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University of Miami. Library. Cuban Heritage Collection
This web collection brings together the online presence and publications of civil society organizations in Cuba. It is comprised of websites, blogs, and digital publications of individuals and non-governmental organizations who are active participants in the emerging Cuban public sphere.
Topics: Civil society, Human rights, Political activists, Cuba
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James Jacobs
Collection of sites that deal with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and documents. This includes government sites that receive and distribute FOIA documents as well as non-profit organizations and government watchdogs that request large numbers of FOIA documents on specific topics like national security and civil rights. We're extremely interested -- for purely academic reasons -- in how this collection is being used and would be grateful if users would share that information with us....
Topics: National security--United States, Law--United States, United States--Politics and...
LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection. What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had ’six’ in the title – in any language. The result? LibriVox in all its glorious diversity: sixty-six recordings of poetry, song, short stories, folktales, science fiction, historical documents, travel, art, science and mathematics, in Dutch, English, French and German, from Euclid to the Ziegfeld Follies. (Summary by Ruth Golding) For full details of...
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, children, poem, poetry, song, science, thermometer, Sherlock Holmes,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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HistoCast
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Esto es HistoCast. No es Esparta pero casi. En la efeméride del comienzo tan horrible acontecimiento, hablamos de la Guerra Civil. Lo hacemos con motivo de la publicación de libro Sangre en la frente junto a los autores con @jordibrufotos y Jesús Jiménez, preguntados por @tamtamveramendi, @HugoACanete y @goyix_salduero. Os recordamos que nos podéis seguir a través de nuestra cuenta de twitter @histocast y en facebook. Libro Sangre en la frente: bit.ly/3RAjzxR Imágenes:...
Topics: civil, color, coloreadas, Edad Contemporánea, España, española, fotografías, GCE, Guerra,...
Duke holds one of the world’s largest collections of Confederate imprints, or items printed in the Confederate States of America between secession from the Union and the surrender of the Confederate military forces (December 1860-April 1865). Confederate imprints are notable for their fragility and ephemerality, due to the scarcity of high-quality paper and a lack of large publishing and printing houses in the South, as well as for the view their contents give of military and civilian life in...
Topics: Confederate, Civil War, American history
LibriVox recording of The Story of Abraham Lincoln, by Mary A. Hamilton. Read by John Lieder. In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces Lincoln’s ancestral roots and recounts his birth in Kentucky, his youth in Indiana, his adult life in Illinois and his years in the White House. She also provides a good background on the causes and course of...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, audio book, abraham lincoln, history, american civil war, biography
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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The Civil War is a 1990 American television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from September 23 to 28, 1990. Over 39 million viewers tuned in to at least one episode, and viewership averaged more than 14 million viewers each evening, making it the most-watched program ever to air on PBS. It was awarded more than 40 major television and film honors.
Topic: Ken Burns The Civil War PBS Documentary 1990
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, in April, 1861. In July of that year, having taken command of the Confederate Army of the Potomac, he triumphed in the first serious clash of the war, at Manassas, Virginia. His army, aided by reinforcements from Johnston's army in the Shenandoah Valley, routed a Federal army under General...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, history, Civil War
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Engineering-News-Record (ENR) is a journal concerning civil engineering and construction. First established in 1917, ENR is an active weekly magazine owned by BNP Media that provides news, analysis and opinion on the worldwide construction industry. It is aimed at contractors, project owners, engineers, architects, public works officials and industry suppliers, it covers the construction industry’s financial, legal, regulatory, safety, environmental, management, corporate and labor...
Topic: Engineering--Civil Engineering
LibriVox recording of Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 by William Morris Davis. Read in English by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont. This is Volume VIII of the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs series. It is read as 33 sections using the memoir headings. John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was a leading figure in the geological explorations of the West and helped establish the federal U.S. Geological Survey in 1879. He also led the Bureau of Ethnology and advocated for...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, adventure, science, biography, government, civil war
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University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Hawaiian Collection
Websites documenting various aspects of the relationship between the United States military and Hawaii.
Topics: United States. Army, Hawaii, United States - Armed Forces - Hawaii, Civil-military relations -...
Source: http://archive-it.org/public/collection.html?id=1952
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Yale University
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The causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877.
