mobi |eng | 1999-12-15 | Author:Simon Winchester

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Turning Point? The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May 2009, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in U.S. Middle East policy, leading to consternation ...

mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Hannan, Daniel [Hannan, Daniel]

EUROPE IS DYING The state has assumed control over functions that were once discharged within families: health, education, day care, provision for the elderly. So it is perhaps no surprise ...

mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Maziar Bahari; Aimee Molloy

Chapter Thirteen The next morning, Brown Sandals came to my cell early, and with my breakfast, he gave me a pen and six pieces of paper with the names of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Dan Morrison

Malakal owed its largesse to the Nile. The city’s location on a high bank ten miles below the river’s confluence with the Sobat made it an ideal spot for British ...

epub |eng | | Author:de Mesquita Bueno & de Mesquita Bueno [Bueno, de Mesquita, Bruce & Smith, Alastair]

Dealing with Good Deed Doers We commented earlier that “Successful leaders are not above repression, suppression, oppression, or even killing their rivals, real and imagined.” The truth of this statement ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...