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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ...Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights o... ...e Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independe... ...gister of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence ... ...n, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States ... ... STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE R EPORT ON ORPHAN WORKS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................. ...127 Page ii UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE R EPORT ON ORPHAN WORKS I. Executive Summary A. Introduction and Background This Report addresses th... ...cience Foundation (NSF) is inviting the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on this proposed continuing information collection. Th...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of t...

...Many commenters were in favor of determining whether a search was reasonable on an “ad hoc” or case-by-case basis, whereby each search is evaluated according to its circumstances. This approach was offered as having the advantage of flexibility to cover t...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ...Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights o... ...e Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independe... ...gister of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence ... ...n, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States ... ... STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE R EPORT ON ORPHAN WORKS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................. ...127 Page ii UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE R EPORT ON ORPHAN WORKS I. Executive Summary A. Introduction and Background This Report addresses th... ...cience Foundation (NSF) is inviting the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on this proposed continuing information collection. Th...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of t...

...We also recommend one other threshold requirement for a user to qualify for the orphan works limitations on remedies: throughout the use of the work, the user must provide attribution to the author and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...free anthologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...mmunications, and computer networks. The police - there are 16,000 law enforcement agencies in the Unites States alone - is never very far behind. ... ...e assistance, without charge, to federal, state, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies investigating unusual or repetitive violent crimes. The... ...ily forced his to study law. His first political activity was as a member of the executive committee of the London Vegetarian Society. He went to... ...nd was in force between 1781 and 1788. It created a single house of Congress and no executive - but for one year during this period (1781-2, John Ha...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...elow. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to me... ... Tunisia 246 Turkey 247 Turks and Caicos Islands 249 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257... ...iction National holiday: Anniversary of the Revolution, 1 November Branches: executive; unicameral legisla- ture (National People's Assembly); judi- c... ...ches: legislative (General Council of the Valleys) consisting of 28 members; executive syndic (manager) and a deputy subsyndic chosen by General Counc... ...cipal organs of the United Nations Other United Nations organs D Specialized agencies and other autonomous organizations within the system UNDOF: Unit...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial ed... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ... Congress - are deadlocked and paralyzed owing to partisanship and corruption. The executive either ignores laws passed by the the legislative bran... ...interested in liberating Afghanistan as much as in hiding from the law enforcement agencies of their own countries, most of all Egypt's. When Russ... ...cally, but also socially. At the same time their cells and countless collaborating agencies - some of whom are clearly non- Islamist, and some of wh... ...umes less than 0.001 percent of the world's gross domestic product. As James Paul, Executive Director of Global Policy Forum, observes: "All UN sta...

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

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...itten permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...ww.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value ... ... LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value of Stocks of a Company III. The Process of Due Diligen... ... rates might go up. The stock market reacts with frenzily - it crashes. Why? A top executive is asked how profitable will his firm be this quarter.... ... and overdue payments. 5. To collaborate with legal institutions, law enforcement agencies and private collection firms in assuring the timely flo... ...ies - the tax administration, bank supervision, deposit insurance, law enforcement agencies, and securities and exchange commission. The true recor... ...onal (BCCI) in London in 1991 revealed that, for the better part of a decade, the executives and employees of this penumbral institution were busy...

