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... fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization....

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...When Polynesian people came to Hawaii, hundreds of years ago, they brought legends. We know this because the same stories and similar hero names are found in other Polynesian groups. Other legends grew about historical events in our island...

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...Original title: Il Mito di Ulisse e la Bellezza Seconda Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009, authorized by the Author. ... ...the Author. ISBN 9788895806075 3 Notes from the translator: - The passages from the Odyssey that the author us... ...the translator: - The passages from the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecch... ...ave translated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Gree... ...e do as Existential Anthropologists or as Cosmo-artistic Anthropologists? People come with their symptoms and their problems, and they are looking f... ...e carefully camouflaged to make it look acceptable and believable for both people involved. Therefore, people must disguise themselves as sick pat... ...on is losing a bit more of its influence and the importance it once had in people’s lives. There is a terrible emptiness left in its place, and the ... ...oid cannot hold up for long, unless psychotherapy understands the question people are really asking, and what its answer is. Two books by Jung can... ...least in the West, this beauty disappears. We can see around us many young people who are sad and anxious, and who in ever-greater numbers are using ...

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...ive sport, which resulted in its child-like death screams being heard regularly throughout Ireland, a result was achieved. For those few dedicated people trying desperately to save the gentle creature from the horrors of the cruel sport of hare coursing, the struggle was painful and fought against great odds. The author writes about his experience of a campaign agains...

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...ds. This volume traces the story of the mapping of HawaiI during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. Foreigners introduced the concept of mapmaking to HawaiI, and they made maps of the islands to satisfy the needs of maritime commerce, missionary endeavors, and scientific investiga...

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...d States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard ...

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...he day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was attached to the end of the string wit... ...ely about them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. ... ...understand the words he had been given. And soon after that he changed his name from Sealt to his grandfather's name. Seattle. As they walked throu... ...est was born and that the spirit of his ancestors had The Soul Bearer :I come from a land far to the north, the Land ofIce, and if he lis­ tened cl... ... what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his braves wanted t... ...he wisdom of the Elders, nor would he give the white man cause to slaughter his people. Yes, tomorrow he would sign the Treaty. His people must be k... ...for the years that he lived, they gave him the wisdom he would need to save his people. The Great White Chief, called Franklin Pierce, promised the ... ...ide those boundaries, or, as the blue-coated General put it, "We will kill your people like hunting deer." Seattle tried to visualize a land with im... ... to sign a memorable Treaty that will establish a reservation for the Suquamish people. This Treaty has been approved by the Congress, and the Presi...

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...infinite gratitude for all her profound beauty which I have amply drawn from 4 Table of Contents Forward 5 Chapter... ...e last blow to the old Christian cosmology when, in a discourse proclaimed from the window that opens onto Saint Peter's Square, he said that Paradis... ... detail in my books "The Ulysseans - the Theorem and the Myth for traveling from one universe to another" and "La nascita della Cosmo-Art" {The Birt... ...iversity in Rome, which has been included in the present volume. Starting from the "Lettera agli uomini" {The Letter to Humanity} of the Sophia Univ... ...ie, is a human one. Nevertheless, it is clear to an ever growing number of people that life based only on the type of security offered by our defens... ... that is the synthesis of two (an I and a You) or more (an I and Others) people. Every synthesis produces a quantum of secondary beauty. A complex... ...nd also Sophia-Art are existential arts. The goal of Sophia-Art is to help people become artists of their lives. The goal of Cosmo-Art is to help pe... ...These values, when looked at in pairs, are opposites, even though very few people have realized this up until now. The attempt to create a synthesis... ...n (because it requires the creation of a single living organism, made up of people that were hitherto unknown to each other), and a synthesis of natu...

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... the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawaii place names associated with the ocean—the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, reefs, and small islands, are also included. The names of surfing sites are the most n...

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...ng trap lines and plant poisons. Local folklore says that the nearby community of Buena had a population of Native Americans who may have come from Wolftown. [Emma (Beeler) Strother by Pat Hurst 11,60] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5. Chapter II. The Settlers. In 1772 at the area known as Alexander Waugh's For...

