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'These youths, torn from their homes and forced to commit horrible acts under great duress, effectively became Sierra Leone's lost generation. When peace was finally achieved in 2001, these youths were left without families, direction, or hope. These poems are a reflection of his own experiences...

The reader of these pages will perhaps remark, that the length of the following sketches is hardly proportioned to the relative importance of the several subjects, regarded in a merely historical point of view. In explanation of this fact, the author begs leave to say, that, while he intended to present...

This is the second part of the two part series on Indian scientists: Part II Satyendranath Bose Vikram Sarabhai Birbal Sahani Homibhabha

La historia de los inventores es apasionante, sabemos muy poco de aquellos genios y sus mentes prodigiosas, ellos cambiaron el Mundo y escribieron las páginas más brillantes de la Historia. Sabían que la bombilla no la inventó Edison, y que la radio no la inventó Marconi, y el teléfono, ¿sabrian...

A few years ago it occurred to me that there were living on the same planet and at the same time as myself some interesting people whom I had never seen and did not know so much about as I should. Since they or I might die at any moment, I determined not to delay longer. So I prepared a list of twelve...

The Three Stooges Federico Fellini Milton Berle Peter Sellers Rowan Atkinson Johnny Depp Jacques Tati Mildred Harris Paulette Goddard Oona O'Neill Black Patch Park Smethwick Music hall Hannah Chaplin Sydney Chaplin Romanichal The Eight Lancashire Lads Cuckoo Schools Harry Arthur Saintsbury William...

La breve, sofferta e appassionata vita di Fryderyk Chopin testimonia il passaggio nel mondo di un artista senza pari, che fece del pianoforte il caposaldo del suo genio. Schivo, ironico e raffinato, custodì nella musica i tumulti fisici ed emotivi, trasformando le parole in note gremite di poesia....

Biographie de Diderot par Albert Collignon. M. Collignon est un grand admirateur de Diderot, qui prend plaisir à nous expliquer le rôle très important de Diderot dans le siècle des Lumières. Denis Diderot est un grand génie français, qui compléta...

Ceux qui aiment la fulgurance des citations seront servis. Par leur beauté et leur clairvoyance, vous allez à coup sûr adorer les citations de Simone Weil. C'est le recueil des pensées les plus intimes d'un philosophe au parcours particulier, renonçant...

Isaacson could not have created a more captivating character in any work of fiction, and yet his portrayal of the larger than life Leonardo da Vinci is both thoroughly sensible and ineffably sublime. This ZIP Reads summary provides key takeaways and analysis from Isaacson's #1 bestselling book,...

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Questo non è un libro di fiction, non è autofiction, non è un saggio, non è un'autobiogra- fia sassosa e classica. Questo libro è il racconto di uno scherzo successo davvero: lo scherzo che è stata la magnifica vita di Tom Robbins. TIBETAN PEACH PIE è un viaggio dentro le dimensioni immaginative...

Many books have I read on the subject of war and fighting; but the work composed by Sun Wu is the profoundest of them all. [Sun Tzu was a native of the Ch`i state, his personal name was Wu. He wrote the ART OF WAR in 13 chapters for Ho Lu, King of Wu. Its principles were tested on women, and he was...