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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1926-01-01 | Author:H.L. Mencken

5. Utopia Thus the ideal of democracy is reached at last: it has become a psychic impossibility for a gentleman to hold office under the Federal Union, save by a ...
( Category: Democracy September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1995-01-19 | Author:Paine, Thomas & Mark Philp [Paine, Thomas]

Having thus spoken of constitutions generally, as things distinct from actual governments, let us proceed to consider the parts of which a constitution is composed. Opinions differ more on this ...
( Category: History & Theory September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Adam Jones

In terms of absolute numbers of prisoners, the Gulag system peaked in the post-World War II era. As part of the ‘destalinization’ process following the dictator’s death, it was rapidly ...
( Category: African September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Guy Standing

Witnesses and assessments made under oath, no condemnation without due process and nothing disproportional – all this was strengthened by later clauses, with the ‘we’ referring to the king: 38. ...
( Category: Social Policy September 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:William J. Bernstein [Bernstein, William J.]

The VOC quickly recognized that if it was to monopolize the spice trade, the Bandanese would have to go. And go they did, with a brutality and efficiency that would ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Robert B. Silvers [Silvers, Robert B.]

Indeed, the question is not why there is any cultural activity in Sarajevo now after seventeen months of siege, but why there isn’t more. Outside a boarded-up movie theater next ...
( Category: Human Rights September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yvonne M. Ward

Chapter 8 THE WELCOME FOREIGNER: PRINCE ALBERT TIME AND AGAIN, IT has been observed by biographers how unlike his father Albert was. Born in 1819, Albert was the second son ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kessler, Ronald [Kessler, Ronald]

18 Keystone Cops WHEN PEOPLE PICTURE THE OLD CIA, THEY ARE MOST likely thinking of the Office of Security. It was the CIA’s Office of Security, starting in 1967, that ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:David Grossman

Stop Mumbling November 2000 The al-Aksa Intifada continued to gain momentum, despite a statement made by Arafat and Barak at an emergency summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, initiated by President Clinton, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-29 | Author:Simon Brett [Simon Brett]

Chapter Thirteen OUT OF THE corner of his eye, Charles kept catching movement on a television screen high in the corner of the marquee. White figures moved against a green ...
( Category: Comparative Politics September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Chris DeRose

State: Total population: Slave population: Virginia (includes Kentucky) 821,287 305,057 Massachusetts (includes Maine) 475,327 None Pennsylvania 434,373 3,737 New York (includes Vermont) 425,659 21,324 North Carolina 393,751 100,572 Maryland 319,728 ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen P. Halbrook

It is noteworthy that, on the face of the law, Jews were not named as automatically disqualified. Gypsies were the only ethnic group that did not qualify. It might be ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 22,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Fleming, Ian [Fleming, Ian]

5 ENTER MR. ORFORD THE LEVANTER WENT on blowing, and Blaize and I spent a whole day in my room at the Minzah, reading through what I had written and ...
( Category: African September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Stockman [Stockman, David A.]

CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT DEFORMATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS How Wall Street Got Huge THE COLLAPSE OF THREE SEPARATE $5 TRILLION FINANCIAL BUBBLES in less than a decade attested to the ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Jonathan Rieder

A Child Shall Lead Them To ignite the Birmingham campaign, King would need more than his passionate preaching. He would also need to draw on the remarkable initiative of some ...
( Category: Asian September 18,2014 )