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Walt Whitman was a great American poet, but many people did not get him when he was alive. His family was like most other families, but his friends were different from most other people living then. He was a teacher and reporter, and then he worked for the government. When he was a young man, he was very serious, but when he was older he liked to play around and have fun. Walt Whitman wrote many poems about America, and his most famous work was Leaves of Grass. It was a lot of poems that took him many years to finish.

Emma Goldman was a political advocate for absolute freedom for the individual. A New Declaration of Independence was published in 1909 in the journal, Mother Earth, and encouraged all persons regardless of race, background, or ethnicity to stand up for themselves and eliminate society’s inequalities.

In this pamphlet, Emma Goldman criticises Christianity as society’s fundamental support structure. She considered herself as the heir of German iconoclasts like Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner. In her view, Christianity undermined human potential by stripping people of their strength, courage, and agency.

Published in the February 1916 issue of her magazine, Mother Earth, Goldman states that it is only by totally rejecting the idea of God that mankind can break away from the crutch of religion and achieve true freedom. Goldman argued that religion is irrational, destructive, and harmful.

In this essay, Emma Goldman refers to the negative image of anarchism in the public mind. She explains why anarchists on principle oppose the organization called the state, and argues that once free from the restrictions of extraneous authority, men will enter into free relations and bring about a free society.

In the Lasta Mountains of northern Ethiopia, high on an arid plateau in the foothills, the settlement of Lalibela slumbered for centuries as little more than a pilgrimage site at the end of a long and weary footpath. The ancient trade routes between the Eritrean coast and the central highland redoubts that would later coalesce as the imperial capital of Addis Ababa passed 50 miles to the east of Lalibela, and from the early 13th century, after the passing of Gebre Mesqel Lalibela himself, the site slipped into decline.

Yvette didn’t think she was going to survive her kidnapping. She didn’t think he would come for her, but he did. Antony Carbonaro, the reigning Kingpin of New York, crosses an ocean to save the woman he loves. Now, it's Yvette's turn to save him. With new and old enemies closing in on all sides can Yvette protect the man she loves one last time, or will they both die in this final epic battle? Experience Yvette and Antony’s final chapter, in the gripping conclusion of the Mine Series.

Aristotle’s influence on western philosophy is immense. In this work, he claimed that everything that is learned in life is learned through sensory perception. He was also the first philosopher to establish the foundational principles of logic.

Code Jumpers...skilled hackers who meet strict criteria, are the traffickers of the new world. Guns, drugs, just about anything else you might need or want in the heavily moderated base game world of Re.Generation, the Code Jumpers can get it for you. As one of the very few people in the US who can dive into Re.Generation without getting stuck, Eddie is one such Code Jumper.

33 Geheimnisse der Geldanlage gibt Dir klare Hinweise und Tipps für Deine private Geldanlagen. Du lernst die unterschiedlichen Vertragsarten kennen und verstehst, was es mit den Bankangeboten auf sich hat. Wie verdient die Bank wirklich ihr Geld und was kann man von vermeidlich sicheren Geldanlagen halten. Nach dem Lesen oder Hören dieses Buches bist Du einfach besser informiert.

A collection of the first three stories from Charlotte Edwards' erotic Lusty Landlords series. "Paying the Rent": Steve hated this part of being a landlord - chasing tenants who refused to pay their rent. Collaring Eric wasn't too difficult; he was a creature of habit and not too bright. As they sat together in the lounge of the flat, Steve and Eric were interrupted by Eric's new girlfriend, a gorgeous blonde student called Lisa. Eric now had the means to pay his rent - Lisa!

Tales of the Lantern is a collection of chilling stories based on Arabic urban legends, stories that are best told around a campfire on a dark, starry night.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer. Here she discusses, inter alia, the split in the revolutionary movement between Bakunin and the Marxists. She recounts her experiences of the Anarchist Congress in Paris in 1900 and in Amsterdam in 1907.

This book is the story of how poet Emily Dickinson lived her life.

Es sind Wandlungsgeschichten unter dem Einfluss der Zeit, die Ödön von Horváth in seinem dreiteiligen Roman "Der ewige Spießer" erzählt. Im München des Jahres 1929 ist der Erste Weltkrieg noch nicht lange vorbei. Die Wirtschaftskrise macht sich im Alltag bemerkbar und radikale rechte wie linke Ideologien breiten sich aus. Dazwischen Menschen wie Alfons Kobler, Anna Pollinger und Josef Reithofer.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was a political activist and writer. She played a key role in the development of the anarchist ideology of the first half of the 20th century. These four speeches against conscription were made by Emma Goldman in 1917.

In a speech delivered in 1893 to the Congress of Women in Chicago on the advances made over 50 years, prominent US abolitionist, orator, and women's rights advocate Lucy Stone discusses the rights of women with reference to education, free speech, women’s organization, and political power.

On a cold, cloudy day in early February 1985, Shelley Wachsmann, then resident nautical archaeologist for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, drove to Kibbutz Ginosar, an agricultural settlement near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Two brothers, avid amateur archaeologists, had found a boat buried in the lake, its outlines revealed by receding lake waters. The boat was "possibly ancient," according to the handwritten note placed on Wachsmann's desk a day or two before.

Hotheaded succubus Willow Bellum doesn't take kindly to being given away to the alpha of shapeshifters like a hunk of unwanted old fruit cake. However, when the will from her deceased father puts Willow under the protection of a man as enticingly hard as he was disgustingly arrogant, she runs hard and fast.

Anna Howard Shaw is indeed a fascinating figure in American history. Physician, Suffragette, social reformer, and one of the first female ordained Methodist ministers, but where Shaw really shines is as an orator. A vanguard of feminism in the United States, Shaw made many an address in the name of equal rights for women, and The Fundamental Principle of a Republic was among her finest.