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They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and t...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

No," he said, and he snapped his fingers. "You'll come work for me at K----. And be a real associate editor." I said, "I could bring you up on charges for that." "What?" "Work harassment in the sexual place.

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Every part of me pulses with electric energy. Every synapse is firing, every part of me is alert, awake, and what I think is that this, this feeling, this is real. This feeling of being absolutely alive, absolutely in this moment, this is as real as ...

The Girls' Global Guide to Guys

It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in fact, prove it by doing. But it is totally illegitimate to claim that the discovery of this mechanism - natural ...

A Guide for the Perplexed

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

The Guide for the Perplexed

take free food or tea from anyone talking about God and find Heaven its gotta be out there for there must be God and how could any talk of good or God be wrong

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.

Google Drive And Docs In 30 Minutes: The Unofficial Guide To Google's Free Online Office And Storage Suite

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever do it twice.

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food

It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there ar...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

We are going to change the way young people think about fitness.

The Boy's Fitness Guide: Expert Coaching For the Young Man Who Wants to Look and Feel His Best

The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin!

Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living

We need to return to harmony with Nature and with each other, to become what humans were destined to be, builders of gardens and Shires, hobbits (if you will), not Masters over creatures great and small.

Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living