Social Sciences
mobi | | 2010-04-27 | Author:Wes Moore; Tavis Smiley

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about "sacrifice," I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 8,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-30 | Author:Aleksandr Voinov;Raev Gray

* * * * Abdul left the tent certain that every man in the camp could see Thierry all over him, could smell him, sense him, even see Abdul’s thoughts, ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Kathleen Warnock

POOL PARTY Zoe Amos It was one of those days when the heat slows you down and the humidity curls the wallpaper off the walls. There’s not much to do ...
( Category: Anthologies September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-08 | Author:Barbara G. Walker

FIFTEEN Some traditional fairy tales are morality dramas, designed to teach children that virtuous behavior earns rewards and vices will be punished. Such stories may depict naughtiness transformed into goodness ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Perrault [Perrault, Charles]

The princess was astonished, and said nothing at all (for she could not think of anything to say). “I see,” said Riquet with the Tuft, “that this proposal makes you ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths September 8,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:M. William Phelps [Phelps, M. William]

40 UP UNTIL THE moment she received the call, it had been a beautiful summer day on the water for Emily and a few close friends. They were enjoying the ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Richard Wright [Wright, Richard]

In my party work I met a Negro Communist, Ross, who was under indictment for “inciting to riot.” I decided to use him in my series of biographical sketches. His ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 8,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Nevo, Eshkol [Nevo, Eshkol]

9 THEY’RE STANDING ON either side of her, barely reaching her shoulders. She’s looking at the camera with that piercing stare of hers (the girl’s too smart, Maria once told ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Jin Yong [Yong, Jin]

* * * All this while, Century had been listening with rapt attention in silence. Suddenly, he broke in, "I know the reason why the Gilt-faced Buddha insisted on challenging ...
( Category: Classics September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-17 | Author:Casey Watson

Chapter 14 Happily, despite the copious amount of blood, Georgie didn’t need any stitches. ‘It’s typical of this sort of head wound,’ the kindly and very patient A&E nurse explained. ...
( Category: Memoirs September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Cristina Garcia [Garcia, Cristina]

No sooner had the dictator returned from the aquarium than the morning’s troubles resumed in full force. The crashing euro meant fewer tourists and trade. Imports to Cuba had fallen ...
( Category: United States September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 1972-12-31 | Author:Henry Hazlitt [Hazlitt, Henry]

Overlooking the Victims It is amazing to find how systematically the self-proclaimed humanitarians, even among professional economists, have managed to overlook the unemployed, or the still more poorly paid workers, ...
( Category: Economics September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-01 | Author:Robert Santelli & Emily Davidson

Notes 1. Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1996), 272. 2. For preliminary discussions of the American way, see ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:E. L. Doctorow [Doctorow, E. L.]

Act Two (A few minutes later. Everyone onstage, as in Act One. But the guest of honor, ALAN, sits tied to a straight-back chair. EDGAR holds the gun.) EDGAR Speaking ...
( Category: Anthropology September 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:West, Ed [West, Ed]

8 Multiculturalism The liberal response to diversity Just as Rushdie said, the new empire was built, with the British state adapting to its new colonial population just as it did ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 8,2017 )