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Jews and Magic in Medici Florence by Edward L. Goldberg
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Edward L. Goldberg [Goldberg, Edward L.]

Fire at the Fair ‘We arrived in Ferrara early this morning, which is Tuesday, but we didn’t find the ambassador. So, we can expect him to appear this evening, on ...
( Category: Renaissance April 30,2019 )
Rumi: The Big Red Book by Coleman Barks
epub |eng | 2018-10-19 | Author:Coleman Barks

( Category: Medieval April 29,2019 )
On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Golden Deer Classics) by Ibn Rushd
epub |eng | | Author:Ibn Rushd

* * * Now, as to the verses which say that man can acquire deeds by free will, and that things are only possible and not necessary, the following may ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 29,2019 )
Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages by Ali Samer M.;
epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Ali, Samer M.;

THE PRAGMATICS OF VALUE: ADJUSTMENT AND RECEPTION A poet in performance is faced with the demands of attracting and holding the attention of an unstable audience.82 Nevertheless, what we witness ...
( Category: Medieval April 29,2019 )
Lessons From Lucy by Dave Barry
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Barry

Let Go of Your Anger, Unless It’s About Something Really Important, Which It Almost Never Is. I definitely need to learn this lesson. I need to relax, to chill, to ...
( Category: United States April 29,2019 )
So Much Longing in So Little Space by Karl Ove Knausgaard
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

* * * * Late last night, while I was selecting pictures for this book, I got an email from the artist Anna Bjerger. I have promised to write a ...
( Category: Surrealism April 29,2019 )
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey Series Book 2) by Abbey Edward
epub | | 2011-08-19 | Author:Abbey, Edward [Abbey, Edward]

“Thank you.” The ranger sheathed his radio, unsheathed his flashlight and moved briskly to the car. Bonnie followed. Doc remained slumped on his folding canvas chair by the fire, sipping ...
( Category: Political April 29,2019 )
Martian Time-Slip by Dick Philip K
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Dick, Philip K. [Dick, Philip K.]

“I tell you,” Arnie Kott said to the girl beside him in the wide bed, “you’re really going to be delighted when we make contact with him—I mean, we got ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 29,2019 )
The Rush for Second Place by William Gaddis
epub |eng | | Author:William Gaddis

OLD FOES WITH NEW FACES PRESENTED AT A SYMPOSIUM “The Writer and Religion,” organized by William Gass for the International Writers Center at Washington University in St. Louis, October 1994. ...
( Category: United States April 29,2019 )
The Lessons of Tragedy by Hal Brands;Charles Edel;
epub |eng | | Author:Hal Brands;Charles Edel;

IV It is hard to blame them, because many of their leaders and elites have been stoking precisely that ambivalence. In recent years, prominent intellectuals have argued that the remarkable ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 29,2019 )
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick (ed.)
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Isaac Kramnick (ed.) [Kramnick, Isaac]

ON THEATER AND MORALS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU D‘Alembert wrote the entry for “Geneva” in the Encylopédie, in which he criticized its prohibition of theater. Rousseau replied in 1758 in his Epistle ...
( Category: Renaissance April 29,2019 )
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius & A. S. L. Farquharson & R. B. Rutherford
epub |eng | 1989-04-15 | Author:Marcus Aurelius & A. S. L. Farquharson & R. B. Rutherford

BOOK X 1. Wilt thou one day, my soul, be good, simple, single, naked, plainer to see than the body surrounding thee? Wilt thou one day taste a loving and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 24,2019 )
Introduction to French poetry by Appelbaum Stanley
epub |eng | 1991-04-14 | Author:Appelbaum, Stanley [Appelbaum, Stanley]

Mart (1838) show Gautier’s later, less extravagant tone, but still display a pleasing variety of forms, as do those in Espana (1845), which describe the stages in the poet’s tour ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 24,2019 )
Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?, Vol. 2 by Dachima Inaka & Iida Pochi
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Dachima Inaka & Iida Pochi.

Medhimama puffed up her chest, encouraging the tentacles to come after her. It was unclear where the anemone’s face was, but it clearly took a long look at her, then ...
( Category: Family Life April 24,2019 )
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each by Peter Macmillan
epub |eng | 2018-04-20 | Author:Peter Macmillan

37 This poem deploys a particularly characteristic rhetorical device to add freshness and wit to its description of nature: ‘elegant confusion’ (mitate), or mistaking one thing for another (the dew ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2019 )

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