Politics & Government
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Tony Judt [Judt, Tony]

2 Except when it can be exploited for demagogic ends. When in the year 2000 Magdalen College, Oxford, didn’t offer a place to a young woman from a state school ...
( Category: Historiography November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Philip Larkin [Philip Larkin]

And the countryside not caring: The place-names all hazed over With flowering grasses, and fields Shadowing Domesday lines Under wheat’s restless silence; The differently-dressed servants With tiny rooms in huge ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Kornbluh, Joyce L., Rosemont, Franklin, Thompson, Fred, Gross, Daniel

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addressing strikers in Paterson, 1913. Brown Brothers photo. The first period of the strike meant for us persecution and propaganda, those two things. Our work was to ...
( Category: Radicalism November 24,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Summers, Anthony & Swan, Robbyn [Summers, Anthony]

TO SOME INTIMATES of the terrorists, the event that was coming was no secret. On the morning of the 10th in California—around noon East Coast time—a group of Arabs gathered ...
( Category: United States November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Matt Bai [Bai, Matt]

Taylor recalled that he and his colleagues also spent some time discussing the extreme difficulty of even reporting such a story. The two people having the affair wouldn’t talk, and ...
( Category: National November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]

If Marjorie, sitting in the pretty little old stone church of a hundred years ago, that was now called “the chapel,” and listening to the young preacher making salvation plainer ...
( Category: Christian Romance November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Catherine Higgs [Higgs, Catherine]

Lourenco Marques, Mozambique. From Collection A2717-32, by permission of Historical Papers, William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. By 1898, when the city became the capital, 4,902 ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

It was raining again when we reached Gleawecestre. Water was puddling in the fields, pouring down the road’s stone-choked gutters, and turning the stone of the Roman walls dark. We ...
( Category: Military November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens

[8] FDR’s Victory; Churchill’s Defeat Reviewing the American reaction to the aftermath of the First World War, Professor Selig Adler identified a predominant strain of what he called “disillusionist” thinking. ...
( Category: Diplomacy November 24,2014 )
epub | | 1985-11-23 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez

FIVE ON THE OCCASION of the celebration of the new century, there was an innovative program of public ceremonies, the most memorable of which was the first journey in a ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ben Okri [Ben Okri]

CHAPTER SIXTY–FIVE About initiations we ought to be silent. They are often sacred and private events. What rituals are wrought there belong to the initiated and should not be bared ...
( Category: Pop Culture November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Carolyn McKinstry

Chapter 12 The Most Dangerous Racist in America * * * [George Wallace is] perhaps the most dangerous racist in America. . . . I am not sure that he ...
( Category: State & Local November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:Andrew Marr [Andrew Marr]

8 Tuesday, 19 September Referendum Day Minus Two The Campaign What a man. What a leader. Over the weekend, as Whitehall insiders knew, the prime minister had been working flat ...
( Category: Europe November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:A. J. Langguth [Langguth, A. J.]

Thomas Jefferson in 1768 PRIVATE COLLECTION Jefferson 1775–76 EARLY IN the winter of 1776, John Adams read a new pamphlet with a provocative title. He sent a copy to Abigail ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Alan Dershowitz [Dershowitz, Alan]

27 Accusing Hamas of Using Human Shields Is Not Racist July 23, 2014 While Israel uses shelters and the Iron Dome to protect its civilians, Hamas uses its civilians to ...
( Category: Middle Eastern November 23,2014 )