Biographies
epub |eng | 2004-10-04 | Author:W. D. Sweeting [Sweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)]

The series of basins of Alwalton marble was found, during the recent underpinning of the west front, in use as foundation stones; they appear to be of late Norman date. ...
( Category: Graphic Design October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:F.L.S. John Watson [Watson, John, F.L.S.]

It is only poachers of the old school that are careful to observe close times, and they do their work mostly in summer. Many of the younger and more desperate ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 19,2021 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2021-08-05 | Author:Peter Rees

16 A LATE NIGHT DRINK Arthur King’s distrust of the New South Wales police never wavered. Victoria Street had almost cost him his life and he’d been left in no ...
( Category: Memoirs October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Riddell, Rosemary

16 The poverty trap NEW ZEALAND’S OFFICIAL rate of child poverty places 23 per cent of children below the poverty line.30 That means children living in substandard housing, not having ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-14 | Author:Mayne Reid [Reid, Mayne]

* * * Chapter Twenty Two. The Trapper Trapped. “Well, then,” began Redwood, “the thing I’m agoin’ to tell you about, happened to me when I war a younker, long ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-07 | Author:Jean-Henri Fabre [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

Here is a partial explanation of the double system of the Hymenoptera with their carnivorous larvæ—the system of dead or paralysed insects followed by honey. But here the point of ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Jean-Henri Fabre [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

CHAPTER 9. THE COTTON-BEES. The evidence of the Leaf-cutters proves that a certain latitude is left to the insect in its choice of materials for the nest; and this is ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:René Daumal

* * * We halt a while to rest a bit, There’s my rucksack frolicking about Making my heart skip a beat, It gambols off far down below Where holes ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-06-14 | Author:Michel Leiris [Leiris, Michel]

STITCHES OF THE last episode to be related here, I myself was the hero, and I still bear the scar of it under my left eyebrow. On certain days (particularly ...
( Category: Memoirs October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Bradbury

VIII The seminar room where Howard meets this weekly class, Socsci 4.17, is an interior room without windows, lit by artificial light. The room is a small one; on three ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Kenzaburō Ōe

8 AS Bird started up the stairs toward his wife’s hospital room, his shoes in one hand and a bag of grapefruit under his arm, the young doctor with the ...
( Category: Memoirs October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1889-01-01 | Author:Paul Bourget

The smallest accidents appear in my mind to state general problems. Every event of my destiny leads me to some theory on the destiny of all. Here, where another man ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-09 | Author:Claire-Louise Bennett [Bennett, Claire-Louise]

A week or so before Christmas I was standing at the kitchen worktop in my friend who lives nearby’s house, maybe we were sharing some kind of toasted snack, I ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Hilary Mantel

II The Image of the King Spring–Summer 1537 Hans does not like the pavonazzo. You cannot have a king who is purple from one angle, blue from another, green from ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Roger Scruton [Scruton, Roger]

The soul Kant’s discussion of the soul, and of the concept of the ‘self’ from which it gains its initial description, is among the most subtle parts of his philosophy. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )