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Book Harvard Heart of Gold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dustin Aguilar
  • Publisher : Cacoethes Publishing
  • Release : 2008-03
  • ISBN : 0980244706
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book Harvard Heart of Gold written by Dustin Aguilar and published by Cacoethes Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may be a storybook character after all!!! Harvard Heart of Gold (c) by Dustin Aguilar This philosophic, fantastical journey is a new-fangled fairy-tale where fun and unusual happenings are all too common, and you-the reader-become a character just like Harvard or Kansas and are subject to the all-knowing, all-powerful, author of the story. This daring piece tests the bounds of reality and subtly suggests that you should question everything you know- While most people in this story believe they are real-life, walking talking humans, a small, somewhat violent sect of society has realized they are actually part of a book. They lash out and demand that the story have a happy ending, and they'll do whatever they have to. An enormous battle erupts catching Harvard and Kansas trapped in the middle forced to rely on their cunning and a little help from an extra-large talking tarantula to save the day.

Book Harvard Heart of Gold and the Writer of This Book

Download or read book Harvard Heart of Gold and the Writer of This Book written by Dustin Aguilar and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So you've just discovered that you're not real, eh? Hopefully this isn't a spoiler for you, but you're nothing more than a fictional character made up by some eccentric author, and everything you thought you knew is simply plot development. Your childhood? Backstory. Your goofy friend? The comic relief. No, goofy friend, you say? Maybe it's you. Who said you get to be the main character of this story? Join Harvard and Kansas (those are the characters' names by the way) as they stumble into a scenario not unlike the one in which you now find yourself, struggling with the existential questions of what it means to "be real," all the while being as fictional as any character you've ever read about or daydreamed. Their story, however, is hopefully more exciting as Harvard's mother goes missing, the two get tangled in a thrilling plot to rescue a boy with wings from a mad scientist, and they are forced to elude a band of fanatics bent on making sure this book has the proper ending, the ending that the author would want. Not to mention, there's a high-speed chase, a death defying leap from a pretty tall building (okay, it's the tallest building in the whole city), a showdown with a robot, a few giant insects, and as much 4th-wall-breaking as this author could fit into a single story in good conscience. So what do you do when you're a helpless character in a story that goes wildly out of your control? Harvard and Kansas turn to the one person that can do anything about it, the writer, but perhaps I've said too much.

Book Amar Akbar Anthony

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Elison
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-04
  • ISBN : 0674504488
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Amar Akbar Anthony written by William Elison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1977 blockbuster Amar Akbar Anthony about the heroics of three Bombay brothers separated in childhood became a classic of Hindi cinema and a touchstone of Indian popular culture. Beyond its comedy and camp is a potent vision of social harmony, but one that invites critique, as the authors show.

Book Very Good Lives

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. K. Rowling
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2015-04-14
  • ISBN : 0316369144
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Very Good Lives written by J. K. Rowling and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.

Book Jerusalem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Merav Mack
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 0300245211
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Jerusalem written by Merav Mack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

Book The Library at the Heart of the Harvard Medical Center

Download or read book The Library at the Heart of the Harvard Medical Center written by Harvard Medical School and published by . This book was released on 1958* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crossing the Bay of Bengal

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  • Author : Sunil S. Amrith
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-07
  • ISBN : 0674728475
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Crossing the Bay of Bengal written by Sunil S. Amrith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal—India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia—are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it. For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in the nineteenth century, abetted by the force of capital and the power of steam, reconfigured the Bay in their quest for coffee, rice, and rubber. Millions of Indian migrants crossed the sea, bound by debt or spurred by drought, and filled with ambition. Booming port cities like Singapore and Penang became the most culturally diverse societies of their time. By the 1930s, however, economic, political, and environmental pressures began to erode the Bay’s centuries-old patterns of interconnection. Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal’s shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia’s future. Amrith’s evocative and compelling narrative of the region’s pasts offers insights critical to understanding and confronting the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.

Book Jerusalem

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  • Author : Simon Goldhill
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0674034686
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Jerusalem written by Simon Goldhill and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerusalem is the site of some famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. This work takes you on a tour through the history of this image-filled and ideology-laden city--from the bedrock of the Old City to the towering roofs of the Holy Sepulchre.

Book London

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Ford
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-07-31
  • ISBN : 0674065689
  • Pages : 779 pages

Download or read book London written by Mark Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems about London, organized chronologically from John Gower (14th century) to Ahren Warner (1986-)

Book Harvard Heart Letter

Download or read book Harvard Heart Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All That She Carried

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  • Author : Tiya Miles
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 198485500X
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book All That She Carried written by Tiya Miles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives. WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, Cundill History Prize, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today FINALIST: MAAH Stone Book Award, Kirkus Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Chatauqua Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist

Book Remember Who You Are

Download or read book Remember Who You Are written by Daisy Wademan and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership requires many attributes besides intelligence and business savvy—courage, character, compassion, and respect are just a few. New managers learn concrete skills in the classroom or on the job, but where do they hone the equally important human values that will guide them through a career that is both successful and meaningful? In this inspirational book, Daisy Wademan gathers lessons on balancing the personal and professional responsibilities of leadership from faculty members of Harvard Business School. Offering a rare glimpse inside the classrooms in which many of the world's prominent leaders are trained, Remember Who You Are imparts lessons learned not in business, but in life. From the revelations on luck and obligation brought by a terrifying mountain accident to a widowed mother's lesson of respect for people rather than job titles, these unforgettable stories and reflections, shared by renowned contributors from Rosabeth Moss Kanter to former HBS Dean Kim Clark, remind us that great leadership is not only about the mind, but the heart.

Book Harvard s Classics Collection  Complete 71 Volumes

Download or read book Harvard s Classics Collection Complete 71 Volumes written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 24737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Harvard Classics collection: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: Poems by John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Poems by Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarch's Lives V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: Thousand and One Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English and American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prefaces and Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Epic and Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice V. 4: Guy Mannering V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield V. 9: The Mill on the Floss V. 10: Hawthorne, Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale V.11: The Portrait of a Lady V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland

Book Eat  Drink  and Be Healthy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Willett
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-09-19
  • ISBN : 1501164775
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Eat Drink and Be Healthy written by Walter Willett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this national bestseller based on Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health research, Dr. Willett explains why the USDA guidelines--the famous food pyramid--are not only wrong but also dangerous.

Book The Harvard Classics

Download or read book The Harvard Classics written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Open Access

Download or read book Open Access written by Peter Suber and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.

Book Plants and Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Londa Schiebinger
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 0674043278
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Plants and Empire written by Londa Schiebinger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.