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Contesting the Renaissance by William Caferro
epub |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:William Caferro

Imitation as Innovation Consideration of humanism in its diverse settings makes more difficult any attempt to posit a single workable definition for it. If, as Eugene Rice has suggested, Jacques ...
( Category: Historiography March 13,2020 )
What Would Mrs. Astor Do? by Cecelia Tichi
epub |eng | | Author:Cecelia Tichi

Figure 38. “The Golden Horse-shoe at its Best” Stage-Door Johnny The 1905 divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Main Post of New York City was hardly newsworthy. More momentous events ...
( Category: Women in History March 13,2020 )
Imagining Outer Space by Alexander C.T. Geppert
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander C.T. Geppert

‘Space: 1999 occupies a unique and not altogether happy position in the Valhalla of televised space adventures. It is the program that Star Trek fans love to hate, even 20 ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2020 )
Under the Paw by Tom Cox
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Cox [Cox, Tom]

I knew enough about The Bear now not to second-guess his moods, so when, two days later, he disdainfully licked the butter off his paws and vanished, I wasn’t surprised. ...
( Category: Cats March 13,2020 )
Ancient Engineers' Inventions by Cesare Rossi & Flavio Russo
epub |eng | | Author:Cesare Rossi & Flavio Russo

The false axle system was reserved for longer items to be transported and will later be known as Eleusis’ heavy cart. This consisted of two thick wooden axles with an ...
( Category: Engineering March 13,2020 )
How Good an Historian Shall I Be? by Marnie Hughes-Warrington
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Marnie Hughes-Warrington

The Form of the Content: A Metareflection Thus far, our account follows the contours sketched out by Abrams, Cocking, Engell, Kearney, Egan and Alan White. [440] These writers narrate a ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 13,2020 )
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Goodman [Goodman, Ruth]

All Tooled Up and Ready for Action Learning to fight and handle weapons was part of most men’s youth at all levels of society, backed up by a patriotic and ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 13,2020 )
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse by Sarah Tarlow & Emma Battell Lowman
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Sarah Tarlow & Emma Battell Lowman

Though constrained by the terms of their official role, public expectations, social hierarchies, and the limited period during which bodies remained useful for anatomical work, medical men nonetheless exercised a ...
( Category: Criminology March 13,2020 )
Sorry!: The English and Their Manners by Hitchings Henry
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Hitchings, Henry [Hitchings, Henry]

15 The Englishness of English manners Edmund Burke, an admirer of Fanny Burney’s books, was instrumental in getting her released from her confinement, and his own brushes with monarchy, less ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2020 )
The Australian Army Uniform and the Government Clothing Factory by Anneke van Mosseveld
epub |eng | | Author:Anneke van Mosseveld

Fig. 7.5Cotton production in Australia, 1920–2000. Note: Fig. 7.4 is a close-up view of a section of Fig. 7.5. The latter depicts billions of pounds of cotton produced, making it ...
( Category: Economic History March 13,2020 )
The Psychology of Nations by George Partridge
epub |eng | | Author:George Partridge

* * * CHAPTER II INTERNATIONALISM AND THE SCHOOL IF WE TAKE A serious and an optimistic view of education as a social institution, and think of it at all ...
( Category: Historiography March 13,2020 )
Philosophy In the Garden by Damon Young
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Damon Young

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Botanical Confessions I am convinced that at any age the study of nature … bestows upon the mind a salutary nourishment by filling it with a subject most ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 13,2020 )
Tell It to the World by Stan Grant
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Stan Grant

PART FIVE My family is like so many other Aboriginal families. What has happened to us has happened to all. We have felt the brutality of Australia. We have had ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 13,2020 )
Funny As by Paul Horan
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Paul Horan

THE TRUE SKILL OF BILLY T. JAMES WAS HE NEVER, NEVER UTTERED A PROFANITY. HE NEVER, NEVER CROSSED THE LINE, EVER. – Mike King An outtake from a Billy T. ...
( Category: Comedy March 12,2020 )
A Billion Lives by Jan Egeland
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Jan Egeland

My colleagues from Geneva and our Japanese hosts are thrilled that their hard work for development and prevention of disasters has, for the first time ever, gotten worldwide attention. More ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 12,2020 )

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