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Origins of Order by Paul W. Kahn;
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Paul W. Kahn;

Langdell: From God to Reason Langdell, like Blackstone, was simultaneously designing a course of legal pedagogy and offering a theory of the nature of law.49 Again like Blackstone, he believed ...
( Category: Legal History February 27,2020 )
Cattle Kingdom by Christopher Knowlton
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Knowlton

Get the house sold if possible but don’t stick at price. Then about your diamonds, what have you done about them? Try & get Jennie [Churchill] to take them, if ...
( Category: United States February 27,2020 )
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage) by Walter Russell Mead
mobi |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Walter Russell Mead [Mead, Walter Russell]

When Britain really ruled the waves (In good Queen Bess’s time) The House of Peers made no pretence To intellectual eminence Or scholarship sublime. Yet Britain won her proudest bays ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
The Ultimate Engineer by Richard Jurek
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Jurek

Low considered Apollo 8 the emotional highlight of the program.163 For many years afterward, he would often gift the Bill Anders Earthrise photo taken from lunar orbit as a memento ...
( Category: United States February 27,2020 )
Ozark Magic and Folklore by Vance Randolph
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Vance Randolph

Marry when the year is new, Your mate will be constant, kind and true. Weddings in May are said to be unlucky, and so are those celebrated in rainy or ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology February 27,2020 )
Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Adam Cohen

* * * — There is one more set of Court rulings that, although not directly related to employment, has done substantial harm to workers: the campaign finance decisions, starting ...
( Category: United States February 27,2020 )
The Quiet Don by Matt Birkbeck
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Matt Birkbeck

TEN The disastrous outcome of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the loss of Cuba were monumental blows to the gangsters who had profited for years from the island, and ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals February 26,2020 )
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by Ellen D. Wu
epub |eng | 2013-11-24 | Author:Ellen D. Wu [Wu, Ellen D.]

Chinatown’s Juvenile Delinquency Crisis The San Mateo and Oakland incidents were but two episodes in what many Bay Area Chinese viewed as a youth crime wave. Ethnic media reported steadily ...
( Category: Asian American Studies February 26,2020 )
The Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln by Claude G. Bowers
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Claude G. Bowers [Bowers, Claude G.]

VII The year ended like a melodrama. In December, Daniel McFarland walked into the office of the ‘New York Tribune’ and shot down Albert D. Richardson, a favorite journalist among ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )
The Explorer King by Robert Wilson
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Robert Wilson

As they moved the chains across the northern border of what would become the new park, resorting to triangulation in spots where the chains could not easily go, King only ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )
Paradise Now by Chris Jennings
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Chris Jennings

Music Stopped New phalanxes continued to be established for the rest of the 1840s, but the bust in West Roxbury was a major blow. “The end of Brook Farm was ...
( Category: Utopian February 26,2020 )
Not So Wild a Dream by Eric Sevareid
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Eric Sevareid [Sevareid, Eric]

2 When my eyes opened again I was staring through a screen of leaves at a blue sky. I felt no pain and knew I was quite unhurt. For a ...
( Category: Journalists February 26,2020 )
LIFE The Great Space Race: How the U.S. Beat the Russians to the Moon by Editors of LIFE The
epub |eng | 2016-09-29 | Author:Editors of LIFE, The [Editors of LIFE, The]

SOVFOTO/UIG/GETTY THE FIRST MAN in space, Russia’s Yuri Gagarin, during last-minute checks of the Vostok 1’s control systems just before his 1961 flight. He beat out more than 3,000 candidates ...
( Category: History & Philosophy February 26,2020 )
Do Morals Matter? by Joseph S. Nye Jr
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Bush 41’s Ethical Scorecard Intentions and Motives Moral vision: attractive values, good motives good/mixed Prudence: balance of values and risks good Means Force: proportion, discrimination, necessity good Liberal: respect for ...
( Category: History & Theory February 26,2020 )
When the Tea Party Came to Town by Robert Draper
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Draper

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Side Pockets on a Cow “We’re celebrating a great day—the American auto industry is coming back!” John Dingell stood outside in the middle of a makeshift car lot ...
( Category: Legislative Branch February 25,2020 )

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