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The Tehran Conference of 1943: The History of the First Meeting Between the Allies’ Big Three Leaders during World War II by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2016-07-08 | Author:Charles River Editors

( Category: World War II August 5,2016 )
The Good Heart by Dalai Lama
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Dalai Lama

8 FAITH John 12:44–50 Father Laurence: Welcome again, Your Holiness. In this session, His Holiness will be reading and commenting on the last two Gospel passages, both from the Gospel ...
( Category: Dalai Lama August 4,2016 )
How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Winifred Gallagher

• • • STEAM POWER HAD IMPROVED postal service for most Americans by the late nineteenth century, but others, particularly in the western outback, remained beyond the pale. Letters that ...
( Category: Colonial Period August 4,2016 )
The Fall of Heaven by Andrew Scott Cooper
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Scott Cooper

16 FIVE DAYS IN MAY My headstrong lord, consider now and say Whether you want to fight or run away! —THE PERSIAN BOOK OF KINGS The Americans want to eliminate ...
( Category: History & Theory August 3,2016 )
Homintern by Gregory Woods
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory Woods

The Intolerant South If Englishmen ventured south in search of a touch of Greek love, many southerners looked northwards for their sense of an environment in which such things were ...
( Category: LGBT August 2,2016 )
The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England by Oldridge Darren;
epub |eng | | Author:Oldridge, Darren; [Darren Oldridge]

5 Angels The guard of God’s children Towards the end of his life in 1691, the minister Richard Baxter attended an unusual meeting with a small group of his London ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality August 2,2016 )
A History of East Asia by Charles Holcombe
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Charles Holcombe [Holcombe, Charles]

Figure 7.5. The West Gate of Seoul, Korea, ca. 1904, showing an American electric tramway. Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-72552. Figure 7.6. Korean women with a sedan chair, 1919. Library of ...
( Category: Asia July 25,2016 )
The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

HIS RANK AMONG THE IMAMIS As a result of his compilation of the Kitāb al-Kāfī, Shaykh al-Kulaynī always enjoyed great respect among Imami scholars, and as much in Baghdad as ...
( Category: Islam July 24,2016 )
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club by Robert Wyss
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Robert Wyss

14. Diablo and Galápagos Taking risks has been my trouble in the environmental movement. Because I am a climber, I am aware that there’s a certain amount of danger in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 24,2016 )
Images of Muhammad by Tarif Khalidi
epub |eng | 2009-07-18 | Author:Tarif Khalidi [Khalidi, Tarif]

Of significance in this passage is the reference to the “two origins” (nash’atayn) of Muhammad, which is an important clue to Ibn al-‘Arabi’s conception of Muhammad as a figure both ...
( Category: Islam July 19,2016 )
What Is Global History? by Conrad Sebastian;
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Conrad, Sebastian;

CHAPTER 8 Positionality and centered approaches What is the location of the world? Where do historians stand when they write its history? Can global historians rise above the parochialism of ...
( Category: Economic Conditions July 18,2016 )
Women Healers of the World by Holly Bellebuono
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Holly Bellebuono

It remains unclear if the Salernitan women were popular healers and midwives, or if they included a corps of respected and educated physicians, or even if they included Trota or ...
( Category: Women July 18,2016 )
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marcal
epub |eng | | Author:Katrine Marcal

CHAPTER TEN In which we see that you aren’t selfish just because you want more money Nancy Folbre, a feminist professor of economics, often tells this tale: Once there were ...
( Category: Theory July 18,2016 )
Bananeras by Dana Frank
epub |eng | 2016-03-23 | Author:Dana Frank

WRITING THEIR OWN STORY In addition to this rich world of leadership development, networking, and support for national-level women’s work, COLSIBA women, beginning in 2000, took on two larger projects ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 18,2016 )
Introducing the Holocaust by Haim Bresheeth
epub |eng | | Author:Haim Bresheeth

They were also responsible for corporal punishment administered in public in the presence of their German masters. The Germans also used a vast system of camp spies and collaborators, who, ...
( Category: World July 18,2016 )

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