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...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...trategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is dedicated to my wif... ... laughed a sadistic laugh, “Monstrosity? This is the ut- most beauty. When explorers found the Mayan ruins, they did not 121 7 Scorpions: Rebellion ... ...e people would follow in my footsteps. As it is, there was a big to do in California about what I did. And 77 was only the number of deaths they cou...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ... ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABL... ...passage -- Capture of other Spanish vessels on his way -- Among the natives of California -- The discovery of tobacco -- A camp on shore -- Fear of th... ...ives -- Singular ceremonies and kingly investiture -- Drake is crowned King of California -- Descriptions of the Indians and their villages 358- 366 ... ...th's extraordinary beard -- Frobisher's strange discoveries -- A fight between explorers -- The loss of Sir Humphrey Gilbert -- Disappointment of John... ...ng for a copper mine -- Cook and Clerk e -- Effects of the Revolution -- Other explorers in the north -- Discoveries of Parry and Franklin -- Last voy... ............................................ 361 Crowning of Drake by the King of California............................. 365 Canoes of the Pelew Islande...

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... 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 crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...sm of liberty in the 19th century, Van Gogh, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, as the explorers of the movements Dada, surrealism, Isidor Isou’s lettrism or, sti... ...994, p.80. Bledea, Ion, A Tangle of Language, in ‘Abracadabra”, Salinas, California, USA, October 1993, p.14. Vasile, Geo, The Exorcist from Phoe... ...Mircea, An Oltenian through Arizona ..., in “Universul”, North Hollywood, California, 9th year, no.199, August 1993, pp.5, 8. Rotaru, Ion, Who is F... ...96, p.60. Verzeanu, Valentin, Florentin Smarandache, in “Clipa”, Anheim, California, November 12, 1993, no.117, p.42. Editor, Publications / Awar...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ...e country. As for fieldwork technique, I have returned to the tradition of explorers - having spent decades teaching methodology of cultural anthropol... ...a list of medicinal plants by Terje Björnland and Trond Schumacher. Univ. California Press. Brummelhuis, Hanten – Jeremy H. Kemp (eds.) 1984. Strate... ... Ethnography Unbound. Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. Caedès, G. 1964 (1962). The Making of South... ... Life in Modern Thailand. Institute of East Asiatic Studies. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. Diamond, Stanley (ed.) 1969 ...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...tive and free will and exploration into a laughingstock. The supposed bravest explorers daring to go where no man has gone before? It turns out we ... ...throw it away, and no longer want it. That is how ownership works. European explorers traveled to other continents and planted flags of their rule... ... million years from now, digging up a speck of dust from the Hearst Castle in California; and by analyzing this speck of dust…trying to understand w... ...ng this speck of dust…trying to understand what kind of Culture humans had in California back then… Only there would be no way for you to know that... ...me from the Hearst castle, or that there were millions of expensive houses in California, and that all the people spent a good half of their lives wo... ...s the idea of no change as being a revolutionary change. How? By glorifying explorers, people who pushed the limits… Only after they were safely d...

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... S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...f emigrat- ing. It was not very clear whether he had in his mind France or California. The utter unexpectedness, improbability, and inconceivable- nes... ...s incredulously. “I can’t con- ceive where I could have seen him.” “At the Explorers, I should say,” dropped the Assistant Com- missioner calmly. At t... ...g such an unsavoury and disturbing fact. It revolutionised his idea of the Explorers’ Club’s extreme selectness, of its social purity. Toodles was rev... ...imself did not turn into the 165 Joseph Conrad noble building. It was the Explorers’ Club. The thought passed through his mind that Mr Vladimir, hono... ... It came to her suddenly. Murderers escaped. They escaped abroad. Spain or California. Mere names. The vast world cre- ated for the glory of man was o...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ...s: “In that region the weather —” “At that time it was a custom —” “But in California one never heard —” Eleven of them. They initialed the brief divi... ...ed by French, English, and American travelers, on the one hand, and German explorers, on the other, is too great to escape attention. That difference ... ...d not take them in until we saw three boys spring into the rigging of the California; then they were all furled at once, but with orders to our boys ... ...ed hardly capable of supporting the great fab rics raised upon them. The California was to windward of us, and had every advantage; yet, while the b... ..., pirates, conspirators, horse jockeys, bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, n...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...efore we had reached the point to which the guides were accustomed to take explorers, and started back without guides. Coming to the large column spok... ...nts were spreading it. Soon after his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The... ...e lying at an- chor after reaching his place of destination. On landing in California he found orders which had come by the Isthmus, notifying him of ... ... sick all the way. But when he arrived at the East he was again ordered to California, this time defi- nitely, and at this date was making his third t...