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Champions of Science by Tiner John Hudson
epub |eng | 2000-03-01 | Author:Tiner, John Hudson [Tiner, John Hudson]

Descartes’ circle graph. For the first time geometrical figures could be replaced with mathematical equations. For instance, a circle could be written as X2 + Y2 = R2, with R ...
( Category: History March 5,2015 )
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-29 | Author:Gregory Clark [Clark, Gregory]

Figure 10.4, for example, shows for a group of OECD countries at different income levels their efficiency growth rates from 1960 to 2000 com-pared to their capital growth rates per ...
( Category: Economic History March 5,2015 )
The Son Also Rises by Clark Gregory
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Clark, Gregory

TABLE 10.6. Relative representation of samurai and kazoku among medical researchers, 1965–89 Year Samurai Kazoku Observed 1965–66 30 13 Observed 1989–90 70 23 1965–66 5.99 4.95 1989–90 4.69 2.94 Implied ...
( Category: Class March 5,2015 )
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Colley Linda
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Colley, Linda. [Colley, Linda]

‘A View of the Town of Rio Janeiro’. Pencil drawing by Alexander Buchan, 1768. Because of the bad weather it had suffered, and of not being able to refit and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany by Steven Pressman
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Steven Pressman [Pressman, Steven]

CHAPTER 16 It would be illegal for the American consul general at Vienna to grant non-preference visas under the German quota. —R. C. ALEXANDER, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT BUDAPEST–VIENNA MAY 13–17, ...
( Category: Holocaust March 4,2015 )
Legends of Our Time by Elie Wiesel
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Elie Wiesel [Wiesel, Elie]

11. The Last Return Somewhere in Transylvania, in the shadow of the Carpathians, very near the most capricious frontier of Eastern Europe, there is a dusty little town called Sighet. ...
( Category: Biographical March 4,2015 )
A Splendid Little War by Derek Robinson
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Derek Robinson [Robinson, Derek]

4 The squadron caught up on its sleep. The adjutant kept a few guards on top of the boxcars. Fifty yards from Kenny’s train, plennys dug a mass grave. They ...
( Category: Cuba March 4,2015 )
White Mughals by William Dalrymple
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Dalrymple

The scale of William’s ambitions has echoes of the world of Conrad, with its steamships, up-country logging stations, ivory hunters, uncharted malarial forests and riverboats. Yet, driven forward with an ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM by Breanne Fahs
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Breanne Fahs

THE “LOWLY TOAD” Valerie spent most of the following month directing her hostilities toward Maurice Girodias, whom she continued to portray as manipulative, cruel, self-serving, and the epitome of why ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 4,2015 )
A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris Bambery

ELEVEN The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance Another day thus upon the mountain And great Scotland under the doom of beasts Her thousands of poor exploited Beguiled to a laughing ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle by Andrea Hiott
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Andrea Hiott [Hiott, Andrea]

Meanwhile, back in the Grey Advertising offices in New York, there had been little response to the memo Bill had sent, his version of The Things We Think and Do ...
( Category: History March 4,2015 )
Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]

After the coup, a couple of workers play dominoes at a foundry that used to make busts of Lenin. The factory now operates for the tourist industry. (Reuters/Bettmann) PART III ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
1788 by Watkin Tench
epub |eng | | Author:Watkin Tench

10 The arrival of the Supply from Batavia; the state of the colony in November 1790 JOY sparkled in every countenance to see our old friend the Supply (I hope ...
( Category: World March 4,2015 )
Iraq by Dawisha Adeed
epub |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Dawisha, Adeed

CONTESTED IDENTITIES IN THE NATIONALIST ERA The first communiqué announcing the demise of the Qasim regime spoke of enhancing national unity, restoring freedoms and establishing the rule of law, but ...
( Category: History & Theory March 4,2015 )
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Simon Schama [Schama, Simon]

The Indian Mutiny, 1857–8. On 30 June an attempted counter-attack under Sir Henry’s command was ambushed disastrously at Chinhat by rebel troops led by, among others, the fighting Maulvi, Ahmadullah ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )

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