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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned adv... ...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned advers... ...ng, including his nome - and turned adversity into opportunity *by court order WITH CAMILLA DENTON Man with No Name Turn Lemons Into Lemonade ... ...ng P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 For a free catalog of all our titles, or to order more copies of this book please call (800)... ...ke, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 For a free catalog of all our titles, or to order more copies of this book please call (800) 275-2606. Library of Con... ...ritten permission from Asian Publishing, Lower Lake, California, USA, with the exception of short excerpts used with acknowledgment of publisher and ... ...e years, I have accumulated enough lemons to make lemonade for the entire southern population in the United States, who seem to have a greater appre... ...working parents did not deprive me of the breed­ ing that comes with being southern-born. No matter what condi­ tions were in the world outside of the... ...n the way to the festival already underway outside. Inside the shop, the recipients of the 2,500 invitations-many of which had been hand-delivered-...

...The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, ...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...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 ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...d malevolent inculcation of ideas into the minds of those opposing the established order, in other words, brainwashing. Webster's New World Dictiona... ... adoption be mandated by government edict. But the marketing process offers a more orderly and democratic alternative toward social change than that... ...itutions as libraries, post offices, YMCAs, chambers of commerce, museums, the Red Cross and so on. Offerings of nonprofit health care organization... ...ing disadvantaged individuals from among specific target groups, including welfare recipients, handicapped, poor youth, poor Vietnam veterans, coope... ...ger. Montgomery , George E. 1972. "Stratification and Nutrition in a Population in Southern India." Ph.D. diss., Columbia University. Morrison, D. ...

...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? These...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...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... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ...bringing revolution, a sexual revolution, an all-permissive revolution, in order to free consuming man from the lifestyle of former village communitie... ...hich were returned by more than 800 people from the different villages. In order to monitor changes, we used the same questions in the questionnaires ... ...eas have formed in the village. Most of the seamstresses' shops are in the southern end of the village, while the cement casters have settled in the c... ...thern girls are particularly pretty, and that was why they were enticed to southern tourist centres, and also that pre-marital sexual morality was not... ...mily centricity. There are also differences of degree between villages. As recipients of metropolitan communications the villages near the towns are ...

...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...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ...ast decade alone) is in avowed opposition to crucial pillars of the international order. Naturally, America's enemies and critics are envious of i... ...ad to invade Panama to depose the latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Kosovo Liberation ... ... often give merely in order to control, manipulate, and sadistically humiliate the recipients. Read the article To Give with Grace Narcissism is fr... ...vely stable pro-Western Muslim country that can play a similar role in Central and Southern Asia as Turkey does in the West and Middle East. At bes... .... It has prevented the expansion of the Eurasian Heartland Empire towards Eurasia's southern rim lands for centuries. It has protected the areas inc...

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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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ... OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – ... ...s indeed seek to perpetuate their clout and increase it - but they do so mostly in order to redistribute income and rarely for self-enrichment. E... ...ossess the intrinsic abilities to self organize, reorganize, give room to emerging order, accommodate new data comfortably, and avoid rigid reactio... ...e its uptrend. Defense contractors and service industries, concentrated across the southern USA stand to undoubtedly benefit after a lean decade fo... ...its country evaluation process. It suspended arrangements with endemically corrupt recipients of IMF financing. Since 1997, it has introduced polic... ...d sound. Alas, most NGO's lack economic expertise and inflict damage on the alleged recipients of their beneficence. NGO's are at times manipulated ...

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

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... .............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ... the autocratic governmental takeovers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to ... ... after birth, kill over a million and a half babies every year, mainly in southern Africa and in this part of the world. You would not believe the ... ... the World Bank has proposed penalties against countries that disobey the order, if it is passed. ―A politician in a democratic country who tr... ... practice? Should we encourage exclusive male and female homosexuality, in order to reduce population, but outlaw bisexual behavior that may spread t... ... ―With all these rights we might assume that we would have some duties as recipients of these rights. We have the duty to be educated because of the...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://w... ... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ... 100 articles and essays (microeconomics and macroeconomics) by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam ... ...nt program run by the Agency of Privatization. Unemployment compensation recipients rose from 5,400 in 1990 to more than 50,000 in 1997. Mandatory... ...of the average monthly net wages. It mandated the monthly registration of recipients of benefits and the bi- annual registration of all other unemplo... ...ld be effectively communicated to producers. The worker must have cash in order to exercise effective demand for goods. But to obtain the cash he mu... ...t would have to take a continually larger share of the national income in order to maintain full employment. Since he doubted that investment would ... ... is implausibly threatening to spread the unrest from its stronghold, the southern state of Baden-Württemberg, to Berlin and Brandenburg. Ominous mu...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... ...then showed his rats how to trip a switch and get an electric ‗high.‘ Then he set up an electrified grid that the animals had to run across in order ... ...d a couple of dozen male students for a two week study. He assigned some to be prisoners and others to be guards. The guards were told to keep order ... ...need for this vitamin. ―If people got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southe... ...c ideals in the Mid-East. They have prompted the arms race and caused untold misery for the common citizens— those who were supposed to be the recipi... ...otivated by the social system than by their internal drives. ―Two researchers were intrigued by the fact that in your country many more Southe...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ... than selling, controlling the ongoing computing processes of his clients in order to ensure a desirable out- come. It worked. His clients did not wan... ...g between discrete tasks, and it reduces the skill set a programmer needs in order to write new soft- ware. 13 It also lays the groundwork for the eas... ...ad recorded attempts to send 229,468 distinct messages to 3,360,181 would-be recipients. 58 (The re- searcher’s computer pretended to deliver on the s... ..., a professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. See Wikipedia, Computer Virus, http://en.wikipedia .... ...tion from senders and routing certain attributes of this informa- tion on to recipients). 5. See, e.g., Granma’s Rules of POLA, http://www.skyhunter.c...

