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The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky
epub |eng | | Author:Arkady Ostrovsky

NTV seized on Chechnya several months before the war actually started. ‘Starting from June, there was hardly an Itogi programme that did not mention Chechnya,’ Kiselev recalled.19 In September, NTV’s ...
( Category: European November 8,2015 )
Crossing The Tiber by Steve Ray
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Steve Ray [Ray, Steve]

94 Tertullian, On Baptism 1, in Roberts and Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, 3:669. Tertullian starts his treatise with these words, not as though he is trying to prove a new point ...
( Category: Christianity November 8,2015 )
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Steven Weinberg

Descartes’ scientific misjudgments would not matter in assessing the work of someone who wrote about ethical or political philosophy, or even metaphysics; but because Descartes wrote about “the method of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 6,2015 )
In the Sewers of Lvov by Marshall Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-24 | Author:Marshall, Robert [Marshall, Robert]

Chapter IX ‘I have one more request, Mr Socha.’ said Paulina. ‘What is it?’ replied Socha. ‘Like you, I believe in God.’ ‘Yes?’ ‘I have always lit candles, even in ...
( Category: Jewish November 6,2015 )
The Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Tom Mangold [Mangold, Tom]

Let’s grow manioc plant all over the bomb craters and make them green. We kill the Americans with their own shells and bombs. We kill the enemy and increase our ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 5,2015 )
Dictionary of Classical Mythology by March Jennifer R
epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:March, Jennifer R.

Fig. 91. A bull rises from the sea in front of Hippolytus’ chariot, while a Fury brandishes a torch and an old man looks on in horror. Hippolytus’ story is ...
( Category: New Age, Mythology & Occult November 4,2015 )
The Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Bates [Bates, Stephen]

By 1815 Captain Barclay was having troubles of his own and he was certainly not fighting Napoleon, having retired from the army after the Walcheren expedition so he could devote ...
( Category: Great Britain November 4,2015 )
Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western by Hanson Victor Davis
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Hanson, Victor Davis [Hanson, Victor Davis]

Greek hoplite battle between phalanxes before the Peloponnesian War was predictable in time, place, sequence, and aftermath of infantry fighting. This prompts us to ponder just how one particular Greek ...
( Category: Greece November 2,2015 )
A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Elly Griffiths [Griffiths, Elly]

CHAPTER 19 After a few minutes in the Pendle Forest, Nelson is thinking longingly of Blackpool. It’s another rainy day and the clouds are low over the fields. The grass ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives November 1,2015 )
Lady at the O.K. Corral by Ann Kirschner
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Kirschner

JOSEPHINE AND WYATT had followed the boomtown circuit since they left Tombstone, always alert to that mysterious signal that was inaudible to mere mortals, the one that whispered of high ...
( Category: State & Local October 31,2015 )
Political Freud by Eli Zaretsky
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Eli Zaretsky

4 The Ego at War From the Death Instinct to Precarious Life Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of War Like capitalism, racism, and anti-Semitism, the problem of war has spawned a ...
( Category: History & Theory October 30,2015 )
For the Love of India: The Life and Times of Jamsetji Tata by R M Lala
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:R M Lala [Lala, R M]

However, two committees to look into the details of the institute were formed in the years to come and the final place selected was Bangalore. The next step was to ...
( Category: India & South Asia October 30,2015 )
Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Raza Rumi [Rumi, Raza]

In 1657, Dara was appointed as Regent to look after the affairs of the Empire because of his father’s illness. But Emperor Shah Jahan’s illness became a cue for his ...
( Category: Pakistan October 30,2015 )
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (Oxford Handbooks in History) by Breuilly John
mobi |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Breuilly, John [Breuilly, John]

While deliberate efforts at nation-building rarely worked out as intended, as they have rarely done elsewhere, the first decades of independence appear to have produced throughout sub-Saharan Africa a popular ...
( Category: Nationalism October 30,2015 )
Silencing the Past (20th Anniversary Edition) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Good Day, Columbus 4 I walked past Vasco da Gama’s body with premonitions of typhoons. I was in Portugal, at the Mosteiro dos Jéronimos, right where Europe started to redefine ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 25,2015 )

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