Essays
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Charles Krauthammer [Charles Krauthammer]

ESSAY: ON THE ETHICS OF EMBRYONIC RESEARCH THE PROBLEM You were once a single cell. Every one of the 100 trillion cells in your body today is a direct descendant ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion April 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Keegan

SIR HENRY NEWBOLT (1862 — 1938) Vitaï Lampada There’s a breathless hush in the Close tonight — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and ...
( Category: Military Technology April 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry David Thoreau

The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ticket and see it often, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Zadie Smith

Puppy George Saunders Twice already Marie had pointed out the brilliance of the autumnal sun on the perfect field of corn, because the brilliance of the autumnal sun on the ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-02 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Postmodernism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Zadie Smith

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]

AMBUSH AT FORT BRAGG: A NOVELLA Ambush at Fort Bragg PART ONE I, IRV Way past midnight, up in the network’s New York control room, a man and a woman ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christian Wiman

2004 *Here and elsewhere I’m not referring to art images, which certainly do have depth, interiority, etc., but which have no more purchase on our collective imagination than poetry does. ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

* * * *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE POST OFFICE *** This file should be named poffi10.txt or poffi10.zip Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1819 Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), winter scenes recall ancient ones — snow opens the door unto a lost, mystical, medieval ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:V.S. Naipaul [Naipaul, V. S.]

TO THE west, on the road to Mississippi, were shabby small settlements, like an extension of the poverty of the town of Tuskegee. I spent the night on a timber ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:A. A. Gill [Gill, A. A.]

The anti-travel awards The secret to a memorable life is judicious editing, and it’s the same with travelling. Sometimes it’s more important to know where not to go and what ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L.]

The Boon of Culture From the American Mercury, Sept., 1931, pp. 36–48 EVERY American college president, it appears, is in duty bound to write and utter at least one book ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

1. “Robbie:” This is the first robot story I wrote. I turned it out between May 10 and May 22 of 1939, when I was nineteen years old and was ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-29 | Author:Michael Pollan

I thought about the farmer more than once that spring as we worked on the heavy timber frame of my building. I thought about the speed and ease with which ...
( Category: Design & Construction March 26,2014 )