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Noise : A Human History of Sound and Listening (9780062283092) by Hendy David
epub |eng | 2013-06-20 | Author:Hendy, David

… an old negro near me … trembled, his teeth chattered, and his face, at intervals, was convulsed. He soon began to respond aloud to the sentiments of the preacher ...
( Category: Cultural December 22,2014 )
Noise : A Human History of Sound and Listening by Hendy David
mobi |eng | 2013-06-21 | Author:Hendy, David [Hendy, David]

… an old negro near me … trembled, his teeth chattered, and his face, at intervals, was convulsed. He soon began to respond aloud to the sentiments of the preacher ...
( Category: Cultural December 22,2014 )
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-12-13 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Essays December 19,2014 )
Solomon Time by Will Randall
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

Wuni, leaning heavily on his stick, his pipe clenched firmly between his teeth, looked up at me as I studied it. “Mr Wu. He can help you but he won’t ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
The UnDutchables by Colin White & Laurie Boucke
epub |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Colin White & Laurie Boucke

The Other Cult The Dutch possess a proven respect for religion. Traditionally, the country is divided between the Catholic and Protestant faiths (reference books are contradictory about the exact ratio; ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Buy and Live As They Do by Clotaire Rapaille
epub |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:Clotaire Rapaille

WHAT’S COOKING? ANYTHING? Like the need for shelter, the biological scheme for dinner is fundamental: all human beings need nourishment. But what is the continuum between the biological requirement to ...
( Category: Workplace Culture November 11,2014 )

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