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...y personal bias. In what aspect can Chinese culture be distinctive from western ones? The difference between Western and Eastern cultures, on the ... ... exchange, when selfishness surpasses their natural harmony. In contrast, Western medicine cares more about the scars when the harmony is broken. Ho... ...more easily cured than the maintenance of the harmony. This is the reason Western culture never solves the problem of health. Unfortunately our Easte... ...n, for thousands of years, and proved excellent for society. In contrast, Western children are educated to compete with others for self or group int... ...dhood, to abide by the natural law, namely Dao, never to indulge oneself. Western people, on the other hand, are educated to free themselves from all... ...c needs, it would be Buddhism.” SIR EDWIN ARNOLD (Author of “The Light of Asia”): “I have often said, and shall say again and again, that between Bu... ... interesting features of Neutrosophy is the dialogue it has initiated with Asian philosophy, Buddhism and Taoism in particular. Both of these traditi...

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...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... ...He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world. Even though he cared about fam... ...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 ... ...was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, and so inescapable in a sense. On that day she brought her... ...ill, there was no escape from the West for fresher lies. The whole world was western now. All that was possible was to abscond from it as much as poss... ...cans once said that the military cost of their civil wars were the result of Western colonial boundaries fusing incompatible tribes into nations, keep... ...ing tobacco from her large bag. She put on a hat that made her look like an Asian rice farmer. Then she began to listen to Paganini's Caprices. Mean... ...rods, a strange epidemic that they had manufactured and proliferated in East Asia, and assassination plans for George Bush. The face of Gabriele's h... ...assing stage: a diminishing but still open animus toward her for the trip to Asia and Europe without him, resenting this distribution of her attention...

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... the tempo- rary abode of Mr Squeers. By the time he re-entered it, at the western extremity, the greater part of the shops were closed. Of the throng... ...for such things, where is it? Is it in Europe? No, that it isn’t. Is it in Asia? Why, of course it’s not. Is it in Africa? Not a bit of it. Is it in A...

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...s share of his mother’s fortune, and the last scandal, when he had gone to a western province in an official capacity, and there had got into trouble f... ...apes and their dreams of glory, had come back a few days before from Central Asia, where he had gained two steps up in rank, and an order rarely besto...

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...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, how...

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... Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the... ...than that much, much deeper! This didactic novel — reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones and open... ...ing Los Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed Anson Chi Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Ins... ...sian Culture Revealed Anson Chi Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed Clean Edition (Download Original @ “ ” http://anso... ...mportant or else I wouldn't have written it. This didactic novel is based on Asian culture, specifically East Asian culture which includes Japanese, ... ...to escape the heavy traffic associated with the later exits. I turn left on Western Avenue and continue on past Wilshire Boulevard, the entire area ...

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...f enterprise, the gallant of- ficer retired from the service nor did north-western England put much to his credit the declaration of his wife’s pronou... ...m, uncle? He is out riding, they tell me.’ ‘The youngster is used to south-western showers in that climate of his,’ Mr. Adister replied. ‘I dare say w... ...he hundreds of thousands into millions, and died, after cover- ing Europe, Asia, and the Americas with iron rails, one of the few Christians that can ... ... blue, the rosy red of her lips, her eyes, her hair, was just such a south-western sky as April drove above her, the same in colour and quickness; and... ...ng through the garden-gate of Lappett’s farm she made her way to the south-western face of the house to beg a bowl of water of the farmer’s wife, and ...

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...iouscreeds and organizations. It sometimes feels as if there are as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

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...Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under ... ...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 ... ...s frequently been called “mystical” in a pejorative way, because in modern Western scientific civilization there is no room for subjective experience ... ...East had always known that religious systems other than their own existed. Westerners were well acquainted with the existence of Judaism, though very ... ...ed was, however, little known in the West. By and large the tendency among Western religious writers was to divide the world’s religions into two camp... ...minority religion in India, although north and eastwards throughout all of Asia it has become the dominant religion. Westwards of India, Christianity ... ... Empire. Because this was the site of ma- jor trade routes with Africa and Asia, Roman garrisons were sta- tioned throughout the area, and though the ... ...and its teachings were widely known throughout the Middle East and western Asia. Zarathustra’s teaching of the conflict between Good and Evil entered ... ...ople, whatever their origin (for the theory of migra- tion from South East Asia 40,000 or over 100,000 years ago is not proven), have made adaptation ...

