Alonzo Fitz And Other Stories Esprios Classics

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798210223418

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Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories (Esprios Classics) by Mark Twain Pdf

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437890733

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Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : William Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231138849

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Living Legacies at Columbia by William Theodore De Bary Pdf

From Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston to Lionel Trilling and Lou Gehrig, Columbia University has been home to some of the most important historians, scientists, critics, artists, physicians, and social scientists of the twentieth century. (It can also boast a hall-of-fame athlete.) In Living Legacies at Columbia, contributors with close personal ties to their subjects capture Columbia's rich intellectual history. Essays span the birth of genetics and modern anthropology, constitutionalism from John Jay to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Virginia Apgar's test, Lou Gehrig's swing, journalism education, black power, public health, the development of Asian studies, the Great Books Movement, gender studies, human rights, and numerous other realms of teaching and discovery. They include Eric Foner on historian Richard Hoftstader, Isaac Levi and Sidney Hook on John Dewey, David Rosand on art historian Meyer Schapiro, John Hollander on critic Mark Van Doren, Donald Keene on Asian studies, Jacques Barzun on history, Eric Kandel on geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Rosalind Rosenberg on Franz Boas and his three most famous pupils: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston. Much more than an institutional history, Living Legacies captures the spirit of a great university through the stories of gifted men and women who have worked, taught, and studied at Columbia. It includes stories of struggle and breakthrough, searching and discovery, tradition and transformation.

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : College teaching
ISBN : 0819154474

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Teacher in America by Jacques Barzun Pdf

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Author : Harry James Carman,Harold Coffin Syrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015016755822

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A History of the American People: Since 1865 by Harry James Carman,Harold Coffin Syrett Pdf

Author : Robert Karjel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062339621

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The Swede by Robert Karjel Pdf

A Swedish security agent is summoned to interrogate a terror suspect held by the FBI in this sophisticated, fast-paced thriller—but the prisoner isn't the only one with something to hide. At a remote military base in the Indian Ocean, the FBI is trying to get a prisoner to confess. But the detainee, a suspect in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in the United States, refuses to talk. Ernst Grip, a Swedish security officer, has no idea why he's been dispatched to New York City. The FBI agent he meets on arrival, Shauna Friedman, seems to know a little too much about him. And when he arrives at his real destination, the American authorities have just one question: Is their terror suspect a Swedish citizen? In the process of uncovering the prisoner's true identity, Grip discovers the man's ties to a group of other suspects—a ruthless American arms dealer, a Czech hit man, a mysterious nurse from Kansas, and a heartbreakingly naive Pakistani. The closer Grip gets to the truth, the more complicated the deception becomes. Who is real and who is leading a double life? The Swede is a riveting, intense novel about the compromises that people—and nations—make in the name of security and survival. Within this world built on secrets, Grip and Friedman have to learn to trust each other if they hope to stay alive.

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780060102302

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The House of Intellect by Jacques Barzun Pdf

In this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual -- or pseudo-intellectual -- world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship. In this edition's new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense -- and controversial -- reaction the world had to The House of Intellect.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847673718

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Heavenly Date And Other Flirtations by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

In these hilarious stories of perverse meetings, casual dates and romantic encounters, we are enthralled, saddened, inspired and surprised by the encounters we witness. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, compulsive, complicated and sometimes, completely disastrous. This is an exceptional collection of stories from an author whose rapidly growing audience delights in his extraordinary imagination and delicious insights into the endlessly fascinating peculiarities of the human condition.

Author : Bernard Wishy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512819397

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The Child and the Republic by Bernard Wishy Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Lucas Carlson,Leonard Richardson
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449373696

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Ruby Cookbook by Lucas Carlson,Leonard Richardson Pdf

