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Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott A. Sandage & Scott A Sandage
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Scott A. Sandage & Scott A Sandage [Sandage, Scott A. & Sandage, Scott A]

This anti-Whig pamphlet from the 1840 presidential campaign portrayed small debtors at the mercy of commercial interests. (“White Slavery!! Or Selling White Men for Debt!” Lexington, Ky., 1840. Printed Ephemera ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
The Secret History of the Capitol by Edward P. Moser
epub |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Edward P. Moser [Moser, Edward P.]

PANDEMONIUM AT THE PORTICO Below the lines of blue-clad police, the marchers waited. Like San Francisco of old, B Street then had cable cars, and the clang of trolley wheels ...
( Category: other November 15,2021 )
Storied and Scandalous St. Louis: A History of Breweries, Baseball, Prohibition, and Protest by Jo Allison
epub |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Jo Allison [Allison, Jo]

THE HUMAN ZOO The visitors’ guide to the fair promoted it as “an exhibit of processes, rather than of products”—meaning, apparently, that the fair was a showcase of living exhibits. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies November 15,2021 )
Victorian Servants, a Very Peculiar History by Fiona Macdonald
epub |eng | 2012-02-03 | Author:Fiona Macdonald [Macdonald, Fiona]

Don’t let them in! Yes, you’ll be lonely, but don’t let that dashing young soldier who saluted you on the doorstep, or the butcher’s cheery errand boy, or the gossipy ...
( Category: African History November 15,2021 )
The Routledge History of the Second World War by Taylor & Francis Group
epub |eng | 2021-11-09 | Author:Taylor & Francis Group [Taylor & Group, Francis]

Notes Library and Archives Canada (hereafter LAC), Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/prime-ministers/william-lyon-mackenzie-king/Pages/search.aspx), entry for Tuesday, June 29, 1937. On King’s summit with Hitler, see R. Teigrob, Four Days ...
( Category: other November 15,2021 )
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 )
The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times' Misreporting, Fabrications and Distortions Radically Alter History by Ashley Rindsberg
epub |eng | 2021-05-03 | Author:Ashley Rindsberg [Rindsberg, Ashley]

With the mighty flash came a delayed roll of mighty thunder, heard just as the flash was seen for hundreds of miles. The roar echoed and reverberated from the distant ...
( Category: Accounting November 15,2021 )
Freedom of Speech and Expression: Its History, Its Value, Its Good Use, and Its Misuse by Richard Sorabji
epub |eng | 2021-03-31 | Author:Richard Sorabji [Sorabji, Richard]

2.11. Understanding the Opponent’s Case: St Paul and How to Oppose Blasphemy Charges in One’s Opponent’s Terms One of Mill’s most important contributions was his conclusion, extrapolated from Cicero, that ...
( Category: Administrative Law 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 Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence by Philip Dwyer & Mark Micale
epub |eng | 2021-08-12 | Author:Philip Dwyer & Mark Micale [Dwyer, Philip & Micale, Mark]

12 British imperial violence and the Middle East Caroline Elkins By the summer of 1938, the Arab Revolt in Mandatory Palestine had been raging for some two years and Britain ...
( Category: African History 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 )
Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire by Mauro José Caraccioli
epub, pdf |eng | 2021-11-15 | Author:Mauro José Caraccioli [Caraccioli, Mauro José]

Once upon a Time: A Narrative History of the Conquest of Nature Toward the end of the long sixteenth century, Acosta’s conception of natural philosophy was disseminated across Europe through ...
( Category: Anthropology 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 )

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