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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Russell Gold [Gold, Russell]

McClendon became convinced by around 2003 that whichever company could grab the most acreage would succeed. Those who dallied would be left behind. By the middle of 2006, he was ...
( Category: Drilling Procedures September 2,2014 )
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? by True Kelley
epub |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:True Kelley [Edwards, Roberta]

Even so, Leonardo was very fond of Salai. He enjoyed spoiling him with presents. No matter how badly Salai behaved, Leonardo never asked him to leave. Salai stayed with him ...
( Category: Renaissance September 2,2014 )
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Italo Calvino I had left the draft of this letter in Turin; then I left for Rome and have not been back here for three weeks. I am signing it ...
( Category: European September 1,2014 )
Why Read The Classics? by Italo Calvino
epub |eng | 1999-11-15 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

* * * never tired of believing (though he was also able to discern less obvious things in Italians: their lack of confidence, their anxiety, their caution). Whatever the original ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 1,2014 )
Palafox by Chevillard Eric
epub |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Chevillard, Eric [Chevillard, Eric]

Palafox nearly choked to death curled up on his side like a bum. After having tugged in vain on his tether, he started to graze unhungrily just to pass the ...
( Category: European September 1,2014 )
Mandarins by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa [Akutagawa, Ryunosuke]

Though he too was choked with dark grief, Otsushū could not but feel unease at what seemed amidst it all to be an excessive display or, at the very least, ...
( Category: Surrealism September 1,2014 )
Selected Prose of Heinrich Von Kleist by Heinrich von Kleist
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist [Kleist, Heinrich von]

ON THE GRADUAL FORMULATION OF THOUGHTS WHILE SPEAKING To R. v. L.* · · · If you want to know something and can’t find it out through meditation, then I ...
( Category: Essays September 1,2014 )
Where Does It Hurt? by Jonathan Bush
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Jonathan Bush

CHAPTER EIGHT The Medical Home in the Woods On a summer day in the mid-1970s, a young doctor from Yale paddled a canoe through the pristine waters of the Adirondack ...
( Category: Microeconomics August 30,2014 )
Songs and Sonnets by John Donne
mobi |eng | 2011-08-27 | Author:John Donne

Madness his sorrow, gout his cramps, may he Make, by but thinking who hath made him such ; And may he feel no touch Of conscience, but of fame, and ...
( Category: European August 30,2014 )
Tschick (German Edition) by Herrndorf Wolfgang
epub |deu | 2011-01-31 | Author:Herrndorf, Wolfgang [Herrndorf, Wolfgang]

26 Zum Abschied gingen sie noch alle mit ans Gartentor, und da bekamen wir einen riesigen Kürbis geschenkt. Der lag da rum, ein riesiger Kürbis, falls wir Hunger hätten, könnten ...
( Category: European August 29,2014 )
Monsters of the Market – Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism by David McNally
epub |eng | 2012-08-24 | Author:David McNally [McNally, David]

Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation Late capitalism is a conjurer’s realm of wild money. So demonically out of control is financial wealth that, like an apparition, it ...
( Category: African August 28,2014 )
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

* * * *One can cure oneself of the not un- formation by memorizing this sentence: A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 27,2014 )
Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alan Sokal [Sokal, Alan]

A. Transgressing the Boundaries:Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity* Transgressing disciplinary boundaries … [is] a subversive undertaking since it is likely to violate the sanctuaries of accepted ways of ...
( Category: Postmodernism August 27,2014 )
Funeral Rites by Jean Genet
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Jean Genet

Nevertheless, I smiled. I was awaiting death. I knew it was bound to come, in violent form, at the end of my adventure. For what could I desire in the ...
( Category: LGBT August 27,2014 )
Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Sophocles

FOOTNOTES 4 (return) [ The Greek text for the passages marked here and later in the text have been lost.] 5 (return) [ To avoid the blessing, still a secret, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical August 24,2014 )

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