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... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he pr... ...god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though con... ...aver Chapter 1 They, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their though... ...nually shot this thought through his neurological circuitry until the taxi driver spoke, parting his thoughts like Moses and the Red Sea or Buddha sab... ... member of the more affluent class and this by Thai, although not Buddhist standards, was well revered. How swift one's encroaching aloneness was pur... ...o return the next day. It was then that a sizable amount of money, by the standards of regular Thai people, was given to him. --Suthep doesn't seem a... ...s this way," said the tuc tuc driver eager to compound a taxi fee with an agency's commission for bringing a foreigner to a beloved half-hour lady of... ...tnessing-the people finally oozing out of trapped busses and around halted vehicles like leaking oil. The hours passed somehow and again the park clo...
...) were as hectic as usual. Producers, assistant producers, directors, assistant directors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning... ...irectors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning off papers and giving and taking orders. Cameras jostled into position as the li... ...ets in their direction. Brand ran into the street, trying to see if he could make out the vehicle; all he saw was a black outline that resembled a Li... ...ently, I am from Colombia.” Small world, Brand thought to himself, and then directed the driver to an address, speaking in Spanish. The area seem... ...he tenements stood in dark contrast to the hotel that they were just in. Brand handed the driver the fare, plus a healthy tip. “Let’s go,” he said to... ...o circulate the air. “I’ll find us another place tomorrow. I know this is not up to your standards.” “You’re a boor, and an arrogant boor. You don... ...r government have they partnered with?” “Not sure. My guess is the NSA (National Security Agency).” “Why?” “It was in a NSA envelope. I destroyed i... ... Brand said, “Stop here, and wait for us.” The driver complied. The seven men exited the vehicle, and were led by Brand to the entrance. Two guards... ...e in an uproar, and his secret plan goes under the radar screen. He’d have every security agency looking for an unknown terrorist group.” “You want ...
...An ex-intelligence officer, who handles elite politicians and celebrities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...
...ry. Brand uncovers information pointing to Jamieson’s involvement in arming the international space station. As rogue generals from Russia, China and the U.S. try to install a mind-control weapon designed to divide the world into three parts, Brand tries to stop them. Enlisting the help of Mrs. Stone, the mafia and covert operatives, he must find the weapon before it c...
...TS FOR INNER STRENGTH Famous Amos THE OWER IN OU by Wally Amos and Gregory Amos f)I..I:' DONALD I. FINE, INC. ~ NEW YORK Copyright © 1... ...f)I..I:' DONALD I. FINE, INC. ~ NEW YORK Copyright © 1988 by Wally Amos and Gregory Amos All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction ... ... power of love. Those little chocolate chip goodies are just the evolving vehicle on which I can spread my philosophies of peace and love. Let me g... ...OWER IN YOU 16 with a product I loved the best. "Famous Amos" became the vehicle to express my love in the outside world. The positive responses fr... ... have llsettled for becoming the first Black agent at a major theatrical agency and left my life's achievements at that. But considering what the ... ...ng upon your personal code of ethics. Some think that integrity and moral standards are values dictated by our governments, corpora~ tions, and edu... ...f integrity lies in affirming only the positive attributes of one's moral standards. There is no distinction made between business and personal eth... ...pty, except for a young white woman, whom we later discovered was the bus driver's girl, friend. My mother decided to sit next to this lady. Ruby f... ...er feet were hurting. Almost immediately, the lady complained to the bus driver. He turned to Ruby and told her to move to the rear of the bus. The...
...Wally Amos, who rose from relative poverty to fame and fortune as "Famous Amos" details the components for a successful personal, financial and spiritual life using his ten secret ingredients for inner strength. He discusses his struggle to overcome personal and professional ...
... The Suffering of Being Kafka 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovs... ...gelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tr... ...tles, and rattles. Still, he never gave up his crib, installing it on top of his squeaking vehicle, and filling it to its tattered brim with a rainb... ...urnal queue. Eli sprawls across the upholstered back seat for a quick shut-eye. I give the driver the name of our hotel at the heart of Madrid and ... ...e road unwinds, they restlessly realign their bodies, attuned to seats and neighbours. Our driver deftly skirts the terminal's piers and ramps. Betw... ...She is aboard the bus and may have explosives strapped around her waist." "Get her off this vehicle, she may be lethal!" – another advises. "I am n... ...t does – is it peculiar? Who is to judge, by whose authority? What are the moral, or other, standards used to determine my eccentricity or idiosyncr... ...d them comparing impressions, exchanging phone numbers, mourning the poet and, through his agency, themselves. "I knew your son" – I said. I reall... ...epia cukoo clocks covers obscuring. Perhaps one day you will become a benign sentence an agency through which to be. Return Cutting to Exis...
