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...The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were established in 1895 by the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. The priz...
... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... ...utterly unselfish. It could be seen in the love of God for humanity or in the unselfish, sacrificing love of a person for others. Many of the Nobel ... ...lfish. It could be seen in the love of God for humanity or in the unselfish, sacrificing love of a person for others. Many of the Nobel Peace Prize ... ...ners exhibit this type of love. Albert Schweitzer, Mother Theresa or the lawyer Peter Benenson, who founded Amnesty International and won the Nobel ... ... this type of love. Albert Schweitzer, Mother Theresa or the lawyer Peter Benenson, who founded Amnesty International and won the Nobel peace prize ... ...is our real needs, not those which we feel, that are essential in developing our mental health and happiness. ―Albert Schweitzer, the Nobel ... ...needs, not those which we feel, that are essential in developing our mental health and happiness. ―Albert Schweitzer, the Nobel Peace Prize ...
...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 CONCEPTS OF G...
... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We 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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...s not just to manage accounts but also to convey messages and accommodate literature. The written word spoke through time and space to unlimited ... ...e had to walk miles to borrow books from his distant neighbors‘ small but prized libraries. Little had changed after more than four centuries. Gu... ...ny worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, his boss for a year was Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, who had assisted in establishing the sy... ...ked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, his boss for a year was Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, who had assisted in establishing the system f... ... University physics professor, was one of three scientists awarded a 1998 Nobel Prize for discovering a new form of quantum fluid. His book The Cr... ...rsity physics professor, was one of three scientists awarded a 1998 Nobel Prize for discovering a new form of quantum fluid. His book The Crime of...
...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....
...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...
...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We 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 cra...
...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration 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... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...pe, the Pacific, the Center, and the South. Posts in these commands became prized assignments for ambitious officers, and the voices of their five com... ...ulator program and a Boeing 767 flight deck video, together with attendant literature;Ali had all these items shipped to his employer’s address. Jarra... ...Malek, ed., America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic T ravel Literature:An Anthology (Palgrave, 2000). 13. For a good introduction to Qu... ... data but also more sensitive social indicators recently identified by the Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen. It says little, however, about t... ...but also more sensitive social indicators recently identified by the Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen. It says little, however, about the pol...
... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 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, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...
...The 2000 year history of the atom and chemistry, from the Classic Greek Era to the present, is described in 800 pages, depicted with some 300 pictures and illustrations. This history of the atom and chemistry discusses the lives of about 180 chemists and physicists, through the evolution of several stages of development, repr...
...extent of my emotions and reasons for writing this book on the STORY OF THE ATOM AND THE SCIENCES, with special reference to the CHEMICAL SCIENCES. In one sentence, I can distill the essence of the purpose for this study by simply stating that it has been a labor of love that transcended the written word because sentiments and ideas belong in the realm of the ethereal an...
...THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE 47 FRANCIS BACON, RENE DESCARTES, BENEDICTUS SPINOZA, GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ and FRANCOIS MARIE VOLTAIRE. FUNDAMENTAL EVENTS IN THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN SCIENCE 49 THE FIRST GENERATION IN SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT 50 NICOLAS COPERNICUS (1473-1543) Polish Astronomer 50 Proponent of the heliocentric theory of our solar system with the Sun and not th...