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mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Denis Alexander
Figure 16. The way in which our mitochondrial DNA is inherited from a single woman, the so-called ‘Mitochondrial Eve’. Only 15 generations are shown for the sake of simplicity. Note ...
( Category:
Christianity
May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:William J. Murray [Murray, William J.]
12 Hawaii’s flower-fragrant air greeted me anew when I stepped off the Boeing 707 at Honolulu International Airport. I had not known what to expect, so I was surprised and ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Jonathan Kirsch [Kirsch, Jonathan]
Chapter Eight THE SORCERER AND THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE “Poetry embroidered magic, and transformed it into theology.…” —WILL DURANT, THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION: OUR ORIENTAL HERITAGE When the song that Miriam ...
( Category:
World
May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Anthony Pagden [Pagden, Anthony]
II Savages stood on the threshold of a complex history. They existed at the very beginning of human time. It was that, as we have seen, that made them so ...
( Category:
World
May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Jenny Diski [Diski, Jenny]
There were other versions of changing the world. For readers of Marcuse, even such as Tariq Ali, for example: . . . the long march did not mean “boring from ...
( Category:
England
May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Vera Brittain
10 Victor’s long letter had been written on March 24th from a sector near Arras. To-day, as I re-read his realistic phrases, they seem to me to be less infused ...
( Category:
World War I
May 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Haugen, Peter
Chapter 11 Loving Wisdom: The Rise and Reach of Philosophy In This Chapter Questioning the workings of the universe Crediting the influence of early philosophers Going Greek with Socrates, Plato, ...
( Category:
World
May 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:Peter Hessler [Hessler, Peter]
POLAT NEVER MENTIONED the mugging during my visit in January of 2001. I didn’t learn about it for more than a year, when a mutual friend informed me. Afterward, I ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
May 23,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Schneer, Jonathan [Schneer, Jonathan]
CHAPTER 10 The Impact of Professor Beveridge IN JUNE 1940, AFTER NEGOTIATIONS WITH MUSSOLINI HAD BEEN RULED out and a fight to the finish against Germany agreed upon, socialists and ...
( Category:
History & Theory
May 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Schneer, Jonathan [Schneer, Jonathan]
The audience roared its approval. Beaverbrook was at the peak of his powers and riding the crest of the wave. What might he not aspire to, given his reception at ...
( Category:
History & Theory
May 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |dan | 2015-05-04 | Author:Michael Neiberg
Joseph Stalin and President Harry Truman pose with their senior diplomats at the Potsdam Conference. US Secretary of State James Byrnes and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (far right) stand ...
( Category:
Diplomacy
May 19,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Beckert, Sven [Beckert, Sven]
Famine victims, probably 1899, India (illustration credit 11.12) Experiencing a new kind of uncertainty thanks to world market integration, and squeezed by moneylenders, cotton growers in India, Brazil, Mexico, and ...
( Category:
Trades & Tariffs
May 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Brian Fagan
LIFE ALONG CHINA’S long, low-lying coastline has involved constant adjustment to changing sea levels ever since the end of the Ice Age. Many people call this a “muddy coast,” a ...
( Category:
Oceanography
May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
VI. On Politics and Eternal Peace The Prussian government might have pardoned Kant’s theology, had he not been guilty of political heresies as well. Three years after the accession of ...
( Category:
History & Surveys
May 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Will Irwin [Irwin, Will]
* Brinkgreve, Olmsted, Austin, Cor, Daan, Gerard, Toon, Klaas, Coos, Marie, Ank, and Riek. * William Joyce, or Lord Haw Haw, made his final broadcast for the Germans on April ...
( Category:
World War II
May 10,2015 )
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