... Deviations: Covenant Elissa Malcohn Second Edition This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the prod... ...of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblanc... ...n 1985. I am very thankful for the guidance I received back then by members of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop (Jon Burrowes, Alexander Jablo... ...I don't know how to read them?" "There are people who can, who have written books on the old tongues and numerologies. The better scrimshanders can ... ...'s words to the scribes at the Rotunda, who would transfer the stories into books. Scrimshanders would immortalize Ulik in bones set aside for keeps... ...ness. Wanting to die. Ninety-six percent of all adolescent yatanii compiled lists of Yata parts and their uses within the household. TripStone had b... ... percent that survived and were rehabilitated, at least half retained their lists. A fellow yatanii, unable to break the food chain by starving, liv... ...ore she told of Ulik, the more she guaranteed his immortality: written into books, carved into his bones, and hung from Masari walls. This hunter ha... ... accountings." The Masari pushed themselves to their feet and offered their lists. 65 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant The elder gathered the ...

...Vol. 1: TripStone hates to kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelter...

...A fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives li...

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ...reesura Wiwien Wongsansern Sayom Munnam interviewers had in their minds a lists of topics and questions I had prepared, which they could use to move ... ...e he was, but he died and now we await his rebirth as divine redeemer. The books say that he who is born dies, and when one dies, one is reborn. But I... ...m the temple was called to the house, to read chapters or sermons from his books. That way, they drive out evil souls from the house where death has v... ...o read at the temple, which is why former monks who were able to read e.g. books on sorcery and almanacs were given the honorary name 'temple teacher'... ...ok was already written, Thailand declared a war on drugs for three months. Lists of drug dealers and users in villages were compiled, and they were gi... ...knock together. The ninth is bad and the tenth a good day and so on. These lists were made ages ago and they hold true. It's hard to explain. If peopl...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

...Authors rarely have the privilege, after twenty-five years, of revising a work of considerable size. We are grateful to have had this privilege, because the need for a complete revision of the Hawaiian Dictionary has long been evident, judging from the response of scholars and of many...

...In the revised dictionary we have attempted to credit Greek, Hebrew, and Latin as sources of many loan words in Hawaiian, drawing on Elbert and Knowlton's unpublished paper (1985) that lists words probably from Greek (mostly in the New Testament), Hebrew (mostly in the Old Testament), and Latin (mostly of non-Hawa...

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ... promises of sex and the street corner businessmen guarantee you happiness when you buy their mind altering wares. And the marketing of sex in books,... ...never have dreamed of. ―In another university study students were told to administer electric shocks to others who were to learn word lists.... ...attorneys are always right. And if you don‘t believe it, I‘ll sue you for defamation of character!‖ —―I read about her. She had written books ... ...ch other, and often themselves. The power of knowing you are right makes some people do rather foolish things, like suicide bombings, burning books ...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...