Search Results (9 titles)

Searched over 7.2 Billion pages in 1.05 seconds

 
Musicians from New York City (X) English (X) Medicine (X)

       
1
Records: 1 - 9 of 9 - Pages: 
  • Cover Image

And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...of the nest in place. Marais took some of these finch eggs and removed them from their environment and had them hatched by canaries. When the new fi... ...ing which there was no contact with their parents, with nests, or with nest building materials. After the fourth generation Marais allowed the new bi... ...blame others. A few years ago an attorney, whose practice earned a half million dollars a year, lost over a million at the tables in Atlantic City a... ...and be firm against them, their abode is Hell-- an evil refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the streets of New York o... ...slam have caused most of the terror and war in recent years. I get confused. The Almighty tells Osama bin Ladin to attack the infidels in New York a... ...tion.‖ --―That sounds so sensible. In the U.S. it seems that so often it is a matter of chance. For example, if we were to look at two inner city b... ...ren are given musical instruments and practice 3 to 4 hours a day with an instructor. It is not enough that they are producing highly skilled musici...

...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance from the Convention Center or take the Pink Line Shopping Trolley which ru... ...Convention Center or take the Pink Line Shopping Trolley which runs daily from Waikiki to Ala Moana Center every 10 -12 minutes AlaMoanaCenter.com... ...g and exporting energy worldwide. In doing so, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan creates new jobs, generates new revenue and adds significantly to the state’s tax ... ...l in turn create a workforce of the future and stimulate the creation of new businesses in the renewable and clean energy sectors. Inspired and inf... ...ccess to basic necessities. Honolulu is unique to the world. No other city ofers such a variety of fne hotels and cultural attractions, all prov... ...i‘i the most appealing of destinations. On behalf of the people of the City and County of Honolulu, best wishes for an enjoyable and productive s... ...ai‘i, the next business day has begun in Asia and Australia: HAWAI‘I NEW YORK WASHINGTON TORONTO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO VANCOUVER CHICAGO HOUSTON... ...fights a week) SEATTLE 5 hours, 32 minutes (28 to 35 fights a week) NEW YORK/NEWARK 9 hours, 40 minutes (7 fights a week) WASHINGTON D.C. 9 hour... ...st renowned and revered hula masters, instructors, dancers, chanters and musicians. They gather at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Stadium in Hilo to perfor...

...12 Hawai‘i Host Committee -- 13 Resource List -- WELCOME LETTERS FROM HAWAI‘I’S LEADERS -- 14 Governor Neil Abercrombie -- 15 Mayor Peter Carlisle -- 16 U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...ER XIX — THE SANDWICH 74 ISLANDERS—HIDE CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATE... ...ING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORN... ... . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DE... ...VIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF ... ...o came to see me off, and had barely opportunity to take a last look at the city, and well known objects, as no time is allowed on board ship for se... ...e names on their sterns with the glass. They were the ship Helen Mar, of New York, and the brig Mermaid, of Boston. They were both steering westward... ..., she tried us in English. She was the ship La Carolina, from Havre, for New York. We desired her to report the brig Pilgrim, from Boston, for the nor... ... and leather leggins, with a long knife stuck in them. ‘‘This is the seventh city that ever I was in, and no Christian one neither,’’ said Bill Brown... ...o come back by way of Capitan Noriego’s and take a look into the booth. The musicians were still there, upon their platform, scrap- ing and twangi...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfi...