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...documented ancient boundaries and names of land units and the features within them. Because so much of Hawaiian culture was rooted in the relation of people to the land, the preservation of that land system was an important component in the preservation of Hawaiian culture. This volume, the third in a series that includes The Early Mapping of Hawaii and Surveying the Mahel...

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...eaching effects on Hawaiian society. In the traditional Hawaiian system land was not owned outright by anyone but was held in stewardship for all the people by the alii ai moku, the highest ranking member of society. The alii ai moku granted the use of specific pieces of land to high-ranking alii (often referred to as chiefs), who in turn assigned parcels to be used by les...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and o...

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that dis...

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...y huge beside him stood, 194 A Pagan damsel there unwares he met, 15 ?A Pagan therefore thee I fostered have, 278 ?A pinnace take thee swift as shaft from bow, 20 A privy door Ismen unlocked at last, 235 ?A rumbling sound amid the waters deep 331 A secret place they found in one of those, 347 A shadow, blacker than the mirkest night, 370 A shepherd fair Erminia entertains,...

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...le Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labo... ...g Ismaelites deprive Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands, Y ou must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive, As Godfrey chased them from Jud... .... VII The sullen season now was come and gone, That forced them late cease from their noble war, When God Almighty form his lofty throne, Set in those... ...concealed lie He cast on puissant Godfrey, that assayed To drive the Turks from Sion’s bulwarks high, And, full of zeal and faith, esteemed light All ... ...ir sovereign’s younger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and ... ... Y et armed to point in well-attempted plate, The land did like itself the people breed, The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate; Boldly they charg... ..., Let us destroy this serpent on his nest; Both young and old, let us this people kill, The tender infants at their mothers’ breast, Their houses burn... ...moved his cruel sense; “Tell on,” quoth he, “unfold the chance aright, Thy people’s lives I grant for recompense.” Then she, “Behold the faulter here ... ...ed to purest white. XXVII The news of this mishap spread far and near, The people ran, both young and old, to gaze; Olindo also ran, and gan to fear H...

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...those same parents and teachers taught children many unplanned—and often unintended—attitudes, language, and knowledge outside those walls. We learn from everything we do and the keys are our models and the richness of the learning environment. The three articles in this section describe how experiential, hands-on learning in widely varied contexts beyond the formal clas...

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...ands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such a sympathetic way as to win their esteem and confidence, has been able to pick up as he has roamed over the face of the earth for a quarter of a century. The book is not a geography, a h...

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...." Next the special character of terrestrial and marine ecosystems is described in "The Biotic Environment." "The Cultural Environment" considers the people of Hawai'i. The diversity of the state's cultures is treated in chapters on history and languages as well as archaeology, religion, and the arts. "The Social Environment" treats such elements as the economy, government...

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...c Ocean and is one of the most isolated yet populous places on Earth. The west coast of North America, for example, is 2,400 miles (3,900 kilometers) from Honolulu, and Japan is 3,800 miles (6,100 kilometers) away. Six time zones separate Hawai'i from the eastern United States. This means that 9:00 A.M. (eastern standard time) in Washington, D.C. and New York City is 6:00 ...

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...common knowledge of evolutionary neurobiology will be extremely valuable to established neuroscientists, medical and graduate students and interested people of all professions alike.” —MARIA K. HOUTCHENS, M.D., MMSc, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School “I read the book in one sitting, which was an easy task owing to the author’s concise writing and knack...

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...biology described the genetic principles underlying species evolution and identified specific changes in the human genome since our lineage split off from the chimpanzee line about six million years ago (Somel M, 2013). Great paleontological discoveries have filled that span of six million years of human evolution with a number of intermediate species that display both hum...

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...st 173 Pelletier and Caventou isolated the pigment, Chlorophyll. JOSEPH KIDD (1775-1851) British Chemist and Physician 174 Isolated Naphthalene from Coal Tar. SAMUEL GUTHRIE (1782-1848) American Chemist and Physician 175 Discovered Chloroform and its anesthetic properties. A NEW REVOLUTION IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 177 FRIEDRICH WOHLER (1800-1882) German Chemist 177...

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