mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

14 Unflinching Reality Within weeks of meeting Melville in August 1850, Hawthorne had procured copies of the young novelist’s two latest books, Redburn and White-Jacket. Both were based on Melville’s ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Frederick Busch

And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would throw himself back in reveries—tallied him, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-08 | Author:FRANCINE PROSE

EDWARD CASAUBON The marriage takes place, and next we catch up with Dorothea on her honeymoon in Rome, sobbing bitterly because she has just begun to understand what sort of ...

mobi |eng | 1995-12-14 | Author:Eugene H. Peterson

1. Dante, THE DIVINE COMEDY, translated by Dorothy Sayers (1949-62). There are occasional moments when a culture, the church, and an individual person converge in such a way that everything ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:R. J. Palacio

Partners I didn’t hear a word of what Ms. Rubin was saying after that. Blah blah blah. Science-fair project. Blah blah blah. Partners. Blah blah. It was like the way ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Kathleen T. Horning

CHAPTER 6 Easy Readers and Transitional Books It is a common misconception among many adults that picture books are the best books to give a child who is just learning ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Charles Duhigg

In 1984, a visiting professor at UCLA named Alan Andreasen published a paper that set out to answer a basic question: Why do some people suddenly change their shopping routines? ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Jon Krakauer

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I ...

mobi, epub | | 2004-09-21 | Author:A. J. Jacobs

mammals Elephant copulation lasts twenty seconds. That should make a lot of men feel better. Mann, Horace In his final speech, the educational reformer told students: "Be ashamed to die ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-07 | Author:Jon Krakauer

Conceding the inevitable, Brigham adopted a pragmatic new strategy that was as brilliant as it was callous. He stopped claiming that the Indians were responsible for the massacre and decided ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Roger Sutton [Sutton, Roger]

When I was a child, I loved animal stories. It seemed back then that the dog or the cat or the horse started out as words on a page but ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

Chapter 15 It was this worry that kept Grace awake past her bedtime. There was a simple solution…Rathe. She was instantly appal ed. She knew she would die before accepting ...