Sociology
mobi |eng | 1979-12-31 | Author:Adam Parfrey

8) The Extended Weekend — There have been occasional three-day weekends before, but never like this. Long weekends are necessary to allow spending and recreational time while maintaining the illusion ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-08-22 | Author:David Simon

SEVEN Summertime and the living is easy, says Gershwin. But he never had to work murders in Baltimore, where summer steams and swelters and splits open wide like a mile ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Foner

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Adam Goodheart

THE CONVENTION TO DETERMINE Missouri’s course in the national crisis assembled in St. Louis on March 4. Although this was also, by chance, the day of Lincoln’s inauguration, it dawned ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-09-07 | Author:Robert Greene; Joost Elffers

48 Laws of Power LAW 28 ENTER ACTION WITH BOLDNESS JUDGMENT If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:John Piper & Jonathan Aitken

AmazingGraceLWW.48754.i04.qxd 12/6/06 1:59 PM Page 43 A Multitude of Christlike Causes 43 only of the clergy. In a chance meeting with James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s biographer, he spent time into ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Andrea Stuart

11 The history of liberty is a history of resistance. —WOODROW WILSON WHILE THE ISLANDERS strove to further consolidate their sugar empire, the outside world was once again nipping at ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-06 | Author:Wendy Burden

For the first time since bearing them, our mother actually had to take care of her children. Will was mostly away, either at school or camp, or at our grandparents’, ...
( Category: Class March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Sheila McClear

A scruffy guy with a beard who looked like he’d been on a motorcycle for the last twenty years came in. I expected him to go to Katrina, but he ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-12 | Author:Lee Lamothe

CHAPTER 28 NEW YORK AND MONTREAL, 1994 The Sixth Family was unmoved by the failure of the occasional new venture or the lengthy sentence issued against a senior member, even ...
( Category: Sociology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-07 | Author:Tracy Kidder

Jim Kim tried rhetoric first in the opening speech the next day. Many people had asked him, he told the crowd, why a little organization like PIH had taken on ...
( Category: Pathology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Dorothy Day

1962 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 10 [PITTSBURGH] Slept at Strassers until 9, Erica drove me to Duquesne chapel where there was a Mass beautifully participated in by the students. Later I went ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen. So I have recently learned a song, entitled “If It Be Your ...
( Category: Oncology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Roger Rosenblatt

In Bethesda, Ginny writes a poem called “Arch of Shade”— Rachmaninoff and Mozart Sift through the haze On River Road. Two hatted women wait In the heat for the Ride-on-bus. ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )