Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Rob Boddice

6 EXPERIENCE, SENSES AND THE BRAIN Take five How do you feel? The question, a commonplace query if ever there was one, is actually enormously complex. That we handle it ...
( Category: Historiography July 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:John Lloyd [John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller]

177 * * * Tears contain vitamin A. Six-week-old babies cry for an average of two hours and 15 minutes a day. Babies in Britain cry more than babies in ...
( Category: Trivia July 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Adam Sisman [Sisman, Adam]

Hugh’s Historical Essays was published by Macmillan in the autumn of 1957.* Of the forty-two “essays” in the book, all had been previously published, most of them as book reviews ...
( Category: World War II July 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Fields

IX Gary Snyder sailed for Japan on May 15, 1956. Mrs. Sasaki introduced him to Isshu Miura-roshi, and he spent his first year in Japan at Shokokuji, serving as the ...
( Category: Buddhist History July 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-05 | Author:Christopher Howse [Howse, Christopher]

‘I’ve lost all my money’ He knew it was time to move on. It was out of the frying pan into the fire. The rapid failure of his music-hall pub, ...
epub |eng | | Author:Calder, Angus

XII The Home Guard, however, had maintained much of its old appeal. Though the danger of invasion had receded, there was always the fear (or the hope, for the keener ...
epub |eng | | Author:Siobhán McHugh [Siobhán McHugh]

CHAPTER 8 AN ENGINEERING WONDER In 1962, the Snowy Mountains Scheme was nominated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the engineering wonders of the world. It ...
( Category: Power Systems July 10,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kevin Shillington

African political thought in west Africa More significant in terms of African political thought in this period was Edward Wilmot Blyden, a Liberian settler, born in 1832 of free parents ...
( Category: Africa July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Ellis Cose

Michael Meyers, former ACLU board member and frequent critic of the ACLU’s staff leadership. Photograph by Jonathan Lenglain. Ira Glasser, former ACLU executive director. Photograph by Bob Adelman. Ira Glasser ...
( Category: United States July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Stephanie Muntone

495. Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia is historically significant for all these reasons EXCEPT (A) being the most successful resistance leader in Europe during World War II (B) refusing to ...
( Category: College Guides July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 1957-07-14 | Author:ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE

(iii) Tares and Wheat Our survey of encounters between contemporaries1 has made us aware that the only fruitful results of these encounters are the works of peace, and most mournfully ...
( Category: Medieval July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Gildersleeve & Richard Gehrmann

Both Žižek and Derrida see September 11 as an event marking the possibility of a way out of contemporary political ideology, with the potential to instigate an entirely new version ...
epub |eng | 2020-07-08 | Author:Giacomo Casanova

Chapter XVIII M. Haller—My Stay at Lausanne—Lord Rosebury—The Young Saconai—Dissertation on Beauty—The Young Theologian M. Haller was a man six feet high and broad in a proportion; he was a ...
( Category: Europe July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-11 | Author:Rosinka Chaudhuri [Rosinka Chaudhuri]

The Ruins of History Two different notions of historicality coexist in the early part of the nineteenth century in Calcutta in literary texts that belong to two different practices of ...
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Max Decharne [Decharne, Max]

17 - ‘Thigh-high skirts for dolly-looking birds’ At the start of l966 it seemed as if half the world wanted to be in London. Half the film world seemed to ...
( Category: Popular July 9,2020 )