A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.
... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ...ist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... two or more countries and for the comparison of profiles that conform to Interpol standards in a centralized database. Investigators can access th... ...(ASF Nominal database of international criminals, electronic notices, stolen motor vehicles, stolen/lost/counterfeit travel and ID documents, stole... ...tional law enforcement entities. Europol (European Union's criminal intelligence agency) Computer System (TECS) Member States can directly inpu... ... 25 cents per person. The sound was delivered by in-car speakers which hung on the driver's side window. Drive-ins today have anywhere from one to ... ...itzburg Station; in the further course of the journey he was beaten up by the white driver of a stagecoach because he would not travel on the footbo... ...g space is spread over 67 acres (c. 270,000 sq.m.) and can accommodate up to 8,800 vehicles. Each wall of the Pentagon is more than 920 feet lo... ...all of 100 TV sets in the kingdom. At the beginning there were many competing standards on both sides of the Atlantic. Baird's technological s...
Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.
...1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 G... ...NTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTION OF IDEA... ...n innovation, the more likely he is to adopt. For example, a technical assistance agency in Bolivia introduced a new corn variety in one town. With... ... the author that all advertising was "just plain propaganda." Upon arrival at her vehicle, a bumper sticker asked, "Did you hug your child today?" ... ...nsible for the enactment of six major Federal laws -the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967, the Natural ... ...in New Hampshire's First Congressional District. Mr. Adams was an unemployed taxi driver who did almost no campaigning. He made no speeches, issue... ...stood out among those of neighboring areas. Upon entering Connecticut's highways, drivers became especially aware of their speedometers. A brand n... ... serves as an incentive to the sponsoring organization to create and maintain high standards. For long-term welfare of the firm, the producer of a ... ...ived ideas, or voting preferences. Cultural Values Cultural values are social standards deemed desirable by a group. The impact of cultural val...
...ptance of the idea? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. In this first chapter the nature of an idea is developed, contextualized and shown to be a most timely topic. To pave the way for this book's argument that ideas are exchanged in marketlike transactions, the aim of this chapter is to present an idea as a dynamic and vital entity....
...a-- Book 6 Our Psychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GU... ...N--OUR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND TH... ...dile infested river to harvest a banana tree. An infant may seek the security of a parent's arms when encountering a threatening situation. A driver... ...cratic in a deep sense; although not indiscriminate, they are not really aware of differences. They are strongly ethical, with definite moral standa... ...titute for not being successful on the playing field. Just pretend that you have the power of your automobile. Don‘t forget road rage where a driver... ...ed both men and women to re-evaluate their gender roles. ―The traditional roles of men, to be dominant and controlling, are seen as vehicl... ...industry take tax credits against a minimum wage would be possible. And municipalities could employ the unemployed, then bill the governmental agency... ...t for their country in a positive way. Immigrants often love their adopted country far more than the native born citizens. The immigrants have standa... ... playing, dancing, or swimming. Some of these are constructive activities, some are meaningless. Being overly aggressive in the use of a motor vehicl...
...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 GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF...
... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR V... .................................................... 8 COMPARISON WITH INDIA AND BANGLADESH ............................................................... ...‘Commander and Clan’. I knew we had a fellow with a sense of humor as our driver. His companion laid flower leis over our heads. I’m not sure what th... ... support the Brahma bulls that wandered aimlessly in nearby India. So our driver didn’t need to cow- tow to the bulls as Indian chauffeurs must do. M... ...windows down. The leprous arm of Ashok would be thrust into every stopped vehicle, expecting some rupees to be dropped into the rusty pail that hung... ...ns. Possibly some can see that children will actually reduce their living standards. Possibly couples who really enjoy each other will realize that c... ... together and will cost them a great deal of money, lowering their living standards. ―Then there is the legalization of homosexuality, and ... ...d increased literacy seem to help to reduce births. According to the U.S. Agency for International Development, even a few years of education reduce... ... As you know, democracy is a process, not a destination. It should be the vehicle on the highway of social and economic progress powered by well edu...
...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 some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...
...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ... This work may be freely quoted, copied, duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name ... ... arrested you for it. It's easier now, you can put the timber quickly on a vehicle and get away, but before when we only had buffalo, if you managed ... ...ith their wares on buffalo and zebu. Today, goods are transported by motor vehicles. I used to go to Lamphun with a cart selling my wares. It used to ... ...ily. For example, if someone learned how to drive a car, he'd be called Mr Driver. Today, even children are capable and know all sorts of things. Ther... ... a broad strip of field and waste land, used for grazing horse- drawn? cab drivers' horses. The village was reached via the twisting Phahonlyothin roa... ...d, too, absolute morality has gradually transformed to become men's double standards. Young men began to acquire sexual experiences, even boast about ... ...tutions leading to higher education.Arecent report by the government drugs agency put the figure of drug users at 200,000, with their number more than... ... The rational West has drifted into an excessively hard, one- sided living standards society, a culture of solitary winners, with return to locality o...
