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In the fifth installment of the riveting series, 'Shelby Morrow Journals, 1929-1935,' our heroine Shelby navigates dangerous waters in a Nazi-occupied world, her safety hanging by a thread. Befriending the enigmatic Franz, she faces betrayal and learns unexpected truths, her past resurfacing perilously.
This heart-stopping narrative opens with Shelby grappling with the aftermath of a deeply distressing decision, made in the hope that it will ensure...
22) Börsencrash 1929
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Der Börsencrash von 1929 ereignete sich zu einer Zeit, als die Länder boomten und sich die Wirtschaft entwickelte. Die Position der USA zu dieser Zeit blühte auf, als sie kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu einer Supermacht wurden. Die Blütezeit war als brüllende zwanziger Jahre bekannt, als alle Wirtschaftssektoren boomten und der Absturz für die gesamte Bevölkerung ein Schock war Land und andere Länder, da
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No46: 'Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems can be isolated' Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings 1929. This eBook edition offers the original design, the aphorisms, ten Preston woodcuts and fourteen color plates. No53: A lemon can be an inspiration as well as a fruit.
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"In 1929, in the sacred city of Hebron--then governed by the British Mandate of Palestine--there was no occupation, state of Israel, or settlers. Jews and Muslims lived peacefully near the burial place of Abraham, patriarch of the Jewish and Arab nations, until one Saturday morning when nearly 70 Jewish men, women, and children were slaughtered by their Arab neighbors. The Hebron massacre was a seminal event in the Arab-Israeli conflict, key to understanding...
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Located on the southern shores of Lake Erie, Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland, an agent of the Connecticut Land Company surveying the Western Reserve. The modest frontier settlement became a village in 1815 and an incorporated city in 1836. By 1896, Cleveland boasted the Cuyahoga Building, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the Arcade, and the stately mansions of Euclid Avenue. Also known as "Millionaire's Row," it was home...
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An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation
Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as...
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In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and the Depression deepened, western Canadian cities suffered...
30) The Gale of 1929
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On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John's harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane. Here for the first time are the stories of the eleven schooners that were caught in the gale of 1929. Newfoundland's favourite storyteller, Gary Collins, takes us aboard each one in turn to witness the terrifying ferocity of a storm at sea through the eyes of...
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Stock Market Crash, 1929 happened at a time when the countries were booming and the economy was developing. The position of the USA at the period was flourishing as it emerged as a super power just after the World War I. The blooming period was known as roaring twenties when all sectors of the economy was booming and the crash came as a shock to the entire country and other countries since most of the countries were interconnected with each other...
32) Viaje a pie 1929
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La vida no es un sueño, es un viaje: un. Y para viajar hay que estar despierto, ¿no? Despierte, pues, si quiere leer a Fernando González.
Usted preguntará ¿a dónde lo llevará este viaje Yo digo: el hombre tiene sino sus dos pies, su corazón y un camino que no conduce a ninguna parte. Pero ante este libro la respuesta es muy simple: este viaje lo conduce a usted mismo.
El maestro enseñaba que los conceptos son el estiércol del alma. Eso...
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Con una escritura agradable y humorística, sin ser avaro ni recargado con las descripciones, considero que mi abuelo [Raúl Vélez González] en cierta forma, con este estilo, pudo haber sido sin saberlo el autor del primer blog de viajes en Colombia conocido. Con su pequeño cuaderno de profesor, convertido en diario de a bordo, para su mamá y el recuerdo personal, sin duda marcó un ritmo dialéctico bien parecido al de los actuales blogeros de...
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Slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before been written. This history extends to Africa in the west and India in the east, to Russia and Turkmenistan in the north, and to the Arab states in the south. As the slave trade between Iran and these regions shifted over time, it transformed the nation and helped forge its unique culture and identity. Thus, a history of Iranian...
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The first of two biographical volumes, Professor Robert C. Tucker covers Stalin's life from his first revolutionary years until the end of the 1920s.
This important period of his life is the key to understanding how a dictator is formed and how his cruel totalitarian regime was born. With an in-depth analysis of Stalin's personality and beliefs-set against a historical examination of Soviet society-this captivating book helps us to understand how...
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A fascinating personal account of life at this infamous prison during a bygone era.
Written more than eighty years ago, Fifty Years in Sing Sing is the personal account of Alfred Conyes (1852—1931), who worked as a prison guard and then keeper at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, from 1879 to 1929. This unpublished memoir, dated 1930, was found among his granddaughter's estate by his great-granddaughter Penelope Kay Jarrett. Near the end...
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When the venerable historian Norman D. Brown published Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug in 1984, he earned national acclaim for revealing the audacious tactics at play in Texas politics during the Roaring Twenties, detailing the effects of the Ku Klux Klan, newly enfranchised women, and Prohibition. Shortly before his death in 2015, Brown completed Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys, which picks up just as the Democratic Party was poised for...
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La pobreza, el desempleo, los desahucios, el aumento de las desigualdades durante la Gran Depresión de 1929-1941 impulsaron en los Estados Unidos una literatura socialmente comprometida que cuestionaba el orden capitalista y la manera de gestionarlo.
Lejos del maniqueísmo panfletario, la litetatura proletaria norteamericana de la década de los 1930 generó muchas obras maestras. Pocas veces se tiene conciencia de leer obras de este movimiento cuando...
