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...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ..." at low energies. But otherwise SM is one of the more successful theories in the history of physics. It renormalized QFT and, thus, re-defined ma... ...he esoteric. The emergence of pseudo-science is the sad outcome of the blurring of contemporary distinctions between physics and metaphysics. Moder... ...But if a highly incredible event does occur it merely limns the limitations of our contemporary knowledge. To use Hume's terminology: it is never a... ...Freud revolutionized the field (though, at first, his reputation was limited to the German-speaking parts of the dying Habsburg Empire). He dispense... ...ibido and Thanatos (the life and death forces), instincts (Triebe, or "drives", in German) or drives, the somatic-erotogenic phases of psychic (per... ...th hard-edged scientists and thinkers in the "softer" disciplines are influenced by contemporary values, mores, events, and interpellations. The di...

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... it and together they created one of the most impressive theoretical bodies in the history of psychology. Fairbairn internalised Klein's insights t... ...onstruct which reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of A... ... of American History observes, in her recently published tome, "How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States", that the very m... ...o the genetic and biological underpinnings of sexual behavior and preferences. The German science magazine, "Geo", reported recently that the males... ...and the police interrogate the child." (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2004 Edition) In contemporary thought, incest is invariably associated with child...

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...ly by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells Chapter the F Chapter the F Chapter the... ...titude of seasoned depravity towards womankind. Platt and Parsons were his contemporary apprentices in departments of the drapery shop, and the three ... ...ant Apennines, and the neat prosperities and mountain backgrounds of South Germany, all clamour their especial merits at one’s memory. And there are t... ...heard him talking to Rusper. One day they became a little heated about the German peril. “I lay (kik) they’ll invade us,” said Rusper. “Not a bit of i... ...olunteers with buckets of water, and above at a bathroom window the little German waiter was busy with the garden hose. But Mr. Polly’s estab- lishmen...

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...t is not the less true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two poin... ... out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of religion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and ... ...their professional rights; and if we may credit the indirect report of the contemporary literature, all apostolic or missionary zeal for the extension... ...ad never enjoyed a fraction. It was a movement per saltum, beyond all that history has recorded. At cock-crow they had no power at all; when the sun w... ...r northern use of them, it has been satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a German Journal, that the Greek and Roman ladies knew nothing of that modern... ... the extent of his own igno- rance, though doubtless founded upon what the Germans call an einseitig or one-sided estimate, there was however that sor... ... as belonging to our human condition, were not in reality objective, (as a German philosopher would express himself,) or laid in the nature of things,... ...gns precurrent and concurrent of those days, and should also have read the contemporary political pamphlets, coming thus prepared, could not have fail... ...— this period of history can hardly be expected to receive much light from contemporary documents in an age so generally illiterate. Not from national...

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...l order, that had no more relevance to the realities and needs of everyday contemporary life than if they were clean linen that had been put away with... .... Wells “Here,” said I. “We’re on the verge of the biggest lock-out in the history of this countryside; here’s distress and hunger coming, here’s all ... ...seum by look- ing up the caricatures of capital and labor that adorned the German and American socialistic papers of the old time. 36 In the Days of ... ...oused from my egotistical broodings to wider interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irration... ...g and pervading some new region of thought, and that was the antagonism of Germany and Great Britain. When I think of that growing proportion of reade... ...wned that arm and hand, as though he had been some one else. Of course! My history—its rough outline rather than the immediate past—began to shape its... ...ntent, without reservations or aggressions, in the common, open fashion of contemporary intercourse to- day, but which then, nevertheless, was the rar... ...he past, but it will rob them of any effect of reality. The whole of their history becomes more and more foreign, more and more like some queer barbar...