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...arts. But on the other side, they have such pouring rivers, as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe, are but brooks to them. Their Andes, likewise... ...hich were the invaders) were all eastern people. It is true, the Gauls were western; but we read but of two incursions of theirs: the one to Gallo G...

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... the tempo- rary abode of Mr Squeers. By the time he re-entered it, at the western extremity, the greater part of the shops were closed. Of the throng... ...for such things, where is it? Is it in Europe? No, that it isn’t. Is it in Asia? Why, of course it’s not. Is it in Africa? Not a bit of it. Is it in A...

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...ieves in development, modernization, globalization, a planetary future. In Western development statistics, Finland is near the top, currently the lead... ...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... ...t ever more people are unwell. Modern research finds ever more problems in Western countries, sickness, violence, repression of women, paedophilia... ... ...ckness, violence, repression of women, paedophilia... Statistics show that Western people suffer from increasingly from mental health problems, they a... ...ink more alcohol and smoke more than men of the same age. In recent years, Western people have been shocked by murders and manslaughters committed by ... ...on of everyday life. Is it all repeated in Thailand? This land, dubbed the Asian Little Economic Tiger, because it is following in the footsteps of gr... ...kills and the culture industry are becoming international, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently... ...future in all modern environments, everywhere in the world. In the future, Asia will be the world's largest and most powerful economic area, technolog... ..., Leena. Helsinki, 15 December 2004 Academy of Finland Nordic Institute of Asian Studies University of Helsinki Niilo Helander Foundation Matti Sarmel...

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...bravery and courage of Iancu of Hunedoara, Ştefan cel Mare and Vlad Ţepeş was recognized and well appreciated by their contemporaries, the princes of Western countries and to Vatican, by the Pope himself. Aware of the Ottoman danger for the European countries, these three rulers insistently demanded to Vatican and Princes of other countries in Europe to help them in their ...

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...n conflict, but is seemingly perfect harmony. And from there, over a lifetime, that journey continued, ultimately spanning continents from Africa to Asia. And in the process, intimate connections to some of the most far reaching corners of the world and some of the most fascinating and diverse cultures on the planet. When I think back on what makes a time or a plac...

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...boasted a dozen kilns, and produced hundreds of thousands of red clay construction bricks, shipping them hundreds of miles to cities and towns across Western Canada. But in the 1930’s, it became a deserted depression relic, with its buildings and kilns and small-gage mining cars abandoned to history and the elements. And a mile further upriver was the small town of Edw...

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...my 64 6 Fixing Global Finance Acronyms ASEAN The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ATMs Automated Teller Machines BCBS Basel Committee on Bankin... ...h of Independent States CRAs Credit Rating Agencies ECA Europe and Central Asia ECB European Central Bank EU European Union FDI Foreign Direct Investm... ...al crises have occurred in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, and the East Asian countries. But it is important to note that unlike most financial cri... ...ernal financing. Of late, there are some signs of recovery of trade in the Asian region led by China, but globally the trade crisis is far from over. ... ... about 12 million of the newly unemployed were in North America, Japan and Western Europe. Even in developing countries, employment levels may not rea... ...he crisis. When the crisis erupted, these economies were badly hit because Western banks immediately withdrew funds from their subsidiaries operating ... ...egatively affected due to fall in consumption and imports in recession-hit Western economies. In the aftermath of crisis, the decline in US imports fr... ...f 2008 raised the kitty of commodity SWFs even though their investments in Western banking system witnessed considerable paper losses. The Norwegian S... ...egic Objectives? Pre-crisis, SWFs had come under severe criticism from the Western world for their alleged political and non-commercial objectives. 10...

