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The Last Jews in Berlin by Gross Leonard
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Gross, Leonard

21 THERE WERE TWO ironic compensations for his capture and incarceration in the deportation center on the Grosse Hamburger Strasse for Willy Glaser. The first was that he had been ...
( Category: Holocaust February 11,2016 )
The Conquest of the Ocean by Brian Lavery
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:Brian Lavery

Food was a matter of considerable concern for the 110 passengers and crew. At first they were served out a week’s rations “of meal or of bread” all at once, ...
( Category: History February 10,2016 )
The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-08 | Author:Stephanie Coontz [Unknown]

Consumerism, the Work Ethic, and the Family The problem of consumerism is sometimes posed as a collapse of the work ethic, often by the same people who blame women's adoption ...
( Category: Marriage & Family February 9,2016 )
For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery by Rodney Stark
mobi |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Rodney Stark

HERESY AS WITCHCRAFT In some parts of Europe the word for witch was gazarius, which is a corruption of Cathar, and in many areas it was wuadensis or vaudois, both ...
( Category: Christianity February 9,2016 )
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years by Standage Tom
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Standage, Tom [Standage, Tom]

“THE ART OF PRINTING SHOULD is outwardly thIQ BE ENCOURAGED” In May 1765 news reached the American colonies that the government in London had passed “an act for granting and ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies February 8,2016 )
The Contemporary Middle East: A Westview Reader by Karl Yambert
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Karl Yambert [Yambert, Karl]

Impacts on Iraq The invasion removed a brutal regime, freeing Iraq from a personality cult reflected in numerous statues and public portraits of the leader, and from a one-party political ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 8,2016 )
Hair by Kurt Stenn
epub |eng | 2015-02-06 | Author:Kurt Stenn

12 WOOL BANKROLLS AN EMPIRE Wool made the fortunes of many who handled it, including Cosimo de’ Medici, the famous Renaissance banker, and Christopher Columbus. Perhaps the most famous weaver ...
( Category: Mammals February 7,2016 )
Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
epub |eng | | Author:Giacomo Leopardi

XLI DELLO STESSO Umana cosa picciol tempo dura, E certissimo detto Disse il veglio di Chio, Conforme ebber natura 5 Le foglie e l’uman seme. Ma questa voce in petto ...
( Category: Italian February 4,2016 )
Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Jacky Colliss Harvey

In fact the days of the smooth and perfect limbs of the Salon nudes were already numbered. Over the Channel the French Impressionists were also creating works in which redheads ...
( Category: Natural History February 3,2016 )
The Serpent Grail: The Truth Behind the Holy Grail, the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life by Philip Gardiner & Gary Osborn
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Philip Gardiner & Gary Osborn [Gardiner, Philip & Osborn, Gary]

Our British ancestors, under the tuition of the venerable Druids, were not only worshippers of the solar deity, symbolized by the serpent, but held the serpent, independent of his relation ...
( Category: General February 2,2016 )
Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs: The Essene Revelations on the Historical Jesus by Ahmed Osman
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Ahmed Osman [Osman, Ahmed]

25 Jerusalem, City of Peace It has been suggested—wrongly, I believe—that the name Jerusalem appeared in Egyptian records as early as the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries B.C. at the time ...
( Category: New Testament February 2,2016 )
Lady Bird and Lyndon by Betty Boyd Caroli
epub |eng | | Author:Betty Boyd Caroli

14 LINCHPIN IN THE LAUNCH OF THE GREAT SOCIETY ON JANUARY 20, 1965, as thousands gathered on the side of the Capitol and millions more tuned in on TV to ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 2,2016 )
Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor by Stephen Dando-Collins
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

The road that Gallus chose to lead his soldiers along dipped five hundred feet into a valley beyond Gaba, then swung to the right. There were two villages in the ...
( Category: Christianity January 28,2016 )
Himmler by Peter Padfield
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Peter Padfield [Peter Padfield]

Eventually a compromise was achieved whereby Clauberg was given facilities within the new camp at Auschwitz–Birkenau, closer to his clinic than Ravensbrück was, where he experimented on young married Jewesses ...
( Category: Germany January 26,2016 )
The Indispensable Zinn by Timothy Patrick McCarthy
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy Patrick McCarthy

I remember you pointing that out to me on our way back, which was not as fun-filled as our way there. Those ironies, those contrasts, are such as to make ...
( Category: United States January 26,2016 )

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