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...r high-spirited Horace and wild Winifred. Dora is like peace- ful times in history—very pleasant to have to do with, but not so entertaining to read a... ...lapidis.”’ ‘But you can go on with Latin and Greek, alone, as you did with German, cannot you?’ said Anne. ‘I do sometimes construe a little Virgil,’ ... ...imes construe a little Virgil,’ said Elizabeth; ‘but Horace is his natural contemporary, and he is not happy without him. Besides, when I have nothing... ... nence. Rupert Merton was an only son, and very handsome, and this was the history of nearly all his foibles. No one could say that his career at scho... ...e musical, and Helen is said to be likely to sing very well. I believe the history of my want of music to be,’ added she, with a bright smile, ‘that I... ...ant a servant, in Saxon,’ said Elizabeth. ‘I know it does sometimes, as in German now,’ said Anne; ‘but the question is, when it acquired a meaning eq... ...e too deep.’ ‘You must know,’ said Elizabeth, ‘that Knecht Ruprecht is the German terrifier of naughty children, the same as the chimney-sweeper in En...

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...f he should beget other suns?’ 99 Aesop’s Fables LIFE OF AESOP THE LIFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Gree... ...Aesop, Anno Domini 1632. The later in vestigations of a host of English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by M. Mezeriac.... ...ble. This inferiority of some to others is sufficiently accounted for in the history of the origin and descent of these fables. The great bulk of them... ...e, has handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose. Avienus, als... ...lection of about a hundred and fifty of these fables. Little is known of his history. Planudes, however, was no mere recluse, shut up in his monastery... ...tedly selected. The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favor and sanction giv... ...as late as the Em peror Severus, who died A.D. 235; while others make him a contemporary with Phaedrus in the time of Augustus. At whatever time he w...

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...of admiration as to leave no welcome for even the less elaborate work of a contemporary of Dickens and Thackeray. As regards “Doctor Grimshawe’s Secre... ...ese fresh acres. Here, too, the sods had covered the faces of men known to history, and reverenced when not a piece of distinguishable dust re mained... ...or, man and boy, I have seen it a thousand times.” He continued the family history, or tradition, or fantastic legend, whichever it might be; telling ... ...the old English family, and was con tinually giving new details about its history, the scenery in its neighborhood, the aspect of the mansion house; ... ...e you now are, and to times previous to the Stuarts.” “Ah! it is to you, a contemporary, what reading the news paper is to other men,” said the stran... ... was the same smell of tobacco, and on the mantel piece of a chimney lay a German pipe, and an old silver tobacco box into which was wrought the leopa...

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...fter the title of Paine’s volume, the man of Dundee was something like his contemporary shipowner, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia, whose sympathies, a... ...e of the 21 Herman Melville seats of their common ancestor, a hero in the German wars of the seventeenth century, in which poem occur the lines, “Thi... ...s treating of actual men and events no mat- 22 Billy Budd ter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and conv... ... fore-chains— the one so abruptly ended there by Billy—noth ing especially german to the story occurred until the events now about to be narrated. Els... ...e British captives, living trophies, made to march in the Roman triumph of Germanicus. Quite as much so as those later barbarians, young men probably,...

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...f recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and sta... ...s, if one could do so subtle, if not so monstrous, a thing as to write the history of the growth of one’s imagination. One would describe then what, a... ...and Miss Stackpole, the definite array of contributions to Isabel Archer’s history. I recognised them, I knew them, they were the numbered pieces of m... ...Portrait of a Lady had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from her... ...en, for a Frenchwoman; but extended observation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess... ...alian, as if it needed to be translated. “Yes,” the other went on, “he’s a German, and we’ve had him many years.” The young girl, who was not heeding ... ...ld Florentine; I mean literally an old one; not a modern outsider. She’s a contemporary of the Medici; she must have been present at the burning of Sa... ...heavy to her, 302 The Portrait of a Lady but that of something altogether contemporary would suddenly give it wings that it could wave in the blue. H... ... friend; the Count- ess could see at a glance that this lady was much more contemporary; and she received an impression of the improvements that were ...

