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... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...nce of Abortion") that pregnancies that are the result of forced sex (rape being a special case) or which are life threatening should or could, mor... ...s are all such cases. This could be argued against by saying that, in the case of economic hardship, f or instance, the damage to the mother's fut... ... Problem In the catechism of capitalism, shares represent the part- ownership of an economic enterprise, usually a firm. The value of shares is dete... ... who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a special standing in Israel. The Law of Return grants them immedi... ...in Fiji, the Andaman and Cook islands) and is still the case in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japa... ...hn Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nati... ...means that workers can collaborate not only across continents but also across time zones. They can leave their work for someone else to continue in...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...ve – Click HERE! ISBN: 9989-929-37-8 http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html http://economics.cjb.net http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Create... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception ... ...anding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and receive special treatment in economic theory.... ...ch downstream firm chooses one brand to sell on a final market. The upstream firms specialize in the production of one input specifically designed ... ...s begging it to borrow at concessionary rates. The same goes for Mexico, Argentina, China, Nigeria, Thailand, other countries, and the accident-pron... ...ision of such services a part of their economic life or are about to do so. Free zones, off shore havens, off shore banking and transshipment por... ...means that workers can collaborate not only across continents but also across time zones. They can leave their work for someone else to continue in...
Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.
...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....
...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 ... ...CDOs Credit Default Obligations CDS Credit Default Swap CECA Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement CIS Commonwealth of Independent States CRAs ... ...on SIVs Structured Investment Vehicles SME Small and Medium Enterprise SPV Special Purpose Vehicle SWFs Sovereign Wealth Funds TNCs Transnational Corp... ...lantic had to be rescued from bankruptcy. In most developed countries, the economic growth reversed. International trade and investment flows declined... ...ocess, lenders bundle together a number of mortgages and sell them on to a Special Purpose Vehicle, a company usually based in a tax haven. The SPV sl... ...2010 US (-) 2.7 1.5 UK (-) 4.4 0.9 Euro Area (-) 4.2 0.3 Japan (-) 5.4 1.7 China 8.5 9.0 India 5.4 6.4 Advanced Economies (-) 3.4 1.3 Emerging ... ...late, there are some signs of recovery of trade in the Asian region led by China, but globally the trade crisis is far from over. The collateral damag... ...s badly. In particular, small and medium-sized exporters located in export zones such as Tirupur, Ludhiana, Panipat and Karur began to lose their comp...
...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. ...
.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...Chapter 6. Colleagues in the business school—particularly Jim Anton, a great economic modeler and greater volleyball partner, and Wes Cohen, a leading... ... These questions may be hard, because the underlying moral and political and economic issues need to be thought through. They may be weird; alien scri... ...ackscratchers? Who knew that they needed Post-it notes or surgical stents or specialized rice planters until those things were actually developed? How... ... rights of this kind are copyrights and patents. (T rademarks pres- ent some special issues, which I will address a little later.) Having been given t... ... the appropriate region code. If you try to play a movie coded for region 6 (China) in a DVD player from re- gion 1, it will not play. This allows film... ...r better and for worse. Large areas of creativity operated as copyright-free zones. Even where copy- rights were properly registered, permission fees ...
...Our music, our culture, our science, and our 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 (...
... 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... ...pe Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan entry on page 274) 50 Christmas Island 52 Colombia 53 Comor... ... Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Region XII. Antarctic Region XIII. Standard Time Zones of the World Notes, Definitions, and Abbreviations There have been... ...time claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas ... ...re projected for 1987-91. Notes, Definitions, and Abbreviations (continued) Economic abbreviations: ave. average bbl barrel (159 liters, 42 gallons) ... ... Political entities: Some of the countries, entities, dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, and governments included in this publication are not... ...) Life expectancy: men 40.6, women 42.9 Literacy: 20% Labor force: 2,783,000 economically active (mid-1985 est); 85% agriculture, 15% industry Organiz... ... of government Capital: Kathmandu Administrative divisions: 75 districts, 14 zones Legal system: based on Hindu legal con- cepts and English common la...
