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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...5/25e.htm Armenian Genocide The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 i... ...er of Armenian fatalities at 200-300,000 at the most. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van... ...elebrated on March 21 in perpetuity. But, according to the Julian calendar, in the 17th century it arrived on March 11th, in the 18th century on Ma... ...ated on March 21 in perpetuity. But, according to the Julian calendar, in the 17th century it arrived on March 11th, in the 18th century on March 1... ... Dancing manias - a form of mass hysteria - were most common between the 13th and 17th centuries in Italy, notably in Taranto. Hence "tarantism". ... ...of rheumatoid chorea - were common in large swathes of Europe between the 11th and 17th century. One legend has it that in 1278, hundreds of people...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...er cannot be located. I am pleased to present our "Report on Orphan Works" in response to your request. The response from the public to this study was... ...t the use of orphan works. As you know, the roundtable discussions we held in Washington, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants... ...gton, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants engaged in thoughtful and productive discussion of the many complex issues involved... ...ION AND CLAIMS CHIEF OF STAFF RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE Rayburn House Office Building ASHINGTON, DC 20515-4321 SUBCOMMITTE... ...ves SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON CYBERSECURITY, SCIENCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT January 7, 2005 SUBCOMMITTEE ON INFRAST... ...is of data on trends in copyright registrations and renewals over the last century suggests that a large number of works may fall into the category o... ...nal Video Resources, Film Arts Foundation); • film studios (e.g., 20th Century Fox, Motion Picture Association of America); • software companie... ...gical records and materials, 83 dramatic radio productions from the last century, 84 and various software programs. 85 Generally the works at iss... ...irs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for National Science Foundation, 725—17th Street, NW. Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plim...

...m used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Even where the user has made a reasonably diligent effort to find the owner, if the owner is not found, the user faces uncertainty – she cannot determine whether or...

...Many commenters were in favor of determining whether a search was reasonable on an “ad hoc” or case-by-case basis, whereby each search is evaluated according to its circumstances. This approach was offered as having the advantage of flexibility t...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...er cannot be located. I am pleased to present our "Report on Orphan Works" in response to your request. The response from the public to this study was... ...t the use of orphan works. As you know, the roundtable discussions we held in Washington, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants... ...gton, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants engaged in thoughtful and productive discussion of the many complex issues involved... ...ION AND CLAIMS CHIEF OF STAFF RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE Rayburn House Office Building ASHINGTON, DC 20515-4321 SUBCOMMITTE... ...ves SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON CYBERSECURITY, SCIENCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT January 7, 2005 SUBCOMMITTEE ON INFRAST... ...is of data on trends in copyright registrations and renewals over the last century suggests that a large number of works may fall into the category o... ...nal Video Resources, Film Arts Foundation); • film studios (e.g., 20th Century Fox, Motion Picture Association of America); • software companie... ...gical records and materials, 83 dramatic radio productions from the last century, 84 and various software programs. 85 Generally the works at iss... ...irs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for National Science Foundation, 725—17th Street, NW. Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plim...

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... and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under the circumstances. The idea is that the user, in the course of using a work for which he has not received explicit permission, should make it as clear as possible to the public that the work is the product of another author, and that the copyright in the work is owned by...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...................325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS........................................ ... -1- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and believe that Jesus Christ, who ca... ...believe that Jesus Christ, who came heretofore in suffering flesh, shall come hereafter in glory. DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD. My soul is greatl... ...alk alone, in the fields every afternoon by the side of the river near the town. On the 17th of June, 1801, in the morning, he was found dead by the... ...is the Gothic kingdom, or system of power which hath obtained in Europe since the sixth century, and obtaineth unto this day. That which drove him i... ...llotson and his school, brought forth the religious formality and ignorance of the last century in the Church of England in the writings of Blair an... ...honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. EDWARD IRVING. Caledonian church, January 17th, 1827. A DEAR friend and brother in the m... ...s should have been abandoned, and that the contrary should have obtained from the fifth century forward to our times, with such force and constancy,... ...judgment, saving a better. Given in this Convent of barefooted Carmelites of Cadiz, the 17th of December 1812. Fr. Pablo de la Conception. -...

