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...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 some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemu...

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... 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... ...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...e or producing or watching child pornography have? What about pornography involving women—as things—as objects to be used. A female writer in Norway... ...hasn‘t sent any messengers lately. But he listens to prayers, approves of wars, and allows natural disasters. ―How we define the Creator may h... ...o me that in the last hundred years the insecurity brought on by all your wars, the decline in the extended family relationships, and the marketing o... ...ical document whose aim was to incite the colonists to revolt against the British.‖ --―I don‘t buy that Lee. We have always been a primarily Ch... ...s? ` ―I don‘t know any of the particulars of these studies, but the British Broadcasting Company in 2004 found that 10% of Americans didn‘t be... ... are supposedly educated! ―About twenty years ago I took a case involving ex post facto to the Supreme Court. (78a) A California teacher w...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous 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...

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...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 every...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-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 ...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...t filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting ... ...owever, Merriam-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, softw... ... live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance.‖ Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...r west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and as far southeast as India. As they dispersed, generation after generation scatt... ...ctory, he demanded—and received—the losers‘ promise to join him in future wars. In return, he withdrew from their territory. Nevrtheless, when th... ...ocrats as quickly as possible in order to forestall having to wage future wars against them. Mongols launch three-decade expansion Genghis Khan‘...

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...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 cen...

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...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 CONCEPTS OF GOD ...

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...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... ...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... ...al ideas in the last 100 years. As you know he said that we all have inferiority complexes. Not long ago Prince Charles, then the heir to the Britis... ...mentioned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South ... ...rms. Physical impediments just test our mettle and increase the height of the hurdles we must clear. ―And on the mental side, wartime Britis... ...ce erupts and we are rewarded with immediate satisfaction. ―Look at the stupid macho power. We have the soccer hooligans, the gang turf wars a... ..., their abode is Hell-- an evil refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the streets of New York or Baghdad, in the wars o... ...h each can flourish that is far superior to what either could achieve alone.‘ ―The blue collar philosopher Frank Hoffer defined love as involv...

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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 ...

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...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... ...from our opposing thumbs. This entire evolutionary development and process involving millions of years: left the bottom half of our ancestors rel... ...evolving and not our bodies. Until. hominids could focus narrowly upon a task involving a high degree of hand-eye coordination and this adaptive tra... ... how and why the battle for territory was born and developed into raiding and wars… Overpopulation and the urge to keep moving, the addiction to see... ... elite of all human societies spent their time during the last 12,000 years. Wars, hunting, feasting, and wallowing in ease, neglecting their own c... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi...

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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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...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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...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... ... & 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 ... ...80112—dc22 2007050361 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanen... ... 4 8 1 2 Germany 7 3 3 2 4 3 France 9 4 14 4 3 4 United Kingdom 4 13 9 3 6 6 South Korea 12 9 2 9 11 9 Canada 5 23 5 7 10 5 Spain 13 5 15 16 5 7 Taiwa... ... unpopular laws in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century America such as those involving first heresy and sedition, and later rail- road and antitrust re... ...of free legal information services including BAILII, which contains links to British and Irish law-related material; AsianLII, with databases covering... ..._rule (as of June 1, 2007, 08:15 GMT). 31. Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator re- peatedly undoes the ac... ...istrator re- peatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars. See Wikipedia, Wheel W ar , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:... ...l fashion, thereby distinguishing it in an analogous fashion to the scenario involving Red and Green PCs. See Riva Richmond, Software to Spot ‘Phisher...

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... 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...

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...ction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social st...

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...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... ...contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was... ...f Islam was also well-known, principally because of the Crusades and other wars past and present. Just what Islam taught and practiced was, however, l... ... leaders, called rabbis, led worship in small local buildings (synagogues) involving neither sacrifices nor priests. The records portray Je- sus as pa... ...come to a steep sand bank and then to some red banks of clay on the road’s south side. For a year I live here, experiencing the change of seasons, pic... ...during the years 1896-1914, the physician at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where many members of the Oglala division of the Lakota Sioux ... ...League some time to actually desist, mainly for reasons of exhaustion from wars against tribes outside the League, by about AD 1750. (The date of the ... ...not married to each other, or several dozen other feasts, dances, or rites involving participation by the community. Some prophetic dreams, such as th... ... land could be allocated to white use without a qualm of conscience by the British colonizers. First European contacts had learned little of Aborigina...

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