Acclaim for Yann Martel’s Life of Pi "Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel‚ it’s a finely twisted length of yarn— yarn implying a far-fetched story you can’t quite swallow whole‚ but can’t dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition—a story of uncertain veracity‚ made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors‚ among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe‚ Gulliver’s Travels‚ the Ancient Mariner‚ Moby Dick and Pincher Martin‚ it’s a tale of disaster
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The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri A MARINER BOOK Houghton Mifflin Company Boston • New York Copyright ©2003 by Jhumpa Lahiri ALL RIGHTS RESERVED For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book‚ write to Permissions‚ Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 215 Park Avenue South‚ New York‚ New York 10003. Visit our Web site: www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lahiri‚ Jhumpa. The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri. p. cm. ISBN 0-618-48522-8 (pbk.) ISBN 0-395-92721-8
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Spacecraft missions to nearby Planets The Library of ancient Alexandria The human brain Egyptian Hieroglyphics The origin of life The death of the Sun The evolution of galaxies The origins of matter‚ suns and worlds COSMOS The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness‚ of how science and civilization grew up together‚ and of the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan’s remarkable ability
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MY LIFE WITH THE TALIBAN ABDUL SALAM ZAEEF My Life with the Taliban Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester‚ West Sussex Copyright © Abdul Salam Zaeef 2010 Editors’ introduction and translation Copyright © Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn‚ 2010 Foreword Copyright © Barnett R. Rubin‚ 2010 All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Za’if‚ ‘Abd al-Salam‚ 1967 or 8– My
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~ T HE O TTOMAN E MPIRE ~ AND THE W ORLD A ROUND I T ~ For Virginia Aksan in friendship ~ ~ The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It ~ S URAIYA F AROQHI ~ Published in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road‚ London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue‚ New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue‚ New York NY 10010 Copyright © Suraiya Faroqhi 2004 The right of Suraiya Faroqhi
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life‚ by Emile Durkheim This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it‚ give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title:
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HADITH Sahih Muslim Table of Contents HADITH Sahih Muslim ..........................................1 Introduction to Translation of Sahih Muslim ..................2 Bk 1 Faith (Kitab Al−Iman) ...................................3 Bk 2 Purification (Kitab Al−Taharah) .......................147 Bk 3 Menstruation (Kitab Al−Haid) ..........................177 Bk 4 Prayers (Kitab Al−Salat) ..............................211 Bk 5 Zakat (Kitab Al−Zakat) ................................518
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Chapter 1 A grey sword cut my shoulder. The thin line at the top left corner of my field of vision shrank slightly. At the same time a cold hand passed over my heart. The blue line —called the “HP bar”— is a visual rendering of my life force. There was still a little over 80% left. No‚ that phrase isn’t appropriate enough. Right now‚ I was about 20% closer to death. I dashed backwards before the enemy’s sword even began its attacking motion. “Haaa...” I forced a huge breath to steady myself
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Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham An Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of The Electronic Classics Series. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file‚ for any purpose‚ and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis‚ Editor‚ nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes
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MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE‚ Complete By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE His Private Secretary Edited by R. W. Phipps Colonel‚ Late Royal Artillery 1891 PREFACE BY THE EDITORS OF THE 1836 EDITION. In introducing the present edition of M. de Bourrienne’s Memoirs to the public we are bound‚ as Editors‚ to say a few Words on the subject. Agreeing‚ however‚ with Horace Walpole that an editor should not dwell for any length of time on the merits of his author‚ we shall touch but lightly on this
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