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Links and Factoids

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... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...by the United States in 1898. http://www.ciff.on.ca/ http://dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Federalism_and_Devolution/ Filibuster Filibuster is a... ...://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/07/isolationism.html http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/asiso.htm http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-... ...SA was preceded by the Aztecs, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and India, and... ...palma@unet.com.mk narcissisticabuse-owner@yahoogroups.com My Web Sites: Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www....

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Surviving the Economic Crisis : Current and Future Trends

By: Mark W. Medley

... No unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, o... ...ansmitted in any form, or by any Means, without the prior written permission of the Author or New Economics publishers. © Mark W Medley 2009 Co... ... 1 2. Learning from the German New Deal of the 1990’s 3 3. Three forms of Economic systems we... ...nvest this in overseas private enterprises, and government bonds. Using money politics to ensure, goods produced in China can be exported, whilst ra... ...conditions, and its citizens are mainly earning enough to not demand change. Politics are based on prices of these subsidizes, and “moral” issues r... ...t finance these loans, based on a fixed interest rate, and payment schedule. Iceland already received 2 Billion Dollars in the form of an emergency... ...ce websites closing, then we have not reached the end of the old economy. 7. Politics Our political parties will begin to have more conservative l...

...The primary objective of writing this initial volume “Surviving an Economic Crisis” was to input new ideas about the reasons behind the current economic crisis, and look into the future past the question-Why this crisis happened? Focusing on a sus...

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...oduce it provided the source is acknowledged. We will appreciate if a copy of reproduced materials is sent to us. 4 Fixing Global Finance Contents Ac... ... Fixing Global Finance Contents Acronyms 6-7 Data Notes 8 1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 9 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing ... ...nds in International Finance and Developmental Implications 30 4. The Rise of New Global Players 36 5. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of ... ...es, be “inconsistent with GATS obligations. ”3 There is much to learn from Iceland which experienced the worst financial crisis in its modern history.... ...celand which experienced the worst financial crisis in its modern history. Iceland had to impose capital controls when its highly indebted banking sec... ...mestic financial system. Technically speaking, capital controls imposed by Iceland are a violation of various international agreements signed by the c... ...e. Financial globalization is not merely technologically driven. Power and politics, within the nation state, define the context of international capi... ...Crisis of 2008, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. P G Cerny, Finance and World Politics: Markets, Regimes and States in the Post- Hegemonic Era, Edward El...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the world. The turbulence in financial systems was followed by a significant reduction in real economic a...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. ...

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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... ...iful women half his age? His retort was that ‗power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.‘ So I guess its true from mice to men. Get your power through politi... ...t expensive birthday parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, and sweet 16 parties. Wealth is so often thought of as power, We see it in politi... ...violent conquerors subdue by showing love and calling for justice. Just the exact opposite of those using power to subdue others in business, politi... ...cans rank themselves happy. The Danes come out number one in the world on most surveys. The Scandinavian countries do quite well with Finland, Icelan... ...esn‘t indicate that the large economic powers produce grossly happy people. ―In the same study with Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Icelan...

...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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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...igators -- Overrunning Europe, yet in the van of the Crusaders -- Discovery of Iceland -- A fish as large as an island -- Settlement of Iceland -- Dis... ...iscoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdant sh... ...e first Priest sent to America.............................. 56 The Geysers of Iceland................................................... 58 Zeno off ... ...s there any difference between the man exiled for crime and the man exiled for politics. "I was unfortunate" is an expression which describes any offe...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ......................................................................... 68 POLITICS OF OVERPOPULATED COUNTRIES .......................................... ...ren. It seems that for a many people the joys and challenges of business, politics, and the professions are often greater than the joys and challeng... ...n than men in college, the glass ceiling is being penetrated in business, politics and in academia. Eventual motherhood was an anchor that held down ... ...en take half of the nine month paid maternity leave. We got the idea from Iceland, where women can take a nine month paid maternity leave and father...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... 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 ... ...u 103 Guyana 104 H Haiti 105 Honduras 107 Hong Kong 108 Hungary 110 iv Page Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel ... ... 3 nm Boundary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and UK Climate: temperate; humid and overcast; mild win... ...ed along important sea lanes in northeastern Atlan- tic about midway between Iceland and Shetland Islands Population: 46,429 (July 1987), average annu... ...of November 1983 and banned many prominent party leaders from taking part in politics for five to 10 years; three new parties allowed to take part in ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...s true! ―When we have been admonished to not argue about religion or politics it is sound advice because we would be arguing about assumptions ... ...tart with religious interests, with the dominant religion controlling the politics, or with poorer lower social class majorities wanting to bring dow... ... in, according to the United Nations Human Development Index are: Norway, Iceland, Australia, Ireland and Sweden, with the U.S. at number 8 and the U... ...and Spain at 75% are religious countries where evolution is accepted. But Iceland with 85% and, Denmark, Sweden, France, the UK and Norway all have ... ... brain tumor, but we know all about sports and national and international politics. 213 --―What we need to know is how did you come to y... ...ven up its Lutheran state church. But its Scandinavian neighbors Denmark, Iceland and Norway still claim Lutheranism as their state religion. There ...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

... V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson 18... ...ga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) 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... ...Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the th... ...iking (1) kingdoms in these (the British) Western Isles; the settlement of Iceland, or even of Normandy. The knowledge of all these things would now b... ...for his own folk, offered sacrifice, performed cer- emonies, and so on. In politics the homestead, with its franklin-owner, was the unit; the “thing”,...

