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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World by John Man
azw3 |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

24 Alternatively, Pisan in French. Pizan in Italian, because the family came from Pizzano, near Bologna. 25 The name was not his invention. It had been around for over 300 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 1,2018 )
Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History by Heda Margolius Kovály
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-19 | Author:Heda Margolius Kovály [Kovály, Heda Margolius]

Liberating Russian soldiers shake the hands of residents after driving the Germans out of Prague, 1945. Courtesy Česká televize. In the morning the announcer called me and said: “You know, ...
( Category: World May 1,2018 )
Philadelphia Gentlemen by E. Digby Baltzell
epub |eng | | Author:E. Digby Baltzell [Baltzell, E. Digby]

Notes 1.Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and Roderick D. McKenzie, The City, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1925), p. 3. 2.James H. S. Bossard, The Sociology of Child ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 1,2018 )
Lost Kingdom by Julia Flynn Siler
epub |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Julia Flynn Siler

Chapter Twelve Crime of the Century, 1893 The House of Kalākaua rose amid violence and conflict. But its fall, on Tuesday, January 17, 1893, was surprisingly swift and almost bloodless. ...
( Category: Americas May 1,2018 )
Street Fighting Years by Tariq Ali
epub |eng | | Author:Tariq Ali

This racism – anti-black, anti-Asiatic, anti-Mexican – is a basic American attitude with deep historical roots and which existed, latently and overtly, well before the Vietnamese conflict. One proof of ...
( Category: World May 1,2018 )
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Mark Mazower [Mazower, Mark]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Highgate A strong Russian connection has attached itself to Highgate over the years. Guryev, a phosphates magnate, is reportedly the current owner of the mansion that stands at ...
( Category: Historical April 30,2018 )
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Caroline Moorehead [Moorehead, Caroline]

Nello, ostensibly free but in fact kept under constant surveillance on the mainland, was also at work on the shape of Italy’s future, only in his case it was a ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 30,2018 )
Empire of Crime: Opium and the Rise of Organized Crime in the British Empire by Tim Newark
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Tim Newark [Newark, Tim]

Cut-down shotguns were also popular. ‘Some of these men were real killers,’ said Onraet, ‘shooting dead unresisting victims simply to terrorise or make a name for themselves. When cornered, they ...
( Category: World April 30,2018 )
Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe by Rebecca Erbelding
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Rebecca Erbelding

15 Adrift IN SURVEY GRAPHIC MAGAZINE’S September 1944 issue, John Pehle shared the story of a boy who had escaped certain death thanks to Ira Hirschmann’s efforts in Turkey. Under ...
( Category: World April 30,2018 )
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Clemantine Wamariya

* * * Then one day, when I was in Target with Mrs. Thomas, Claire called to tell me Pudi was very sick. They thought he had meningitis. I went ...
( Category: Africa April 30,2018 )
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism by Lopez Donald S. Jr. Buswell Robert E. Jr
epub |eng | 2013-10-11 | Author:Lopez, Donald S., Jr., Buswell, Robert E., Jr.

( Category: World April 30,2018 )
Is the Holocaust Unique? by S Rosenbaum Alan;
epub |eng | | Author:S Rosenbaum, Alan;

Genocide Defined Before it is possible to discuss whether genocide has occurred in a particular case, a clear understanding of the meaning of genocide is essential. Michael Ignatieff argues: “Genocide” ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 30,2018 )
Islam Without Europe by Dallal Ahmad S.;
epub |eng | 2018-04-30 | Author:Dallal, Ahmad S.;

Hadith in India The name of the seventeenth-century scholar ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī (d. 1052/1642) is closely associated with the introduction of hadith studies to India. Prior to ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, Indian ...
( Category: Europe April 30,2018 )
The Path of Christianity by John Anthony McGuckin
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:John Anthony McGuckin

Gregory the Great and His Successors Pope Gregory (c. 540–604), who is now known as the “Great” to distinguish him from many other papal namesakes after him, was one of ...
( Category: History April 28,2018 )
Nemesis by Max Hastings
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-28 | Author:Max Hastings

George Beck, a B-29 gunner, wrote in his diary after landing back in the Marianas on 10 March: ‘An unforgettable mission…Squadron CO told us we were starting a new phase ...
( Category: Military April 28,2018 )

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