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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...in 1947. Aung San may be a hero to the Burmese but he has collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the secon... ...ough he conveniently switch allegiances to the winning side five months before the Japanese capitulated. Aung San raised a Burmese contingent - ... ... Bulimia Nervosa are indeed more common among adolescents. But close to 80% of all deaths from anorexia nervosa are among people older than 45. Act... ...Mental Health Institute. He was a model patient. There he died on July 26, 1984 of cancer and respiratory and heart ailments and was buried next to... ...d sulfuric acid. During the autumn of 1909, there were more than 1,000 “smoke-fog” deaths in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1952 smog killed more than 4... ...urran of the National Weather Service. In the United States alone there were 3,239 deaths and 9,818 injuries from lightning strikes between 1959 an...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ............................................................ 17 MEDICAL COSTS IN THE U.S. ................................................................. ...s such as the Black Death and the AIDS virus, or by the painful and pitiful deaths due to famine -- a state directed peacetime drop in population suc... ...ke. That‘s about twice the world‘s rate. Smoking now accounts for one in 8 deaths in China but will rise to 1 in 3 by 2050 if the current trends con... ... of doctors smoke, most people still don‘t know the risks of lung and other cancers or the major killer from smoking-- heart disease. It is true that... ...blems will not be covered by the national health insurance. So the various cancers that are tobacco related, such as lung and mouth cancers, emphyse... ...health care bills by 30 to 40%. Your own research shows that half of your deaths were attributed to preventable exposures or behaviors. (2) We see ... ...five years. The reports vary with disease. So if the report is on prostate cancer, all drug companies are invited to submit their drug information re...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Le... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ..................................................................... .... Most of the infections contracted don‘t 15 respond to antibiotics. Deaths of new-borns account for over one-third of all child mortality acro... ...World Health Organization has predicted that in five years, by 2030, AIDS deaths will be in the top three causes of death, along with heart disease ... ...hs will be in the top three causes of death, along with heart disease and cancer. While ten years ago it caused 3 million deaths a year, by 2030 it m... ...ng with heart disease and cancer. While ten years ago it caused 3 million deaths a year, by 2030 it may be as high as 120 million total deaths from ... ...haps we should encourage smoking. Our health care is so minimal that lung cancers and heart problems are not treated. We are concentrating on matern... ...f the degenerative and chronic diseases like cardio- vascular diseases and cancer. ―We want to give all babies an even start. But after that sta...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...‖ --―And you know it significantly reduces our heart disease and cancer rates‖ 12 --―I‘ve sure learned something about living mo... ...o a concert in the Hollywood Bowl. Gosh I miss her. Her death from breast cancer was the low point in my life. After ten years I‘m still not over it... ...you feel and look better now while reducing the chances of heart disease, cancer and diabetes in the future. Reading a good book can give you pleasur... ...ations were largely socially inspired. How could a merciful God allow the deaths of so many innocent people in New York in September of 2001. How co... ...eming lack of mercy by the Judeo-Christian-Muslim God in allowing so many deaths to innocent people in wars and natural disasters. They often also m... ...2 million from his own armies. Was that bad because of the total number of deaths or was it good for population control? His structure of laws was ce...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... ...may get 400 international units of D. This may be enough for most people to keep their bones strong. But we now find that vitamin D may fight cancer... ...e in the famous nurses‘ study of 37,000 female nurses in the U.S. in the period from 1992 to 2000 there were about a thousand cases of breast cancer... ...s a quantitative study. What if we took 37,000 secretaries or kindergarten teachers or 37,000 female grape pickers— would the number of breast cancer... ... soldiers to do. Then the psychologists helped the propagandists to develop their warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japane... ...the shyness passes as we become more sure of ourselves. ―Suicide is the ultimate retreat from one‘s problems. It now causes 20% of the deaths... ...istan and marital problems caused by their absence from home were cited as the causes. Soldiers had four times the normal American rate of 4.4 deaths...

