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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different...

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking ...

...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ...markable that we know so much of them as we do. The same is true of the more modern reformers and benefactors of their race. None can be an impartial ... ... the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Y... ...intained that dressing has in this or any country risen to the dignity of an art. At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecke... ... lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clew, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mau soleum instead. Consid... ...ve their nests, and the foxes their holes, and the savages their wigwams, in modern civilized society not more than one half the families own a shelte... ...m free. Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements. While civilization has been impro...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...

...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...d a search. Was it an official and prestigious institution? A university or a museum or a government? Sometimes those are our sources of information, o... ...en imagine it coupled to the efforts of the great state archives and private museums who themselves would be free to do the same thing. Think of the p... ...y tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little fervid (“No writings, those of Shakespeare exc... ...as and facts that he or she transmits. It is this “original expression” that modern copyright and the modern droits d’auteur actually cover. In today’... ...alid constitutional claim to fair use of a painting by photographing it in a museum. Fair use has never been held to be a guarantee of access to copyr... ...ghtable, that assessment changed. The levers and cogs of the machines of the modern economy are forged out of ones and zeros instead of steel and bras...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

...NonNovel is indeed a novel of drawer, carried year after year in the bottomless sack of the exile. This fierce parabola about totalitarianism, about alienation, guilty obedience and lie, opportunism, cruelty, violence, monstrosity, written in a strong ...

...WARNING!: 5 Mister Editor (a letter arrived at the editorial office): 6 I: 7 Dedication: 10 The Adventures of Hon Hyn: 11 Happenings from Wodania: 23 II: 26 About patriotism: 28 The royal feast: 29 The press: 30 Post Office: 31 The State control: 32 Non-values’ Epoch: 36 Pluralism: 43 A leader not like anyone else: 45 I...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ..., but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. 12. Invaders from the North Scand... ...llion book titles in plain text or 2.5 million in compressed text. Such modern information technologies offer you a chance to learn how your world ... ...he same year I bought the Apple II desktop computer that introduced me to modern Information Technology. Aware that owners of Apple II desktop co... ...daily life‖ before the printed book and fully deserved to be labeled the ―art preservative of all arts.‖ For millennia, memory presided over comm... ...personal copy of Tyndale‘s 1534 New Testament is displayed at the British Museum. Most literate people recognize the King James Bible‘s excellenc... ...d from the back shop forever, as did the Linotypes except for one labeled museum piece that sits in the paper‘s public entrance lobby. One Gazett...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

...The World Public Library Association is the world’s largest aggregator of eBooks. Founded in 1996, the World Public Library Association is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, ...

...Franklin D. Roosevelt - “The public library is a nation’s act of believing in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgement in creating their own future.” The traditional library is changing, fast. Paper books,and the multi-level structures ...

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ..., Ltd. Atherton Family Foundation AT Marketing Belt Collins Hawaii Bishop Museum Bowers and Kubota Cooke Foundation, Ltd. Farmers Insurance Hawaii Fi... ...by peeling and coring 80 pineapples a minute. SOME SAY HAWAI‘I invented modern tourism promotion in 1902 when Honolulu business owners sent an ag... ...TY OF HAWAI‘I JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The University of Hawai‘i’s modern John A. Burns School of Medicine is located in Kaka‘ako on O‘ahu. 7... ... moist or skirt.” Another must-see place for history bufs is the Bishop Museum. The New York-born banker Charles Reed Bishop founded Bishop Museu... ...y heirlooms and an extensive collection of Hawaiian artifacts, today the museum is bursting with more than 24 million items. Among them are 22 mil... ...ssionaries. In contrast, there is hula ‘auana, hula without ceremony, or modern hula, danced to tuneful songs with lively lyrics. More modern inst...

