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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...27 Requesters outside the US Government may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service ... ... sheep, cattle Major industries: petroleum, light indus- tries, natural gas, mining, petrochemical, electrical, automotive plants (under con- structio... ...ire food imports Fishing: catch 112,000 metric tons (1982) Major industries: mining (oil, diamonds), fish processing, brewing, tobacco, sugar processi... ...cations, 7.7% finance and bank- ing, 4.4% utilities, 3.6% construction, 2.7% mining, 16.7% services and other; 6.3% unemployment (April 1985) Organize... ... name: Republic of Cyprus Type: republic; a disaggregation of the two ethnic communities inhabiting the island began after the outbreak of communal st... ...(excluding East Berlin) 14 districts (Bezirke), 218 counties (Kreise), 7,570 communities (Gemeinden) Legal system: civil law system modified by Commun... ...s) courts for Muslims, and religious community council courts for non-Muslim communities; desert police carry out quasi-judicial functions in desert a...

...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 disp...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...dd Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War... ...en even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, ... ...tion The Crescent and the Cross - A First Encounter The Crescent and the Cross - The Communities of God Islam is not merely a religion. It is also -... ... - the West succeeded to demolish beyond reconstruction whole economies, to ravage communities, to wreak ruination upon the centuries-old social fa... ...d to the first Civil War (1860-5), the Second Civil War (2021-26) was fought within communities and across state boundaries. It was not territorial ... ...essing in disguise. Western aid and investment can help resuscitate the Soviet era mining (Copper, Zinc) operations and finally tap Afghanistan's v... ...enrichment facility near the city of Natanz and an Iranian admission that they are mining their own ore, Alexander Rumyantsev, the Russian Atomic E...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...s reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write... ... or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vakni... ... my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9... .... The fourth and last pilot project involves the formation of “Voucher Communities”. These are communities of unemployed workers organized in eac... ...in trade and in tourism and catering. But severe drops were registered in mining and industry, agriculture and fisheries, forestry (which was alread... .... The fourth and last pilot project involves the formation of “Voucher Communities”. These are communities of unemployed workers organized in eac... ... They pay each other with voucher money. The unemployed members of these communities are allowed to use voucher money to pay for certain public go... ... paying insufficient attention to working conditions in manufacturing and mining in the USA, where many children are still employed. The Bureau of L... ... work in agriculture and with their families. Less than 1 percent work in mining and another 2 percent in construction. Most of the rest work in ret...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... .... It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http://www.jz.org. Set in Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in... ...a by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zittrain, Jonathan ( Jonathan L.), 1969– The future o... ...of the basic security problem has been slowly growing in Inter- net research communities. Nearly two-thirds of academics, social analysts, and industr... ... they were not generative at the technical layer. The software driving these communities was stagnant: sub- scribers who were both interested in the c... ...ew outlets through which to contribute technical improvements to the way the communities were built. Instead, any improvements were orchestrated cent... ...leblowers as the reason not to worry about routine automated government data mining of citizen communications. See Richard A. Posner, Editorial, Our D... ...g in to kill her baby.”). 79. See Posting of T om Owad to Applefritter, Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives Within Amazon Wishlists, http://www.apple... ...24; of worms and viruses, 53 data gathering, 160 data genealogy, 225–28 data mining, 204–5 data portability, 176–78 data repositories, 186–88 decision...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...ndent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Ec... ...are gone: web publishing is cheap and immediate. Technologies such as web communities, chat, and e-mail enable massive collaborative efforts. And, ... ...n the "Wall Street Journal" written by Stacey E. Bressler, a co-author of Communities of Commerce, and at the end of the story there is a link to pu... ...ne news service and you are reading a review in "Publishers Weekly" about Communities of Commerce and you run across a link to related resources. ... ...sers of both find the wealth and breadth of information daunting and data mining is fast becoming an art form. Encarta introduced the Visual (Virtua... ...iches. Users find the wealth and breadth of information daunting and data mining is fast becoming an art form. Encarta introduced the Visual (Virtua... ...s). This is mainly because of the tedious and mind- numbing chores of data mining and composition. Additionally, as knowledge multiplies every 5-10 y...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Freedom Fighters "'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of d... ...t the local populace had to say. The Austrian brought roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hitherto European back... ... 1974). But this time, the authorities, reacted with tanks in scenes reminiscent of China's Tiananmen Square 8 years later. The hotbed of hotheads w... ...story, myths, ethos, and even government policy (such as the "one child policy" in China) do create the conditions for pathologies of the personali... ...riat, recognized the Christian's right to form their own religiously self-governing communities. These communities were not confined to the orde... ... because only the cities provided basic amenities. Even in the cities, though, the communities lived segregated in "mahalles" (quarters). Everyone ... ...nds again. Exemptions from this barbarous practice were offered only to select communities which somehow contributed to Ottoman rule in the Bal...

