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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...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... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ...bringing revolution, a sexual revolution, an all-permissive revolution, in order to free consuming man from the lifestyle of former village communitie... ...hich were returned by more than 800 people from the different villages. In order to monitor changes, we used the same questions in the questionnaires ... ...ks who were able to read e.g. books on sorcery and almanacs were given the honorary name 'temple teacher' (azan wat). When I came to Lampang in 1972, ... ...y ten o'clock, the monks arrive and sit down on their dais in front of the honorary cloth. Buddhist death ceremonies have an established order. First,... ...the country. By becoming monks for a period, civil servants and new police officers show that they respect the ethics of Buddhism in their own lives a...

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...Total consumption of milk in developing regions is projected to increase from 164 million metric tonnes in 1993 to 391 million metric tons by the year 2020 – a 138 percent increase! The expected increase in per capita consumption is from 38 to...

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...Table of Contents About the Authors Acknowledgements Foreward Chapter 1: The dairy industry in a changing world H. Schelhaas Introduction Four specific features of the dairy industry Milk production The processin...

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Excerpt: Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling.

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...... 27 FALSE DAWN ................................................................................................................................ 31 THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES .................................................................................................... 38 CUPID?S ARROWS ......................................................................................

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...ling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ublication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 any- o... ...eal war—between them. She started handicapped in the struggle, for she had ordered Bremmil about just the least little bit in the world too much; and ... ...er, marriage with Miss Castries meant marriage with several other Castries—Honorary Lieutenant Castries, her Papa, Mrs. Eulalie Castries, her Mamma, a... ...e; and the D’Silvas, Pereiras, and Ducketts lifted their voices and mocked Honorary Lieu- tenant Castries as one who had been basely imposed upon. Mrs... ...ements. A Cavalry Band is a sacred thing. It only turns out for Commanding Officers’ parades, and the Band Master is one degree more important than th... ...l cast the Drum-horse of the White Hussars, there was nearly a mutiny. The officers were angry, the Regiment were furious, and the Bandsman swore—like...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE.................................................................................................................................. 19 THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT .............................................

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...Contents THE SUICIDE CLUB ....................................................................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS .............................................

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...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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...ol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the fi...

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...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of t... ...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 Pennsyl- vania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...’s day. How I do like Henry V.” “It is no use to try to keep those boys in order!” sighed Miss Winter. “Saturnalia, as papa calls Saturday,” replied F... ...e effects of the climate, but, owing to sickness and death among the other officers, he had suffered much fatigue and pressure of mind and body. Immed... ...hool-fellow, and shook hands with him, as if able, in the plenitude of his officership, to afford plenty of good-humoured superiority. T om had mean- ... ...den of ladies from the black mass below. Then came the introduction of the honorary doctors, one by one, with the Latin speech, which Ethel’s companio... ...” And Meta added that, at luncheon, she had been seated next to one of the honorary doctors—a naval captain—who had been making discoveries in the Sou...