Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | | Author:Bertrand Russell

Mentalism vs. Materialism Ever since Greek times there has been a controversy between those who regarded matter and those who regarded mind as the dominant power in the universe. Religious ...
( Category: Philosophy February 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-02 | Author:Russell, Bertrand

Again: I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is ‘true’ so long as to believe it is ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence February 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Zadie Smith

THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA BY HANIF KUREISHI Many kinds of contraband got passed around our school: cigarettes, drugs, porn mags, video nasties, every now and then some poor fool’s diary—but ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence February 8,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:sedaris,david [sedaris,david]

c.o.g. The bus from North Carolina to Oregon takes four days, which breaks down to roughly seventy-five thousand hours if one is traveling without the aid of a strong animal ...
( Category: Humor February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:sedaris,david

The passage of time has not altered my father’s obsessive attention to my sisters’ weight and appearance. He wonders why the girls don’t drop by more often, and then when ...
( Category: Humor February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:sedaris,david [sedaris,david]

The good news was that my blood sugar was normal. "You should count yourself lucky," Martin said. "Mine is all over the place." He showed me a scar on the ...
( Category: Humor February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:thoreau,henry david [thoreau,henry david]

Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence February 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-06 | Author:Pliny the Younger

20 To his friend Tacitus ?106–7 I have read your book,* and, as carefully as I could, I have marked the 1 passages which I thought should be changed and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence February 6,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1993-09-23 | Author:Hume, David & Stephen Copley & Andrew Edgar [Hume, David]

OF PUBLIC CREDIT IT appears to have been the common practice of antiquity, to make provision, during peace, for the necessities of war, and to hoard up treasures beforehand as ...
( Category: Philosophy February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Crypt The same year that the third great Viking ship found in Norway was excavated, at Oseberg, the town of Ålesund burned. At that time the Viking ships were ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence February 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-29 | Author:Valerie Kinloch [Kinloch, Valerie]

gpg-kinloch-05-chapter.qxd 5/9/06 8:37 AM Page 105 The Voice of the Children 105 June Jordan sits on a horse-drawn produce cart near 7th Avenue and 152nd Street in Harlem, New York, ...
( Category: Women's Studies February 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hanif Abdurraqib [Abdurraqib, Hanif]

Burning That Which Will Not Save You: Wipe Me Down And The Ballad Of Baton Rouge I. Shoulders When people talk about hurricane katrina, particularly in the national conversation, they ...
( Category: Music February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-06 | Author:Shari J. Ryan [Ryan, Shari J.]

Emma, Please don’t throw this note away without reading it first. I have messed up more times than I can count. After having some time to think, I can honestly ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Baxter Black [Black, Baxter]

I spent two months livin’ in Kansas City when I was thirty-five. I’d grown up in a small town in a county that was 65 percent Spanish-speaking and was not ...
( Category: Humor February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Abigail Thomas [Thomas, Abigail]

Bluefish and Her Father One day on the beach the lifeguard blew his whistle. This was maybe twenty years ago. A large dark stain was moving through the waves, easily ...
( Category: Specific Groups February 4,2018 )