Professionals & Academics
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Michael Schmidt [Schmidt, Michael]
Poor in his youth, Solon travelled to make his fortune, Plutarch says. In his age a person of good family could work for gain without a stigma attaching to him. ...
( Category:
Poetry
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Anne Fadiman
The back cover of the original Lifetime Reading Plan When my father was eighty-seven, he flew to New York to have surgery for spinal stenosis. I’d chosen a distinguished neurosurgeon ...
( Category:
Arts & Literature
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Wendy Lesser [Lesser, Wendy]
First published in 1854, Walden was written at a time when philanthropy still meant something very close to its Greek roots. The first examples given in the OED, from the ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Ann Mah
* * * * * * I thought cassoulet came from Toulouse, but once I decided to travel there, to discover the dish’s true story and secrets, I learned that ...
( Category:
Europe
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Birkhead
To paraphrase: by making cuts in birch trees he found that the flow of sap was least during the night (or if the day was cold); at other times the ...
( Category:
Professionals & Academics
September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Vincent Sellers [Sellers, Vincent]
CHAPTER 23 Off Duty I thoroughly enjoyed being an FBI agent when I was not working. It was fun to go to a movie and see FBI agents on the ...
( Category:
Professionals & Academics
September 24,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-07 | Author:Chan, Paul [Chan, Paul]
SUCCESS 1. In 1979, the Ilitches invented the catch phrase “Pizza, Pizza”, from which they would deliver 2 pizzas for the price of one from the competitors. The business exploded. ...
( Category:
Professionals & Academics
September 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-28 | Author:Raymond Petersen [Petersen, Raymond]
Don’t Take My Husband! While patrolling late one Saturday night in our radio car, Tim Thorsen and I suddenly heard loud screaming, origin unknown. Tim and I crossed the Harrison ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
September 22,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Schlyer, Krista [Schlyer, Krista]
_______________ 45Maggie’s Cheese Philosophy in three simple axioms: 1. Eat it! Fast! Before they catch me or change their minds. 2. Savor it later, after they can no longer take ...
( Category:
Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
September 21,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Krakauer, Jon [Krakauer, Jon]
Suffice it to say that [Everest] has the most steep ridges and appalling precipices that I have ever seen, and that all the talk of an easy snow slope is ...
( Category:
Mountaineering
September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Beth Comstock & Tahl Raz
HAVING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS “Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits,” British historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin says. “Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new ...
( Category:
Small Business & Entrepreneurship
September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Karen le Billon [Billon, Karen Le]
French Food Rule #7: Limit snacks, ideally one per day (two maximum), and not within one hour of meals. Understanding this rule requires some explanation. Feeding children in France often ...
( Category:
Parenting
September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks [Brooks, Geraldine]
Earlier that month I had finally walked through the big stone gates of Sydney University. I’d arrived there brimming with confidence, proud of good exam results. But the exhilaration didn’t ...
( Category:
Travelers & Explorers
September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sandeep Jauhar
9 Wires And pale and wan, and of all strength bereft, … My heart, as with an earthquake, then is cleft, Which makes my pulse leave all its life behind. ...
( Category:
Basic Sciences
September 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Bill W.
A FEMININE VICTORY To my lot falls the rather doubtful distinction of being the only “lady” alcoholic in our particular section. Perhaps it is because of a desire for a ...
( Category:
Addiction & Recovery
September 19,2018 )
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