History & Criticism
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Eric Kandel [Kandel, Eric R.]

Both Freud and Darwin recognized that human behavior can give rise to a variety of emotional responses that lie between the polar extremes of approach and avoidance. Moreover, this family ...
( Category: History April 8,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-23 | Author:Collins, Suzanne [Collins, Suzanne]

The implications of what Gale is suggesting settle quietly around the room. You can see the reaction playing out on people’s faces. The expressions range from pleasure to distress, from ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

* She did continue to do “housework,” of course. But we must ask what this had come to mean. The industrial economy had changed the criterion of housekeeping from thrift ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 5,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:McPhee, John [McPhee, John]

On the first morning, the camp runs one-on-one drills, then half-field scrimmages, then full-field scrimmages, while the camp’s own coaches (mainly college assistants) watch. The camp’s coaches then pick their ...
( Category: United States April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Destrée, Pierre; Murray, Penelope; & Penelope Murray

Yet the most brilliant literary report on the purple effect, which deserves to be quoted at some length, is likely found in Philostratus the Elder, describing a painting scene with ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phyllis Rose

Seven SMALL WORLDS: THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE LARK I wanted a change from women, and that was not hard to arrange because there were no more books by women on ...
( Category: General April 3,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Halperin, David M M [Halperin, David M M]

[In the case of friendships based on pleasure and utility,] the friendships are most enduring when they [the two friends] get the same thing—e.g. pleasure— from each other, and, moreover, ...
( Category: LGBT March 31,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

2 The Miser In February Bishop Latour once more set out on horseback over the Santa Fé trail, this time with Rome as his objective. He was absent for nearly ...
( Category: Classics March 28,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Atul Gawande

6. THE CHECKLIST FACTORY Some time after that first miserable try, I did what I should have done to begin with. I went to the library and pulled out a ...
( Category: General Surgery March 26,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Durrell

7 Drage’s Divine Discontent “Did I ever tell you about the time when Drage, the Embassy butler, began to suffer from visions? No? Well, it was dashed awkward for all ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-22 | Author:Thane Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Thane]

SEVEN WHEN SELF-HELP IS PERMISSIBLE Vengeance and justice are commonly understood as sharing the tortured history of sibling rivals. Justice is the wise child; vengeance is the wicked one. Justice ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 1974-03-18 | Author:Ursula Le Guin [Le Guin, Ursula]

REVOLUTION IN BENBILI! DICTATOR FLEES! REBEL LEADERS HOLD CAPITAL! EMERGENCY SESSION IN CWG. POSSIBILITY A-IO MAY INTERVENE. The birdseed paper was excited into its hugest typeface. Spelling and grammar fell ...
( Category: Political March 19,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Shaking a Leg [Leg, Shaking a]

For I have a providential acquaintance with men who bear the name of animals. “For I bless God to Mr Lion Mr Cock Mr Cat Mr Talbot [turbot?] Mr Hart ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Jones, Stephen & Newman, Kim [Jones, Stephen & Newman, Kim]

*** Disaster is a proud tradition in fantastic literature, from H. G. Wells' Martian invasion to such modern-day bestsellers as Swan Song and War Day. The fifties and the early ...
( Category: Anthologies March 19,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen Marche

Give Me My Robe, Put On My Crown Shakespeare is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere in the world of politics. Four hundred years after his death, his speeches fit the shape ...
( Category: Shakespeare March 18,2016 )