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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John L. Esposito
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:John L. Esposito [Esposito, John L.]

[Barney was there] every night.... His word was everything.... He was the owner, the actual owner and manager.... His word was the say at the Cocoanut Grove. Mickey Alpert 0 ...
( Category: England September 4,2015 )
Humanitarian Imperialism by Jean Bricmont
epub |eng | 2006-09-02 | Author:Jean Bricmont

The Contras and Human Rights Defenders After the victory of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in 1979, which overthrew the U.S.-supported dictatorship of Somoza, the United States decreed an embargo against ...
( Category: Political Science September 3,2015 )
In Walt We Trust by John Marsh
epub |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:John Marsh

You and I—what the earth is, we are, We two—how long we were fooled! Now delicious, transmuted, swiftly we escape, as Nature escapes, We are Nature—long have we been absent, ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism September 2,2015 )
Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption by Lisa Belkin
mobi |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Lisa Belkin

Part Two The Rebuilding 1992 The Lottery By twos and threes, with fingers crossed and lucky charms palmed, hundreds of people stepped from the darkness of School Street and into ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy September 1,2015 )
What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't by Jessamyn Conrad
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Jessamyn Conrad [Conrad, Jessamyn]

Current Debates In 1987, Republican senator John Chafee of Rhode Island introduced early legislation to phase out ozone-destroying substances, partly over concern about global warming, deeming them “monumental problems with ...
( Category: General September 1,2015 )
Light Years by James Salter
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:James Salter [Unknown]

Three 1 AT SIXTEEN, FRANCA CHANGED. She began to fulfill her promise. As if in a day, the way leaves appear, she suddenly had the power of self-possession. She woke ...
( Category: Family Life August 29,2015 )
The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ronald Bailey

The Biotech Farmer and the Organic Environmentalists Should Be Friends “The farmer and the cowman should be friends,” sing the folks in the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! So ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 28,2015 )
In Search of Respect by Bourgois Philippe
epub |eng | 2002-12-22 | Author:Bourgois, Philippe

Automatic gunfire rang out from the project’s courtyard just as we were about to cut diagonally through it to reach a grocery store to buy more beer. We abruptly stopped ...
( Category: Sociology August 27,2015 )
In the Time of the Americans by David Fromkin
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Fromkin [Fromkin, David]

THE PATTERN OF POLITICS that MacArthur observed in Europe as he traveled to observe army maneuvers there in 1931 and again in 1932 was not unlike that in Japan—and was ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 25,2015 )
Iran's Deadly Ambition by Ilan Berman
epub |eng | | Author:Ilan Berman [Berman, Ilan]

IRAN’S OBJECTIVES What, exactly, does Iran want in the Americas? Over the past decade and a half, Iran’s engagement with Central and South America has taken the form of a ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 25,2015 )
Unreasonable Men by Michael Wolraich
epub |eng | 2014-08-23 | Author:Michael Wolraich

8 THE INSURGENCY Adam and Eve were insurgents and ate of the forbidden fruit expecting to become gods. They only learned to see their own nakedness. Judas was an insurgent ...
( Category: History & Theory August 24,2015 )
1627794565 by J. S. Law
epub |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:J. S. Law [Law, J. S.]

Chapter 18 Sunday Lunchtime – 28th September 2014 The scent of lunch seemed to have permeated through the ventilation system and as Dan finished up another interview, she imagined that ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 23,2015 )
Generation Rent by Eaqub Shamubeel Eaqub Selena
epub |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:Eaqub, Shamubeel, Eaqub, Selena

If we are to solve New Zealand’s housing crisis, the public must be united in its understanding of the issues, the outcomes being sought, and the policies that will be ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian August 22,2015 )
7 Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich
mobi |eng | 2009-01-14 | Author:Andrew Krepinevich

THE LITTLE VIOLENT EMPERORS SINCE THE 1980S, CHINA’S ONE-CHILD POLICY AND THE COUNTRY’S cultural valuing of males over females, combined with prenatal sex identification and sex-selective abortions, have produced a ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 21,2015 )
Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy by Robert Higgs
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Robert Higgs [Higgs, Robert]

CONCLUSION Private developers are making significant efforts to protect environmental resources that add to the net collective value of the community. These efforts are simply profit-maximizing behavior by developers responding ...
( Category: Social Policy August 21,2015 )

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