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... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...a-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...human values really fascinates me. The most important discussions in this world are about values of one sort or another. My friends and I once share... ...I don‘t know how true it is but I‘ve read in the popular press that 70% of Brazilian women use artificial contraception.‖ --―Father, I was l... ...abitants with floods and general death and destruction. He is asking for a permanent injunction against God. ―God can be sued in Nebraska beca... ...re groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically elected representatives are nearly always beholden to somebody: oil interests, doc... ...s that are not in the closet, Wanda. The Freedom From Religion Foundation organization works to keep God out of government. It has often been succes... ...lowed more freedom, such as the U.S., U.K., Germany and France. Will free trade or protectionism be better for the U.S., China, or the EU, and which ...

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...nrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...d A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... the “Typhoon” volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about. This so strangely negative but disturbing mood lasted... ...y anything more impor- tant than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo. The clumsy deep-sea galle- ons of the conquer... ... note in Sulaco had been invited—the one or two foreign merchants, all the representatives of the old Spanish families then in town, the great owners ... ...ence was nourished on facts; and Charles Gould, whose imagination had been permanently affected by the one great fact of a silver mine, had no objecti... ...les Gould felt it possible to secure at first. In fact, the mine, with its organization, its population growing fiercely at- tached to their position ... ...n otherwise in his time when men fought against tyranny, in the forests of Brazil, or on the plains of Uruguay, starving on half-raw beef without salt...

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...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 an...

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...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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...Excerpt: This treatise, which is grown up under your lordship?s eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your lordship for that protection which you several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a ...

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Excerpt: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

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...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... the Pacific—and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World. On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, but were prevented landi... ...few stunted acacias were grow- ing; their tops had been bent by the steady trade- wind, in a singular manner—some of them even at right angles to thei... ...asing effect to the nearer parts of the scen- ery. BAHIA, OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 29th. — The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, howev... ...beautiful carmine-red fibrous mat- ter, which stains ivory and paper in so permanent a manner that the tint is retained with all its bright- ness to t... ...Port St. Julian — Geology of Patagonia — Fossil gigantic Animal — Types of Organization constant — Change in the Zoology of America — Causes of Extinc... ...s little country. The inhabitants do not require much edu- cation in their representatives; I heard some men discussing the merits of those for Coloni...