...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...
... Description of document: A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II); the David G. Boak Lectures, National Securit... ...U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II); the David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency, 1973 Requested date: 23-December-2007 R... ...date: 10-December-2008 Posted date: 24-December-2008 Source of document: National Security Agency Attn: FOIA/PA Office (DJ4) 9800 Savage Road,... ...F) page 85. The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made... ...stequipment. Then tbe Army decided it could use the KY-8. mounting it in jeeps and other wheeled vehicles where space was not so critical 86 in aircra... ...ound ourselvesfa~ with the problem of generating key at extremely high speeda. even b~' computer standards. So f¥. the fastest system I bave described... ...rat Ir compre eDSlve 88t 0 5 n . or the suppression of radio frequency interference., were those standards much more stringent for their teletypewrite... ...ard-reader. But both these potential beneJlts may be in some jeopardy. i€}-VINSON, the prototype vehicle for remote keying, gets its rekeying variable... ...bag and checked its contents. HundrcdI of Iow-level Op-Codes and authenticators were inside. The driver claimed not to bave kDOwn the material was the...
...This publication consists of a series of lectures prepared and given to interns and other employees by Mr. David G. Boak in 1966. Mr. Boak is uniquely qualified to discuss the history of the US COM_SEC because he has participated significantly in most aspects of its modern developmen...
...ted to the support of the officials of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, and Republic of Indonesia, led by Dr. Andin Hadiyanto, who is ... ... immense support from various resource institutions in Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, and United States which among others included Bank Indonesia ... ... (IDX), Danareksa Research Institute, Trimegah Securities, Capital Market Supervisory Agency and Financial Institution (Bapepam-LK), PT. Pefindo Ind... ...through enhancing investor protection or deposit insurance; 7) applying international standards for best practices; 8) establishing a trans boundary... ...r Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies 4 practices in regulatory standards, liaise with international standard setting bodies i... ...surpass the US in becoming the largest exporter to the APEC market in 2009. The major drivers of PRC’s manufactured exports ... ...ze the importance of a good business environment in each member economy in serving as drivers of economic growth. Such factors include free and open... ...and accounted for 27.86 percent of the Indonesia’s total imports in 2009; followed by vehicles, base metal and articles of base metals, and product ... ...ports grew by 5.4 percent. Australia mostly imported crude petroleum, passenger motor vehicles, refined petroleum, medicaments, and telecom equipmen...
...The purpose of this project is to contribute to ongoing efforts tailored toward promoting greater financial markets stability and integration in APEC economies, achieved by: 1) undertaking research to determine the conditions that foster financial market stability to enhance integration of financial markets across the region; and 2) drawing on the f...
... The Future of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of t... ...to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & Lo... ...g law enforcement officers have been able to eavesdrop on occu- pants of motor vehicles equipped with the latest travel assistance systems by producing ... ...tachments,” and terminate phone service to those who purchased them, but the agency’s decision was reversed by an appellate court. The court drolly no... ... of the network rather than at its fringes. PCs were to be only the delivery vehicles for data sent to customers, and users were not themselves expect... ... a university- wide committee to advise the university on technical security standards and an- other to write a campus-wide acceptable use policy. 20 ... ...orce, the far-flung, unincorporated group of engineers who work on In- ternet standards and who have defined its protocols through a series of formal “r... ...lities in computer networks). 41. Eisenberg, supra note 12. 42. Reuters News Agency, Latest MyDoom Outbreak Spreads, T S, Feb. 26, 2004, at D... ...30-facial-recognition-slipped-into-google-image-search.html. 75.Adam Liptak, Driver’s License Emerges as Crime-Fighting Tool, but Privacy Advocates Wo...
...This extraordinary 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 ...
...... ...ssic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries aro... ...me of his best friends were crooks, but because they were arrogant crooks. The driver of the limo, dressed in a black chauffeur's uniform, pushed a... ...ton on his watch and read the digital numbers: it was 3:30 am. "It's time," the driver said in a hushed voice, much like a whisper at a funeral serv... ...be out front on this. Setting up a Foundation to save the planet is exactly the vehicle we've been looking for." Matloch puffed a huge spiral of smo... ..., not to mention various other countries which I might add, have minimum safety standards. You al~o are ;he largest uranium contractor to the milita... ...assured by the EPA that all releases have been well within national health risk standards." Annie Williams said. "I've got a friend at Hanford. He's... ...y Commis sion), and Eileen Reynolds, head of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) into a side door that led to a security eleva tor. Frank in.... ...d for them. Gray Shadow, in his black overcoat, stood like a sentry next to the vehicle. "This is Gray Shadow," Hawk said to Matloch. "He'll be with...