...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of...

...OMENON IV...305 THE END OF ANTICHRIST...305 PHENOMENON V....325 THE JEWS...325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS...328 ARTICLE I....333 ARTICLE II.....350 ARTICLE III....357 ARTICLE IV....377 CONSULTING INDEX OF VOLUME I....383...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...e warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By ... ...f nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. M... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ... wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of sc... ...ch allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in the twentieth century before he led his paper‘s switch to digital phototype. My own p... ...fter civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More t... ...mbryos of Democracy and Capitalism Arabic Numbers and Zero reach West 17TH CENTURY Caxton standardizes English King Richard national icon Su...

...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...phical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.htm... ... II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal III. Turing Machines and Universes IV. The Science of Superstitions G O D Introduction: Science, God, ... ... PHYSICS Time Asymmetry Re-Visited Abstract Time does not feature in the equations describing the world of elementary particles an... ...s notwithstanding. Yet, mathematics reigns supreme and unchallenged in the natural sciences. Why is that? What has catapulted mathematics (as disti... ...gate which led to the development of Set Theory by Cantor at the end of the 19 th century. It took almost another century to demonstrate the probl... ...rld as I See It, 1931 The debate between realism and anti-realism is, at least, a century old. Does Science describe the real world - or are its t... ... the second edition of his seminal "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". Almost a century later, the philosopher James Mill and his son, John Stua... ...accessibility may cut both ways. Open Theists (harking back to the Socinians in the 17th century) say that God cannot predict our moves. Deists say ...

Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...dd Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War... .... The global spread of American influence through its culture, political alliances, science and multinationals is merely an extrapolation of a trend... ...trategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction that "the United States aims... ...eover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the United States during the 19th century. Later, Rome claimed to be "liberating" Greek cities (fr... ...with the USA and its sidekick, the EU, during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Not unlike the Moslem Afghani warriors of 1989, the O... ...m the Mongols of Genghis Khan, they invaded Anatolia in the second half of the 11th century. They immediately and inevitably clashed with Byzantium ... ...hree centuries of unhindered conquests, arrested only at the gates of Vienna in the 17th century. Recurrent international (read European) alliances ...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ........................................................................ 181 SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY ARE SIAMESE TWINS ...................................... ...mer‘s tale of Troy, which would have actually occurred in about the 12 th Century BCE, was not made into a poem by Homer for another 400 years. He c... ...ohammed support every jihad which has been called for by the 20th and 21st century mullahs and terrorists? Would Abraham have blessed each transgress... ...―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Englishman, using ‗ye‘ and ‗thou‘ and... ...ments or rewards from God. The so-called ‗freethinkers ‗of England in the 17th and 18th centuries were the major protagonists. They wanted to believ... ...amed and has been tamed by man,‖ —―Jumping back to philosophy, in the 17th century, the French philosopher Rene Descartes wrote that animals hav...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ... introduces insoluble contradictions into the theory and practice of late twentieth century anarchism. Indeed, the term anarchism has been trivial... ...- this flawed theory returned with a vengeance in the last two decades of the past century. Privatization, deregulation, and self-regulation becam... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...lied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for the extension to an... ...t missionary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Na... ...understand the downfall of this meteoric latecomer - we must look elsewhere, to the 17th and 18th century. Friendship What are friends for and ho...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences 48 Turning Science Into... ... FROM TOP: SUNNY TAKEISHI, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SOEST), CYANOTECH. PHOTOS ON PAGE 3, CLOCKWISE FRO... ... and earth science and technology Our Ownership Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i by Hagadone Printing Company on post-consumer recycled paper us... ...offset by carbon credits. is part of This special edition of was produced in cooperation with the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee. PUBLISHER David ... ...waii Business at store.pacifcbasin.net To keep informed about Innovation in Hawai‘i, email innovation@hawaiibusiness.com Or visit hawaiibusiness.c... ...e on imported oil and create an expansive economy that will advance 21st century power generation, distribution, energy consumption and conservatio... ...a Plan will create a cleantech sector which will provide sustainable 21st century jobs. Additionally, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan supports STEAM (Science, Te... ...e on imported oil and create an expansive economy that will advance 21st century power generation, distribution, energy consumption and conservatio... ...every APEC member economy. VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN to the outside world in the 17th Century, Hawai‘i was a bustling center of Pacifc commerce in the 18t...

