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...ca and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation from the western world. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as Toby M.P., a noted humorist in Punch magazine. His acute powers of observation and light touch make this a most engaging book. This is the sec...

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...uthor Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages be...

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...fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet... ... the journal offers the most effective way to bring back to life the life-worlds of significant, unique, highly individual, and important creators. ... ...t. He conveys the character of real people, their interior life and outer world. A mature artist, he writes with ease and taste. P 4 ... ...t speak for a while, then quietly, as though to himself, or from an- other world, he repeated lines we had loved: “The gods held me in Egypt, longing... ...by boat. Why is Phaon far at sea, headed for Byzantium? It seems to be a world of questions. P When I think how many gods exist, I am shocked by m... ...book to me; he reads in the afternoons, maybe when the warm sun is in our western windows, maybe at the pergola, if it is pleasant. Sometimes, when ... ...indow faced the street. You remember that street, of course. Lodi Street. Western exposure. Hot in summer. Dusty. But my apartment was on the fourth ... ...ey. Some demand that I plot the future. I remember that the pilots on our western rivers steer from point to point—as they call it—setting the cours...

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...ed at a sixth-grade audience. It covers the period from 1850 to 1947, when India was colonized by the British.,As our readers know, Indian history in Western textbooks for children is appallingly inaccurate and skewed toward the strange. This segment continues our effort to rectify that, to give well-researched lessons that tell the true story of India's place in the world...

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...It was with a sense of tradition and independence that we lived our lives, but also with a sense of innocence and interconnectedness with the natural world. And we lived differently. Without computers and today’s digital overload, we made sense of the world in human terms, through human relationships, and based on human experiences in a natural world that, somewhere alon...

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...boasted a dozen kilns, and produced hundreds of thousands of red clay construction bricks, shipping them hundreds of miles to cities and towns across Western Canada. But in the 1930’s, it became a deserted depression relic, with its buildings and kilns and small-gage mining cars abandoned to history and the elements. And a mile further upriver was the small town of Edw...

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...ons with sets 1991 MSC: 00A30, 03-02, 03B50 1.1. Foreword. Because world is full of indeterminacy, a more precise imprecision is required. Th... ...nd the momentum of particles, and, because the particles in the subatomic world don't have exact positions, we better calculate their neutrosophic p... ...al theses, principles, laws, methods, formulas, movements; - reveals that world is full of indeterminacy; - interprets the uninterpretable; - regar... ...iewpoint: infinitely many separate and ultimate substances making up the world. 5. Hermeneutics is the art or science of interpretation, while neu... ...or doing research. In histories of arts, literature, science you see only westerners: - rare exceptions of other people being in there confirm the r... ... than their male proponents. The women have more rights than men in western societies (in divorce trials). Social Paradox: In a democracy sho... ...or example, the today's third world country people imitating/following the western ideology, politics, culture, behavior, etc. b) conditioned - by m... ...Beauvoir exists even when she doesn't exist [by her literary work]. Western culture is progressing in a wrong direction, towards European man's... ... Logic. / Neutrosophic Probability, Neutrosophic Set, Preliminary report, Western Section Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Meeting # 951 of the Ameri...

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...neral Theory of Relativity consists of his idea that all properties of the world are derived from the geometrical structure of space-time, from the wo... ... that the four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian space satisfes our observable world in most cases. In general we can say that all that everything we can ... ... with respect to his real references). Thus, the chr.inv.-projections of a world-vector Q α are b α Q α = Q 0 √ g 00 and h i α Q α =Q i , while chr.in... ... b α Q α = Q 0 √ g 00 and h i α Q α =Q i , while chr.inv.-projections of a world-tensor of the 2nd rank Q αβ are b α b β Q αβ = Q 00 g 00 ,h iα b β Q ... ...l section move from past into future, henceH ik =0 everywhere in our real world. So, our real space is strictly non-holonomic,A ik =0. This purely m... ...otte and rev. by Florian Cajori, R. M. Hutchins, ed. in Great Books of the Western World: 34. Newton Huygens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chicago, 1952,...

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...ting back as early as 200 bce, introducing us to a depth and breadth of the rich Hindu landscape. You will be charmed by the historical accounts from western explorers. On a heart warming note, the middle section of this issue introduces our newly published "Hindu Children's Modern Stories, Books One and Two." These books bring the wisdom of the traditional yamas and ni...

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...een economy and establishes a globally recognized cleantech industry. The world’s economy is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the price of oil. I... ...oko‘a Plan will also grow the economy by generating and exporting energy worldwide. In doing so, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan creates new jobs, generates new ... ...een economy and establishes a globally recognized cleantech industry. The world’s economy is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the price of oil. I... ...oko‘a Plan will also grow the economy by generating and exporting energy worldwide. In doing so, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan creates new jobs, generates new ... ...mber economies of the Asia Pacifc Economic Cooperation (APEC). Hawai‘i is world-renowned for our natural beauty and warm hospitality. We would like... ...in 2008 at the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Laboratory at Keāhole Point on the western side of Hawai‘i Island. There, 1,008 MicroCSP collectors capture... ...tracts to fnance construction of a $700-million polysilicon plant in the western U.S. state of Idaho. Export of polysilicon from Idaho to Asia is ... ...care, medicines and procedures. If you want to fnd out how changing to a Western diet and lifestyle will afect the people of Asia in the future, yo...

