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Flying Warbirds: An Illustrated Profile of the Flying Heritage Collection's Rare WWII-Era Aircraft by Cory Graff
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Cory Graff [Graff, Cory]

performance fighter aircraft before. They said they could make a better plane than the P-40, and would design and build the first one in less than 120 days. Amazingly, NAA ...
( Category: History of Technology February 25,2020 )
On This Date by Carl M. Cannon
epub |eng | 2017-07-17 | Author:Carl M. Cannon

July 8, 1891 The Duchess Warren G. Harding, a Marion, Ohio, newspaper publisher, was a handsome young man on the rise when he came courting Florence Mabel Kling DeWolfe. She ...
( Category: Reference February 25,2020 )
Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola
epub |eng | | Author:Philippe Descola [Philippe Descola]

10 Terms, Relations, Categories Now that we have completed this tour of ontologies, both exotic and familiar, we can define and enrich the table of modes of identification with more ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 25,2020 )
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Timothy Brook
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Timothy Brook [Brook, Timothy]

THE people of the Yuan and Ming believed that the cosmos consisted of three powers or realms. Heaven was above, Earth was below, and they were in between. Heaven was ...
( Category: Europe February 25,2020 )
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis
epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Mark Edward Lewis [Lewis, Mark Edward]

Fig. 13 The virtuous woman of Liang holding a mirror and knife to cut off her nose, as the ruler’s messenger arrives. In practice, women successfully subverted these teachings at ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 25,2020 )
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China by Dieter Kuhn
epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Dieter Kuhn [Kuhn, Dieter]

Fig. 5 A Solitary Temple amidst Clearing Peaks. Attributed to Li Cheng (919–967), Northern Song dynasty. Hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, ...
( Category: Confucianism February 25,2020 )
The Imperial Capitals of China: A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire by Arthur Cotterell
epub |eng | 2008-05-29 | Author:Arthur Cotterell [Cotterell, Arthur]

CHAPTER 7 Almost Paradise: Northern Song Kaifeng Two huge frolicking dragons, covered with blue cloth and stuffed with straw, were placed on the left and the right of the palace ...
( Category: Architecture February 25,2020 )
Cape Horn to Starboard by John Kretschmer
epub |eng | | Author:John Kretschmer

6 * * * • • • * * * HEADWINDS AND HEADACHES WE ALTERNATED STEERING AND pumping in hourly stints. Around midnight, after we’d emptied most of the water ...
( Category: Excursion Guides February 24,2020 )
The Paradoxical Prime Minister by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Unknown

376 Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, ‘A bill for juvenile injustice’, The Hindu , 27 April 2015. 377 ‘Crime in India 2016 Statistics’, National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs. 378 Danish ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership February 24,2020 )
Kant's Human Being by Louden Robert B.;
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Louden, Robert B.;

SELF-LOVE AND THE MORAL LAW In the previous section I argued in part that Kant’s account of radical evil is not primarily a theory about why people commit acts of ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching February 24,2020 )
Bhagavad Gita by unknow
azw3, mobi |eng | 2000-02-23 | Author:unknow

[9.1–3] Chapter 9 THE SECRET OF LIFE THE BLESSED LORD SAID: Because you trust me, Arjuna, I will tell you what wisdom is, the secret of life: know it and ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 24,2020 )
Primate Change by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Vybarr Cregan-Reid

1 Babies are all born long-sighted. As we grow, the eyeball changes shape and, like an auto-focus on a camera, tries to find the optimal point of refraction. Any camera-owner ...
( Category: Evolution February 24,2020 )
New World Gold: Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain by Vilches Elvira
epub |eng | | Author:Vilches, Elvira

The more plentiful money is in Medina, the more unfavorable are the terms of exchange, and the higher the price that must be paid by whoever wishes to send money ...
( Category: Biography & History February 24,2020 )
In Pursuit of Love by Rebecca Bender
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Rebecca Bender

A week ago I’d returned home at dawn with what Kevin felt was “short” on my quota for a Friday night. “Get down and sit like the dog you are,” ...
( Category: Social Activists February 24,2020 )
Dorothy Dale and Her Chums by Margaret Penrose
epub |eng | 2017-02-09 | Author:Margaret Penrose [Penrose, Margaret]

CHAPTER XIV DOROTHY TO THE RESCUE The cloud that had so persistently floated over the head of Miette since the girls of Nita’s clique showed their disapproval of the new ...
( Category: Action & Adventure February 24,2020 )

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