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

... 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 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Research -- 74 Perfect Pl...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ... of the Market XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XV... ...XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. The Green-Eye... ... and Place Marketing XXXV. NGOs – The Self-appointed Altruists XXXVI. The Wages of Science XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality... ...inventor working on a shoestring budget in his garage - is a mythical relic of 18th century Romanticism. More often, innovation is systematically ... ...ent weeding-out of unfit solutions by the marketplace. "... Technology in the 21st century is going to be less about discovering new phenomena and ... ...herefore, equal treatment is not self evident. European aristocracy well into this century would have probably found this notion abhorrent. Jose Or... ...cludable. Bibliography Samuelson, Paul A. and Nordhaus, William D. - Economics - 17th edition - New-York, McGraw-Hill Irian, 2001 Heyne, Paul a...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE A UNIFYING FIELD IN LOGICS: NEUTROSOPHIC LOGIC. NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC SET, NEUTROSOPHIC... ...ress Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE A UNIFYING FIELD IN LOGICS: NEUTROSOPHIC LOGIC. NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC SET, NEUTROSOPHIC... ... a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 3. Neutrosophic Set - a unifying field in sets: 112 4. Neut... ...matik”. It was an inspired connection he made between literature/arts and science, philosophy. We started a long correspondence with questions and ... ...on: PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions... ...poems of the spirit - we 5 must scientificize the art in this technical century; - impersonal texts personalized; - electrical shock; - translat... ...e notion of "poetry" and its derivatives have become old-fashioned in this century, and people laugh at them in disregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that... ...ty of interpreting and synthesizing the Source of Cognition (Vedas, IV th century B.C.), the Epic (with many stories), and the Upanishads (principle... ...wer of the monarch derives from his powerless people (Juan de Mariana, 16­ 17th centuries). Because, if they had any power, monarch's position would ...

...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”....

...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...e warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By ... ...f nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. M... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ... wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of sc... ...h allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in the twentieth century before he led his paper‘s switch to digital phototype. My own p... ...after civilization. —brad bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More t... ...mbryos of Democracy and Capitalism Arabic Numbers and Zero reach West 17TH CENTURY Caxton standardizes English King Richard national icon Su...