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...he chapter authors, and all those who made this work possible. We trust that this book will help improve smallholder dairy production in the tropical world. Hank Fitzhugh Director General International Livestock Research Institute Editors Professor Lindsay Falvey is Dean of the Institute of Land and Food Resources at the University of Melbourne, Australia’s la...

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...Table of Contents About the Authors Acknowledgements Foreward Chapter 1: The dairy industry in a changing world H. Schelhaas Introduction Four specific features of the dairy industry Milk production The processing industry in Western countries Dairy policy Consumption of dairy products in Western countries The internati...

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... he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myth...

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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one Man bein...

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...ENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish’d, the Ed... ...will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without father Compliment to the World, he does them a great Service in the Publication. THE LIFE AND ADVEN... ... Low Life, which he had found by long Experience was the best State in the World, the most suited to human Happiness, not exposed to the Miseries and ... ...le Station of Life; that this Way Men went silently and smoothly thro’ the World, and comfortably out of it, not embarass’d with the Labours of the Ha... ...tion for great things; but in easy ’Circumstances sliding gently thro’ the World, and sensibly tasting the Sweets of living, without the bitter, feel... ...plain open Piece of Meadow Land, orSavanna, (as our People call it in the Western Collonies,) which had two or three little Drills of fresh Water in ...

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...p, which was considerable, and in which was embarked all my effects in the world; and the other was the preservation of my life in so dismal a calamit... ...loss not only of my trade, but of my goods, and indeed of all I had in the world. I had an elder brother at the same time in London, and not many year... ...ad its utmost rage and violence in those parts, even when it abated at the western parishes where it began. It was very strange to observe that in thi... ...passed the streets, that it was enough to pierce the stoutest heart in the world to hear them. T ears and lamentations were seen almost in every house... ...f it so exactly that it was the greatest matter of amazement to him in the world that every- body did not see it as well as he. On a sudden he would c... ...l manner that it was enough to place horror upon the stoutest heart in the world; nor was it one scream or one cry, but the fright having seized her s...

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... the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion ...

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...dred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and ev... ...tory. A passing enthusiasm for some foreign art or fashion may deceive the world, it cannot impose upon his intimates. He may be amused by a foreigner... ...e express. The English lad goes to Oxford or Cambridge; there, in an ideal world of gardens, to lead a semi-scenic life, costumed, disci- plined and d... ...ait to intercept us; till the bell sounds again, we are the masters of the world; and some portion of our lives is always Saturday, latreve de Dieu. N... ...iniscences in class time, though not for long, and give us glimpses of old-world life in out-of-the-way English parishes when he was young; thus playi... ... some experience, or when we shared our timorous and hopeful counsels in a western islet. CHAPTER IX THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER THE DEATH OF T ...

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...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing ...

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... HE CLOUD which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from... ... lent a hand to setting up, in one of the most commanding positions of the world, a powerful republic, devoted not only to slavery, but to pro 4 The... ...o frustrating the objects for which it has been calling on the rest of the world to make sacrifices of what they think their interest. At present all ... ...ngland stepped in, and, for the sake of cotton, made Satan victorious. The world has been saved from this calamity, and England from this disgrace. Th... ..., and Mr. Lincoln’s own naval secretary, should be told in the face of the world, by their own Government, that they have been giving public thanks, p... ...n exasperated slave owning oligarchy? Could it abandon the Germans who, in Western T exas, have made so meritorious a commencement of growing cotton o...

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...are patiently waiting in the long line to check in for their flight to the western coast of Florida. He is dressed in a light beige pair of dress pant... ...bum, “This album has more in common with a pack of baseball cards than the World Series; it’s over packaged, image-based fodder for kids that delivers... ...ced emphasis on the group, and the members focused together and became the world’s most loved band. An accurate comparison cannot be made because the ... ...he same from your peers. Take advantage of this opportunity to expand your world and the advantages a larger world will afford you. 18 Best of Four T... ...building. Violence in our schools has become a hot topic in today’s modern world. Before 1996 it was practically unheard of, but since then, more than... ...a before them: “Professor Tseo’ s lecture on socio- economic conditions in western China was quite interesting today, and it was short.” Note: Never b... ... Volume 5 F AST FOOD HAS BECOME an everyday meal for people all over the world. It definitely became a part of my diet when I came to college. There...

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... the enrichment of which he borrowed or com posed those pithy utterances of worldly wisdom which are the basis of a large part of his popular reputat... ...mes, and of its acknowledged rank as one of the great autobiographies of the world. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1706 1757 TWYFORD, at the Bish... ... born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of f... ...cular reli gion, but something of all on occasion; was very ignorant of the world, and had, as I afterward found, a good deal of the knave in his com... ...for thee, as thou has no friend with thee, and seems not to know much of the world, or of the snares youth is expos’d to; depend upon it, those are ve... ...g their exercise, the governor prevail’d with me to take charge of our North western frontier, which was infested by the enemy, and provide for the de...