Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt anthology Whether it's Mother Teresa's acts

Whether it's Mother Teresa's acts of charity

exchanging the “moments that are the mortar of our days

Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom

Errors in early editions--one declared that "thou shalt commit adultery"--and Puritan preferences for the Geneva Bible initially hampered acceptance of the King James

access to a specific technology or opportunity

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