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epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]
Epilogue The sociologist Charles B. Perrow began his research on dangerous technologies in August 1979, after the partial meltdown of the core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. ...
( Category:
Nuclear
November 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Brad Meltzer
Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS, Hitler’s most elite military group. He was also the man behind the horrors of the extermination camps, where more than six million ...
( Category:
Trivia
November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-26 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]
*** Yabu se întoarse târziu acasă în acea zi. Servitorii îi luară îmbrăcămintea leoarcă de sudoare şi-i dădură un chimonou proaspăt şi îi puseră în picioare tabi curate. Yuriko, soţia ...
( Category:
Historical
November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-26 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]
CAPITOLUL 20 — Fir-aş eu afurisit, dacă asta nu e viaţă! Blackthorne zăcea încântat pe burtă pe salteaua groasă, pe jumătate înfăşurat într-un chimonou de bumbac, cu capul sprijinit pe ...
( Category:
Historical
November 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
XII. WORDSWORTH: CLIMAX, 1804–14 After some minor wanderings, the Wordsworth ménage moved (1808) from Dove Cottage to a larger house at nearby Allan Bank. There the poet blossomed out as ...
( Category:
France
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim, And rest upon the earth comes never. But if any far-off state there be, Dearer than life to mortality, The hand ...
( Category:
Holocaust
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
CHAPTER XX The Literature of India I. THE LANGUAGES OF INDIA Sanskrit—The vernaculars—Grammar JUST as the philosophy and much of the literature of medieval Europe were composed in a dead ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
On June 9, 1772, at a country dance, Goethe met Kestner’s betrothed, Charlotte Buff. The next day he visited her, and found a new charm in womanhood. “Lotte,” then twenty, ...
( Category:
England
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
III. WOLSEY AND THE CHURCH He recognized and largely exemplified the abuses that still survived in the ecclesiastical life of England: absentee bishops, worldly clergymen, idle monks, and priests snared ...
( Category:
Christianity
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
He wrote to Mme. Denis asking her to come and live with him in his paradise. She wisely preferred Paris and younger gallants. She warned him against staying long in ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
VII. INNOCENT VIII: 1484–92 The failure of Sixtus was confirmed by the chaos that ruled Rome after his death. Mobs sacked the papal granaries, broke into the banks of the ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
III. THE LAW OF PERSONS “All law,” says the precise Gaius, “pertains to persons, to property, or to procedure.”3 The word persona had signified an actor’s mask; later it was ...
( Category:
Christianity
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
IV. AUSTRIA AND THE TURKS Vienna is so beautiful today that we find it hard to picture it after the Thirty Years’ War. Austria had not suffered so severely as ...
( Category:
France
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
II. THE PROGRESS OF INDUSTRY The development of industry kept pace with the expansion of commerce; wider markets stimulated production, and mounting production nourished trade. Transport progressed least. Most medieval ...
( Category:
Christianity
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]
V. THE CARDINAL SUPREME With this concentrated power in his hands, he did everything for France, little for the people. He thought of France as a power, not as a ...
( Category:
Political
November 11,2014 )
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