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The View from Somewhere by Lewis Raven Wallace
epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Lewis Raven Wallace

8 “CAN’T YOU FIND ANY MORE WOMEN TO ATTACK?” What Happens When Facts Don’t Matter Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It’s a ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 14,2020 )
Smoke Signals by Martin A. Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Martin A. Lee

The police, meanwhile, had seized nearly everything the Kubbys owned, including all their office equipment, which they used to operate an online magazine devoted to extreme winter sports. As a ...
( Category: Social Policy March 14,2020 )
Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Richard L. Kagan
epub |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Richard L. Kagan

Guillen de Casaos Allende's closest collaborator was the astrologer Guillen de Casaos. Born in 1541, Casaos belonged to an important hidalgo family originally from Seville. His father had served as ...
( Category: United States March 14,2020 )
Clear and Present Safety by Michael A. Cohen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael A. Cohen

The Smart Response to 9/11 One of the great ironies of 9/11 is that the initial response to the worst terrorist attack on American soil was smart, modest, and appropriate. ...
( Category: Social Policy March 13,2020 )
The Injustice Never Leaves You by Martinez Monica Muñoz
azw3 |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:Martinez, Monica Muñoz [Martinez, Monica Muñoz]

EMBRACING MOB VIOLENCE The testimony of witnesses during the investigation eventually grew to more than 1,600 pages of transcription. Examples abound of police abuse and extralegal acts of violence. Knight ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 13,2020 )
Vegas and the Mob: Forty Years of Frenzy by Al Moe
epub |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Al Moe [Moe, Al]

11 Lady Luck There were plenty of happy times in Las Vegas, as the start of Carlton Adair’s casino project, the Lady Luck. After two years of struggle, bulldozers were ...
( Category: Organized Crime True Accounts March 13,2020 )
American Cultural History: a Very Short Introduction by Avila Eric;
epub |eng | 2018-05-21 | Author:Avila, Eric;

Black Americans found other means of cultural expression during the period between the world wars. The Harlem Renaissance, that explosion of arts and letters from upper Manhattan between World War ...
( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
Damning Words by D. G. Hart
epub |eng | | Author:D. G. Hart

CHAPTER SIX The Mencken Show H. L. Mencken may have taken consolation from sitting in the front row of the show produced by the United States. But during the 1920s ...
( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
Defenses of Pearl Harbor and Oahu 1907-50 by Glen Williford
epub |eng | | Author:Glen Williford

Fire control station “B” on the summit of Puu Palailai. This was a four-tiered building with stations staggered in echelon. The top station was the Battle Command Station; the others ...
( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

FOOTNOTES: [36] In a manuscript record of the province, dated 1659, Library of the New York Historical Society, is the following mention of Indian money:—"Seawant, alias wampum. Beads manufactured from ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 13,2020 )
The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition) by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels & Robert C. Tucker
epub |eng | 1978-03-16 | Author:Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels & Robert C. Tucker [Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich & Tucker, Robert C.]

CHAPTER XIII. CO-OPERATION Capitalist production only then really begins, as we have already seen, when each individual capital employs simultaneously a comparatively large number of labourers; when consequently the labour-process ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 13,2020 )
Healing the Soul of America by Marianne Williamson
epub |eng | | Author:Marianne Williamson

* * * * * * SEVERAL GENERATIONS MAKE up the “adult generation” of any particular time, and understanding how each generation fits into those before it can be helpful. ...
( Category: New Thought March 13,2020 )
Contest for the Indo-Pacific by Rory Medcalf
epub |eng | | Author:Rory Medcalf

The global region Like Russia, Europe has plenty else to worry about. Strikingly, however, even as the European ‘holiday from history’ has come to an end, and security, economic and ...
( Category: Asian March 13,2020 )
Why Nothing Works by Marvin Harris
epub |eng | 1981-07-15 | Author:Marvin Harris

And they did come out. More accurately, they poured out. Bewildered straight America suddenly found itself living alongside a homosexual second society, a segregated parallel social world that had sprung ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 13,2020 )
Barriers Down by Diana Lemberg
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Lemberg

UPDATING ARTICLE 19: JEAN D’ARCY AND THE RIGHT TO COMMUNICATE Like Richard Hoggart, the French media expert Jean d’Arcy believed that growing cross-border and cross-cultural communication might be shaped through ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 13,2020 )

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