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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
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 )
Mann, Charles
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( Category: Colonial Period September 29,2014 )
Modernity Britain by David Kynaston
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 )
Crimes Against Humanity by Adam Jones
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 )
Among the Dead Cities by A.C. Grayling
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 )
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard
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 )
The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
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 )
World Order by Henry Kissinger
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 )
The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created by William J. Bernstein
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 )
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein
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 )
The New York Review Abroad by Robert B. Silvers
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 )
The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
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 )
Occidentalism by Ian Buruma
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 )
Borderland by Anna Reid
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Anna Reid [ANNA REID]

A few weeks later Kravchenko found himself collectivising in person. Eighty young activists were summoned to a pep talk by the local Party committee. Dnipropetrovsk region had fallen behind schedule, ...
( Category: Human Geography September 22,2014 )
The Rush by Edward Dolnick
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Edward Dolnick

High in the mountains, mission nearly accomplished, the gold-seekers paused for breath. Langworthy was drunk on scenery and accomplishment. “Bewildered and lost amidst the boundless expanse,” he gazed in awe ...
( Category: State & Local September 22,2014 )

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