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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Thomas Barfield
azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Thomas Barfield [Barfield, Thomas]

For all practical purposes this succession contest ended when the British formally recognized Nadir’s regime in mid-November 1929, and began providing him with money and arms to stabilize his government. ...
( Category: Asia October 25,2018 )
The Job by Ellen Ruppel Shell
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Ellen Ruppel Shell

* * * — Hyden burst briefly into the spotlight in the winter of 1970 when a coal dust explosion just four miles from town killed thirty-eight miners. Word got ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 25,2018 )
The Washington Conference, 1921-22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor (Diplomacy & Statecraft) by Erik Goldstein
epub |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Erik Goldstein

The fundamental guideline of American strategy is the principle of the quick-and-decisive battle. It is bent on promptly forcing an encounter with the Japanese fleet and deciding the issue in ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 25,2018 )
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools by Devlin Rachel
epub |eng | 2018-05-14 | Author:Devlin, Rachel [Devlin, Rachel]

5 “Hearts and Minds” The Road to Brown v. Board of Education I N AUGUST 1950, LUCINDA TODD wrote a letter to Walter White, president of the NAACP, asking if ...
( Category: World October 24,2018 )
Trump, the Blue-Collar President by Anthony Scaramucci
epub |eng | 2019-10-22 | Author:Anthony Scaramucci

BY THE NEXT YEAR, I had secured Bill Clinton as a keynote speaker, and we had to start turning people away. We capped the attendance levels at 1,400, which was ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 24,2018 )
Psychiatric Hegemony by Bruce M. Z. Cohen
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce M. Z. Cohen

Scull, A. (1993) The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700–1900. New Haven: Yale University Press. Zimbardo, P. G. (1977) Shyness: What It is, What To Do ...
( Category: Medicine October 24,2018 )
Solea (Marseilles Trilogy) by Jean-Claude Izzo
epub |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Jean-Claude Izzo [Izzo, Jean-Claude]

The five disks contained pages and pages of documents. They had been compressed to contain as much information as possible. “Will you be O.K.?” Cyril asked. I was sitting in ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 23,2018 )
The Rise of Andrew Jackson by David S. Heidler
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:David S. Heidler

Mr. Speaker: The Tellers of the votes at this table have proceeded to count the ballots contained in the box before them. The result they find to be, that there ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 23,2018 )
Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform by Susan Rose-Ackerman & Bonnie J. Palifka
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Susan Rose-Ackerman & Bonnie J. Palifka [Rose-Ackerman, Susan]

Figure 10.2. Corruption Perceptions Index in four countries vs. world average. Source: Based on data from Transparency International, “Corruption Perceptions Index,” various years. TI data used with permission. Hence, there ...
( Category: Economics October 23,2018 )
Reagan by Bob Spitz
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Bob Spitz

* * * — Nancy Reagan, a not-so-innocent bystander, became a victim of the backlash. She wasn’t used to being subject to criticism; she had managed to sidestep the spotlight ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild

* * * * As with many Indian cities, in recent years its name has been restored to its original form in the local language, Thiruvananthapuram. THIRTEEN The Brick Master ...
( Category: Sociology October 23,2018 )
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

These paragraphs describe Yenangyaung as it was in the latter years of nineteenth century. But the history of Burma’s oil industry goes back much further, possibly even a millennium or ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 23,2018 )
The Suffragette Bombers by Simon Webb
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Simon Webb

Chapter Six Bombing and Arson ‘ If any woman refrains from militant protest against the injury done by the Government and the House of Commons against women… she will share ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 23,2018 )
The King's Henchman by Anthony Adolph
epub |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Anthony Adolph [Anthony Adolph]

Charles I, King of England and Scotland, was tried in Westminster Hall. On Saturday, 27 January, he was found guilty of having made war on his own people in order ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 23,2018 )
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution by Stevens John Paul
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Stevens, John Paul [Stevens, John Paul]

During the decades between the withdrawal of Union troops from the South in 1877 and President Nixon’s appointment of William H. Rehnquist to the Supreme Court in 1972, the judge-made ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 23,2018 )

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