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epub |eng | 2010-03-17 | Author:Debroy, Bibek [Debroy, Bibek]

93 ‘Shantanu said, “Who was Apava? What evil act was committed by the vasus that they were all cursed to be born in human wombs? What has this son Gangadatta ...
( Category: General November 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Debroy, Bibek [Debroy, Bibek]

489(192) Vaishampayana said, ‘O bull among the Bharata lineage! Dharmaraja Yudhishthira again asked Markandeya, without sin, old in his austerities and with a long life. “O one learned in dharma! ...
( Category: General November 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Debroy, Bibek [Debroy, Bibek]

Chapter 1092(115) ‘Dhritarashtra said, “O Sanjaya! From one day to another, my blazing fame is being destroyed. Many of my warriors have been killed and I think that this is ...
( Category: General November 18,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-05-27 | Author:Apuleius [Apuleius]

BOOK 8 Tragic deaths of Charite and Tlepolemus – their slaves decamp in panic with the animals – misadventures on the way – Lucius sold to the priests of Atargatis ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 15,2014 )
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 )
mobi |eng | 2003-02-25 | Author:Zitkala-S̈a

III MY MOTHER’S CURSE UPON WHITE SETTLERS One black night mother and I sat alone in the dim starlight, in front of our wigwam. We were facing the river, as ...
( Category: other October 16,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-06-27 | Author:Stephen Belcher

37 THE NGUNI PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA: ZULU, XHOSA, SWAZI The differentiation of the Nguni-language peoples into their now distinctive ethnic groups is relatively recent, the consequence of different factors: ...
( Category: Fairy Tales October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:God, Allah [God, Allah]

He said: ‘If you follow me, you are not to ask me about anything until I make mention of it to you.’ [18:70] So they set off, and once aboard ...
( Category: Islam October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]

But I was not thinking of this much, but rather of Mimi in the hospital. I was sure she had gone through with her plan to trick the doctors. Late ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:New Scientist [Scientist, New]

Beer is ‘raw’ immediately after fermentation, and any harsh sugars that are present, such as the Belgian candy used in some beers, burn the nose, while the hops taste like ...
( Category: Trivia October 1,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1993-06-23 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C. [Dennett, Daniel C.]

4. THE POWERS OF THE JOYCEAN MACHINE According to our sketch, there is competition among many concurrent contentful events in the brain, and a select subset of such events “win.” ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Greene, Brian [Greene, Brian]

11 Quanta in the Sky with Diamonds INFLATION. QUANTUM JITTERS. AND THE ARROW OF TIME The discovery of the inflationary framework launched a new era in cosmological research, and in ...
( Category: Cosmology September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Francois Voltaire

Chapter 25 A visit to Signor Pococuranté, a Venetian nobleman Candide and Martin proceeded by gondola along the Brenta, and duly came to the palace of the noble Pococuranté. The ...
( Category: Self-Help & Psychology September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR CORSICA Prefatory Note The Corsican Republic, under the leadership of Pasquale Paoli, had proclaimed its independence from Genoa and sovereignty in 1755. Rousseau, an admirer of the ...
( Category: Modern September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Michael Sims

CHAPTER V The Evidence Points to One Monday night.—The detective came as I expected. I was up as soon as it was light, and he came across the dewy fields, ...
( Category: Anthologies September 23,2014 )

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