...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion 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... ........................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CH... ...one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ... aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in... ...use, and his dogs my quest- ing dragoons. Little by little we dropped into civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs...

...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...

...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...

...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 ...