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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology by Anders Andrén
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Anders Andrén

Figure 40. Two upright limestone slabs at Ottenby in Ås on Öland. This type of limestone slab are common in burial grounds on Öland, and they usually have smooth show ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science March 15,2018 )
The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World by Ran Abramitzky
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ran Abramitzky [Abramitzky, Ran]

THE SHIFT AWAY FROM EQUAL SHARING It became increasingly clear that the kibbutz system could not continue to work in the absence of fundamental changes. As early as in 1988, ...
( Category: World March 15,2018 )
Greek Medicine by Longrigg James
epub |eng | | Author:Longrigg, James

THE ATHENIAN PLAGUE In the early summer of the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC) the Lacedaimonians again invaded Attica and laid waste to the countryside, whose inhabitants ...
( Category: History March 15,2018 )
The Children of la Hille by Reed Walter W.;
epub |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:Reed, Walter W.; [Reed, Walter W.]

28. Siblings at La Hille, 1942. From left: Addi and Lotte Nussbaum, Ruth and Betty Schütz, Cilly Stückler and cousin Gerti Lind, and Norbert Stückler. From the author’s personal collection. ...
( Category: World March 14,2018 )
Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore by Roxane Gay & Vanessa Friedman
epub |eng | | Author:Roxane Gay & Vanessa Friedman

( Category: Photography & Video March 14,2018 )
Coromandel by Charles Allen
epub |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Charles Allen [ALLEN, CHARLES]

The archaeologist and Sanskritist Rajendralala Mitra, author of Antiquities of Orissa. Part of the Lingaraja temple complex in Bhubaneshwar. One of the many puzzles of the Ashokan era is why ...
( Category: Asia March 14,2018 )
Unshackling America by Willard Sterne Randall
epub |eng | | Author:Willard Sterne Randall

ELEVEN “Father, Listen to Your Children” On the northwestern frontier, 1813 began as the previous year had ended: with an unnecessary American defeat hard on the heels of even more ...
( Category: Economics March 14,2018 )
The Sixties Unplugged by Gerard Degroot
epub |eng | | Author:Gerard Degroot [DeGroot, Gerard]

As a cultural revolution, the Sixties was predominantly white, middle-class, and urban. Miles from the epicenter, the great seismic shifts were felt as tiny tremors. An awareness of what was ...
( Category: World March 14,2018 )
Confessions by Augustine
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Augustine

[12.29] I was speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart when I suddenly heard from a nearby house a voice—that of a boy or a girl, ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 14,2018 )
Women's Rights by Ann Savage
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Savage

Novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence. Wharton is also widely known for her ...
( Category: World March 14,2018 )
The Fighting Times of Abe Attell by Mark Allen Baker
epub |eng | 2017-11-17 | Author:Mark Allen Baker

A Rare Glimpse at the Champion Writer Vincent Treanor wrote a complimentary piece about Attell for the Evening World on February 4, 1911. The insight was the first in some ...
( Category: World March 14,2018 )
Mind Your Manors by Lucy Lethbridge
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Lucy Lethbridge

SINKS were traditionally made of earthenware, metal or ceramic – though these hard surfaces risked washing-up breakages. This led to the brief popularity of teak sinks which minimised the risk ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2018 )
The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 (New Approaches to European History) by Donald Quataert
epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-08-11 | Author:Donald Quataert [Quataert, Donald]

( Category: Middle East March 14,2018 )
French Posters by Alston Isabella Dixon Kathryn
epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:Alston, Isabella,Dixon, Kathryn

JULES CHÉRET 1836–1932 Chéret began his career as an apprentice to a lithography company in Paris and moved to London for more training. When he returned to Paris he designed ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides March 14,2018 )
The Return of Odin by Richard Rudgley
epub |eng | 2018-02-03 | Author:Richard Rudgley

GANDALF’S GARDEN Tolkien’s epic was an icon of the flower power era, and this was exemplified in 1968 with the founding of Gandalf ’s Garden, both a counter-cultural magazine and ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 14,2018 )

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