Topics: Civil War, Open Yale Courses, David Blight, HIST 119
LibriVox recording of Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. Read by Abigail Rasmussen. This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to love the four sisters as they grow and mature into young women. This book has characters any girl can relate to because each of the four March sisters has a unique and different personality. A story that the young and old have enjoyed for years, this book truly is a classic....
Topics: librivox, audiobook, girls, women, sisters, old fashion, civil war
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Archive-It Partner 153: National Library of Australia - Collection 1609: Human Rights in Thailand 2009-2010
Topics: Lese Majeste law Thailand, Civil rights Thailand, Decree 112 Thailand
LibriVox recording of Comic History of the United States, by Bill Nye. Read by Allyson Hester. This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic and humorous remarks. The reader will enjoy a "different" type of history book based on facts, yet caustically embellished for entertainment purposes. (Summary by Allyson Hester) For further...
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Topics: history, comedy, comic, nye, bill, william, united, states, us, usa, new world, civil war, slavery,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
The Crisis is an active American publication and the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor), Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Miller, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Mary Dunlop Maclean, The Crisis has been in continuous print since 1910, and is the oldest Black-oriented magazine in the world. At present, The Crisis is published quarterly and focuses on civil...
Topics: Ethnic Interests, Political Science--Civil Rights
A collection for internal support at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Topic: Civil War novels
LibriVox recording of A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, by John G. Nicolay. John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive biography of Lincoln, "Abraham Lincoln, a Biography." Although this is a condensation by Nicolay of that biography, it is still a sizable work and a fairly thorough treatment of the life of the 16th president of the United States. (Summary by John Lieder) For further...
Topics: history, biography, Civil War, United States, presidents, Librivox, audiobook
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, by Abner Doubleday. Read by Mark F. Smith Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battles (including Antietam, where he was wounded), Doubleday took over a division in the Army of the Potomac's 1st Corps. These are his memoirs of service in two of the War's great campaigns. At Chancellorsville, a...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, civil war, history
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, by John S. Mosby. Read by Mark Smith. This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almost within sight of the capitol. With only a few local men under command, John Singleton Mosby's ability to strike fast and then melt away before an effective pursuit could be organized kept the Yankee forces awake and often snarled in knots. With daring feats...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, audio book, memoirs, biography, autobiography, john mosby, war,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of The Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War. There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Living, dying, right or wrong, can be contemplated later. The spirit of the bayonet takes over and carries the youth through the crucible of battle to emerge a short time later several ages older. Stephen Cranes classic novel gives us a glimpse into the mind of a...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, history, USA, American Civil War
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Librivox recording of Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman's act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available),...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, audio book, poetry, flag, civil war, barbara frietchie, john...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant. Read by Jim Clevenger. "In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where special mention is due. There must be many errors of omission in this work, because the subject is too large to be treated of in two volumes in...
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Topics: Librivox, audiobook, history, civil war, memoirs
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Cresson H. Kearny, Nuclear War Survival Skills, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, 1987 revised edition. May be freely distributed (see copyright page). See also: https://archive.org/details/WarPlanUK https://archive.org/details/TheEffectsOfTheAtomicBombOnHiroshima https://archive.org/details/BritishNuclearTestOperationHurricaneDeclassifiedReportsToWinston
Topics: Cresson H. Kearny, Nuclear War Survival Skills, Civil Defense, Civil Defence, Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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Indian Standard Steel Table for Civil Engineering
Topics: Steel Table, civil Enineering
LibriVox recording of The Age of the Puritans Volume 2. Read in English by InTheDesert. This volume of The Age of the Puritans (late 16th century and 17th century) begins with Theodore Beza's 1575 catechism, brief and simple enough to be learned by children. William Perkins preaches a sermon on a life centred on 'Christ crucified', Pierre du Moulin, the Huguenot, on suffering as a Christian and Richard Sibbes on 1 Peter 4:18. John Owen gives his oppinion on how dissenters should consider their...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, bible, London, Christ, salvation, Philippians, christian, sermon, France,...
LibriVox recording of Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII by Pope Leo XIII. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) wrote eighty-eight Encyclicals during his twenty-five year pontificate (1878-1903). Fifty-six of those are included in this collection. Among the topics covered are the Rosary, socialism, Christian marriage, labour, freemasonry, Church and state, human liberty, dueling, the Holy Eucharist, and more. (Summary by Maria Therese) For further information,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, church, Catholic, Catholicism, marriage, education, pope,...
