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A Short History of Disease by Sean Martin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Sean Martin [Martin, Sean]

The Age of Breakthroughs The last major European outbreak of cholera occurred in Hamburg in 1892, a city whose port had played a prominent role in spreading the disease during ...
( Category: Medicine December 21,2017 )
The Years by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2017-11-06 | Author:Annie Ernaux

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE The Years is at least twice as long as all but one of AE’s previous books and in other ways, too, is a departure from her other work. ...
( Category: World December 21,2017 )
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World by Philip Dwyer & Amanda Nettelbeck
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Dwyer & Amanda Nettelbeck

Conclusion Interventions by the police to defuse societal tension were not always successful, and cases of failure are more easily found in the government archive. For instance, the provincial government’s ...
( Category: Anthropology December 21,2017 )
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Maya Jasanoff [Jasanoff, Maya]

III. From Kaveri to Nile As visitors filed in by the hundreds to crank up Tipu’s Tiger in the India Museum, and as the Clives settled into Powis with their ...
( Category: Europe December 21,2017 )
The Mind of Terror by Tass Saada
epub |eng | 2016-07-01 | Author:Tass Saada

All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth [Ishmael’s firstborn] will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 21,2017 )
In Search of the Lost Orient by Olivier Roy
epub |eng | | Author:Olivier Roy

Chapter 14 JIHAD Did you meet foreign jihadists who went to fight in Afghanistan? Yes. They were both Salafists (partisans of a normative and literalist Islam) and jihadists (people for ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 21,2017 )
Shanghai Faithful by Jennifer Lin
epub |eng | 2017-12-21 | Author:Jennifer Lin [Lin, Jennifer]

In 1948, months before two of the Lin sons departed for the United States, the family posed for a final portrait. Ni Guizhen tucked a copy of the photo inside ...
( Category: Ethnic & National December 21,2017 )
Madras on My Mind: A City in Stories by Chitra Viraraghavan & Krishna Shastri
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-10 | Author:Chitra Viraraghavan & Krishna Shastri

ECLIPSE V. Sudarshan The next day four men came in the morning along with the sun with a rusting saw, a crooked machete and a blunt axe to cut down ...
( Category: World December 20,2017 )
Blind Spot by Paul A. Marshall
epub |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:Paul A. Marshall [Marshall, Paul A.]

Claire’s intercom buzzed. “Yes?” “There’s a call for you from Leesha at Laurelton General,” the receptionist said. “Put it through.” A moment later, Leesha was on the line. “How’re you ...
( Category: Religious Studies December 20,2017 )
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Peter Hopkirk [Hopkirk, Peter]

9. Von Le Coq Spins a Coin * * * The Buddhist monks who a thousand years ago built the great monastery complex at Bezeklik chose its position with ingenuity. ...
( Category: Asia December 20,2017 )
The Rosicrucians by Christopher McIntosh
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher McIntosh

Although the ancient fathers and wise masters have met together ever since the beginning of the world and separated themselves from the profane masses, it was only in the time ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal December 20,2017 )
The Wisdom of the Buddha by Anne Bancroft
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Bancroft

Those who are afraid of all the sufferings in the world, and yet who are afraid of death, seek for nirvana. But they do not know that the world and ...
( Category: Buddhism December 19,2017 )
Lost Apostles: Forgotten Members of Mormonism's Original Quorum of the Twelve by William Shepard & H. Michael Marquardt
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:William Shepard & H. Michael Marquardt [Shepard, William]

2. James B. Allen, Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker, Men with a Mission, 1837-1841: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles (Salt Lake City: Deseret ...
( Category: Christian Denominations & Sects December 19,2017 )
The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power by D. Michael Quinn
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:D. Michael Quinn [Quinn, D. Michael]

org. Dec. 20, 1895, Salt Lake City; inc. Mar. 16, 1896, Salt Lake County clerk; defunct, 1900. - GRANT, LIVINGSTON, AND COMPANY partner: Heber J. Grant (1920–26) type: investment/securities org. ...
( Category: Christian Denominations & Sects December 19,2017 )
Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory by Brent M. Rogers
epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Brent M. Rogers [Rogers, Brent M.]

FIG. 12. Chief Washakie (center) and other Shoshones. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society. Mormons also conducted visits and sent communications to Native peoples. It is unclear to what ...
( Category: Religious Studies December 19,2017 )

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