...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 CONCEPTS OF G...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gull... ...arly Monday morning and were surprised to have the Prime Minister meet us in person. —“Mr. Yuen, good morning. I‟m delighted that you took you... ...ly joined it. Research is speeding along on Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, many cancers, diabetes, and a number of other diseases and handicaps. And the t... ...bout 90% of men were working. By 70 almost no men in Belgium worked but in Japan 50% were still working. In Belgium even by age 60 only 25% of men we... ...ll working. In Belgium even by age 60 only 25% of men were working. But in Japan 75% are working at 60. “In 2000 when I left, in the U.S. ten ... ... major problem is to find the causes and cures for Alzheimer‟s, arthritis, cancers and all the other problems that end life or make life less bearabl... ...s there a history of diabetes, cholesterol or heart problems, Alzheimer‟s, cancers. Is there evidence of psychosis, especially bipolar, schizophrenic... ... year. This is about two and a half times the world average. Over 25% of deaths to European males between the ages of 15 and 30 are alcohol related....

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...roduction of carbonized-burnt food into our diet was also the introduction of cancer into our bodies. Why do chefs, the world over, put black or w... ...ave us blackened organs and carbonized innards and ultimately: the disease of cancer. Because we still want a hotness in our food whether it is cook... ...k and white specks of soot on it. They missed their dearly beloved specks of cancer-causing carbon. Then Europeans discovered spices; black and wh... ... power of national banks, moneyed capitalists…money: filthy lucre, capitalist deathsheads: the Jewish Rothschild family intermarrying with English, A... ...Harbor was going to be bombed and letting Americans die so he could use their deaths as an excuse to declare war. Just like Bush Jr. used the pre-kn... ...first would-be skinners lost their own skins in the process and died horrible deaths. They were literally skinned alive by their own evils… they di...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ................................................................... 12 A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS .............................................. ... people to make much of a difference to the exploding population. A million deaths here or there doesn’t dent the billions who roam our overcrowded ... ... AIDS victims with anti-retroviral drugs has reduced the number of expected deaths by over 30 million. This keeps the victims reproducing longer. Con... ...rly 50 countries that are reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea would lose population if they didn... ... has its special problems. The 40s required the surrender of the German and Japanese aggressors. The 50s were quiet, but the times pushed the produc... ...other parts of the world. Is this what you want for your grandchildren? The deaths may help to curb the population explosion but is 33 it worth t... ...ht here affecting us today. “I had a couple of friends die of skin cancer. One was the legendary surfer Tommy Zahn, who my father used to l...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our missio... ...ludes any service that offers this file for download or commercial distribution in any form, (See complete disclaimer http://WorldLibrary.net/Copyri... ...ios All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-el... ...s are the cause of serious illnesses around the country, including new forms of cancer; not to men­ tion the pollution of precious water tables, stre... ..., an alarming number of pa­ tients were dying from various forms of rapid growth cancer cells. The mystery was that most of these people had been giv... ...d chief pathologist, ·was completely smmped. There had been at least two dozen cancer deaths, and he was unable to find any common denomi­ nator. No... ... pathologist, ·was completely smmped. There had been at least two dozen cancer deaths, and he was unable to find any common denomi­ nator. No doctor... ...mpant out-break of so many serious illnesses, let alone the unexplained cancer deaths. It was 12 :42 am when Dr. Alex Greene met with an exhausted ... ...ore Greene arrived on the scene some six years before, spoke up, "Alex, all the deaths do have one thing in common." "What's that?" "They all died ...

A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, ...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...e of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India E-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of N... ...nity Mobilization and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Inform... ... ISBN: 1-931233-76-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS Dedication 4 Preface 5... ...eral cases in India. We mention here a few types of them. 1. Encounter deaths with police. 2. Murder of political personalities which is very com... ...der of political personalities which is very common in India 3. Custodial deaths in prison (Beaten to death, hanging, suicide etc.) 4. Undue delay i... ...ing by others; drunken driving etc. wreak havoc on the number of accident deaths. We can say in conclusion that problems related to traffic and tran... ...forms a part of disease and hastens death.(For in case of cancer treatment the patient loses hair, blackened compl... ...ological and psychological problems including the study of terminally ill cancer patient who wish for death, in study of female infanticide, suicide... ...’) 35. What can we apply for the death wish of the terminally ill [say, cancer] patients i. NRMs? ii. 2-linked NRMs? Which will be a better mo...

