...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...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... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...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... ...es The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from th... ...w York: Chanticleer Press, 1949. Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1991. Il...

...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 book...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a cen...

...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... ...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... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...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... ... The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the Romans were pulling up stakes from ... ...w York: Chanticleer Press, 1949. Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1991. Il...

...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 ...

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Pg 598 Inflation Pg 607 Modern Racism Pg 609 Ego-gratification Pg 625 History Pg 694 The Unclearness of History Pg 694 Wisdom Pg 697 In... ...210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Deca... ...le around to suit your own needs? How long before any consideration of other peoples needs begins to fade and become less important than your own wi... ...th weapons of mass destruction Why did WW2 begin? What do you expect of a Germanic culture that had been warring with each other for 1,000 years... ...war and kill whomever hey were told to. War was had been an integral part of Germanic culture for a thousand years… it was only the improvement of w...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

...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... ...uld it vary? 19 Should every rule be universal—never changing through history? The Ten Commandments are such a universal moral code. What if Hit... ... devil? Global warming is an alarmist misreading of a natural blip in the history of climate. There is no overpopulation problem—there is plenty roo... ...e, or interjection. It almost never means what it originally meant in the Germanic or Anglo-Saxon languages.. But it takes no imagination to use it ... ... itself, was, as Justice Cardozo put it, ‗framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several 238 states must sink or swim together, and that... ...me it, not resist it. People err when they see Africa‘s starving and sick peoples as deprived. They are deprived only in an economic sense. Morally s...

...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 ...

...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ..., 1 seat Communists: no known Communist orga- nization; Koma of BNF has long history of Communist contacts Member of: AfDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, G... ...uffrage: universal over age 18 Political parties and leaders: PRK Kampuchean Peoples Revolutionary Party, the Communist party installed by Vietnam in ... ...sal adult Elections: parliament elected May 1982 Political party and leader: Peoples Progress Assembly (RPP), Hassan Gouled Aptidon; sole legal party ... ...0% of population); rapidly declining regional dialects (Proven- cal, Breton, Germanic, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) Infant mortality rate: 9/1,... ....30% Nationality: noun Norwegian(s); adjec- tive Norwegian Ethnic divisions: Germanic (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic) and racial-cultural minority of 20,000 ...

...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...

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Y H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publicat... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...s involved in making bargains with governments that do not stand for their peoples; we have had all our Russian deal, for example, repudiated and thru... ... system is dead to-day, how much has to be remade. Since the beginnings of history there has been a credible promise of gold payments underneath our f... ...n of authority. Every one should know, though unhappily the badness of our history teaching makes it doubtful if every one does know, that the Federal... ...ciated the tradition of the European unity under the Roman empire; all the Germanic monarchs had an itch to be called Caesar. The Kaiser of the Austro... ...he Napoleonic adventure cleared the way for the complete ascendancy of the Germanic mon- archies in spite of the breaking away of the United States fr...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen...

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Bruno or Shelley have walked there in the past. To the prophetic mind all history is and will con- tinue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will ste... .... Mechanical novelties will probably play a very small part in that coming history. This world- wide war means a general arrest of invention and enter... ...oes not prepare for the immediate or eventual acces- sion of these subject peoples to State rank. Most certainly, however, thousands of intelligent pe... ..., and Great Britain is never sure whether she is a “Crowned Republic” or a Germanic monarchy. Hitherto in the Balkans she has lent her influence chief... ...er great people. The American tradition is based upon the casting off of a Germanic monarchy; it is its cardinal idea. These sturdy Republicans did no...

Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e assault is thoroughly desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this p... ... the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, ... ... states by their origin is clearly distinguishable. At the period when the peoples of Europe landed in the New World their national characteristics we... ...n modern Europe, without adverting to those of antiquity. Switzerland, the Germanic Empire, and the Republic of the United Provinces either have been ... ... the province of Holland always gave the law; and, in our own time, in the Germanic Confederation, in which Austria and Prussia assume a great degree ...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

...he Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air 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 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 Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...he most astounding incident in the whole of that dramatic chapter of human history, the coming of flying, occurred. People talk glibly enough of epoch... ...ines take the place of ben- eficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christendom. Always Bert wore this thing; it was his cher- ished... ...ying power of from seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks recedin... ...spread them on the folding-table, and stood regarding them. For a time his Germanic discipline struggled with his En- glish informality and his natura... ...intercept and meet the latter’s fire. Away to the west the Hermann and the Germanicus had appeared and were com- ing into action. In the pause, after ...

Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

...s by Thorstein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the... ...ein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...hand. Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophis... ...d characteristic occupations of the class in this mature phase of its life history are in form very much the same as in its earlier days. These occupa... ...t to be passed over that it is precisely among these middle classes of the Germanic culture, with their strong surviving sense of the patriarchal prop... ...oncerned in the life process or that are intimately bound up with the life history of the particular racial stock. The varying degrees of ease with wh... ...h lends so much of color to the Icelandic sagas specifically, and to early Germanic folk-legends, is an illustration of this sense of an extra-physica...

Excerpt: The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen.

... Beowulf, translated by Gummere is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ... Beowulf, translated by Gummere is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsyl vania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor an... ...ty as a whole he boar was sa cred to Freyr, who was the favorite god of the Germanic tribes about the North Sea and the Baltic. Rude representations ... ...ere will be no need of funeral rites.” 4 Personification of Battle. 5 The Germanic Vulcan. 6 This mighty power, whom the Christian poet can still ... ..., Hnaef, with many other Danes, pays Finn a visit. Relations between the two peoples have been strained before. Some thing starts the old feud anew; ... ...e longer the better, Beowulf loved! Thou hast brought it about that both our peoples, sons of the Geat and Spear Dane folk, shall have mutual peace, a...

...Excerpt: Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls. Sin...

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ...emory of a sen- tence which for nineteen hundred years all the Chris- tian peoples have looked upon as a grave miscar- riage of justice. He might well... ...glory or greed. Besides, there was always the common danger of exasperated peoples, and some respect for each other’s divine right. No leader of a dem... ...ary, and faithless, was noth- ing in the nature of a stab in the dark. The Germanic Tribes had told the whole world in all possible tones carrying con...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ous in- cubation of motives— Self-surrender— Its impor- tance in religious history— Cases. LECTURE X CONVERSION—concluded Cases of sudden conversion— ... ... this lectureship, I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch ... ...are now this mood with that of the old Chris- tian author of the Theologia Germanica:— “Where men are enlightened with the true light, they renounce a... ... as made up of ills and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with... ...epted poverty be “the strenuous life,” without the need of crushing weaker peoples? Poverty indeed is the strenuous life—without brass bands or unifor...

Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................