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...h Muyanja Ssenyonga A. Ika Rahutami Laksmi Yustika Devi Rosa Kristiadi Center for Asia Pacific Studies Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indon... ...dential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA), Asia and Africa Study Center Colegio de Mexico, Gerencia de Es... ...ncy), Brookings Institute, Caravel Management LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., IMF Asia and Pacific Division, and Peterson Institute for Internat... ... a balanced representation of APEC member economies by geographical location which is Asia, Australia, and America. Secondary data analysis and fi... ...not only great financial loss but also struggles to recover from the crisis. When the Asian Financial Crisis struck, several economies including APE... ...emain high especially in parts of emerging Europe. The October 2009 GFSR showed that “Western European banks appear able to absorb deteriorating cre... ... 143 Besley, S and Brigham, EF 2009, Principles of Finance, Fourth Edition, South-Western Cengage Learning, United States. Boulton, J 2011, U...

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...unction, to distinguish definite regions or parts of the world: Old World, Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the ... ...t wonld have been no di5cult matter to Alexander. with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The sucoesses of Pyrrhus, with his small army, agai... ...would have been no difficult matter to Alexander, with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The succesees of Pyrrhus, with his small army, agai... ...would have been no difficult matter to Alexander, with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The successes of Pyrrhus, with his small army, agai... ...would have been no di5- cult matter to Alexander, with all the resources of Asia under his hand. The successes of Pyrrhus, with his small army, aga... ...would have been no difficult matter to Alexander, with ALL THE RESOURCES OF ASIA UNDER HIS HAND. THE SUOOESSES OF PYBBHUS, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 army...

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... increased by 20 million people (to 160 million) between the nadir of the Asian crisis in 1997 and 2001. The situation has much deteriorated since. ... ...tinations are the EU and the USA - but many end up in lesser countries in Asia or Africa. The International Labour Organization (ILO) published the... ...kers, North America - 17 million, Central and South America - 12 million, Asia - 7 million, the Middle East - 9 million, and Europe - 30 million. ... ...ded by native-born Americans). The averages mask huge disparities between Asians and Hispanics, though. Still, these ostensibly dismal figures const... ...tching investment funds. Migrant associations are sprouting all over the Western world, often at the behest of municipal authorities back home. The... ...l institution, government or employer- financed unions still exist even in Western and better governed countries, such as Greece. In the former colon... ...duction in working time, safeguarding jobs, and equating eastern pay with western standards. The comprehensiveness and all-pervasiveness of the coll... ...rth of German firms in the east - and a one half of all businesses in the western Lander. No wonder that IG Metall has in its sights targets in ea... ...cessing to remote maintenance. Cultural mismatches between the (typically Western) client base and the offshore service department (usually in a dev...

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...-light area in the world, and Cotton Green, the largest truck terminus in Asia both at Mumbai. While Kamatipura is notoriously famous for its brothe... ...works and fuzzy systems break with the historical tradition prominent in western thought and we can precisely and unambiguously characterize the wo... ...he dropping of the taboo connected with sex. On one hand we criticize the western lifestyle. On the other hand, we find that most of the present day...

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...sual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose work reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Sadhana is a collection of essays, most of which he gave before the Harvard University, describing Indian beliefs, philosophy and culture from differ...

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... there 595 Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Eevning on, and Twilight gray H... ...above had quelld 860 His heart, not else dismai’d. Now drew they nigh The western point, where those half-rounding guards Just met, & closing sto... ...0 Time counts not, though with swiftest minutes wing’d. Now was the Sun in Western cadence low From Noon, and gentle Aires due at thir hour To f... ... high Came to the Sea, and over HELLESPONT Bridging his way, EUROPE with ASIA joyn’d, 310 And scourg’d with many a stroak th’ indignant waves. ... ...East Darkness ere Dayes mid-course, and Morning light More orient in yon Western Cloud that draws 205 O’re the blew Firmament a radiant white, ... ...gs by thir names I call, though yet unnam’d) From HERMON East to the great Western Sea, Mount HERMON, yonder Sea, each place behold In prospect,...