...In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has re...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...sual experiences of their petty and selfish lives to compare others with. In Japan women who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely acc... ...t's not panic." It was a hope for self- preservation. It was a hope of the deaths of millions of people rather than themselves who resided in Ithaca... ...nd resources on exploratory surgery to find out whether or not the lymphatic cancer had spread in an aging pet, the man turned away from the woman. Ga... .... Romanticizing the sun that burnt her face and could end up giving her skin cancer was better than the self-defeating flames of hate that might have ... ...erdeveloped foreign countries among heathen populations. But car accidents, cancer, high mortgage payments, a fire gutting a family home, and stock m... ...ions toward money, power and status within this ticking of limited time, the deaths of family members, its own gauche stumbling attempts at family as ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... Disorders The Genetic Roots of Personality Disorders Defense Mechanisms B. Topics in Developmental Psychology The Narcissistic Parent The Narcis... ..." By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman who lived in Vermont in the 1860s. While working on a railroad bed, he pac... ...ned to human speech and can distinguish sounds better than adults do. Chinese and Japanese babies react differently to "pa" and to "ba", to "ra" a... ...lso mature later, die earlier, are more susceptible to infections and most types of cancer, are more likely to be dyslexic, to suffer from a host o... ...lumbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensual incest than others (Japan, India until the 1930's, Australia). The list is long an... ...led in primitive societies to disputes and conflicts - including armed clashes and deaths. To prevent such recurrent and costly bloodshed was one o...

Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...served to natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader: after all, they are both growths... ...oth growths, clusters of cells. The difference, of course, is that no one contracts cancer willingly (except, to some extent, smokers -–but, then t... ...xamples: excessive use of antibiotics leads to drug- resistant strains of pathogens, cancer is caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to mod... ... professions due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaughters). The Anti-Semite: Argument numbe... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ...led in primitive societies to disputes and conflicts - including armed clashes and deaths. To prevent such recurrent and costly bloodshed was one o...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...served to natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader: after all, they are both growths... ...oth growths, clusters of cells. The difference, of course, is that no one contracts cancer willingly (except, to some extent, smokers -–but, then t... ...xamples: excessive use of antibiotics leads to drug- resistant strains of pathogens, cancer is caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to mod... ... professions due to their demography (aging population, low birth-rates, unnatural deaths in wars and slaughters). The Anti-Semite: Argument numbe... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ...led in primitive societies to disputes and conflicts - including armed clashes and deaths. To prevent such recurrent and costly bloodshed was one o...

...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....

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

... 2004 Xiquan 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information... ... ISBN: 1-931233-72-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 C... ... Publication Review by F. Liu…………………………………………………..………..22 Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics………………..………………27 Neutrosophic... ...other one] (totally biased). 33 Exercises for readers: If China and Japan are in the Far East, why do we go West from the U.S.A. to get there? ... ...power" (Francis Bacon). But knowledge brings weakness too (An example is a cancer patient who knows he's sick.). (False understanding leads to corrup... ... Philosophical Examples: Or, how to calculate the truth-value of Zen (in Japanese) / Chan (in Chinese) doctrine philosophical proposition: Is the p... ...to use force to control another country; Hitler’s invasion of Europe, the Japanese invasion of China, the Russians in Afghanistan and the United Stat... ...d that today he would be killed. He also became aware of his past births, deaths, and rebirths. He realized that the results of his past unwholesome ...

...Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in Chinese culture. I cannot decline his warm request to write the preface, even with my fragments of knowledge – no insight nor wisdom, and therefore can be misleading. I have been extremely regretful for my ideological erro...

...y the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 13 -- Biography of the Translator. 18 -- Publication Review by F. Liu. 22 -- Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 27 -- Neutrosophic Dialogues. 51 -- Absolute Truth. 68 -- Science, Destiny, and Buddhism. 79 -- Call for Papers. 94 -- Neutrosophy and Dialectic, postface by Anthony Mansueto. 95 -...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...n Little Economic Tiger, because it is following in the footsteps of great Japan? Or areAsian cultures stronger, are they able to choose their future,... ...a hurry overtake recklessly. In Thailand, road traffic accidents cause the deaths of tens of thousands of people annually, but driving is unavoidable.... ...ers of the plains villages tried out new cash crops which were marketed by Japanese agro-business. Potatoes have also become popular in Thailand, and ... ...warn that slimming creams are ineffective and that lightening creams cause cancer. But the adverts roll on and continue to reinforce ideas of what is ... ...ere and the number of victims has begun to decline, although statistics on deaths will continue to rise. Maybe deaths from Aids will gradually become ... ...y, and no longer have a future in any case. In densely populated villages, deaths of ten people from Aids constitutes a rare cause of death in recent ...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ...he Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, particularly popular in Japan. Nevertheless be- lief in permanent, ultimate individuality such as i... ...hich distinguish Buddhism from all other religions. 42 Zen has its home in Japan, although originally it came from India via China. Among the streams ... ... of his much loved grandson, and also the first of numerous operations for cancer of the palate. 50 There is nothing like personal experience of death... ...that Christians of the earliest period were able to believe that their own deaths would not take place, even though others had died. Avoiding death is... ...sm originated and spread, and the cultural underlay of Indian, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism which gave rise to Zen. There is a definite tendency in b... ...tsiders. Thirdly, these older medicine men were dying off, and after their deaths the information they had imparted to anthropologists could not be ve...

