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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Storr, Will [Storr, Will]

11 ‘There was nothing there, but I knew it was a cockerel’ So now we know. The men and women of science have delivered the shaming news and humanity has ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:Stephen Larsen [Stephen and Robin Larsen]

12:00 Lunch, private or with a friend 1:00–4:00 Correspondence, read, write 4:00–6:00 Workout (usually forty laps in New York Athletic Club pool) 6:00–7:30 Dinner with Jean or guests 7:30–10:30 Write, ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

VIII I HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING IT, BUT WHEN I ENTERED Victoria College in the autumn of 1949, aged almost fourteen, I was also nearing the last two years ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Carl Jung [Jung, Carl]

I was in Liverpool. With a number of Swiss--say, half a dozen--I walked through the dark streets. I had the feeling that there we were coming from the harbor, and ...

epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Helen Morrison & Harold Goldberg [Morrison, Helen & Goldberg, Harold]

Photographs Depicted in this antiquated Romanian wall drawing is Vlad Tepes. “Vlad the Impaler” is often labeled a serial murderer because he was responsible for killing thousands in the 1400s. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Gates, Moses [Gates, Moses]

ABANDONED MANSION. You would think a shantytown in the concrete yard of a half-decomposed building would be a residence of last resort. But it turns out it’s not. I learn ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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, ...

mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Gary Greenberg

Which of the following productions was not filmed in Hawaii? A. Hawaii Five-O B. Baywatch C. Jurassic Park D. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark “There’s supposed ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Jon Ronson

The drive from Coxsackie to New York, past Saugerties and New Paltz and Poughkeepsie, was flat and bleak—like an alien planet from an old Star Trek episode—and I suddenly felt ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Jon Ronson

The drive from Coxsackie to New York, past Saugerties and New Paltz and Poughkeepsie, was flat and bleak—like an alien planet from an old Star Trek episode—and I suddenly felt ...

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 ...