Description Details
...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 in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

Full Text Search Details
...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of... ...ugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour patterns of gender equality and... ... to live in. The dormitories are used by students who have come from other places. We have cleaner air here than downtown. Rents are even higher there... ...field? How do you feel about the advancing technology? That today, in many places, people are replaced by machines? Yes, we all think this way. We thi... ...lienated from society, and no longer have a future in any case. In densely populated villages, deaths of ten people from Aids constitutes a rare cause... ...s is heritage from agrarian communities, having become polished in densely populated villages, where insulting one's fellow human beings was unaccepta...

Description Details
...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

Full Text Search Details
...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...ent of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside ... ...Namibia 1 7 1 Nauru 172 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niu... ...2 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niue IS I Norfolk Island ... ...umer goods Major trade partners: (1983-84) exports 26% Japan, 11% US, 6% New Zealand, 4% North Korea, 4% Singapore, 3% USSR; imports 22% US, 22% Japan... ...ystem of urban facilities in Djibouti and radio-relay sta- tions at outlying places; 7,300 telephones (2.4 per 100 popl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, 2 TV stations; ... ...ronment: mountainous interior is isolated, nearly inaccessible, and sparsely populated; late spring droughts often followed by severe flooding Special... ...ern Sahara question with Mauritania; Spain controls two coastal presidios or places of sover- eignty (Ceuta, Melilla) Climate: Mediterranean, becoming...

Description Details
...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

Excerpt Details
... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

Full Text Search Details
... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage --... ... in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American con... ...e of the expedition -- Discovery of Van Dieman's land -- The first view of New Zealand -- Tasman's ship surrounded by hostile New Zealanders -- Murder... ...n scarcely think of an epitaph, to place upon the grave-stones that mark their places of sepulture. And if so many cities and nations have perished wi... ...and if he cannot, will bemoan the fate that lies before him. He considers many places ill-omened; Eddystone Rock, the Straits of Messina, where in anc... ... or to perform any other labors which he might desire. The country was densely populated, and Cortez was offered such aid that in a short while a suff... ...pulation was not less than 500,000 souls, the adjacent district was numerously populated, and every advantage was upon the side of the Mexicans for an...

Description Details
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

Full Text Search Details
... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...t to tax them providing they share in the spoils. They tolerate corruption in high places, cronyism, nepotism, inaptitude and worse - on condition ... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...ame - Canib - gave rise to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). Th... ...T be different or even that it is desirable that it should be different. In an over-populated world, sterility might be the desirable thing - or eve... ...sent and the latter states are much less "real". Dreams are mostly set in familiar places and obey the laws of nature or some logic. Their hallucin... ...upled with a growing paranoia and siege mentality in an increasingly hostile world, populated by hackers, criminals, terrorists, and plain whackos. ...

Description Details
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

Full Text Search Details
... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...t to tax them providing they share in the spoils. They tolerate corruption in high places, cronyism, nepotism, inaptitude and worse - on condition ... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...ame - Canib - gave rise to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). Th... ...T be different or even that it is desirable that it should be different. In an over-populated world, sterility might be the desirable thing - or eve... ...sent and the latter states are much less "real". Dreams are mostly set in familiar places and obey the laws of nature or some logic. Their hallucin... ...upled with a growing paranoia and siege mentality in an increasingly hostile world, populated by hackers, criminals, terrorists, and plain whackos. ...

Description Details
...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

Full Text Search Details
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...ture, too, is valuable or not valuable at different times and in different places. Bribery in one situation is OK, in another it is not. ―Pe... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...ristianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in lait... ...does Australia. Brazil gives four and a half weeks, but Columbia and New Zealand only give three. The U.S., Canada and Japan are far down the list ... ...ies by their absence of corruption. Finland is number one, Denmark and New Zealand are tied for second with the UK at number 10 and the U.S. at 16. L... ...s of every child under 18 are given $150 a month, and in the more sparely populated areas an additional $50. There are also substantial tax deduction...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...r that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patteson... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the afternoon. Coley was far more affected than he then had 20 ... ... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o...

Full Text Search Details
...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...n with the progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very great... ...iled and failed and was still to be tested again and rejected again in the New World; Christianity and Mohammedanism swept away a thousand more specia... ... from Brazil, devour an egg from France with some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at th... ...be as that….’ By that phrase he meant a kind of clairvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its h... ... was a great man, was he? Well, in a law-court great men were put in their places. ‘We want to know has the plaintiff added anything to this 35 H G W... ..., from the people who were emerging from the small theatres and other such places of entertain- ment which abounded in that thoroughfare. This was an ... ...nished, industry was completely disorganised and every city, every thickly populated area was starving or trembled on the verge of starvation. Most of...

