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Two Planks and a Passion by Roland Huntford
epub |eng | 2008-11-06 | Author:Roland Huntford

24 Mathias Zdarsky Mathias Zdarsky was the true father of Alpine skiing. Another unsettled subject of the patchwork Habsburg empire, he came from a German-speaking enclave in Moravia, now part ...
( Category: Winter Sports November 6,2017 )
Mysterles by Colin Wilson
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Colin Wilson

6 Revelations The work of AE raises the fundamental problem of ‘revelation’. Like all the mystics, he assures us that the world we see and touch is somehow an illusion, ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal November 6,2017 )
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Ignatius Donnelly

CELTIC WARRIOR, FROM EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS. It is at least interesting to have a portrait of one of the daring race who more than three thousand years ago left the west ...
( Category: Philosophy November 6,2017 )
New World Order by Sean Stone
epub |eng | 2016-09-07 | Author:Sean Stone

* * * 1 Elliott, W.Y. The New British Empire. p. 33. 2 Stanley Hoffmann, Samuel Huntington, et. al., “Vietnam Reappraised,” International Security (Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 1981), p. ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 6,2017 )
Colonising Egypt by Mitchell Timothy;
epub |eng | 1991-11-06 | Author:Mitchell, Timothy;

Self-help All those writers involved in the organisation of schooling developed the theme of indolence and industry in discussing the mentality of the Egyptian – including the Inspector-General quoted above, ...
( Category: Middle East November 6,2017 )
What Is Sexual History? by Weeks Jeffrey;
epub |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Weeks, Jeffrey;

5 Mainstreaming Sexual History Into the Mainstream From the 1970s critical sexual history has had a dual aim: first, to speak of crucial aspects of personal and social life that ...
( Category: Sexual Health November 6,2017 )
Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Ray Monk [Monk, Ray]

16 LANGUAGE-GAMES: The Blue and Brown Books AFTER WITTGENSTEIN’S RETURN to Cambridge for the academic year of 1933–4, Wittgenstein and Skinner were rarely to be seen apart: they both had ...
( Category: Philosophy November 6,2017 )
Why the West Rules ~ For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris
epub |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Ian Morris [Morris, Ian]

Others favored more traditional remedies such as massacring Jews, even though (as one of the popes pointed out in 1348) Jews were dying as fast as Christians. But nothing worked, ...
( Category: World November 5,2017 )
Elizabeth: England's Slandered Queen by Arlene Okerlund
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Arlene Okerlund [Okerlund, Arlene]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN War and Peace Early 1475 found England preparing for war. Edward had first announced his intention of invading France during the Parliament of October 1472,1 and in the ...
( Category: Historical November 5,2017 )
Churchill (2009) by Johnson Paul
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Johnson, Paul [Johnson, Paul]

He called for "a premium on effort" and "a penalty on inertia," and he certainly practiced what he preached. Despite his performance as chancellor, however, the country gave thumbs-down to ...
( Category: Historical November 4,2017 )
the Queen Mother (the Official Biography) (2009) by Shawcross William
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Shawcross, William [William, Shawcross,]

At one communal feeding centre, there was a moment, noted Woolton, at which 'a very dirty child' in its mother's arms grabbed at the Queen's pearls. A photographer ran around ...
( Category: Europe November 4,2017 )
The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus
epub |eng | 2014-09-12 | Author:Flavius Josephus [Josephus, Flavius]

CHAPTER 15 Atrocities in the City. Vespasian’s Intervention JOHN was as crafty as a fox. He was eaten up with the love of despotic power and had long been engaged ...
( Category: World November 4,2017 )
Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups by Jon E. Lewis
epub |eng | 2007-05-24 | Author:Jon E. Lewis [Lewis, Jon E.]

ROBERT F. KENNEDY The existence of a second gunman remains a possibility. Thus, I have never said that Sirhan Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy. Thomas Noguchi, coroner After the assassination of ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 3,2017 )
Martin Luther by Volker Leppin
epub |eng | 2017-08-24 | Author:Volker Leppin

1. Martin Luther, LW, vol. 48, Letters I, ed. Gottfried G. Krodel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963), 351. 2. Ibid., 391. 3. Martin Luther, LW, vol. 51, Sermons I, ed. John W. ...
( Category: History November 3,2017 )
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography by Elaine Showalter
mobi |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Elaine Showalter

THE CIVIL WAR The 1860s were the ten most momentous years of Julia’s life. In 1860, she was forty-one years old. She had given birth to her sixth child, but ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 3,2017 )

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