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How We Got Here: The 70s the Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better or Worse by David Frum
epub |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:David Frum

VOULEZ-VOUS COUCHER AVEC MOI CE SOIR? AL JOLSON’S JAZZ SINGER IT WAS NOT, BUT IN 1978 THE OTHERWISE OBSCURE production company Satori Films achieved a motion-picture breakthrough all the same. ...
( Category: World March 11,2020 )
False Flags by Stephen Robinson
epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:Stephen Robinson

The Germans sentenced Fry to death but later reprieved his sentence after Swiss intervention. He was awarded the British Empire Medal and his citation read: ‘Fry was the chief ringleader ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 11,2020 )
Invasive Predators in New Zealand by Carolyn M. King
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn M. King

The original poem, first published in 1922, has three more verses, the last recommending that nations aiming to attain global leadership should do the same. Many critics at the time ...
( Category: Ecology March 11,2020 )
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The “South Seas”—Hawaii and Easter Island—the Aleutians—the Maldives—Malta—Minoan Crete—Venice “Why in God’s name would they [Aleutian Islanders] want to come out here, unless they were nuts?” Red shook his head, ...
( Category: Human Geography March 11,2020 )
The Specter of Democracy by Howard Dick;
epub |eng | 2002-09-14 | Author:Howard, Dick;

CHAPTER 10 Intersecting Trajectories of Republicanism in France and the United States THE CONCEPT OF REPUBLICANISM: HISTORICAL SYMMETRIES AND ASYMMETRIES Like many inherited historical concepts, republicanism has been understood differently ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 11,2020 )
A Prisoner of Morro by Upton Sinclair
epub |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Upton Sinclair

CHAPTER XVIII. CLIF FARADAY’S SACRIFICE. It is needless to say that Clif stared at the man in amazement. But an instant before he had heard him state that he was ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 11,2020 )
Modern Tyrants by Daniel Chirot
epub |eng | 1994-07-15 | Author:Daniel Chirot

This hardly fit the voluntarism and dynamism that Ceausescu needed, and he surely must have admired Kim and the Koreans for showing no such weakness. He therefore set out to ...
( Category: Political Science March 11,2020 )
News from Nowhere (World Classics) by William Morris
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:William Morris [Morris, William]

“How do you mean?” said I. “What could the Government have done? I often used to think that they would be helpless in such a crisis.” Said old Hammond: “Of ...
( Category: British & Irish March 11,2020 )
Knots, Splices and Rope Work - A Practical Treatise by A. Hyatt Verrill
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:A. Hyatt Verrill [Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)]

Another handsome knot for shortening is the more highly ornamental "Open Chain" (Fig. 75). Make the first loop of the rope secure by a twist of the rope and then ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies March 11,2020 )
The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts by William Somerset Maugham
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:William Somerset Maugham [Maugham, William Somerset]

THE THIRD ACT The Scene is the same as in the preceding Acts. It is the night of the same day as that on which takes place the action of ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 11,2020 )
The Bronze Hand by Anna Katharine Green
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anna Katharine Green [Green, Anna Katharine]

IV. CHECKMATE. I HASTENED at once home, and knocked at Miss Calhoun’s door. While waiting for a response, the mockery of my return without the token I had undertaken to ...
( Category: World March 11,2020 )
Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion by Ungureanu Camil
epub |eng | 2017-12-02 | Author:Ungureanu, Camil

6 MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS CRITICS From rise to fall? Introduction With the new wave of populism and nationalism, multicultural political theory has fallen on hard times, and is currently subject ...
( Category: World March 11,2020 )
The West: A short history of the Western world: from the Middle Ages to the present day by Chris Francis
epub |eng | 2019-04-17 | Author:Chris Francis [Francis, Chris]

As capital for investment in mining and other industrial endeavours accumulated during the 1700s, a series of technological developments in the last half of the century came to characterise the ...
( Category: World March 11,2020 )
The Market-Place by Harold Frederic
epub |eng | 2017-06-22 | Author:Harold Frederic [Frederic, Harold]

Chapter XV "We've got a spare room here, haven't we?" Thorpe asked his niece, when she came out to greet him in the hall of their new home in Ovington ...
( Category: World March 11,2020 )
The Age of Voltaire by Will Durant & Ariel Durant
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Will Durant & Ariel Durant

* * * I. Italics added. II. The subsequent references are to the English translation, here warmly recommended, by Richard Aldington: The Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New ...
( Category: Short Stories March 11,2020 )

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