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... creatures; now I am only the most unhappy. Excuse me from telling you the history of my poor mother, who was murdered—” “By a Captain, in a house of ... ...will be first Secretary to an Embassy; later, he shall be Minister at some German Court, and God, or I—better still—helping him, he will take his seat... ...ne as a diplomate, and he would probably be accredited as Minister to some German Court. For the last three years Lucien’s life had been regular and a... ...ofound policy that Lucien should have gallant adventures. Happiness has no history, and the story-tellers of all lands have understood this so well th... ...ayfarers. The footman, seated be- hind, was snoring like a wooden top from Germany—the land of little carved figures, of large wine-vats, and of hum- ... ...s or in fess, with the famous motto: Caveo non timeo, which epitomizes the history of the family. The coat of the Vicomtes de Grandlieu is the same qu... ... of fa- mous pedigree, which will be always known by the name of the great contemporary poet who made them fashionable; and Esther, proud of owning th...

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...and easily awakened. His keen, piercing, dark eyes, told in every glance a history of difficulties subdued, and dangers dared, and seemed to challenge... ...r Scott CHAPTER III Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong, And yellow hair’ d, the blue-eyed... ... is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little— “The knights are dust, A... ...uperstitions which his ances- tors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany. He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a peop... ...ed to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, who, dur- ing the period of our history, was absent in the Holy Land. Prince John, in the meanwhile, occupi... ...n *Nota Bene.—We by no means warrant the accuracy of this piece of natural history , which we give on the authority of the Wardour MS.—L. T . 194 Iva... ...dustrious Henry one of those numerous passages which he has collected from contemporary historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the ... ...th Queen of England, niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, d...

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...stretch out their narrative, so as to be at least consistent with the real history, at the entire sacrifice of the plot. And it may be feared that thu... ...t really reigned over the tangled thread of events. There is no portion of history better illustrated by memoirs of the actors therein than is the Fro... ...only provoked violent tumults. The young Prince of Conde, coming home from Germany flushed with victory, hated Mazarin extremely, but his pride as a P... ...y sentiments on record for you, my children. But how I have anticipated my history! I must return, to tell you that when I was just sixteen I was told... ...ly after he had placed me in my little house at Nancy, to join the army in Germany under Marshal Guebrian. I lived through that time by the help of th... ...r marched up and laid standard after standard before the Altar, heavy with German blazonry, or with the red and gold stripes of Aragon, the embattled ... ...ble, instead of a poor old Scottish cavalier and his wife, my mother’s old contemporary Madame de Delincourt, and a couple of officers waiting for Sol...

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...people beyond the family circuit, just as it was part of his plan to learn German this autumn, and to review legal books for Mr. Hilbery’s “Critical R... ...ine de- cided must go. It might be advisable to introduce here a sketch of contemporary poetry contributed by Mr. Hilbery, and thus terse and learned ... ...oint of view first,” she said, speaking directly to her mother, as if to a contemporary, but before the words were out of her mouth, there was more co... ... Cromwell cutting the King’s head off. Some of the most terrible things in history have been done on principle,” she concluded. “I’m afraid I take a v... ...onclusion that it would be a good thing to learn a language—say Italian or German. She then went to a drawer, which she had to unlock, and took from i... ...other asking for news of John, and to her aunt replying with the authentic history of Hilda’s engagement to an officer in the Indian Army, but she cas... ...talking about books. He told her unhesitatingly that he meant to write the history of the English village from Saxon days to the present time. Some su...

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...wn so marked as when figuring for the chosen language, he must suppose, of contemporary art. They twanged with a vengeance the aesthetic lyre—they dre... ...t monsters; and in particular the right femmes du monde. You can fancy his history on that side—I be- lieve it’s fabulous: they never give him up. Yet... ... of which failed to reverberate—only gave the moments more of the taste of history. It was history, to begin with, that Jeanne’s mother had been three... ...s so impossible that she had the advantage of all her merits. It was still history for Strether that the Comte de Vionnet—it being also history that t... ...a little Jewess (which she wasn’t, oh no!) and chattering French, English, German, Italian, anything one would, in a way that made a clean sweep, if n... ...d accumula- tions that had possibly from time to time shrunken than on any contemporary method of acquisition or form of curiosity. Chad and Miss Gost...

