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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by King Dean
azw3 |eng | 2004-02-16 | Author:King, Dean [King, Dean]

For another week, Ganus’s family remained in Robbins’s so-called Valley of the Shadow of Death, where, empty-handed, they searched farther and farther afield for sustenance and pushed the limits of ...
( Category: Africa August 16,2017 )
The Girl from Human Street by Roger Cohen
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Roger Cohen [Cohen, Roger]

I was born in 1955, midway between the atomic bomb and the release of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, at the start of a postwar boom that would endure decades, on ...
( Category: World August 16,2017 )
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Appy Christian G
epub |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Appy, Christian G. [Appy, Christian G.]

This is not only a war we cannot win, it is a war we must lose if we are to survive morally. . . . We honor now those Southerners ...
( Category: Military August 16,2017 )
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis by Haas Michael
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Haas, Michael [Haas, Michael]

Weißmann also takes a look at the composers who are influenced by d'Albert and Italian verismo. This is an area where he finds much to praise for literary choice and ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
My Place by Sally Morgan
epub |eng | 1988-08-16 | Author:Sally Morgan

Where to next? ‘It’s a wonderful story.’ Mum had tears in her eyes when she finished reading Arthur’s story. Like me, Mum now felt that at last we had something ...
( Category: Memoirs August 16,2017 )
Forbidden Music by Michael Haas
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Haas

Weißmann also takes a look at the composers who are influenced by d'Albert and Italian verismo. This is an area where he finds much to praise for literary choice and ...
( Category: Historical August 16,2017 )
In Exile From the Land of Snows by John Avedon
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:John Avedon [Avedon, John]

IV 9 Tibet Enslaved 1959–1965 The following order is hereby proclaimed. Most of the kalons of the Tibet local government and the upper-strata reactionary clique colluded with imperialism, assembled rebellious ...
( Category: Asia August 16,2017 )
The Cruelest Miles: the Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Gay Salisbury [Salisbury, Gay]

8: Along the Yukon River A nineteenth century explorer's illustration of Athabaskan travel along the Yukon River, the central highway of Alaska's Interior. "There are a few lonely places in ...
( Category: Medicine August 16,2017 )
Sons and Soldiers by Bruce Henderson
epub |eng | 2017-05-19 | Author:Bruce Henderson

Staff Sergeant Stephan Lewy. (Family photograph) Stephan was present for some of the briefings that Patton was given by the division staff. Whenever Patton was presented with various contingencies of ...
( Category: Military August 16,2017 )
A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts by Christiane Bird
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Christiane Bird

At the Kesnazan tekiye In contrast to the rest of us, Othman was almost silent. He had close ties to the tekiye, and had seen the ceremony hundreds if not ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 16,2017 )
Evelina by Frances Burney
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frances Burney [Burney, Frances]

Letter Eighteen Mr Villars to Evelina Berry Hill Displeasure? my Evelina! – you have but done your duty; you have but shewn that humanity without which I should blush to ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
The World Split Open by Ruth Rosen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Rosen [Rosen, Ruth]

THE FBI Both feminists and the FBI suffered from legitimate fears as well as paranoia. Activists often imagined that agents were everywhere and that the FBI viewed the women’s movement ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 16,2017 )
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Anne Applebaum

Hunger for Love: male prisoners peering over the fence into the women’s zone—a drawing by Yula-Imar Sooster, Karaganda, 1950 Such letters, remembered Leonid Sitko, were written on tiny pieces of ...
( Category: Russia August 15,2017 )
Confessions by St. Augustine & Henry Chadwick
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:St. Augustine & Henry Chadwick [Augustine, St. & Chadwick, Henry]

BOOK IX Cassiciacum: to Monica’s death i (1) ‘O Lord, I am your servant, I am your servant and the son of your handmaid. You have snapped my chains. I ...
( Category: History August 15,2017 )
The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart
epub |eng | 2013-08-15 | Author:David Bentley Hart

V 5. Intentionality. The Latin verb intendere means, among other things, to “direct toward,” “aim at,” or “reach for.” In the philosophy of mind, the term “intentionality” refers not simply ...
( Category: Philosophy August 15,2017 )

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