...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ...ernments and industries there would be no money for development, unless the recipients of the $3,500 either decided to give some money to the govern... ...y should prospective parents be required to take a course in infant care in order to be licensed? Or do you think this cruelty to infants should be a... ...e. But none of these threats has required a sudden reversal of tradition in order to save the race. Science affirms our common sense, that millions o... ...this side of the lake. My next door neighbor was Strother Martin. He was the Southern prison warden in “Cool Hand Luke” who said to Paul Newman “what... ...u don’t want to drive. But even if you don’t drive, if you want to walk and cross the street you will want drivers who know they should stop for you....

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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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 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ...tic principles. If it is a more totalitarian system we may appreciate the order that it gives. We seldom stray from our traditions. People are gener... ...hip positions.‖ -- ―Well gentlemen, here comes our lunch. The president ordered it. Just a twenty- seven course snack while we talk.‖ ... .... But because this simple basis for happiness was so important, people in southern Asia began making statues of Siddarth Gautama, the Buddha, the en... ...al Security and medical expenses that were only partially paid for by the recipients. ―Social Security took in fewer dollars than it spent in... ... by legal and illegal immigrants ―Older adults are the more common recipients. This is because many children of aliens are born in the U.S. s...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...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... ... maybe that was just his own life. The transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but what was written ... ...celled his classes. Then, near the bus terminal, he went to a restaurant. He ordered some bogum bop, a thick mixture of rice and vegetables that one m... ...utrageous of them to be condescending if not outright hateful to the monthly recipients; and if it were not for such do-nothings, breeders of illegiti... ...riele. Howdy and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts... ...rating off the Ozark mountains. Ensconced with her man in a blanket that had southern flowers on it, she still felt cold; and part of the blanket was ...

...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...

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The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...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... ...superficial substance and translucency of memory--was the thought of them crossing the fence and going into the cows’ pasture. There, in the paddock,... ...hind the counter, a male clerk, or an indefatigably ruthless manager, was ordering a female worker to stoop down to stock the lower shelves with ciga... ...nd conveyed nothing. There was nothing to express. Upon filling the order of “Double Whopper with cheese, please” she would have provided the d... ...er on a bed instead of copulating with her under a bush. They were welfare recipients of the higher, homed class and it all seemed so good as she clu... ... she could scarcely sense at all. Nature, including a caterpillar, a southern pine beetle, and a red shouldered stink bug traversed on her body ...

...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...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publicat... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... with you; but while co-operating with General McClellan you will obey his orders, except that you are to judge, and are not to allow your force to be... ..., I suggested that it is dangerous to direct a subordinate not to obey the orders of his superior in any case, and that to give instructions to Genera... ...s, and to speedily crush the rebellion that still exists in several of the Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our grea... ...th day of August last, for assessing and collecting from secessionists and Southern sympathizers the sum of five hundred thousand dol- lars, etc., and... ...edful end of our national reformation as a whole people? W e have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, thes...

