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...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as ...

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... – if you don’t like it just write yourself a better part in the script!” and Gal, who showed me how magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 Al... ...e from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 Paperback Printed, bound and distributed by Lightning Source Tom Glaister Tom Glaister Firecrest Pu... ...esently, he felt one come looking for a nest, and he trembled slightly as its invisible wings f uttered against his cheeks. He struggled to keep per... ...the Idea f oated around to his ears and made the unusual decision to make its home in the mind of a Bloon. Bozo opened his eyes and looked up at the... ... in the middle of the city. It was surrounded by a large garden with high walls and chestnut trees whose branches f ailed in the wind. A f ash from ... ...n his chest. Some hidden instinct caused Theo to push his feet against the wall and he f ipped his attacker on to the bed with a thrust of the knees.... ...rens grew suddenly louder and a f re engine arrived outside. The hospital gates cranked open automatically and the vehicle rolled in. Tough-looking ... ...en he chose to pay no attention at all. He drove calmly into the heart of London. As they left the hospital behind, Bozo plastered his face against ... ... made such a miracle possible. Theo looked out of the window at the grey London afternoon and suddenly realised the consequences of making his own ...

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...rks Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to topheavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge...

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................. 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ............................................................................................. 98 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ............................................................................................

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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... And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The ... ...oks. 4. Very often an un-holy co-dependence develops between the organization and its prey. It is the interest of the freedom fighters to have a ... ... 5. The terrorist organization will tend to emulate the very characteristics of its enemy it fulminates against the most. Thus, all such groups ... ... they are unprintable..." A.G. Hales reporting about the Illinden Uprising in the London "Daily News" of October 21, 1903 "The Internal Macedo... ...he thin pretext of an Albanian uprising. The brotherhood strained in the Treaty of London (May 1913) promptly deteriorated into internecine warfare... ...ing the Ustashe regime). Besieged by this siege mentality, the back to the literal wall, desperate and phobic, the Croats developed the paranoia ty... ...e been a critical determinant of identity even when confronted with an enemy at the gates. Members of an ethnic community could share the same relig... ... on slavery. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and...

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...to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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...Excerpt: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable commun...

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...ns which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of that I rashly decided to abandon doctoring and earn my living as a writer; so, as soon as I was ?qualified?, I set out for Spain and spent the best part of a year in Seville. I amused myself hugely and ...

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...Excerpt: When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF...

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...a-- Book 6 Our Psychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GU... ...N--OUR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND TH... ...............................................................................................................120 THE PATH TO MENTAL HEALTH AND ITS RE... ...s all there is. We want to be able to cross the River Styx, drink wine with Allah, live in the Happy Hunting Ground, cross through the Pearly Gates,... ...the super ego would win was called the ego which is Latin for ‗self‘ or ‗I‘. You might visualize it as a ladder with the id on the bottom with its li... ...ives, but striving for perfection is merely a goal, and absolute perfection is never an accomplishment. It is the striving that is essential. Wallow... ...e Mexican Mafia, the Black Guerrilla Family and many others who fight for their illegal and anti-social agendas inside and outside the prison walls.... ...of people with similar interests. So what might be normal for an Orthodox Jew might not be in the norm for a Reformed Jew. What is the norm in London... ...change our interests as we age. We either change or go deeper into our interests. And hopefully we are in our meta level of life. Look at Bill Gates ...

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...Prologue: Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus, to all the followers of truth sendeth health. Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to ...

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... the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that...

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvani... ...n space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven ninths; the L... ...e. EDITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863 Chapter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not ... ... old men clothed in white cloaks. There was a temple in the town, with a mud wall about it ornamented with skulls of enemies sacrificed to the sun. Th... ...ter Street stores, with their splint bottomed chairs tilted back against the wall, chins on breasts, hats slouched over their faces, asleep—with shing... ...t was greatly changed, but it did not seem so; because in St. Louis, as in London and Pittsburgh, you can’t persuade a new thing to look new; the co... ...ach, many a man appreciated as he never did before the Peri’s feeling at the Gates of Para dise, and wondered what was the priceless boon that would ... ...ld certainly last but a very brief time; as brief a time as it would last in London. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesq...

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...t: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker,...

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...nown to you--the Rue de Lesdiguieres. It is a turning out of the Rue Saint-Antoine, beginning just opposite a fountain near the Place de la Bastille, and ending in the Rue de la Cerisaie. Love of knowledge stranded me in a garret; my nights I spent in work, my days in reading at the Bibliotheque d?Orleans, close by. I lived frugally; I had accepted the conditions of the mo...

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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Class... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publicatio... ...his own …. Lan- guage he treated like an abject slave. When he had gone to its farthest limit, when it failed to express his ideas or feel- ings, he f... ...er of the Marechal de Larges. This marriage, which was purely political in its inception, finally turned into a genuine love match—a pleasant exceptio... ...so, with a false air, more humble than modest, and always shaved along the walls, to make people make way for him with greater noise; and at Versaille... ...d. Opposite the sedan-chair was an opening with some steps cut through the wall, and communicating with the plain below. It had been made for the purp... ... 155 Saint-Simon tween the two powers. The Spanish ambassador returned to London. The Emperor next endeavoured to strengthen his party in Spain. The ... ...over the priest in whose vault it ended, and who lived close to one of the gates of the city, which was walled up and but little guarded; he sent into... ...pulled down his hat, and could not keep his countenance. He sent orders to London, to drive out Poussin, acting as French am- bassador, immediately; a...

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...e by Mr. Grant White on England, 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 arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such si...

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...is Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...any different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the... ...t of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may... ...w England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amount of drinking in London; let him try San Francisco. He wittily reproves English ignorance as... ...wn door. There is one country, for instance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials wi... ... of streets and buildings; the quaint, venerable age of many, and the thin walls and warm colouring of all. We have, in Scot- land, far fewer ancient ... ... sparingly used in their construction; the window-frames are sunken in the wall, not flat to the front, as in England; the roofs are steeper-pitched; ... ...t city. At five o’clock you may see the last of us hiving from the college gates, in the glare of the shop windows, under the green glimmer of the win...

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...ITMAN............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER IV ? HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS........... 84 CHAPTER V ? YOSHIDA-TORAJIRO..................................................................................... 107 CHAPTER VI ? FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER.........117 CHAPTE...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... in a sense, the first of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villo... ...wo English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its dangers. Carlyle, indeed, had so much more depth and knowledge of the h... ...Japan; many and long were the conver- sations they held through the prison wall, and dear was the sympathy that soon united them. It fell first to the... ...o an unoccupied house belonging to Robert de Saint-Simon. This, over a low wall, they entered without difficulty. All but T abary took off their upper... ...ongue in his cheek at the sim- plicity of rustic dupes, and often, at city gates, he might stop to contemplate the gibbet with its swinging bodies, an... ... body and soul to the unpatriotic faction in his own country, set out from London with a light heart and a damaged integrity. In the magnificent copy ... ...l perspective, is almost a history of his imprisonment. It gives a view of London with all its spires, the river passing through the old bridge and bu...