...ven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydide... ... forever" --Thucydides Part I Koan 0 There was tranquility to be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the ide... ...be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the idealized restfulness of death; but though privileged enough to be imp... ...erwards with excruciating pain from her backbone being lodged inordinately in one position on her bed for hours, despite the pillows she put under he... ...d of God himself, saliently reiterating the unpremeditated randomness and violence of life; offspring that was conceived from organs of filth knifi... ... such, she had been the inheritor of a large portion of the coffers of the United States government. Only from being such an heiress had she been abl... ...depredation, turning to fat. I only do anything when directly under the gun, directly under compulsion. What?—I forgot what I was talking about?—... ... spend more time with young women who find men of the badge and brandished gun erotic masters of the universe, diminished as I would be by the prospe... ... suffocate a life. We should be careful as gentle pacifists not to condemn violence for, you see, it is a component of historical materialism and the...

...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ... a dominant feeling of disconnection experienced by one who knew the extreme violence of the world, who knew the madness of hope for anyone, and felt ... ...d in America, an over-identification with his own sex, or fragmentation from violence that had disgorged a close family and made him distrustful of th... ...an invisible vortex of dust. He was running around with a cowboy hat, a play gun, and a holster. He was running around in his own wayward thoughts be... ...ster, and everything in the mind of a 10-year-old from getting his first b-b gun to spending his first time away from family at a summer camp was like... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

...n by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State... ...speak of his own iniquity, and that the hero- ine and the demon are so far united that they have been in a garret together. But there is the drawback ... ... progress of the tide, this recovery from the partial ebb which checks the violence of 156 The Duke’s Children every flow, is common enough in politi... ...uld call your horse by such a name. If my father had been President of the United States, I don’t think I’d call a horse President. ’ ‘I didn’t name t... ... life was one of self-indulgence. He could walk his thirty miles with his gun on his shoulder as well now as he could ten years ago; and being sure o... ...way. ‘Can you shoot?’ he said afterwards to Lord Gerald. ‘I can fire off a gun, if you mean that, ’ said Gerald. ‘You have never shot much?’ ‘Not what...

...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the...

... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Glo... ...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... .... First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19 Contents Part I 1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ... Levin went home at a trot, so as to have time to eat his dinner and get his gun ready for the evening. Chapter 14 A S HE rode up to the house in the ... ...or visitors, where Stepan Arkadye vitch’s things were carried also—a bag, a gun in a case, a satchel for cigars. Leav 152 Anna Karenina ing him the... ...iving, feigning, and continu ally thinking of others, when the passion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything el... ...m and he held her moist hand, that would squeeze his hand with extraordinary violence and then push it away—seemed to him hours, and hours seemed to h... ...snapped, sobs and tears of joy which he had never foreseen rose up with such violence that his whole body shook, that for long they prevented him from...

...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

... Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Celt and Saxon by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...nd we’re mixed up, ’tis true, well or ill; and we’re stronger, both of us, united than tearing to strips: and so, there, for the past! so long as we c... ...ooting. I may join you in the afternoon. You will find occupation for your gun in the north covers.’ He wandered about the house, looking into several... ...and. Australia is not comparable with it. And where colonisations have be- gun without system, and without hard fighting to teach the settlers to valu... ...ending English lady contrasted with her husband so signally that the oddly united couple appeared yoked in a common harness for a perpetual display of... ...n the tiles outside for that, if the spirit of the jig comes upon you with violence, as I have had it on me, and eased myself mightily there, to my ow...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner...

...a Scott ISBN 10: 1-936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edito... ...cott ISBN 10: 1-936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-I... ... ISBN 10: 1-936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Ch... ...l rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocop... ...ng or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this boo... ...er the tent of her wide skirt. “Here, here, now, break it up. No need for violence,” a third, unknown voice intervened. The scuffling ceased an... ... I can guess how Nell must feel. She is lost, in despair, horrified by the violence of her deed. She’s never taken a life before.” The sash was fr... ... the envelope from her and tore it open with his teeth. She cringed as the gun poked deeper into her ear. His breath expelled in a hot, fetid rush... ...n him, too. He went after him. Oh God, he went after him, and Flynn had a gun.” “Did he touch you?” “What do you care?” Morgan asked. “Did he...