A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.
...EATTLE, 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, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port ...
...Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...end V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX.... ... time. As opposed to the received wisdom of the random walk model, most investment vehicles sport different volatilities over different time horizo... ... Baumol maintains that oligopolies are the real engines of growth and higher living standards and urges antitrust authorities to leave them be. Lowe... ...me service: visual content delivery. And then there is the issue of technological standards. It is incalculably easier to adopt a single worldwide... ...redit insurance schemes - such as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Inves... ...aries. Moreover, most collateralized debt obligations - the predominant financial vehicle used to transfer risks from banks to insurance firms - a... ...t best, one utility function with many variables and coefficients. This is why taxi drivers in New York cease working in a busy day, having reached ... ... tended to tone down the roles of earnings, inventories, investment and credit, the drivers of the "now defunct" classical business cycle. They also...
Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.
...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ............................................... 14 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- T... ...ituation is OK, in another it is not. ―People talk about ‗ethical standards‘ but they are talking about their own ethics. There are few univ... ... talking about their own ethics. There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason against one‘s country is one. Murder of a person in you... ...allowed in the 1800s. Not today. A few societies tolerate no alcohol for a driver-- a 0.00 blood alcohol level. Others allow 0.08, 0.1 or higher. And... ...river-- a 0.00 blood alcohol level. Others allow 0.08, 0.1 or higher. And vehicle speed is generally regulated in advanced societies. Certainly when... ...ehicle speed is generally regulated in advanced societies. Certainly when drivers drink less they can drive better. And both speed and alcohol are r... ...railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗use‘ taxes on vehicles and fuel. Public transportation may have to be subsidized by gene... ...1 U.S. ____no case number yet) 39. World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, 2007 40. CBS poll Oct. 23, 2005 41. Schoepfung und Evolution [Cre...
... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ...lements. Paints and cloth are converted to a painting through the intermediacy and agency of the Painter. A cluster of cells a human makes only thr... ..., Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them unfavorably... ... to their precariously balanced personality. They yell at a waitress, berate a taxi driver, or explode at an underling. Alternatively, they sulk, fe... ...dness of what he does, thinks, or feels... Childhood is ... the time at which moral standards begin to develop in a process that often extends well ... ...s will be able to generate on the fly their own, custom-made, one-time, investment vehicles for each and every specific transaction. They will do s... ... about a modern replicator is that it is highly gregarious. A survival machine is a vehicle containing not just one gene but many thousands. The ma... ... mechanisms is also widely accepted. Freud's initial obsession with sex as the sole driver of psychic exchange and evolution has earned him derision...
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....
...TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. E... ... Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Pu... ...e gone wrong: the dot.coms dot bombed, venture capital dried up, competing standards fractured an already fragile marketplace, the hardware (e-book r... ...-books (e.g., by the military) may have the same beneficial effect. As standards converge (Adobe's Portable Document Format and Microsoft's MS Rea... ...nteresting to note how the needs of authors and publishers are now in the driver's seat, helping to spur along innovations in business methods. ... ...commercial arm, Turnit.com, are the cyber equivalent of a law enforcement agency, acting after the fact to discover the culprits and uncover their mi... ...of these books have been victims of price increases four times as much as drivers. Yet, you never once have seen a news story about the high prices ... ...odern replicator is that it is highly gregarious. A survival machine is a vehicle containing not just one gene but many thousands. The manufacture of... ...odern replicator is that it is highly gregarious. A survival machine is a vehicle containing not just one gene but many thousands. The manufacture o...
...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....
...gy of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...ers/Personality/ http://personalitydisorders.suite101.com/ Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self... ...m subject-directed libido to object-directed libido through the intermediation and agency of the parents. To be healthy and functional, these trans... ..., however, children begin to internalise criteria of self- worth and a sense of the standards to be attained on the criteria from the larger communi... ...ntification allows the IN to experience his own narcissism vicariously, through the agency of a classic narcissist. But the IN is no less a narcissi... ... likely to hit a stationary car, and 15 percent more likely to reverse into another vehicle" (Reuters). Yet gender "differences" are often the outco... ...nce's data. As Britain's Automobile Association (AA) correctly pointed out - women drivers tend to make more short journeys around towns and shoppi... ...-reproductive, pleasure-seeking sex may be key evolutionary mechanisms and integral drivers of population dynamics. Reproduction is but one goal amo... ...s unhappy (deviant) – is "mended" when rendered functional again by the prevailing standards of his social and cultural frame of reference. In a w...
