mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Kanigel

5. S. RAMANUJAN, B.A. “At Cambridge we are in darkness,” wrote Trinity vice-master Jackson in January 1915. “No gas in the streets or courts; few electric lights and those shaded; ...

mobi |eng | 2002-11-14 | Author:Philip Yancey

Recent times have demonstrated the moral power of a single individual. Nelson Mandela calmly stepped into the leadership of a nation that nearly every observer expected to erupt into a ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:James Lasdun [Lasdun, James]

Part IV Mosaic I am uneasy when confronted with my own work … —Freud, Moses and Monotheism In the year 1700 a group of Polish Jews emigrated to Jerusalem. The ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:C. S. Lewis

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Salzman, Mark [Salzman, Mark]

I had walked along the river many times since meeting the fisherman that day in winter, but I did not see him again until spring. It was late afternoon, and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Martin Duberman [Duberman, Martin]

In 1973, the University of Paris at Vincennes invited Howard to teach for one semester—two courses of three hours each on Marxist and anarchist theory, carrying a salary of $9,000 ...

mobi |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Greg Mortenson; David Oliver Relin

CHAPTER 15 A Picture Greg made it to Montana by September, just in time for the birth of his daughter, Amira Eliana. Amira was born at their home, and after ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:The Last Greatest Magician in the World [World, The Last Greatest Magician in the]

FORTUNATELY, Kellar was unaware of the real problem: Thurston’s debts had already surrounded him like a roaring inferno, licking at every investment and threatening to engulf his career. In August ...

epub |eng | 1987-04-15 | Author:Frank Herbert [Herbert, Frank]

"Tam! Eliminate the sea as fast as possible. Get Weather to plot a swift dehydration scheme. Food and Transport will have to be brought into it. I'll approve the final ...

epub |eng | 2005-03-21 | Author:Miriam Toews [Toews, Miriam]

A friendly male nurse has entered my room to tell me that I am not what I said I was, that I am being too hard on myself. Now, I ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Mark Edmundson

Chapter Seven THE WALRUS But in my life things got not better but worse over the course of that winter. I sniffed at the orphan state prescribed by Lears and ...

mobi |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Frank Mccourt

THE PLOT When the war started and food was rationed in Ireland the government offered poor families plots of land in fields outside Limerick. Each family could have a sixteenth ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Albom, Mitch [Albom, Mitch]

So once again, I dove into work. I worked because I could control it. I worked because work was sensible and responsive. And each time I would call my brother's ...

epub |eng | 2005-07-19 | Author:Phillip Done [Done, Phillip]

ER The other day I walked out to the front of the school and checked the sign on the front of the building. It said, “School.” I guess I really ...

epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Gervase Phinn

Thirteen “There has been a veritable harem wishing to speak to you today, dear boy,” said Sidney when I arrived at the office late one afternoon. “Is that not so, ...