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Madhumalati by Behl Aditya; Weightman Simon; Manjhan Simon
epub |eng | 2000-12-03 | Author:Behl, Aditya; Weightman, Simon; Manjhan, Simon

337. Rūpamañjarī said, ‘I’ll just go for a moment and see where Pemā and Madhumālatī are. Otherwise I shall be worried and anxious, for I have a suspicion about that ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 3,2017 )
The Orphic Hymns by Apostolos N Athanassakis
mobi |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Apostolos N Athanassakis

37. To the Titans The Titans in myth are a group of twelve beings born of Earth and Sky, along with the three Kyklopes and three Hundred-Handers. For the story ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 3,2017 )
A Great Idea at the Time by Alex Beam
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Beam

Mortimer Adler lived on eleven more years, in progressively failing health, until his death in 2001. He continued to teach seminars to the business “bozos,” as he called them behind ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles December 3,2017 )
Leonardo Da Vinci* by Kathleen Krull
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...
( Category: Biographies December 3,2017 )
Early Stories of Jules Verne by Jules Verne
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-09-14 | Author:Jules Verne

CHAPTER XI – A CLOUD OF SMOKE THE next day, when the sailors awoke, they were surrounded by complete darkness. The lamp had gone out. Jean Cornbutte roused Penellan to ...
( Category: World Literature December 3,2017 )
Double-Booked for Death by Ali Brandon
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Ali Brandon

FIFTEEN WITH THE MARNIE SITUATION SETTLED—OR SO DARLA hoped!—she spent the next hour or so returning the displaced books to their proper places. Of course, being the avid reader that ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 2,2017 )
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? by Roberta Edwards
epub |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:Roberta Edwards [Edwards, Roberta]

Even so, Leonardo was very fond of Salai. He enjoyed spoiling him with presents. No matter how badly Salai behaved, Leonardo never asked him to leave. Salai stayed with him ...
( Category: Biographies December 2,2017 )
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded) by Susan Wise Bauer
mobi |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Susan Wise Bauer

Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world And measure every wandering planet’s course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education December 2,2017 )
Think Like A Freak: The Authors Of Freakonomics Offer To Retrain Your Brain (Summary): Summary and Analysis by Summary Station
mobi |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Summary Station

Chapter 6 This chapter is all about incentives. Incentives are the rewards that people get from doing something and in most cases incentives are the lead motivators behind people’s daily ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 2,2017 )
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction by Phillip Lopate
mobi |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Phillip Lopate

The Made-Up Self: On the Difficulty of Turning Oneself into a Character The idea that personal essayists and memoirists construct a persona would seem to be self-evident. In The Made-Up ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 2,2017 )
CliffsNotes on Rand's Atlas Shrugged (Cliffsnotes Literature Guides) by Andrew Bernstein
mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Andrew Bernstein [Bernstein, Andrew]

Glossary pure, abstract science theoretical studies in math and physics that do not relate directly to the development of practical technologies. sanction something, such as a moral principle or influence, ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
With Wolfe in Canada by G. A. Henty
epub |eng | | Author:G. A. Henty

Chapter 12 : A Commission. Presently the noise made by the column of French troops was heard abreast of the fugitives. Then it died away behind them, and they again ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 2,2017 )
Nicomachean Ethics (Hackett Classics) by Aristotle
mobi |eng | 1999-11-30 | Author:Aristotle

7 7.§1–8. A new approach to the good should avoid these objections to other views. We begin from plausible criteria for the good, and we find that happiness meets these ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2017 )
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A: The Best of Her Q & A by Robert Mayhew
mobi |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Robert Mayhew [Mayhew, Robert]

You say the predominant trend of nineteenth-century intellectuals was collectivist and statist. But didn’t Nietzsche advocate individualism? What’s your estimate of him? It’s a low estimate, philosophically. I disagree with ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2017 )
CliffsNotes on Rand's The Fountainhead (Cliffsnotes Literature Guides) by Andrew Bernstein
mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Andrew Bernstein [Bernstein, Andrew]

Glossary pandering the sell-out of higher values to gain popularity and influence, such as by catering to the vulgar tastes of the crowd. Here, it applies to Gail Wynand and ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 2,2017 )

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