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John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“SIR, “Your wife, Ursula Halifax, having some time since attained the age fixed by her late father as her majority, I will, within a month after date, pay over to ...
( Category: England December 27,2014 )
The Wonder by J. D. Beresford
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:J. D. Beresford

III The Wonder ignored an invitation to lunch; he ignored, also, the tray that was sent in to him. He read on steadily till a quarter to six, by which ...
( Category: Linguistics December 27,2014 )
Ezra Pound: Poet by A. David Moody
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:A. David Moody

That might be the notary’s hand, or his own, and his reader’s. That ‘Thou’ is the all-inclusive singular which is addressing equally one’s own self and other selves, speaking to ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Simon Winchester

It was at about this time that there came two developments, one of which by chance led indirectly to the other. The first stemmed from a factor that is not ...
( Category: Great Britain December 8,2014 )
The Pit by Frank Norris
epub |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Frank Norris

VII One morning in November of the same year Laura joined her husband at breakfast, preoccupied and a little grave, her mind full of a subject about which, she told ...
( Category: Historical November 28,2014 )
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Dan Jurafsky [Jurafsky, Dan]

To Make Mackroons Take a pound & halfe of almonds, blanch & beat them very small in a stone morter with rosewater. put to them a pound of sugar, & ...
( Category: Linguistics November 24,2014 )
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 )
The Story of French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow
epub |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow [Nadeau, Jean-Benoit & Barlow, Julie]

The source of France’s early mass appeal is very little documented. One of the rare books on the topic is Harvey Levenstein’s Seductive Journey, which recounts the history of American ...
( Category: Linguistics November 21,2014 )
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Pinker Steven
mobi |eng | 2008-06-04 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

A realist interpretation of conceptual metaphor casts a different light on the application of metaphor and framing to politics. True to his cognitive theory, Lakoff states that “frames trump facts” ...
( Category: Linguistics November 14,2014 )
JEAN CHRISTOPHE by ROMAIN ROLLAND
mobi |fr | 2009-09-23 | Author:ROMAIN ROLLAND

* Tandis qu’il se débattait contre les fantômes de la fièvre et contre l’étouffement qui gagnait sa poitrine, il eut vaguement conscience qu’on ouvrait la porte de sa chambre, et ...
( Category: French November 11,2014 )
Bostonians (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Henry James
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

XXV They passed through two or three small, short streets, which, with their little wooden houses, with still more wooden door-yards, looked as if they had been constructed by the ...
( Category: United States November 11,2014 )
Der Nachsommer
mobi |de | 2010-01-07 | Author:Adalbert Stifter

Ich konnte vor Verwunderung kein Wort sagen. Der Vater, der mein Gefühl verstand, sagte. »Der Tisch ist mein Eigentum. Er ist mir in diesem Sommer gesendet worden, und es war ...
( Category: Linguistics November 11,2014 )
(The Second World War 01) The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill
mobi |fr | 2010-08-18 | Author:Winston Churchill

have achieved it but for Russia. But from the moment they failed to achieve a speedy victory, the game was up. You may depend upon it that the great military ...
( Category: World War II November 11,2014 )
The Naming of the Shrew by John Wright
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:John Wright

Equisetum palustre brevioribus foliis polyspermon Chapter VI The History of Naming And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the ...
( Category: Mushrooms November 10,2014 )
Shortcut by John Pollack
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:John Pollack

DON’T CHOKE ON YOUR OWN WORDS In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated appeals court judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. By any measure, Bork was an experienced jurist and ...
( Category: Communications November 7,2014 )

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