World
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Fromkin [Fromkin, David]

THE PATTERN OF POLITICS that MacArthur observed in Europe as he traveled to observe army maneuvers there in 1931 and again in 1932 was not unlike that in Japan—and was ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward White

A caricature of Carl Van Vechten as a black man by Miguel Covarrubias, entitled A Prediction That positive distinction had a crucial effect on his relationships with Harlemites. Behind his ...
( Category: State & Local August 23,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Walter Lord

CHAPTER XIII “The Electric Spark” THE ROCKETS AND LIGHTS to the southeast signaled the entrance of a brand-new character on the stage—a man often overlooked in recent accounts of the ...
( Category: History August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Robert Kurson [Kurson, Robert]

CHAPTER TEN THE ORACLES Mattera flew back to Santo Domingo after his journey to the archive in Seville, but he didn’t go on to Samaná to rejoin his team. Instead, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries August 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:David Bentley Hart [Hart, David Bentley]

V 5. Intentionality. The Latin verb intendere means, among other things, to “direct toward,” “aim at,” or “reach for.” In the philosophy of mind, the term “intentionality” refers not simply ...
( Category: Philosophy August 20,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-05-09 | Author:Rev. John Trigilio Jr. & Rev. Kenneth Brighenti [Trigilio, Rev. John Jr. & Brighenti, Rev. Kenneth]

Ever wonder why some Catholics go to Mass on Saturday evening instead of Sunday morning? Using the Hebrew method of time reckoning, after sundown on Saturday evening is actually the ...
( Category: Christianity August 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Trigilio, John & Brighenti, Kenneth [Trigilio, John]

Ever wonder why some Catholics go to Mass on Saturday evening instead of Sunday morning? Using the Hebrew method of time reckoning, after sundown on Saturday evening is actually the ...
( Category: General August 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Thirteen News of Muhammad’s arrival spread fast. People ran out to greet him as he rode in, begging him to stop and accept their hospitality, but he turned everyone down. ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Hunt, Amber,Batcher, David & David Batcher

Though Jackie seems to have had few illusions about Jack’s behavior, it still hurt and angered her. Though in the abstract she had a Continental acceptance of a “man’s nature,” ...
( Category: Political August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

1935 1 Bennett’s New Deal 2 Speed-up at Eaton’s 3 The tin canners 4 On to Ottawa 5 The Regina Riot 6 Changing the guard 1 Bennett’s New Deal Nineteen ...
( Category: Canada August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:IVAN TURGENEV [TURGENEV, IVAN]

VI THE PEASANT PROPRIETOR OVSYANIKOV Picture to yourselves, gentle readers, a stout, tall man of seventy, with a face reminding one somewhat of the face of Kriloff, clear and intelligent ...
( Category: Russian August 19,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Barry Strauss [Strauss, Barry]

At first sight, Themistocles’ words are disappointing. Then, on a second look, they reveal the eloquence of simplicity. There may have been no better way to tell the men how ...
( Category: Greece August 19,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Domenico Losurdo

The Third Reich and the Natives With the unleashing of the war in the East, Hitler set about constructing the ‘German Indies’, as they were sometimes called, or conquering a ...
( Category: Historiography August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 1995-09-16 | Author:Elizabeth Wayland Barber [Barber, Elizabeth Wayland]

1The exact readings of these early cuneiform signs are uncertain but need not concern us here. Many of the splendid artifacts described below are on display in the University Museum ...
( Category: Women in History August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Debi Unger

CHAPTER 9 JAPAN-CHINA The three months between the two “V-Days” were fraught with challenges for Marshall. But foremost, of course, was how to defeat Japan. By mid-1945 the end was ...
( Category: World War II August 15,2015 )