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Poor Charlie's Almanack - The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Charles T. Munger [Munger, Charles T.]

We will next use numerical fluency to ascertain what our target implies. We can guess reasonably that by 2034 there will be about eight billion beverage consumers in the world. ...
( Category: Analysis & Strategy February 27,2020 )
Leadership Is Language by L. David Marquet
epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:L. David Marquet

How Celebration Affects Behavior In Aubrey Daniels’s book Bringing Out the Best in People, he analyzed the structure of what causes behavior changes. He described it this way: ABC. A ...
( Category: Leadership February 27,2020 )
The Pancatantra (Penguin Classics) by Visnu Sarma
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-30 | Author:Visnu Sarma [Sarma, Visnu]

On seeing him, Lightwing was alarmed and started reflecting nervously, ‘Oho! What crime is this fellow planning to commit now? To cause me mortal harm? Or, alas, has he some ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory February 27,2020 )
Culture and Materialism by Raymond Williams
epub |eng | 1980-02-26 | Author:Raymond Williams

Caste extends the social reference. An aristocratic officer courts the daughter of an unemployed and drunken workman; she is an actress. This outrages his mother, the Marquise. The girl, left ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture by Susan Stewart
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-01-05 | Author:Susan Stewart

Fantasies One project of the period, however, brought an unusual experience of ruins indoors into a three-dimensional, room-sized illusion. This was Clérisseau’s 1766 commission from two learned Franciscans, members of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 27,2020 )
Understanding Relations Between Scripts by Steele Philippa;
epub |eng | 2017-08-30 | Author:Steele, Philippa;

10. The context of adaptation These considerations lead to the final justification for reading Linear A with Linear B sound values. And for this we do not have to look ...
( Category: Prehistory February 27,2020 )
Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker & Nancy Sommers
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Diana Hacker & Nancy Sommers [Hacker, Diana]

( Category: Reference February 27,2020 )
The Epic of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hrdaya & Todd Lewis & Subarna Man Tuladhar
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Chittadhar, Hrdaya & Todd Lewis & Subarna Man Tuladhar

Disputatious Monks of Kausāmbī One day in the morning the sangha living there had an argument Erupt among some monks about the breach of a Vinaya rule. Having come to ...
( Category: Epic February 26,2020 )
Sleeping with Strangers by David Thomson
epub |eng | 2019-01-28 | Author:David Thomson

* * * — There was so much we wanted from the movies and so much we didn’t know. I spoke earlier about watching James Dean as a teenager. This ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 26,2020 )
The Writing of Aletheia by Martin Travers;
epub |eng | 2019-09-18 | Author:Martin Travers;

Regno: The Discourse of Domination: Latin Heidegger must struggle in Parmenides to find adequate words to describe “aletheia”, not only because the word is internally complex, but because its meaning ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 26,2020 )
Samuel Beckett by Pascale Casanova
epub |eng | | Author:Pascale Casanova

This strange, contradictory solution draws on Descartes and Leibniz as well as Spinoza. In cases of the most extreme compulsion, Geulincx granted a certain indetermination that is the sole tragic ...
( Category: European February 26,2020 )
Ivan Illich in Conversation by David Cayley
epub |eng | 1992-06-08 | Author:David Cayley

V The Last Frontier of Arrogance CAYLEY: Your book Shadow Work appeared at the end of the 1970s just at the time you were beginning to teach at Marburg. How ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 26,2020 )
It's Time to Talk (and Listen) by Anatasia S. Kim & Alicia del Prado
epub |eng | 2019-06-30 | Author:Anatasia S. Kim & Alicia del Prado [Kim, Anatasia S.]

Don’t: Cross your arms, which suggests you are defensive or closed off to what the other person is saying. Frown. Furrow your brow. Look down at your nails, play with ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling February 26,2020 )
Charleston Fancy by Witold Rybczynski
epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Witold Rybczynski [Rybczynski, Witold]

* Kentlands was eventually completed. It was so successful that it gave rise to a second traditional development next door, Lakelands. ** The density of the original plan of I’On ...
( Category: Urban & Land Use Planning February 26,2020 )
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Rachel Vorona Cote

We don’t often read about Victorian women’s substance abuse, and with good reason. In the nineteenth century, a temperance movement loomed large in Great Britain. Men who drank were considered ...
( Category: Women February 26,2020 )

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