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Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck John
epub |eng | 1936-01-01 | Author:Steinbeck, John [Steinbeck, John]

CHAPTER 19 ONCE CALIFORNIA BELONGED to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they ...
( Category: Essays August 5,2020 )
Losing Eden by Lucy Jones
epub |eng | 2020-03-25 | Author:Lucy Jones

7. Ecological Grief monachopsis, noun. The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach. The word ‘ecology’ comes ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays August 4,2020 )
The Fun Stuff by James Wood
epub |eng | | Author:James Wood

CONTAINMENT: TRAUMA AND MANIPULATION IN IAN MCEWAN In different ways, most of Ian McEwan’s novels and stories are about trauma and contingency, and he is now best known as the ...
( Category: Essays August 4,2020 )
Carl Hiaasen by Kick Ass
mobi |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Kick Ass

Ferre also owes voters an explanation April II, 1993 Tales from the crypt: Maurice Ferre is back. He is risen from the land of political losers to run for Metro ...
( Category: United States August 3,2020 )
An Organizer's Tale by Cesar Chavez
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Cesar Chavez

Twenty Days in Jail After going to jail for civil disobedience, Chavez spoke to El Malcriado about the diversity he saw in jail and about the tragedy of poverty leading ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies August 3,2020 )
Life of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Alexander Berkman

Despite the signs that the Russian Revolution was heading toward a future diametrically opposed to the ideals that inspired it, Berkman—on hearing of the “Red Scare” in the United States ...
( Category: Anarchism August 2,2020 )
Dear Neil Armstrong by James R. Hansen
epub |eng | | Author:James R. Hansen

“PLEASE DO NOT USE A RUBBER STAMP” July 28, 1970 Captain Neil Armstrong, US Navy National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington D.C. Dear Captain Armstrong, Sir: My apologies to you ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 2,2020 )
Hey Girl! Empowering Journal for girls: To Develop Gratitude and Mindfulness through Positive Affirmations by Pragya Tomar
mobi |eng | 2020-04-26 | Author:Pragya Tomar

( Category: Mosaic August 2,2020 )
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen; Kevin Maurer
mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Mark Owen; Kevin Maurer

It was 2007 and I was on my sixth deployment. This time, I was working with the CIA at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province. Khost Province was one ...
( Category: Afghan & Iraq Wars August 2,2020 )
Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | | Author:Kahlil Gibran

The Essence of Poetry TRUTH, THE GOAL OF POETRY In the history of high learning, poetry has become part of the “liberal arts” and especially of rational philosophy ever since ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2020 )
Geometry of Love by Margaret Visser
epub |eng | 2000-08-14 | Author:Margaret Visser [Visser, Margaret]

THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS At Sant’Agnese’s, above the roundels containing portraits of popes come the galleries with their columns and the arches that carry the clerestory walls. First, there is ...
( Category: Religious Building Architecture August 2,2020 )
Memories and Studies by William James
epub |eng | | Author:William James

X - The Energies of Men * [13] Everyone knows what it is to start a piece of work, either intellectual or muscular, feeling stale—or oold, as an Adirondack guide ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2020 )
The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Gevisser

* * * OF ALL THE PLACES I VISITED, Lagos seemed to be the place where this dissonance was most intense. The Nigerian megacity was the West African hub to ...
( Category: Comparative Politics August 1,2020 )
Diaries Volume Three by Alastair Campbell
epub |eng | | Author:Alastair Campbell

August holiday We had a house in Puyméras, a little village on the other side of Ventoux. We had an OK time, though there were too many party people around ...
( Category: Letters August 1,2020 )
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's by Hunter S. Thompson
epub |eng | 2003-11-06 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Bull Market on The Strip Las Vegas—The dawn does not come up like thunder at the Stardust Sports and Race Book on Las Vegas Boulevard. At six in the morning ...
( Category: Journalists August 1,2020 )

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