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Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:Colin Thubron

Chapter 8 Tashkent A familiar Soviet gloom permeated Samarkand’s railway station. Its gangways clanged to the trudge of labourers, and the air stank with diesel and steam spurting from vents ...
( Category: General Asia Travel Books March 25,2014 )
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Chapter VIII - Spring * Inside was pandemonium. Most men had gone to bed, and I have a blurred memory of men in pyjamas and dressing-gowns getting hold of me ...
( Category: Polar Regions March 25,2014 )
Cicero by Anthony Everitt
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Anthony Everitt

8 THE IDEAL CONSTITUTION Writing about Politics: 55–43 BC Now that he was no longer able to play an active role in the conduct of affairs, Cicero decided to find ...
( Category: Rome March 25,2014 )
The Portable Plato by Plato; Scott Buchanan
mobi |eng | 1953-01-02 | Author:Plato; Scott Buchanan

“For the life-giving daughters of Inachus the river of Argos”; —let us have no more lies of that sort. Neither must we have mothers under the influence of the poets ...
( Category: Greece March 25,2014 )
No-Man's Lands by Scott Huler
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Scott Huler

BEYOND WHAT IT TELLS US ABOUT ODYSSEUS, this episode makes a point about his crew that wasn’t clear to me until my wife pointed it out: “They’re red-shirts,” she said ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction by Penelope Wilson
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Penelope Wilson

into’ the sign. They are the writings for pr ‘to go out’ and aq ‘enter’. The sign of the man holding the hippopotamus by the tail is used in the ...
( Category: Instruction March 25,2014 )
Black Genesis by Robert Bauval
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Robert Bauval

OUT OF THE SAHARA AND INTO THE NILE VALLEY For many years a team of anthropologists headed by Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin of Cologne University in Germany have been ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
The Oxford History of Byzantium by Cyril Mango
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-05 | Author:Cyril Mango

Byzantium in the tenth century was realizing the benefits of the unglamorous strengths which it had built up in the struggle for survival in the seventh and eighth centuries, and ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2014 )
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

In summary, Britain’s follies were not so perverse as the Popes’. Ministers were not deaf to rising discontent, because they had no chance to be; expressed by their equals, it ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman

We come now to the gaping hole in the argument. It is the assumption that in the conditions prevailing after the Armistice, in the passion of anti-German feeling, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Imagining Atlantis by Richard Ellis
mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Richard Ellis

SHOWERS OF ASH rain down on the lagoon of Santorini in 1870 as the volcano begins to rumble. (illustration credit 6.5) According to Bond and Sparks, “it is the only ...
( Category: Prehistory March 25,2014 )
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER O N JULY 3, 1 9 0 8 , ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, ...
( Category: Human Geography March 25,2014 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1 by Edward Gibbon
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Edward Gibbon

Part VI. Athanasius had indeed escaped from the most imminent dangers; and the adventures of that extraordinary man deserve and fix our attention. On the memorable night when the church ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
California Hit by Don Pendleton
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-04-23 | Author:Don Pendleton

10: ABLE TEAM Wang Dang Doo, and Hanoi too. It had been one of those private jokes of a handful of scared-out-of-their-skull warriors known as Penetration Team Able. Bolan was ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine March 25,2014 )

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