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Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart D. Ehrman
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman

Are All the Stories of the Gospels Filled with Legendary Material? The legendary character of the Gospel accounts of Jesus are stressed by almost all mythicists, but by none with ...
( Category: Theology June 16,2017 )
Cracking the ACT by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

Step 4: Compare and Contrast We are now armed with a clear understanding of each hypothesis’s main point, how the two differ, and how they agree. 1. Hypothesis 1 and ...
( Category: ACT (American College Tests) June 16,2017 )
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt; Timothy Snyder
epub, mobi |rus | 2012-02-01 | Author:Tony Judt; Timothy Snyder [Snyder, Tony Judt; Timothy]

I’d like to follow that thought, and see if we can’t use it to unify the periods before and after the Second World War. The idea of the single, uniform ...
( Category: World June 16,2017 )
Crete. The battle and the resistance by Antony Beevor
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

One of his men tried to bandage the wound, but the opening was too large for a field dressing. Soon the order to withdraw arrived from Kippenberger. The attack had ...
( Category: Europe June 16,2017 )
Jefferson's War by Joseph Wheelan
epub |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:Joseph Wheelan

The battle, a stunning demonstration of American fighting prowess, buoyed the spirits of the squadron’s crewmen and officers. They had itched for a fight like this since Sterrett demolished the ...
( Category: Americas June 16,2017 )
In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts
epub | | 1995-12-31 | Author:David Roberts

Finally, Cordell argues that the move into cliff dwellings in the thirteenth century could have had other motives than defense. With the wild game all but depleted, the Anasazi came ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 16,2017 )
First Overland by Slessor Tim
epub |eng, eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Slessor, Tim

We are told the plane flies lower, Across the rugged Mahabharat range, But to have one’s feet on terra firma, This height now gained is not so strange. We estimated ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 15,2017 )
Fire Monks by Colleen Morton Busch
epub |eng | 2011-06-09 | Author:Colleen Morton Busch

Letting go of the idea they’d held collectively for nearly three weeks—that they’d be there when the fire came through—the residents enacted the one scenario they’d never discussed or drilled ...
( Category: Buddhism June 15,2017 )
Mark Twain on Religion: What Is Man, the War Prayer, Thou Shalt Not Kill, the Fly, Letters From the Earth by Mark Twain
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

Number of words, 320; necessary ones, 220: words wasted by the generous spendthrift, 100. In our day those 100 unnecessary words would have to come out. We will take them ...
( Category: World June 15,2017 )
Hitler's Foreign Executioners by Christopher Hale
epub |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:Christopher Hale

The study of eastern peoples (Ostforschung) dominated German race science and especially fascinated Himmler. But it would be wrong to conclude that the race experts had no interest in ethnic ...
( Category: World June 15,2017 )
Vida y destino by Grossman Vasili
epub | | 2009-12-12 | Author:Grossman, Vasili [Grossman, Vasili]

25 Shtrum, liudmila y Nadia llegaron a Moscú en unos días fríos en que la ciudad estaba cuajada de nieve. Aleksandra Vladímirovna no había querido interrumpir su trabajo en la ...
( Category: World June 15,2017 )
The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Amy Stewart

COMMON GIN INGREDIENTS Angelica root Bay leaf Cardamom Citrus peel Coriander Cubeb Fennel Ginger Grains of paradise Juniper berry Lavender Orris root THE CLASSIC MARTINI The old joke that a ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine June 15,2017 )
The War Lovers by Evan Thomas
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Evan Thomas [THOMAS, EVAN]

He has lost his head to this unutterable folly of deserting his post where he is of most service and running off to ride a horse and, probably, brush mosquitoes ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Guilty of Indigence by Chen Janet Y
epub |eng | | Author:Chen, Janet Y.

We hut dwellers on Cunningham Road comprise 576 households and some 10,000 people. We are mostly refugees from Hongkou and Zhabei. At first we lived on the streets; later, charitable ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 15,2017 )
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Ariel Sabar

Yona, right, recording “Mamo” (Uncle) Yona Gabbay’s stories, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, circa 1963. PROFESSOR POLOTSKY’S INTEREST was linguistics: what an informant’s words could reveal about Neo-Aramaic grammar, syntax, and its ...
( Category: World June 15,2017 )

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