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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS From Chaos to Harmony The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom ... ... LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS From Chaos to Harmony The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah... ...bbalah.info Laitman Kabbalah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom ... ... Laitman Kabbalah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah... ...ed during the Renaissance and continued through the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions, and into the present day. The growth of the Enlightenment... ...rtificially re- duce it in order to reach equality, love, and social justice. Revolutions and social changes have come and gone, but all have failed... ...d, and compares it to the voice of the Shofar (a ram’s horn blown on Jew- ish holidays): “And the dissemination of the wisdom in the masses is calle... ...ithin his or herself and pass this knowledge on to others. When we read books related to the correction method, or encounter similar material prese... ...omosome pool of Jews as part of the genetic landscape of the Middle East, The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2001, 1095-112:(5)69. 22 http://w...

...Laitman's new book not only demonstrates with examples from science and Kabbalah that the ego stands behind all human suffering, but also shows how we can use it to our benefit. With clear analyses of the human soul and its problems, the book provides a 'roadmap' indicating how we can achieve a new level of ex...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiter... ...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ...VSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to ... ...on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation... ...tion, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html Visit Sam Vakn... ...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... of reading habits, shopping habits, interaction with other readers, plot related decisions and much more), automatic and embedded audio conversion ... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...oks! And I plan to have just such double sided DVDs to hand out for the holidays two years from now. . . . The Ubiquitous Project Gutenberg Int...

...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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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vakn... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...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... ... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...erica, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed Sta... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...ginous rate of incarceration, among the highest numbers of legal executions and gun-related deaths. It is still engaged in atavistic debates about a... ...fghanistan policies did not concern religious issues as it did the ethnic question related to the political and military aspirations of the Pashtun... ...aqi banks have been unco- operative since 1988. The trick is to apply during public holidays, or when communications are down (as they are now), bec...

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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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...n any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Arch... ...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... ... 100 articles and essays (microeconomics and macroeconomics) by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam ... ...XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. Battling Society’s Cancer XVII. To Grow Out of Unemployment The Author - Sam Vaknin Battling Unemployme... ...rmany and Hungary). Alternatively, even if sickness benefits are earnings-related, unemployment benefits can be flat (as is the case in Bulgaria and... .... I recommend linking the size of investment incentives (including tax holidays) to the potential increase in employment deriving from the invest... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... .... I recommend linking the size of investment incentives (including tax holidays) to the potential increase in employment deriving from the invest... ...chapter). It needs to be reformed. I propose a scaled minimum wage, age-related and means tested and also connected to skills. In other words,...

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Surviving the Economic Crisis : Current and Future Trends

By: Mark W. Medley

... in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any Means, without the prior written permission of the Author or New Economics publishers... ...n of the Author or New Economics publishers. © Mark W Medley 2009 Contact the Author at : expat2008@yahoo.com Complimentary Copy 2009 Cont... ... 48 ii Part Four: Surviving the Change 1. When to recognize our Economies are Recovering 50 ... ...i-Family Home 61 8. Is Knowledge Trading a new way to Save and Survive? 62 9. Benefiting from Big Go... ...were manual, and semi-skilled jobs, the jobs two generations of Europeans and Americans have shunned. President Obamas New Deal, is big Government,... ...ckets, to get us to spend. Lower direct income taxes, tax breaks and even tax holidays will be the new way to release any spare cash in our pockets ... ... "stronger" more authoritarian Leaders, who need to get things done. 2. Task-related satisfaction When situations are not intrinsically satisfying,... ... interaction. During this phase, group members perform a variety of task-related functions, including defining the task, suggesting solutions, ... ...t the high end and long haul tourist business is suffering, lower end camping holidays are becoming the trend for this year. Localized Tourism is ...

...The primary objective of writing this initial volume “Surviving an Economic Crisis” was to input new ideas about the reasons behind the current economic crisis, and look into the future past the question-Why this crisis happe...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...a-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0... ... 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... ............................................... 130 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS ........................................... 133 RETIREME... ...in economics from Dr. Easterlin at USC. He had been researching happiness related to income. I remember that he said there's evidence that happiness... ...me. I remember that he said there's evidence that happiness is positively related to the frequency of sex." —―I heard somewhere that increasing ... ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ve their way of life. Welfare states allow nearly free medical care, long holidays, job protection, early retirement—but many people in the world are... ...educed. ―Norwegians get 4 to 6 weeks of paid vacation and 11 paid holidays, so the work year is about 45 weeks. Of that, the average Norwegi...

