Social Sciences
mobi |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Patrick Myler

12 BOMBER COMMAND In the spring of 1938, Louis was in Washington as guest of honor at the Colored Order of Elks national convention. President Roosevelt, spotting a propaganda opportunity, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jim Frederick

Sergeant First Class Blaisdell was at Yusufiyah trying to get a mission under way. A few days earlier, they had caught some suspicious types driving around and found several weapons ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Black

WHAT IS LESS WELL KNOWN IS THAT ANOTHER enemy was at work on the other side of the world. There an initiate wielded a blacker, more powerful magic than that ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Katherine Ashenburg

The poor were not the only ones who found bathing suspect. Earnest and self-denying, the middle class and the more religious circles of the upper class distrusted the self-indulgence of ...
( Category: Social Work March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Andrew Marr

And Yet It Moves A day in August 1609: in one of the most gorgeously decorated rooms in the world, the Hall of the College in the Doge’s Palace in ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-18 | Author:Christopher Caldwell

Chapter 8 Rules for Sex Sexual freedom as a nonnegotiable European demand—Virginity and violence—Islam or custom?—The appeal of sharia—Arranged marriages—The Danish marriage law—Controversies over the headscarf—The French veil law—Compulsory liberation ...
( Category: Social Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Official portrait from the swearing in of Aguirre as lehendakari. The oath, in Euskera, is printed on the portrait. (Sabino Arana Foundation, Bilbao) Children who grew up in the 1930s ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Robert Lacey

ELIZABETH - QUEEN OF HEARTS 1559 ELIZABETH I WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER Abbey on 15 January 1559 — a date selected by her astrologer, Dr John Dee. Cheering crowds had ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Guy Halsall

A: The Origins of the southernmost English Kingdom (Kent) (32 words) B.1: Introductory comment about Arthur (16 words) B.2: Battle 1 (9 words) B.3 Battles 2–5 (18 words)Z B.1 & ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Marr, Andrew [Marr, Andrew]

There were worse worlds for revolutionaries, and more serious revolutionaries too. In the final days of a freezing November in 1923 in a grimy street in Pollockshaws, just outside Glasgow, ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Philip Carr-Gomm

The Key of Solomon, which probably originated from Byzantine Greek sources in the late fourteenth century, was translated into Latin, then into Italian, French and English. Some of the most ...
( Category: Theology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:Adam Ardrey

Having placed his bare foot in the stone—according to John McLeod in his book Highlanders—the Lord of the Isles then turned “sunwise” three times, taking in the four points of ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:C. J. Chivers

III AFTERMATH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AK-47’S GLOBAL SPREAD CHAPTER 7 The Accidental Rifle So carry your rifle (they don’t give a damn), just pray you won’t need it while ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Mark Collins Jenkins

WITCHES AND WEREWOLVES In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull making witchcraft a heresy in Catholic Europe. Yet, the hysteria that overtook Europe in the 16th and 17th ...
( Category: Occultism March 25,2014 )