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...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...matter, for “seeing my story,” through the opportunity and the sensibility of some more or less detached, some not strictly involved, though thoroughl... ...ualified them, to my rigour; but they were stall right,” in the so analytic modern critical phrase, through their discreetly disavowing emulation. Noth... ...ce had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the Modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of... ... know.” “You mean his idea for his native place?” “Yes—the collection, the Museum with which he wishes to endow it, and of which he thinks more, as yo... ...ce of continents and seas, that he was unable as yet to emulate; from vast modern machineries and facilities whose acquaintance he had still to make, ... ...f its course?” “Oh it’s all right,” said Bob Assingham. “Go to the British Museum,” his companion continued with spirit. “And what am I to do there?” ... ...lease from the bondage of ugliness he was in a position to measure—in this museum of museums, a palace of art which was to show for compact as a Greek...

...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland 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 App... ... 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, De... ...ters. He appeals to people disoriented by cyclonic change as they confront modernity and globalization. His rhetoric selectively draws from multiple s... ...y audience for calls to Muslims to purify their society , reject unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia. Social and Economic Malai... ...the other Arab nations and Pakistan once had seemed headed toward balanced modernization.The established commercial, financial, and industrial sectors... ...cations equipment employed for these casing missions included state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casin... ...arm system with redundant electronics and control panels, and state-of-the-art fire command stations were placed in the lobby of each tower. 9 T o man... ...4). 142. NYPD interview 6, ESU (Feb. 19, 2004). 143. New Y ork City Police Museum interview of Kenneth Winkler,Apr. 17, 2003 (videotaped); NYPD inter-...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One A Penn State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... hang out their linen to the sun), pass- ing over a shapeless confusion of modern edifices, piled rudely up with ancient brick and stone, and over the... ...re. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul- taneously struck by a resemb... ...nce of cos- tume, and if a lion’s skin could have been substituted for his modern talma, and a rustic pipe for his stick, Donatello might have figured... ...emplating. But we must do more than merely refer to this exquisite work of art; it must be described, however inadequate may be the effort to express ... ...ther forgotten and long-buried evil on society; or, possibly, teaching the modern world some decayed and dusty kind of crime, which the antique Ro- ma... ...tained at little cost, yet might have borne no inconsiderable value in the museum of a virtuoso. 104 The Marble Fawn As interesting as any of these r...

...pter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinki...

...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ions. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern sci- ence to the popular taste, which demands that these should be p... ...all these titles to honour let me add that my uncle was the curator of the museum of mineralogy formed by M. Struve, the Russian ambassador; a most va... ...im. CHAPTER II A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE That study of his was a museum, and nothing else. Speci- mens of everything known in mineralogy lay... ...h, and it was in the same language that that personage directed him to the Museum of Northern Antiquities. The curator of this curious establishment, ... ...e gigantic glyptodons or armadilloes of the pleiocene period, of which the modern tortoise is but a miniature representative.* The soil was be- sides ... ...nsau. But this creature surpassed in stature all the measurements known in modern palaeontology. But that a man, a living man, and therefore whole gen...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below?...

...ernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...out the eighties at least, and probably for some years before, the British Museum reading room was used daily by a gentleman of such astonishing and c... ... course of which he kept me pretty closely on the track of his work at the Museum, in which I was then, like himself, a daily reader. He was by profes... ...the forgeries of the Pentateuch which were offered for sale to the British Museum, and about litera- ture and things of the spirit generally. He alway... ...he matter to sweep away what is nothing but a morbid and very disagreeable modern fashion. There is always some stock ac- 21 GB Shaw cusation brought... ...embroke (or whoever “Mr W . H.” really was) is so overcharged according to modern ideas that a reply on the general case is necessary. Shakespear’s al... ...and, like all such idolatries, it was excited by the magic of Shakespear’s art rather than by his views. He was launched on his career as a successful...

...Excerpt: I had better explain why, in this little piece d?occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitto...