...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture 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 with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...urplus produced by enclosure helped to save a society devastated by the mass deaths of the sixteenth century. Those who weep over the terrible ef- fec... ...7278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 52 their images should end with their deaths, and that courts would agree that those rights were tightly limite... ...e world they are sold. Region 1 is the United States and Canada. Region 2 is Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and—bizarrely—Greenland. Re... ... of DVD players felt that American consumers wanted to be able to play their Japanese anime movies without buying another DVD player to do so? Or what... ...trate it in a few hands. Research on genes indicating a propensity to breast cancer is a frequently cited example of the latter problem. Fabienne Orsi... ...eficial to Innovative Activities? Lessons from the Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Controversies,” Industrial and Corporate Change 14 (2005): 1205–12...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those 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,...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, h... ...ng the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his ho... ...train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate tim... ...e she was again, the one who had absconded away from them at their parents deaths in a Bangkok- to-Ayutthaya automobile accident, walking away from h... ..."Of course. Guests of honor, you know. They have overcome servitude in the Japanese owned/Thai co-signed sweatshops. Independence, you know. They will... ...occur at human hands it would be no different from the Pyrrhic viruses and cancer that killed incidentally, or even the immune system which was a kill... ...econdhand buses that, according to the travel guide, had been given by the Japanese government to the retarded capital as a gesture of friendship, bus... ... mammoths. They were used busses that were supercilious hand-me-downs from Japan to a world capital bereft of so much. Often there needed to be multip...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ... , Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW. ... ...nt craft in your day, for aught I know; — square toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it,... ...vener able bows looked bearded. Her masts — cut somewhere on the coast of Japan, where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale — her masts st... ...r. One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, howe... ...e Twins — that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roa...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania State... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... was an English Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 66 merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of Deptf... ...raphers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a ba... ... – Swift 96 tacle that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two ... ...ft 133 PART III A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN CHAPTER I The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by pira... ...envy seems principally di rected, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find them selves cu...

...tion between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ........................................ 156 VI. ON MRS CORBET, WHO DIED OF A CANCER IN HER BREAST. ........................................................ ...own’d, The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: From silver spou... ...fied with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus’ fiery car: The youth rush eager to the sylvan wa... ...new wounds! and how her old have bled! 320 She saw her sons with purple deaths expire, Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire, A dreadful series... .... ON MRS CORBET VI. ON MRS CORBET VI. ON MRS CORBET, , , , , WHO DIED OF A CANCER WHO DIED OF A CANCER WHO DIED OF A CANCER WHO DIED OF A CANCER WHO D... ...0 But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep Towns to o...

.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...s something big coming,” said Jim. “Where from?” “Watch Ireland, and watch Japan—they’re the two poles of the world,” said Jim. “I thought Russia and ... ...said Lilly. “Eh? What? Russia and America! They’ll depend on Ire- land and Japan. I know it. I’ve had a vision of it. Ireland on this side and Japan o... ... sort of vision?” “Couldn’t describe it.” “But you don’t think much of the Japanese, do you?” asked Lilly. “Don’t I! Don’t I!” said Jim. “What, don’t ... ...ene machine they called the war, that I never would, no, not if I died ten deaths and had eleven mothers violated. But I would like to kill my enemy: ... ...for him. She who did die with him, many terrible and magnificent connubial deaths, in his arms, her husband. Her husband! How bitter the word grew to ... ...omething in love, I think. It is love itself which gnaws us inside, like a cancer,” said the Italian. “But why should it? Is that the nature of love?”...

...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now ...

....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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