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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one...

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...o the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Brandt struggles to accommodate to Mary Kass’s cultural interests 7. Brandt leaves Mary behind to avoid an audience discussion 8. Mary goes after ...

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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ... Berliner". http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not... ...sand zetta (one septillion). Juan Enriquez quotes a study by the University of California at Berkeley in his tome, "As the Future Catches You -... ...nk by up to 2.5 meters. Numerous tsunamis affected locales as far as Crescent City, California. The fault extended for 1000 kilometers and there wer... ...rivate companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural reservoirs of crude oil. The "T...

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...unm.edu/~smarandache/IonSoare2.pdf, iar alta, tot în englez ă, “Aesthetics of Paradoxism”, de Titu Popescu, se poate accesa la: http://gallup.unm.ed... ... Gheorghe NICULESCU 7 PARadOXisM, THE LAST VANGUARD OF SECOND MILLENNIUM A) Definition: PARADOXISM is an avant-g... ... movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up and ... ...heory and school of using paradoxes in literary and artistic creation. C) History: “Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest aga... ...n this style, but also plays for the theater: Metaistorie (Romanian) {Meta-History} (Romania, 1993), novels: Non Roman (Romanian) {Non Novel} (Roman... ...t-the-hair, counter-time, counter-sense creation. Also, to experiment. 2. History Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a clos... ...Y Too much It’s still a little bit BULB Turns nights Into day CALIFORNIA A domestic Wild West Deux autres exemples en français:... ... ă II, în revista (aten ţie la titlu!): “Humanistics Mathematics Network” (California). Dar şi invers: lirica în mate (nu strict, rigid ştiin ţific)... ...umb! AutPictura “Decorativ ă” este graffitiul f ăcut cu spraz pe ziduri în California, de copiii şi adolescen ţii din ganguri, pentru a face r ău ori...

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... Ritter, aka "Montana." Two separate adventures take him from his Montana farm to a Wyoming cattle ranch, Dodge City, Kansas and Texas in his pursuit of the dream to become a cowboy. Along the way something unexpected happens - he becomes a man. The book also introduces Montana's famous horse "Spirit." The characters and plot lines harken back to the best of the western se...

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...tana farm to a Texas cattle drive. Along the way, he en- counters a big slice of western life -- the good, the bad, and all that lies in between. ... ... -- the good, the bad, and all that lies in between. These are the stories of that young man who, guided by the lessons of his mother and father ... ... Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved by the author, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a ... ...ladelphia, but with the news that her Uncle Stuart had taken sick out west in California, Sara’s father and mother decided to pull up stakes and mo... ...aughter. He told Daggot that their journey to their sick relative’s place in California required them to bring along everything they had. Their ent... ...st day or so have caused us some delay in our schedule. We need to get on to California as soon as possible. When is the next stage scheduled out o... ...k I’d seen my fill of both. Captain Daggot was obviously a man with a lot of history. He told me that before the war, he’d spent many of his Calvar... ...n anything to you?” “It might,” responded Masterson. “John, there’s a lot of history here and I’m not sure you want to know about it. I’ll make you... ...t I have two other brothers that figure fairly prominently in the Dodge City history. My older John E. Richman 106 brother Bat, my younger brot...

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...The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, to the ope...

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...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned adv... ...emonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton Aslan Publishing Lower Lake, California U.s.A. Published by AsIan Publishing P.O. Box 108 Lower La... ...ng P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 For a free catalog of all our titles, or to order more copies of this book please call (800)... ...or to order more copies of this book please call (800) 275-2606. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amos, Wally. Man with no name:... ...ise, with­ out prior written permission from Asian Publishing, Lower Lake, California, USA, with the exception of short excerpts used with acknowledg... ...and Panama hat now reside in the Smith­ sonian National Museum of American History in the Business Americana Collection. That hat and shirt, adopted ... ... Sage did not like to fly, and he never once visited our head­ quarters in California. Instead he had an associate, Jerry Pollard, oversee operations... ...y writing about him in this book. We have pro­ cessed all the pains of our history over the course of the years. This has led to us becoming quite go... ...ed that I had rock-solid credibility among my business associates, and my history of service had impressed the people I came to know through the yea...