...ations and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...n from: Lidija Rangelovska write to: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html ... ...ng form of Lamarckism (the inheritance of all acquired characteristics as the sole vehicle of evolution) and Evolution Theory postulate that functi... ...ial state of the Universe that is carefully -tuned as if prescribed by an outside agency or it requires one to invoke the notion of generation o... ...es, proper names, and natural-kind terms, for example, refer directly, through the agency of the speaker. Frege intentionally avoided the vexing qu... ... Pollock and Michael Williams remarked, social expectations determine not only the standards of what constitutes knowledge but also what is it that... ...rs unhappy (deviant) is "mended" when rendered functional again by the prevailing standards of his social and cultural frame of reference. In a w... ... mechanisms is also widely accepted. Freud's initial obsession with sex as the sole driver of psychic exchange and evolution has earned him derision...
Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.
...–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 __... ...mers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Ev... ...re in full? Should anyone own the protocols—the agreed-upon common technical standards—that make the Internet possible? Does reading a Web page count ... ...t condemnation of the process. It manages in a few lines to criticize double standards, expose the controversial nature of property rights, and take a... ...s can attempt to enclose land by putting barbed wire around it. Ranchers and drivers can legally cut those fences when they are blocking public rights... ...f course, are more concerned with the rights of cattle than people, but most drivers agree with them.) As a result, the state could forbid the erectio... ...on from the beginning of the chapter, that all cars be assumed to be getaway vehicles for the felonious filchers of vegeta- bles, and thus that they sh... ...an-American—and a Keystone Cops response by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The stories from New Or- leans became more and more frightening. ...
...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all 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 th...
...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ... content to allow its [jnrt to pass as ropreHentativu of the sportsmanship standards of the Green. The Dartmouth iith- lotio council has indicted the ... ...IELD, MAJS. Will show lit Beini.s' every two weeks. Cutter-TowerCo, Co-Op. Agency Koserved for Severance THE DRUGGIST l.f you want to get fair prices ... ...ndance? And we are mure in danger from the doniinntiun of these commercial standards in odnoation than any- thing else. The child is taught from infan... ...ocal hu- mor Williams lias had is the Gul. The Gul.. however, is no proper vehicle for the expression of the best humor the collece is capable of prod... ...rail of wild camels, and but for the superhuman exer- tion of an old camel driver, who travelled 25 miles on foot in.one night and finally recovered t... ... are the only way of reaching the tired, ignorant working man. Just suoh a vehicleas theNew York Journal, rightly used, is necessary for the thought a... ...s, we may note that the spirit of the horse will decide the tactics of the driver,whetherhepullon the reins, merely guide, or use the cudgel. It is no...
...nning independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student ...
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...nt with a com- mendation of his resources and capabilities. The devil of a driver, a hard man to get along with, obstinate, con- trary, cantankerous; ... ...auti- ful, never a beauty so strange, so troublous, so out of all accepted standards. It was small wonder that Vanamee had loved her, and less wonder,... ...- rience—even though somewhat remote—on Los Muertos, had taken him on as a driver of one of the gang ploughs, then at work on his division. The evenin... ...g, wonderful beauty, so troublous, so enchant- ing, so out of all accepted standards. He bent down, dropping upon one knee, a hand upon the headstone,... ... filling up rapidly. At every moment there was a rattle of a newly arrived vehicle from outside. Guest after guest appeared in the doorway, singly or ... ...loads. At every instant one heard the rattle of wheels. as ve- hicle after vehicle disappeared in the night. A fine, drizzling rain was falling, and t... ...ust, all the members of an obscure conspiracy, were wrangling. As if human agency could affect this colossal power! What were these heated, tiny squab...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... was in danger of being re- moved by the wind) and resumed his way. On the vehicle reaching the inn door, its occupant found standing there to welcome... ...ough- out, by the waiter) and entered his britchka. With a loud rattle the vehicle left the inn-yard, and issued into the street. A passing priest dof... ...ts shouted, “Gentleman, please give a poor orphan a trifle!” Presently the driver noticed that a sturdy young rascal was on the point of climbing onto... ...utterly worn out. This unforeseen catas- trophe evidently astonished their driver. Slipping from the box, he stood resting his hands against the side ... ...k as broad as that of a cart horse, and at the legs as massive as the iron standards which adorn a street, he could not help inwardly ejaculating: “Tr... ... has walked by night to grind peas.” In short, it would seem that no human agency could have approached such a man and gained his goodwill. Yet Chichi... ...cter; with the result that the entire sphere over which he ruled became an agency for the detection of irregularities. Everywhere, and in every case, ...
... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document... ... the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ...ut prices, and should have no idea, if I were put to it, how to wheedle a man into ordering some- thing he doesn’t want. As a town traveller, I am nev... ...en had knocked the whole into one great establishment with a pair of big gates, in and out of which, his (Pickford’s) waggons are, in these days, alwa... ...We lost a great deal of companionship when the late public-houses turned their lamps out, and when the potmen thrust the last brawl- ing drunkards int... ..., of most things they may happen to lay hold of. I have been told that in sterner times loving correspondence, otherwise interdicted, may be maintaine... ...ged the Advocate in his own thoughts, the Englishman wrote him an earnest and grateful letter, avowing the fact, and entreating him to confide by what... ...ng in from the country on the north- ern side of the Regent’s Park—hard frozen and deserted— when I saw an empty Hansom cab drive up to the lodge at G... ...aly prey,—much impressed me. Suddenly, too, a banner would shiver in the wind, and go about in the most inconvenient manner. This always happened ofte...
...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...the carriage of some rich young heiress or widow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s co... ... young heiress or widow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s communication of this idea ... ...en; strings of bells were buckled on, burdens were adjusted, the voices of drivers and riders sounded musically. Some of the earliest had even al- rea... ...baggage, and as much as it could carry of the mud and dust which the other vehicles left behind. These equipages adorned the yard of the hotel at Mart... ...eal pity that she stayed so short a time, and you delayed! As confidential agency business, agency business, I have occa- sionally paid this lady mone... ...ours, without having it presented to one of his bodily senses through some agency or other. He began to think it was curious too that it should be eve... ...rnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred’s downwards. Mr Baptist had bee...
...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....
...w Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden ...
...ck Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...restraint upon the cruelty and barbarity of masters, overseers, and slave- drivers, whenever and wherever it can reach them; but there are certain sec... ...er consideration, I can easily believe that, according to all slaveholding standards, here was a genuine instance of im- pudence. In Nelly there were ... ... given to his face an expression of un- usual savageness, even for a slave-driver. Tobacco and rage had worn his teeth short, and nearly every sentenc... ...and. Outside this second class of tents were covered wagons, ox carts, and vehicles of every shape and size. These served as tents to their owners. Ou... .... Michael’s home grew heavier and blacker than ever. It was not merely the agency of Master Thomas, in break- ing up and destroying my Sabbath school,... ...f intelligence over ignorance, and, as far as I dared, I tried to show the agency of ignorance in keeping men in slavery. Webster’s spelling book and ...
Excerpt: My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas.
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ll go with you, if you like?’ So, they all three went away together in the vehicle that had brought the boy; the two friends (once boys together at a ... ...public school) inside, smoking cigars; the messenger on the box beside the driver. ‘Let me see,’ said Mortimer, as they went along; ‘I have been, Euge... ... slipping out at the back of the truck. The moment he was landed, his late driver with a wave of the carrot, said ‘Supper, Eddard!’ and he, the hind h... ...omestic, Mr and Mrs Boffin took their seats in the back compartment of the vehicle: which was suffi- ciently commodious, but had an undignified and al... ...ming to address so tremendous an object, transacted her supper through the agency of a third person, as ‘Mutton to your Ma, Bella, my dear’; and ‘Lavv... ...den levers of his lock-gates, dozing. Wine must be got into a butt by some agency before it can be drawn out; and the wine of sentiment never having b... ...sh of tears. The coolness of M. R. F . is not to be measured by ordi- nary standards.’ ‘T rue enough,’ said Lightwood. ‘That’ s all,’ pursued Eugene, ...
...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....
...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONI... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of th... ...ompleted;—thereby, in these his seemingly so aimless rambles, planting new standards, founding new habitable colonies, in the immeasurable circumambie... ...ant torrents there- from, the attempt had seemed possible. But, alas, what vehicle of that sort have we, except Fraser’s Magazine? A vehicle all strew... ...enger stands or sits; nay, in any case, understood to be, of late years, a vehicle full to overflowing, and inexorably shut! Besides, to state the Phi... ...as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some drivers, as they do in Norfolk, take a dried bladder and put peas in it, th... ...s of Concealment, and connected with still greater things, is the wondrous agency of Symbols. In a Symbol there is concealment and yet revelation; her... ...? Intrinsic significance these had none: only extrinsic; as the accidental Standards of multitudes more or less sacredly uniting together; in which un...
Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.
