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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

... Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 ... ...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...s, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) ISBN: ... ...ing Helen, I knew this day would come and I welcome the release from my suffering and hope to be united soon with your beloved mother. My only THE... ...t this vast black continent, so much of which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of eve... ...s from among the native population. She could even see the attraction of these Eastern women to a Western male - they were so submissive and learned... ...t you are not in the woods of England hunting foxes or deer, but in the jungles of Asia where the fauna is red in tooth and claw. How could you be s... ...e with me, you may be able to help her, Doctor. She needs a woman’s touch now and, preferably, a Western woman, who would not remind her of her own ...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the m...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by ... ...ave driven animal life towards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, isl... ...g made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, and the countries of Western Asia, sent an expedition of many sail against the Khan of Catha... ... About the middle of the 14th century the Esquimaux imperilled the colonies in western Greenland, and a growing hostility may have culminated in their... ...ed of extreme cold. On the 26th of May following, the three vessels were again united and entered the South Sea, but were almost immediately dispersed... ... Markham is chiefly interesting from the observations he made on the flora and fauna of that region. THE OVERLAND JOURNEY OF SCHWATKA. Various expedit...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- T...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...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... ...Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under ... ...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...igious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that the vast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or ... ...an, Catholic, Episcopalian (the name given to the Church of England in the United States) left me with a sense of coldness, making me feel a total out... ...d, and much else. Small groups such as the Old Order Amish, in the eastern United States, are striking examples of Christian traditions which define t... ...ia is an island continent, the driest and most ancient land. Her flora and fauna have adapted to low rainfall. Likewise her native people, whatever th...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. 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...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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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... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...d they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in thei... ...ans of travel. ―It has long puzzled me why the common brothers in your western religions have fought so violently among themselves for so long. C... ...rworld and the mafia. It is rated the worst of the developed countries in Western Europe in terms of corruption. At the top of the ethical list, Finl... ...evolution is the best conclusion for explaining the development of flora, fauna and fossils over the history 191 of life on this planet. So in t...

...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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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... ...ieves in development, modernization, globalization, a planetary future. In Western development statistics, Finland is near the top, currently the lead... ...country into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's larges... ...achieve a balanced, healthy and good life. And yet, it is precisely in the Western countries that ever more people are unwell. Modern research finds e... ...ry developmental ideology - supernatural engineering, re-created flora and fauna, cyborgs, nano-machinery, chemical consciousness - scientific-technol... ...anna state, which was yet again invaded by Burma. The Lanna state was only united with the kingdom of Thailand in the Thonburin era in 1774, when the ...

...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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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...t Self Love Narcissism Revisited 1 st EDITION 8 th Revised Impression EXCERPTS – NOT the full Book! Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Author is N... ...ERPTS – NOT the full Book! Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Author is NOT a Mental Health Professional. The Author is certified in Counselling Techniques. ... ...ale. Literary agents and publishers, please contact Lidija Rangelovska. To get FREE updates of this book JOIN the Narcissism Study List. To JOI... ...9989-929-06-8 Print ISBN: 978-80-238-3384-3 Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA "Sam Vaknin is the world's leading ... ...tcome is a bewildering array of ever-shifting mental health "diagnoses" expressly centred around Western civilization and its standards (example: th... ..., the speed of its degeneration into rigid "official" versions. Buried under the lush flora and fauna of idioms without an end, the language erupts... ...iety that stresses individualism and self-gratification at the expense of community, namely the United States". They assert that the disorder is mor... ...l Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of nu... ...ic of Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senior Business Correspondent for United Press International (UPI). Web and Journalis...

...When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His ...

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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... ...toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western wedding dress stood at a pond posing for a picture with her groom... ...irt the way Americans envisioned most all other countries including those in Western Europe. "Everyone wants to talk to you in English." "But I don't ... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...hat was continually reinventing itself with each new generation of flora and fauna. She knew the guilt and fear of pouring oneself from the container... ...o the young during a storm was in the collective consciousness of all female fauna. She knew that the true challenge would be for her, who had no fami...