...???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WAT...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...Thus the world began for these two young ladies. For Amelia it was quite a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. It was not quite a... ...ut on Sambo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her f... ...est of all Dr. Swishtail’s young gentlemen. His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was admitted into Dr. Swishtail’s a... ...iated state), he almost drew away the audience who were gathered round the musicians in the gilt scollop-shell, and received from his hearers a great ... ...boy embarked for Canada, he gave the officers such a dinner as the Duke of York might have sat down to. Had he ever refused a bill when George drew on...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ...t failed to express his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from ha... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...was for a young man, the son of the favourite of a King long dead,—with no new friends at Court,—to acquire some personal value of his own. She succee... ... in a few days; in a word luxury the most unbridled reigned over Court and city, for the fete had a huge crowd of spectators. Things went to such a po... ...Paris, was in attendance on horseback, at the head of the 129 Saint-Simon city troops, and made turns, and reverences, and other cer- emonies, imitat... ... of a hundred 333 Saint-Simon guns. The English of New England and of New York were not more successful in Acadia; they attacked our colony twelve da... ...rom the comedies of Moliere were thought of, and were played by the King’s musicians, comedians for the nonce. Madame de Maintenon introduced, too, th... ...urned, to take the sacrament without delay. Pere Tellier was sent for; the musicians who had just prepared their books and their instruments, were dis...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk... ... beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed s... ...r walk,” she said, her husband having hailed a cab already occupied by two city men. The fixity of her mood was broken by the action of walking. The s... ...that after all it is the ordinary thing to be poor, and that London is the city of innumerable poor people. Startled by this discovery and seeing hers... ...olume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. They built a new factory the very year the commentary on Aristotle—was it?—appeared at t... ...They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetu- ally, the same waves kept returning and washing against ... ...o be recognised, and held in respect. Meanwhile as they stood talking, the musicians were unwrapping their instruments, and the violin was repeating a... ...azine she had been looking at, and this the very picture, a picture of New York by lamplight. How odd it seemed—nothing had changed. By degrees a cert...

Read More
  • Cover Image

A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

.... In addition to the old conundrum, “Who is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alte... ...nly 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that t... ...ief, “we have just been puzzling ourselves to guess where that custom came from. But, Misi, is it not so that when David killed Goliath, he cut off hi... ...etimes the workman at his toil. No occasion is too small for the poets and musicians; a death, a visit, the day’s news, the day’s pleasantry, will be ... ...11 Robert Louis Stevenson came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new posses- sion. “We have long been wanting a boat,” said they. “Give us t... ...at the king of the islands should be thus shuttled to and fro in his chief city at the nod of aliens. And then he will observe a feature more signific... ...eer, Weber combined the offices of director of the firm and consul for the City of Hamburg. No question but he then drove very hard. Germans admit tha... ...ly to send it from the land and sell it. A man at home who should turn all Yorkshire into one wheatfield, and annually burn his harvest on the altar o... ...lised American, this gentleman had been for some time representing the New York World in a very effective manner, always in the front, living in the f...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...R I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muer... ... the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from ... ... his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire... ... father’s letter. “He holds, Ulsteen does, that ‘grain rates as low as the new figure would amount to confiscation of property, and that, on such a ba... ...end S. Behrman again,” added Harran, grinding his teeth. “He was up in the city the whole of the time the new schedule was being drawn, and he and Uls... ...an Francisco, and through that city with Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, New York, and at last, and most important of all, with Liverpool. Fluctuations ... ...ught to be a good thing,” Harran told him. “The crop in Germany and in New York has been a dead failure for the last three years, and so many people h... ... joists of the walls; the last lantern hung, the last nail driven into the musicians’ platform. The sun set. There was a great scurry to have supper a... ...ittling a wax candle over the floor to make it slip- pery for dancing. The musicians arrived, the City Band of Bonneville— Annixter having managed to ...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ..................................... .............................. 193 “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” ..................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ ...For big returns.” “Big. That’s good. Go on, Aleck. What is it?” “Coal. The new mines. Cannel. I mean to put in ten thou sand. Ground floor. When we o... ...hat clearly. So the two sit together in the orchestra, in the midst of the musicians. This does not seem to be good art. In the first place, the girl ... ...ed with the circumstances,” replied Elfonzo, “and as I am to be one of the musicians upon that interesting occasion, I should be much gratified if you... ...away when the surface diggings gave out. In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen ... ...l of about the same tenor. I here give honest specimens. One is from a New York paper, one is from a letter from an old friend, and one is from a lett... ...e is from a letter from an old friend, and one is from a letter from a New York pub lisher who is a stranger to me. I humbly endeavor to make these b...

Read More
       
1
Records: 1 - 9 of 9 - Pages: 
 
 





Copyright © World Library Foundation. All rights reserved. eBooks from Project Gutenberg are sponsored by the World Library Foundation,
a 501c(4) Member's Support Non-Profit Organization, and is NOT affiliated with any governmental agency or department.