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What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith

9 A Vision of Agape It was a summer evening, in June, and I was on my way to a speaking engagement in Perthshire, a part of Scotland that I ...
( Category: Poetry April 11,2017 )
Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation by Farrin Raymond;
epub |eng | | Author:Farrin, Raymond; [Farrin, Raymond]

Appendix B Chapter Pairs Below we indicate the chapter pairs occurring in the Qur’an, which total over fifty. With the exception of 43-44, 45-46, 47-48, and 63-64, these have all ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 8,2017 )
A Companion to Modernist Poetry by Chinitz David E.; McDonald Gail; & Gail McDonald
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:Chinitz, David E.; McDonald, Gail; & Gail McDonald

The poem's speaker joins Blessingbourne in a quest for meaning beyond ostensible transparencies (of windows, of words), locating in the ephemeral “weather,” which gives incidental shape or color to a ...
( Category: United States April 8,2017 )
Recollections of the Young Proust by Prestwich P.F.;
epub |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Prestwich, P.F.;

13 A New Venture ‘August in Paris was commonly referred to as “la morte saison”, but it never seemed less so to me,’ wrote Marie. ‘The days were over full ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 7,2017 )
Reich by James Lucas
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:James Lucas

PART THREE Military Perspectives In a game of chess, a logical, intellectual game, there comes a point where one player will cry ‘checkmate’. That player has manoeuvred his opponent into ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 6,2017 )
The World of Jimmy Breslin by Breslin Jimmy
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Breslin, Jimmy [Breslin, Jimmy]

7 In Which He Sees the Dark Side of Life BRESLIN DEALS IN EMOTIONS the way some columnists deal in issues. They are the stuff of his writing and his ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 6,2017 )
Celtic Unconscious, The by Barlow Richard;
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Barlow, Richard;

“THE PICKTS ARE HACKING THE SAXUMS” At bedtime the twins “jerry” (FW, 565.10) and “keve” (565.15), versions of Shem and Shaun, respectively, are slightly traumatized by the nocturnal sight of ...
( Category: Modern April 6,2017 )
1916 in 1966 by Mary E. Daly
epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Mary E. Daly

COMMUNAL MEMORY Whyte’s aforementioned supposition that new forms are built out of elements already present on the scene of construction is accompanied by his assertion that this idea only applies ...
( Category: Feminist April 6,2017 )
CliffsNotes on Ellison's Invisible Man by Durthy A. Washington
epub |eng | | Author:Durthy A. Washington

Glossary sectarianism narrow-minded, limited, parochial thinking. Uncle Tom a term of contempt for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile. perfidity betrayal of trust; treachery. ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 5,2017 )
The Body Builders by Adam Piore
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Adam Piore

Cohn was aware of all these efforts. But he wanted to go further. Cohn wasn’t interested in building a device to enhance performance in the field—he wanted a device or ...
( Category: Biomedical Engineering April 4,2017 )
Why Are There Differences in the Gospels?: What We Can Learn From Ancient Biography by Michael R. Licona
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-12-19 | Author:Michael R. Licona [Licona, Michael R.]

Summary •Luke compresses dialogue and substitutes terms. •Luke (or the tradition from which he drew) presents the relationship of Jesus informing his disciples of his betrayal by one of them ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 30,2017 )
Another Country (Vintage International) by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

2 Eight days later, Eric was in New York, with Yves’ last words still ringing in his ears, and his touch and his smell all over his body. And Yves’ ...
( Category: African American March 28,2017 )
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon “YOU ARE FULL of nightmares,” Harriet tells me. She is in her dressing gown and has cream all over her face. She and my ...
( Category: Short Stories March 28,2017 )
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

Between the night and the morning of April 3–4, in 1967, a Marine, Michael E. Kroll, was murdered on West 3rd Street, in Greenwich Village. He was killed, according to ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

8. In Search of a Majority: An Address I AM SUPPOSED TO SPEAK THIS evening on the goals of American society as they involve minority rights, but what I am ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )

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