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The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Fredrik Sjoberg [Sjoberg, Fredrik]

Klyuchevskaya rages upward towards the sky. It’s as if she knows herself to be the world’s greatest volcano and therefore longs to reach still higher; as if she were furious ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders December 20,2015 )
The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Principe Lawrence M
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Principe, Lawrence M. [Principe, Lawrence M.]

Motion on Earth While the magnetic philosophy tried to explain why bodies fall, Galileo endeavoured to describe mathematically how they fall. He built inclined planes, pendula, and other devices to ...
( Category: History December 19,2015 )
Vinaya Texts, Part II: The Mahâvagga, V-X, The Kullavagga, I-III by Pâli
mobi |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Pâli

( Category: Buddhism December 18,2015 )
Why I Am Not a Calvinist by Jerry L. Walls & Joseph Dongell
epub |eng | 2004-03-26 | Author:Jerry L. Walls & Joseph Dongell [Walls, Jerry L. & Dongell, Joseph]

6 While the Westminster Confession can be read in a way that is broadly coherent, we believe it is still inconsistent at a deeper lever because it also has strands ...
( Category: Christianity December 18,2015 )
The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Joel F. Harrington

A dastardly ambush of an innocent traveler by two robbers. Note the glee of the perpetrators and the fear of the victim (1543). As in broadsheet accounts of crime, Frantz’s ...
( Category: Germany December 18,2015 )
The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Harrison Salisbury [Harrison E. Salisbury]

In these conditions to talk of mounting a counteroffensive was impossible. The best Voroshilov had been able to do was to carry out local counterattacks. Voroshilov’s presentation was accurate. It ...
( Category: Asian December 18,2015 )
The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Popham

PART FOUR HEIRS TO THE KINGDOM 1 ALONE ON the day they placed me under arrest,” Suu told an American journalist who visited her at home in 1995, “this garden ...
( Category: Political December 18,2015 )
Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch by Ben Thompson
mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Ben Thompson [Thompson, Ben]

So Colonel Chamberlain, a schoolteacher in his regular life (kind of like Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan), completely out of ammo and with the entire fate of the Civil ...
( Category: Humor December 17,2015 )
The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [Middlebrook, Martin]

As the morning drew to a close, the battlefield lost some of the noise and violence of the early, intense fighting. Where an attack had been successful, the troops rested ...
( Category: World War I December 17,2015 )
Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
The Birth of the Church by Ivor J Davidson
epub | | 2012-07-25 | Author:Ivor J Davidson

Esteemed Martyrs: Ignatius and Polycarp Nevertheless, the most famous instances of Christian martyrdom in the first half of the second century actually became famous, in part, because they represented fairly ...
( Category: Christianity December 17,2015 )
The Persians by Homa Katouzian
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Homa Katouzian

THE AZERBAIJAN REVOLT AND CONFLICTS OVER OIL When the war ended, Iran was facing all the difficulties mentioned above, to which the revolt in Azerbaijan was now added. There were ...
( Category: Satire December 16,2015 )
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Chadwick Henry
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Chadwick, Henry [Chadwick, Henry]

The rules of discipline were not casually administered. We (once only) hear of corporal punishment being administered to a young monk found chatting with the nuns at an ‘unfitting hour’. ...
( Category: Christianity December 16,2015 )
Women who Spied for Britain by Walker Robyn
epub |eng | 2014-05-18 | Author:Walker, Robyn

5 Diana Rowden (1915–44) Code Name: Paulette Late in the afternoon of 6 July 1944, four women arrived at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, the only German extermination camp known to ...
( Category: European December 16,2015 )
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World by Justin Pollard & Howard Reid
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Justin Pollard & Howard Reid [Pollard, Justin & Reid, Howard]

Then trouble arose, because ignorant rebels interrupted in the South the works on the Throne-of-the-gods [i.e., the temple of Edfu]. The rebellion raged in the South until year 19 of ...
( Category: Egypt December 15,2015 )

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