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Federal Civil Defense Administration
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Usually shown in black and white, this is the original color version (slightly edited) of the 1955 atom bomb test in Nevada, showing the effects on test houses and utilities located at various distances from the blast.
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Topics: stock footage, nuclear, nuclear bomb, atom bomb, civil defense
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California
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In May 1960, students and progressive activists opposed to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) demonstrated when HUAC held hearings in San Francisco's City Hall. San Francisco police turned firehoses on the demonstrators, washing them down the main staircase of City Hall, and the resultant publicity did much to engender the social consciousness of the 1960s. HUAC sympathizers produced a film, "Operation Abolition," condemning the demonstrators as Communist-inspired...
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Topics: Social issues: 1960s, Civil rights, San Francisco: Political activity
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07/02
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California
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In May 1960, students and progressive activists opposed to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) demonstrated when HUAC held hearings in San Francisco's City Hall. San Francisco police turned firehoses on the demonstrators, washing them down the main staircase of City Hall, and the resultant publicity did much to engender the social consciousness of the 1960s. HUAC sympathizers produced a film, "Operation Abolition," condemning the demonstrators as Communist-inspired...
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Topics: Social issues: 1960s, Civil rights, San Francisco: Political activity
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Archer Productions, Inc.
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Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures. Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
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Topics: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense, Animation
LibriVox recording of Up from Slavery , by Booker T. Washington. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities...
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Topics: librivox, booker washington, autobiography, civil war, slavery, african americans, native...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 12, Jan. 20, 1880. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, poetry, craft projects and more. This 12th issue of the serial, published on January 20, 1880, features stories of narrow escapes and rescues, new friendships, enchanted timepieces, arctic wildlife, archaeological discoveries,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, children, animals, pets, books, spanish, short stories, food, song,...
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Dec 6, 2013
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Gettysburg College
Blogs by Civil War historians Keith Harris and Kevin M. Levin
Topics: American Civil War, Civil War memory
News and updates about the protests and subsequent civil war in Libya in the spring of 2011.
Topics: Libya, Libyan Protests, Libya Civil War, Muammar Gaddafi
LibriVox recording of Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals by Charles Edward Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to have touched off the American Civil War with her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), awakening the whole world to the harsh conditions of slavery. She wrote 30 other successful books depicting life in early...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, biography, American history, Uncle Tom's cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the...
Pipeline & Gas Journal (P&GJ) is an active trade magazine currently published monthly by Gulf Energy Information. Founded in 1859, it publishes the latest news, technology and trends in the midstream sector of the international oil and gas industry. Each issue features original, moderately technical articles that cover the issues and challenges of day-to-day energy pipeline operations, as well as the specific solutions employed to solve situations . It also contains industry news and...
Topics: Engineering--Civil Engineering, Petroleum And Gas, Public Administration
This 603MB file has the same runtime, and essentially the same video and audio qualities, as the 3.5GB file found elsewhere at IA. Heavily fictionalized, episodic biopic. Stars Walter Houston in his third feature film role. Art direction (settings) by William Cameron Menzies. D. W. Griffith's first sound and penultimate film. Listed in the book "The 50 Worst Films of All Time: and How They Got That Way." The runtime of this version is 84 minutes. Initially released on 8 November 1930...
Topics: biography, civil war, Abraham Lincoln, D. W. Griffith, Walter Houston
LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 081 by Various. Read in English by altrin; InTheDesert; BettyB; PS Ahdi; Tatiana Chichilla; Sue Anderson; Scott McKinley; Piotr Nater; David Wales; Ryan Lohner; Nick Vlahakis; Jay Randolph; J. M. Smallheer; Amy Dunkleberger "There has always been a tendency on the part of men of brains to look with contempt on women's work in the arts." Screenwriter and novelist Anita Loos' acerbic opinion is part of "Women in Film Speak...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, civil war, film, Copyright, inventor, whale, telephone, bohemia, Baptism,...