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...H STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its ... ...E HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS... ...PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no mo... ...orth, and discovered the northern coast of Spain, France, England, Holland and Germany. It is also believed that he proceeded as far north as Iceland.... ...anding, as related by the Sagas, is to the effect that among the company was a German named Tyrker, who being the most impetuous of the crew, was not ... ... been killed by Indians, which they had seen on shore. But towards evening the German returned, bearing in his arms a great quantity of grapes, a frui... ...e singular disappearance of the Content: "No trace of this ship remains in any contemporary relation, so far as we have seen. It is imagined that the ...

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... 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and signifi... ...nction disturb anybody. Personification being inevitable in creation, the history of art can be superposed to the history of the authors or, at, lea... ...ose who follow it: “art has proved not only that it is, as is the rule in history, impotent to domesticate the Demon of power, but that it is in cond... ...sts have shown ostentatiously a radical nonconformism. Contimporanul (The Contemporary) of Ion Vinea and Marcel Iancu, 75 H.P. of Ilarie Voronca and ... .... The above mentioned New-Yorker critic, James Gardner, affirms that the contemporary art belongs to the future. I don’t think that the affirmation... ...ce), triangles (translated from French too, in the case of these ones the German translation seemed preferably...), tiny squares - ideal places for s... ...rom abroad: Dumitru Ichim (Canada), Dan Romascanu (Denmark), Titu Popescu (Germany), Radu Enescu (Spain), Al. Mirodan (Israel), Constantin Craciun (A... ... by Student Theater of Timisoara, October 1995 (ia a tour through Morocco, germany and Romania); 5. Pacala, the Bear and the Dragon, Dramatic Theate... ...andache, Almarom, Rm. Valcea, 1994, 113p. Barbu, Marian, Aspects of the contemporary Romanian novel, 2nd vol., Scrisul Romanesc, Craiova, 1995; ch...

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... govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, wh... ... localization of storytelling - moralistic narratives local heroes - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - ... ...nd entertainment - consumer culture - national heroes and idols - national history C. Postlocal culture Global environment - urban technonature - glo... ...houses of white-collar workers, too, the gate is always closed and a large German Shepherd dog patrols the yard behind the gate. The current ideal hou... ...e prosperous. The new decorative pillar house represents 'neo-vernacular', contemporary traditional building style, folklorism, like new vernacular st... ...e, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent of which in the Nor... ...e, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent of which in the Nor... ...Tucson. Ewen, Stuart 1988. All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. Basic Books. Evers, Hans-Dieter 1965. The Formation... ... 1999. Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand. Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai. Jackson Peter A. – Neri...

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...ditions is committed to bringing readers some of the best of fine quality contemporary literature in unique, beautifully designed books, many of the... ... VOICES FROM THE PAST 66 me the poet’s advice to his brother. How history repeats itself! Family problems haven’t changed: this is an earlier... ...sical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. The history of man became an important part of my meditations. Silence and the... ...shepherd, I still follow hills, hills of resurrection they may be. Perhaps history may call me a man of righteousness. Perhaps history may not stop. ... ...uous banquet in the château, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; ... ...upidity: my stupid room, some of it visible in the same glass: the odious German etchings Judith gave me, Papa’s cracked leather chest, the un- polis... ...nguage volumes of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed...

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...ia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nations The W... ... countries and 38,000 interviewees. Two other surveys published last year - by the German Marshall Fund and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relation... ...en March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rus... ...t party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. ... ...e" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. The contemporary USA is actually a land-based empire, comprising the... ...agnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade wi... ...hod of Crusades." This is a patently non-Orthodox, non-Marxist interpretation of history and of the role of the United States - the prime specime... ...nd guerilla fighters. When not at war with Byzantium, they were often used by this contemporary superpower (Byzantium) to further its geopolitical ... ... Ottoman Empire had now superseded the Byzantine Empire; and some Greeks, like the contemporary historian Critobulus of Imbros, recognized the logi...