Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Unknown

A motivated buyer questioned him as to what he could do. ‘I know how to govern men,’ he said with perfect frankness — his soul, it seems, giving spontaneous expression ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Cesaretti, Paolo [Cesaretti, Paolo]

HE VICTORY OVER the rebels was a grand statement from the couple in power, but it also isolated them terribly. Probably they consulted with their closest military and civilian advisors, ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Joseph Rykwert [Joseph Rykwert]

Like the augural templum, the city was quartered, though there was no correspondence between their outlines. The templum was always circular, the Roman city never was. On the other hand, ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Reynolds

SCENE VIII PHAON What do I see? a rival at her feet! He clasps her hands, devours it with his kisses. Rouse thee, rash swain, and stand prepar’d to meet ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:John H. Haaren & A. B. Poland [Haaren, John]

IV Scipio now began to march towards the great, rich city of Carthage. He captured a number of towns and a great deal of treasure. In a few weeks, however, ...
( Category: Biographies March 1,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Joseph Roisman

FIGURE 12 The Athlit ram. A bronze ram of a trireme or a larger ship was found on the coast of Athlit, Israel, and is currently on display at the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-15 | Author:van Basten, T.D. [van Basten, T.D.]

IV THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER “There is nothing permanent except change.” -HERACLITUS Alexander received his moniker “the Great” as a result of his military prowess and the strength of his ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:GERSHOM SCHOLEM

Mach mich wie den Erich Fromm, Dass ich in den Himmel komm.[1] [Make me just like Erich Fromm That into heaven I may come.] Fromm and Benjamin later became colleagues ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Vasily Grossman [Grossman, Vasily]

10 THE FIRST thing I saw in Armenia was stone; and what I took away when I left was a memory of stone. We do not remember every feature of ...
( Category: Europe March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Sept. 25. A very fine and warm afternoon after a cloudy morning. Carry Aunt and Sophia a-barberrying to Conantum. Saw two marsh hawks skimming low over the meadows and another, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Braly, Malcolm [Braly, Malcolm]

At breakfast Manning asked, “Are you sure you’re all right?” “I may hit the sick line. In case they check me into the hospital, there’s something I’d like you to ...
( Category: Contemporary March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-19 | Author:Jessica Mitford

WEDNESDAY Those in the know (the old-timers) tell me that by Wednesday one is for some reason at one’s lowest ebb. I can see why: the miraculous shedding of weight ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Aleksander Wat

23. READING PROUST IN LUBYANKA. MACHIAVELLI AND STALIN. RÉINVENTER LE POÈTE. This chapter is made up of taped sections, a separate sketch found in Wat’s papers, and a part of ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:John Glassco

15 Stanley lay perdue for the next few days. But I now knew where she was living—in an ugly new building near the Place Magnan. Growing impatient, I called on ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:David Edmonds & John Eidinow

The last comment was a scarcely veiled reference to Walpole. Meanwhile, the spoof letter and Rousseau’s reply were picked up in other papers. And Rousseau’s hurt response caught Grimm’s satiric ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics February 28,2018 )