...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel enti...

...Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the press... ...y people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that much, mu... ...rld of long-guarded — secrets. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anson Chi, born and raised in New York City, is an author, politician, model, activist environmenta... ...vironmental, social, political and retired — — engineer. He currently lives in a myriad of places, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on t... ...re and spread this book like hot cakes! Knowledge is a right of the people. United States Constitution - The First Amendment "...no law...abridging ... ... spread this book like hot cakes! Knowledge is a right of the people. United States Constitution - The First Amendment "...no law...abridging the fre... ...heir own name right! Many people are avidly concerned about the increase in violence, drug use, and sexual paraphernalia in our generation; I'm more ... ...rred account for the reasons why most young Americans can't even locate the United States of America on a map. That's why I'm almost livid with Gabr... ...down in “ ” excitement, like a kangaroo shot in the @ss with a tranquilizer gun. Well, as my newly appointed parole officer, you should know my time ...

...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian c...

...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... ...contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was... ...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...an, Catholic, Episcopalian (the name given to the Church of England in the United States) left me with a sense of coldness, making me feel a total out... ...d, and much else. Small groups such as the Old Order Amish, in the eastern United States, are striking examples of Christian traditions which define t... ...he social values enjoined by the Buddha; that is, avoidance of any kind of violence including violence towards animals (an avoidance that necessarily ... ...o settle the dispute by a mountain moving contest. The contest erupts into violence and the Evil Twin crashes against a mountainside so hard that his ... ...a reality. But they were separated from their tribal lands by power of the gun fired at their attempts to drive away the white intruders. Consequently...

...ction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social st...

...ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy... ...g, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, char... ...ormation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places a... ... is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any ... ...dding. Though Clans fought each other for territorial supremacy, they all united on one issue, the loathing of an imaginary enemy. Clan teachings dr... ... ahead of him. "You're not in a Clan. Alex is only going to use words not violence. Eat up before it gets cold." He watched his wife rise from her s... ...Brendan anticipated the questions before his friend asked. On the surface, violence and fear was nothing more than control. He'd since learnt that th... ...ou know." "Then explain it to me, what have yah got to lose, you have the gun." Shaun felt her foot on his chest relax a little. "There’s a program t... ...ear woman's voice accompanied the visual. "Program name, Ursula, unit one, United States of America." The monitors began to display the units in sequ...

...Obsession with genetic engineering segregated humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctri...

...Died And Moved In Christine Jones 1 Died and moved in www.cjbooks.net Copyright © 2007 by Christine Jones. All rights reserved... ...ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy... ...ormation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places ... ... is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any ... ...humungous bag of shit! I’ll have you for Sunday dinner. If I owned a shot gun, you’d be sucking on mint sauce!” Staggering towards the back door of m... ...or these two, they never stop arguing. Though I’ve never been part of the United Nations; I know it would be suicide to send in a peacekeeping force... ... guard at work. They say she has a black belt in martial arts and wears a gun.” There’s a concerned look in her eyes for our brother. “Wow!” Steven ... ...brother on the arm. She’s been doing this a lot lately, the shift towards violence suits her. “You look worse than I do.” “Yeah right,” Steven replie... ... accent is going to annoy the crap out of me. What is this place; the 84 United Nations of spooks! I better watch it; they could declare war on me. ...

...Sarah wanted to escape the city life and her wealthy family. Moving from mainland Australia, she purchased a farm in Tasmania. Persistent, yet green to rural living, the new next door neighbour has her attention and she is out to win his heart in t...

