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Spider-Man and Philosophy by William Irwin
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:William Irwin

Transformation, Virtue, and Vice Changes to the body involve taking on or losing ways of perceiving, feeling, and acting in the world. Through these changes, the world also appears differently. ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 22,2014 )
My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Noelle Hancock

Chapter Eleven The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear, for newer and richer experience. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ...
( Category: Women May 21,2014 )
President Me by Adam Carolla
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Adam Carolla

7 THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES As president, I’m going to get the government out of health care. I know this is going to piss off the Michael ...
( Category: United States May 20,2014 )
Peter Schlemihl
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adelbert Von Chamisso [Chamisso, Adelbert Von]

6 Bo ve ıssız kırda tek ba ıma kalınca gözya larımı serbestçe akıttım. Bunlar zavallı yüre imin, sonu olmayan bo ucu yükünü hafifletiyordu. Fakat a ırı yıkımım için bir sınır, ...
( Category: European May 19,2014 )
Ethics (Translated & Annotated) by Baruch Spinoza
epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Baruch Spinoza [Spinoza, Baruch]

The emotion called a passive experience is a confused idea whereby the mind affirms a greater or lesser force of existence of its body, or part of its body, than ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 19,2014 )
The Athenian Constitution (Classics) by Aristotle
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Aristotle

P THE ATHLOTHETAE (Chapter 60) Having completed his survey of officials appointed annually by lot our author turns to officials of other kinds, in this chapter a board which was ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 16,2014 )
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category: British & Irish May 16,2014 )
Reading Rilke by William H. Gass
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

Now Rilke knew what the glue was. SCHADE One might sentimentally imagine that Rilke’s separation from his wife, Clara, or his break with Rodin, especially his rejection by Lou, would ...
( Category: Poetry May 16,2014 )
I Am the Cheese (Laurel-Leaf Library) by Cormier Robert
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Cormier, Robert [Cormier, Robert]

T: Everything A: Well, almost everything. That night I told you about—the first memory—the bus. I was right about that, my father said. We were running away. Going to a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 16,2014 )
Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) by Thomas Hardy
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

( Category: European May 15,2014 )
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
epub |eng | 1963-05-12 | Author:Euripides

The gold is useless to you; you have lost your sons; And you are blind. – Agamemnon, if you help this man, You help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 13,2014 )
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
epub |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Churchwell, Sarah [Churchwell, Sarah]

Zelda tended to hear the ripple of music throughout life; her memories were often washed deep in musical images. “Paul Whiteman played the significance of amusement on his violin,” she ...
( Category: United States May 13,2014 )
On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

14. The Mantineans, then, were the first to appeal to him. And when he crept into the city by night, they expelled the Achaean garrison with his help, and then ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 13,2014 )
Roman Lives by Plutarch & Robin Waterfield & Philip A. Stadter
mobi, epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Plutarch & Robin Waterfield & Philip A. Stadter

[79] With these last words to his family he climbed on board the boat. It was a long way from the trireme to land, and since none of the men ...
( Category: Rome May 13,2014 )
Greek Lives by Plutarch & Philip A. Stadter & Robin Waterfield
mobi, epub |eng | 1973-09-29 | Author:Plutarch & Philip A. Stadter & Robin Waterfield

At the time of his return, then, the people convened in the Assembly and Alcibiades stepped up to address them. He spoke with sorrow and anguish of his sufferings, but ...
( Category: Historical May 13,2014 )

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