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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 Project Tanager |
Project Tanager was of three National
Science Experiments developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology designed to involve birders and amateur scientists across
the North American continent in scientific research. Project Tanager...
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| x Dharm Ane Rajkaran | |||
| x Sampati Na Sukh Dukh | |||
| x Crisis or Opportunity: The First International Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Scholarly Publishing Conference | Article | ||
| x The Freebase Experience: Getting Addicted to the World's Largest Open Database | Article | ||
| x Two Dogmas of Empiricism |
W. V. O. Quine's paper "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", published in 1951, is one of the most celebrated papers of twentieth century philosophy in the analytic tradition. According to Harvard professor of philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith, this "paper [is]...
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| x Karl Marx: The Almost Capitalist | Essay | ||
| x Why Not Featherbedding? | Essay | ||
| x Cooperatives and the Economic Power to Consume | Essay | ||
| x The Economic Foundation of Freedom | Essay | ||
| x Labor's Great Mistake: The Struggle for the Toil State | Essay | ||
| x Corporate Benevolence or Welfare Redistribution? | Essay | ||
| x The Case for the 100% Dividend Payout | Essay | ||
| x Welfare State - American Style | Essay | ||
| x Beyond Full Employment | Essay | ||
| x Poverty and Profits | Essay | ||
| x Two Musical Idealists--Charles Ives and E. Robert Schmitz: A Friendship Reconsidered | Article | ||
| x Relieving "12-Tone Paralysis": Harry Partch in Madison, Wisconsin, 1944-1947 | Article | ||
| x Curiosities: The War of the Worlds, illustrated by Alvim Corrêa (1906) | |||
| x Letter to Science, Jan. 19, 1968 | |||
| x Anti Anti-Relativism | Essay | ||
| x Anticipations | Essay | ||
| x Great American Novel | Essay |
The phrase "Great American Novel" derives from this essay by American Civil War novelist John William DeForest, published in The Nation on January 9, 1868.
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| x The GNU Project | Essay | ||
| x Proust | Essay |
Samuel Beckett's essay Proust, from 1930, is an aesthetic and epistemological manifesto, which is more concerned with Beckett's influences and preoccupations than with its ostensible subject.
Beckett wrote Proust in the summer of 1930, in response...
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| x Why I Write |
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"Why I Write" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell detailing his personal journey to becoming a writer. First published in the Summer 1946 edition of Gangrel, it not only offers a type of mini-biography in which he writes of having first completed...
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| x A Defence of Poetry |
A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1840) [1839]. It contains Shelley's famous claim that ...
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| x A Plea for Captain John Brown | Essay |
A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and repeated several...
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| x A Wrong Turning in American Poetry |
'A Wrong Turning in American Poetry' is an essay by United States poet Robert Bly which was first published in Choice 3 in 1963 and collected in American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity. It has subsequently been anthologized in Twentieth-Century...
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| x Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community |
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Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital (1995) is an essay by Robert D. Putnam. Putnam expanded it into the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000, ISBN 0-7432-0304-6).
In Bowling Alone: America's...
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| x Civil Disobedience |
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Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to...
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| x Compensation |
Compensation is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It appeared in his book, Essays, first published 1841. In 1844, Essays: Second Series was published, and subsequent republishings of Essays were renamed Essays: First Series.
In his essay, Emerson...
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| x Cosmic View |
Cosmic View is an essay by Dutch educator Kees Boeke that combines writing and graphics to explore many levels of size and structure, from the astronomically vast to the atomically tiny. Originally published in 1957, the essay begins with a simple...
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| x Das Judenthum in der Musik |
"Das Judenthum in der Musik" (German, "Jewishness in Music", but normally translated Judaism in Music), (in German spelled after its first publication ‘Judentum’) is an essay by Richard Wagner, attacking Jews in general and the composers Giacomo...
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| x Death of the Author |
The Death of the Author is an essay by the French literary critic Roland Barthes. It was published in English in the American journal Aspen, no. 5-6 in 1967 and in 1968 in French in the magazine Manteia, no. 5. The essay later appeared in an...
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| x Discourse on the Arts and Sciences |
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"A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences" (1750), more commonly known as "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts), is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued...
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| x Everything and More |
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Everything and More is an essay by the American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. It examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work done by Georg Cantor, a 19th century German mathematician responsible for the creation of...
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| x Federalist No. 1 |
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Federalist No. 1 (Federalist Number 1) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton and the first of the Federalist Papers. It was published on October 27, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. Titled ...
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| x Federalist No. 10 |
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Federalist No. 10 (Federalist Number 10) is an essay by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers, a series arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. It was published on November 22, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius...
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| x Federalist No. 11 |
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Federalist No. 11 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the eleventh of the Federalist Papers. It was published on November 24, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. Part of the initial block...
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| x Federalist No. 12 |
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Federalist No. 12 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twelfth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on November 27, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It is titled, "The Utility...
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| x Federalist No. 13 |
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Federalist No. 13 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the thirteenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on November 28, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It is titled, "Advantage...
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| x Federalist No. 14 |
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Federalist No. 14 is an essay by James Madison, the fourteenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on November 30, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It addresses a major objection...
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| x Federalist No. 15 |
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Federalist No. 15 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the fifteenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 1, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 15 addresses the...
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| x Federalist No. 16 |
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Federalist No. 16 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the sixteenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 4, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 16 addresses the...
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| x Federalist No. 17 |
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Federalist No. 17 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventeenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 5, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 17 addresses the...
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| x Federalist No. 18 |
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Federalist No. 18 is an essay by James Madison, the eighteenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 7, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 18 addresses the failures...
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| x Federalist No. 19 |
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Federalist No. 19 is an essay by James Madison, the nineteenth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 8, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 19 addresses the failures...
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| x Federalist No. 2 |
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Federalist No. 2 is an essay by John Jay, the second of the Federalist Papers. It was published on October 31, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 2 is the first of four papers by Jay...
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| x Federalist No. 20 |
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Federalist No. 20 is an essay by James Madison, the twentieth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 11, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. No. 20 addresses the failures...
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| x Federalist No. 21 |
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Federalist No. 21 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-first of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 12, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It is titled, "Other...
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| x Federalist No. 22 |
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Federalist No. 22 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-second of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 14, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This essay continues...
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| x Federalist No. 23 |
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Federalist No. 23 (Federalist Number 23) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-third of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 18, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published....
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| x Federalist No. 24 |
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Federalist No. 24 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-fourth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 19, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It is titled, "The...
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| x Federalist No. 25 |
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Federalist No. 25 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-fifth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 21, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It continues a theme...
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| x Federalist No. 26 |
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Federalist No. 26 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-sixth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 22, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This is the first of...
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| x Federalist No. 27 |
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Federalist No. 27 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-seventh of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 25, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This is the second of...
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| x Federalist No. 28 |
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Federalist No. 28 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-eighth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on December 26, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This is the last of...
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| x Federalist No. 29 |
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Federalist No. 29 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-ninth of the Federalist Papers. It was published on January 9, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. It is titled "Concerning...
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| x Federalist No. 3 |
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Federalist No. 3 is an essay by John Jay, the third of the Federalist Papers. It was published on November 3, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all the Federalist Papers were published. This is the second of four essays by Jay...
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