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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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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...

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...Everything that exists is an outcome of interaction between two forces--giving and receiving. When they work in harmony, life flows peacefully in its course. When they collide, we must deal with calamities and crises of great magnitude, says Prof. Michael Laitma...

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...978-1-897448-27-4 50500 Bail Y ourself Out How Y ou Can Emerge Strong from the w orld Crisis Bail Y Ourself Out Michael l aitman, PhD m ichae... ...nd puts him in a unique position to offer a broad, hopeful perspective on the current world crisis. a Professor of o ntology, a Ph.d . in Philosophy... ...er a broad, hopeful perspective on the current world crisis. a Professor of o ntology, a Ph.d . in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and an m.Sc. in medical... ...and an m.Sc. in medical bio-cybernetics, laitman combines all three felds of expertise to address the extraordinary challenges facing us today. i n ... ...ntellect rather than their bodies. As a result, they learned how to make weapons for hunting, instead of us- ing their hands or rocks. They also lea... ...her and knows to whom to turn when she 30 B ail Yourself o ut is hungry, cold, or tired. But what if the baby had no mother? To whom would she turn... ... He took the course of action that the human race has used since the day weapons were first invented, and decided to destroy Abraham. Although he d... ...anet and is being punished for its sins with chaos, end- less heat waves, war, and depletion of food and water. But art should not confine itself to... ...ves. Consider this: when we suffer from such a mild annoyance as a common cold, it affects our whole body. w e cannot breathe easily, we lose our a...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such...

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... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF PERIYAR’S VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e... ... K. Kandasamy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kand... ... K. Kandasamy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kandasa... ...anslated from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy Many books can be downloaded from the following E-Library of Science: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smaran... ...agistrate and he held 29 honorary positions at that time in banks, libraries, war recruitment committee, merchant associations, school committees e... ...pposed this imposition of a language and organized a campaign against it on a war footing. On 26 December 1935, at a conference convened in Tiruchi,... ...t God with intelligence; why does God with a compassionate heart require many weapons, bow, sticks and sword? God who is the embodiment of morality ... ... violence against India’s untouchables'', Human rights watch, 1998, pp.61) Cold-blooded murders in Shankarbigha Twenty-three scheduled caste land... ... Twenty-three scheduled caste landless agricultural workers were murdered in cold blood on 25 January 1999 by the private army of upper caste bhumi...

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...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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