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How to Speak Brit by Moore Christopher J
epub |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Moore, Christopher J. [Moore, Christopher J.]

WAGs (noun phrase) A frankly silly acronym and phrase coined by newspaper copy editors to describe the pampered wives and girlfriends of rich soccer players. On the subject of acronyms ...
( Category: Victorian August 7,2020 )
Printed in Utopia by Ed Simon
epub |eng | 2020-06-05 | Author:Ed Simon

The Dark Lady Inscribed in the Book of Life In 1597 Amelia Lanyer visited the astrologer and physician Simon Forman several times at his practice on Philpot Lane in Westminster. ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 7,2020 )
Great Demon Kings by John Giorno
epub |eng | | Author:John Giorno

* * * IN APRIL 1967, I released Raspberry & Pornographic Poem in a tape edition; it was a reel-to-reel quarter-inch tape in a square box. Les Levine designed the ...
( Category: Authors August 7,2020 )
American Palestine by Hilton Obenzinger
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Hilton Obenzinger

Columbus ended earth’s romance: No New World to mankind remains!” (4.21.155–59) Ungar’s unraveling of the myth of America appeared in print the year that the centennial exposition in Philadelphia sought ...
( Category: United States August 6,2020 )
Tape for the Turn of the Year by A. R. Ammons
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:A. R. Ammons

release us from mental prisons into the actual fact, the mere occurrence—the touched, tasted, heard, seen: in the simple event is the scope of life: let’s not make up categories ...
( Category: United States August 6,2020 )
Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities by Chakravarty Prasanta;
epub |eng | 2018-08-15 | Author:Chakravarty, Prasanta;

Move I The first artistic impulse in this metaphysical reconstruction is thus not the art of the body but to have a sense of the architecture and tectonics of art. ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 6,2020 )
The Enigma of Isaac Babel by Freidin Gregory
epub |eng | 2011-07-28 | Author:Freidin, Gregory.

. . . everything resumed movement: the coachmen loosened the reins, lowered their long whips; the horses, animated, shook their harness chains, tossed foam around them, and the hindquarters and ...
( Category: Russian August 6,2020 )
Senses of the Subject by Judith Butler
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-31 | Author:Judith Butler [Butler, Judith]

Kierkegaard’s Speculative Despair Every movement of infinity is carried out through passion, and no reflection can produce a movement. This is the continual leap in existence that explains the movement, ...
( Category: Metaphysics August 6,2020 )
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:John Donne

So naked at this day, as though man there From paradise so great a distance were, As yet the news could not arrived be Of Adam’s tasting the forbidden tree, ...
( Category: Love Poems August 6,2020 )
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Jez Butterworth [Jez Butterworth]

ACT THREE Five o’clock. A Spitfire flies over. A distant crowd cheer. The church bell sounds. Enter DAVEY and LEE. Both in sunglasses. LEE has his ‘FARE WELL LEE?’ T-shirt ...
( Category: Drama August 6,2020 )
Civilization One by Christopher Knight
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Christopher Knight

of the Earth = 360 x 10 20 pounds 1 Megalithic-minute section of the Earth = 6 x 1020 pounds 1 Megalithic-second section of the Earth = 1020 pounds The ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge August 6,2020 )
CliffsNotes on Golding's Lord of the Flies by Maureen Kelly
epub |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Maureen Kelly

Chapter 8 Summary Ralph angers Jack by telling Piggy that even Jack would hide if the beast attacked them. In retaliation, Jack attempts his most serious mutiny yet, trying to ...
( Category: European August 6,2020 )
The Magic of Terry Pratchett by Marc Burrows
epub |eng | 2020-08-05 | Author:Marc Burrows

1. The name ‘sherbet lemons’ was inspired by a sweet shop he remembered from his childhood whose proprietor would always add a few extra sweets to each bag, once the ...
( Category: European August 6,2020 )
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert (Penguin Classics) by Gertrude Bell
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Gertrude Bell [Bell, Gertrude]

February 24, 1914 We are within sight of Hayyil and I might have ridden in today but I thought it better to announce my auspicious coming! So I sent in ...
( Category: Women in History August 6,2020 )
Conversations with William Maxwell by Barbara Burkhardt
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Barbara Burkhardt

Burkhardt: In 1932 you went to the Caribbean and in 1948 visited France with your wife. In the preface to the Quality Paperback Book Club volume you mention that you ...
( Category: United States August 6,2020 )

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