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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... ... the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Indepe... ...- based access for its collection, during which it discovered that for the books in the study, 22% of the publishers could not be found. 27 This Se... ...opyright owner. Examples include basic Internet searches, using old phone books, and searches for death certificates and records concerning estates.... ...able online independently of the Copyright Office. See, e.g., The Online Books Page: Information About the Catalog of Copyright Entries, available a... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab... ...d publish such filings? For instance, would the Copyright Office publish lists of these notices on a regular basis, similar to the lists of notice...

...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 the copy...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. ... ...y Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any elec... ...rding or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this ... ... that puzzled her. “Daniel, how does Ronan know about dragons?” “Picture books and drawin’s.” “But how can he know what they sound like?” “How... ... from theatrical agents were crumpled and crammed into stacked boxes on one bookshelf. From the disarray, she couldn’t determine whether Daniel w... ...ght ease the discomfort of his broken leg. Morgan had no idea what type of books he would prefer, so she carried down an assortment from the librar... ... moment to regret her decision about Nell and the Tories. He devised daily lists of chores and details for everyone in the household to prepare for ... ...he reassembling of the Nell company. Consequently, the distribution of his lists and the supervision of their completion became Morgan’s responsibi... ... On her report of the day’s accomplishments or failures, Daniel drew up new lists. It amazed to her that their elopement and escape to Connecticut h...

...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...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... ...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... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ...tuiftdl aiul his remarkable work on the liubrador cnast, to a study of his books and those of others about I him. it is a story to enlist the attenlii... ...ork includes that wdiiidi sup- plies the real needs of men. Men need laws, books, council. e.xa;n- ple, syuipnthy, friends, and above all, Ootl. These... ...e- spect resembles Tom Jones, by Fielding Tt orginally consisted of twenty books, but only parts of the 15th and KStli are now extant. The story deals... ...he practice of sending out double bi-weekly bulletins to newspapers on its lists. Several new papers have been added to the list, in- oludirig the Spr...

...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF PERIYAR’S VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e... ... K. Kandasamy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kand... ...s book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning... ... ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road ... ...Layout by Kama Kandasamy Translated from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy Many books can be downloaded from the following E-Library of Science: http... ...society. [Kudiarasu, 7-10-1928] Communal Representation It must be said, “books that teach higher and lower must not be read.” If someone violat... ...vernment decided and passed a resolution never to mention subcastes in voters lists, religious institutions, school records, court records but only ...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...arcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...rcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic... ...rn, W. R. D. An Object Relations Theory of the Personality. New York, Basic Books, 1954 4. Freud S. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality [1905]. ... ...s, 1971 19. Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism. New York, Warner Books, 1979 20. Levine, J. D., and Weiss, Rona H. The Dynamics and Treat... ... 1994 21. Lowen, Alexander. Narcissism: Denial of the True Self. Touchstone Books, 1997 22. Millon, Theodore (and Roger D. Davis, contributor). Dis... ... is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, a plurality of media, and voting. B... ...("World in Conflict and Transition"). Owner of the Narcissistic Abuse Study Lists and the Abusive Relationships Newsletter (more than 6,000 members...

...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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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...ocracy" is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, and voting. But its quiddit... ... is higher. Russia's oil industry is private and keeps much of its revenues off the books. Tens of thousands of Russians used to purchase Iraqi g... ...ar 2001 report of the "Ministry" of Reconstruction and Development (MORAD) in Irbil lists thousands of housing units, dormitories, schools, and gue... ...ed", Narcissus Publications, Prague and Skopje, 1999-2007 The Narcissism Series (e-books regarding relationships with abusive narcissists), Skopje,... ... The EIGHTH, REVISED PRINTING (January 2007) is now available! Seven additional e-books, All NEW Editions, JUST RELEASED!!! Malignant Self Love, T...

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 World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S... ... 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... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...ocratic Group (RDNP), Leslie Manigat Voting strength: new voter registration lists being compiled Communists: United Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH... ... in December 1985 under legislation re- quiring parties to register and open books for inspection; government still has wide authority under civil cod...