...ell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn’t tell me to... ...say she was glad to see you, because she doesn’t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn’t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is ver... ...d arrived at the address given by Miss Chancellor to the coachman, and their vehicle stopped with a lurch. Basil Ransom got out; he stood at the door ... ...ttle desire to sit by her side—he wanted to smoke—that it was only after the vehicle had rolled off that he reflected upon her coolness, and asked hims... ...re consecutively on the high plane; though his indifference to old fashioned standards, his perpetual invocation of the brighter day, had not yet led ... ... it had the merit of having initiated Verena (and her patroness, through her agency) into the miseries and mysteries of the People. It was her theory ... ...y of them seemed to her weak to imbecility, losing sight of all measures and standards, lavishing superlatives, delighted to be fooled. The age seemed... ... precarious manner to the rear of the carry all. ‘Well, I’ll chance it,’ the driver remarked, sadly, when Ransom protested against its insecure positi... ... than when I saw him there.’ ‘Hasn’t he the delicacy of one of his own slave drivers? Doesn’t he know you loathe him?’ Verena looked at her friend wit...
... Chapter 1; Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is ver...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...any enthusiasm for the Old Man. It is difficult again— by the dinner-party standards—to know how Lord Curzon can be restrained. But we common people d... ...he council go they must be duly elected un- der conditions that are by the standards of the general league satisfactorily democratic. That seems to be... ...n, and Nelson were going about at very much the same pace in much the same vehicles and vessels. At the advent of steam and electricity the muse of hi... ...mon man cannot gov- ern, and that government therefore must be through the agency of Able Persons who may be classified under one of the following sub... ...of manipulation. One might as well refuse to travel in a taxicab until the driver had ex- plained the magneto as refuse to accept the principle of Pro...
...gainst German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the ?Krupp-Kaiser? alliance. But agai...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...lling herself together. The delays caused by the weather, the struggle for vehicles at the door, gave them occasion to subside on a divan at the back ... ...eresting to him to feel that he was in the presence of new measures, other standards, a different scale of rela- tions, and that evidently here were a... ...y grew too fast, and the Atlantic cable now alone could race with it. That agency would each day have testified for him to something that was not what... ... her—occasions on which she affected him as a per- son seated in a runaway vehicle and turning over the question of a possible jump. Would she jump, c... ...on in the gloaming or propose for the local carriole and converse with his driver, a driver who naturally wouldn’t fail of a stiff clean blouse, of a ... ...nt world, traditions, as- sociation; her other opportunities, liabilities, standards.” His friend listened with respect to his enumeration of these di...
...face: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted or ?sunk,? stiffly and ...
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...rect. He was a moral agent—that was settled in his mind. By exercising his agency with ruthless defiance he pro- cured for himself the appearances of ... ... he became disagreeably affected by the sight of the roadway thronged with vehicles and of the pavement crowded with men and women. He was in a long, ... ...out and away, leaving an effect of uncanny, eccentric ghastliness upon the driver’s mind. But the size of the coin was satisfactory to his touch, and ... ...metro- politan hackney carriage drew up on wobbly wheels and with a maimed driver on the box. This last peculiarity caused some embarrassment. Catchin... ...iscarded nowadays even in the high- est spheres, and always foreign to the standards of her class. She did not look for courtesies from him. But he wa...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... Gertrude; but the difference was after all one of intelligence and not of standards. In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where... ...lessness and loneli- ness, be drawn into a tie inexcusable by conventional standards. On reaching home he wrote a line to the Countess Olenska, asking... ...sed; and one day when May had gone for a drive with her father in the only vehicle the place produced Mrs. Welland took occasion to touch on a topic w... ...h-lined “herdic” which had carried his note to the Parker House, and whose driver was reposing from this effort by bathing his brow at the corner hydr... ... of the Fifth Avenue line. It was after twelve o’clock when this laborious vehicle dropped him at old Catherine’s. The sitting-room window on the grou... ...entertained by him in Buenos Ayres, where he represented a large insurance agency. He and his wife died there in the odour of prosperity; and one day ...
...there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being sma...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...here she met with a check. These interests her world promptly, through the agency of schoolmistresses, older school-mates, her aunt, and a num- ber of... ... disposition, and leaving no harmful after-effects—ebullitions that by the standards of the higher truth I feel no one can justly cast a stone at, and... ... find work; she knew herself to be strong, intelligent, and capable by the standards of most of the girls she knew. She was not quite clear how she sh... ...ersation is outside the scope of our story. “Ritter’s!” said Ramage to the driver, “Dean Street.” It was rare that Ann Veronica used hansoms, and to b... ...miable farewell from the pavement steps. “Great dears!” said Capes, as the vehicle passed out of sight. “Yes, aren’t they?” said Ann Veronica, after a...
...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost gla...
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... Rosedale; and heedless of his protestations, she sprang into the rescuing vehicle, and called out a breathless order to the driver. In the hansom she... ...sprang into the rescuing vehicle, and called out a breathless order to the driver. In the hansom she leaned back with a sigh. Why must a girl pay so d... ...o had the same prejudices and ideals, and the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them. This attribute was common to most ... ...d it with them. Already she felt within her a stealing allegiance to their standards, an acceptance of their limitations, a disbelief in the things th... ...upon her! She pushed up the door in the roof and called the address to the driver. It was not so late—Gerty might still be waking. And even if she wer... ...had presented itself under a homelier yet more vivid image—that of a shaky vehicle, dashed by unbro- ken steeds over a bumping road, while she cowered... ... carefully concealed that one scene flows into another without perceptible agency. At length she rose and dressed. Since she had left Mme. Regina’s sh...