...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have th...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ne by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...sail clewlines and buntlines. The young sailor gave a look to see that his orders were promptly and accurately obeyed, and then turned again to the ow... ... “Stand by there to lower the topsails and jib; brail up the spanker!” The order was executed as promptly as it would have been on board a man-of-war.... ... an entirely new fishing-boat, with two seines and a tender. The delighted recipients of these munificent gifts would gladly have poured out their tha... ...of age, tall, strong, and bony, a perfect specimen of the natives of those southern latitudes; he had dark, sparkling, and deep-set eyes, hooked nose,... ...pointed in a direction in which a small vessel was making sail towards the southern point of Corsica. Franz adjusted his tele- scope, and directed it ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...nce by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ..., with a side-glance at Archer. “Oh, that’s part of the campaign: Granny’s orders, no doubt,” Lefferts laughed. “When the old lady does a thing she do... ...appear at the Opera; indeed, she always gave her ball on an Opera night in order to emphasise her complete superi- ority to household cares, and her p... ...actly on which evenings people were free; and it was thus possible for the recipients of Mrs. Lovell Mingott’s invitations to make cruelly clear their... ... he perceived that the only visible specimen had stopped. He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, a... ...nificent young officers and elderly dyed wits who were the subjects or the recipients of their confidences, were too different from the people Archer ...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or... ...ler, can afford to smile. Later in the day, as I sat writing up my journal, the cabin was filled from end to end with Marquesans: three brown- skinned... ... in English that the crew of the Janet Nicoll, a set of black boys from different Melanesian islands, com- municated with other natives throughout the... ...ry change as an affair of weight. I take the average missionary; I am sure I do him no more than justice when I suppose that he would hesitate to bomb... ...ve, I know not which), Stanislao Moanatini, chief of Akaui, serves in Tai-o-hae as a kind of Minister of Public Works; and the daughter of Stanislao i... ...e give them usu- ally without affection, and almost never with a genuine desire to please; and our gift is rather a mark of our own status than a meas...

Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

...lassics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 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... ...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... ...them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, stud- ded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape— “Where the N... ...ying wide, her gown rustling stormily. “Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I 17 Charlotte B... ...d which plate I had often petitioned to be al- lowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unwor... ... serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. And now vegetation matured with vigo... ...ing, handsome, and lively: but certainly they are all at liberty to be the recipients of whose smiles they please, without my feeling disposed to cons...

...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, 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 anyo... ...oblem clear out of my mind till its ap pointed day and hour should come, in order that I might turn all my attention to the circumstances of the pres... ...knights in a three hours’ battle, and taken me prisoner, sparing my life in order that so strange a curiosity as I was might be exhibited to the won... ...des not the man in these kingdoms that would be desperate enough to essay to cross its lines with you! Now God pity me, I have told it! Ah, be kind t... ...t for several sauces of ice cream a quality calculated to make the ey of the recipients humid with gratitude; and it done it. When this administratio... ... side. Well, as it turned out, this charcoal burner was just the twin of the Southern “poor white” of the far future. The king presently showed impat...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...nt dangers. At the outset of our work, we said we were looking backward in order to look forward.We hope that the terrible losses chronicled in this r... ...ed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the ... ...Muslims, and when the Philippine government fights ethnic Mus- lims in its southern islands.America is also held responsible for the governments of Mu... ...s unsustainable.The resulting cutbacks created enor- mous resentment among recipients who had come to see government largesse as their right.This rese... ...rts or through threat advisories. Such advisories, intended to alert their recipients, may address a specific threat or be a general warning. Because ...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...estion, What is their philosophic significance? are two entirely different orders of question from the logical point of view; and, as a failure to rec... ...I have referred. In recent books on logic, distinction is made between two orders of inquiry concerning anything. First, what is the nature of it? how... ...ts,” the shopkeeping church-members and or- dinary youthful or middle-aged recipients of instan- taneous conversion, whether at revivals or in the spo... ...tting in the school of Christ. And there is perhaps not an island in these southern seas, amongst all those won for Christ, where similar acts of hero... ...t only, neither his justice nor his goodness oblig- ing Him to prevent the recipients of freedom from misusing the gift. As regards God’s purpose in c...

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...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 any- o... ...have even gone so far as to look about them for social evils in 13 Balzac order to start a society to cure them. But to return to Pons. A stomach thu... ...n is the sufficiently tire- some Grandison, for whom the very Venus of the Cross- words is sexless. Setting aside one or two commonplace adventures in... ...d. On old Dresden china there are two crossed swords and the number of the order in gilt figures. Vincennes bears a hunting-horn; Vienna, a V closed a... ...ations between the Cibots and the Remonencqs were those of benefactors and recipients. Mme. Cibot, con- vinced that the Auvergnats were wretchedly poo... ... voyages from east to west, through deserts and tropical countries, across southern savannahs, through virgin forests. The first was a painting by Seb...

...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he ...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ..., one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything i... ...ife, my father?’ ‘What do I know!’ cried the jailer, turning upon him with southern quickness, and gesticulating with both his hands and all his finge... ... ‘Put the bottle by with the rest,’ said Rigaud. The little man obeyed his orders, and stood ready to give him a lighted match; for he was now rolling... ... them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of be- ings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in... ...ghty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which gave the recipients of those manuscripts great mental disturbance and no satisfac- t...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...tion Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...n Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ..., one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything i... ...ife, my father?’ ‘What do I know!’ cried the jailer, turning upon him with southern quickness, and gesticulating with both his hands and all his finge... ... ‘Put the bottle by with the rest,’ said Rigaud. The little man obeyed his orders, and stood ready to give him a lighted match; for he was now rolling... ... them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of be- ings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in... ...ghty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which gave the recipients of those manuscripts great mental disturbance and no satisfac- t...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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