World
epub |eng | 2000-11-11 | Author:Peter L. Bernstein [Bernstein, Peter L.]

Lord Lansdown was right: the fall was slow and gradual, but inflation ultimately took hold in Britain. Prices in 1802 were lower than they had been in 1800, but they ...
( Category: Finance October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Peter Heather [Heather, Peter]

We do not doubt that it occurs to the thoughts of all men, that nothing is so necessary as that the strength of a numerous army should be prepared for ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Amy S. Greenberg [Greenberg, Amy S.]

Scene in Vera Cruz During the Bombardment. E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1847. This lithograph of the bombing of Veracruz, produced by a Hartford, Connecticut, firm, is one of ...
( Category: Americas October 7,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-10-07 | Author:Daniel Siemens [Siemens, Daniel]

Communist Propaganda In an immediate reaction to the German attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, the propagandists of the Communist International in Moscow decided to launch ...
( Category: World October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-07 | Author:Barry Turner [Barry Turner]

There was as much disruption in the air as on the ground, as Frank Somers experienced. We were flying into Berlin three times a day, and on at least one ...
( Category: World October 7,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Nicholas Higham

5.12 Lunette-type penny of King Burgred of Mercia Though the emporia were in decline in the ninth century, evidence from elsewhere in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms suggests urban life was in ...
( Category: Europe October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-10-07 | Author:Alexander, John T.;

Of course, theirs was much more than a love match. She initiated him into virtually the whole spectrum of statecraft—and found a willing pupil, industrious viceroy, and a fellow dreamer ...
( Category: Russia October 7,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-05 | Author:Martin Gilbert

concerns. A week after his visit to Chartwell, Wigram sent Churchill the Government's own most recent, and secret, figures, which showed that the minimum German first-line air strength had reached ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-16 | Author:Marthe Cohn

An Unlikely Spy My work as the most unlikely of spies officially began on January 20, 1945. I was assigned to the Commandos d’Afrique, the first French unit to land ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christophe Bonneuil & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz [Bonneuil, Christophe & Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste]

Time rather than money Consumerism is not simply an economic order. It also defines a temporal order organized around work. Its triumph eclipsed powerful social movements for a drastic reduction ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Bob Harris

NEPAL (WITH BHUTAN ADDED FOR EXTRA ENLIGHTENMENT) In the Himalayas lie two ancient lands, one Hindu, one Buddhist, both undergoing enormous change. NEPAL • Maoist rebellion v. royalty; tentative peace, ...
( Category: Humor October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Gregory Boyle

5 Slow Work David had decided to change. Sixteen years old, back in school for the first time “in the longest” and working part-time for me at Homeboy, David liked ...
( Category: Motivational October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Theodore W. Allen [Allen, Theodore W.]

Labor competitions given an abnormal “racial” form Prior to 1840, a wide range of industrial employments (from longshoring to coachman), service occupations (from stableman to table-waiting), as well as domestic ...
( Category: Sociology October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Tsering Woeser

International Media One very cold afternoon in 2013, the weather in Beijing terrible as always, I sat in a coffee shop with a French journalist from Le Monde and a ...
( Category: Death & Grief October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samir Kassir

V THE ARAB MALAISE IS NOT THE RESULT OF MODERNITY BUT OF MODERNITY’S COLLAPSE IF THE NAHDA had been an isolated historical phenomenon, without sequel, one might be justified in ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )