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epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Rory Stewart

A REMARKABLE OCCUPATION Amir Abdur Rahman, who ruled Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901, was, according to former World Bank anthropologist Ashraf Ghani, one of the most successful state-builders of the ...
( Category: Specific Topics September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Gwen Watkins

Chapter 11 Changes IT HAD BECOME OBVIOUS very quickly that the huts did not provide enough working space for the growing numbers of BP workers, so in 1942 two two-storey ...
( Category: European September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Kershaw, Alex

FOURTEEN THE COUP: JULY 20, 1944 KLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, a tall and handsome thirty-seven-year-old German colonel, stood alone in a bathroom inside Adolf Hitler’s Prussian headquarters—the so-called Wolf’s Lair. It ...
( Category: European September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Ronnie Greene [Greene, Ronnie]

FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, it was time to act. They began on the outside, approaching Detective Jeffrey Lehrmann, who worked closely with Kaufman in crafting the initial reports. The Feds ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Brown, Seyom

The charge has been made that the United States has shipped weapons to Iran in ransom payment for the release of American hostages in Lebanon, that the United States undercut ...
( Category: Diplomacy September 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Victoria Bruce [Bruce, Victoria]

14 Capture and Extradition For a few days in October 2003, after Botero’s footage of the three American hostages appeared in the United States on CBS’s 60 Minutes II, the ...
( Category: Colombia September 5,2015 )
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 )
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Glenn Beck

LIE #10 * * * “ISLAM RESPECTS THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.” “While it needs to be acknowledged that atrocities have been committed against women overseas in the name of Islam, ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Barragan, Yesenia [Barragan, Yesenia]

And there it is. For a moment, we can see Rosalia’s coarse black hands running through a pile of soggy dirt, gray rocks, pebbles, combing her wooden pan in search ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-08-16 | Author:Richard Sennett

THIS ELEMENTAL STORY, however, might have a different coloring in a different society. The sociological dimension of Rose’s exposure to risk lies in how institutions shape an individual’s efforts to ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 17,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Henry Kamen [Kamen, Henry]

Graph 1. Prosecutions in the tribunal of Toledo, 1483–1700. The number of acquittals, though few, was an improvement on the medieval tribunal, which as a rule never acquitted. In its ...
( Category: Christianity July 31,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:David E. Hoffman [Hoffman, David E.]

On Monday, December 8, 1980, at 8:25 p.m., Rolph went to see Tolkachev in a wooded park at the Moscow Zoo, located near Tolkachev’s apartment building. Tolkachev often passed the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union July 22,2015 )
epub |ara | 2015-01-28 | Author:Michael Weiss & Hassan Hassan [Weiss, Michael]

10 CONVERTS AND “FIVE-STAR JIHADISTS” PROFILES OF ISIS FIGHTERS For this book we conducted interviews with dozens of ISIS associates who operate inside Syria and Iraq in a range of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:Steve Coll

BY THE AUTUMN OF 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. ...
( Category: Specific Topics July 20,2015 )