...e. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act ...
... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ay. But I am anticipating. Returning to Ireland and Mr. Moran, the vicious driver of vicious horses, the immediate conse- quence to him of this unexpe... ...o look for that limb of the establishment on which rests the main teaching agency,—is liable to considerable qualifica- tion, when we examine the mode... ...contempt of the born gentry, to degrade these professions; and this double agency is, a third time, reinforced by those political arrangements which d... ...ss sufficient to overthrow the apparent equilibrium demanded by the common standards of a just national character, the speculator then proceeds, as in... ... other imperial commanders, but, above all, Holk, had at- tracted to their standards the very refuse of the German jails; and, allowing an unlimited l... ...le train of carriages were at that moment defiling from the city gate. The driver, obeying the direc- tions of the other man, drove off as rapidly as ... ...best chance of evading Holkerstein in the forest, their own un- pretending vehicle passed without other notice than a curse from the officer on duty; ...
...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so wid...
...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................
...SSION 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 Preface xv 1. “WE... ...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, Declaring War o... ...the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46. 179 Most federal agencies learned about t... ...nni argued that lineal descent was not required if the candidate met other standards of faith and knowledge.After bloody struggles, the Sunni became (... ...exit it without visas or any immigration procedures, pur- chase and import vehicles and weapons, and enjoy the use of official Afghan Ministry of Defe... ...lls rented residences, and purchased bomb-mak- ing materials and transport vehicles.At least one additional explosives expert was brought in to assist... ...inal1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 114 it, from the vantage point of the driver looking through a muddy windshield moving forward, not through a cle... ...him on purpose.”The tribals explained that they wanted to prove that their standards of behavior were more civilized than those of Bin Ladin and his b... ...ating between English and Arabic, he assisted them in obtaining California driver’s licenses and with applying to lan- guage and flight schools.Abdull...
...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 Democrats chosen by el...
...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 OF THE NEW TERRORI...
... 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, wit... ...brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still bur... ... completed;—thereby, in these his seemingly so aimless rambles, planting new standards, founding new habitable colonies, in the immeasurable circumamb... ...cessant torrents therefrom, the attempt had seemed possible. But, alas, what vehicle of that sort have we, except Fraser’s Magazine? A vehicle all str... ...ssenger stands or sits; nay, in any case, understood to be, of late years, a vehicle full to overflowing, and inexorably 8 SARTOR RESARTUS shut! Besid... ...t as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some drivers, as they do in Norfolk, take a dried bladder and put peas in it, ... ...ces of Concealment, and connected with still greater things, is the wondrous agency of Symbols. In a Symbol there is concealment and yet revelation; h... ...elf? Intrinsic significance these had none: only extrinsic; as the accidental Standards of multitudes more or less sacredly uniting together; in which ...
...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely th...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... did. Moving to Chicago in his early twenties, he worked in an advertising agency where he proved adept at turning out copy. “I create nothing, I boos... ... by his four strong brothers. There was indeed good cause to smile. By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all. He was small and... ...rnoons she came out of the house and got into her carriage. Dismissing the driver she took the reins in her own hands and drove off at top speed throu... ...hout patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beaut... ...t the Hardys’ because Albert Hardy and her father were friends. Hardy, the vehicle merchant of Winesburg, like thousands of other men of his times, wa... ... competition of his ca- reer. It was said that Pop Geers, the great racing driver, would himself be there. A doubt of the suc- cess of Tony Tip hung h... ... money out of the change that is coming. I am offering you the ex- clusive agency for this town. Take twenty dozen of these fasteners and I’ll not vis...
............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE TALES AND THE PERSONS ....................................................................................................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE ...............................................
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...eping slowly towards the interior; so did 7 Little Dorrit their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted ... ...a middle-aged baker resident in the vicinity, against whom she had, by the agency of Mr Rugg, found it necessary to proceed at law to recover damages ... ...was also frequently to be seen there; in alighting from and entering which vehicle, Miss Fanny fluttered the Marshal’s daughters by the display of ina... ...the carriage of some rich young heiress or widow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s co... ... young heiress or widow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s communication of this idea ... ...eal pity that she stayed so short a time, and you delayed! As confidential agency business, agency business, I have occa- sionally paid this lady mone... ...rnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred’s downwards. Mr Baptist had bee...
...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...
...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...