Social Sciences
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-07-11 | Author:Penny, Laura [Penny, Laura]

CHAPTER SEVEN Insurance: n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the ...
( Category: Essays December 18,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Sheila Heti & Heidi Julavits & Leanne Shapton [Heti, Sheila]

SURVEY Please describe your mind. Right now especially, my mind is mush.—RANDI RIVERA • Romantic.—EMILY RABOTEAU • High levels of comprehension but lower levels of production.—GLORIA ARMINIO • I would ...
( Category: Fashion Design December 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:A.C. Crispin

Someone else may also have accompanied Spock, but I am less sanguine about Sarek young cousin, Selek. Although the young man was perfectly poised and polite, I gained an impression ...
( Category: Adventure December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Canfield [Canfield, Jack; Hansen, Mark Victor]

5 CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS Heap on the wood! The wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will. We’ll keep our Christmas merry still. Sir Walter Scott Holiday Tale Even ...
( Category: Christmas December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-07 | Author:Alexandra Robbins [Robbins, Alexandra]

Before Sam left his house on New Year’s Day, he had a ninety-minute conversation with his father about his choice to apply to Middlebury. His father told him he agreed ...
( Category: Academic Development December 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-14 | Author:Mark Collins Jenkins

WITCHES AND WEREWOLVES In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull making witchcraft a heresy in Catholic Europe. Yet, the hysteria that overtook Europe in the 16th and 17th ...
( Category: Occultism December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1978-12-31 | Author:Peter Lloyd

6 Urban Employment The migrant comes to the city seeking work; yet the city provides insufficient jobs. The comparatively striking growth of the manufacturing sector, in terms of its output, ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Rana Mitter

A modern politics? A popular characterization of China’s leaders of the 20th century, particularly Mao, is that they have sought to become new emperors in their own right. Although it ...
( Category: Asian December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Jake MacDonald

24 I cooked dinner and waited for the sun to go down. What I knew about bears was a combination of information from old-timers like Junior Robinson, book research, and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Kate Fox

Sit-com Rules Much the same warty-realism rules apply to English situation-comedy programmes. Almost all English sit-coms are about ‘losers’ – unsuccessful people, doing unglamorous jobs, having unsatisfactory relationships, living in, ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1959-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

Twelve Ma Joong and Chiao Tai stood waiting in the courtyard with three horses. After Judge Dee had inspected the horses, the three men swung themselves into the saddle, the ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Chelsea Cain

Paola Bilbrough Canvastown That spring we lived in Canvastown there were mushrooms the size of dinner plates in the fields, frayed at the gills with lice. My mother wore a ...
( Category: United States December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1909-12-31 | Author:James Honeÿ

16 The Story of a Dam There was a great drought in the land; and Lion called together a number of animals so that they might devise a plan for ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 8,2014 )
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 )
epub |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

The child, then, is not taught grammar; nor does he learn it; he constructs it from the ‘meager and degenerate data’ at his disposal. And this would not be possible ...
( Category: Neurology December 8,2014 )