Children's Books
epub |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Frédéric Houssay [Houssay, Frédéric]

The Trap-door Spiders of the south of Europe construct burrows which have been studied with great care and in much detail by Moggridge.83 He found that there were four chief ...
( Category: Children's Action & Adventure Books October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-07 | Author:George Manville Fenn [Fenn, George Manville]

* * * Chapter Twenty Four. Jack Rogers and the Runaway Herds. The General found a shallow fording-place, when the Limpopo itself was reached; and no little excitement was displayed ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:F. B. Tarbell [Tarbell, F. B. (Frank Bigelow)]

CHAPTER VI. THE ARCHAIC PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE SECOND HALF 550-480 B.C. Greek sculpture now enters upon a stage of development which possesses for the modern student a singular and ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:Jean-Henri Fabre [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

CHAPTER 8. PARASITES. In August or September, let us go into some gorge with bare and sun-scorched sides. When we find a slope well-baked by the summer heat, a quiet ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Homer & Peter Green

( Category: Children's Folk Tales & Myths 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 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-11-16 | Author:Royal Dixon [Dixon, Royal]

* * * IX SELF-DEFENCE AND HOME-GOVERNMENT "In the days of yore, when the world was young, Sages of asses spoke, and poets sung; In God's own book we find ...
( Category: Children's Animals Books October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Spalding Gray [Gray, Spalding]

JUNE 3, 1987 This was not a productive day for me. More obsession about AIDS and looking at the bites on all my fat (FAT PEOPLE HAVE MORE FEELING IN ...
( Category: Literary Criticism October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-05-26 | Author:E.T.A. Hoffmann [Hoffmann, E.T.A.]

One stormy autumn night in the year 1760, a tremendous crash, as if the whole rambling castle had collapsed in a thousand pieces, awoke the servants in Castle R. from ...
( Category: Children's Classics October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Apollonius Of Rhodes [Rhodes, Apollonius Of]

BOOK 4 Now Zeus’ daughter, deathless Muse, describe for me the Colchian maiden’s wiles and worries. The mind within me spins in speechlessness, wondering whether I should call the impulse ...
( Category: Children's Folk Tales & Myths October 19,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-07-26 | Author:Denis Diderot [Diderot, Denis]

MARQUIS: Succeeded! I could not begin to tell you quite how much. Will you not take pity on me? Shall I not be indebted to you for the joy of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-28 | Author:D.H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D.H.]

The negro might know a little. When the vine was rose, Gods were dark-skinned. Bacchus is a dream’s dream. Once God was all negroid, as now he is fair. But ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

Ten days later, on 25 August 1780, the Company’s largest concentration of troops in southern India finally marched out of Madras and headed south along the coast road towards Kanchipuram ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:J.M Coetzee

III The staircase was dark and mean. My knock echoed as if on emptiness. But I knocked a second time, and heard a shuffling, and from behind the door a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )