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The Roman World by Martin Goodman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Goodman [Goodman, Martin]

Figure 28 The so-called ‘Maritime Theatre’ in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli from a part of the villa presumed to have housed the emperor's private apartments.. Photo © DeA/G. Nimatallah. I ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 12,2017 )
The Parthenon Marbles by Christopher Hitchens
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This is a poem of, perhaps, more merit in feeling than in execution. It is decidedly superior to Thomas Hardy’s sentimental Christmas in the Elgin Room, which was begun in ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 12,2017 )
Redeemer : The Life of Jimmy Carter by Balmer Randall
epub |eng | | Author:Balmer, Randall

EIGHT ELECTION YEAR OF THE EVANGELICAL IN October 1976, just prior to Jimmy Carter’s election as president, Newsweek had christened 1976 the “Year of the Evangelical.” Carter’s candidacy had introduced ...
( Category: Historical December 12,2017 )
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-19 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

By 989 Basil had been Emperor for twenty-nine of his thirty-one years. For sixteen he had been a minor; for nine a puppet; while for the last four he had ...
( Category: Europe December 11,2017 )
0857249118 by Julian Go
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Julian Go [Go, Julian]

The Tea Party in the Age of Obama 129 Fig. 1. Public Support for Tea Party and Out-Group Attitudes. Source: 2010 Multistate Survey on Race and Politics Pilot Study. 130 ...
( Category: Sociology December 11,2017 )
None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism by Hirsh Michael
epub |eng | 2004-09-07 | Author:Hirsh, Michael [Hirsh, Michael]

Radio operator Rodney Young’s slit-open flight suit has been replaced with a hospital gown so small he risks arrest for indecent exposure when he steps outside the FST unit. Neither ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 11,2017 )
Daughters of Isis by Joyce Tyldesley
epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley [Tyldesley, Joyce]

Surviving lavatories are few and far between. The most universal model, modestly housed in a small cupboard-like room next to the bathroom, was a modern-looking carved wooden seat carefully balanced ...
( Category: World December 10,2017 )
Skeletons On The Zahara by King Dean
epub |eng | | Author:King, Dean

Chapter 12 Honor Among Thieves Captain Riley and his men had come full circle. The Sahara had taken the Commerce from them, reduced them, and sent them away, but now ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 10,2017 )
The First Muslim The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Seventeen A s any reasonably astute political observer can testify, political leaders under pressure domestically can always bolster their popularity with an aggressive foreign policy. It’s a strategy that’s been ...
( Category: Islam December 9,2017 )
Birth by Tina Cassidy
epub |eng | 2006-12-09 | Author:Tina Cassidy

FERNAND LAMAZE In 1910, lured by Paris and medical school, Fernand Lamaze abandoned life on a farm in the northeast of France. Within a few years, before settling on a ...
( Category: Women's Health December 9,2017 )
History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918 by Armour Ian D.;
epub |eng | | Author:Armour, Ian D.;

10 The Ottoman Empire and the Balkan Nation-States The Ottoman imperium in the Balkans rested on a fundamental distinction between Ottoman Muslims and a variety of Christian underclasses. Yet until ...
( Category: World December 9,2017 )
The Four Books by Confucius & Mencius
epub |eng | 1893-12-09 | Author:Confucius & Mencius

Sacred-texts Confucianism Index Previous Next * * * Mencius Chapter 6 1. Mencius said, 'He who, using force, makes a pretence to benevolence is the leader of the princes. A ...
( Category: World December 9,2017 )
The Empire Must Die by Mikhail Zygar
epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:Mikhail Zygar

A “SHAMELESS” LAW By the time the Duma is dissolved, a new electoral law has not only been written, but also adopted by the government and the State Council. The ...
( Category: Russia December 8,2017 )
The Oxford Handbook Of Ancient Greek Religion by Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt
epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt

WHERE ARE WE GOING? CURRENT DEBATES This brings us to current scholarship, and the tautological impasse, pointedly criticized by Robert Parker (2004: 57–8): ‘texts assembled in Sokolowski are sacred laws ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 8,2017 )
She Captains by Joan Druett
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2001-12-08 | Author:Joan Druett

I will unfold a circumstance that does to love belong Concerning of a pretty maid who ventur’d we are told Across the briny ocean as a female sailor bold. In ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 8,2017 )

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