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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species by Rob Dunn
epub |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Rob Dunn [Dunn, Rob]

CHAPTER 7 Embracing Diversity to Balance Risk THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE LAST CENTURY has been a matter not of sustainability or flavor or nutrition, but of quantity. Crop ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times by Patrick Joyce
epub |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Patrick Joyce [Joyce, Patrick]

This Padua on the Foyle was nonetheless a war machine, a gigantic device for exercising physical and symbolic domination. In the Troubles, the British Army erected enormous surveillance towers on ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies November 15,2021 )
The First of Everything: A History of Human Invention, Innovation and Discovery by Stewart Ross
epub |eng | 2019-10-03 | Author:Stewart Ross [Ross, Stewart]

METAL AND MACHINERY SMELTING We had to get hold of metal before we could start using it. The first was gold, which – together with occasional amounts of copper – ...
( Category: Automotive November 15,2021 )
The Little History of Essex by Judith Williams
epub |eng | 2017-09-01 | Author:Judith Williams [Williams, Judith]

Matthew Hopkins, who called himself the ‘Witchfinder General’. QUAKERS AND CONGREGATIONALISTS Eighteen-year-old James Parnell, a convert to Quakerism, came to Essex in 1655 to preach his religious ideas. He was ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann
epub |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Thom Hartmann [Hartmann, Thom]

The Beveridge Report: The British Plan for Defense and Welfare The Beveridge Report, while not well known in the United States, is as familiar to every British schoolchild as Lincoln’s ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles November 15,2021 )
Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing From Pavlov to Social Media by Joel E. Dimsdale
epub |eng | 2021-08-10 | Author:Joel E. Dimsdale [Dimsdale, Joel E.]

There was no doubt that Patricia Hearst had participated in the Hibernia bank robbery. The question was why did she do so, or, more precisely, what was her “intent.” For ...
( Category: Health Recovery November 15,2021 )
Takin' Care of Business: A History of Working People's Rock 'N' Roll by George Case
epub |eng | 2021-03-19 | Author:George Case [Case, George]

7 For Those About to Rock A society of utility, for all the indisputable ways that it exploited men’s health and labor, and in an industrial context broke the backs ...
( Category: Architecture November 15,2021 )
The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel by Mark S. Smith
epub |eng | 2002-08-03 | Author:Mark S. Smith [Smith, Mark S.]

1. For secondary literature up to 1975, see Cooper, “Divine Names and Epithets in the Ugaritic Texts,” 350-52; see also M. H. Pope, “Baal Worship,” EncJud 4:7-12; R. Rendtorff, “El, ...
( Category: Christian Bibles November 15,2021 )
Secrets of the Force: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars by Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman
epub |eng | 2021-07-13 | Author:Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman [Gross, Edward & Altman, Mark A.]

KYLE NEWMAN (director, Fanboys) I know people malign Return of the Jedi, which is sad. I think it’s one of the boldest independent movies ever made. The guy took the ...
( Category: Architecture November 15,2021 )
The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland: From the First Century to the Twenty-First by Gerald Bray
epub |eng | 2021-06-17 | Author:Gerald Bray [Bray, Gerald]

The Great Schism Oliver Cromwell died on 3 September 1658 and before long the Commonwealth of which he had been Lord Protector started to unravel. Cromwell’s son, Richard, succeeded him ...
( Category: Christian Bibles November 15,2021 )
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh by Ed Simon
epub |eng | 2021-04-20 | Author:Ed Simon [Simon, Ed]

1877 The Great Railroad Strike When the Pennsylvania Railroad and Union Depot, situated in the Strip District, caught fire in 1877, there wasn’t doubt as to its cause. Torched by ...
( Category: Architecture November 15,2021 )
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Carla L. Peterson [Peterson, Carla L.]

CHAPTER SEVEN The Draft Riots JULY 1863 IT WAS A LOTTERY—the simple act of reading names drawn from a barrel—that sparked the riot. Early on the morning of Monday, July ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies November 15,2021 )
American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants by Robert E. Bartholomew & Anja Reumschuessel
epub |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Robert E. Bartholomew & Anja Reumschuessel [Bartholomew, Robert E. & Reumschuessel, Anja]

From these, squads of troops were sent to search out with rifle and bayonet every small cabin hidden away in the coves or by the sides of mountain streams, to ...
( Category: Health Recovery November 15,2021 )
The Little History of Bristol by Maurice Fells
epub |eng | 2021-03-19 | Author:Maurice Fells [Fells, Maurice]

A Spa for Clifton To build a spa with a pump room for Clifton, George Newnes converted three houses at the end of Princes Buildings. Apart from guests taking the ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
Battleground Sussex: A Military History of Sussex From the Iron Age to the Present Day by John Grehan
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:John Grehan [Grehan, John]

A gun emplacement and magazine of the 19th century Lower Battery at Newhaven, which is now adjacent to the West Beach car park. (TQ 448001). In the same year the ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )

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