...rea (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added....
...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... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...en even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, ... ...of religion, and whether to teach the theory of evolution. According to a series of special feature articles in The Economist, America is generally ... ...oth a colonial power and a mercantilist exploiter. To further its geopolitical and economic goals from Central Asia to the Middle East, it persists... ...zens erroneously believe that the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is an economically self-sufficient and self-contained continent. Yet, ... ...ed States are written, its transition from republic to empire is likely to warrant special attention. Nor is the emergence of this land and naval j... ...qi government and money from Turkish investors. But not all is rosy in the "safe zones". Irrigation projects, electricity, the telephone system, ... ...opean (and Western) structures and seek their fortunes in the geopolitical twilight zones of the world. The USA is unlikely to be of much help to E...
The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.
... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...alt with the liberation of Macedonia and the establishment of a Macedonian State. A special chapter was dedicated to foreign affairs and neighbourly... ...both passionate and auspicious. The new King was of the reforming kind and keen on economic progress and wealth formation. Regretfully, his impleme... ...t. These were natural - though nefarious - reactions to dislocation, globalization, economic crisis and cultural pluralism. A set of compensatory me... ... 1974). But this time, the authorities, reacted with tanks in scenes reminiscent of China's Tiananmen Square 8 years later. The hotbed of hotheads w... ...line and thus disrupt the communications and logistics of Serb Military Police and Special (Ministry of Interior) Police units. The main arena of f... ...ary staff, headed since February 1999 by "Sultan" and divided to seven operational zones. In short, it reacted to changing fortunes by creating a b... ...chain of command, organizational structure, directorates, operational and assembly zones and general staff are all viable. I have no doubt - though...
...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...
...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ...y life. Is it all repeated in Thailand? This land, dubbed the Asian Little Economic Tiger, because it is following in the footsteps of great Japan? Or... ... lifestyle changed as people adapted to 'modern development', their global economic, technological and cultural environment. Later, the project title ... ... them to eat. But today, if you raise buffalo or pigs, they have to be fed special feedstuffs, it's expensive and difficult. Meat used to taste much b... ... And what kind of seed grain do you use? For swidden cultivation, you need special swidden rice varieties. Swidden rice is grown by making holes, smal... ...ailand, it has included the Shan state in Burma (Myanmar), Yunnan in South China, and Northern Laos. Lampang belonged to the Lanna state, founded by K... ...gone.Ascending from the plain, the mountains are now divided into economic zones. Where the irrigation network ends, industrial pineapple plantations ... ... control of agricultural industry, Lampang plains become closed production zones controlled by global food industry.And technological development will...
...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...
...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...ed propri- etary networks and the Internet, and a corresponding fight between specialized information appliances like smart typewriters and the general... ...rs other than the PC manufacturer or those with whom the PC manufacturer had special arrangements. 14 The resulting PC was one that its own users coul... ...uld CompuServe hold to the same line that AT&T tried to draw? After all, the economic model for almost every service was the connect charge: a per-min... ...r growth in the uses to which it was put. It is as if the bizarre social and economic configuration of the quasi-anarchist Burn- ing Man festival turne... ...ing Country Code Hosts Services Hosts Bots Attacks United States 1 1 1 1 2 1 China 3 2 4 8 1 2 Germany 7 3 3 2 4 3 France 9 4 14 4 3 4 United Kingdom ... ...o erase their own hard drives at the stroke of midnight, adjusting for time zones to make sure the col- lective crash takes place at the same time ar... ...like contraption to some PVC After the Stall 86 Figure 4.3 Eric von Hippel’s zones of innovation pipes to create a portable center-pivot irrigation s...
...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...
... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ...s in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. Visit Sam's Web site at h... ...sal Interface VII. Internet Advertising – What Went Wrong? VIII. The Economics of Spam IX. Don’t Blink – Interview with Jeffrey Harrow X. ... ...d access to the full contents of the Encyclopaedia and much more besides: specially commissioned articles, fora, an annotated internet guide, news i... ...estly classes. It flourished in non-theocratic societies such as Rome, or China - and languished where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, ... ...o paperbacks what these reprints did to originals. Some reprint libraries specialized in public domain works, very much like the bulk of e-book offer... ... structure of the database - the way Germany is divided to 1860 reporting zones - protected in any way? In essence, copyright is a temporary monopol... ...can spring up and dissipate as needed without regard to geography or time zones. Indeed, as bandwidth continues to increase in availability and plum...
... Trade Facilitation through Customs Procedures: Assessment of APEC’s Progress APEC Policy Support Unit October 2011 ... ...lbourne, Victoria, 3000 Australia Akhmad Bayhaqi Policy Support Unit Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat 35 Heng Mui Keng Terrace T... ...ite: www.apec.org Produced for: Sub-Committee on Customs Procedures Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC#211-SE-01.10 This work i... ...tive Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... ...by some economies — for example, Viet Nam (16% per year), Indonesia (14% per year), and China (12% per year) — in contrast to negligible or negative... ...rt 1 1 1 1 1 0 Export 1 2 2 1 1 0 Chile Import 4 3 3 3 3 -25 Export 2 2 2 2 2 0 China, People’s Republic of Import 4 4 4 4 4 0 Export 2 2 ... ...to border protection and customs administration is critically dependent on increasingly specialized skills and abilities. These issues are likely... ...rpinned by relevant accredited conformity assessment. c) As appropriate, work with the Specialist Regional Bodies (SRBs) and member economies' acc... ...f goods in a Customs territory Importation Exportation Customs warehouses and free zones Transit Processing Temporary admission Offences...
... and Measures on Customs Procedures were assessed from two distinctly different perspectives — the specific objective that was set for their sub-area of the Plan and their contribution to the overall goal for the Plan of a 5% cut in trade transaction costs....
...1. Background To The Study -- 2. Assessing The Actions & Measures On Customs Procedures -- 3. Time Release Survey Of Goods -- 4. Apec Framework Based On Wco Safe Framework -- 5. Simplification & Harmonization Of Customs Procedures -- 6. Paperless And/Or Automation Of Trade-Related Procedures -- 7. Findings, Conclusions And Recommendation...
...... ...liographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serv... ...ept. His grandfather quizzed him intensely about them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfat... ...ecame his personal guide through the maze of his night visions, explaining how special he was, and that only a few had ever been given this gift. ... ...ch the numbers and do some heavy, creative accounting. A chance meeting at the China Garden Restaurant in Wash ington, DC one evening led to an all... ... personally. Your job, Senator, is to hold your Hearings and expose these toxic zones that may affect the lives of millions of people," Brent said i... ...ng, Senator. My recommendation is that every man, woman, and child in the toxic zones be relocated immediately. " The chamber erupted. Reporters sc... ... experts, scientists, physicists, cancer specialists, congresspeople, senators, economic experts, and a completely scared and out raged public. The ... ... economy like Germany and Japan. They believe, in time, that they can become an economic Super Power. We'll have a war all right, an economic one, b...
...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...
...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ... slightly ajar, at two white doves sitting on the ledge, cooing. “I have a special request. A quiet assignment, Alfredo. Do you know what I mean?... ... assigning me to the Vatican Embassy in Washington, DC.” “I am making you a Special Papal Ambassador-at-large. You will report only to me. I will ... ...the only issue you intend to run on? The country is rift with other social and economic problems, from unemployment to deep budget cuts that have squ... ...l statement: We will always have controversial issues; social, political, and economic problems to solve. And I believe that the solution to the fut... ... "As to the extent of the war, we believe the first wave will begin in Japan, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and eventually, Colombia." 225 J.Cros... ...e world." "When the time is right, I will send Secretary of State Bennett to China. As head of the Armed Services Committee, Alex, I'm counting on ... ...ope to keep the bombing to a minimum, and our troops restricted to the target zones. But, as you know, there are always innocent people who are unfor...
