History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2004-07-07 | Author:Robert Alter

22. shield you with My palm. The Hebrew kaf means the inside of the hand, the part that holds objects, and is not the general word for hand (yad). The ...
( Category: Old Testament July 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Fullerton, Mark D.;

8 Classical Moment II: Sculptors and Statuary in the Mid-Fifth Century Following his comments on Pericles’ building program quoted above, Plutarch continues: His general manager and general overseer was Phidias, ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:David Day [Day, David]

“But they were in the well,” Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark. “Of course they were”, said the Dormouse: “—well in.” This answer so ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Weller, Sam]

Ray Bradbury, age three, outside his boyhood home at 11 South Saint James Street, Waukegan, Illinois, summer 1924. Ray standing on his grandparents’ lawn on the corner of Saint James ...
( Category: Science Fiction July 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-02 | Author:Charles Hill [Hill, Charles]

This grand awakening soon turns on itself. The people suspect, denounce, condemn, and swiftly execute the supposed enemies of the people—not just aristocrats but others too, until “along the Paris ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:John MacArthur [MacArthur, John]

The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the laborers for ...
( Category: New Testament July 3,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-06 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

PART II ‘Essay on Phonetic Symbolism’ This essay (MS Tolkien 24, folios 3–7 and 9) was written in blue ink on eight leaves of ‘Oxford paper’ torn out from examination ...
( Category: Science Fiction July 3,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-10-28 | Author:C. S. Lewis [Lewis, C. S.]

The Hobbit The publishers claim that The Hobbit, though very unlike Alice, resembles it in being the work of a professor at play. A more important truth is that both ...
( Category: Religion July 3,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Rocky Wood [Wood, Rocky]

We also read in the screenplay that Mrs. Carmody was an old woman who ran an antique shop on Carbine Street, Weathersfield. Interestingly, and knowing King this can be no ...
( Category: United States July 1,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Ryan Holiday

WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO YOU? To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON At the end of the Civil War, Ulysses S. ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement June 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Grundy, Peter [Grundy, Peter]

If we reconsider (29) There must therefore be a very good case for not allowing anyone to proceed to Year 3 we see that the function of ‘therefore’ isn’t only ...
( Category: Linguistics June 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Mark Mathabane [Mathabane, Mark]

AUTHORIZED TO CARRY ONLY 65 SEATED PASSENGERS, AND 15 STANDING. But there must have been close to a hundred perspiring people squeezed into the stuffy bus. People sat on top ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:J.K. Rowling [Rowling, J.K.]

— CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO — The Unexpected Task ‘Potter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?’ Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and ...
( Category: Medieval June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:R. F. Christian [R. F. Christian]

2 March, Yasnaya Polyana Haven’t written my diary for twelve days. I’ve felt both good and bad physically; more often bad. I’m just about surviving. I’m working on myself inwardly ...
( Category: Russian June 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-28 | Author:James Kakalios

Chapter 15: Electro's Clinging Ways. Electrostatics. Up till now, we have primarily focused on how forces change the motion of objects, and the force that has concerned us almost exclusively ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 26,2016 )