Excerpt Details
...tion of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere....

Full Text Search Details
...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State ... ...e taking of your depar- ture for a ship’s company to shake down into their places, and for the soothing deep-water ship rou- tine to establish its ben... ...hen the great soul of the world turned over with a heavy sigh, a perfectly new, extra-stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter... ...th the man on board, but it was hopeless for Captain S- to try to make his new iron clipper equal the feats which made the old Tweed a name of praise ... ...ided for, anyhow. A heavy sea took him off the poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn.” Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars of s... ...icity, and may the god of gales, who took him away so abruptly between New Zealand and the Horn, let his soul rest in some Paradise of true seamen, wh... ...ong, and if the charts are not wrong, that land and sea have changed their places; that your misfortune shall for ever remain inexplicable, since you ... ...f a great empire. It is the part of the West Wind’s dominions most thickly populated with gen- erations of fine ships and hardy men. Heroic deeds and ...

Full Text Search Details
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...ly news, it was history. But the world is enor mous now, and prodigiously populated—that is one change; and another is the lightning swiftness of the... ...the one village in that early time; I am in the other now. These times and places are sufficiently wide apart, yet today I have the strange sense of b... ...tion of Joyce was a fine and picturesque thing. It drew a vast crowd. Good places in trees and seats on rail fences sold for half a dollar apiece; lem... ...y temper. Quarternions, a bird with a flat beak and no bill, living in New Zealand. Quarternions, the name given to a style of art practiced by the Ph...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

Full Text Search Details
...ille A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...hundred tons, Yankee-built and very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a ... ...ere said to be unsound; the stand- ing rigging was much worn; and, in some places, even the bulwarks were quite rotten. Still, she was tolerably tight... ...haleboats were gone: and of the four harpooners, only one was left, a wild New Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in ... ...boats were gone: and of the four harpooners, only one was left, a wild New Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in the ... ...fres, and the quality of the coffee to be drunk in Muscat; and about these places, and a hundred others, he had more anecdotes than I can tell of. The... ...d ran about the decks mak- ing himself heard at all hours. Bembo, the New Zealand harpooner, held little intercourse with anybody but the mate, who c... ... pair must have scampered off to the inte- rior since it is now so thickly populated by their wild prog- eny. The herds are the private property of Qu...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State... ...ed him, then be- gan to shake out the cushions, and put them back in their places. “Am I to come home?” he asked. “ Y es, I’ve come to fetch you.” 6 ... ...sked. “ Y es, I’ve come to fetch you.” 6 Of Human Bondage “ Y ou’ve got a new dress on.” It was in eighteen-eighty-five, and she wore a bustle. Her g... ...s sister; and while the ladies talked of parish matters, the curate or the new bonnet of Mrs. Wilson—Mr. Wilson was the richest man in Blackstable, he... ...esired him to take orders, and this eagerness for the book which described places hallowed by the presence of Jesus seemed a good sign. It looked as t... ...broad river, finds here the tributary that he expected, there the fertile, populated plains, and further on the mountains. When some great discovery i... ...rials was disguised by ill-made sauces: plaice masqueraded as sole and New Zealand mutton as lamb. The kitchen was 594 Of Human Bondage small and inc...

Table of Contents Details
...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ...inst whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judgment, as ba... ...uch of the way in which men are settling themselves in this still sparsely-populated country. Here young farmers go into the woods as they are doing f... ...rably bad. They are full of holes. The boards are rotten, and worn in some places to dirt. The nails have gone, and the broken planks go up and down u... ...alk alone. It is exactly the same with the colonies of Australia, with New Zealand, with the Cape of Good Hope, and with Jamaica. While England enjoys... ...ery general purpose, if I were to attempt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- a...

Excerpt Details
...But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll le...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life...

Full Text Search Details
.... . . . . . 1 The White Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The W... .... . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the Drooling Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 CONTENTS ii... ...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ... I ’ve seen your face; I like it. And I ’ve seen — why, damn you, hit the high places for salt water and that wife of yours, and” — Here the Kid unmit... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ...is movements as the fragile footing swayed and threatened beneath him. In such places death was quick and easy; but it was not his desire to endure no... ...the youngsters on him. There was that bloke, Sandel. He had come over from New Zealand with a record behind him. But nobody in Australia knew anything... ...sian, while the inhabitants of the Solomons are Melanesian. Lord Howe has been populated by the westward Poly nesian drift which continues to this da...