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...an Republics” to justify the Argentine claims for the boundary in the summits of the Cordillera de los Andes, according to the Treaties of 1881 & 18... ... Escudé et al., op. cit, P. I, t. IV, p. 71; ver también Robert D. Talbott, A History of Chilean Boundaries, (Ph.D. dissertation), University of IIl... ... et al., op. cit, P. I, t. IV, p. 71; ver también Robert D. Talbott, A History of Chilean Boundaries, (Ph.D. dissertation), University of IIlinois, U... ...rt.... op. cit, vol. I, p. 150; Appendix to the Statement Presented on Behalf of Chile in Reply to the Argentine Report submitted to the Tribunal Co... .... Chile and the Balancing of Power in South America, 1830-1905, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1965, p. 91. 9 N. T. Auza, op. cit., p. 1... ... sederías, etcétera. Se ha abierto el tráfico al ferrocarril interoceánico en California que pone en comunicación directa la Europa y Estados Unidos... ...á en demanda, y los cereales producidos en el Pacífico al Sur, con la potente California al Norte, son un pobre elemento de comercio sobre el Perú y... ...si se tiene en cuenta que no pudo haber leído The Influence of Sea Power Upon History publicada por el almirante norteamericano Alfred Thayer Mahan ... ...ante norteamericano Alfred Thayer Mahan en 1890, ni The Geographical Pívot of History publicada por Sir Halford J. Mackinder en 1904 12 . A través ...

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

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...ture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied wit... ...iblical studies and languages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Christian civilizations and religions. It was not long befor... ...of Christianity. Even now books concerned with Comparative Religion or the History of Religions tend to devote the giant’s share of their content to t... ...y. For example, Dianetics (Scientology) became incorporated as a church in California after it ran into legal difficulties because it was presenting i... ...Mass., 1956. Wood, Neal: John Locke And Agrarian Capitalism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984. Worms, E.A.: Australian Aboriginal Religi...

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...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden part...

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...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the forc...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolves through several stages. In th... ...ertise in a public panel before lecturers and students from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. The next morning they re... ...ved over thousands of years and been disseminated among Kabbalists throughout history. I would like to briefly review the key points in this process... ...d motion were all formed, and how the will to receive will evolve. Our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this ca...

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...This book is the second of three volumes designed to provide a general history of the modern Hawaiian Kingdom. The first volume was published some years ago under the title, The Hawaiian Kingdom, 1778-1854: Foundation and Transformation. The third v...

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...The first attempts to establish steam navigation among the Hawaiian islands were made by men engaged in similar enterprises in California; they were part of a much larger movement. The expansion of the United States to the Pacific coast, the extraordinarily rapid settlement of California after the discovery of gold in that region, and the quick rise ...

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...arbor Improvements. 19 -- Land Travel. 23 -- Mail Service. 26 -- The New King. 33 -- Administrative Organization. 36 -- General Policy. 37 -- Mission of W. L. Lee. 39 -- Failure of the Reciprocity Treaty. 45 -- Great Britain and the Reciprocity Treaty. 47 -- New Treaty with France. 47 -- Quest for Security. 54 -- Hawaii's Neutrality in Time of War. 57 -- Hawaii and Japan. ...

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

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...Kamehameha III: Kauikeaouli is a biography of the Hawaiian kingdoms third ruler. A biography is a written story of a persons life and is based upon historical records. This story tells about the significant events of Kauikeaoulis life. It starts with his birth and ...

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...Preface. ix -- Acknowledgments. xi -- Introduction. 1 -- Birth of a Prince. 3 -- Early Childhood. 6 -- Breaking of the Eating Kapu. 10 -- The Missionaries Arrive. 12 -- Liholihos Successor. 14 -- The Boy King and Kaahumanu. 18 -- Kinau Becomes Kuhina Nui. 24 -- Kauikeaouli Rebels. 27 -- ...

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...ng to climb their way from the underground and gain traction as a legitimate style, but there was something to be said about this little-known corner of dieselpunk, or "low-brow pop surrealism" as it was known back then. Like the French film scholars who codified Film Noir as a genre years after the movies were in the theaters, I could see a similar thread binding the ...

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...It was all those damn fool bankers in New York.” “Bankers?” “Yeah, bankers. They’re the ones who caused everything that’s happened. A huge pack of New York bankers got greedy. And the country was the one to cop it in the teeth when it all headed south.” “Nah. It weren’t that.” “It was too. And everyone knows it. Bankers got greedy, they sold Louisiana back to t...

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...Welcome to the Retro Future That Sort of World: A Tale of the Aether Age Pandora Driver: Who are the People in Your Neighborhood The Troubleshooter: What the Wise Man Says The World of Mañana: A Friend of Spirits Last Call...