Social Sciences
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-25 | Author:Michael Foley

9 The Atrophy of Experience It is getting towards the end of the afternoon of a heavily overcast day at the end of November. Light has long since abandoned the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Jeffrey Toobin [Toobin, Jeffrey]

As Tripp drew the Starr investigators deeper into the intrigue surrounding her own and Lewinsky’s affidavits and depositions, the question remained: Why was the Whitewater independent counsel investigating the Paula ...
( Category: National March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:James Hayward

5 Trench Myths The principal trench and battlefield myths examined in this chapter are those of the Crucified Canadian in 1915, and the German corpse conversion plant, which first gained ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Thomas E. Ricks

( Category: Iraq War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Nir Rosen [Rosen, Nir]

Though Gentile was skeptical that COIN was a cure-all, he knew that he could not kill his way out of the problems he was facing in the district either, so ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1819 Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), winter scenes recall ancient ones — snow opens the door unto a lost, mystical, medieval ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Daniel Diehl

Twelve From Russia with Hate: André Chikatilo (1978–90) Life has always been hard in the Russian states and it was especially true in 1936 when André Chikatilo was born in ...
( Category: Archaeology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-03 | Author:Edmund Leamy [Leamy, Edmund]

* * * THE FAIRY TREE OF DOOROS.[6] Once upon a time the fairies of the west, going home from a hurling-match with the fairies of the lakes, rested in ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Richard van Emden [Emden, Richard van]

9 The Big Push A BOY IN YEARS A MAN IN DEEDS 18/596 Private Willie Whitaker 18th West Yorkshire Regiment Killed in Action 1 July 1916, aged 18 In June ...
( Category: Children's Studies March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1937-03-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

PART TWO 8 The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear. In the earlier chapters of this book ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Darren Oldridge

THE CASE AGAINST WEREWOLVES Some of the best discussions of werewolves in pre-modern literature can be found in works on satanic witchcraft. This reflected the popular belief that witches could ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Emma Larkin

MONKS IN MANDALAY were said to be holding out against the soldiers. Whenever soldiers approached the monasteries there, the temple bells were rung and monks would mass together to form ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Sanyal, Sanjeev [Sanyal, Sanjeev]

Sadly for Delhi, Akbar shifted the capital south to Agra and then to a newly built city called Fatehpur Sikri. The latter took fifteen years to build but it was ...
( Category: Human Geography March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-23 | Author:Frank Dikötter [Dikötter, Frank]

As cash lost its purchasing power, ration coupons became a form of surrogate money. They were required for most essential goods, ranging from oil, grain, pork and cloth to thermos ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

As he left, Broadfoot told the General about his own anxieties: he had tried to get the smiths and armourers in the city to manufacture some mining tools to be ...
( Category: Asia March 26,2014 )