...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 Lemu...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Au... ...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": ... ... 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 – ... ...Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meanin... ...e main "theory". It must also be consistent with the observed phenomena, both those related to economics and those pertaining to non-economic human ... ... as a store of value and a means of exchange. Markets and scarcity are intimately related. The former would be rendered irrelevant and unnecessary... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...nt Place - Facilitate the unhindered exchange of goods, services, and capital (tax holidays, free processing zones, no red tape, double taxation tr... ... a reason not to do business there. An example of discount pricing is to offer tax holidays and rent-free facilities to a relocating multinational....

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

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...right 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 an... ...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... ...nd in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, an... ...Connection was balanced by a Causal Separation. Every connection is causally related to every separation. Every separation is causally related to e... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...s functioning at each point in this process? How much are they connected, or related to each other? In what way? The human brain is a layered org... ...nsider that you have earned your money? Would you go off on their junkets and holidays called business trips? To hob-nob with your fellow cronies a... ...vicariously entertained, or it inspires us to escape it temporarily by having holidays or vacations. It inspires us either to be active or non-activ...

...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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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...produced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Au... ...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": ... ...DONIA 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 t... ...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 ... ...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...ation, standardized the legal system, school syllabi and curricula and the national holidays. He was moulding a nation single handedly, carving it f... ...ly indistinguishable. They prayed in each other's shrines, celebrated each other's holidays and adopted the same customs. Muslim mysticism (the Suf... ... the strongest. On the very contrary. The universal ethical principles - the ones related to one's position as a human being - are the weakest. Th... ... Present Freelance consultant to many of Israel's Blue-Chip firms, mainly on issues related to the capital markets in Israel, Canada, the UK and the...

...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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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... ...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... ...tbook 1987 The person charging this material is re- sponsible for its return to the library from which it was withdrawn on or before the Latest Date s... ...gence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet their < requirements. Comments and queries may be addressed to: ,... ...ces Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDE Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTER... ...African Ethnic divisions: about 80 ethnic groups, the majority of which have related ethnic and linguistic characteristics; 34% Baya, 27% Banda, 10% S... ...gal Studies at Libreville; compulsory ICJ jurisdiction not accepted National holidays: Renovation Day, 12 March; Independence Day, 17 August; major Is... ...tion Day, 12 March; Independence Day, 17 August; major Islamic and Christian holidays Branches: power centralized in President, elected by universal s... ...highlanders of predominantly Malayo- Indonesian origin (Merina 1,643,000 and related Betsileo 760,000) on the one hand and coastal tribes collectively...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban... ...Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004... ...* Theoretical perspectives 11 * Fieldwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment o... ... (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have mo... ...lowed to stay away from school for months and people waited and hoped for holidays so children could work at home, help with looking after the buffal... ... Asia have emerged on plains of their own principal river, they have been related cultures and arch-enemies, separated from one another by the mounta... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...s made my husband divorce his first wife and we were able to marry. We are related. I didn't love my husband when we were married, but because my pare... ...is counted from the birth of Buddha (543 BC). The old Buddhist calendar of holidays is also adapted to international months, but many old temple days ...

...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 heale...

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Fuzzy Relational Maps and Neutrosophic Relational Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... ISBN: 1-931233-86-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS D e d i c a t i o n ... ...inear optimization problem with FRE constraints 48 1.7 Method of solution to fuzzy relation equations in a complete Brouwerian lattice 55 ... ...zy relational equations 70 1.12 FRE with defuzzification algorithm for the largest solution 75 1.13 Solvability and Unique solvability ... ...zy sets 146 1.26 Solvability criteria for systems of FRE 156 1.27 Infinite FRE to a complete browerian lattices 162 1.28 Semantics of implication o... ...ive if and only if (x, x) ∈ R. for each x ∈ R, that is if every element of X is related to itself, otherwise R(X, X) is called irreflexive. If (x, x... ...α β γ .6 .2 .1 .5 .8 .2 1 .3 .1 .7 14 whenever an element x is related to an element y through a symmetric relation, y is also rela... ...lies Government Interference have helped). B 6 ≥ 0.4 10 hours of work with no holidays. (B 6 < 0.4 implies less than 10 hours of work). O 1 ... ...orithm, Plenum Press, New York, 1981. [9,54] 5. Birkhoff, G., Lattice Theory, American Mathematical Society, 1979. [61-63, 126, 162-63] 6. Blanco... ...ks on the topic of Smarandache Algebraic Structures which were published by the American Research Press. She can be contacted at vasantha@itm.ac...

...The aim of this book is two fold. At the outset the book gives most of the available literature about Fuzzy Relational Equations (FREs) and its properties for there is no book that solely caters to FREs and its applications. ...