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...enturous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so near home as Asiatic Russia, she says that she felt the necessity of wearing other tha... ...or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshop pers in ... ...76 Walden I hear them barking behind the Peterboro’ Hills, or panting up the western slope of the Green Mountains. They will not be in at the death. T... ...e most part it is as solitary where I live as on the prairies. It is as much Asia Solitude 81 or Africa as New England. I have, as it were, my own su... ... shore is irregular enough not to be monotonous. I have in my mind’s eye the western indented with deep bays, the bolder northern, and the beautifully... ... the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which float through the western sky, and the mother o’ pearl flocks which sometimes form and disso... ...go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor c...

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...made of the story of some daughter of the desert transported to some cold, western clime, calling for her beloved sun, dying of a grief that none can ... ... in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the art reached Asia Minor, where paper was made of cotton reduced to pulp and boiled. Parc...

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A book on the contrasts between the eastern Asian culture versus the western culture on topics such as education, medicine, science, and politics.

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...Is oriental culture a kind of science? There lies a crucial difference in that Western science seeks the exterior solutions outside the heart. However, our ancient sages illustrated that humans are an integral part of the universe, and all the phenomena never skip out of the heart. And very fortunat...

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...ish, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Burmese, Filipino, Khmer, Lao, Thai Vietnamese and Chinese. Beginning with the common origins of Southeast Asia’s peoples and languages, their shared heritage is emphasized through agricultural, archeological, cultural, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious and technological fields. Perennially defined by rice, stability...

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...Chinese xvii if you would know me … xviii Author’s Note xix Chapters 1. One Common Region 1 2. Defining Southeast Asia 7 3. From Trade to Civilization 17 4. Commercial and Technology 25 5. Adapting to New Overlords 33 6. Rice and Culture 39 7. United by Commerce 45 8. 18th Century Consolidation 53 9. British-led Resurgence 57 ...

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...tains a wealth of analysis and alternative logics that make it essential to serious readers about nature, the environment, spirituality and religion, Asia and ourselves. Beginning with science and spirituality, the discussion moves from immortality to theology to literal misinterpretations and unifies these themes around unacknowledged Western core values. Shifting to ...

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...Learning Sustainability from Less-Developed Countries: Lost Traditions? Chapter 17 160 The Emerging Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture: Changing the Western Worldview? Chapter 18 166 Unity in Diversity of Views? Spirituality in Modern Agriculture Chapter 19 177 Bridging the Break: Reconnecting Through Religion Chapter 20 185 Communicating with the Orient: Eastern Su...

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...onsoon season kills hundreds and causes massive property damage in Southeast Asia. One set of monsoon rains alone killed 660 people in India and left ... ... think that the current intellectual property rules express some monolithic “Western” set of interests? Will the high-tech companies think this is jus... ... back up Lad- ner’s social history. Jessica Litman, “The Sony Paradox,” Case Western Reserve Law Review 55 (2005): 917–962. Pamela Samuelson has a fine... ...s J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, 7th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). For those who have... ... (J. Peter Burkholder, Donald J. Grout, and Claude V . Palisca, A History of Western Music, 7th ed. (New York: W . W . Norton, 2006)) is full of examp...

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...ks and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink...

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... millennia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding ac... ...lism.‖  Fearsome Mongol warriors playing a positive role in the rise of Western Civilization.  Interchangeable parts more than four centuries bef... ...reserve the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To per... ...vin Menzies (1937–) China‘s InfoTech Siblings After Christ‘s ministry, Western Civilization slid into the shadows of what some call the Dark Ages... ...making a secret for centuries—until the Battle of Talas in 751 in Central Asia. Paper superior in many ways Paper offers many advantages over ot... ... was print. Historian Jared Diamond decries the popular belief in the Western world that printing began with Johann Gutenberg in 1454. By then, ... ...er alphabet—as opposed to logographic writing‘s thousands of symbols. Asian histories emphasize that development of wood-block printing led to th... ...literate China’s wonders The journeys of Marco Polo (1254–1324) through Asia lasted twenty-four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden ... ...Africa to Spain.  Throughout most of the Middle East.  Across Central Asia as far east as the Punjab on the India-Pakistan border. For more th...