...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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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our missio... ...ludes any service that offers this file for download or commercial distribution in any form, (See complete disclaimer http://WorldLibrary.net/Copyri... ...ios All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-el... ...and read up on the inimitable Aaron Matloch. In short, it read: multi-national mining industrialist, multi-billionaire, and the richest man in Amer... ...t me as I do you." Hawk took a deep breath. "You made your first fortune strip mining for copper in the mid-west until it ran out, and then you mov... ...ted the first major wave of sys­ tematically destroying the rain forest by strip mining any mineral you could find ... You've scarred untold square m... ...ch the numbers and do some heavy, creative accounting. A chance meeting at the China Garden Restaurant in Wash­ ington, DC one evening led to an all... ...Toxic Zones'. 3) Evacuate all residents from the affected areas, and build new communities in 'Toxic Free Zones'. Preferably on uncon­ taminated Fed... ...tion to release Federally-owned Lands for the Johnarhan Cross building of new communities and cities. Along with the Secre­ tary of Interior, the A...

A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...areness. Science practices this double standard. So do lumber companies and mining companies, and chemical companies. Their advertisements try to... ...t in small groups or bands of roughly 24-36 people. This is how large our communities were designed to be. What is a community, or a band? ... ...eration a way of life. But when humans settled down and the size of their communities increased: this all changed. With larger and larger group... ...r in the fields and do nothing else.’ This entire mess was created by human communities increasing in size. Social harmony was systematically des... ...get it… and only pay a few pennies. Go to any of the Asian or south American mining towns and you can get ‘precious stones’ for almost nothing. Th... .... Compare the level of human greed historically. Look at the history of gold mining. For ten thousands of years: gold mines were controlled and mi...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ... of the Market XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XV... ...odels in accordance with certain basic assumptions? Or should it revolve around the mining of data for emerging patterns, rules, and "laws"? On th... ...he familiar in a new light, mine patterns and rules from big bodies of data ("data mining"). Its insights must be the inevitable conclusion of the ... ...and "should stop" - but a surprising 31 percent regarded it as "a valid use of data mining". A quarter said it is "OK, if explained to users". The ... ...ople facilely and callously abrogate their responsibilities towards their families, communities, and nations. The mushrooming rate of divorce, the d... ...r capitalism is paternalistic and inclusive. Employees, employers, the government, communities and suppliers are partners in the decision making pr... ...TURE will emerge. Cultures are highly structured reactive patterns adopted by human communities in response to shocks (including positive shocks), t...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ... Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html... ... wake major financial upheavals, wrecked businesses and homeowners, and devastated communities. At one point, the contagion threatened the stabilit... ...'s single currency, the euro, appreciated strongly against all major currencies; as China, India, and other low-wage Asian countries became importan... ...ce enormous bailout packages for the financial sector (and potentially the auto and mining industries) as well as fiscal stimulus plans, governments... ...s inroad to their sovereignty. This may prove more problematic in US operations in China. I do not think the US can force its accounting standards ... ...y retained by the state in infrastructure projects, utilities, natural monopolies, mining operations, defense contractors, and the space industry. ... ...on why local government accounts for (say) a city in Macedonia could not be kept in China. The issue here is quite different. It revolves around dem...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...arrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communities can survive and thrive through voluntary cooperation... ...wed to partake the food and wine of gentiles and have kept their distance from the communities which they inhabited - maintaining tenaciously, thro... ...ic example of preemptive self-defense. Its outcomes, however, deeply divide Jewish communities everywhere, especially in Israel. Many of us believe... ...odels in accordance with certain basic assumptions? Or should it revolve around the mining of data for emerging patterns, rules, and "laws"? On the... ...he familiar in a new light, mine patterns and rules from big bodies of data ("data mining"). Its insights must be the inevitable conclusion of the ... ...ptical regarding the feasibility of the new medium. And privacy issues prevent data mining or the effective collection and usage of personal data (r...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...arrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communities can survive and thrive through voluntary cooperation... ...wed to partake the food and wine of gentiles and have kept their distance from the communities which they inhabited - maintaining tenaciously, thro... ...ic example of preemptive self-defense. Its outcomes, however, deeply divide Jewish communities everywhere, especially in Israel. Many of us believe... ...odels in accordance with certain basic assumptions? Or should it revolve around the mining of data for emerging patterns, rules, and "laws"? On the... ...he familiar in a new light, mine patterns and rules from big bodies of data ("data mining"). Its insights must be the inevitable conclusion of the ... ...ptical regarding the feasibility of the new medium. And privacy issues prevent data mining or the effective collection and usage of personal data (r...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... .... 42 Zen has its home in Japan, although originally it came from India via China. Among the streams of Buddhism, Zen is per- haps the most radical, fo... ... to feel severely threatened by the new movement, which was seen as under- mining their authority, although the Christian writings claim that Jesus wa... ...or of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity. I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin; I am not of the Kingdom of Iraquain,... ... whatever presumed origin plays in the lives of individuals and perhaps of communities as a whole? The most thorough and equitable of the studies yet ... ...determination to protect their “deserted” sacred sites from destruction by mining THE SACRED LAND: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES 269 companies, as at Noonkan... ...racing back to evolutionary devel- opment. Bees form highly complex social communities. So do ants. So do termites. So do human beings. Environment in...

