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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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...onment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * ... ...have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the cit... ... rankings, Finland is the least corrupt country in the world, an efficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scien... ...re accustomed to demanding ever more benefits, social and health services, higher wages and bigger pensions, compensation for not finding work. The ci... ..., I wrote a book of the same title ( ), published in Finnish (1979; 1985). At the time, I was interested in the way the structures that had maintained... ...ist of traditions maintained by societies, but of human activity, directed at creation and maintenance of a secure future in a constantly changing env... ...ll wedding souvenir gift. I think it's important that my future husband is educated at least to the same degree as myself. But if he has studied a lot... ...ws so much more than I do. Neither would it be right if he was not as well educated as I, because then we wouldn't understand each other. We should ha... ...rancois 1986. The Postmodern Condition. Theory and History of Literature. Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester. Marlière, M. 1976. Les ceremonies...

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...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 GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIK...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want to introduce you to Dr. Chuck Chan. He is a professor of social psychology at our... ...call me Chuck. I know you have spent some time with Dr. Wang in Kino. She is a delightful lady. Wanda and I go way back. We got our doctorates at the... ... podium to debate our beliefs, my realistic belief in the basic psychological drives that motivate us and her idealistic concepts of ethics as higher... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...marily peaceful, loving beings, as some humanists believe? Is the fulfillment of pleasure, like sex, our basic drive or are we driven to find higher... ...here is always a rationalization to justify people‘s behavior. For the soccer hooligans it might be that Britain is better than France or that Manche... ...iority and power to those who haven‘t bothered to ground their beliefs in a deeper knowledge of their religion. As you know, most of the more educat... ...d countries. Then you would have to have a guarantee of military protection because a reduced population in a richer and more economically and educat...

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...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams 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 ...

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...ied with iioinan candles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the ... ...the lire, and the undorclassuien circled around it, the freshmen in- side. At o signal the classes rushed together, and stayed to- gether with the tim... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...r Representative, Mr. A. Tucker, at Bemis' During tlie Season EVERALL BROS High-Class Tailors 259Sth Avenue, New York ALrDGATE ARROW CLUPECO SHRUNK <J... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...is ignorance he cannot see beyond the present, but as soon as he be- comes educated, the peasant will cause the ultimate destruction of the present go... ... will bold their meetings in that room. The football game between 1911 and Manchester academy which was to have been played last Saturday on Weston Fi... ...was to have been played last Saturday on Weston Field was cancelled by the Manchester management on account of the condition of the field. Professor M... ...esting, especially from a technical point of view, although it requires an educated musical mind to appre- ciate the almost perfect rendition of music...

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...meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. Ludwig von Mises Economics - to the great dismay of econ... ...oximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain from repeating their mistakes systematically. The... ...ize their preferences. Altruism can be such a preference, as well. Still, many people are non-rational or only nearly rational in certain situa... ...han about their own. This is because predictions concerned with the far future are highly uncertain and investors refuse to base current decisions ... ... One way around this apparent quagmire is to put human cognition (i.e., psychology) at the heart of economics. Assuming that being human is an immut... ... the most accurate measure of risk and, by extension, of return, its flip side. The higher the volatility, the higher the risk - and the reward. Tha... ...hysical transportation and telecommunications, and by maintaining an appropriately educated manpower to support all these activities. These economi... ...rt Performance and the Role of Foreign Direct Investment - N Pain, K Wakelin - The Manchester School, 1998 Exports, Foreign Direct Investment an... ...erings (knowledge, plant and animal species, scenery, history, minerals, cheap and educated manpower, cuisine, textiles, software, and so on). The...

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...esent it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country ...

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