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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Francis Fukuyama

20 ORIENTAL DESPOTISM How a modern state was reconsolidated in China after the Tang Dynasty; the usurpation of the empress Wu and what it tells us about the Chinese political ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-09-14 | Author:Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2014 )
The New Penguin History of the World: Fifth Edition by J. M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-01 | Author:J. M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad

4 Europe’s Assault on the World There was a striking change in world history after 1500 and it was quite without precedent. Never before had one culture spread over the ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Chapter 7 “That Sea of Blood” Columbus and the Transatlantic Link October 12: Columbus lands in the New World. The story is incredible but irresistible. As Ferdinand and Isabella rode ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
This New Ocean by William Burrows
mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:William Burrows

* By way of reemphasizing that no tricks were being played, Korolyov not only had Nikolayev and Popovich communicate over open radio channels, describing each other’s spacecraft, but they made ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History Of The Cold War by Norman Stone
mobi |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Norman Stone

18 Europe: The Phoenix Flops In the early 1950s Moscow had been frightened at the prospect of a Europe headed by a rearmed Germany, and in alliance with the United ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Shock Value by Jason Zinoman
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-10 | Author:Jason Zinoman

BY THE SEVENTIES, the werewolf had gone out of fashion in the movies, and the Frankenstein monster grumbled angrily less often than he once did. Zombies were multiplying, and the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union by Conor O'Clery
mobi |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Conor O'Clery

DECEMBER 7, 1991: The clock starts ticking towards December 25 as Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich (three on right) meet in a state hunting lodge in Belarus and ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Tony Judt

THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT “We differ from other states in regarding the man who holds aloof from public life as useless.” —PERICLES One striking consequence of the disintegration of the public ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

On the official level I have been asked to give advice only on the particular problem of Soviet reaction to various possible approaches. But there is one thing I should ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Ring of Hate by Patrick Myler
mobi |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Patrick Myler

12 BOMBER COMMAND In the spring of 1938, Louis was in Washington as guest of honor at the Colored Order of Elks national convention. President Roosevelt, spotting a propaganda opportunity, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Pursuit of Glory by Tim Blanning
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-30 | Author:Tim Blanning

PART THREE Religion and Culture 7 Religion and the Churches ROME AND THE PAPACY Of all the innumerable ‘view paintings’ (vedute) produced during the eighteenth century as souvenirs for aristocrats ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-04-11 | Author:Winston Churchill

* * * 5 The United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases * * * My Appeal for Fifty American Destroyers — Lord Lothian’s Helpfulness — My Telegram to President ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
The Diary of A U-Boat Commander by Anonymous
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Anonymous

On the bottom. Our mines are still with us, but so are our lives, which is something. We were approaching the appointed spot at 6 a.m. this morning, when without ...
( Category: War March 25,2014 )
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-23 | Author:Hooman Majd

The parade at the mosque continued. Different groups of men, sometimes even very young boys, were marching past me, each group headed by a flag bearer and each group stepping ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 25,2014 )

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