...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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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...n by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritu... ...essor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first p... ...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ... What Pisces move, or hot breath'd Leos beames. Or Capricornus bath'd in western streames. The knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eig... ...uld presently linde the spring and motion of it. Our mindes have jumped so unitedly together, they have with so fervent an affection consideredof eac... ...have, that he will once more adventure to charge these re-enforced und re-united forces, and new armed wit h despite and vengeance, that durst not, ... ... full of feare, Or in my Horoscope were Capricorne, Whose tyrannie neere westerne seas is borne: But so it is, that naturally of my selfe I abhor... ...he extremest examples or patternes I have of it, it is Fatua, the wife of Faunas, who, after shee was maried, would never suffer her selfe to be see...

...(Author to reader)--Reader, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my force...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...any, sailing to windward in that portion of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to each other ... ...nera, taking animals for plants; and who would not have been mistaken? The fauna and the flora are too closely allied in this submarine world. These p... ...-west to north west. The Nautilus, having returned during the night up the western coast of Ceylon, was now west of the bay, or rather gulf, formed by... ...hus at the window of the saloon! What new specimens of submarine flora and fauna did I admire under the brightness of our electric lantern! The 9th of... ...out twelve miles, Cape St. Vincent was dimly to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. A strong southerly gale was blowing...

...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ah’s Ark made a various, dangerous, albeit frequently invalid and crippled fauna, and I was wont to increase the uncultivated wildness of this region ... ...the big electric trams that go droning and spitting blue flashes along the western boundary. I know Ratten, the new Head, very well, but I have not be... ... of that Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can believe in. We thought of the characters in the unconv... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o... ... of their possible babies in the fur- naces that run the machinery. In the United States the na- tive Anglo-American strain has scarcely increased at ...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

... by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...sputed. Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising n... ...f doubt prob- ably would not greatly affect the estimate as applied to the western extremity of the district. If, then, we knew the rate at which the ... ...eriod. Along the whole west coast, which is inhabited by a peculiar marine fauna, tertiary beds are so scantily developed, that no record of several s... ...antily developed, that no record of several successive and peculiar marine faunas will probably be preserved to a distant age. A little reflection wil... ...nt age. A little reflection will explain why along the rising coast of the western side of South America, no ex- tensive formations with recent or ter...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...ing of a hard glossy substance with a pearly lus- tre, which is intimately united to the surface of the rocks. This, when examined with a lens, is fou... ...ects and spiders. The following list completes, I believe, the terrestrial fauna: a fly (Olfersia) living on the booby, and a tick which must have com... ..., that of the damp winds. In the southern part of the continent, where the western gales, charged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every islan... ...-wind, the eastern side is orna- mented by magnificent forests; whilst the western coast, from lat. 4 degs. S. to lat. 32 degs. S., may be described a... ...ado; the stream was deep, and about forty yards wide; in summer, however, *Fauna Boreali-Americana, vol. i. p. 35. 132 The V oyage of the Beagle its ...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ...ndow, with which the Gothic cathe- drals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest. Nor ... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ... the windows, and the gnomes and vices also. By all the vir- tues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess a... ...illanimity of hon- est men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem i... ...nest exter- nal plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in. How far off yet is the trilobite! how ...

...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

.................................................................................................................................................... 127 THE OVER-SOUL .................................................................................................................................................. 137 IX. THE OVER-SOUL .............................................

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ...ady Chettam, who attributed her own remarkable health to home made bitters united with constant medical attendance, entered with much exercise of the ... ...tive study of the entomology of this district. I am going on both with the fauna and flora; but I have at least done my insects well. We are singularly... ...wardly altered there; but while the summer had gradually advanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within ... ...gle for and to find resolve in looking along the avenue towards the arch of western light that the vision itself had gained a communicating power. Even...

...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ...ile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly... ...ady Chettam, who attributed her own remarkable health to home-made bitters united with constant medical attendance, entered with much exercise of the ... ...ve study of the entomology of this dis- trict. I am going on both with the fauna and flora; but I have at least done my insects well. We are singularl... ...rdly altered there; but while the summer had gradually ad- vanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within... ... with Letty, went to say good-by to her. They made a pretty picture in the western light which brought out the brightness of the apples on the old sca...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

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