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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ...se State 38 Local Economy 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sc... ...tion in six U.S. states, Mexico, Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Jordan and Papua New Guinea. Others are planned in Japan, Thailand, Guatemala and the Philippi... ...Nepal • Netherlands • New Zealand • Nigeria • Norway Pakistan • Papua New Guinea • Peru • Philippines • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia Saudi A... ... HAWAII BUSINESS We’re proud to be “America’s Best Bank” , with a year history of helping businesses throughout the Pacific navigate their way to ... ...ships link Sopogy with Australia, Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, Papua New Guinea and Thailand. SOPOGY’S TECHNOLOGIES CAN GENERATE 30 PERCENT MORE E... ...at unifes Hawaiians, one begins to understand the cultural importance of history, inclusiveness and sharing, education and organization, a traditi...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...t Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Ha...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e reader the chief personages of this narrative. AT THA T FAMOUS PERIOD OF HISTORY, when the seventeenth century (after a deal of quarrelling, king-ki... ... to hang with him round the neck of his patient, at the end of our and his history. We give the reader fair notice, that we shall tickle him with a fe... ...Of those two gentlemen who are about to act a very impor- tant part in our history, one only was probably a native of Brit- ain,—we say probably, beca... ... he might before have vowed to Mrs. Score that he would not for a thousand guineas be ab- sent from home that night. The girl had, too, half-a-dozen l... ...d swallowed so much of the Corporal’s liquor, as to be induced to accept a guinea from his purse also; and found himself, on returning to reason and s... ...f the destruction of your countrymen. Noble noble fellow!—here’s a hundred guineas for you.” Which sum he placed in my hand. “Nay,” says the Marshal “...

...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner : Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-Inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself, With an Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'D by Pyrates

By: Daniel Defoe

...The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREF... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and... ... let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it: And howe... ... to the Coast of Africa; or, as our Sailors vulgarly call it, a V oyage to Guinea. 12 ROBINSON CRUSOE It was my great Misfortune that in all these Ad... ...rst fell acquainted with the Master of a Ship who had been on the Coast of Guinea; and who having had very good Success there, was resolved to go agai... ... that it was a Portuguese Ship, and as I thought was bound to the Coast of Guinea for Negroes. But when I observ’d the Course she steer’d, I was soon ... ...t not forget, that we had in the Ship a Dog and two Cats, of whose eminent History I may have occasion to say something in its place; for I carry’d bo... ...wfare of the Brain, the Memory, in this Night’s Time: I run over the whole History of my Life in Miniature, or by Abridgment, as I may call it, to my ...

...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be...

Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t may pass with them rather for a direction to themselves to act by than a history of my actings, seeing it may not he of one farthing value to them t... ...nswer for any mistakes, I shall give as distinctly as I can, believing the history will be a very good pattern for any poor man to follow, in case the... ...id that the relating has been unprofitable. I say all this previous to the history, having yet, for the present, much more to say before I quit my own... ...the port of Plymouth, had the like advantage to Spain, to the Canaries, to Guinea, and to the West Indies, and par- ticularly to Ireland; but as the p...

...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the ye...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ...ew England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly... ...and become a player. At length, receiving his quarterly allowance of fifteen guineas, instead of discharging his debts he walk’d out of town, hid his ... ...re, having no friend to advise him, he fell into bad company, soon spent his guineas, found no means of being introduc’d among the players, grew neces... ...rticu larly procur’d us from the Quakers the printing forty sheets of their history, the rest being to be done by Keimer; and upon this we work’d exc... ..., Sir, I solicit the his tory of your life from the following motives: Your history is so remarkable, that if you do not give it, somebody else will ... ...y contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. The money may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having...

...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ...or nations, should have gone far to wipe away the guilt of slavery. But in history sin always meets with condign punishment; the generation passes, th... ... taken her to my arms; I have given her a mahogany bed; I have given her a guinea. . . . I swore her privately and solemnly never to attempt any claim...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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