The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ...Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights o... ...e Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independe... ...gister of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence ... ...n, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States ... ... STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE R EPORT ON ORPHAN WORKS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................. ...127 Page ii UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE R EPORT ON ORPHAN WORKS I. Executive Summary A. Introduction and Background This Report addresses th... ...cience Foundation (NSF) is inviting the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on this proposed continuing information collection. Th...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...ska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003-7 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. ... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://w... ... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ... 100 articles and essays (microeconomics and macroeconomics) by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam ... ...p”, chaired by the Prime Minister. This will be a steering committee with executive powers. COMMENT OF MACEDONIAN LABOR EXPERTS BUT, empirical ... ...p”, chaired by the Prime Minister. This will be a steering committee with executive powers. The Labour Divide I. Employment and Unemployment By:... ... to supplement or even replace the benefits offered by the relevant state agencies. An intriguing solution is the municipal "voucher communities" o... ... hiring and firing practices and to expand the role of private employment agencies. But militant unions - such as Germany's IG Metal - threaten to u...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ... APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESTO... ... · HAWAII BUSINESS HAWAI‘I: A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE TO STUDY THE UNIVERSE ALGAE FOR FUEL WIND ENERGY UNDERWATER RESEARCH 2 APEC 2011 ·... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...nt ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Bobby Senaha bobbys@hawaiibusiness.com ADVERTISING EXECUTIVES David Sur davids@hawaiibusiness.com Michael Gascon michaelg@hawa... ...waiibusiness.com Or visit hawaiibusiness.com/innovation CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Duane Kurisu PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Su... ...c. Title Guaranty of Hawaii, Inc. Tori Richard, Ltd. Ultimate Innovations United Laundry Services, Inc. Watumull Stores Yobi Group, LLC Bank of Hawai... ...11 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESOURCE LIST Contact information for companies and agencies in this magazine CLEAN ENERGY Cellana www.cellana.com INVESTMENT C... ...L ABERCROMBIE Hoku Solar works with high-profle companies and government agencies on major photovoltaic projects. PHOTO: MICHAEL TORRES PHOTOGRAPHY...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

... -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28 Firm But Renewable Energy -- 30 Building the Smart Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

... for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies iii Acknowledgements The completion of the Report is attributed to the support of th... ...nancial Markets Stability in APEC Economies iii Acknowledgements The completion of the Report is attributed to the support of the officials of ... ...ts The completion of the Report is attributed to the support of the officials of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, and Republic of... ...t is attributed to the support of the officials of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, and Republic of Indonesia, led by Dr. Andin Hadiyan... ...ense support from various resource institutions in Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, and United States which among others included Bank Indonesia (BI)... ... Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies iv Executive Summary One of APEC’s key areas of cooperation is ... ...g to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies vi Contents Executive Summary iii I. Background ……………..…………………...……………... ...n………………………………………. 94 III.3.4 An In-depth Account of US Financial Regulation Agencies………… 95 III.3.5 The Impact of the Financial ... ...; viii) hedge funds regulations; ix) enhanced regulatory oversight over credit rating agencies and reducing reliance on their services; x) supervisor...

...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...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial ed... ...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ... OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – ... ... of asymptotically-free goods and services. "The Economist" describes how WorldCom executives flaunted the cornucopian doubling of Internet traffic... ...annibalizing each other, or to start collaborating synergistically. The few mammoth agencies that rule the world of advertising now host a clutch of... ...struments, loans, corporate debt, and bonds - quality-graded by third party rating agencies. Insurance companies have thus become backdoor lenders ... ...shuffling management. It placed great power in the hands of the end-user, be it an executive, a household, or an individual. It reversed the tren...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ... to d«te Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH... ...6. Rev. Dr. Willard Scott '75, and W. S. B. Hopkins '94. as members of the executive committee. W. .S. B. Hopkins '94, the retiring secretary and trea... ... olub resolved to leave the election of new mem hers to the members of the executive committee and to a committee composed of tv,o mem- bers of the fa... ...Billiards AT THE CASINO tioodac Court MAIN ST., NORTH ADAMS FISK TEACHERS' AGENCIES NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO, BTC. Over 25,000 Positions Filled Especia... ... Billiards AT THE CASINO Hoo5ac Court MAIN ST., NORTH ADAMS FISK TEACHERS' AGENCIES NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO, ETC. Over 25,000 Posilions Filled Especia...

...The longest running 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 ...

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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 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ... have? Should there be checks and balances between the legislative, executive and judicial systems? Is a judicial system democratic when the j... ...he setbacks in the 2006 Congressional elections, the Republicans owned the executive and judicial branches.‖ --―Yes, our so-called democracies h... ...ebody has to be able to fill out the forms required by other governmental agencies. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for... ...es against smoking. Schools have advised against it, as have public health agencies. I doubt that any smoker in the U.S. has ever believed that smoki...

...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 ...

