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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers by Joel Whitney
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Joel Whitney [Whitney, Joel]

Boris Pasternak (second from right) at the First Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1934. Two decades later, Pasternak would fall afoul of Party elite when his novel ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 18,2017 )
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History by Kati Marton
mobi |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Kati Marton

BETTY, A BORN PERFORMER, loved the role. Like Jacqueline Kennedy, though from another world, she understood the symbolic power of her undefined position. She grasped what Pat Nixon did not: ...
( Category: Historical December 18,2017 )
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times by Michael Burleigh
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Burleigh

The sharp-eyed will notice that Xi Jinping holds the highest cards, with close connections to the PLA as well as experience governing booming provinces. After graduating, through gritted teeth, in ...
( Category: Americas December 18,2017 )
Terrorist Cop by Mordecai Dzikansky & ROBERT SLATER
epub |eng | | Author:Mordecai, Dzikansky & ROBERT SLATER

TOP-SHELF GUARDS What I took away from their training was an appreciation of the professional level of these guards. They were top-shelf and Israel was getting them on the cheap. ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 18,2017 )
Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World by Ben Ramalingam
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Ben Ramalingam [Ramalingam, Ben]

The Mathematics of ‘The New Normal’ Per Bak started his investigation into self-organized criticality to try and explain the common recurrence of power laws in a range of natural phenomena. ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 18,2017 )
Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza by Norman Finkelstein
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Norman Finkelstein [Finkelstein, Norman]

Purpose: Purposes of this journey are to create an awareness amongst world public and international organizations on the inhumane and unjust embargo on Palestine and to contribute to end this ...
( Category: Middle East December 17,2017 )
A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]

This at last was mutiny: having been denounced as a rebel, Kornilov chose to rebel. Several senior generals declared their support for him. Now Kerensky had a real 'counter-revolution' to ...
( Category: Russia December 17,2017 )
Living Silence in Burma by Christina Fink
epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:Christina Fink [Fink, Christina]

Military commanders and other state authorities have implemented additional policies which have created a legacy of increased racial hatred in some areas. Policies include confiscating land which is then either ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 17,2017 )
History Buff's Guide to the Presidents by Thomas R. Flagel
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Thomas R. Flagel [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: Historical December 17,2017 )
The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-11-14 | Author:Norman Finkelstein [Finkelstein, Norman]

"Holocaust Insurance Team Racking Up Millions in Expenses as Survivors Wait," in Forward (30 July 1999), and Verena Dobnik, "Oscar Hammerstein's Cousin Sues German Bank Over Holocaust Assets," in AP ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
111 by Prophet of Doom
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Prophet of Doom

couldn’t chance the girl playing possum. She stood ready to slap the ether-soaked wad back into place. But a minute passed and the young girl didn’t move. Satisfied, Esther stuffed ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 17,2017 )
The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

Such is the story—or a very small portion of it—which His Majesty’s Consul conveyed to His Majesty’s Government as to the condition of those natives, who, “in the name of ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 17,2017 )
Celebrated Crimes (Complete) by Alexandre Dumas
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER XI The mode of torture employed at Loudun was a variety of the boot, and one of the most painful of all. Each of the victim's legs below the ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
Economic Development by Giugale Marcelo M
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Giugale, Marcelo M. [Giugale, Marcelo M.]

5 SECTORS WHAT MINISTERS WILL WORRY ABOUT—OR SHOULD Can Governments Create Industries? It is an old debate. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, from Asia to Latin America, an idea ...
( Category: Economics December 17,2017 )
Straw Dogs by John Gray
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Gray [Gray, John]

2 THE GRAND INQUISITOR AND FLYING FISH In his commentary on Dostoevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor, D. H. Lawrence confessed that he had once rejected the philosophy of the ...
( Category: Philosophy December 17,2017 )

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