epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

10 Edward Said: Between Two Cultures You’ve said that your background is a series of displacements and expatriations which can’t ever be recuperated, that the sense of being between cultures ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-19 | Author:Val Ross

There are many versions of the story of the magic book Raudskinna and Eirikur, a real person who lived in the 1600s and later became a famous Christian bishop. What ...

epub |eng | 2005-02-14 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone

BY THE FALL OF 1268, Bacon's prospects for precipitating reform in the Church never seemed better. In the spring of that year, Frederick's grandson Conradin, “the last of the Hohenstaufens,” ...

mobi |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Jacobs, A. J. [Jacobs, A. J.]

mammals Elephant copulation lasts twenty seconds. That should make a lot of men feel better. Mann, Horace In his final speech, the educational reformer told students: "Be ashamed to die ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Nicholas Basbanes [Basbanes, Nicholas]

The decision to dispose of his modern first editions came after Holtzman made his first trip to Israel in 1973, when he decided to pursue a “new direction” that could ...

epub |eng | | Author:Molly Guptill Manning

The council decided it was duty bound to wage a fight for the repeal of Title V. From a monetary perspective, it did not matter to the council if one ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ellen F. Brown & Jr. John Wiley [John Wiley, Jr.]

In the fall of 1938, the Marshes saw a glimmer of light at the end of the international rights tunnel—and it was not another oncoming train. Taft finished registering the ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Azar Nafisi [Nafisi, Azar]

5 It seems quite simple, this condemnation of consumer society, until one realizes that we are, of course, part of the problem. What are my exact grievances against my laptop, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Henry Petroski [Petroski, Henry]

In the 1777 edition of Comenius’s book the illustration of the bookseller’s shop was updated to show that the shelves were stocked with bound books with their spines facing out. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Anna Quindlen [QUINDLEN, ANNA]

Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you’ll go away and only ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Andrew Pettegree [Pettegree, Andrew]

An unintended victim of this crisis was the Licensing Act, which had been due for renewal and now lapsed. The collapse of the Gazette’s monopoly led to a flurry of ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

THE LIBRARY AS MIND … to give visible form to the psychic presence and to the movements of the soul. Aby Warburg, Ausgewählte Schriften Like Machiavelli, I often sit among ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:A. J. Jacobs [Jacobs, A. J.]

mammals Elephant copulation lasts twenty seconds. That should make a lot of men feel better. Mann, Horace In his final speech, the educational reformer told students: "Be ashamed to die ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Frederick Turner [Turner, Frederick]

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Benjamin Hoff [Hoff, Benjamin]

"Balloon?" said Eeyore. "You did say balloon? One of those big coloured things you blow up? Gaiety, song-and-dance, here we are and there we are?" "Yes, but I'm afraid...I'm very ...