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...Research on Multinational Corporations Sarphatistraat 30 1018 GL Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: 31-20-6391291 Fax: 31-20-6391321 Email: info@somo.nl... ...esearch and educational purposes, you are welcome to reproduce it provided the source is acknowledged. We will appreciate if a copy of reproduced mate... ...oduce it provided the source is acknowledged. We will appreciate if a copy of reproduced materials is sent to us. 4 Fixing Global Finance Contents Ac... ... Fixing Global Finance Contents Acronyms 6-7 Data Notes 8 1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 9 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing ... ...ration Agreement CIS Commonwealth of Independent States CRAs Credit Rating Agencies ECA Europe and Central Asia ECB European Central Bank EU European ... ...ose Vehicle SWFs Sovereign Wealth Funds TNCs Transnational Corporations UK United Kingdom UN United Nations UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade ... ...nited Nations UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development US United States of America WOS Wholly Owned Subsidiary WTO World Trade Organi... ...y June 2007, as interest rates rose and borrowers began to default, rating agencies downgraded their ratings of CDOs. Suddenly, investors found that t... ...ved more money than the annual public budgets of Russia and India. 4 Some executives of private equity firms earn billions of dollars in fees and pro...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developi...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Pl...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ...VSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to ... ...ed issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! This let... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ...t and gain access to enhanced online content, and so on). Web site rating agencies will help to discriminate between the credible and the in- credibl... ...ze. Individual journalists plagiarize, many with abandon. Even advertising agencies and financial institutions plagiarize. The amount of material out... ...ted a site when a student, free of charge - will pay to do so when made an executive. Such a user will also pass on the information within and withou... ... the year 2000. He founded Project Gutenberg in 1971 and is currently its Executive Coordinator. In more ways than one, he is the father of e-publis...

...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....

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ... http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...IA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the ... ...the attrition war against the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Krem... ...iled to infiltrate existing structures of governance erected by the West (like the Executive Council) - or to duplicate them. Thaci's quest to beco... ... newly-formed political parties, such as Mahmuti's were left out of the KTC and the Executive Council (which is made of one representative of each o... ...ls, managed healthcare, private clinics, academic departments, and law enforcement agencies rely, for their continued and exponential growth, on th...

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

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...eb a few weeks ago - titled "Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation" - the authors demonstrate how the typica... ...ing the share's price - rather than the company's business. Hence the inflationary executive pay packets. Shareholders hire stock manipulators - eu... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ... (and blurred) distinction is too often lost on decision makers and law enforcement agencies. ERADICATING CORRUPTION An effective program to eradi... ...s of critical importance. The police, the customs, the courts, the government, its agencies, the tax authorities, the state owned media - all must ...

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

...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...eb a few weeks ago - titled "Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation" - the authors demonstrate how the typica... ...ing the share's price - rather than the company's business. Hence the inflationary executive pay packets. Shareholders hire stock manipulators - eu... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ... (and blurred) distinction is too often lost on decision makers and law enforcement agencies. ERADICATING CORRUPTION An effective program to eradi... ...s of critical importance. The police, the customs, the courts, the government, its agencies, the tax authorities, the state owned media - all must ...

...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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Apec's Ease of Doing Business-Interim Assessment

By: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón

...C’s Ease of Doing Business – Interim Assessment A collaborative report between the APEC Economic Committee and the APEC Policy Support Unit AP... ....org Website: www.apec.org APEC#211-SE-01.15 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Sing... ...ommons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-s... ....org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of APEC Memb... ...e Chair on Ease of Doing Business, for valuable comments and contributions. Executive Summary iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY APEC Leaders in 2009 endo... ...ion economies by priority areas are: • Starting a Business: New Zealand and the United States • Dealing with Permits: Singapore • Getting Credit:... ...tion, the government established a committee to facilitate coordination among the agencies involved in processing business applications to create a ... ...censing processes into a single online window. This system will ensure government agencies process business applications concurrently, thus reducing ... ...took place in Chinese Taipei in October 2010. Additionally, New Zealand and the United States as champion economies in Starting a Business, organi...

...APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in five key areas of doing business: 1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with Permits, with an interim 5 percent improvement by 20...

This report is a collaborative effort between the APEC Economic Committee and the APEC Policy Support Unit.

