My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) [eBook - NC Digital Library]
Author : William Dean Howells
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : William Dean Howells
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File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : Mark Twain
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2020-03-21
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The title story is Twain's darkly fantastic take on religion, reality, and the meaning of life. It takes place in 1590 in the remote Austrian village of Eseldorf, where few young boys greet an unexpected visitor: an angel named Satan. Among the six other stories included are "A Fable," "Hunting the Deceiful Turkey," and "The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm."
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : New York Harper 1890.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Amusements
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Describes the typical adventures of a mid-nineteenth-century boy from his third to eleventh years.
Author : John Matthews Manly
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 1922
Category : American literature
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788174760159
In Its Distrust Of Too Much Civilisation And Its Concern With The Way Language Turns Dreamy And Corrupt When Divorced From The Real Condition Of Life, Huckleberry Finn Echoed Some Of The Central Concerns Of Life Today. Like All Great Works Of Fiction Where No Story Is Told As If It Is The Only One, Huck Finn Is Open-Ended, The 'Unfinished Story' Where The True Meaning Is Left To The Conscience And Imagination Of Each Reader.
Author : Charles William Eliot
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Literature
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Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060161583
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591846447
The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
Author : Larry Wasserman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387217363
Taken literally, the title "All of Statistics" is an exaggeration. But in spirit, the title is apt, as the book does cover a much broader range of topics than a typical introductory book on mathematical statistics. This book is for people who want to learn probability and statistics quickly. It is suitable for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in computer science, mathematics, statistics, and related disciplines. The book includes modern topics like non-parametric curve estimation, bootstrapping, and classification, topics that are usually relegated to follow-up courses. The reader is presumed to know calculus and a little linear algebra. No previous knowledge of probability and statistics is required. Statistics, data mining, and machine learning are all concerned with collecting and analysing data.
Author : David Sedaris
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0316125687
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. With Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris shows once again why his work has been called "hilarious, elegant, and surprisingly moving" (Washington Post).