...irst Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...classes rushed together, and stayed to- gether with the time honored March 17th mud for two minutes. At the end of the time 'limit the combatants mana... ... A four years' course, open to bachelors of art, literature, philosophy or science, and to persons of equivalent standing, leads to the degree of M. I... ...use and central New York will hold its annual din- ner iiiul smoker at the Century cluli, Syiacuse, this evening. George W, Drisooll 'SI, president of... ...ntral Now York and iSyraciiHe held its annual din- ner and Hiiioker at the Century chih, Syracuse!, N. Y., on Alon- ilay, Alarcli 2.0. The annual elec... ...nerally admitted that he was one of the groat literary lights of the first century. He wrote ninny tales of love, adventure and intrigue. The form of ... ... Chris- tian were next considered. This man, born in the early part of the 17th century, manifested precocity in mathematics at an early age. Later he...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ... introduces insoluble contradictions into the theory and practice of late twentieth century anarchism. Indeed, the term anarchism has been trivial... ...- this flawed theory returned with a vengeance in the last two decades of the past century. Privatization, deregulation, and self-regulation becam... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...lied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for the extension to an... ...t missionary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Na... ...understand the downfall of this meteoric latecomer - we must look elsewhere, to the 17th and 18th century. Friendship What are friends for and ho...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...ndent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Ec... ...submit an abstract and use Sciendex's classification ("call") numbers and science descriptors, arranged in a massive directory available in the "Rea... ...mply the latest in a series of networks which revolutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the... ... markets in the USA in 1983. The number in 1995 was 18. At the end of the century they will number 6. This is the stage when companies - fighting f... ...ication system successfully used in non-virtual libraries for more than a century. Books - both print and electronic - (actually, their publishers) ... ...s that coalesced to form the modern printing press - printed books in the 17th and 18th centuries were derided by their contemporaries as inferior t... ...ldine Latin "pocket books", or the all-pervasive piracy in England in the 17th century (a direct result of over-regulation and coercive copyright mo...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...er cannot be located. I am pleased to present our "Report on Orphan Works" in response to your request. The response from the public to this study was... ...t the use of orphan works. As you know, the roundtable discussions we held in Washington, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants... ...gton, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants engaged in thoughtful and productive discussion of the many complex issues involved... ...ION AND CLAIMS CHIEF OF STAFF RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE Rayburn House Office Building ASHINGTON, DC 20515-4321 SUBCOMMITTE... ...ves SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON CYBERSECURITY, SCIENCE AND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT January 7, 2005 SUBCOMMITTEE ON INFRAST... ...is of data on trends in copyright registrations and renewals over the last century suggests that a large number of works may fall into the category o... ...nal Video Resources, Film Arts Foundation); • film studios (e.g., 20th Century Fox, Motion Picture Association of America); • software companie... ...gical records and materials, 83 dramatic radio productions from the last century, 84 and various software programs. 85 Generally the works at iss... ...irs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for National Science Foundation, 725—17th Street, NW. Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plim...

...used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Even where the user has made a reasonably diligent effort to find the owner, if the owner is not found, the user faces uncertainty – she cannot determine whether...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERI... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah'... ...out spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman... ...ng difficulty with the Barbary Moors, put to sea again on the 31st, and on the 17th of January, 1578, reached Cape B1anco, where Drake brought into po... ...h wood and water and other necessaries they sailed from Port St. Julian on the 17th of August, and on the 20th they entered the Strait of Magellan, th... ...had somewhat moderated. But proceeding again, they made another landing on the 17th of June on the western coast of California, entering a bay, which ...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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 Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...E ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .............................. ... the same whom you had lost sight of. Never, through the course of a whole century, could there be a night expected more propitious to an escaping cri... ...GHTEENTH CENTUR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Y Y Y Y IN THE PERSON of this Mr. Schlosser is exemplified a com- m... ... There is no moral, little or big, foul or fair, to the ‘Iliad.’ Up to the 17th book, the moral might seem dimly to be this—‘Gentlemen, keep the peace... ...vasion of Caesar’s rights—as by a more direct attack on itself. But in the 17th century the rights of the people were as yet not defined: throughout t... ... is just to look upon democratic or popu- lar politics as identical in the 17th century with patriotic politics. In later periods, the democrat and th...

...DERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE ....................................................................................................

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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 Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ertain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the six- teenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romanc... ...him, was grave and strict to a degree that the ideas even of the sixteenth century regarded as severe. Little Eustacie with her lovely face, her irrep... ...ally threw him into sympathy with the Re- formed. The reaction that half a century later filled the Gallican Church with saintliness had not set in; h... ...ht release himself. Strange was the pageant of that wedding on Sunday, the 17th of August, 1572. The outward seeming was magnifi- cent, when all that ... ...amazed, but he could not regard her project as practicable, or in his con- science approve it; and after a moment’s consideration he answered, ‘I am a... ...he had sent Rene there to them with his drugs. According as they have con- sciences and hearts, so they pine and perish under her rule. Berenger shudd...

... and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be ca...

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