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Stations of the Sun by Hutton Ronald
epub |eng | 1996-08-30 | Author:Hutton, Ronald

26 ROGATIONTIDE AND PENTECOST As the secular rejoicing of early summer got under way, so the religious calendar proceeded. By the year 305 the Church in the western Roman empire ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 30,2017 )
India by John Keay
epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:John Keay [John Keay]

* * * THE GREAT MUGHALS * * * Nevertheless the arrival at court of the son of Rana Amar Singh was proof enough of Mewar’s shame. Jahangir, content to ...
( Category: Asia August 30,2017 )
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:Tim Harford

33. Chemical Fertilizer It was a marriage of brilliant scientific minds. Clara Immerwahr had just become the first woman in Germany to receive a doctorate in chemistry. That took perseverance. ...
( Category: Economics August 30,2017 )
Stars of David by Abigail Pogrebin
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Abigail Pogrebin

Edgar Bronfman Sr. EDGAR BRONFMAN SR. PHOTOGRAPHED BY RICHARD LOBELL MOST BILLIONAIRE EXECUTIVES don’t have a Torah in their corporate office. A Torah under glass, to be precise. But Edgar ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 30,2017 )
True Enough by Farhad Manjoo
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Farhad Manjoo [Manjoo, Farhad]

In his report, Mitofsky suggested a complex mechanism for his theory about why the poll had predicted a Kerry win—his idea that Kerry voters were slightly overrepresented among respondents. Exit ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 30,2017 )
The Quest by Daniel Yergin
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Daniel Yergin

“GREAT SHEETS OF ICE” The Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz was also obsessed with glaciers—indeed so obsessed that he put aside his research on fossils of extinct fish in order to ...
( Category: Engineering August 30,2017 )
The Book of Tea (Penguin Little Black Classics) by Kakuzo Okakura
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Kakuzo Okakura

V * * * ART APPRECIATION Have you heard the Taoist tale of the Taming of the Harp? Once in the hoary ages in the Ravine of Lungmen* stood a ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 30,2017 )
The Kalahari Killings by Jonathan Laverick
epub |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Jonathan Laverick

Preston-Whyte was cross-examined by Fraenkel, the judge, Ellenberger and the Native assessor, during which the following points were added: When I spoke to Twai Twai at Nata I used an ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:David Reynolds [Reynolds, David]

So the crisis of 1940–41 proved a turning point for both Britain and America in how they viewed the Great War. Its effects were consolidated by what happened between 1941 ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

THE EDITOR OF THE SUNDAY DISPATCH, Charles Eade, had lunch with Winston and Clementine Churchill in the basement of 10 Downing Street. Mrs. Churchill was wearing a scarf with patriotic ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
The Abyss by Niall Ferguson
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Niall Ferguson

REDRAWING THE MAP Was the port at the mouth of the River Vistula called Danzig, its German name? Or was it to be Gdańsk, as the Poles called it? Once ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
King, Kaiser, Tsar by Catrine Clay
epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Catrine Clay

12 Uncle Bertie and his Two Nephews THE NEWSPAPERS WERE extravagant in their praise of the new King, all but The Times, which took a high moral tone, reminding its ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
The Shock of War: Civilian Experiences, 1937-1945 (International Themes and Issues) by Kennedy Sean
epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Kennedy, Sean [Kennedy, Sean]

Notes 1 Quoted in Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000), 442. 2 Quoted in Richard Evans, The Third Reich at War (New ...
( Category: Military August 29,2017 )
The Jew Store by Stella Suberman
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Stella Suberman

CHAPTER 16 A HOUSE AND NEIGHBORS What with Bronson’s Low-Priced Store fast becoming a fixture in Concordia—and what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating ...
( Category: Historical August 29,2017 )
Mythology Trilogy: Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology (Gods, Myths, Legends, Mythology) by Weaver Stephan
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-25 | Author:Weaver, Stephan [Weaver, Stephan]

Alfheim Alfheim (Old Norse Álfheimr) is the homeland of the light elves. It is situated next to Asgard. The elves are depicted as being luminous and “more beautiful than the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 29,2017 )

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