World
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]
The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, the Distribution of White Garments Among the Martyrs and the Fall of Stars (1498), Albrecht Dürer. Woodcut from The Revelation of Saint ...
( Category:
Rationalism
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Richard Bernstein [Bernstein, Richard]
The person on the receiving end of these communications was the head of the China desk in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, John Carter Vincent, a distinguished-looking forty-five-year-old Kansan ...
( Category:
Asian
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:John Hamer [Hamer, John]
Warner Brothers subsequently admitted that they re-edited the film after Stanley’s death and before release contrary to their agreement with Kubrick that he would have sole editorial discretion. To this ...
( Category:
Social Policy
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:George Marsden
The story of religion in the 1950s has many dimensions, but at its center is the continuing heritage of cultural leadership of the mainline Protestant churches. These were the predominantly ...
( Category:
History & Theory
January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-30 | Author:Greil Marcus [Marcus, Greil]
OUR PROGRAM “Our Program” contained a more immediate contradiction, and it reflected Isou’s own inordinate personal ambition: the idea that the real motive force of modern revolt would be the ...
( Category:
Punk
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Frank Sherry
11 Republic of Rogues The town of Nassau, once a torpid waterside hamlet, had by 1716 become the capital city of the reborn pirate confederacy. Nassau reflected both the values ...
( Category:
World
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:William Rosen
CHAPTER EIGHT “She-Wolf of France” 1313–1320 The twelve-year-old who had celebrated the nuptial mass in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1308 had been a girl; a royal princess, to be sure, but still ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Scott Ridley [Ridley, Scott]
AS KENDRICK’S BOAT DREW ALONGSIDE, the Columbia fired another salute, and the men gave three cheers. Here was the captain who had remained on the unknown side of the world ...
( Category:
Revolution & Founding
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg
Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category:
General
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Aaron Chapman
Sandy King rides as Lady Godiva, mid-1970s. But King has nothing but fond memories of the club which elicit her quick laugh and vivid recollections of the nights she worked ...
( Category:
Province & Local
January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]
CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category:
Christianity
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Haynes, Alan [Haynes, Alan]
EIGHT After Midnight It soon proved impossible to withhold news of the discovery and arrest, and by five o’clock on Tuesday morning Thomas Winter was alerted by the younger of ...
( Category:
England
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Phil Mason [Mason, Phil]
Walter Hunt, a New York mechanic, invented the safety pin in 1849 in just three hours, to pay off a $15 debt. He saw no commercial value in the idea, ...
( Category:
World
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-07 | Author:Strachey, Lytton [Strachey, Lytton]
With some unwillingness she allowed the fleet to make another attack upon Spain. But it was now too weak to effect a landing at Ferrol; it must do no more ...
( Category:
England
January 29,2015 )
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