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Reinventing Knowledge by Ian F. McNeely
epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Ian F. McNeely

5 The Disciplines 1700–1900 EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS AND SECULAR HUMANISTS COMBINED TO CREATE THE FIRST NATIONAL SYSTEM OF MASS PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND WITH IT A NEW MARKET FOR ACADEMIC SPECIALTIES. THE ...
( Category: General May 6,2016 )
Children of Monsters by Jay Nordlinger
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Nordlinger [Nordlinger, Jay]

An Arab dictator’s son who has homosexual affairs, as well as other affairs, must be under exceptional pressure. (Never mind Moammar Qaddafi’s own sexual tastes, and the sadism that went ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism May 6,2016 )
Nazi Germany in an Hour by Rupert Colley
epub |eng | | Author:Rupert Colley

Anschluss: ‘I can strongly recommend the Gestapo to one and all.’ Following the First World War, the German-speaking Austrians desired unification, or Anschluss, with Germany, but were forbidden to do ...
( Category: European May 6,2016 )
The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe (Modern Library War) by John Toland
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:John Toland [Toland, John]

2. The deteriorating situation in the east was also bringing about a deterioration in the personal relations between Hitler and his commander of that front. As Guderian and Major Freytag ...
( Category: World War II May 6,2016 )
Equal Means Equal by Jessica Neuwirth
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Neuwirth [Neuwirth, Jessica]

DISCRIMINATORY LAWS “Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. I have three ...
( Category: General May 6,2016 )
A History of U.S. Feminisms by Rory C. Dicker
epub |eng | 2015-01-10 | Author:Rory C. Dicker

Feminism at the Newsstand When Ms. magazine began publishing in 1972, most monthly magazines aimed at women focused on beauty and fashion or homemaking and decorating. Most publications directed at ...
( Category: Women in History May 6,2016 )
Christian China and the Light of the World: Miraculous Stories from China's Great Awakening by David Wang & Georgina Sam
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:David Wang & Georgina Sam [Wang, David]

“The goal is that the skills taught will be easily transferable to other situations and places,” says Job. The doctor is talking about the training courses run out of the ...
( Category: Christianity May 4,2016 )
Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power by Aikman David
mobi |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Aikman, David [Aikman, David]

Simon Zhao The leader of one of those groups, the Northwest Spiritual Movement, survived an astonishing forty-five years of imprisonment in Xinjiang to keep alive the original Back to Jerusalem ...
( Category: Christianity May 4,2016 )
In the Shadow of Freedom by Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul

Wardha Six months had passed since Indumati had left her family home, and her father missed his favourite child immensely. He missed their evenings together, which had assumed the form ...
( Category: India & South Asia May 3,2016 )
Warfare in the Classical World by John Warry
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:John Warry

■ Hannibal’s Victories Publius Cornelius Scipio, consul in 218 BC, having dispatched his own army into Spain under the command of his brother Gnaeu, returned with exemplary speed to North ...
( Category: Greece May 3,2016 )
Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944-1945 by Charles Whiting
epub |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Charles Whiting [Whiting, Charles]

Chapter Five – The Last Battle ‘Je starker der Sturm, desto kräftiger der Widerstand.’ (‘The stronger the storm, the mightier the resistance.’) Dr Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, April 1945 The ...
( Category: Holocaust May 2,2016 )
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

By 5 September, the queen, weakened with fever, was declining; everyone knew that she could not live long. She was calmer, though, and had already asked Thomas for his consent ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
The King's Bed by Don Jordan
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Don Jordan

* The children were: Lady Anne FitzRoy, 1661; Charles FitzRoy, 1662; Henry FitzRoy, 1663; Charlotte FitzRoy, 1664; George FitzRoy, 1665. 13 THEATRICAL RIVALS The year 1668 began with scandal and ...
( Category: Great Britain May 2,2016 )
The Legacy of Chernobyl
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Zhores Medvedev

There were hundreds of dead birds and most of the animals were blind. Most pets, particularly dogs, were later killed by special teams of soldiers. Dogs and cats have the ...
( Category: Nuclear May 2,2016 )
Oil: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides) by Vaclav Smil
azw3 |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:Vaclav Smil

OFFSHORE DRILLING In 1949 John Hayward combined a submersible barge and a piled platform to build the first submersible rig, Breton Rig 20; he devised a way to stabilize a ...
( Category: Petroleum May 2,2016 )

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