Historical Study & Educational Resources
mobi | | | Author:The Better Angels of Our Nature

( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Dupré, Ben [Dupré, Ben]

the condensed idea Natural endowments – or nonsense on stilts? timeline 1690 John Locke argues that rights are natural, inalienable and universal 1785 Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative requires that people ...
( Category: Philosophy September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-02 | Author:Ben Dupré

the condensed idea Bludgeoning of the people by the people? timeline 507 BC Cleisthenes introduces democratic reforms in Athens AD 1651 Hobbes discusses balance between state power and individual liberty ...
( Category: Movements September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Dupré, Ben [Dupré, Ben]

The false face of Islam Given the staggering success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was perhaps inevitable, and certainly unhelpful, that al-Qaeda – however nebulous an entity it is ...
( Category: General September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Ian Crofton

Deterrence Deterrence is the doctrine that if a country has sufficiently strong armed forces, and a mighty arsenal of weaponry, no other country will dare to attack it, or to ...
( Category: Essays September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Silver, Laura [Silver, Laura]

David Wise whips up some dough before showtime in a Connecticut kitchen. “Things in a time capsule are supposed to last for five thousand years, and in my kitchen, knishes ...
( Category: Kosher September 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Ian Buruma [Buruma, Ian]

THIS WAS NOT the way Coubertin chose to read Taine. He was bowled over by Notes on England. In his excitement, he ignored the negative impressions described in the book ...
( Category: European September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yvonne M. Ward

Chapter 8 THE WELCOME FOREIGNER: PRINCE ALBERT TIME AND AGAIN, IT has been observed by biographers how unlike his father Albert was. Born in 1819, Albert was the second son ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Kathleen Saint-Onge

Party My black ballet leotard and tights. Bunny ears from the Kresge store. A blob of cotton balls pinned to my butt. A box you’d put a board game in ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-23 | Author:Stephen Moss [Moss, Stephen]

Chapter 39: Newborn Shinobu Matsuoka had been more than accommodating since their last conversation a few weeks ago, dedicating the whole branch of the facility in North Dakota to their ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Elizabeth Winder

At 3:00 a.m., Sylvia met Carol and Art Ford for dancing in the Village jazz clubs—Art only pretended to be a cowboy. Sylvia had already played the Queen of Hearts ...
( Category: Women September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-06 | Author:Rick Beyer

At the Battle of Ridgeway, the Canadian troops suffered ten dead and thirty-eight wounded. The Fenians lost only a handful of men. Colonel John O’Neil, a Civil War cavalry veteran ...
( Category: Reference September 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward E. Baptist [Baptist, Edward E.]

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 September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Colavito, Jason [Colavito, Jason]

29. Who Were the Nephilim? Andrew Collins, who believes in “sentient” “light beings” composed of plasma that can be contacted by buying his books, wrote a tome about the Nephilim ...
( Category: Essays September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Alexander, Amir [Alexander, Amir]

TWO DREAMS OF MODERNITY By the 1670s the war over the infinitely small had ended. With Angeli at long last silenced, and all the Jesuits’ rivals driven underground or melting ...
( Category: History September 16,2014 )