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Prick with a Fork by Larissa Dubecki
epub |eng | 2015-07-28 | Author:Larissa Dubecki

KNOW YOUR ENEMIES The waitress who’s been there forever, and I mean forever She has been there for so long she remembers when the colour scheme was chosen. She calls ...
( Category: Humor November 27,2017 )
My Year Without Meat by Richard Cornish
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Cornish

EVERY BIRTH, EVERY DEATH, IS DIFFERENT No animal wants to die. We are all hardwired for survival. In an abattoir, animals are trucked in and unloaded. There they are generally ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 27,2017 )
Stanley Fish, America's Enfant Terrible by Olson Gary A.;
epub |eng | | Author:Olson, Gary A.;

Chapter 5 The Department That Soared—and Then Plummeted The Duke University English department in 1985 was respectable, but it had a long way to go if it was to rival ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 27,2017 )
All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos
epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:George Stephanopoulos [STEPHANOPOULOS, GEORGE]

While we were striking a small blow for free speech on one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell was announcing a victory for public safety on the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 26,2017 )
Flirting with Danger by Siobhan Darrow
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Siobhan Darrow [Darrow, Siobhan]

I was pleased and delighted to catch you on CNN in recent days. I particularly enjoyed your report from Gilbraltar, especially your description of the Spanish attempts to gain a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 26,2017 )
Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha by Richard J. Connors
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-12-16 | Author:Richard J. Connors

Our after-tax overhead costs are under 1% of our reported operating earnings and less than 1/2 of 1% of our look-through earnings. We have no legal, personnel, public relations, investor ...
( Category: Management & Leadership November 26,2017 )
Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier
epub |eng | | Author:Jaron Lanier

Ann in VR, from the outside. Self-portrait. In the 1980s you could cruise the sidewalk cafés on University Avenue in Palo Alto and tell who had gotten a demo at ...
( Category: History & Culture November 26,2017 )
Can't Stand Up for Falling Down by Allan Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Allan Jones

JOHN PEEL London, August 1978 I arrive at Broadcasting House to interview John Peel for what used to be Melody Maker, to find the legendary DJ waiting outside for me ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 26,2017 )
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt by Burroughs John;
epub |eng | 2017-11-26 | Author:Burroughs, John; [Burroughs, John]

SUNRISE IN YELLOWSTONE PARK. THE PRESIDENT ON A TRAIL At Norris’s the big room that the President and I occupied was on the ground floor, and was heated by a ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 26,2017 )
Let Sleeping Vets Lie by Sleeping Vets Lie Let
epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Sleeping Vets Lie Let [Let, Sleeping Vets Lie]

, . The curate clapped his hands. “Come now, boys and girls, it’s time you joined the others in the hall Mr. Herriot is ready to talk to you now.” ...
( Category: Engineering November 25,2017 )
Vets Might Fly by Might Fly Vets
epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Might Fly Vets [Vets, Might Fly]

.N , . walk l, c . . c As I le~a ; c whisky?” o Oo “Whisky? No “Well you’ve gone-t something to eat.” ‘ “No, no, no thanks, ...
( Category: Engineering November 25,2017 )
Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Reichl [Reichl, Ruth]

Chaos Whenever my mother ’s parents came to visit our cramped apartment my mother flew into a panic. She would go rushing through the rooms like Hurricane Miriam, flinging things ...
( Category: Memoirs November 23,2017 )
No Better Time by Molly Knight Raskin
epub |eng | 2013-06-20 | Author:Molly Knight Raskin [Raskin, Molly Knight]

If anything had the potential to demonstrate the limitations of the Internet under stress, it was breaking news. “Some of the largest and most unpredictable hot spots were in the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 23,2017 )
Inside Studio 54 by Mark Fleischman
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Mark Fleischman

Chapter Twenty: Roy Cohn Brings the Feds to My Door Movie premiere events were always exciting and fun to host and we did a lot of them. Conan the Barbarian ...
( Category: Sociology November 23,2017 )
My Father's Island by Adam Dudding
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Dudding

How apologise? And how attempt to explain how I’m flogged to death with work, kids, mortgages, bad debts, overgrown wilderness of half-an-acre, house powdering to dust, drainage boards, councils demanding ...
( Category: Memoirs November 23,2017 )

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