Social Sciences
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas H. Cook

By the end of May, Judge Walter Geer—the special prosecutor’s uncle, a kinship defense attorneys would raise many times in the coming years—had appointed eight lawyers to defend the four ...
( Category: True Crime December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Graeme Davis

A statue of Theseus in Syntagma Square, Athens. Theseus is credited with laying the foundations for the city’s future greatness. (Nikos Pavlakis / Alamy) Plutarch also tells us that Theseus ...
( Category: Greek & Roman December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Isherwood, Christopher]

Twelve September 25, 1944. Swami, George, Sarada, and I drove to Montecito this morning. At present, there is nothing to report. It’s just another move. I have a dear little ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-05-01 | Author:Gearhart, Sally Miller [Gearhart, Sally Miller]

8 - Stone - [2087 C.E.] "Habitantes are being punished for crimes against their fellow citizens. They belong in cells or at least in restraints. To allow them to roam ...
( Category: Epic Fantasy December 27,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Rebecca Solnit [Solnit, Rebecca]

Iceland’s national parliament, or Althing—the word for “assembly” being, in Icelandic, thing—was formed in 930 AD, about sixty years after the first settlers came over from Norway. They met at ...
( Category: Literature December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Humberto Fontova

COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU Some perspective: Castro’s guerrilla war, plus the urban insurgency against Batista in Cuba that saw the U.S. State Department issue travel warnings and evacuate ...
( Category: Cuba December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Gay Talese [Talese, Gay]

It was the general consensus on the eighth floor that the news reporters on the third floor, with some exceptions, were artless writers who lacked the organizational ability and reportorial ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-26 | Author:Omar Tyree

Philly Girl Yeah, that’s me, T-r-a-c-y, and I USED to be flyy, but now I levitate mentally. You can’t get into me. What you get is NOT what you see. ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Kathy Page

26 Detailed case conferences come around once every seven weeks, unless there’s an emergency. The staff meet in Mackenzie’s office; he gives a draft report then asks for their comments ...
( Category: Criminology December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Herbie Hancock

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Back in 1965, when I turned that Yardley cologne jingle into the song “Maiden Voyage,” I discovered something cool about writing music. I had been completely stuck, unable ...
( Category: Jazz December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hebert

Pure First test—wrestling. The women come in from the fields to watch the matches. Nathan’s opponent is Agawam, the son of Seekonk. While they strip down for fighting, Caucus-Meteor advises ...
( Category: Native American Studies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-12-26 | Author:Jennifer Toth

GRAFFITI COMES FROM THE ITALIAN WORD, GRAFFIO, WHICH MEANS TO scratch. It is used to describe many different kinds of wall writings, and dates back at least to ancient Egypt. ...
( Category: Poverty December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Grossman, David

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, New York, April 24, 2007 Individual Language and Mass Language To open the International Literature Festival Berlin as an Israeli author is not ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:David DeKok [DeKok, David]

LL WHO WERE AT CENTRALIA ON FEBRUARY 14, 1981, WERE HORRIFIED. Had SecretaryJames Watt been there, or Governor Dick Thornburgh, aid might have flowed to the beleaguered village within the ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kent Nerburn

13 “Our People Are Hungry and Weak” A HUNDRED MILES farther ahead, the Nez Perce sensed the weakening pursuit. Attacks by the Crow and Bannock had dwindled to almost nothing. ...
( Category: Native American Studies December 27,2014 )