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In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays (Original Harvest Book; Hb333) by Anaïs Nin
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Anaïs Nin [Nin, Anaïs]

Suicide was a grand, dark continent to be charted and I was its cartographer. Suicides were the aristocrats of death—God’s graduate students, acting out their theses to prove how limited ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald by W.G. Sebald
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:W.G. Sebald [Sebald, W.G.]

W. G. SEBALD: I can’t quite remember how it worked. I had this idea of writing a few short pieces for the feuilletons of the German papers in order to ...
( Category: Modern January 29,2015 )
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Hugo Richard
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1992-08-16 | Author:Hugo, Richard [Hugo, Richard]

Be glad of the green wall You climbed across one day, When winter stung with ice That vacant paradise. It is paradise because it is vacant, like a blank sheet ...
( Category: Poetry January 29,2015 )
Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth by Wright John C
epub |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Wright, John C. [Wright, John C.]

NOTE TO THE HISTORICALLY ILLITERATE: If you do not recognize more than half the names on the list given above, you are not allowed to have an opinion on any ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy January 29,2015 )
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-18 | Author:Tom Standage

crYPTOGRAPHY—tinkering with codes and ciphers—was a common hobby among Victorian gentlemen. Wheatstone and his friend Charles Bab-bage, who is best known for his failed attempts to build a mechanical computer, ...
( Category: History of Technology January 28,2015 )
A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson
epub |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Jenny Davidson

Anton Voyl n’arrivait pas à dormir. Il alluma. Son Jaz marquait minuit vingt. Il poussa un profond soupir, s’assit dans son lit, s’appuyant sur son polochon. Il prit un roman, ...
( Category: Fiction January 27,2015 )
BOWLING ALONE by Robert D. Putnam
epub |eng | 2000-01-25 | Author:Robert D. Putnam

SOCIAL CAPITAL AFFECTS NOT ONLY what goes into politics, but also what comes out of it. The best illustration of the powerful impact of civic engagement on government performance comes ...
( Category: Curricula January 26,2015 )
Five Equations That Changed the World by Michael Guillen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Guillen

VICI On February 29, 1812, Faraday leapt up the stone steps and rushed through the heavy doors of London’s Royal Institution. Symbolically, it was like the storming of Bastille, except ...
( Category: History January 26,2015 )
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 by Alice Munro
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

The View from Castle Rock THE FIRST TIME Andrew was ever in Edinburgh he was ten years old. With his father and some other men he climbed a slippery black ...
( Category: Short Stories January 25,2015 )
Joplin's Ghost: A Novel by Tananarive Due
epub |eng | 2005-09-20 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

Hear me speak, my brethren here, And my comely sisters too. We’ve toiled so hard for many a year, And our future many rue. Our old way of life will ...
( Category: United States January 25,2015 )
Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson
epub, mobi |eng | 1964-01-24 | Author:Snorri Sturluson [Snorri Sturluson]

Chapter 144. The King Proceeds South along the Land with His Fleet But now we shall tell about the happenings touched on before, namely King Óláf’s sailing with his fleet ...
( Category: Medieval January 25,2015 )
Skin Folk: Stories by Nalo Hopkinson
mobi |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Nalo Hopkinson [Hopkinson, Nalo]

I peek over my bubbies and belly at she. She sitting in between my legs like if it ain’t have nothing wrong with that. She two massive legs pinning my ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy January 25,2015 )
The Dark Tower Companion by Bev Vincent
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Bev Vincent [Vincent, Bev]

Q: The layout for the Dark Tower graphic novels is more basic than some of the contemporary graphic novels. A: From the beginning, Jae only did horizontal panels. The idea ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy January 25,2015 )
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Adam Nicolson

For these Puritans, and in a way we can scarcely understand now, the words of the scriptures were thought to provide a direct, almost intravenous access to the divine. Listen, ...
( Category: European January 24,2015 )
Tibetan Treasure Literature: Revelation, Tradition, and Accomplishment in Visionary Buddhism by Andreas Doctor
azw3 |eng | 2006-02-25 | Author:Andreas Doctor

Even though (or perhaps because) the text has prominent origins in the much hailed (but obscure) Vidyottamatantra collection, it is directly approachable only by someone of the highest spiritual caliber, ...
( Category: Asian January 22,2015 )

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