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...but I doubt whether the experiment will be more successful. A new town for art, fashion, and politics has been built at Munich, and there it seems to ... ...e mean little brick chimneys at the left hand as one walks in, attached to modern bakeries, which have been con- structed in the basement for the use ... ...n- ers of Patents. Here is, in accordance with the name of the building, a museum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing wi... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ...ll, what would it be even then as compared with one of the great pyramids? Modern at- tempts cannot bear comparison with those of the old world in sim... ...e of the old world in simple vastness. But in lieu of simple vastness, the modern world aims to achieve either beauty or utility. By the Washington mo...

............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e with you, and I am sorry, sure enough.” “In truth, Peter, I believe thou art; thou hast good reason, eh, Peter? But never fear, man; had I struck th... ... or better still, a very little tipsy, was a complete master of it; in the art of boasting and lying he had hardly any equals; in shoes he stood six f... ...en. As the slave at the car of the Roman conqueror shouted, “Remember thou art mortal!”, before the eyes of the British warrior rode the undertaker an... ...not the 126 Catherine: A Story Burney collection of music, at the British Museum, afford one an ample store of songs from which to choose? Are there ... ...e into good feeling. And although he doth not pre- tend to equal the great modern authors, whom he hath men- tioned, in wit or descriptive power; yet,...

...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for an... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...d not afford to wait for the salu tary permanent effects of freedom. In the modern world, the greater size of political communities, and above all, t... ... no longer put her etics to death; and the amount of penal infliction which modern feeling would probably tolerate, even against the most obnoxious o... ...ul dia lectics which formed the intellects of the “Socratici viri:” but the modern mind owes far more to both than it is generally willing to admit, ... ...s to stop railway travelling on Sunday , in the resistance to the opening of Museums, and the like, has not the cruelty of the old persecutors, the st... ...ral activity , is one of the most difficult and complicated questions in the art of government. It is, in a great measure, a question of detail, in wh...

...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately...

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...isoner! his eyes have broken jail! And again he who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches; if pros... ...some over-weening in- terest in any special field of industry, inquiry, or art, he will do right to obey the impulse; and that for two reasons: the fi... ... of the Lapsus stand higher in the balance. COLLEGE PAPERS CHAPTER II– THE MODERN STUDENT CONSIDERED GENERALLY W E HAVE NOW REACHED the difficult port... ...would as soon associate with a herd of sprightly apes as with these gloomy modern beaux. Alas, that our Mirabels, our Valentines, even our Brummels, s... ...ss the claims of debating societies. It is as a means of melting down this museum of premature petrifactions into living and impres- sionable soul tha... ...r nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilisation– the Urim and Thummim of respectability. Its pregnant s...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

...eries Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ion as that, she would have been wiped off the political map long ago. The modern notion that democracy means governing a country accord- ing to the i... ...lied to it except the test of its effect on human welfare. THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS Political Science means nothing else than the devizing of t... ... cency, of morality, of chastity and what not. All the commonplaces of the modern antiSocialist Noodle’s Ora- tion will be hurled at him. And he will ... ...s exist- ing in England under English forms. But when you come to the real modern marriage of sentiment, a relation is created which has never to my k... ...keep en- thusiastically investing her trade with every allurement that the art of the novelist, the playwright, the dancer, the milli- ner, the painte... ...ly alive woman who has always been rich among poor people. In a historical museum she would explain Edward the Fourth’s taste for shopkeepers’ wives. ...

...ing it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three are here in print for the first time; a... ...nful air that led him on to victory. A passing enthusiasm for some foreign art or fashion may deceive the world, it cannot impose upon his intimates. ... ...presence could impart a savour of quaint antiquity to the baldest and most modern flower-plots. There was a dig- nity about his tall stooping form, an... ..., like Stonehenge, are still afoot, the rest clean vanished. It may be the Museum numbers a full set; and Mr. Ionides perhaps, or else her gracious Ma... ...entertainment and is found enough. Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to these Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his... ...’” On this quotation two remarks fall to be made. First, as an instance of modern feeling for romance, this famous touch 116 Robert Louis Stevenson o...

...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...