mobi |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Gass, William H. [Gass, William H.]

but I have been dropping hints all along like heavy shoes that the ultimate and essential displacement is to the word, and that the true sexuality in literature—sex as a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Russell Shorto

The skull of Descartes. Across the forehead, in Swedish, is an accusation of a theft in 1666 that began the skull’s peregrinations. Above it is a poem in Latin celebrating ...

epub |eng | 2001-12-26 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

Barely was the ink dry on the pages of these books, however, than they were challenged. Challenged is perhaps too weak a word, for the view they represented was in ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

We believe him because what he writes “rings true,” but also because, like Cephalus in Plato’s Republic, he is now nearly free of the world and its ambitions, of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Watson, Peter [Watson, Peter]

Valerie Flint’s reconstruction of Columbus’ known reading shows that, in addition to Italian, he was adept at Latin, Castilian and Portuguese and that his books–many heavily annotated to the point ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Leopardi, Giacomo [Leopardi, Giacomo]

This consequence derives from the principle assumed. But since the principle is false, so too the consequence is not true, and this proposition if considered again just by itself, will ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:William Mitchell [Mitchell, William]

Part II Chapter 8 Anna Liu had a decision to make. For months she’d been putting out feelers, priming her trawlers to look for any other informants who could help ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Asma, Stephen T. [Asma, Stephen T.]

Disentangling Tribalism and Tragedy In the West, one often finds a facile equation of tribalism and violence. Some versions of liberalism seek to eliminate all tribal tendencies, arguing that tribalism ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Lisa Samson

After withdrawing from the order of the School Sisters of St. Mary, a day that still hurts my back teeth so much I hate to think about it, I cried ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Ramachandra Guha & Jay Taylor & Rana Mitter & Odd Arne Westad & Srinath Raghavan & Farzana Shaikh & James Rush & Michael D. Barr & Jian Chen & Sophie Quinn-Judge [Guha, Ramachandra & Taylor, Jay & Mitter, Rana & Westad, Odd Arne & Raghavan, Srinath & Shaikh, Farzana & Rush, James & Barr, Michael D. & Chen, Jian & Quinn-Judge, Sophie]

Guiding Democracy Sukarno arrived back in Indonesia in October following the second of his whirlwind tours refreshed and confident. But what he had seen also disturbed him. Much of the ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sam Harris

DZOGCHEN: TAKING THE GOAL AS THE PATH Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche lived in a hermitage on the southern slope of Shivapuri Mountain, overlooking the Kathmandu Valley. He spent more than twenty ...

mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth ENTERTAINMENT, THE MEDIA, AND THE PAIN?BODY If you were not familiar with our contemporary civilization, if you had come here from another age or another planet, one ...

mobi |eng | 2008-02-09 | Author:Kevin R. Grazier

Did they really talk that way? The Plot The story begins with the appearance of a mortally injured man in the Arizona desert. He is raving and suffering from strange ...

mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Gregory Bassham

Inductive Generalizations 295 CALVIN AND HOBBES © Watterson. Reprinted with permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved. he might have a tendency to approach only people who look “friendly.” ...

mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Robert C. Koons

Document Outline Metaphysics: The Fundamentals Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 What Is Metaphysics? 1.1 The Subject of Metaphysics 1.2 The Methods of Metaphysics 1.3 The Waxing and Waning of Metaphysics ...