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...environment – agriculture, which is why agriculture provides perhaps the best model for consideration of the ideal of sustainability. From ancient Asian wisdom through modern global forces and technology to the central environmental issue of food production, we have identified some necessary conditions for sustainability. Yet, our approaches to care of the natural envir...

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...her Information iii Acknowledgements ix Author’s Foreword xi Chapter 1 Stepping Back to Survey the Landscape 1 Chapter 2 The Unacknowledged Debt to Asia: A Different Agricultural and Environmental Reality 13 Agriculture’s Legacy 14 Agricultural Origins 15 Contact with the West 23 Religion, Nature and Agriculture 26 ‘Indianised’ Agriculture 31 Secular Approaches 34 Commo...

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... CEOs, distinguished guests and visitors from the member economies of the Asia Pacifc Economic Cooperation (APEC). Hawai‘i is world-renowned for our ... ...s me great pleasure to send my warmest aloha to everyone gathered for the Asia Pacifc Economic Cooperation Conference. The name of our island, ‘O... ... natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to Asia and the Pacific. Hawaii is the most isolated land mass in the world a... ...tries such as energy and science. The nexus between the U.S. mainland and Asia provided by our geographic location has helped shape our future visio... ... natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to Asia and the Pacifc. Hawaii is the most isolated land mass in the world an... ...in 2008 at the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Laboratory at Keāhole Point on the western side of Hawai‘i Island. There, 1,008 MicroCSP collectors capture... ...tracts to fnance construction of a $700-million polysilicon plant in the western U.S. state of Idaho. Export of polysilicon from Idaho to Asia is ... ...care, medicines and procedures. If you want to fnd out how changing to a Western diet and lifestyle will afect the people of Asia in the future, yo...

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...d to overcome our feelings of inferiority, we can find ample evidence of that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? ... ...that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? Still, let us look for a while at some of the major early ideas of Wester... ...ies would have been either strengthened or abandoned based on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Wester... ...ze this idea of what it means to be truly human. Our education plan is total—or at least as complete as we can make it. Typically here in East Asia e... ...eincarnation, but there are probably a billion people who do.‖ —―You‘re right Ray, we can never be sure. But let‘s take the position of Wester... ...y. He may never have even seen the cartoons. No matter! Mad senseless power must have its victims. ―In the case of the cartoons, the Wester... ...rable gypsies and Jews along the way. The Korean War‘s propaganda was even more effective. And by the time the warriors invaded Vietnam every Asian ... ...education might well be a requirement for those who are said to be loved. Possibly the exposure to a home life that is within the norm of the Wester...

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...were wars, crusades, barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia, Europe, North Africa worked its way with an indomitable pertinacity. ... ... interests wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterest... ...g heroes consider they are preparing for a possible conflict in England or Western Europe, and I pre- sume the authorities are satisfied with them. It... ...ny rate the only serious war of which there is any manifest probabil- ity. Western Europe is now a network of railways, tramways, high roads, wires of... ...d and Australia, facing South America and the teeming countries of Eastern Asia; 29 H. G . Wells surely it is in relation to these vast proximities t... ... It is still the substantial part of the rural life of all Europe and most Asia and Africa, and it has been the life of the great majority of human be... ...ution, or at the huge degenerative growth of the great industrial towns of western Europe in the nineteenth century. Or again one opens at destructive... ...he liberal of the allotments and small-holdings type, Mr. Roosevelt—in his Western- farmer, philoprogenitive phase as distinguished from the phase of ... ...ristle the Slavs, and behind the Slavs are the co- lossal possibilities of Asia. Even German vanity, even the preposterous ambitions that spring from ...

