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The Feminist Promise by Christine Stansell
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Christine Stansell [Stansell, Christine]

Discoveries were data for a burgeoning ethnography of the gendered self, a kind of top-to-bottom, inside-out, and outside-in account of femininity that developed at a breakneck pace. The Second Sex ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
Life in a Medieval City by Frances; Joseph Gies
mobi |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Frances; Joseph Gies

Medieval machinery, sketched by Vil ard de Honnecourt: top, mechanical saw for splitting beams; upper right, crossbow with sighting device; middle, hoisting machines; lower left, a mechanical eagle. When medieval ...
( Category: Europe September 27,2017 )
Indigo by Catherine E. McKinley
epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Catherine E. McKinley

Six Amazons, Wives of the Gods, and Mama Benz, Ghana/Togo/Benin In Irving Penn’s lens, the daughters of the Mino, the legendary Amazon women warriors of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey ...
( Category: Africa September 27,2017 )
Indigo by McKinley Catherine E
mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:McKinley, Catherine E. [McKinley, Catherine E.]

Six Amazons, Wives of the Gods, and Mama Benz, Ghana/Togo/Benin In Irving Penn’s lens, the daughters of the Mino, the legendary Amazon women warriors of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey ...
( Category: Africa September 27,2017 )
First Ladies by Caroli Betty
epub |eng | 1987-09-27 | Author:Caroli, Betty

That tolerance for difference served Bess Truman well when the time came to introduce her successor to the White House. After giving Mamie Doud Eisenhower (1953–1961) the traditional tour, Bess ...
( Category: Americas September 27,2017 )
A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Diana Preston [Preston, Diana]

Ponting wanted to obtain ‘a moving-picture film showing the bow of the Terra Nova cleaving the ice-floes’. He clambered onto some overhanging planks rigged up by the crew and filmed ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica September 27,2017 )
The Vikings by Robert Wernick
epub, azw3, azw |eng | | Author:Robert Wernick

The Vikings were fond of portraying themselves as the ultimate warriors. And quite possibly they were. But there was much more to them than this one-dimensional image. They were, in ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
Medieval Hunting by Richard Almond
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:Richard Almond

FIVE Crossing the Barriers The three previous chapters have been concerned largely with comparisons, stressing the differences between upper- and lower-class hunting, emphasising in particular quarry type, methods and techniques. ...
( Category: Anthropology September 27,2017 )
The Fabric of America by Andro Linklater
epub |eng | 2007-09-27 | Author:Andro Linklater

During his absence, the past had almost disappeared from Ellicott’s neat brick house on Market Street. The three eldest children were ready to leave home and begin new lives as ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 27,2017 )
Coronation Everest by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]

I was almost the Everest expedition in microcosm; for my modest adventures paralleled the greater enterprises of the climbers, and I timed my own journeys up the mountain to coincide ...
( Category: Mountaineering September 27,2017 )
Girl Trouble by Dyhouse Carol
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Dyhouse, Carol

6.1 A young Marianne Faithfull looking innocent, 1967 (© Stanley Sherman/Getty Images). Speculation about the details of Faithfull’s love life was wild. A story about (unspecified) sexual practices involving a ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
Hong Kong by Jan Morris
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Jan Morris [MORRIS, JAN]

8 Nevertheless buying and selling, even speculating and servicing, are no longer the chief functions of Hong Kong. Since 1950, when the United Nations clamped an embargo upon trade with ...
( Category: Asia September 27,2017 )
Lawrence Beesley by The Loss of the Titanic
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:The Loss of the Titanic [Titanic, The Loss of the]

For some time before she sank, the Titanic had a considerable list to port, so much so that one boat at any rate swung so far away from the side ...
( Category: Transportation September 27,2017 )
Laurence Bergreen by Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

CHAPTER ELEVEN The City of Heaven So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round…. “WHEN ONE is gone riding for three days, then one ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 27,2017 )
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Corrie ten Boom

10 Scheveningen Outside Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea. On our right rose the low sandy hills of the dune country, soldiers silhouetted on the ridges. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 27,2017 )

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