...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...li in many kinds of ore, hilt tlu! inaccoBHibility of the country prevents mining at pre- Hent. t)vor tliirt hiirren country are vast lierdH of reinde... ...igan College of Mines, and is at present holding a responsible position as mining engineer in the north central part of Mexico. 1906—Charles Ruuyon, J... ...ve any material bene- fit from a college, in order to en- rich the ooljcgo communities. The soliciting of subscriptions for the " Purple Cow " periodi... ...hich will send delegates to Washington are: Great Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, In- dia, Australia and the Philip- pines. Mr. R. Saeasin-Warn... ...- tor in more than forty mortgage holding companies, trust compan- ies and mining companies. He was president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, Knic... ..." which maintains that all Iffws are an outgrowth of the conditions in the communities whose code they compose, depend- ing upon the form of governmen...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...er, so to speak, to both sides; so that there were some Caucasians among the Chinamen, and some bachelors among the families. But our own car was pure... ...lf a hundred emigrants from the opposite quarter? Hun- gry Europe and hungry China, each pouring from their gates in search of provender, had here com... ... Louis Stevenson ward, down by Blue Canon, Alta, Dutch Flat, and all the old mining camps, through a sea of mountain forests, drop- ping thousands of ... ... hind along the beach towards Santa Cruz, but from your right also, round by Chinatown and Pinos lighthouse, and from down before you to the mouth of ...

...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER V...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...ed in the United States, and that the democracy which governs the American communities appears to be rapidly rising into power in Eu- rope. I hence co... ...nglish decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the erection of communities in- troduced an element of democratic liberty into the bosom of... ...hich surround us: God destines a calmer and a more certain fu- ture to the communities of Europe; I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not ... ..., or at least to adopt the policy of the latter. As numbers are the deter- mining cause of victory, each people ought of course to strive by all the m... ...e, as the produce of mines has become of more general importance, and good mining more difficult from the subdivision of property which is a consequen... ...lays down rules, enforces the adoption of particular methods, subjects the mining adventurers to constant superintendence, and, if re- fractory, they ...

...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...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...y 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 State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ntity of seventeen ounces to the ton. But the whole story of her submarine mining, intensely interesting as it is, must be told at some other time; su... ... Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with rapid strides year by year to predominance ... ...always clung to the illusion that Germans were fat, absurd men, who smoked china pipes, and were addicted to knowledge and horseflesh and sauerkraut a... ...Francisco. We haf mate a camp at Niagara. Dat is whad they are telling us. China has cot drachenflieger and luftschiffe beyont counting. All de vorlt ... ...usly, back to the land came the common man, back to the manure. The little communities, still haunted by ten thousand memories of a greater state, gat... ...est. The world rediscovered religion and the need of something to hold its communities together. At Bun Hill this function was entrusted to on old Bap...

