epub | | 2009-10-04 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

VILLAGE After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-25 | Author:Burns, Jennifer [Burns, Jennifer]

CHAPT ER EIGHT Love Is Exception Making $by the middle of the 1960s Rand’s popularity among young conservatives, her open support of Goldwater, and the continued appeal of her books ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Ken Gire [Gire, Ken]

The most valuable knowledge we can have is how to deal with disappointments. All acts and facts are a product of spiritual power, the successful ones of power which is ...

epub |eng | 1991-03-15 | Author:Thomas R. Nevin [Nevin, Thomas R.]

In her vigorous partisanship for the oppressed, how could she have ignored the tsedeka of the Deuteronomic laws, their compassionate justice extended to foreigners and slaves, proofs of a far ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Eric Lamet [Lamet, Eric]

16 Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa The names of North African towns — Tobruk, Tripoli, Bengazi — were on every internee's lips. Was it Feldmarschall Rommel or was it General ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

Such is our definition of Americanism and the American way of life. The American way of life has always been based upon the Rights of Man, upon individual freedom and ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Simone de Beauvoir [Beauvoir, Simone de]

Goodbye, o little so-awaited and so-desired one. Do hurry up and become a little welcome one! — so that in our correspondence there’ll be one of those gaps which deceive ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:Curtis Cate [CATE, CURTIS]

CHAPTER 27 Incipit tragoedia – ‘Love is the danger of the loneliest, love of everything, if only it is alive! Laughable, verily, are my folly and my modesty in love!’ ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Robert Sullivan

THE REVIEWER OF A WEEK who perhaps most upset him was Emerson. Emerson had praised the book to Thoreau in person. Eventually, Thoreau realized that Emerson was not being honest ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Bettany Hughes

Beauty in Athens at this time was seriously considered to be the sign of a brilliant and noble spirit; a gift of the gods. Those laudable qualities that justified privilege ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Paul Johnson

This passage may strike a modern reader as surprising. While it shows that Socrates was not inclined to homosexuality, it also shows him passively acquiescent in the face of Alcibiades’ ...

azw3 |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Hunt, Tristram [Hunt, Tristram]

* To provide some kind of context, the social commentator Dudley Baxter analyzed the 1861 census to produce a class analysis of mid- Victorian En gland relative to income. To ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Douglas Coupland

Yelling Across a Broad Land Harold Adams Innis (he of The Fur Trade in Canada) pioneered the study of media and was a giant’s shoulder on which Marshall was able ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Gabriel, Mary [Gabriel, Mary]

Marx appeared to be in the mood for full disclosure, because in the same letter he told Engels the true status of Capital. “There are three more chapters to be ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Andy McNab

53 April 1985 Oman We landed at Seeb International, just outside the capital, Muscat. I was excited about the three months that lay ahead. The whole squadron was going to ...