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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...nd subject to their husbands has given way to having more women than men in college and the right for women to succeed in business and politics. The... ...ories! He had lived there often during the summers while in high school and college, as well as during his early bachelor years. What a great retreat... ...cerned? No! The world needs more souls now. Only a few scientists and other academics seem to realize the catastrophe that is already here.” ... ...thogens in the air, use nuclear weapons against major cities like New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing or Paris. “Or maybe we’ll follow the pattern... ...dition and the bliss of ignorance. “Following the subway bombings in London, Muslim cleric Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to seven years in pri...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...ernet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org.... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...about them soon gave way as businesses could Battle of the Boxes 15 rely on college graduates having skills in word processing and other basic PC too... ...an any of the pro- prietary networks. Most of the Internet’s architects were academics, amateurs like T om Jennings in the sense that they undertook t... ...suaded most of the interested parties. The motto among them was, “We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and run- ni... ...thing for the Internet to work the way it was designed when de- ployed among academics whose raison d’être was to build functioning net- works. But th... ...n the wake of popular legislative attempts to revoke land claims); Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819) (protect- ing the pre–Revolutiona... ...e U.S. Patent No. 6,368,227 (issued Apr. 9, 2002). 70. See Posting of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes to Gear for Geeks, Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellec...
...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...
...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville 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... ... and so still be poison, moral poison. Too well I know this Tacitus. In my college-days he came near souring me into cynicism. Yes, I began to turn do... ...t Tacitus! I have long been of opinion that these classics are the bane of colleges; for—not to hint of the immorality of Ovid, Horace, Anacreon, and ... ...ct, not dis- similar to yours, was by me thrown out at the World’s Fair in London.” “World’s Fair? You there? Pray how was that?” “First, let me—” “Na... ...sm what was ever achieved but commonplace? But again: consider the poor in London. T o that mob of misery, what is a joint here and a loaf there? I am... ...t is in kindliness—and all for so paltry a sum. Security? Our being fellow-academics, and friends from childhood up, is security.” “Pardon me, my dear... ...om childhood up, is security.” “Pardon me, my dear Frank, our being fellow-academics is the worst of securities; while, our having been friends from c... ...tomer (for in a row there were three thrones on the dais, as for the three kings of Cologne, those patron saints of the barber), “sir, you say you tru...
...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...
...ics Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...le of all his school-companions. The same qualities secured him at Glasgow college a plentiful share of the same sort of notice. Half the youthful mob... ...ge, or made the least attempt to retort upon his tormentors. He slunk from college by the most secret paths he could discover, and plunged himself int... ...Colonel is now at Nottingham, the Major, with the officers of my corps, at Kingston-upon-Thames. I offer before you both to submit to any degree of ig... ...you both to submit to any degree of ignominy, if, within the return of the Kingston and Nottingham posts, I am not able to establish these points. Or ... ...the difference between Plato and Zenocrates.” “The former was chief of the Academics, the latter of the Sto- ics,” said the Dominie, with some scorn o... ...ring before me, while that investigation was proceeding?” “I was called to London,” answered Glossin, “on most im- portant business, the morning after... ...clock the next morning. By next day’s post, the solicitor sent the case to London, a chef-d’oeuvre of its kind; and in which, my informant assured me,...
...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in ...
... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ...e exchange of (restricted and open) research results among scientists and academics in participating institutions - it was supposed to provide insta... ... news. Enter Scindex and its Academic Resource Channel. Established by academics and software experts from Bulgaria, it epitomizes the tearing do... ... developing countries. It is not uncommon to find a mastery of English, a college degree in the sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fr... ...l. It is a venerable, not for profit, print journal published by Emerson College, now marking its 30th anniversary. It recently inaugurated its web... ... to roam this worldwide labyrinth. But the path from one neighbourhood of London to another may traverse Japan. The really ingenious thing about th... ...ou to read "Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind" by Sayre published in London in 1976). They all contain information stored, a set of rules to r...
... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...ies in control of nearly two-thirds of the market. In 1990, three big publishers of college textbooks accounted for 35% of industry sales. Today the... ...ock Market", the authors - Marcus Miller, Paul Weller, and Lei Zhang, all respected academics - accuse the Fed of creating a "Greenspan Put". In a s... ...n no Microsoft or Intel. It would seem that both management gurus and ivory tower academics agree that innovation - technological and financial - ... ...ture stream of dividends emanating from their share holdings to send their kids to college or as collateral. Yet, dividends seemed to have gone th... ...rovision for Social Goods, in: Margolis, J./Guitton, H. (eds.), Public Economics - London, McMillan, 1969, pp. 124-44. Musgrave, R. A. - The Theory... ...th growing prosperity. As Alison Wolf, professor of education at the University of London elucidates in her seminal tome "Does Education Matter? My...
Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.
...SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All rights reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ... ..., mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excludi... ...N; www.davids-books.com / www.rnupress.com and Ardith Publishing Services, London, ON; www.ardith.ca Printed and bound in Canada 3 A COURAGEOUS BATTL... ...ted. But still … Finding her place she began to read. The Bobbsey Twins at London Tower was the latest in the series about Bert and Nan, and Flossie a... ...ether he would get laid. He had planted reforestation seedlings during his college summer breaks, enjoying the fact that he got paid for the work he d... ...nnoying brat next door, who had sent him cards and letters all through his college years, even though he never replied. None of them were in his thoug... ...constitutional crisis; about Wayne Gretzky being traded to the Los Angeles Kings; and about music. Lacey 52 SUSAN BRACKEN was enthralled by her first... ...ing the nights. They were captivated when they entered the Rideau Canal at Kingston, a preserved historic system that still operates with the old lock... ...are professionals about end-of-life care 24 hours a day. SELECTED CANADIAN ACADEMICS JOCELYN DOWNIE, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; {jocelyn.downi...
... fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indignity she thinks is coming and wants to die. Her beloved daughter, Jana, will help her. But her doctor does not approve. To complicate matters, Jana and the doctor are in love. Will Lacey get her wish?...
... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...e of this category of cannibalism is the punitive ritual of being eaten alive. The kings of the tribes of the Cook Islands were thought to embody t... ...rees of the sacred and oecumenical Council of Trent, Ed. and trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), 75-91.) Still, most systems of morality a... ...called this period "scientific humanism" (in "Flesh and Stone" by Richard Sennett, London, Faber and Faber, 1994). We mentioned John of Salisbury's... ... criminals, sperm banks with contributions from high achievers, and incentives for college students to procreate. Modern genetic engineering and bi... ...n no Microsoft or Intel. It would seem that both management gurus and ivory tower academics agree that innovation - technological and financial - ... ...e year than Albert Einstein did in his entire life. This strikes many - especially academics - as unfair. Surely Einstein's contributions to human ... ...stituencies will be confined to multi-tiered, self- dissolving ("sunset") "electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. Left vs. Right (i...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
.../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... ...c Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page iii A Car... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...dangerous goal. You have never heard true condescension until you have heard academics pronounce the word “popularizer.” They say it as Isadora Duncan... ...lay recounts the story of Richardson’s grandson, “a clergyman in the city of London.” Though a “most upright and excellent man,” the grandson “had con... ...r. And it does this all with humor, without jargon, and in rhyming couplets. Academics should take note. Like most criticisms of the enclosure movemen... ...thinks of them, The Legendary K.O. are doing something very different than a college student who just does not want to pay for music and downloads tho... ... from Tim Berners-Lee’s work at CERN in 1991. My daughter will graduate from college in the year 2011. (At least, we both hope so.) She is older than ...
...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...
... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ... 15 —―Briefly, for my own sense of clarity, I see Freud's concept of libido to be much more important than I did when I was in colleg... ...ive the females of the species would fancy him and he could settle down to a year of nuzzling and nesting.‖ —―When I got my Corvette in colleg... ... 32 —―Right. So because of an early lack of power in our infancy and childhood we spend our lives seeking it--in success in sports and academ... ...different cities and countries. That way each is an expert in a geographical area that the others don‘t know. Those who can‘t find success in academ... ...ation of the Jews had religious overtones in his otherwise secular war. Whether religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the generals and kings,... ... supersedes that of the elected legislators. Iran is a prime example today. And when you look back in history you see popes holding power over kings.... ...of people with similar interests. So what might be normal for an Orthodox Jew might not be in the norm for a Reformed Jew. What is the norm in London...
...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...