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In the Shadow of the White House by Jo Haldeman
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Jo Haldeman

We’ll be Eaten Alive I spend a restless night and awaken early Tuesday morning, April 24, to find Bob already on the phone in his office. Before leaving for the ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
An Age of Transition?: Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages (Ford Lectures) by Christopher Dyer
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Christopher Dyer

Fig. 4.3. Cast metal buckles from excavations in London, and a pilgrim badge of the head of St Thomas of Canterbury from Salisbury (Wilts.). These lead/tin alloy objects were probably ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 25,2017 )
Their Promised Land by Ian Buruma
epub |eng | 2016-11-23 | Author:Ian Buruma

I do everything quite normally but quite mechanically. Inside I am quite dead except for the constant gnawing anxiety. It is like permanently waiting in the waiting room while someone ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
A Paris All Your Own by Eleanor Brown
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Eleanor Brown

I never made that first move. It would have been so nice to have a romantic adventure in the city of romance. To have a dream come true. But it ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Mail Men by Adrian Addison
epub |eng | | Author:Adrian Addison

12 Scorpio Rising David English was by far the strongest and most secure editor in ‘Fleet Street’ as he approached the anniversary of his second decade in charge of the ...
( Category: Skills August 25,2017 )
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Wasik Bill & Murphy Monica
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Wasik, Bill & Murphy, Monica [Wasik, Bill]

* * * * Duclaux’s account was supported by the biography written by Pasteur’s son-in-law, René Vallery-Radot, but some modern scholars dispute it. In 1985, based on a thorough study ...
( Category: Medicine August 25,2017 )
The First Emperor of China by Jonathan Clements
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Jonathan Clements [Clements, Jonathan]

5 The Longest Cemetery Wall building had long been a regular occupation of ancient Chinese states. Wooden palisades, earth ramparts, ditches or stone walls were used to define borders, although ...
( Category: Asia August 25,2017 )
Fundamentalism and American Culture by Marsden George M.;
epub |eng | 2006-08-25 | Author:Marsden, George M.;

XXI. Epilogue: Dislocation, Relocation, and Resurgence: 1925–1940 It would be difficult to overestimate the impact of “the Monkey Trial” at Dayton, Tennessee, in transforming fundamentalism. William Jennings Bryan’s ill-fated attempt ...
( Category: History August 25,2017 )
Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century by Lapidus Ira M
epub |eng | 2012-11-29 | Author:Lapidus, Ira M. [Lapidus, Ira M.]

Table 10. The social organization of Sufism Table 11. Muslim religious leaders Illustration 9. The Battle of the Twelve Heroes. Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Nasli M. ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Jim Al-Khalili [Al-Khalili, Jim]

Among the features in medieval Muslim hospitals that distinguished them from their contemporaries elsewhere were their higher standards of medical ethics. Physicians there treated patients of all religions or ethnicities. ...
( Category: Middle East August 25,2017 )
Death by Government by R. J. Rummel
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:R. J. Rummel [Rummel, R. J.]

But inhuman conditions and constant “thought reform” are not all the prisoners had to worry about. There was tortuous physical punishment for minor violations or insufficient obedience, or for inadequate ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism by Seymour Richard
mobi |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Seymour, Richard [Seymour, Richard]

More grievously, however, grassroots activists were in particular danger of violent assault. The Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles, representing Mexican American antiwar protest, was attacked by policemen with guns and ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 25,2017 )
24 Hours at the Somme by Robert Kershaw
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Robert Kershaw

Hauptmann Schorer, the commander who had advised his messenger Leutnant Stahlhofer not to dally at the Schwaben after midnight, was taken prisoner. Over 60 of his men were taken out ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Lobbying America by Waterhouse Benjamin C
epub |eng | 2013-08-25 | Author:Waterhouse, Benjamin C.

THE POLITICS OF REGULATION IN THE AGE OF LIMITS One of the great ironies of industrial leaders’ steadfast devotion to reforming the regulatory state was that the campaign distracted their ...
( Category: World August 25,2017 )
They Can't Represent Us! by Marina Sitrin
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Marina Sitrin

From mobilization to self-organization On May 27, 2011 “the Mossos”—the Catalonian police—made a brutal attempt to evict the occupied Plaça de Catalunya, in Barcelona. They used clubs and plastic bullets, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 25,2017 )

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