Science & Math
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Condoleezza Rice

Being served a strawberry drink in Dubai during a visit with Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates and a member of the ruling family. ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-04-04 | Author:Dean Koontz

SANTORELLI: Pull! BLANE: Oh, wow. SANTORELLI: Mother of God BLANE: Oh, yeah. SANTORELLI: No. BLANE: (childlike excitement) Oh, yeah. SANTORELLI: Susan. BLANE: Now. Look. Santorelli begins to scream. BLANE: Cool. ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-01 | Author:Robert Coram

Chapter Seventeen The Fighter Mafia Does the Lord’s Work BOYD’S retirement date was drawing closer when, in May 1969, he received an extraordinary ER. His boss, Colonel Robert Titus, fire ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Mike Mullane; R. Mike Mullane

Chapter 22 Coming to America The next morning we prepared for reentry. We scrubbedDiscovery ’s walls and windows clean. An earlier crew had turned over a dirty vehicle to their ...
( Category: Science & Math March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

So, through the baroque imagination of a Greek master, ‘Alexander’s Wedding to Roxane’ won a prize at the festival games of Greek Olympia and survived through a Roman visitor’s description ...
( Category: Greece March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Mark Stein

Sam Houston (1793-1863) (photo credit 25.1) The press reported on the duel as if it were the sporting event of the year, which, in effect, it was. The New York ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:David McCullough

• • • UNTIL A SUITABLE HOUSE could be found, the three Adamses were residing in the Bath Hotel in Piccadilly, where, after the quiet of Auteuil, the noise of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Erik Larson

“HOW COULD I TELL HIM,” she wrote later, “that it was one of the strangest evenings I had ever spent in my life?” A sense of foreboding tempered her enjoyment. ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-10-25 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

CHASE, UNLIKE LINCOLN, was never able to forgo his statesmanlike persona and simply enjoy conversations and lighter amusements. He was inclined to let things fester, brooding over perceived slights and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-05-27 | Author:H.W. Brands

The riots gave bite to demands by the opponents of the Stamp Act for a coordinated rejection of the stamps. As few souls dared incur the wrath of the mobs, ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Coho Smith captured Cynthia Ann as no one else has. Other people saw her as sullen, brooding, unresponsive, detached. Despondent. Even crazy, or at least so far sunk in savagery ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-11-02 | Author:Caroline Alexander

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

One unwelcome novelty of the latter half of the twentieth century, for example, was the race riot, among the most notable being those of Notting Hill in 1958 and of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources 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, pdf |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Christopher McDougall

CHAPTER 23 WE WHEEZED into Creel well after nightfall, the bus shuddering to a stop with a hiss from the brakes like a sigh of relief. Outside the window, I ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )