia]

And there it is. For a moment, we can see Rosalia’s coarse black hands running through a pile of soggy dirt, gray rocks, pebbles, combing her wooden pan in search ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 19,2015 )
War and Revolution by Domenico Losurdo
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Domenico Losurdo

The Third Reich and the Natives With the unleashing of the war in the East, Hitler set about constructing the ‘German Indies’, as they were sometimes called, or conquering a ...
( Category: Historiography August 19,2015 )
Proving History the Quest for the Historical Jesus by Richard Carrier
mobi |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Richard Carrier [Carrier, Richard]

FABRICATORY TREND “Whenever a saying or story reflects a known tendency of the developing tradition, the historian must suspect that saying's historicity,” which is again only exclusionary.106 For example, the ...
( Category: Historiography July 31,2015 )
The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

* * * HUMAN NATURE. Truths of the physical order may possess much external significance, but internal significance they have none. The latter is the privilege of intellectual and moral ...
( Category: Reference July 31,2015 )

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