...n Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsy... ...strange, among the relics of the handsome mid- shipman and his stay in the gun-room of the Prothee, I find a code of signals graphically represented, ... ...ming Jenkin for a run to Rio, and apparently for a second outing in a ten- gun brig. These, and a cruise of six weeks to windward of the island undert... ...oing sons, was a mixture of almost insane self-sacrifice and wholly insane violence of temper. She had three sons and one daughter. T wo of the sons w... ... her destitution and solitude made it a recurring duty to receive her, her violence continually enforced fresh separations. In her passion of a disapp... ...some of her defects, besides, she made him heir. Kind as was the bond that united her to her son, kind and even pretty, she was scarce a woman to ador...

...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two cons...

...ication Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania... ... conclusion of the ceremony, until the sacred edifice resounded with their united wailings! As the four sisters and Mr. Robinson continued to occupy t... ...ed to the lowest depths of despair, and there is no telling in what act of violence the general indignation against the three Miss Browns might have v... ...of the evolutions again, without appearing to suffer in the least from the violence of the exercise. Nor were the Denmark satins a bit behindhand, for... ...een preserved so long 100 Sketches by Boz begins to flag, when suddenly a gun is heard, and a noise of distant hurra’ing along each bank of the river... ...wo pots to a pint on Yellow,’ &c., &c. Every little public-house fires its gun, and hoists its flag; and the men who win the heat, come in, amidst a s...

...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

...Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... conclusion of the ceremony, until the sacred edifice resounded with their united wailings! As the four sisters and Mr. Robinson continued to occupy t... ...ed to the lowest depths of despair, and there is no telling in what act of violence the general indignation against the three Miss Browns might have v... ...of the evolutions again, without appearing to suffer in the least from the violence of the exercise. Nor were the Denmark satins a bit behindhand, for... ...een preserved so long 100 Sketches by Boz begins to flag, when suddenly a gun is heard, and a noise of distant hurra’ing along each bank of the river... ...wo pots to a pint on Yellow,’ &c., &c. Every little public-house fires its gun, and hoists its flag; and the men who win the heat, come in, amidst a s...

...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...still would be to exchange congratulations with you, as the members of one united fam ily, on the thriving vigour of this strongest child of a strong... ...mbers themselves. I am truly sensible, gentlemen, that my friends who have united in this address are partial in their kindness, and regard what I hav... ...utilated remains of any wretched Hindoo who has been blown from an English gun. Both, creatures of the past, have been—as my friend Mr. Carlyle vigoro... ...rful to fill the prisons, the hospitals, and the graves—powerful for blind violence, prejudice, and error, in all their gloomy and destructive shapes.... ...play his part before us—for all of us, in our spheres, have as often to do violence to our feelings and to hide our hearts in fighting this great batt...

... . . . 4 Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Anthem for the Children of Chr... ... . . . . . . . 8 Quae Nocent Docent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 To the Muse . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . 43 A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Ode in the ... ... . . . . 45 To Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Ode . . . .... ...e contented rest — Here, meek-eyed Peace with humble Plenty lend Their aid united still, to make thee blest. To ease each pain, and to increase eac... ...he soft relenting smile, And tempts with feign’d dissuasion coy The gentle violence of Joy. - 79 - The Kiss Coleridge: Poems To a Young Lady: with... ...triot, and saint, and sage, Him, full of years, from his loved native land Statesmen blood-stained and priests idolatrous By dark lies maddening th... ...woe. But, ah! how shall I comfort thee, Who need the balm I would bestow? United then let us repair, As round our common Parent’s grave; And pour... ... stealing! But yet from Chisholm who despairs of grace? There’s no spring-gun or man-trap in that face! Let Moses then look black, and Aaron blue...

...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While som...

...Table of Contents: Easter Holidays, 1 -- Dura Navis, 2 -- Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vit‘, 4 -- Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, 5 -- Anthem for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To the Muse, 11 -- Destruction of the Bastile, 12 -- Life, 14 -- Progress of Vice, 15 -- Monody on...

... PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...d intersect. Mere accident, therefore, of local posi- tion, much more when united with that avowed inveteracy of malignant feeling, which was bitter e... ...sev- eral in his own person. Accordingly, John Shakspeare is known to have united with his town calling the rural and miscella- neous occupations of a... ...ling of sixteen, who could so far transcend in good sense the accomplished statesmen or men of the world with whom he afterwards corresponded, might c... ...t boyhood amongst the most accomplished men of the world. Wits, courtiers, statesmen, grandees the most dignified, and men of fashion the most brillia... ...ften against themselves; feuds, begun in private, issued often into public violence; and, according to Goethe’s own illustration, the streets were vex...

...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the mon...

...LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of t... ...ly by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...tty well!’ echoed Mr Bonney. ‘It’s the finest idea that was ever started. “United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muf- fin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual D... ...nto consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Del... ... was, at no time, one of the weakest. Nicholas, in the full torrent of his violence, felt the blows no more than if they had been dealt with feathers;... ...g cuts, and flung Squeers from him with all the force he could muster. The violence of his fall precipi- tated Mrs Squeers completely over an adjacent... ...s might be; but per- haps this was occasioned by senatorial gravity, and a states- manlike habit of keeping his feelings under control. He was a tough...

...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

...ghts reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electron... ...m or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The fir... ...the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a prod... ..., is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author. The information in the Appendix of this book is offered on an “as is” basis, without warran... ...oger’s father had gone into a nursing home and his mother had moved to the States to live with Roger’s brother. Lacey retreated into her books and spu... ... without power 134 SUSAN BRACKEN and stuff like that.” “You have to get a gun and get ready to shoot people.” What utter nonsense! They’re talking cl... ... bays and inlets of the Alaskan coast. They shouted with excitement at the gun-pop- ping noise of glaciers and gawked at the plentitude of fish and bi... ...s they become available. Mean- while we have an eye-witness account of the violence, as de- scribed by Natalie Baker, who was on the bus.” A tearful, ... ...y excellent sites to provide information and forms. A few of these: In the United States of America: Caring Connections, National Hospice and Palliati...

...Lacey Wilson overcomes neglect in childhood and abuse in her first marriage to achieve fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indi...

... Seymour H. Fine With Foreword by Philip Kotler Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TH... ...riginally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 F... ...SSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION ... ...SS 14 Social Issues and Causes 14 SOME CONCEPTS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES 15 INCREASE IN CONCERN WITH IDEAS 17 From Inner to Other-Directedness 17 Vol... ...change than that which comes about from some other possible methods, repression or violence for example. To be sure, ideas are transmitted in many wa... ...ory when restrictions on the spread of ideas have been so relaxed, at least in the United States. Government, church and family are as liberal as th... ...n on an issue, but simply adopts a cause, such as joining a movement. Abortion and gun control are issues; the prevention of child abuse and forest f... ...nal organizations Free enterprise Freedom of the press Fund raising Gay rights Gun control Handicapped, employ the Health maintenance orgs Hea... ...'' (Ferguson and McHenry 1973, p. 237), as well as ideas related to sex, crime and violence. There is 80 some evidence negating the effectiven...

...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? Th...

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban... ...Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...country into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's larges... .... Modern research finds ever more problems in Western countries, sickness, violence, repression of women, paedophilia... Statistics show that Western ... ... art, cinema, the whole of Western consciousness industry live off sex and violence, compete in their depiction of evil and degeneration. Western cult... ...anna state, which was yet again invaded by Burma. The Lanna state was only united with the kingdom of Thailand in the Thonburin era in 1774, when the ... ...meone is on his way to the forest with a pair of buffalo, a long-barrelled gun on his back. The men still have old-fashioned flintlock guns and slings...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and heale...