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This type should be used for any type of written short non-fiction that does not have a separate type. (Other types currently include review and interview.) "Short" in this context means, essentially, anything less than book length; book-length non-fiction would ordinarily be typed as a book. This...
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| x Foreword | Foreword | ||
| x Translator's Note | Essay | ||
| x The Simple Art of Murder | Essay | ||
| x Writers in Hollywood | |||
| x Oscar Night in Hollywood | |||
| x Ten Percent of Your Life | |||
| x How to Read Gene Wolfe | Essay | ||
| x The Wolf in the Labyrinth | Essay | ||
| x Gene Wolfe: The Man and His Work | Essay | ||
| x Looking for Mrs Kelly | Essay | ||
| x The Scripture of the Golden Eternity | |||
| x The Impact of September 11 on U.S. Metropolitan Economies | Essay | ||
| x Expanding Affordable Homeownership with Private Capital: A Study of the Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance Program | Essay | ||
| x Expanding Affordable Homeownership with Private Capital: A Study of the Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance Program | Essay | ||
| x DC Economic Recovery Act Impact Study | Essay | ||
| x Where the good old days that good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership since the Great Depression | Article |
We document that ownership by officers and directors of publicly traded
firms is on average higher today than earlier in the century.
Managerial ownership has risen from 13 percent for the universe of
exchange-listed corporations in 1935, the...
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| x Nietzsche contra Wagner |
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Nietzsche contra Wagner is a critical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in his last year of lucidity (1888-1889). It was not published until 1895, six years after Nietzsche's mental collapse. In it Nietzsche describes why he parted ways with his...
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| x The Poetic Principle | Essay |
"The Poetic Principle" is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe, written near the end of his life and published posthumously in 1850 (Poe died in 1849). It is a work of literary criticism, and one of the most complete (but still far from being truly complete)...
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| x The Philosophy of Composition |
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"The Philosophy of Composition" is an essay written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. He concludes that length, "unity of effect" and a logical method are important...
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| x Maelzel's Chess Player |
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"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely. The fake automaton was invented by Wolfgang von...
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| x Een bezoek aan het prinsengraf. Essay over de dichter Paul van Ostaijen |
Essay about the poet Paul van Ostaijen.
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| x Inleiding tot de idee Henri De Braekeleer | |||
| x Vlaamsche lyriek (1830-1890) | |||
| x Research on the Ice age | Essay | ||
| x Letter on Humanism | Essay | ||
| x The Question Concerning Technology | Essay | ||
| x The Origin of the Work of Art | Essay | ||
| x L'extentialisme est un humanisme |
Existentialism is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme) is a 1946 philosophical work by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is seen by many as one of the defining texts in the Existentialist movement.
In his text, Sartre says that the key defining point...
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| x Starving the Poor | Article | ||
| x What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico? | Article | ||
| x Who cares if you listen? | Essay | ||
| x The Piracy Paradox | Article |
Knockoffs aren’t bad for business.
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| x Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine | Essay | ||
| x QuickWiki, Swiki, TWiki, ZWiki and the Plone Wars | Article | ||
| x Images of History on the Web | Article | ||
| x Counting Heads Around the World | Article | ||
| x The Past In Your Pocket | Article | ||
| x So You Want to Start a Syndicated Revolution | Article | ||
| x Pax Web Pacts | Article | ||
| x Information on the Seven Seas | Article | ||
| x Beyond Road Maps | Article | ||
| x Lights! Camera! Action | Article | ||
| x Toolbar Tangle | Article | ||
| x Looking for Good Art | Article | ||
| x RedLightGreen and Open WorldCat | Article | ||
| x Bibliographic Research Tools Round-up | Article | ||
| x Digging Up the Virtual Past | Article | ||
| x Can't See the Forest for the Trees | Article | ||
| x The Digital Humanities Revolution | Article | ||
| x Music to Soothe the Savage Searcher: Classical Music Databases and Web Resources | Article | ||
| x Morning on the Wissahiccon | Essay |
"Morning on the Wissahiccon," also called "The Elk," is an 1844 work by Edgar Allan Poe describing the natural beauty of Wissahickon Creek which feeds into the Schuylkill River in eastern Pennsylvania. It borders between being a short story and a...
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| x Why Computer Science is No Good | Article | ||
| x The Myth of Y2K | Article | ||
| x Ventotene Manifesto | Essay |
The Ventotene Manifesto was written by Altiero Spinelli and by Ernesto Rossi while they were prisoners on the Italian island of Ventotene during World War II. Completed in June 1941, the Manifesto was circulated within the Italian Resistance, and it...
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| x The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster |
"The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" is an essay by Norman Mailer that recorded a wave of young white people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s who liked jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own.
The...
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| x Guys Write for Guys Read |
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Guys Write for Guys Read is a compilation of essays for the Guys Read organization. Edited by children's book author Jon Scieszka, it features contributions from Lloyd Alexander, Christopher Paolini, James Howe, Mo Willems, Jack Gantos, Stephen King...
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| x Completion of the 1990s National Land Cover Data Set for the Conterminous United States from Landsat Thematic Mapper Data and Ancillary Data Sources. |
Vogelmann JE, Howard SM, Yang L, Larson CR, Wylie BK and Van Driel N. 2001
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| x Breeding Bird Census |
Johnston, D.W. 1990. Descriptions of surveys: Breeding Bird Census. Pages 33-36 in J.R.
Sauer, and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of
avian population trends. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Biol....
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| x Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of avian population trends | Article |
J.R.
Sauer, and S. Droege, eds. 1990. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of
avian population trends. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Biol. Rept. 90(1).
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| x Descriptions of surveys: Breeding Bird Census | Article |
Johnston, D.W. 1990. Descriptions of surveys: Breeding Bird Census. Pages 33-36 in J.R.
Sauer, and S. Droege, eds. Survey designs and statistical methods for the estimation of
avian population trends. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Biol....
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