World
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Ira M. Lapidus [Lapidus, Ira M.]
European trade, naval power, and empire These social conditions were amplified by economic and technological development. By the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the towns of Italy, Flanders, and the Baltic ...
( Category:
Islam
April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Steve Olson
Almost all of the world’s 5,000 languages can be sorted into nineteen families. The distributions of these families and of genetic variation bear remarkable similarities, though many of the relationships ...
( Category:
Physical
April 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]
CHAPTER 9 THE COUNTRY WALK RECOMMENDED at the hospital had to be put off for a few days, for despite what was generally accepted as the collapse of the revolt, ...
( Category:
Travel
April 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-05 | Author:Reza Aslan [Aslan, Reza]
October 6, 1981. As Egypt’s president, Anwar al-Sadat, Gamal Abd al-Nasser’s handpicked successor, stood on a platform watching a military parade march before him in commemoration of Egypt’s war with ...
( Category:
Islam
April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Peter G. Tsouras
Ahuítzotl name hieroglyph. In effect, Tlacaélel was promising to act as regent. With that reassurance, the lords of Tenochtitlan followed by great crowds of the people went to the calmecac ...
( Category:
Mexico
April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-29 | Author:Brenda Maddox
Rosalind’s Photograph 51 (shown original size) of the B form of DNA, which told Watson that the molecule was a helix. Events then moved fast. The following day, 31 January, ...
( Category:
Caribbean & Latin American
April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Thomas E. Woods Jr. [Woods, Thomas E. Jr.]
The development of the teaching on usury has been so dramatic over the centuries that it inevitably prompts the question: has the Magisterium taught error anywhere along the line? The ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
April 3,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Richard Snow [Snow, Richard]
CHAPTER 12 Terrible Efficiency The Crystal Palace; taking the work to the worker; speeding up; the twentieth century’s only industrial revolution; the workers hate it. Of course the Model T ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Robert K. Wittman & David Kinney [Wittman, Robert K.]
An assault gun with the SS Division Totenkopf—the “Death’s Head” Division—speeds through the Soviet Union at the start of Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-136-0882-12/Albert Cursian) ...
( Category:
Holocaust
April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Anthony Esolen [Esolen, Anthony]
Witches were a real preoccupation of the Middle Ages, right? Not really. As I’ve said, probably more people have been shot in American shopping malls and high schools than were ...
( Category:
Conservatism & Liberalism
April 1,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-02-09 | Author:George Soros
MARKETS VERSUS REGULATORS Because financial markets do not tend towards equilibrium they cannot be left to their own devices. Periodic crises bring forth regulatory reforms. That is how central banking ...
( Category:
Money & Monetary Policy
March 31,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Michael Moran
At the core of this argument is a basic misunderstanding of monetary policy. There is no free market in currencies, as there is in wheat or bananas. Currencies trade in ...
( Category:
State & Local
March 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Owen Gingerich
Herein was fulfilled one of the most touching of prophecies. Years before, the opponents of Copernicus had said to him, "If your doctrines were true, Venus would show phases like ...
( Category:
Cosmology
March 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-08 | Author:Heinrich Graetz [Graetz, Heinrich]
"Vices have spread in our midst, which our fathers knew not, and which at any price have been bought too dearly. Irreligion, voluptuousness, and effeminacy, weeds that spring from the ...
( Category:
Judaism
March 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-23 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]
JANE AUSTEN 1775–1817 Like Shakespeare, she took, as it were, the common dross of humanity, and by her wonderful power of literary alchemy, turned it into pure gold. Yet she ...
( Category:
Historical
March 24,2016 )
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