...............................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...c) Speculative and Theological essays; (d) Essays in Political Economy and Politics; (e) Papers of Literary Theory and Criticism, such as the brillian... ...n! there are none about mail-coaches any more than snakes in V on T roil’s Iceland;* except, indeed, now and then a parliamentary rat, who always hide... ..., insisted on taking up a forbidden seat** in the rear of *“V on T roil’s Iceland”:—The allusion is to a well-known chap- ter in Von T roil’s work, e... ...-known chap- ter in Von T roil’s work, entitled, “Concerning the Snakes of Iceland.” The entire chapter consists of these six words— “There art no sna...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...u by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine 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... ... You would not listen to me, and now the ruin has come. T o play a part in politics you must have money: have we any? What! would you burn your sign, ... ... to others. He who puts his hand in the fire gets burned,—isn’t that true? Politics burn in these days. We have one hundred good thousand francs inves... ...ss the winters in Paris with our son-in-law; we shall be happy; nothing in politics or commerce can then change our way of life. Why do you want to cr... ...hat exists nowhere but in Paris, like a certain lichen which grows only in Iceland. This com- parison is all the more apt because he belonged to a mix...

Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...thologies: that they have been pre- served so well. In that strange island Iceland,—burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; ... ...hts in them, and uttered musically their thoughts. Much would be lost, had Iceland not been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen... ...scovered by the Northmen! The old Norse Poets were many of them natives of Iceland. Saemund, one of the early Christian Priests there, who per- haps h... ...aos of Authorship by trade; that waste chaos of Scepticism in religion and politics, in life-theory and life-practice; in his poverty, in his dust and...

...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

................................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM............................................................................................................

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...of an idealized Common Man has worked and is working infinite mischief. In politics the crude democratic faith leads directly to the submission of eve... ...f or one’s immediate personal interests, against discussing reli- gion and politics and any such keenly felt matter. No doubt it is necessary at times... ...f the happiness and welfare of their fellows, some in business affairs and politics as others in love. Some wrong-doers again are evidently so through... .... Y ou think in this latter mood that you have only to turn the crystal of Iceland spar about in order to have the whole thing plain. But you never ge...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...on The Door in the Wall and other stories 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...g of laws and books and machines, of the strange change that had come over Iceland and Greenland and the shores of Baffin’s Bay, so that the sailors c... ...ed why I of all men should leave the woman I loved to go back to fantastic politics in the hard and strenuous north. Even if Evesham did force the wor... ...would be born a couple of hundred years or so hence, and worried about the politics of my great-great-great-grandchildren. I was chiefly busy that day...

...Excerpt: One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the m...

...TAR ...................................................................................................................................... 20 A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON ................................................................................................... 31 THE CONE ......................................................................................................

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The Secret Places of the Heart

By: H. G. Wells

...922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- troni... ... Richmond. “When one is travelling about, one gets to think of history and politics in terms of architecture. I do anyhow. And those columns with Cori... ...against the Danes and where Canute, who had ruled over all Scandinavia and Iceland and Greenland, and had come near ruling a patch of America, had die... ...t over the next day it will be all right. Then we can write about fuel and politics—and there won’t be her voice and her presence. We shall really sub... ...ng they call business enterprise. Damn every busi- ness man! I am bored by politics and the universal misman- agement of everything. I am bored by Fra...

Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... Don Juan by George Byron 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...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... ...s I do not predicate, ‘T is that I still retain my ‘buff and blue;’ My politics as yet are all to educate: Apostasy ‘s so fashionable, too, ... ...rm bout are broken into their new tricks, And fight like fiends for pay or politics. He was what Erin calls, in her sublime Old Erse or Irish,... ...thography, So that I do not grossly err in facts, Statistics, tactics, politics, and geography)— Having been used to serve on horses’ backs, ... ...does,’ Whom he forsook to fill the laureate’s sty: And honest men from Iceland to Barbadoes, Whether in Caledon or Italy, Should not veer ...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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Two Penniless Princesses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...blication Two Penniless Princesses 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... ...hall of the castle, while Jean exchanged conversation with their host upon Iceland hawks and wolf and deer hounds, as if she had been a young lady kee... ... manager of the property it possessed in the city, and of all its monastic politics. Without apparent offence, she observed that no doubt the ladies w... ...ted the fair face thus dis- played by fits. She did not understand English politics enough to know that a Beaufort face and Beaufort train were the la...

...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens Volume Two BOOK THE SECOND BIRDS OF A FEATHER A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Our Mutua... ...lication Our Mutual Friend Volume Two 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... ...e, and having no more reason in them—God save the Queen and Confound their politics—no, than smoke has in coming from fire! ‘It’s not a right place fo... ...and Aetna ahead of the lava, and would boil unharmed in the hot springs of Iceland, and would float majestically down the Ganges and the Nile. Did His...

