Dear Colleague: Common and Uncommon ObservationsU of Minnesota Press - 223 pagini |
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Pagina 2
... night, after flying many hours, the airplane devel- oped engine trouble and Saint-Exupéry was forced to land it on a bleak plateau in the middle of nowhere. He got out, looked about in a daze, found a smooth spot, and sprawled out on ...
... night, after flying many hours, the airplane devel- oped engine trouble and Saint-Exupéry was forced to land it on a bleak plateau in the middle of nowhere. He got out, looked about in a daze, found a smooth spot, and sprawled out on ...
Pagina 6
... night , What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? The effect on Russell was overwhelming . For a moment the rationalist in him was quite subdued . Some sixty years later , the American poet James Dickey said in ...
... night , What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? The effect on Russell was overwhelming . For a moment the rationalist in him was quite subdued . Some sixty years later , the American poet James Dickey said in ...
Pagina 7
... night and tried to seize one of the soldiers and he leapt up , grabbed his machine gun , the other soldiers grabbed their weapons — rifles , machine guns , grenades — and all turned on the tiger and blew and shot him almost into ...
... night and tried to seize one of the soldiers and he leapt up , grabbed his machine gun , the other soldiers grabbed their weapons — rifles , machine guns , grenades — and all turned on the tiger and blew and shot him almost into ...
Pagina 8
... night in bed copulating with a mosquito. Even basic attitudes can change fairly rapidly. “Nature is be- nign; human beings are wicked” is a common attitude, especially among the young, in the last decades of the twentieth century. Yet ...
... night in bed copulating with a mosquito. Even basic attitudes can change fairly rapidly. “Nature is be- nign; human beings are wicked” is a common attitude, especially among the young, in the last decades of the twentieth century. Yet ...
Pagina 12
... night alone with the dinosaurs . Some chose to sleep in the northeast corner of the Hall of Ocean Life , near the giant squid with those really long slimy arms . A ninety - four - foot blue whale hung from the ceiling . “ Of course , my ...
... night alone with the dinosaurs . Some chose to sleep in the northeast corner of the Hall of Ocean Life , near the giant squid with those really long slimy arms . A ninety - four - foot blue whale hung from the ceiling . “ Of course , my ...
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Civilization and City | 20 |
Politics and Ideology | 33 |
Culture Society Work | 48 |
Home Rootedness Place | 58 |
Human Ties and Isolation | 67 |
Ancestors | 81 |
Sex | 84 |
Geography | 118 |
History | 131 |
Aesthetics | 134 |
Intellect | 147 |
Language | 161 |
Morality | 170 |
Religion | 191 |
Stages of Life | 203 |
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