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... can afford; so that a man with four wives must be quite as exceptional in Asia as a man with a carriage-and-pair or a motor car is in Europe, where, ... ...ion from the East, instead of building up a religion of our own out of our western inspiration and western sentiment. The result is that we all believ... ...ost. 51 Getting Married IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE Any tolerable western divorce law must put the sentimental grievances first, and should c...

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...gh your stupiddaty, you brute, you!’ “‘Bring your haction aginst the Great Western, Maam,’ says I, quite riled by this crewel and unfealing hold wixen... ... the com- mand of Lieut.-Colonel Julius Jowler, C.B., was known throughout Asia and Europe by the proud title of the Bundelcund Invincibles—so great w... ... do justice to the terrific theme. Y ou have seen two engines on the Great Western line rush past each other with a pealing scream? So rapidly did the... ...horse Bavieca madly up the chestnut avenue. The castle was before him; the western tower was in flames; the besiegers were pressing at the southern ga... ...A minute or two after his horse was stabbed, and Ivanhoe knocked down, the western bartizan was taken by the storming-party which invested it, and eve... ... very same day when the armies of Henri V . appeared before Paris from the Western Road, those of the Emperor John Thomas Napoleon arrived from the No...

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...y porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, have I, looking at the distant western Mountains, consumed, not without relish, my evening meal. Those h... ...or of Africa; on both slopes of the Altaic chain, in the central Platform of Asia; in Spain, Greece, Turkey, Crim Tartary, the Curragh of Kildare? One...

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...ence that at one time they were spread over large portions of Eu rope and western Asia. Perhaps it should be stated here that the copper, so often me... ...t at one time they were spread over large portions of Eu rope and western Asia. Perhaps it should be stated here that the copper, so often mentioned ... ...d the Lapps was sung long before the 26 The Kalevala Finns had left their Asiatic birth place. A deeper and more esoteric meaning of the Kalevala, ho...

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...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... ... 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... ... his cap off, to make—you didn’t know what:— in short, he was Bouddha in a Western form. At this crisis Lydgate was announced, and one of the first thi... ...s— something to which she must go doggedly. Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? ...

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...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... ...k his cap off, to make—you didn’t know what:—in short, he was Bouddha in a Western form. At this crisis Lydgate was announced, and one of the first th... ...ns—something to which she must go doggedly. Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? ...

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...d Singapore, and represented India at the First World Buffalo Congress held in Cairo in 1985. Vice President of the International Buffalo Federation (Asia), he has received various honours and has published more than 200 research papers and five books on nutrition and production. S.K. Ranjhan has more than 30 years in universities in India and the Philippines, is Golden...

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...industry in a changing world H. Schelhaas Introduction Four specific features of the dairy industry Milk production The processing industry in Western countries Dairy policy Consumption of dairy products in Western countries The international dairy markets Conclusions Suggested reading Chapter 2: Dairy production systems in the tropics P. N. de Leeuw, A. O...

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...napolis Center’s airspace for another six min- utes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center’s airspace at 9:10.As Indianapolis Cen... ...cerned, they are all targets.” Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames. Given the variety of na... ... . He dismissed W est- ern achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses “nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and... ... the overwhelmingly sec- ular struggles for independence after World War I.Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence mov... ...re seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independence from Western powers following World War II, the Arab Middle East followed an arc... ...n states of Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda; and from the Southeast Asian states of Burma,Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Bin Ladin maintain... ...n the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became indepen- dent states. 39 This ... ...amist groups for support, and fundamentalists became more prominent. South Asia had an indigenous form of Islamic fundamentalism, which had developed ... ...ucasus. Bin Ladin bolstered his links to extremists in South and Southeast Asia, including the Malaysian-Indonesian JI and several Pakistani groups en...

