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...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...elow. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to me... ... Tunisia 246 Turkey 247 Turks and Caicos Islands 249 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257... ...ment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added. Area: Total area is the sum of all land and wa... ...areas has also been added. Area: Total area is the sum of all land and water areas delimited by international boundaries and/or coastlines. Land area ... ...ico Land boundaries: 2,295 km total Coastline: 4,675 km total (2,068 km Pen- insular Malaysia, 2,607 km East Malaysia) Maritime claims: Continental sh...
...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...
...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writ... ...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... ...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" --Thucydides Part I K... ...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... ...malodorous the misdirected current. It was almost stagnant, and in certain areas adulterated by garish stretch marks of defilement in this remnant of... ...lost branches and a ball that had become entangled in the sodden brush. As insular as she was, some version of the widely promulgated account had not... ...tification card to the inspection of police officers, to leave the public areas of parks, and other miscellaneous interactions indicating that one li... ... 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... ...nted to go on a trip to this Southeast Asian country so far away from her insular life in the family home in New Orleans. The photographs of the Gol...
...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...
...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... .../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...essed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Con... ... book’s theme? I could go on and on. But I will not. This flurry of names and areas of knowledge signifies more than just the deep thanks of a dilettant... ... 1 Each person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” ... ...e lives of the tropical world’s poor. But for a lot of products, in a lot of areas, the market works— and that is a fact not to be taken for granted. ... ...ght. Do we still get soul? The blues? Jazz? Or do we just get a precious and insular digital subculture, whose cultural experiments never reach the ma...
... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...
...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ...Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University College in London showed that the same areas of the brain are active when abusing drugs and when in lov... ...ork, and her colleagues, revealed that the caudate and the ventral tegmental, brain areas involved in cravings (e.g., for food) and the secretion of... ...en lead to depression and anxiety. Other, fMRI-based studies, demonstrated how the insular cortex, in charge of experiencing pain, became active wh... ...ontempt for manual labor... growing gulf between wealth and poverty... the growing insularity of the elites... growing impatience with the constrai...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...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....
...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ...were broadcast from speakers hanging in tree limbs of certain residential areas of Bangkok. The sounds of bees and nagging wives one might not be abl... ... said it for in a sense it had been unfitness, a secret aberration even to areas of his cognizance that could not accept anything but the thought of h... ...th those strangers within seeming to him as a family of distant and tacit, insular beings who were cognate in their desire to arrive in a train which ... ...the mesmerizing intensity of the sun--the left an entry into an altogether insular and comatose nation). Obtaining a Laotian visa for a thousand baht;... ...Thailand, and so if he had to have a practical reason for returning to the United States this could be one. He had plenty of accessible money for his ...
...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Undead Pg 1600 Socrates Pg 1601 The evil of Science Pg 1602 The evil of Insularity Pg 1612 Intensity and Purity Pg 1616 The evil of the Un... ... its world shakes? It flees from the area of shaking, just like we flee from areas where earthquakes are happening. The point is that all knowl... ...fire or the use of hand tools? Volcanoes had already been burning down whole areas of Africa for 25 million years. Long before the invention of han... ...ESS Chapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 196 This form of insular awareness created fear. Humans live in a state of constant, in... ...hese two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction...
...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 ...
...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 ...
...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...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... ...hts, when not able to do it in deeds, almost always ran to Seoul. The rural areas where he worked and at one time had lived gave him the solitude and... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...y falls in rural Ithaca, and on little rides in amusement parks in different areas of the state. Except for the local falls, which were free, she jus... ..., thought. But now all was different. She, an American, had knocked off her insular American shell (the little she had possessed) while in Jakarta. S... ... if his bashfulness was less contrived than what she might suppose. Soon her insular hubris of indomitability began to thaw like Arctic permafrost. Th...
...rean 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 New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...
... Gerrie Ferris 2 THE LAURA KATE PLANTATION SERIES Book One When Serpents Die... ...by Gerrie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edi... ...errie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-... ...erris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chie... ...ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gai... ...opyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by a... ...ouldn’t shake. Eons ago, she’d left Georgia, and never considered returning to the insular South of her youth. But who could have foreseen that ir... ...ved to Europe.” He was stalling. He’d rather talk real estate than get into sore areas of his life. “The ol’ candy gal had a swimming pool, tenni... ...e strode into the room looking like a figure from a movie about The War Between the States. His rakish smile lit the room and threatened Laura Kate’...
...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different...
...s Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...eries Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...o the Congress January to April, 1917 by W oodrow Wilson, President of the United States, with the President’s proclamation of war April 6, 1917 and h... ...on’s When a Man Comes to Himself, On Being Human, and The President of the United States. *Harper & Brothers’ note. 4 Why We Are at War I A WORLD LEA... ...submarines against all shipping seeking to pass through certain designated areas of the high seas to which it is clearly my duty to call your attentio... ..., though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the proscribed areas by the German Government itself and were distinguished by unmistakabl... ...ein contained shall extend and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, in any way within the jurisdiction of the United States. United St...
...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...are affable. I had but recently had an encounter with an imported Colonial statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming saviour of ... ...war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps ... ...rought upon the western front. These are Britain, France, Germany, and the United States of America. Less certainly equal to the effort are Italy, Jap... ...e of faintly hostile, faintly contemptuous apathy. It is still so entirely insular that it shudders at the thought of the Channel T un- nel. This is t... ...lf the number of railway trucks we now employ; it would turn over enormous areas of valuable land from their present use as railway goods yards and si...
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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ...uarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in papers ... ... And perhaps this natural prece- dency in authority of years and judgment, united to the ten- der humility with which she declined to assert it, had b... ...he title might be said to be japanned; alluding to this fact, that amongst insular sovereigns, the only one known to Christian diplomacy by the title ... ...ers of an- other, so also this city, stretching forth her foundations over areas so vast, is yet not satisfied with those superficial di- mensions; th...
...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................
... by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...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... ...t of ancient forms — On the suc- cession of the same types within the same areas — Summary of preceding and present chapters. 8 On the Origin of Spec... ...sputed. Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising n... ...can rarely be found within the same country, but are common in sepa- rated areas. How many of those birds and insects in North America and Europe, whi... ...ifficulties, but it would not, I think, explain all the facts in regard to insular productions. In the following remarks I shall not confine myself to... ...n,—for instance, as the shrivelled wings under the soldered elytra of many insular beetles. Again, islands often possess trees or bushes belonging to ...
Excerpt: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...essly, and have a respect for science, this has been achieved. And now our insularity is breached by the foreigner who has got ahead with flying. It m... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ...f transport are already straining against the limits of existing political areas. Every country contains now an increasing ingredient of unenfranchise... ...ten practically continuous 26 An Englishman Looks at the World over large areas; there is abundant water and food, and the commonest form of cover is... ...uge conflict in that disposition, and it is per- haps well to remember how insular—or, at least, how Euro- pean—the essentials of this quarrel are. We...
...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...
...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................
...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...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... ...ing of a hard glossy substance with a pearly lus- tre, which is intimately united to the surface of the rocks. This, when examined with a lens, is fou... ...es, finely coni- cal at both ends. Two of these are shown in the wood- cut united together. They vary in length from .04 to .06, and even to .08 of an... ...t countries of La Plata. The soil is varied and productive; and its almost insular form gives it two grand lines of communication by the rivers Parana... ...ated often enough (and we know that earthquakes repeatedly affect the same areas in the same manner), form a chain of hills; — and the linear island o... ...on Islands, or Atolls —Depth at which reef-building Corals can live — Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands — Subsidence of their foundations...
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