Politics & Social Sciences
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-14 | Author:Rebecca Lamb [Lamb, Rebecca]

Belgrade IX We grew eager to leave Belgrade, and start on the trip we were to take with Constantine through Macedonia and Old Serbia, though nothing unpleasant was happening to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Mary Gaitskill [Gaitskill, Mary]

This is Leslie Fiedler, writing about Simone Weil. When I read it, I thought, Yes, that is me: deep in dreams of marbles, omens, and psychics, hoping that something will ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Carl Dennis [Dennis, Carl]

A LETTER FROM MARY IN THE TYROL You may believe you’re as sorry as you say you are Not to be hiking with me over mountain meadows, Sorry your duties ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:G.I. Gurdjieff [Gurdjieff, G.I.]

SECOND TALK delivered by me in the same place to a much increased assemblage Last time, in the second half of my talk, I spoke about the supposition crystallized in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-16 | Author:Husain Haddawy & Muhsin Mahdi

THE NINETY-NINTH NIGHT The following night Shahrazad said: It is related, O King, that Ja’far said to the caliph: Badr al-Din said, “Because the pomegranate dish lacked pepper, you have ...
( Category: Children's Folk Tales & Myths October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Ludwig Klages [Klages, Ludwig]

However, we feel that the time has come to remember that the course upon which modern psychology as a whole has entered never leads beyond a somewhat restricted range of ...
( Category: Philosophy October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Jonathan Crary

CHAPTER FOUR Chris Marker’s La jetée (1962) opens in a post-apocalyptic future where surviving humans inhabit cramped underground spaces beneath destroyed cities in permanent exile from daylight. The authorities in ...
( Category: Accounting October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1916-01-01 | Author:John Cowper Powys

WILLIAM BLAKE The strange and mysterious figure of William Blake seems continually to appear at the end of almost every vista of intellectual and aesthetic interest down which we move ...
( Category: Literary Criticism October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

VI Transfiguration Towards the Self The snake which cannot shed its skin, perishes. Likewise those spirits which are unable to change their concepts are no longer spirits. Men of order, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1982-10-12 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]

VI The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Carl Rogers [Rogers, Carl]

The Transcendent Aspect Another important characteristic of the community-forming process, as I have observed it, is its transcendence, or spirituality. These are words that, in earlier years, I would never ...
( Category: Motivational Self-Help October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Plath, Sylvia]

Chair and bureau are the hieroglyphs Of some godly utterance wakened heads ignore: So these posed sheets, before they thin to nothing, Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1915-01-01 | Author:John Cowper Powys

MATTHEW ARNOLD It is easy to miss the especial grandeur of Matthew Arnold's work. The airy persiflage of his prose—its reiterated lucidities—pleasing to some, irritating to others, will have a ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1869-01-01 | Author:Comte de Lautreamont

FOURTH BOOK 1 A MAN, a stone, or a tree is going to begin this fourth song. When the foot slips on a frog which it has crushed, one has ...
( Category: Philosophy October 19,2021 )