Essays
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Sullivan, John Jeremiah [Sullivan, John Jeremiah]
When at last Rafinesque returned to North America—of course he did; destiny can’t be eluded, only perverted—his ship could not make port. She headed for Cape Montauk and was baffled ...
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Popular Culture
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Charles D'Ambrosio [D'Ambrosio, Charles]
Some of what Santos is up to might be called Art Brut, although in its American form, as Outsider Art, its appreciation contains a quotient of irony and class snobbery ...
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Essays
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 1999-01-28 | Author:Dorothea Benton Frank
BY FOUR O’CLOCK the day Tipa died, we had over fifty Corning-ware dishes in the kitchen filled with the specialties of every housewife on the Island. Livvie was in the ...
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Essays
January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Anaïs Nin [Nin, Anaïs]
Suicide was a grand, dark continent to be charted and I was its cartographer. Suicides were the aristocrats of death—God’s graduate students, acting out their theses to prove how limited ...
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Essays
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Matt Weiland
Suki says a girl in Bosnia sent him a letter after reading Tom Sawyer. “Dear Editor,” the letter began, “I am a Bosnian girl who has never seen the sea. ...
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State & Local
January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:W.G. Sebald [Sebald, W.G.]
W. G. SEBALD: I can’t quite remember how it worked. I had this idea of writing a few short pieces for the feuilletons of the German papers in order to ...
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Modern
January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1992-08-16 | Author:Hugo, Richard [Hugo, Richard]
Be glad of the green wall You climbed across one day, When winter stung with ice That vacant paradise. It is paradise because it is vacant, like a blank sheet ...
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Poetry
January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-06 | Author:Baker, Nicholson [Baker, Nicholson]
Technology Grab Me a Gondola Twelve years ago, I stood on the steps of the church of the Gesuati with a ceremonial handkerchief in my suit pocket, and watched my ...
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Popular Culture
January 26,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Einstein, Albert [Einstein, Albert]
The Institute for Intellectual Co-operation DURING THIS YEAR THE leading politicians of Europe have for the first time drawn the logical conclusion from the truth that our portion of the ...
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Essays
January 23,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Payne, Richard [Payne, Richard]
125 Snyder, Gary Snyder Reader, 43. 126 Murphy, Place for Wayfaring, 106. 127 Snyder, Real Work, 117. 128 Snyder, Old Ways, 51. Emphasis original. 129 This statement confirms and expands ...
( Category:
Environmental Economics
January 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell
3. Dershaw picked up a new X-ray and put it on the light box. It belonged to a forty-eight-year-old woman. Mammograms indicate density in the breast: the denser the tissue ...
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Journalism & Nonfiction
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Hornby [Hornby, Nick]
MARCH/APRIL 2011 BOOKS BOUGHT: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks—Rebecca Skloot The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome—Roland Chambers BOOKS READ: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain ...
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General
January 16,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Daum, Meghan [Daum, Meghan]
TOY CHILDREN Though I had a stuffed-animal collection that rivaled the inventory of a Toys “R” Us, I was a child who hated dolls. By “hate,” I’m not talking about ...
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Essays
January 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-23 | Author:Scottoline, Lisa [Scottoline, Lisa]
Mona Lucy Smile I just lived an episode of Emergency Vet. Tune in. The star is Lucy, my old golden retriever, who is still rockin’ after thirteen years. Her eyes, ...
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Essays
January 6,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:David Foster Wallace
isochronal—equal in duration, taking same amount of time isomer—two molecules of same element but w/different arrangement of atoms isotropic—identical in all directions; invariant w/respect to direction; isotrope, isotropy jakes—latrine or ...
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January 6,2015 )
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