World
epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Howard M. Sachar [Sachar, Howard M.]

THE STRUGGLE FOR FLEXIBILITY WITHIN ORTHODOXY In the wake of the government’s surrender following the Shalit case, public revulsion against the Orthodox establishment became almost uncontainable. There was widespread identification ...
( Category: Middle East November 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

ON JANUARY 21, 1943, Pappy Turner’s crew dropped a note to the Motorsled Camp with a bundle of wooden stakes and fifty red bandanna handkerchiefs. It described Balchen’s rescue plan ...
( Category: Military November 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Aaron J. Klein

By the end of 1972 Caesarea had expanded and evolved. Harari now had three assassination squads of roughly a dozen people each at his disposal. The teams had a basic ...
( Category: Miscellaneous November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Susan Ronald [Ronald, Susan]

21 THE POSSE YEARS While Man’s desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust Impending war inevitably led to the squirreling-away of art treasures ...
( Category: True Crime November 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Primo Levi

It was already night. Contrary to what the sergeant had led us to believe, the most sumptuous abundance reigned inside the barracks; there were lighted stoves, candles and acetylene lamps, ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Nha Ca [Ca, Nha]

This chapter is the voice of a young man named Lê who hid in the underground shelter in Phan Bội Châu’s ancestor-worshipping house in Từ Đàm hamlet, on the edge ...
( Category: Military November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-02 | Author:Ivan Morris [Morris, Ivan]

The regular Yearly Observances originated in many different ways. Some had been taken over directly from the Chinese Court, though by Murasaki’s time they had mostly undergone considerable adaptation. Others, ...
( Category: Asia November 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Matthew Brzezinski

9 SOMETHING FOR THE HOLIDAYS Dwight Eisenhower wasn’t the only one caught off guard by Sputnik. Nikita Khrushchev had also initially underestimated its hefty political payload. Before October 4, Khrushchev ...
( Category: Engineering November 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Shimon Peres

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mindy Weisel [Weisel, Mindy]

November 1990 I began work on a show. At first, performing embarrassingly bad Polish jokes in a Lower East Side shopfront/theatre, friends advised me to dig more deeply, to find ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Larry Zuckerman [Zuckerman, Larry]

The memory of famine, so vivid that decades of relative security couldn’t erase it, formed a large part of what inspired the peasantry to save and conserve. The threat of ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference November 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-07 | Author:Thomas Mallon [Mallon, Thomas]

Two The Kennedy assassination is still regularly presented—to those Americans who remember it and to the large majority who don’t—as a milestone of modernity, the weekend that television news, however ...
( Category: Americas November 28,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Anthony D. Smith [Smith, Anthony D.]

What all this suggests is the need for an approach that does justice to the character of different types of collective cultural identities in each epoch, while charting the overall ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 28,2017 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Robert S. Wistrich

During the twenty years between the emergence of political Zionism and the Balfour Declaration in November 1917, the European socialist movement for the first time had to confront the existence ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Bernhard Schlink [Schlink, Bernhard]

Prudence and Corruption 1970 was a year that divided two different political climates. In the sixties, foreign affairs were full of conflict and tension, but there was much hope in ...
( Category: Philosophy November 28,2017 )