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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Carlo Rovelli [Rovelli, Carlo]

5. Spacetime is Quantum There is a paradox at the heart of our understanding of the physical world. General relativity and quantum mechanics, the two jewels that the twentieth century ...
( Category: Quantum Theory January 8,2017 )
Must We Divide History Into Periods? by Le Goff Jacques; DeBevoise Malcolm;
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Le Goff, Jacques; DeBevoise, Malcolm;

1492. A glorious year? I have already said that it was indisputably a decisive moment. But its influence on the course of history can be interpreted in different ways, which ...
( Category: Renaissance January 8,2017 )
The Age of Irreverence by Rea Christopher;
epub |eng | | Author:Rea, Christopher;

APPENDIX ONE Selected Chinese Humor Collections, 1900–1937 This incomplete list includes collections of jokes, essays, verse, anecdotes, and stories, as well as mixed-genre collections. It does not include any dedicated ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 8,2017 )
Dreams of Exile by Ian Bell
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Bell

10 1880–1884 Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in ...
( Category: Authors January 8,2017 )
Dhammapada by Carter John Ross; Palihawadana Mahinda; & Mahinda Palihawadana
epub |eng | 2000-12-07 | Author:Carter, John Ross; Palihawadana, Mahinda; & Mahinda Palihawadana

185. No faultfinding, no hurting, restraint in the pātimokkha,* Knowing the measure regarding food, solitary bed and chair, Application, too, of higher perception: This is the instruction of the Awakened ...
( Category: Buddhism December 8,2016 )
Running With the Bulls by Valerie Hemingway
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Valerie Hemingway [Hemingway, Valerie]

Thomas Reginald Smith and Millicent Danby on their wedding day, December 5, 1936, in Blackheath, London. COLLECTION OF VALERIE HEMINGWAY Valerie Danby-Smith on her first birthday, May 5, 1941, Dublin. ...
( Category: United States December 7,2016 )
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Vintage International) by Capote Truman
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Capote, Truman [Capote, Truman]

[New York] [13 February 1955] Last Sunday, you printed a letter by Members of The Friday Drama Group in Montclair, N.J. These ladies wished to “protest vigorously” the theme of ...
( Category: United States December 6,2016 )
Education of Henry Adams by Adams Henry; Nadel Ira;
epub |eng | 1999-12-05 | Author:Adams, Henry; Nadel, Ira;

CHAPTER XX FAILURE (1871) FAR back in childhood, among its earliest memories, Henry Adams could recall his first visit to Harvard College. He must have been nine years old when ...
( Category: United States December 6,2016 )
Fantasies of the New Class by Schryer Stephen;
epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Schryer, Stephen;

5 EXPERTS WITHOUT INSTITUTIONS NEW LEFT PROFESSIONALISM IN MARGE PIERCY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN For Alvin Gouldner, one of the clearest examples of the new class’s growing restiveness was ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 6,2016 )
From Alexander to Jesus by Amitay Ory
epub |eng | | Author:Amitay, Ory

a While the other versions of the Midrash call God “The sacred One Blessed be He,” Targum Sheni has “The King of Kings, Yhwh of the hosts.” b That is, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 6,2016 )
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Wilde Oscar; Murray Isobel;
epub |eng | 1989-12-04 | Author:Wilde, Oscar; Murray, Isobel;

SALOME THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY HEROD° ANTIPAS, TETRARCH° OF JUDÆA IOKANAAN,° THE PROPHET THE YOUNG SYRIAN, CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TIGELLINUS, A YOUNG ROMAN A CAPPADOCIAN A NUBIAN FIRST ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory December 5,2016 )
English Heart, Hindi Heartland by Sadana Rashmi
epub |eng | | Author:Sadana, Rashmi

I long to build a palace for these refugees among the tombs I, who am yet to find my own house. I stammer in broken words, in distorted sounds from ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 5,2016 )
The Life of Henry Brulard by John Sturrock
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:John Sturrock

Sunday altar.—Mountains.—Périer garden.—Terrace 40 feet high decked with vines and flowers.—My uncle’s room. J. My private garden next to the water stone.—A. Natural history room.—F. Locked cupboards containing minerals, seashells.—T. ...
( Category: European December 4,2016 )
Little Magazine, World Form by Eric Bulson
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Eric Bulson

4.2 Lola Ridge’s corrections to Broom 3, no. 2 (September 1922). Looking for traces of exile in Broom’s typos is not unlike decoding an individual’s personality through samples of handwriting, ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 3,2016 )
Between Quran and Kafka by Navid Kermani
epub |eng | 2016-10-10 | Author:Navid Kermani

Not only is the orchestra seated in full view under a tree; not only are the costumes limited to rubber boots and pieces of green or red cloth, the green ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 2,2016 )

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