LibriVox recording of Civil War Women, North And South by Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel; Cora Mitchel. Read in English by David Wales This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the Confederacy from their home in south Georgia to Rhode Island. This is her story written about 1916. The second narrative is by Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel of South Carolina, a contemporary journal written in the closing months...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, women, memoir, American civil war, civil war, plantation life, hazardous...
LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's "The Failure of Speculative Philosophy," is one of several essays devoted to timeless questions. Others are by James Howell on man, nature and the universe, Samuel Johnson on procrastination and the flight of time, Schleiemacher on the social element in religion, Ambrose Bierce on immortality, and Thomas Paine and Jonathan...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, play, civil war, piano, Copyright, realism, capitalism, cycling, immortality,...
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Adam C. Curry (Crackpot) and John C. Dvorak (Buzzkill)
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ATTN: You have landed on page two of the "NO AGENDA SHOW" Archive. -- Main Page: 001-700 Internet Archive of the "NO AGENDA SHOW" with Adam C. Curry and John C. Dvorak . Also known as "THE BEST PODCAST IN THE UNIVERSE!" (Award Pending). Each week Adam and John discuss, dissect, deconstruct and sometimes poke fun at current news stories from mainstream media. The majority of the "NO AGENDA SHOW" 's content comes from news mainstream media is...
Topics: Best Podcast in the Universe, TBPITU, #GamerGate, #Girls, #MH370 Malacca, #MH370, #YesAllWomen,...
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HistoCast
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Esto es HistoCast. No es Esparta pero casi. Nos encanta meternos en los intríngulis de los conflictos y esta vez le ha tocado a los confederados y unionistas. Y lo hacemos con @EmilioAblanedo, @LordCirencester, @tamtamveramendi y @goyix_salduero. Os recordamos que nos podéis seguir a través de nuestra cuenta de twitter @histocast y en facebook. Secciones Historia: - Nombre de la guerra - 8:20 - Aranceles - 1:29:17 - ¿Pudo ganar el Sur? - 1:47:03 - ¿Hubo unidades de afroamericanos que...
Topics: >s.XIX, civil, guerra, Secesión, Edad Contemporánea, EEUU, discusión, polémica, HistoCast,...
LibriVox recording of Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray by William Henry Harrison Murray. Read in English by David Wales Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some humorous some serious, of the out-of-doors, of love between man and woman, man and horse, man and dog, teacher and acolyte,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, dogs, death, short stories, American civil war, Westerns, horses, outdoors,...
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Feb 9, 2015
02/15
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Hannah Brookhart; Fan Luo; Fiona Potter
This collection documents the same-sex marriage debate in Michigan’s government and among its citizens and private organizations. It is a response to the growing visibility of LGBT issues in the United States and the recent inclusion of same-sex marriage as a rapidly changing and contested issue in Michigan’s political and social arenas
Topics: Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation., Same-sex marriage., Michigan.Supreme Court, Marriage...
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An analysis of structures with sample problems.
Topics: Structural Analysis, Structural, Civil Engineering
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May 30, 2014
05/14
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Peter Watkins
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The War Game was made for the BBC in 1965, but not broadcast at the time. It is a docudrama based upon a supposed nuclear attack on the south east of England. It was written and produced by Peter Watkins with commentary by Dick Graham and Michael Aspel.
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Topics: war, game, nuclear, cold, civil, defence, attack
LibriVox recording of The Three Clerks (version 2) by Anthony Trollope. Read in English by Anthony Ogus Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of how ambition within the service can affect friendship and love. (Summary by Anthony Ogus) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds,...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, romance, trollope, ambition, civil service
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Building Construction Illustrated -- Fifth Edition Francis D.K. Ching Preface 1 • THE BUILDING SITE 2 • THE BUILDING 3 • FOUNDATION SYSTEMS 4 • FLOOR SYSTEMS 5 • WALL SYSTEMS 6 • ROOF SYSTEMS 7 • MOISTURE & THERMAL PROTECTION 8 • DOORS & WINDOWS 9 • SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION 10 • FINISH WORK 11 • MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS 12 • NOTES ON MATERIALS
Topic: CIVIL
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" Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard: the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for women's suffrage. She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women's movement have divided its own membership. Davis' message is clear: If we ever want...
Topics: women's studies, feminism, activism, struggle, civil rights, movements, feminist theory