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...n Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Libr... ...o be able to hook up a base station’s ra- dio to a telephone so that faraway executives could be patched in to the front lines. He invented the Carter... ...s of the National Science Foundation, the Depart- ment of Defense, and other agencies that had helped fund the Internet’s devel- opment and operation.... ...irus vendors “may not be able to withstand the onslaught.” 68 Another vendor executive said more directly: “I think we’ve failed.” 69 CERT/CC’s malwar... ...ligated to disclose User Information to local, state or federal governmental agencies or Third Par- ties under certain circumstances (including in res...

...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 ...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

... Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Ent... ...arcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...t of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliog... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...self- worth by securing a constant supply of his drug – attention. American executives acted without compunction when they raided their employees' p... ...dividualism and self-gratification at the expense of community, namely the United States". They assert that the disorder is more prevalent among ce... ...rporate management, the medical professions, the military, law enforcement agencies, politics, and sports. It is safe to predict that narcissists w... ...ir freedoms. People seek safety: they legislate and create law enforcement agencies and form armies. Above all, people are concerned with maintaini... ...y's rank and file - and he is accountable to them the same way a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) answers to the corporation's major shareholders. To m...

...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...hese two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction... ...tore of 100 dollars, he can be put into prison for years. But if a corporate executive manages to swindle people out of billions of dollars, he is g... ...not for years, but for a reasonable time that makes sense. And if a corporate executive manages to swindle people out of billions of dollars, he wil... ...an dispose of friends, people, animals, clothes… until you have rent-a-friend agencies for people who need a temporary friend they can dispose of aft... ... on TV tell people where to go, to give their unwanted babies away to legal agencies instead of into throwing them into dumpsters. Dumping and ab...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

... Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Nar cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's... ...cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...t of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliog... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...self- worth by securing a constant supply of his drug – attention. American executives acted without compunction when they raided their employees' p... ...dividualism and self-gratification at the expense of community, namely the United States". They assert that the disorder is more prevalent among ce... ...rporate management, the medical professions, the military, law enforcement agencies, politics, and sports. It is safe to predict that narcissists w... ...de the victim with lists of contacts – help organisations, law enforcement agencies, other women in her condition, domestic violence shelters, and ... ...ents on macro-economic matters. Freelance journalist in various media in the United States. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Profe...

...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...n. They would not be alone: there too Little Orphan Annie, the company of executives in charge of manufacturing dodge balls, and the males who had ... ...ideas that refused to be irrelevant. They refused to be vanquished from the kingdom. They refused to stand outside begging like a Buddhist mendicant... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l... ...ions according to her training as a counselor, and guide them to social work agencies and resources in the community. She would never need to see the ...

...rean 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 New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... now indicated, and those of Progress, are not opposite, but the same. The agencies which tend to preserve the social good which already exists are th... ...nd vice versâ , the sole difference being, that a greater degree of those agencies is required for the latter pur pose than for the former. What, fo... ...ffect. A similar distinction exists in regard to the consti tution of the executive departments of administration. Their machinery is good, when the ... ...is own hands the power of taxation, and the supreme legislative as well as executive authority. Were he to act thus, and so far abdicate as a des pot...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ... B. What is the success obtained? and (as a separate question) what is the executive ability displayed in the solu- tion of the problem? This latter q... ...al system is replaced by a stolen system; but what replaces the mysterious agencies of the Christian faith? In Essenism we find again a saintly scheme... ... And perhaps this natural prece- dency in authority of years and judgment, united to the ten- der humility with which she declined to assert it, had b... ...litude, though it may be silent as light, is, like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world al...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expre...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ther, warm already, became warmer; culinary and meta- physical irritations united to derange his liver: he took to his bed, and died. Such is the comm... ...journeys revolved every six weeks on an average, to look a little into the executive details of the system. With some of these Mr. Palmer had no conce... ...minate and mysterious. The connec- tion of the mail with the state and the executive govern- ment—a connection obvious, but yet not strictly defined— ... ...t it as a thrilling; and this speed was not the product of blind insensate agencies, that had no sympathy to give, but was incarnated in the fiery eye... ...ds itself forward through the electric sensibility of the horse; the inter-agencies are gone in the mode of communication between the horse and his ma...

