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The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion
azw3 |eng | 1919-01-01 | Author:W.N.P. Barbellion [Barbellion, W.N.P.]

June 3. We have made a little nest in the wood and I lead her into it by the hand over the briars and undergrowth as if conducting her to ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:E.M. Cioran

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: World History October 18,2021 )
Aldo Leopold's Odyssey by Julianne Lutz Warren
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Julianne Lutz Warren [Warren, Julianne Lutz]

PYRRHIC VICTORY To conquer some of the country’s land, converting it to intensive economic use, was necessary for civilization. But to say that because some conversion was necessary, conversion of ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 18,2021 )
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
azw3 |eng | 1871-01-01 | Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Chapter XVIII. As Taee and myself, on quitting the town, and leaving to the left the main road which led to it, struck into the fields, the strange and solemn ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 18,2021 )
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1918-01-01 | Author:Oswald Spengler [Spengler, Oswald]

CHAPTER III ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE (C) THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE CULTURES I Although consideration of the Cultures themselves should logically precede that of the relations between them, modern historical thought ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
azw3 |eng | 2001-07-04 | Author:Ryszard Kapuściński [Kapuściński, Ryszard]

For the natives, however, the dramas are real, and the tragedies painful and not exaggerated. So it was in Rwanda. The revolution of 1959 divided the Banyarwanda nation into two ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 18,2021 )
The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A.J.A. Symons
azw3 |eng | 1932-01-01 | Author:A.J.A. Symons [Symons, A.J.A.]

Rolfe always rolled his own cigarettes, and when in funds had his own ‘Corvo mixture’ made up at a little tobacco shop in Oxford. It had a heavy full flavour, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Jünger
azw3 |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Ernst Jünger [Jünger, Ernst]

PARIS, 13 JULY 1943 Restless, nervous night, triggered by air-raid sirens. Then I dreamed about snakes, particularly about dark, black ones that devoured the bright, colorful ones. I seldom get ...
( Category: Military History October 18,2021 )
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez

I was a dead man I don’t remember the dawn of the next day. I have a vague idea that during the entire morning I lay prostrate, between life and ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
The Inevitable Caliphate? by Pankhurst Reza
epub |eng | 2013-04-12 | Author:Pankhurst, Reza [Pankhurst, Reza]

Addressing Domestic Grievances While al-Zawahiri spent his days in an Egyptian jail after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Bin Laden was busy providing logistical and financial support to ...
( Category: Middle East History October 18,2021 )
Empire, Colony, Genocide (War and Genocide) by A. Dirk Moses
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:A. Dirk Moses [A. Dirk Moses]

New Understandings: The Impact of World War II From the late 1930s, changes in government policy and thinking about the place of Aboriginal people in Australia's future began to have ...
( Category: American History October 18,2021 )
The Great Pyramid of Khufu - A Theory by Damon Petrie
epub |eng | 2014-08-03 | Author:Damon Petrie [Petrie, Damon]

Ante Chamber Seemingly merely harnessing and resonating electromagnetic energy in the aforementioned fashion was not in itself adequate because it appears to me as though it was altered, perhaps changed ...
( Category: History October 18,2021 )
Violence and the Sacred (Bloomsbury Revelations) by Girard René
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Girard, René [Girard, René]

Notes 1 For a discussion of these works see my Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (Baltimore, 1965). 2 See Gregory Bateson et al., “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia,” in Steps ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership October 18,2021 )
Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos) by Bruce B. Lawrence
epub |eng | 2021-09-07 | Author:Bruce B. Lawrence [Lawrence, Bruce B.]

Notes 1 His fame now extends to the Internet age. See Richard Feloni, “Why Mark Zuckerberg Wants Everyone to Read the 14th Century Islamic Book ‘the Muqaddimah’,” Business Insider (June 2, ...
( Category: Islam October 18,2021 )
A.E. Waite: Words From a Masonic Mystic by Michael R. Poll
mobi |eng | 2009-03-12 | Author:Michael R. Poll

PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE Let the student recall in the first place his experience with two figurative Pillars in the Craft Grades of Masonry, how the significance of one is ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality October 18,2021 )

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