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From Alexander to Jesus by Amitay Ory;
epub |eng | | Author:Amitay, Ory;

a While the other versions of the Midrash call God “The sacred One Blessed be He,” Targum Sheni has “The King of Kings, Yhwh of the hosts.” b That is, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 5,2020 )
Subject to Debate by Katha Pollitt
epub |eng | 2009-04-25 | Author:Katha Pollitt

CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? In 1960, when about 16 percent of marriages ended in court, we had strict laws regulating divorce and the highest divorce rate in the West. ...
( Category: Social Policy July 5,2020 )
Cometh the Hour: The Clifton Chronicles 06 by Jeffrey Archer
epub |eng | 2016-02-24 | Author:Jeffrey Archer [Archer, Jeffrey]

27 EMMA HADN’T ENTERED the Palace of Westminster since their lordships had decided she was free to marry the man she loved. Giles had invited her to join him for ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers July 5,2020 )
Balzac and the Model of Painting by Knight Diana
epub |eng | | Author:Knight, Diana

In Lacan's oft-quoted formulation, 'c'est dans le nom du père qu'il nous faut reconnaître le support de la fonction symbolique qui, depuis l'orée des temps historiques, identifie sa personne à ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 5,2020 )
Alfred the Great by Simon Keynes
epub |eng | 2004-07-14 | Author:Simon Keynes

THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, 888–900 (pp. 113–20) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides the foundation for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon secular history from its traditional beginnings in the middle of the fifth century ...
( Category: Renaissance July 5,2020 )
Affective Ecologies by Alexa Weik von Mossner
epub |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Alexa Weik von Mossner

FEELING THE RISK: EXPERIENCING ECO-CATASTROPHE IN THE DYSTOPIAN NOVEL As a speculative mode of narration, science fiction imagines possible alternative and future worlds that can be either utopian or dystopian ...
( Category: Literary Criticism July 5,2020 )
A Chord in Time by Mark Ellis
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Ellis

Mass in B minor The Mass in B minor, once thought to date mainly from the 1730s, is now considered to be the work that occupied Bach’s creative powers to ...
( Category: Gospel July 5,2020 )
Pussweek by Bexy McFly
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Bexy McFly [McFly, Bexy]

2 They tell you all their problems (and expect you to care) Humans have a lot of problems. This is nothing new. But has your human ever confided in you ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
Consciousness and Culture by Porte Joel
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-07-14 | Author:Porte, Joel.

5. EMERSON’S “FRANCE, OR URBANITY” A list of French visitors who comment on life in America from the late eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century contains some very distinguished ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 5,2020 )
The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau by Lester H. Hunt;
epub |eng | | Author:Lester H. Hunt;

3. Higher Laws and Lower A key to understanding Thoreau’s asceticism can be found at an important juncture in “Economy,” where he has just made the declaration, which I discussed ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 5,2020 )
Paradoxy of Modernism by Scholes Robert E
epub |eng | 2006-07-14 | Author:Scholes, Robert E.

6 Iridescent Mediocrity: Dornford Yates and Others The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 5,2020 )
9781787374935 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2017-08-09 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

*precious. "Why, forester," quoth Ganymede, "comfort thyself; be blithe and frolic man. Love souseth* as low as she soareth high: Cupid shoots at a rag as soon as at a ...
( Category: Twelve-Step Programs July 5,2020 )
Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

431 From the "Erechtheus" of Euripides. 432 We know from Athenæus, p. 420 D, that Apelles and Arcesilaus were friends. 433 An allusion to Hesiod, "Works and Days," 235. Cf. ...
( Category: Medieval July 5,2020 )
Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence 2017 by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

22Luger’s book revolves around a fundamental distinction between what he calls weak problem-solving versus strong problem-solving. 23There are a few exceptions. Hummel (2010) has explained that sophisticated and powerful forms ...
( Category: Architecture July 5,2020 )
Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature by William S. Davis
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William S. Davis

The task of self-consciousness is to transform the “raw material” of the phenomenological world into meaningful form. Great (classical) artists must move beyond this basic condition of ontology, however, competing ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 5,2020 )

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