Anthropology
mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Basham, A. [Basham, A.]

The Evolution of the Great Vehicle It is never claimed in the Pali scriptures that the Buddha was in any way supernatural. His supreme insight was gained by his own ...
( Category: India November 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Walter Moers [Moers, Walter]

A lively tune struck up and one of the smaller curtains – the one embroidered with musical notes – slowly rose to reveal an orchestra behind it – or, at ...
( Category: Epic November 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:J. K. Rowling [Rowling, J. K.]

— CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE — The Eye of the Snake Hermione ploughed her way back to Hagrid’s cabin through two feet of snow on Sunday morning. Harry and Ron wanted to ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Noys, Benjamin [Noys, Benjamin]

Machinic revolution must therefore go in the opposite direction to socialistic regulation; pressing towards ever more uninhibited marketization of the processes that are tearing down the social field, ‘still further’ ...
( Category: Cultural October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]

In the traditional occult, Venus is the goddess of love and ripeness, tranquility and charity. She represents the ardor within nature to grow and spread, dispatching fields of wild plants ...
( Category: Cultural October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-11 | Author:James, James St. [James, James St.]

Daylight—Avenue C. I ran into Cookie-Puss, lovely little Cookie-Puss…. He was looking a little haggard. “J-J-James! H-h-how are you? W-w-want s-s-some c-c-coke?” “No thank you. How are you, though?” “G-g-great. ...
( Category: General October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:Hosseini, Khaled [Hosseini, Khaled]

That was also the year that Soraya and I began trying to have a child. THE IDEA OF FATHERHOOD unleashed a swirl of emotions in me. I found it frightening, ...
( Category: Study Guides October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-07-03 | Author:Xinran [Xinran]

10 The Woman Who Waited Forty-five Years It is characteristic of the modern Chinese to have either a family with no feelings or feelings but no family. Living conditions force ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-26 | Author:Wade, Nicholas [Wade, Nicholas]

The Evolution of Religion The essence of religion is communal: religious rituals are performed by assemblies of people. The word itself, probably derived from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris Stringer

Neanderthals used pigments too—these are of manganese dioxide from Pech-de-l’Azé in France. In support of that last viewpoint, there is arguably even stronger evidence of complex Neanderthal social behavior from ...
( Category: Physical October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Wade

Effects on Social and Individual Behavior From the broad sweep of Fukuyama’s analysis, a clear pattern emerges. Each of the major civilizations of Eurasia developed a characteristic set of institutions ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Raffles, Hugh

IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH A FOREST Imagine that you are walking through a forest of interarticulated branches. Some are covered with ice or snow, and the sun melts ...
( Category: Environmental Science October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elmore Leonard

Geraldine Regal, the first teller at Sun Federal on Kendall Drive, watched a man with slicked-back hair and sunglasses fishing in his inside coat pocket as he approached her window. ...
( Category: Murder October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Barry Lyga [Lyga, Barry]

CHAPTER 29 Things were finally looking up, Hughes figured. While state units were stopping buses all along 495, he had returned to the hospital to sweat the girlfriend for more ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 16,2014 )