...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...

...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..........................................

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publicati... ...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...te Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...m now in the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreea... ...f sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may ev... ...ed with one of Shakspeare’s or of Schiller’s: in what respect, and by what agencies, a Greek tragedy affects us, or is meant to affect us, otherwise t... ...eality it is impossible that these should be the best; for even if, in the executive part, they were so, which is not the case, the very nature of the... ...ation of the maxim; i.e. by lodging the responsibil- ity exactly where the executive power [ergo the power of re- sisting this responsibility] was lod...

Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.......

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...nglish Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...journeys revolved every six weeks on an average, to look a little into the executive details of the system. With some of these Mr. Palmer had no con- ... ...self with the mysterious. The connexion of the mail with the state and the executive government—a connexion obvi- ous, but yet not strictly defined—ga... ...t it as a thrilling; and this speed was not the product of blind insensate agencies, that had no sympathy to give, but was incarnated in the fiery eye... ...ds itself forward through the electric sensibility of the horse; the inter-agencies are gone in the mode of com- munication between the horse and his ... ...regularly subsiding back into si- lence about sunset, could not fail (when united with this permanent distinction of Lancashire as the very metropolis...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

.... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH ...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ... and may we learn to live with such holiness here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa... ...e may sleep in Him as our hope is this our sister doth, and may be finally united with her in Heaven. Yesterday was a day of great trial to us all: I ... ...refore, if he is decidedly wrong, it is not for us to judge him. Read his “Kingdom of Christ,” and his early books; but he is on very slippery and dan... ...g out some better men for the work, with energy and constructive power and executive genius, all of which, guided by Divine Wisdom, seem to be so much... ...or souls are being taught and trained for heaven through all these various agencies which seem to a distant and idle critic to be so questionable in s...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

... E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ailway stocks and bales of cotton to be more sensitive to the allotment of executive power than many esti- mable citizens trained to all the advantage... ...uced to the fate of that poor Silverton woman—slinking about to employment agencies, and trying to sell painted blotting-pads to Women’s Exchanges! An... ... touch to her furs. “Of course, you know, it hasn’t come to the employment agencies and the painted blotting-pads yet; but I’m rather hard-up just for... ...nd less clear than any natural affinities would warrant; and both appeared united in the effort to cultivate Freddy V an Osburgh’s growing taste for M... ...ous enquiry and much delib- eration, Mrs. Fisher and Gerty, for once oddly united in their effort to help their friend, decided on placing her in the ...

...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. 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 wa...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ency to lawless and gigantesque ideals of adventur- ous life; under which, united with the duelling code of Eu- rope, many things would become trivial... ...ithout ei- ther caliph or Aladdin, and by the most natural of mere hu- man agencies, this change was suddenly accomplished. Mr. White, whom I have alr... ...ation over the minds and practice of the Pagan world, they had moved by no agencies whatever, but those of human fraud, intrigue, collusion, applied t... ...people of Greece. Under these circumstances, both the deliberative and the executive bodies of the Grecian gov- ernment, assembling separately, have c... ... to us our valued English connection. Farewell! “The Vice-president of the Executive, “ATHANASIUS KANAKARES. 201 Thomas de Quincey “The Chief-Secreta...

...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 havin...

