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Delusional Politics by Hardeep Singh Puri
epub |eng | 2019-12-31 | Author:Hardeep Singh Puri

June 2017: When Paris Was Lost Negotiations on climate action, spearheaded by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), have exhibited a similar delusional approach from the very ...
( Category: Leadership February 16,2020 )
This Scheming World by Ihara Saikaku
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Ihara Saikaku [Saikaku, Ihara]

HOW LOVELY THE SIGHT OF RICE-CAKE FLOWERS AT NEW YEAR’S ON NEW YEAR’S Eve the bill collectors must be quite familiar with that old saying, ‘Be quick to do good,’ ...
( Category: Japanese February 16,2020 )
Japanese Notebooks by Igort
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Igort [Igort]

Contents The Journey 7 Only yesterday . . . 17 Tanizaki 89 The Secret of Iki 95 The True Story of Sada Abe 101 The Sun 113 Yuri, Reprise 123 ...
( Category: Japan February 16,2020 )
That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph
epub |eng | 2019-09-17 | Author:Marc Randolph

The pitch did not go particularly well. Though they didn’t question my slides the way Reed had, the firm seemed dubious. And within a few days, one of their analysts ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship February 16,2020 )
Peter Watts Is an Angry Sentient Tumor by Peter Watts
epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Peter Watts [Watts, Peter]

Chamber of Horrors Nowa Fantastyka Nov 2016 You may know that I was a biologist long before I was an author. You may not know how far back those roots ...
( Category: Essays February 16,2020 )
Shiksha by Manish Sisodia
epub |eng | 2019-09-19 | Author:Manish Sisodia [Sisodia, Manish]

Both these incidents are from 2016. The SMC was not authorized and didn’t even have the money to hire teachers or resource persons on a temporary basis. There are many ...
( Category: Essays February 16,2020 )
Family Papers by Sarah Abrevaya Stein
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Abrevaya Stein

VITAL I expected to discover victims in the Levy family papers, as no Jewish family in Salonica eluded the Holocaust. What I did not expect to unearth was the tormenting ...
( Category: Jewish February 16,2020 )
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Caroline Criado Perez

CHAPTER 11 Yentl Syndrome In the 1983 film Yentl, Barbra Streisand plays a young Jewish woman in Poland who pretends to be a man in order to receive an education. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 16,2020 )
The House of the Pain of Others by Julián Herbert
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Julián Herbert [Herbert, Julián]

5 José María Grajeda was an herbalist who made himself out to be a doctor. He had a stall in the marketplace, where his cries alternated with those of the ...
( Category: Asian February 15,2020 )
On Booze by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sleeping and Waking December, 1934 WHEN SOME YEARS AGO I read a piece by Ernest Hemingway called Now I Lay Me, I thought there was nothing further to be said ...
( Category: Anthologies February 15,2020 )
The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Gina Rippon [Rippon, Gina]

Not those bloody monkeys again Newborns can’t reach or grasp for anything. They are hostage to the toys that their caregivers give them. These caregivers will probably have their own ...
( Category: Neurology February 15,2020 )
What if This Were Enough?: Essays by Heather Havrilesky
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Heather Havrilesky [Havrilesky, Heather]

* * * — The operating system that guides Billions reflects the culmination of years of cultural programming that either savors the gray area of any moral puzzle or else ...
( Category: Essays February 15,2020 )
A Map Is Only One Story by Nicole Chung
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Nicole Chung

• That was the beginning. Soon, I was as familiar with his living space as I was with mine—his bare attic room on the third floor of a lopsided house. ...
( Category: Immigration February 14,2020 )
Interrupted Life - Etty Hillesum by Etty Hillesum
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Etty Hillesum [Hillesum, Etty]

Letters from Westerbork Westerbork Monday, 1:00 P.M., in the Mahlers’ cubbyhole, where Eichwald is at this moment making me porridge. 1 My dear people,2 I really am going to send ...
( Category: Holocaust February 14,2020 )
A Little Book of Friendship by Ruskin Bond
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

My friend Pitambar was found one night dancing in the middle of the road. ‘Why are you dancing in the road?’ I asked. ‘Because I am happy,’ he said. ‘And ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 14,2020 )

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