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Hawaiian Dictionary

By: Mary Kawena Pukui

...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...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...end it is that the attention of the reader is especially directed. The two books and the pamphlet to- gether are to be regarded as an essay in present... ... reference to authorities in the chapter on the biological problem, and to books in the educational chapter, the lacunar quality of his reading and kn... ...is wife. Even in rest and recreation life still manifests its quality; the books the ordinary man reads turn enormously on love-making, his theatre ha... ... facts, heights of mountains, for example, popu- lations of countries, and lists of obsolete manufactures and obsolete trade conditions. Any one who w... ...l politician, is of the utmost convenience. And there are endless affairs, lists, gatherings, when the only alterna- tive to rank is scramble. For mys... ...ally necessary as examination papers which merely demand defi- nitions and lists and bald facts are bad. And then there might be discussions—if the Pr...

...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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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...sure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and b... ...mises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experienc... ..., and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then in... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...classics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, troubadours filled memorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of ... ...form tables for computing costs of goods and payments of wages as well as lists converting weights and measures. By the seventeenth century, such bo...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 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...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ame prin- ciples as that of Connecticut. 56 Democracy in America from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. Blasphemy, sorcery, adultery,*... .... See the Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 410. The selectmen draw up the lists of electors for the election of the Governor, and transmit the result... ... be limited to a nar- row sphere; but when the chief magistrate enters the lists, he borrows the strength of the government for his own pur- poses. In... ...s of at- taining to it. The wealthy members of the community aban- don the lists, through unwillingness to contend, and fre- quently to contend in vai... ...Inquisition has never been able to prevent a vast number of anti-religious books from circulating in Spain. The empire of the majority suc- ceeds much... ...gov- ernments to protect the morality of nations by prohibiting licentious books. In the United States no one is punished for this sort of works, but ...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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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... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ousand volumes. Lord Massey was far from illit- erate; and his interest in books was unaffected, if limited, and too often interrupted, by defective k... ...ollected that he cannot pursue a subject once started. Now, at Laxton, the books had been so judiciously brought together, so many hooks and eyes conn... ... ing the computation, that, in a library containing a fair pro- portion of books illustrated with plates, about ten shillings a volume might be taken ... ...f success; and Œdipus, either on public or on selfish motives, entered the lists as a competitor. The riddle proposed by the Sphinx ran in these terms...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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Measure, For Measure

By: William Shakespeare

... S V R E, For Measure. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Ta... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Measvre, For Measure . ... ... Duke. 4 Escalus. 5 Esc. My Lord. 6 Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vn-|(fold, 7 Would seeme in me t’ a... ...e I am put to know, that your owne Science 9 Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice 10 My strength can giue you: Then no more remaine... ...e-tweene 124 vs. 125 Luc. I grant: as there may betweene the Lists, and 126 the Veluet. Thou art the List. 127 1.Gent. And...

...Excerpt: Measure For Measure; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords. Duke. Escalus. Esc. My Lord. Duk. Of Government, the properties to unfold, Would seeme in me t? affect speech & discourse, Since I am put to know, that your owne Science Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice My strength can give you: Then no more remaine...

...Table of Contents: Measvre, For Measure, 1 -- Actus primus, Scena prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 3 -- Scena Tertia., 5 -- Scena Quarta., 7 -- Scena Quinta., 9 -- Actus Secundus. Scoena Prima., 11 -- Scena Secunda., 17 -- Scena Tertia...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e to be read through from the first page to the end. ‘No, Sir, do you read books through?’ asked Johnson. His way is probably the best one of undertak... ...native of Derbyshire, of obscure extraction, who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer. His mother was Sa- rah Ford, descended of an anci... ...me of which were at a con- siderable distance from Lichfield. At that time booksellers’ shops in the provincial towns of England were very rare, so th... ...rsue his travels on foot, partly by demanding at Universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, accord- ing to the custom of many of them, ... ..., was often very fortunate in his witty contests, even when he entered the lists with Johnson himself. Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them on...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ance, “the ‘Pursuivant’ is more exacting, and the printing Will Harewood’s books has brought in more business—” “But how about space? We could squeeze... ...e the ‘Pursuivant’ to lie about, nor her writing for it, even about art or books; nor did his old bones enjoy the rivers at Vale Leston. Now you will ... ... “For good indeed,” said Clement; “he is a great power there.” “So are his books,” added Geraldine. “Will Harewood sets great store by them. Ah! I hea... ...bolic. History was delightful to me for the search for true knights. I had lists of them, drawings if possible, but I never 91 Yo n g e could indoctr...

