History & Criticism
azw3, epub |eng | 2002-12-17 | Author:Pine, Red [Pine, Red]

Seng-chao says, “On hearing about prajna, those who follow the Mahayana do not tremble and hence are not alarmed. On thinking about prajna, those who follow the Mahayana believe and ...
( Category: Zen Spirituality January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Gendun Chopel & Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Gendun Chopel was the master of all these forms, composing poems that displayed a high level of technical skill but that remained at once elegant and earthy. (Poems 31, 53, ...
( Category: Asian January 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Lewis Hyde

To whom does the artist address the work? Long ago we said that a gift eventually circles back toward its source. Marcel Mauss put the same idea in slightly different ...
( Category: United States January 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1963-01-02 | Author:Denis Johnson

( Category: Short Stories January 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-08 | Author:Nelson Algren [Algren, Nelson]

That was the last sad afternoon that the dealer and the steerer sat together to pretend things were as they once had been between them. While the troubled light first ...
( Category: United States January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1986-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Crime January 18,2015 )
azw |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Schopenhauer, Arthur [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

( Category: European January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Peter Childs

Everything I have done has been influenced by Flaubert and Cézanne, and this gave me a new feeling about composition. Up to that time composition had consisted of a central ...
( Category: Modernism January 17,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Simon Malpas

4 HISTORY The second key aspect of modernity that Habermas’s discussion in Chapter 2 focused on is the notion of historical development and progress towards more rational and just forms ...
( Category: Postmodernism January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2009-03-30 | Author:Wilde, Oscar [Wilde, Oscar]

One of the greatest difficulties with which the modern historian has to contend is the enormous complexity of the facts which come under his notice: D'Alembert's suggestion that at the ...
( Category: British & Irish January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

Richard Bolitho Midshipman 6 Face to Face `Easy there! Watch your stroke!' Hope, the Gorgon's fifth lieutenant, hissed in the darkness, craning forward from the sternsheets as if to seek ...
( Category: European January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Edward Bunker [Bunker, Edward]

Standard procedure for the parolee is to visit the parole officer - now known as the parole agent — the day after release, where he is given the rest of ...
( Category: Crime January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Hornby [Hornby, Nick]

MARCH/APRIL 2011 BOOKS BOUGHT: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks—Rebecca Skloot The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome—Roland Chambers BOOKS READ: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain ...
( Category: General January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

LETTER the SEVENTH From Miss C. LUTTERELL to Miss M. LESLEY Bristol the 27th of March I have received Letters from you and your Mother-in-law within this week which have ...
( Category: Authors January 14,2015 )