...Excerpt: The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before book--was a miserable loft in an unsavoury yard. Its atmosphere was oppressive and disagreeable; it w...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...wain (Samuel L. Clemens), the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced a... ... are prodigiously augmented by the contrasts. A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest ... ...stics?” “No, not exactly that. I asked the questions and she an- swered them.” “This is divine. Go on—it is not possible that you forgot to inquire in... ...aciers are sometimes hurried out of their characteristic snail-pace. A marvelous spectacle is presented then. Mr. Whymper refers to a case which occur... ... a smooth surface of several miles’ area laid bare, and that this area had the appearance of having been planed by a plane.” The account translated fr...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

...lassics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 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... ...gestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with “the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forl... ...; conversation waxes brisk and merry. Colonel Dent and Mr. Eshton argue on politics; their wives listen. The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady In... ...rd or smile on me. Sir George Lynn, Colonel Dent, and Mr. Eshton discussed politics, or county affairs, or justice busi- ness. Lord Ingram flirted wit...

...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined t...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...g of laws and books and machines, of the strange change that had come over Iceland and Greenland and the shores of Baffin’s Bay, so that the sailors c... ...would be born a couple of hundred years or so hence, and worried about the politics of my great-great-great-grandchildren. I was chiefly busy that day...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

... Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 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... ...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... ...e, and having no more reason in them—God save the Queen and Confound their politics—no, than smoke has in coming from fire! ‘It’s not a right place fo... ...and Aetna ahead of the lava, and would boil unharmed in the hot springs of Iceland, and would float majestically down the Ganges and the Nile. Did His...

...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridg...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...e life that has exhibited itself, Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests, I, habitan of the Alleghanies, ... ...ablishments, even the most minute, Thither every day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates; Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, ... ...so given up to literature, science, art, amours? These ostensible realities, politics, points? Your ambition or business whatever it may be? It is wel... ...rd in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland, I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again. ... ...rm’d, superbly destin’d, on equal terms with me! You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian! You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese! Leaves of...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...so. It would intrude its irresistible claim into every problem of European politics, into the theory of European equilibrium, into the question of the... ...federalism which, in its Par- liamentary life as well as its international politics, presented a complete unity of feeling and purpose. As an eminent ... ... its pivot than political idealism when touched by the breath of practical politics. It would be good to remember that Polish inde- pendence as embodi... ...eer of a certain steamship which, after bunkering, left Lerwick, bound for Iceland. The weather was cold, the sea pretty rough, with a stiff head wind...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...of an event without a cause, a voluntary action without a motive. History, politics, morals, criticism, all grounds of reasonings, 168 Volume 3 all p... ...e population is supplied from the mainland.—Sir G. Mackenzie’s “History of Iceland”. See also “Emile”, chapter 1, pages 53, 54, 56.) The most valuable... ... weather they talk, How fair the sun shines—a fine day for a walk, Then to politics turn, of Burdett’s reformation, One declares it would hurt, t’othe...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

................................................................................................................... 27 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL .................................................................................. 28 HOMER?S HYMN TO MINERVA................................................................................................................

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The Longest Journey

By: E. M. Forster

...s Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...don’t care whether she’s there for you or not. Whether I’m in Cambridge or Iceland or dead, the cow will be there.” It was philosophy. They were discu... ...ere sorrowful, yet their seed became as sand of the sea, and distracts the politics of Europe at this mo- ment. But a few verses of poetry is all that...

...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it,? said a voice. ?I have proved it to myself.? ?I have proved to myself that she isn?t,? said the voice. ?The cow is not t...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...iling point; each ready-writer, now in the hour of eruption, going like an Iceland Geyser! Against which what can a judicious friend Morellet do; a Ri... ...ard sermon, and applauded the preacher, church as it was, when he preached politics; how, next day, with sustained pomp, they are, for the first time,...

... .................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. ................................................

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 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... ...own has spent seventeen thousand dollars on a town house, thank fortune or politics, but probably it will not spend so much on living wit, the true me... ...a crop of winter rye, or some other kind of grain recently introduced from Iceland. As I saw no manure, I judged that they meant to skim the land, as ...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ... town has spent seventeen thousand dollars on a town house, thank fortune or politics, but probably it will not spend so much on living wit, the true ... ...w a crop of winter rye, or some other kind of grain recently introduced from Iceland. As I saw no manure, I judged that they meant to skim the land, a...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...

...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...ling point; each ready- writer, now in the hour of eruption, going like an Iceland Gey- ser! Against which what can a judicious friend Morellet do; a ... ...d ser- mon, and applauded the preacher, church as it was, when he preached politics; how, next day, with sustained pomp, they are, for the first time,... ...must the disunited People look over the borders, into a dim sea of Foreign Politics and Diplomacies, with hope or ap- prehension, with mutual exaspera... ...m, had bargained for this short cut. The infinite dim movement of European Politics waved a skirt over these spaces, passing on its way; like the pass...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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