...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...

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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 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... ...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 ... ... up to think custom and opinion her sovereign rule, attempts to express in books anything drawn from the depths of her own nature. The greatest woman ... ...nction, and usually the martyrdom, of a still rarer elite. Institu tions, books, education, society, all go on training human beings for the old, lon... ...live in different parts of the house and have to tally different visiting lists, as in the reign of Louis XV. They cannot help having different wishe...

Excerpt: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill.

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The Ethics of Aristotle

By: J. A. Smith

.... A. Smith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ethics of Aristotle trans. J. A. Smith 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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ethics of Aristotle trans. J. A. Smith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...these groups falls into sub-groups which roughly correspond to the several books in each work. The tendency to take up one by one the various problems... ...h by Greek opinion, this form of the doctrine is of no great significance. Books III-V are occupied with a survey of the moral vir- tues and vices. Th... ...tain conditions, so that the will is often misled, hesitates, and is lost. Books VIII. and IX. (on Friendship) are almost an inter- ruption of the arg... ...s not the finest and strongest men who are crowned, but they who enter the lists, for out of these the prize-men are selected; so too in life, of the ...

...Introduction: The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the ?philosophy of human affairs;? but more fre...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...a wrathful sprinkling of red upon the edges of the leaves—as if it, of all books! were a fortification against sweet- ness of temper, natural affectio... ...d the reach of all changing emotions. On her little table lay two or three books, her handkerchief, a pair of steel spectacles newly taken off, and an... ...l the rusks and drunk all the mixture, the two trays were removed; and the books and the candle, watch, hand- kerchief, and spectacles were replaced u... ...was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals. And Little Dorrit, seeing all these things ...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication 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 pur- pose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of lit... ... in his latter years at the university he published brilliant re- views of books upon various special subjects, so that he be- came well known in lite... ...ading the titles through the glass. Fyodor Pavlovitch had a fair number of books—over a hun- dred—but no one ever saw him reading. He at once gave Sme... ...the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing lef... ...e smile. “Do you know how he spends his time now?” he asked; “learning lists of French words by heart. He has an exercise- book under his pillow w...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its p...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...read. Who would buy boots or coats, or want new saddles, or waste money on books, in such days as these, in such a town as Alexandria? And then out of... ... of the House calls out the names of the different Senators, and makes out lists of the votes according to the separate answers given by the members. ... ...labor under sufficient restraint; but where are their men, where are their books, where is their learn- ing, their art, their enterprise? I say it wit... ...wever, if I go to Rolla again during the war, I will at any rate leave the books behind me. What a night we spent in that inn! They who know America w... ... legal appropriation; no title of nobility shall be granted. The above are lists or catalogues of the powers which Congress has, and of the powers whi...

............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

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A Theologico-Political Treatise

By: R. H. M. Elwes

... Chapters XI to XV by Baruch Spinoza, trans. R.H.M. Elwes is a publication 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...tend into the future. (18) All the arguments employed by Moses in the five books are to be understood in a similar manner; they are not drawn from the... ...w of God con- sists, and how it cannot be contained in a certain number of books; and, lastly, I will show that Scripture, in so far as it teaches wha... ...t, that the original documents of Moses are no longer extant, nor that the books we possess met with the fate we have described, when we consider that... ...set down is of vital importance to us, and that God chose the four Evange- lists in order that the life of Christ might be better understood; for each...

...TABLE OF CONTENTS: CHAPTER XI ? An Inquiry whether the Apostles wrote their Epistles as Apostles and Prophets, or merely as Teachers, and an Explanation of what is meant by Apostle. The epistles not in the prophetic style. The Apos...

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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... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ect, is that of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he ... ...ly a part of the daily instruction I received. Much of it consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father’s discourses to me, chiefly during ou... ...ing, and from these in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number... ... because it was called the English side. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportu nity offered, to give me explanations an...