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...orth to south between the two Polar Circles, and from east to west between Asia and America, over an extent of 145 degrees of longitude. It is the qui... ...cal sun, crosses 69 Jules Verne the Straits of Malacca along the coast of Asia, turns into the North Pacific to the Aleutian Islands, carrying with i... ...d the fancy of Captain Nemo carry us next? Would he return to the coast of Asia or would he approach again the shores of Europe? Improbable con- jectu... ...-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... ...etimes it went to great depths, for, between the Gre- cian Archipelago and Asia Minor we could not touch the bottom by more than a thousand fathoms. T... ...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... ... testimony of its catastrophe. The region thus engulfed was beyond Europe, Asia, and Lybia, be- yond the columns of Hercules, where those powerful peo...

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...cracy in America had ordained and established throughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of ... ... the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville sa... ... the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T artars, and other wandering tribes of Asia. The land occupied by these tribes is not very distant from Behring’s ... ... Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes. Their skin was reddish brown, their h... ...:* they were neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes. Their skin was reddish brown, their h... ...of the Tongous, Mantchous, Mongols, Tartars, and other wandering tribes of Asia. The land occupied by these tribes is not very distant from Behring’s ... ...e a few years before claimed their place in the American Union; and in the Western settlements we may behold democracy arrived at its utmost extreme. ... ...74, when great cities like Chicago and San Francisco have sprung up in the Western States. But as yet the Western States exert no powerful influence o... ...thority become more and more rare. Lastly, when we arrive at the new South-western States, in which the constitution of society dates but from yesterd...

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.... Man-eater, if he gets the chance—see his eye. Kicker, too—see his hocks. Western horse.” The animal lumbered up, snuffling and grunting. His feet sh... ...of an August afternoon, in de middle of a hot wave when de fat Kanucks an’ Western horses drops dead on de block. De simple child o’ nature had better... ...tradings, and she perished in this manner. Deep peace brooded over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. The Powers dealt togethe... ...p—all the crew of the Haliotis. Deep peace continued to brood over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. 106 Rudyard Kipling * ... ... was an American.” “And proud of it,” said Wilton, as though he had been a Western Senator let loose on the Continent for the first time. “My dear sir... ...tigated the first- class lavatory compartment, which the London and South- western sometimes supply without extra charge; and now, half-awed, half-con... ...waving an arm capable of starting all the traffic on the London and South- western Railway at a wave. “Has any gentleman here got a bottle of medicine... ...l, the symptoms, so far as my observation has gone, more resemble those of Asiatic cholera than anything else,” I answered, slowly and judicially, tha...

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...se- quences which attended the presumption of the T urks and Mahometans in Asia and in other places where he had been (for my brother, being a merchan... ...ad its utmost rage and violence in those parts, even when it abated at the western parishes where it began. It was very strange to observe that in thi...

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...What boots it us there wares to have begun, Or Europe raised to make proud Asia thrall, If our beginnings have this ending known, Not kingdoms raised,... ... stout of Pagans bold, Where naught behoves us trust to Greece untrue, And Western aid we far removed behold: Who buildeth thus, methinks, so buildeth... ...ound, The noble squadron of adventurers came, Terrors to all that tread on Asian ground: Cease Orpheus of thy Minois, Arthur shame To boast of Lancelo... ... that might belong, And when occasion served disbarked it, Then sailed the Asian coasts and isles along; Thither with speed their hasty course they pl... ...but now his fell engine His graver are did somewhat mitigate, He heard the western lords would undermine His city’s wall, and lay his towers prostrate... ...ught refuse at all.” XLVII To whom the king, “What land so far remote From Asia’s coasts, or Phoebus’ glistering rays, O glorious virgin, that recorde... ...we not our heart. XVI “Go then, my strength, my hope, my Spirits go, These western rebels with your power withstand, Pluck up these weeds, before they... ... her made intercession: But when the earth was once of light deprived, And western seas felt Titan’s hot impression, ‘Twixt two old knights, and matro... ...herald called, and said, “Go tell those news To Godfrey’s self, and to the western lords, And in their hearings boldly say these words: 123 Torquato ...