Professionals & Academics
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Joshua Kendall [Kendall, Joshua]

The twelfth child of William and Mary Greenleaf, James Greenleaf (1765-1843) was a year older than Webster’s wife, Rebecca. Without the financial assistance of the well-heeled “brother James,” Webster could ...
( Category: Authors May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Jennifer Steil [Steil, Jennifer]

AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, two men from the South African embassy visit me. These men actually made an appointment, only I have completely forgotten. When they arrive, I am ...
( Category: Travel May 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Matthew Stewart [Stewart, Matthew]

Salvation Happiness, too, became a problem in the seventeenth century. Much of the blame for this development, as usual, should go to the Reformation of the previous century. So long ...
( Category: Philosophers May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:James McGrath Morris [Morris, James McGrath]

Angry about his paper’s conduct, complaining about all his ailments, and dispirited, Pulitzer found no solace in Paris. He returned to Wiesbaden to see Dr. Hermann Pagenstecher, one of the ...
( Category: United States May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-05-18 | Author:Michael Ruhlman [Ruhlman, Michael]

“I took it really seriously,” Melissa says, recalling her first head chef position. Once all the cooks have arrived, Melissa typically works at a small sink station, between the line ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Sarah Bakewell [Bakewell, Sarah]

11. Q. How to live? A. Live temperately RAISING AND LOWERING THE TEMPERATURE IN MANY WAYS, readers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries found it easy to like ...
( Category: Philosophers May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Rob Sheffield [Sheffield, Rob]

CHAKA KHAN “I Feel for You” 1984 Karaoke and the ’80s are basically the same thing. Nobody knows why exactly, but it’s true. You know what else is true? We’re ...
( Category: Rock May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh [Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi]

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Kay Redfield Jamison [Jamison, Kay Redfield]

JOY BE THE STARLIGHT We spent most of our last day at home together reading and writing in the room across from our bedroom. Richard worked on a foreword he ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Howard Markel [Markel, Howard]

Six months later, on January 24, 1895, Sigmund wrote Fliess a note singing cocaine’s praises: I must hurriedly write to you about something that greatly astonishes me; otherwise I would ...
( Category: Substance Abuse May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:A. J. Jacobs [Jacobs, A. J.]

mammals Elephant copulation lasts twenty seconds. That should make a lot of men feel better. Mann, Horace In his final speech, the educational reformer told students: "Be ashamed to die ...
( Category: General May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith [Wozniak, Steve & Smith, Gina]

What Was the ARPANET? Short for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the ARPANET was the first operational packet-switching network that could ...
( Category: Business May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Jerry Weintraub [Weintraub, Jerry]

Once I was established in the entertainment business, I began to see the possibility of shows everywhere. All life was theater and I wanted to put it on a stage ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley [Grafen, Alan & Ridley, Mark]

ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
( Category: Scientists May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

6 To give an idea of me as a psychologist I take a curious piece of psychology which occurs in ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ – I forbid, by the way, ...
( Category: Modern May 27,2014 )