mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Jonathan Franzen

My parents met two years after Pearl Harbor, in the fall of 1943, and within a few months they were exchanging cards and letters. My father worked for the Great ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karl Kraus

it’s like the bitter irony of my picking up Gravity’s Rainbow when I can’t write these days, oh what a mess, I find Bloom’s style revolting in hindsight, his Manifesto ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Michael Chabon [Chabon, Michael]

LANDSMAN OF THE LOST LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I was first apprised of the wistful and intrepid pilgrimage of Mr. Julius Knipl by Lawrence Weschler, in his 1993 New Yorker profile ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Lauren Slater [Slater, Lauren]

No one knows exactly why Zyprexa increases your appetite, but everyone agrees that it does, and does so dramatically. Of all the atypical antipsychotics, which are often prescribed as adjuncts ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Mike O'Mary [O'Mary, Mike]

The Difference Between Men and Women My sister called me for advice. She said “hello” to a guy at work, and now he keeps pestering her for a date. “I ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-02 | Author:Norman Maclean & O. Alan Weltzien [Maclean, Norman & Weltzien, O. Alan]

The Woods, Books, and Truant Officers* The title of Maclean’s essay “The Woods, Books, and Truant Officers” reflects his penchant for triadic structures, which is appropriate in an essay that ...

mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Ayn Rand

THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE This is the explanation given by a distinguished brain surgeon of why he joined Galt’s strike. “I quit when medicine was placed under State ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-08-15 | Author:Plato & Christopher Rowe & Plato

He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-04 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

5 I shall now tell how he made his associates more efficient. Believing that self-discipline was a good thing for anyone to have who intended to achieve a creditable result, ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand & David Harriman & Leonard Peikoff [Rand, Ayn & Harriman, David & Peikoff, Leonard]

1947 [AR wrote the following article for the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. It was published in the November 1947 issue of Plain Talk, a conservative ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1961-07-15 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE This is the explanation given by a distinguished brain surgeon of why he joined Galt’s strike. “I quit when medicine was placed under State ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Ayn Rand & Gary Hull & Leonard Peikoff [Rand, Ayn & Hull, Gary & Peikoff, Leonard]

EDITOR’S NOTE: By the novel’s midpoint, the economy is in a state of collapse. Dagny Taggart has quit as operating vice president of Taggart Transcontinental, and has been replaced by ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Leys, Simon [Leys, Simon]

LIMITS OF CHINESE ANTIQUARIANISM Although, on the whole, it would not be wrong to say that the Chinese largely neglected to maintain and preserve the material expressions of their culture, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde

* * * THE BLACKMAILING OF THE EMPEROR * * * 'As soon as the man was dead the Emperor turned to me, and when he had wiped away the ...

epub, azw, mobi |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde

* * * THE CRITIC AS ARTIST--WITH SOME REMARKS UPON THE IMPORTANCE OF DISCUSSING EVERYTHING * * * A DIALOGUE: Part II. Persons: the same. Scene: the same. ERNEST. The ...