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mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-07 | Author:Susan Jacoby
If many agnostics attempted to conceal the extent of their participation in the women’s movement, they were entirely open about their role in the battle against late-nineteenth-century censorship. There was ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Nagorski, Andrew [Nagorski, Andrew]
Truman Smith, who had been the first American official to meet Hitler, returned to Berlin in 1935 for a second tour, this time as the senior military attaché. It wasn’t ...
( Category:
Germany
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Candice Millard
THAT NIGHT, after the men, now numbering only twenty-one, had finished their portage around the last waterfall, they retired to their tents and hammocks. Hunched over his small table, Roosevelt ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:David Kynaston
This arguably overheated depiction prompted Joe Lampton’s creator to respond from Bingley. ‘As for the New Men,’ predicted Braine, ‘they will be quite content with a little house, car, wife, ...
( Category:
Great Britain
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Adam Jones
In terms of absolute numbers of prisoners, the Gulag system peaked in the post-World War II era. As part of the ‘destalinization’ process following the dictator’s death, it was rapidly ...
( Category:
African
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:A.C. Grayling
5 Voices of Conscience There were more conscientious objectors in the First than in the Second World War for the good reason that the latter was, from the Allied point ...
( Category:
World War II
September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Colin Woodard [Woodard, Colin]
As he looked over his new prize, Blackbeard knew he had finally found a proper flagship. La Concorde was as big, fast, and powerful as Bellamy’s now infamous Whydah, maybe ...
( Category:
History
September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Claudia Roden [Roden, Claudia]
Boulettes de Poisson à la Sauce Tomate Fish Balls in Tomato Sauce Serves 4 All the Oriental communities make fish balls or fingers in various kinds of sauces, tomato being ...
( Category:
Jewish
September 28,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Henry Kissinger [Kissinger, Henry]
Swaying the wide world, I have but one aim in view, namely, to maintain a perfect governance and to fulfil the duties of the State; strange and costly objects do ...
( Category:
International & World Politics
September 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:William J. Bernstein [Bernstein, William J.]
THE TORCH IS PASSED James was a rabid Catholic, but the opposing Dissenters and parliamentarians were not alarmed by his religious beliefs. James was past fifty years old when he ...
( Category:
Economic Policy & Development
September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:William J. Bernstein [Bernstein, William J.]
The VOC quickly recognized that if it was to monopolize the spice trade, the Bandanese would have to go. And go they did, with a brutality and efficiency that would ...
( Category:
Economic Policy
September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Robert B. Silvers [Silvers, Robert B.]
Indeed, the question is not why there is any cultural activity in Sarajevo now after seventeen months of siege, but why there isn’t more. Outside a boarded-up movie theater next ...
( Category:
Human Rights
September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Dolnick
Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was ...
( Category:
Scientists
September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ian Buruma
“WHAT IS TRULY OURS IS STRANGE TO EUROPE,” DOSTOYEVSKY declared. This is patently untrue. Much of what the Russians considered to be “ours” was not strange to Europe at all, ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
September 22,2014 )
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