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On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F Dixon
epub |eng | | Author:Norman F Dixon

21 Military Achievement ‘How my achievements mock me!’ SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida, IV. ii BESIDES PROVIDING LEGITIMATE outlets for aggression, the gratification of obsessive tendencies and reassurances about virility, armies ...
( Category: Military September 28,2017 )
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power by Amy Sonnie
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Amy Sonnie [Sonnie, Amy]

In 1972 Raymond Tackett, a Chicago Patriots member, had described the devastation that shattered the organizations in the Rainbow Coalition. “Every time one of us were arrested, we could see ...
( Category: Sociology September 27,2017 )
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Douglas Smith [Smith, Douglas]

16 THE FOX-TROT AFFAIR With the end of the civil war and the advent of NEP, a certain normalcy returned to Russia. Life seemed easier, unremarkable, although only in contrast ...
( Category: Sociology September 27,2017 )
Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Anna Quindlen [Quindlen, Anna]

FOOLING AROUND GOSSIP So I’m reading about Joan Collins, who got married last year in Las Vegas to a man fourteen years her junior whose only resume description was “former ...
( Category: Women's Studies September 27,2017 )
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski [Schroff, Laura & Tresniowski, Alex]

Not long after our Thanksgiving together, I asked Maurice what he usually did for Christmas. “Nothing,” he said with a shrug. “What do you mean? Don’t you celebrate Christmas?” “Nope.” ...
( Category: Regional U.S September 27,2017 )
Knowledge in the Time of Cholera by Owen Whooley
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Owen Whooley [Whooley, Owen]

Some Welch rabbits, from the Wellcome Library, London. Table 4.1. Welch’s network* *This list is not intended to be exhaustive but rather illustrative of the extent of Welch’s influence. His ...
( Category: Medicine September 27,2017 )
Girl Trouble by Dyhouse Carol
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Dyhouse, Carol

6.1 A young Marianne Faithfull looking innocent, 1967 (© Stanley Sherman/Getty Images). Speculation about the details of Faithfull’s love life was wild. A story about (unspecified) sexual practices involving a ...
( Category: World September 27,2017 )
The Culture of Cities (Forbidden Bookshelf) by Lewis Mumford
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Lewis Mumford [Mumford, Lewis]

16: Possibilities of Renewal History is full of burying grounds: the dead forms and deserted shards of communities that had not learned the art of living in harmonious relations with ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 27,2017 )
Blurred Lines by Vanessa Grigoriadis
epub |eng | | Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis

Dead Meat The truth is that predators come in all stripes—serial and not, frat brothers and not. I heard a story about a couple of DJs at one school assaulting ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching September 27,2017 )
Medicine Unbundled by Geddes Gary;
epub |eng | 2017-05-05 | Author:Geddes, Gary; [Неизв.]

twenty-four Here’s the Scoop Manitoba figures prominently in Canada’s Indigenous history, not only for the Louis Riel and Red River Resistance of 1870 and the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, led ...
( Category: Sociology September 27,2017 )
Confessions of a Funeral Director by Caleb Wilde
epub |eng | 2017-08-11 | Author:Caleb Wilde

11 SARA’S MOSAIC It was six in the morning. My grandfather and I drove up to the house, and an uncle of the deceased was standing outside with a cigarette ...
( Category: Sociology September 26,2017 )
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Laura Spinney

PART SIX: Science Redeemed René Dujarric de la Rivière in an army laboratory, Calais, 1915 13 Aenigmoplasma influenzae In the dog days of August 1914, an ageing Ilya Mechnikov–Russian exile, ...
( Category: World September 26,2017 )
The Slave's Cause by Sinha Manisha
epub |eng | 2015-09-26 | Author:Sinha, Manisha [Sinha, Manisha]

13 FUGITIVE SLAVE ABOLITIONISM On February 24, 1844, the Liberator printed an admiring report on Frederick Douglass’s “masterly and impressive” speech in Concord, New Hampshire. The fugitive slave was the ...
( Category: World September 26,2017 )
Modern Death by Haider Warraich
epub |eng | | Author:Haider Warraich

When Guardians Are Burdened Death has always been a family affair. But the metamorphosis of death has changed the role family plays as patients undergo a protracted dying. People these ...
( Category: Medicine September 25,2017 )
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels & Tristram Hunt
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Friedrich Engels & Tristram Hunt [Engels, Friedrich & Hunt, Tristram]

All the members of an Iroquois gens were personally free, and they were bound to defend each other’s freedom; they were equal in privileges and in personal rights, the sachem ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 25,2017 )

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