...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 what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...es for vigorous education instead of genteel athleticism, and his home has books in it, and thought and conversation. Our homes and schools are relati... ...ic paper of the slightest value. The effort and arrangement needed to make books, facilities for research, and all forms of art accessible throughout ... ... Press, that Australia and New Zealand even now gravi- tate to America for books and thought. It matters nothing to them that the poverty and insulari... ...copyright; and then—with perhaps a secretary or so—he would revise all his lists and 127 H. G . Wells mark against every book whether he would have t... ... the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists. My own estimate of the popular wisdom is against the idea that any v...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s, and remembered him with a legacy of two thousand livres for purchase of books. He wrote in his lively school- days a tragedy that afterwards he bur... ...up— on the 17th of May, 1717—in the Bastille. There he wrote the first two books of his Henriade, and finished a play on OEdipus, which he had begun a... ...ies the Quaker, “to our great happiness.” Then opening one of the Friends’ books, as he called it, he read the following words in an em- phatic tone:-... ... of injurious terms in his dispute with Mr. Locke. That divine entered the lists against him, but was defeated; for he argued as a schoolman, and Lock...

...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

...S......................................................................................................................... 16 LETTER V.?ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .................................................................................................. 20 LETTER VI.?ON THE PRESBYTERIANS....................................................................................

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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... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...een the morality and religion of the Pentateuch, or even of the historical books (the unmistakable work of Hebrew Conservatives of the sacerdotal orde... ...ts or feelings extending be 49 J S Mill yond individuals; if instructive books are within their reach, there is no stimulus to read them; and, in mo... ...m would have their votes counted for the next person on their respec tive lists who needed them, and could by their aid complete the quota. T o deter... ...pions of unpopular doctrines would not put forth their arguments merely in books and periodicals, read only by their own side; the opposing ranks woul... ... question practically asked of the primary elector will be, which of these lists he will support. The case in which election by two stages answers wel...

...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 most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 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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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... ...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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us: if the lists are kept open, we may hope that if there be a better truth, it will... ...f op ponents, in order to answer them, and may, there fore, read heretical books; the laity, not unless by special permission, hard to be obtained. ... ...or of the other. A person who derives all his in struction from teachers or books, even if he escape the besetting temptation of contenting himself w... ...ions from dignitaries in Church or State, from os tensible leaders, or from books. Their thinking is done for them by men much like themselves, ad d...

...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 legitimately...

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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... ...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... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...lation of intellectual capital.A university cul- ture with its versions of books and articles was giving way to the culture of the newsroom. During th... ... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...eratives basic English words and phrases. He showed them how to read phone books,interpret airline timetables,use the Inter- net, use code words in co... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep... ...locate your base? Some of the same places come up again and again on their lists: • western Pakistan and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region • sout... ..., see Henri Pirenne, A History of Europe, trans. Bernard Miall (University Books, 1956), pp. 25–26. 7. See Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby , eds., F...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...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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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...thousand ridiculous stories are told about the author of one of the finest books in French literature,—”Pantagruel.” Aretino, the friend of Titian, an... ... had the religious question entered it. Moreover, Diane boldly entered the lists against the queen’s project by coquetting with the Guises and giving ... ... The family lamp, standing on the table where his father was making up his books for the day, spoke to him, no doubt, of the joys of family and the pe... ...done; but the Guises now knew of the plot; they must al- ready possess the lists she held in her hand, and were evi- dently drawing the Reformers into... ...id the furrier as he entered, looking at the surgeon, who sat, with opened books and scat- tered instruments, before the head of a dead man, lately bu... ...ded the efforts made by Catherine to persuade her husband not to enter the lists. The prognostic, and the dream produced by the prog- nostic, were ver...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... his commanding officer. W e shall not say, after the fashion of the story-books, that Mr. Brock listened with a flashing eye and a distended nostril;... ...there one of us who does not shudder at the thought of descending into the lists to combat with it, and ex- pect anything but to be utterly crushed in... ...he had not the genius for getting which Mrs. Hayes possessed. She kept his books (for she had learned to read and write by this time), she made his ba... ...smoking; while the thrifty Mrs. Hayes, opposite to them, was busy with her books. “What’s in the confessions?” said Mr. Billings to Doctor Wood. “Ther...

...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...R AT HOME “THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically... ...reat stillness and solitude for the rebellious mind, when in the dearth of books and play, and in the intervals of studying the Shorter Catechism, the... ...ad, with strange extremes of pity and derision, the memorials of the dead. Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human im- port, forcing upon t... ...we attain to worthy pleasures. Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the ac- tive and adroit decide their ... ...II SINCE THE ABOVE was written another novelist has entered repeatedly the lists of theory: one well worthy of mention, Mr. W. D. Howells; and none ev...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity ...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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