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Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad
epub |eng | | Author:Åsne Seierstad

20 BLUEPRINT Who was in charge here? The judge had released him. The head of the prison had protested. Who decided his fate? The young fighters were only pawns. The ...
( Category: World April 17,2018 )
Islam in Europe by Jack Goody
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Goody

Values The East in its various forms continues to be seen as very different from the West in its ‘despotic’, anti-democratic governments, the absence of freedom and of the Christian ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 17,2018 )
Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861 by Michael J. McManus
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. McManus

Finally, in an appeal to the prejudices of Wisconsin’s large foreign-born population, Democrats asserted that their Republican opponents cared more for blacks than for them and would subordinate their needs ...
( Category: Americas April 17,2018 )
Raised on Christian Milk by John David Penniman
epub |eng | | Author:John David Penniman

SIX Milk Without Growth Augustine and the Limits of Formation We should drink, not think. —Augustine, Sermon 119 You are neither a child of the gods, nor born from divine ...
( Category: History April 17,2018 )
Mystics of the renaissance by Rudolf Steiner
epub |eng | 2016-04-17 | Author:Rudolf Steiner [Rudolf Steiner]

Agrippa Von Nettesheim And Theophrastus Paracelsus BOTH Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1487-1535) and Theophrastus Paracelsus (1493-1541) followed the same road along which points Nicholas of Cusa’s way of conceiving ...
( Category: Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts April 17,2018 )
Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author:William McNeill [McNeill, William]

And again: He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr. And still again: It is a punishment that God inflicts on whom he wills, but He has granted a ...
( Category: Medicine April 16,2018 )
Big Bill Haywood: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood by Haywood William D
epub |eng | 2015-10-17 | Author:Haywood, William D. [Haywood, William D.]

12. “Undesirable Citizens” Hundreds of Cripple Creek miners had left for the new gold camps in Nevada, where strong unions had been organized at Goldfield, Tonopah and other places. The ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 16,2018 )
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
epub |zho | 2007-04-25 | Author:Peter Hessler [Hessler, Peter]

ARTIFACT G The Uncracked Bone AFTER TALKING WITH OLD MR. ZHAO, I SEARCH FOR THE STORY OF Chen Mengjia’s life. The material is thin: no book-length biography of Chen has ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 16,2018 )
Thailand's Theory of Monarchy: The Vessantara Jataka and the Idea of the Perfect Man by Patrick Jory
epub |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Patrick Jory [Jory, Patrick]

Relations between the Thai Court and Western Pali Scholars It is clear that Chulalongkorn’s essay on the Jātakas made considerable use of Western Pali scholarship, in particular the work of ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 16,2018 )
The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi & David Armitage
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Jo Guldi & David Armitage [Guldi, Jo]

Chapter 4 Big questions, big data One of the reasons that a society discovers itself in a crisis of long-term thinking is the problem of information overload. Information overload is ...
( Category: World April 16,2018 )
History of Greek Culture by Burckhardt Jacob
epub |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Burckhardt, Jacob

So, when tedious repetitions occur, like the speech of Menelaus in book seventeen and various items in the scene in the underworld in book twenty-four, or when needless parallels occur ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 16,2018 )
The Twelve Apostles by Coogan Tim Pat;
epub |eng | | Author:Coogan, Tim Pat; [Coogan, Tim Pat]

CHAPTER EIGHT Bloody Sunday The infamous Cairo Gang, a group of British Intelligence operatives active in Dublin during the War of Independence. Several of these men were killed on ‘Bloody ...
( Category: Europe April 16,2018 )
Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Henri Pirenne

2. The Carolingian Mayors of the Palace In 688, then, the mayor of the palace of Austrasia imposed his tutelage on the kingdom. But he did not remain beside the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 16,2018 )
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud by Vidas Moulie;
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Vidas, Moulie;

* * * 1 One of the most influential earlier treatments is Louis Ginzberg, A Commentary on the Palestinian Talmud IV (Heb.; arranged and edited posthumously by D. Halivni; New ...
( Category: Judaism April 16,2018 )
Churchill's War by David Irving
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Irving [Irving, David]

DAVID IRVING cials in North Africa had their price. ‘He strongly advocates,’ Desmond Morton reported, ‘an intensive campaign of propaganda and bribery.’ Churchill approved in red ink. In December one ...
( Category: Military April 16,2018 )

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