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The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-28 | Author:Maria Rosa Menocal [MENOCAL, MARIA ROSA]

My heart is in the East, and I in the West, asfar in the west as west can he! How can I enjoy my food? What flavor can it have ...
( Category: History March 22,2017 )
Too Fast to Think by Chris Lewis
epub |eng | 2016-09-29 | Author:Chris Lewis

Flow and pulse: the way to sustainable creativity In positive psychology, Flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state when a person is immersed in a complete energized ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 22,2017 )
Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
epub |eng | 2015-12-03 | Author:Osip Mandelstam [Mandelstam, Osip]

37 When the goldfinch, in his airy confection, Suddenly gets angry, begins to quake, His spite sets off his scholar’s robes, Shows to advantage his cute black cap. And he ...
( Category: Poetry March 22,2017 )
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) by Wallace David Foster
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

14) What’s the one question you always wish interviews would ask? There really aren’t any. The problem with interviews (including even very considerate ones where you let me write answers ...
( Category: United States March 17,2017 )
Conversations with David Foster Wallace by Stephen J. Burn
epub |eng | 2012-01-12 | Author:Stephen J. Burn [Burn, Stephen J.]

David Foster Wallace: In the Company of Creeps Lorin Stein/1999 From Publishers Weekly, 3 May 1999. © 1999 by PWxyz. Reprinted by permission. “It wasn’t till I saw the galleys ...
( Category: United States March 17,2017 )
The Novel After Theory by Ryan Judith;
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Ryan, Judith;

Controlling Knowledge: Umberto Eco Not all texts that reflect on social control through institutions of incarceration necessarily mention Foucault by name. Nonetheless, sometimes the best place to hide something is ...
( Category: European March 16,2017 )
Inside the Dream Palace by Sherill Tippins
epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Sherill Tippins [Tippins, Sherill]

8 Naked Lunch Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine. —PATTI SMITH, “Oath” TO THE BELEAGUERED COUPLE who unlocked its door, the tiny chamber assigned to them wasn’t just ...
( Category: Houses & Hotels March 15,2017 )
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Lynne Cheney [Cheney, Lynne]

Chapter 13 THE REVOLUTION OF 1800 REPUBLICANS CLAIMED that Jefferson’s victory signified a revolution, by which they meant that the Federalists had been turned out and their policies rejected, but ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 15,2017 )
End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-05-13 | Author:Francis Fukuyama [Fukuyama, Francis]

21 The Thymotic Origins of Work —Karl Marx1 Hegel … believed that Work was the essence, the true essence of Man. Given the strong correlation between advanced industrialization and democracy, ...
( Category: History & Theory March 15,2017 )
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Kafka Franz & Robertson Ritchie & Crick Joyce
epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Kafka, Franz & Robertson, Ritchie & Crick, Joyce [Kafka, Franz]

III Gregor’s wound was serious and gave him pain for over a month—the apple remained, since no one dared remove it, as a visible memorial in his flesh*—but it seemed ...
( Category: Short Stories March 15,2017 )
Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds by Reiner Stach
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Reiner Stach [Stach, Reiner]

III. cont. What to do on rainy days. Or possibly on the last day. Art gallery, on the cheap day. Only a few important pictures. But in thorough detail (like ...
( Category: Modern March 12,2017 )
Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Reiner Stach [Stach, Reiner]

It was his first publication, at the age of twenty-four, and Kafka was surely heartened. Might it not be possible after all to patch together “Description of a Struggle” into ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 12,2017 )
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories (Classics) by Alexander Pushkin
epub |eng | 2016-11-01 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

4 7 mai 18— Homme sans mœurs et sans religion! FROM A CORRESPONDENCE LIZAVETA IVANOVNA was sitting in her room, still in her ball dress, lost in thought. On returning ...
( Category: Short Stories March 12,2017 )
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Alexander Pushkin
epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-05-15 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

To the great boyar’s mansion Wends his way the Elder, Anton, In his bosom he carries For the boyar his monthly tallies; The boyar looks on with vacant face, He ...
( Category: Anthologies March 12,2017 )
Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

† “Our clients” [German] THE STATIONMASTER “Collegiate administrator, Postal dictator”. —KING VYAZEMSKY Who has never cursed stationmasters? Who has never argued with them? Who, in a moment of anger, has ...
( Category: Russian March 12,2017 )

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