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

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of counting and then of writing and making records, and with that his town communities began to stretch out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, t... ... lords and rulers doctors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that perio... ...o- posed to fire shot out of corked iron bottles full of heated water. The mining of coal for fuel, the smelting of iron upon a larger scale than men ... ...nd the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the parents of young Ho... ...hey went to war in a delirium of panic, in order to use their bombs first. China and Japan had assailed Russia and destroyed Moscow, the United States...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...fensive war, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China and Japan through many centuries of effectual practice, held themselv... ...oilsome or dangerous land with never a household; there will be regions of mining and smelt- ing, black with the smoke of furnaces and gashed and deso... ... of custom, the homely methods of identification that served in the little communities of the past when everyone knew everyone, fail in the face of th... ...e—an end practically attained in the homely, old-fashioned civilisation of China by female infanticide, involves not only the cessa- tion of distresse... ...aching it pretty closely, and again in the inland and typical provinces of China, where even a strange pattern of hat arouses hostility. We had it in ... ...they not work for a uniform minimum of labour conditions through all their communities? Why, then, should they not—except in the interests of a few ra...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...atter of Pecunia non olet; there used to be fusses about European loans in China. And one of the favourite themes of British fiction and drama before ... ...insisting upon high security or high freights. The control of British coal-mining and shipping is in the national interests—for international interest... ... 3 3 3 The impression I have of the present mental process in the European communities is that while the official class and the rentier class is think... ...an to the Limehouse sailor, or the Anzac soldier to the Sinn Feiner or the Chinaman, “What are we two doing for it?” And to fill the place of that “it... ...d effigies lose credit everywhere. It is a very wonderful thing to me that China is now a repub- lic…. I take myself to be very nearly an average man,...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...us yellow. The buildings were as ill- assorted, as temporary-looking, as a mining-camp street in the motion-pictures. The railroad station was a one- ... ...ys could function; that boys who were not compounded of the gutter and the mining-camp were mol- lycoddles and unhappy. She had taken this for granted... ...ble, and next year we’ll 130 Main Street probably take up Furnishings and China. My, it does make a body hustle to keep up with all these new culture... ...ou have an excellent idea, and though we have talked about Furnishings and China as the prob- able subject for next year, I believe that it would be n... ...their pro- totypes. Bjornstam told his scapes: selling horses in a Montana mining-camp, breaking a log-jam, being imper- tinent to a “two-fisted” mill... ...ng star to its service flag and without wishing to knock any neigh- boring communities, we would like to know any town of anywheres near our size in t...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

............................................................................................................................................. 113 A DEAL IN COTTON .................................................................................................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ..............................................

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of 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 squar...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

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.................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.................................................

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of it...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, And Seeking Truth in the Sciences. Translated from the French, And Collated with the Latin by John Veitch

By: René Descartes

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

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....................................................................................................................... 158 Chapter XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government ........................................................................ 166 Chapter XV Of Local Representative Bodies ..............................................................................

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...the federal bureaucracy, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence communities. The second, related development was a significant transfer of ... ...round? Where have you worked before? Applications were valuable for deter- mining the potential of new arrivals, for filtering out potential spies fro... ...e sharing of such information between the intelligence and law enforcement communities, was not a priority before 9/11. Guidelines on this subject iss... ... wall” on information sharing between the intelligence and law enforcement communities (discussed in chapter 3).Ashcroft told us he was determined to ... ..._13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 388 Department perform screening and data mining: instead, a government-wide team of border and transportation offici... ... analysis of 911/PAPD calls.There are many variables to consider in deter- mining whether, and to what extent, stairwell A was actually a viable exit....

... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

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...han the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action....

...ix: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education ......................................................... 85 Chapter Eight: Aims in Education .............................................................................................. 105 Chapter Nine: Natur...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the ...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

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...promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader?s fancy....

.................................................................................................................................. 86 Chapter I Of Ideas in general, and their Original .............................................................................................................. 86 Chapter II Of Simple Ideas ........................................................

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