World
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-28 | Author:Strangio, Sebastian [Strangio, Sebastian]
Boeung Kak was once a lake. Now it’s a massive expanse of sand, dotted here and there with the shells of old buildings awaiting demolition—the first stage in its planned ...
( Category:
Asia
January 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Sven Beckert [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
January 4,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Weber, Brett [Weber, Brett]
( Category:
World War II
January 2,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Bunyan, John [Bunyan, John]
"How Talkative at first lifts up his plumes! How bravely doth he speak! How he presumes To drive down all before him! But so soon As Faithful talks of heart-work, ...
( Category:
Christian Literature & Fiction
December 31,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Gregory A. Wills
Toward the end of the century, when Baptists more frequently joined other denominations, excommunication became a routine affair, espe cially in town and city churches, which handled most of these ...
( Category:
Christianity
December 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-26 | Author:Bobbitt, Philip [Bobbitt, Philip]
If we take this idea—the creation of a constitution for the society of states4 from the settlement of an epochal war—in light of the relation between such wars and the ...
( Category:
History & Theory
December 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-29 | Author:Rupert Matthews [Rupert Matthews]
Kempton Park The fact that Sandown was an immediate success was noticed by businessman S.H. Hyde, who owned Kempton Manor near Sunbury. The grounds had the same features as Sandown ...
( Category:
Trivia
December 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]
1146: Murder of Zengi In May 1146 Zengi moved to Aleppo to prepare for his Syrian expedition. As he passed through Edessa he learnt of an attempt by the Armenians ...
( Category:
Christianity
December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Bruce F. Pauley [Pauley, Bruce F.]
CHAPTER X "POSITIVE FASCISM" AND APPEASEMENT The Austrian government’s nearly total suppression of overt Nazi activity was destined to be short-lived. The Ethiopian War, which began in October 1935, turned ...
( Category:
Germany
December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chin, Annping
YUN-HO Yun-ho (left), with Yuan-ho, when she was a college student in Shanghai. WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, Yun-ho did not like love scenes in an opera, or scenes with ...
( Category:
China
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Meryle Secrest [Secrest, Meryle]
Schiaparelli, who was a fine skier, chastising Bettina, who was not, in this photograph taken in Megève, France, 1930s (illustration credit 8.5) “And remember Amelia Earhart’s evening dress with wings ...
( Category:
Fashion Design
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]
A Manhattan bread line operated by the Salvation Army. By 1931 there were 82 bread lines in New York, serving some 85,000 meals a day to those who had no ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
“SIR, “Your wife, Ursula Halifax, having some time since attained the age fixed by her late father as her majority, I will, within a month after date, pay over to ...
( Category:
England
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Sara Wheeler
After a glorious rail journey on his own up through Harbin to Siberia and across central Russia, Cherry arrived home on 10 May to find The Times sprouting with stories ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Adam Schrager
After stating “the pertinent principles of law” for the grand jurors, Trenchard continued, If, then, the evidence presented to you in the Grand Jury room reasonably tends to show that ...
( Category:
State & Local
December 27,2014 )
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