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The World is a Carpet by Anna Badkhen
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Anna Badkhen

Ralph A. Bagnold, the British troubadour of sand, has described the rare hummed canticle as “the great sound which in some remote places startles the silence of the desert.” Bagnold ...
( Category: Cultural December 3,2014 )
The Delusions of Economics: The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science by Rist Gilbert
epub |eng | 2011-11-24 | Author:Rist, Gilbert [Rist, Gilbert]

CHAPTER 7 EQUILIBRIUM Equilibrium is unquestionably one of the keywords of economic ‘science’.1 Accounts (budget, foreign trade) have to ‘balance’ – otherwise there is a ‘surplus’ or a ‘deficit’. Losses ...
( Category: Specific Topics December 3,2014 )
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore by Alan Dundes
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Alan Dundes

Here is the first-person account: And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 2,2014 )
Fourteen: The Murder of David Stukel by Bill O'Connell
mobi |eng | 2007-11-06 | Author:Bill O'Connell

18 If These Files Could Talk The formidable Prisoner Review Board files of Billy Rose Sprinkle and James Per-ruquet have that been-around-the-cell-block look, feel, and smell to them—faded and parched ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem November 29,2014 )
The Vanishing American Jew by Alan M. Dershowitz
epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Alan M. Dershowitz [DERSHOWITZ, ALAN M.]

Changing Tradition The myth that Jewish law was always the same, and that all of Halakah was handed down at Sinai, was designed to prevent Jews from recognizing the mutable ...
( Category: Minority Studies November 26,2014 )
Eavesdropping by Locke John L
epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Locke, John L.

Gender redux In the arrests for eavesdropping there is generally less detail than in the court-welcomed cases, as indicated, but the records reveal one thing about the people who were ...
( Category: Linguistics November 23,2014 )
Our Kind of People by Uzodinma Iweala
epub |eng | | Author:Uzodinma Iweala

DEATH On one of my trips to Nigeria, Doc and Samaila introduced me to a man named Ikenna, who ran a bar on the same military base where I happened ...
( Category: Cultural November 19,2014 )
La Rama Dorada by James George Frazer
mobi |es | 2011-05-18 | Author:James George Frazer

CAPÍTULO XXXIX EL RITUAL DE OSIRIS 1. LOS RITOS POPULARES Una pista muy útil para averiguar la naturaleza originaria de un dios o diosa la suministra con frecuencia la estación ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
(Dalgliesh 06) Muerte De Un Forense
mobi |es | 2011-10-15 | Author:P.d. James

3 El señor Goddard dijo: —Bajaba corriendo por el camino de entrada como si le persiguieran todos los diablos. —¿Podría describírnoslo, señor Goddard? —Qué va. No era viejo. —¿Muy joven? ...
( Category: Murder November 11,2014 )
Guns, Germs, And Steel. The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
mobi |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

THE LIMITED USES and users of early writing suggest why writing appeared so late in human evolution. All of the likely or possible independent inventions of writing (in Sumer, Mexico, ...
( Category: Human Geography November 11,2014 )
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
mobi |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

TWELVE ALONE IN A CROWDED UNIVERSE While humans are unique among Earth's species, the enormous number of stars suggests that intelligent creatures like us must have evolved elsewhere in the ...
( Category: Physical November 11,2014 )
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality
mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond

First, concealed ovulation. Figure 4.3 By combining facts about modern observed species with inferences about ancestral species, one can infer the mating system prevailing when ovulatory signals underwent evolutionary change. ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
MITO Y REALIDAD by Eliade Mircea
mobi |es | 2009-01-08 | Author:Eliade Mircea

LOS PRINCIPIOS DE LA «DESMITIFICACIÓN» Es este último el primer ejemplo conocido, en la historia de las religiones, de un proceso consciente y caracterizado de «desmitificación». Bien es verdad que, ...
( Category: Anthropology November 11,2014 )
La Radio De Darwin(c.1)
mobi |es | 2011-12-17 | Author:Greg Bear

46 Atlanta Dicken subió la ligera pendiente desde el aparcamiento de Clifton Way, guiñando los ojos al mirar hacia el cielo despejado, con tan sólo unas cuantas nubes bajas. Esperaba ...
( Category: Architecture November 11,2014 )
Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond
epub |eng | 2011-05-29 | Author:Jared Diamond

Step 4. To identify these changes of function, Sillén-Tullberg and Møller got the bright idea of studying the family tree of living primate species. They thereby hoped to identify the ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )

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