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Noi Functii in Teoria Numerelor

By: Florentin Smarandache

... ISBN: 1-931233-86-1 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 CONTENTS D e d i c a t i o n ... ...inear optimization problem with FRE constraints 48 1.7 Method of solution to fuzzy relation equations in a complete Brouwerian lattice 55 ... ...zy relational equations 70 1.12 FRE with defuzzification algorithm for the largest solution 75 1.13 Solvability and Unique solvability ... ...zy sets 146 1.26 Solvability criteria for systems of FRE 156 1.27 Infinite FRE to a complete browerian lattices 162 1.28 Semantics of implication o... ...ive if and only if (x, x) ∈ R. for each x ∈ R, that is if every element of X is related to itself, otherwise R(X, X) is called irreflexive. If (x, x... ...α β γ .6 .2 .1 .5 .8 .2 1 .3 .1 .7 14 whenever an element x is related to an element y through a symmetric relation, y is also rela... ...lies Government Interference have helped). B 6 ≥ 0.4 10 hours of work with no holidays. (B 6 < 0.4 implies less than 10 hours of work). O 1 ... ...orithm, Plenum Press, New York, 1981. [9,54] 5. Birkhoff, G., Lattice Theory, American Mathematical Society, 1979. [61-63, 126, 162-63] 6. Blanco... ...ks on the topic of Smarandache Algebraic Structures which were published by the American Research Press. She can be contacted at vasantha@itm.ac...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...dressing-room, her ladyship having something special to communicate, which related (as I understood her) to one Simon. “What Simon? Simon Peter?”—O, n... ...o; and I retired from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and ... ...New Year—there was, according to ancient usage, on the breaking up for the holidays, at the Grammar School, a sol- * St. James’, according to my prese...

...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, fir...

...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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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...aphy of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...continent, in what relates to immigration and territorial origin. When the American enters on the history of his ancestors, he is driven, after some t... ...th as much manner as he could command, and with singular perse- verance as related to the difficulties to be overcome, to a cli- entele of bleachers, ... ...ans at Paris; and cancans we overheard, and precisely in the manner I have related. Did pretty ladies remember that pocket- handkerchiefs have ears, t... ... were loud and deep among those who lived by its innocent arts. Still, the holidays were near, and hope revived. If revolutionized Paris would not buy... ...al of a girl dying to rush into the dissipations of society. CHAPTER V THE HOLIDAYS WERE OVER, without there being any material revival of trade, when...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...use- ment which attaches to any real story , thoughtfully and faith- fully related, moving through a succession of scenes suffi- ciently varied, that ... ...ng storms, suddenly dawned upon me; and not as any casual intercalation of holidays that would come to an end, but, for any thing that appeared to the... ...ed to be, at starting, squire or “squireen,” lord or lordling, and however related to that city, hamlet, or solitary house from which yesterday or to-... ...ntleman, the son of a wealthy banker, had to return home for the Christmas holidays to a town in Lincolnshire, distant from the public school where he...

...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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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...he Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...and was agape for his coming. Glasgow he reached by one o’clock, and it is related that scarcely a ship-yard or factory in that busy hive of industry ... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...WILL BRITAIN DO? IS IT WAR? This sort of thing was always going on, and on holidays one disregarded it as a matter of course. Week-davs, in the slack ... ...inds of whiskey and wine in Londoners’ cellars that gave Bun Hill its only holidays. He taught this doctrine on Sundays, and on weekdays he was an ami...

Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...cation My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...ER OF MAKING IT—THE DINNER HOUR—THE CONTRAST. THE HEART-RENDING INCIDENTS, related in the foregoing chap- ter, led me, thus early, to inquire into the... ...ONCERN—MY ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJU- DICE—THE HOLIDAYS—HOW SPENT—SHARP HIT AT SLA VERY—EFFECTS OF HOLIDAYS—A DEVICE OF SL... ...The days between Christmas day and New Year’s, are al- lowed the slaves as holidays. During these days, all regular work was suspended, and there was ... ...rous. After making my escape from the ship yard, I went straight home, and related the story of the outrage to Master Hugh Auld; and it is due to him ...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circ... ...umstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in whic... ...as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself ... ... situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent... ...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...at Mr. Bantling had promised her from his sister Lady Pensil. Miss Stackpole related very freely her conversa tion with Ralph Touchett’s sociable fri... ...col league, as well as the responsibility of their errand, which apparently related to the young girl. This object of interest wore her hat—an orname... ... help me to decide whether my daughter shall return to you at the end of the holidays.” “I hope you’ll decide in our favour, madame,” the sister in sp... ...k, for I’ve been so much away from him. Papa has always been principally for holidays. I miss Madame Catherine almost more; but you must not tell him ...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in m...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...nry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... Mr. Bantling had promised her from his sister Lady Pensil. Miss Stackpole related very freely her conversation with Ralph Touchett’s sociable friend ... ...colleague, as well as the responsibility of their errand, which apparently related to the young girl. This object of interest wore her hat— an ornamen... ...elp me to decide whether my daughter shall return to you at the end of the holidays.” “I hope you’ll decide in our favour, madame,” the sister in spec...

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