History & Theory
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

In summary, Britain’s follies were not so perverse as the Popes’. Ministers were not deaf to rising discontent, because they had no chance to be; expressed by their equals, it ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

18. THE OBLITERATION OF CAPITALISM by Ayn Rand In my article “ ‘Extremism,’ or The Art of Smearing,” I discussed the subject of “anti-concepts”—i.e., artificial, unnecessary, undefined and (rationally) unusable ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-13 | Author:Kitty Kelley [Kelley, Kitty]

CHAPTER NINETEEN George Herbert Walker Bush wanted the White House more than anything else in the world. “I mean, like, hasn’t, uh, everybody dreamed about becoming President someday?” he asked ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Flagel, Thomas R. [Flagel, Thomas R.]

He ran for office as an ardent anticommunist, and his inaugural address affirmed his oath to fight Marxism anytime, anywhere. After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, however, Kennedy ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Eduardo Galeano [Galeano, Eduardo]

THE BLACK CURSE OF PETROLEUM Along with natural gas, petroleum is today the chief fuel that keeps our world in motion; it is a raw material of rising importance for ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Michael Sandel

An Egalitarian Nightmare “Harrison Bergeron,” a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., plays out this worry as dystopian science fiction. “The year was 2081,” the story begins, “and everybody was ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1974-05-14 | Author:Robert Nozick

b) There is no system S such that SB—Sw < UB - Uw, and UW SW ≤ (UB—UW) (SB - SW). (Notice b) comes to: There is no system S ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Joan Peters

rhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of the history of the “Palestinian Problem” is that the Hope Simpson Report, which by itself contributed substantially to the myth of “displaced” and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-02-09 | Author:Sidney Sheldon

Ben Cohn was seated at a table in the corner when his guest, Alfred Shuttleworth, arrived. The host, Tony Sergio, seated him. “Would you care for a drink, gentlemen?” Shuttleworth ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1971-05-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac

15 I put on my new flannel shirt and new socks and underwear and my jeans and packed the rucksack tight and slung it on and went to San Francisco ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-30 | Author:Michael Reaves

"You've got a comlink, haven't you?" "I had one, but it was damaged earlier." It occurred to her only now that she should have replaced it when she had been ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1976-01-15 | Author:Jack Kerouac

I came to a hill and saw great mudflat riverbottoms with stinks and tarns and awful paths with women and burros ambling in the dusk, an old Chinese Mexican beggar ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Tony Judt

CHAPTER XIV The Stateless State: Why Belgium Matters Belgium gets a bad press. A small country—the size of Wales, with a population of just ten million—it rarely attracts foreign notice; ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Patrick J. Buchanan

( Category: World War I March 25,2014 )