Why spend time on coding problems that others have already solved when you could be making real progress on your Ruby project? This updated cookbook provides more than 350 recipes for solving common problems, on topics ranging from basic data structures, classes, and objects, to web development, distributed programming, and multithreading. Revised for Ruby 2.1, each recipe includes a discussion on why and how the solution works. You’ll find recipes suitable for all skill levels, from Ruby newbies to experts who need an occasional reference. With Ruby Cookbook, you’ll not only save time, but keep your brain percolating with new ideas as well. Recipes cover: Data structures including strings, numbers, date and time, arrays, hashes, files and directories Using Ruby’s code blocks, also known as closures OOP features such as classes, methods, objects, and modules XML and HTML, databases and persistence, and graphics and other formats Web development with Rails and Sinatra Internet services, web services, and distributed programming Software testing, debugging, packaging, and distributing Multitasking, multithreading, and extending Ruby with other languages

Author : Ruth Galloway
Publisher : Tiger Tales
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781680109030

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Smiley Shark by Ruth Galloway Pdf

Smiley Shark loves to smile, but everyone is afraid of his big, toothy grin! Catfish, Sea Star, and Octopus all swim away as fast as they can. When all the friends are caught in a net, they need Smiley Shark's help. Can a big smile save the day?

Author : Andrew Neiderman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497662971

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The Terrorist's Holiday by Andrew Neiderman Pdf

A New York City homicide detective races against the clock to stop a terrorist attack on a world-famous Catskills resort during the Passover holiday When NYPD lieutenant Barry Wintraub starts investigating the murder of a Jewish Defense League member, he stumbles on a plot to blow up the New Prospect resort in the Catskills, where over one thousand of Israel’s top financial supporters will be celebrating Passover with their families and the guest of honor, an important Israeli general. Wintraub’s partner and captain aren’t convinced that the conspiracy exists, but the owner of the New Prospect acknowledges the detective’s hunch and invites him and his family to stay for the celebration. The Terrorist’s Holiday presents a unique take on extremist plots—the two terrorists, a handsome young man and his beautiful girlfriend, are morally challenged by what they are about to do . . . and they realize, perhaps too late, that an even more deadly threat awaits all who visit the world-class resort.

Author : Yusuke Kubota,Robert D. Levine
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262539746

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Type-Logical Syntax by Yusuke Kubota,Robert D. Levine Pdf

A novel logic-based framework for representing the syntax-semantics interface of natural language, applicable to a range of phenomena. In this book, Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine propose a type-logical version of categorial grammar as a viable alternative model of natural language syntax and semantics. They show that this novel logic-based framework is applicable to a range of phenomena—especially in the domains of coordination and ellipsis—that have proven problematic for traditional approaches. The type-logical syntax the authors propose takes derivations of natural language sentences to be proofs in a particular kind of logic governing the way words and phrases are combined. This logic builds on and unifies two deductive systems from the tradition of categorial grammar; the resulting system, Hybrid Type-Logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG) enables comprehensive approaches to coordination (gapping, dependent cluster coordination, and right-node raising) and ellipsis (VP ellipsis, pseudogapping, and extraction/ellipsis interaction). It captures a number of intricate patterns of interaction between scopal operators and seemingly incomplete constituents that are frequently found in these two empirical domains. Kubota and Levine show that the hybrid calculus underlying their framework incorporates key analytic ideas from competing approaches in the generative syntax literature to offer a unified and systematic treatment of data that have posed considerable difficulties for previous accounts. Their account demonstrates that logic is a powerful tool for analyzing the deeper principles underlying the syntax and semantics of natural language.

Author : Tera Lynn Childs
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781848779556

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Sweet Shadows by Tera Lynn Childs Pdf

Grace, Gretchen and Greer are three teenage descendants of Medusa who must unite and embrace their fates in a world where monsters lurk in plain sight. The triplets are now reunited, but their battle against the monsters of the abyss rages on. And as if training to become fully-fledged huntresses weren't enough, the boys in their lives are causing them problems. Is Nick all he seems? And where's Thane? Grace is sure he's hiding something from her. As the girls discover more about their heritage, they find themselves in greater danger than ever. Can they face up to the sacrifices they must make in order to fulfil their destiny? The second book in the high-concept urban fantasy YA series.

Author : C. John Miller,Barbara Miller Juliani
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1629959022

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Come Back, Barbara: A Father's Pursuit of a Prodigal Daughter by C. John Miller,Barbara Miller Juliani Pdf

"A daughter's rejection of her father's faith taught him how to love her on God's terms. Their honest story of grief and reconciliation will bless all those who love prodigals"--