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The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-10-02 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

"Orthodox" Christianity understood that God would redeem this sinful world, create it anew as a Utopian place of eternal life. This Gospel states that once saving knowledge comes to souls ...
( Category: New Testament June 17,2015 )
Method and Madness by Norman G. Finkelstein
epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Norman G. Finkelstein

5/ GO AHEAD, INVADE! (2012) ON 14 NOVEMBER 2012, Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense. According to the official story line, the assault began only after it had stoically absorbed ...
( Category: World June 17,2015 )
Haiti by Elizabeth Abbott
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Elizabeth Abbott [ABBOTT, ELIZABETH]

The Duvaliers treated Haiti as if it was their private property. Their dictatorship did not permit them to make a distinction between the goods of the State and those of ...
( Category: Haiti June 17,2015 )
David Fromkin by The King & the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt & Edward the Seventh Secret Partners
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:The King & the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt & Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners [King, The & Roosevelt, the Cowboy: Theodore & Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners]

17 TEEDIE IN LOVE TEEDIE’SHOME VALUES remained with him always. They formed a strict code. He believed in marriage, family, and monogamy. By temperament as well as by belief he ...
( Category: Great Britain June 17,2015 )
Fish on Friday by Brian Fagan
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Brian Fagan

Lenten Fish Pie Pastry for a 10-inch/25-cm deep-dish double-crust pie 2 lb/1 kg flaked cooked white fish fillet. (We used tuna, poached with the skin on in roasted vegetable stock, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries June 16,2015 )
The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

All efforts to impose a monolithic set of motives on the assembled delegates at Philadelphia, whether economic or ideological, have been discredited. And the very effort to do so misses ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 16,2015 )
The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth
epub |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Hezekiah Butterworth [Butterworth, Hezekiah]

* * * CHAPTER XIX. HALCYON DAYS. These were indeed days of joy. The glory of them grew. All the inhabitants of the island came to be baptized. Magellan went ...
( Category: World June 16,2015 )
The Warfare of Science by Andrew Dickson White
epub |eng | 2015-06-13 | Author:Andrew Dickson White [White, Andrew Dickson]

And difficult as it is to realize it now, within the memory of many of us the battle was still raging most fiercely in England, and both kinds of artillery ...
( Category: Holocaust June 15,2015 )
A Semite by Denis Guenoun
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Denis Guenoun

Here the letters, the date book, all writing cease. I’ll never know the reunion, the kisses, the yoo-yoos of the grandmother, the cries and tears of the baby, the shy, ...
( Category: African June 15,2015 )
Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism by Schmidt Michael
epub |eng | 2013-05-24 | Author:Schmidt, Michael [Schmidt, Michael]

The Durrutist and neo-Makhnovist response: The “Revolutionary Junta” Pushes for a Fresh Revolution During the Spanish Revolution, at the height of the Third Wave, anarchists faced the same question raised ...
( Category: Anarchism June 15,2015 )
Translating Anarchy by Bray Mark
epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Bray, Mark [Bray, Mark]

Ben Reynoso (29), an organizer active with Info and DA, told me that he “wouldn’t use ‘anarchist’ early on.” Instead he would focus on direct democracy and cooperative enterprises. But ...
( Category: Anarchism June 15,2015 )
Order Without Power by Normand Baillargeon
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Normand Baillargeon

The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Much has been written about the Spanish Civil War. It should be acknowledged that a substantial part of this literature is based on propaganda and ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 15,2015 )
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Cohn Norman
epub |eng | 1970-05-14 | Author:Cohn, Norman [Cohn, Norman]

Anarcho-communism in Bohemia If in the main Taborite eschatology derives from the Johannine and Joachite prophecies, some of its features certainly recall the myth of the Golden Age. This is ...
( Category: Christianity June 15,2015 )
Direct Struggle Against Capital by Kropotkin Peter McKay Iain
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Kropotkin, Peter, McKay, Iain

159[] Toulmin Smith, English Guilds, London, 1870, Introd. p. xliii. 160[] The Act of Edward the Sixth—the first of his reign—ordered to hand over to the Crown “all fraternities, brotherhoods, ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 15,2015 )
America's Prophet by Bruce Feiler
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Bruce Feiler

ON A GRAY approach from Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty doesn’t quite stir the soul as the postcard images would suggest. Her mint color seems more chilly than star-spangled. She ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )

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