...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...rge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...hen, moreover, will the novelist’s Art, now nei- ther blushless infant nor executive man, have attained its majority. We can then be veraciously histo... ... brand a woman’s character, whatever her rank might be; having innumerable agencies and avenues for that high purpose, to say nothing of the printing-... ...Copsley raised an exclamation of, ‘Oh! that those two had been or could be united!’ She was conscious of a mystic symbolism in the prayer. She was not... ...at somehow you contrive to get the pick of us in the girls! If ever we ‘re united, ‘twill be by a trick of circumvention of that sort, pretty sure. Th... ...m, it was merely a hand, cut off from the wrist; and he had performed that executive part! A wiser man would now have been the lord of it … . So he fe...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... gig- gling class through the prisons, the charity bureaus, the employment agencies of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Trail- ing at the end of the line Car... ...ure.” “Ye-es, but don’t you think it would be better to work with existing agencies? Perhaps it will sound slow to you, but I was thinking— It would b... ...t of his den and be human. If Will were as literate as Guy, or Guy were as executive as Will, I think I could endure even Gopher Prairie. “It’s so har... ...nita kissed her and in the exuberant manner of a new star presented to the executive committee her theory, “What we want in a play is humor and pep. T... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ... 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 C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...Felzenberg Deputy for Communications COMMISSION STAFF xiii Philip Zelikow, Executive Director Christopher A. Kojm, Deputy Executive Director Daniel Ma... ...f Member L. Christine Healey Senior Counsel & Team Leader Karen Heitkotter Executive Secretary W alter T . Hempel II Professional Staff Member C. Mich... ...ttacks of September 11, 2001, ” includ- ing those relating to intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, diplo- macy, immigration issues and bor... ...vernment—between foreign and domestic intelligence, and between and within agencies.We learned of the pervasive problems of managing and sharing infor...

...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 an...

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

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnish... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for an... ...r own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ... consider able jealousy of direct interference, by the legisla tive or the executive power with private conduct; not so much from any just regard fo... ...e may sup pose, can now be needed, against permitting a leg islature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people, to prescribe opini... ...ibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes o... ...ely realized—where both society and the government are most demo cratic—the United States—the feeling of the ma jority , to whom any appearance of a... ...nting intemperance the people of one English colony , and of nearly half the United States, have been interdicted by law from making any use whatever ...

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

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... dogs. Hypocrisy, the cringing of sycophants, and the credulities of fear, united to conceal this misotheism; but we may be sure that it was widely di... ...ly modes of representing and drawing into unity a variety of phenomena and agencies that seem one, by means of their unintermitting continuity, and be... ...piritual; but, practically, we all feel and represent to our own minds the agencies of God, as liberated from bonds of space and time, of flesh and of... ...mitted to the judgment of the particular imperator, or of his legatus. The executive business of the 35 Thomas de Quincey Roman exchequer, again, cou... ...ting daily letters to his friends, in which he expresses his hope that the executive power would not think of burning the poor man, since really justi...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...f John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...sition, to group itself into two parties, one of them in possession of the executive, the other endeavouring to supplant the former and become the pre... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ...ances; as if my character and that of all others had been formed for us by agencies beyond our control, and was wholly out of our own power. I often s... ... so performed, by the people themselves, without any inter vention of the executive government, either to supersede their agency, or to dictate the m... ...nal business which elsewhere devolves on the government, was transacted by agencies independent of it; where centralization was, and is, the subject n...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by Jo... ...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ...RT MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...ear more urgent. Though there are not in this country, as there are in the United States, periodical conventions and an organised party to agitate for... ...gement is a division of powers between the two; each being absolute in the executive branch of their own department, and any change of system and prin... ...people of this temperament are particularly apt for what may be called the executive department of the leadership of mankind. They are the material of... ...mmend themselves to young women, have in all recorded times been important agencies in the formation of character, and have determined some of The Sub...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ions of the imma- ture; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the neces... ...hus depends upon a prior training given with this end in view. Intentional agencies—schools—and explicit material—studies—are devised. The task of tea... ..., trans- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with differ... ...eatures of habits. In the first place, 51 John Dewey a habit is a form of executive skill, of efficiency in doing. A habit means an ability to use na... ...e environment. The significance of habit is not exhausted, however, in its executive and motor phase. It means formation of intellectual and emotional...

...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard... ...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...etty women as he may like to buy for the slaking of his own lusts. In that kingdom of evil he sees that there will be no power but his own. These gods... ...obeyed Wotan implicitly, taking her work as the holiest and bravest in his kingdom; and now he tells her what he could not tell Fricka—what indeed he ... ...ges from crudity of social organization to complexity, and from mechanical agencies in government to living ones, seem an- archic at first sight. No d... ...might against the revolutionary forces until these forces become positive, executive, administrative forces, in- stead of the conspiracies of protesti... ...ve. Now a human being is both man and woman: it is only when these two are united that the real human being exists; and thus it is only by love that m...

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...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition ...........................................................................

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