...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...
...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...lled a ‘Cosmological Constant’ and further introducing another theory called ‘Special Relativity’ was a conscious attempt to sabotage and nullify a... ...representation of the Dynamic of Splitness. David Dawson went hiking through China and climbed the Taoist mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the tem... ...like the speed of quarks is a relative constant. There is nothing whatsoever special about the speed of light as The Path of Splitness Chapter On... ...hese 13 th gateway atomic weights inbetween 12 Totalities are used as buffer zones. And these buffers are not predictable. Sometimes they are th... ...ate larger atoms all over again. Because these 13 th factors act as buffer zones: the Entire Universe has become frozen into certain vicious cycl... ...b the oceans could do… only faster, more diversely, more creatively, and more economically… using much less water. Life evolved to create organisms ... ...b the oceans could do… only faster, more diversely, more creatively, and more economically… using much less water. Life evolved to create organisms ...
...The Path of Splitness is a major non 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 a...
...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...
...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...e, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated with original art specially created for each book. Each of our books aspires to be a work of... ... Past, his interest is to portray the inner experience of exceptional and special people, about whom there is scant knowledge on this level. During ... ...of mapping rivers. I told this to Francesco; he smiled and nodded. India? China? Tibet? For him they are words. He thinks only of his Italy, his Vap... ...heir Bibles. The White House As I study the office wall map of the war zones I am afflicted by partial blindness. The name Fredericksburg blurs. ... ...will urge Congress to appropriate $400,000,000 to assist the South in its economic recovery. Ours is no longer a nation within a nation; ours is a v... ...tensively. It will be a pleasure to convene a cabinet meeting, to discuss economic changes, foreign relations, amnesty, rail expansion, and state la...
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...
...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest social and economic reconstruction and by pass- ing through a phase of revolution that... ...rger community. There began a division of labour, certain of the older men specialised in knowledge and direction, a strong man took the fatherly lead... ...rs, the first empires and the first written laws had their beginnings. Men specialised for fighting and rule as soldiers and knights. Later, as ships ... ... lords and rulers doctors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that perio... ...nd the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the parents of young Ho... ...rval of technical adaptation, but with very little realisation of the huge economic revolution that im- pended. What chiefly impressed the journalists... ...h vast accumulations of immemorial ice, and the secret riches of the inner zones of the crust were untapped and indeed unsuspected. The higher mountai...
...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War 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... ...nial experience of touring as a spectator all agog to see, through the war zones. At any rate there was never any risk of my playing Balaam and blessi... ...y and cheerful old woman, it seemed exceptionally an outrage. And I made a special pilgrimage to see how it was with that monument of Can Grande, the ... ...s carried on her admirable campaign with less interference with her normal economic life than any other power. The first person I spoke to upon the pl... ...d high to go to Italy…. I doubt if English people fully realise either the economic sturdiness or the political courage of their Italian ally. Italy i... ...atter of Pecunia non olet; there used to be fusses about European loans in China. And one of the favourite themes of British fiction and drama before ... ...ness activity. There is, I am told, a considerable influx of visitors of a special sort; they wear khaki and lead the troglodytic life. They play card... ...an to the Limehouse sailor, or the Anzac soldier to the Sinn Feiner or the Chinaman, “What are we two doing for it?” And to fill the place of that “it...
... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ...r nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O’Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the o... ...he world was positively a better place for all who heard him. We have yet to understand the economical value of these mere accomplishments. I told the... ...nd another a copious and savoury meal. This is not the philosophical, but the human side of economics; it interests like a story; and the life all who... ...d Judaea are gone by forever, leaving to generations the legacy of their accomplished work; China still endures, an old-in- habited house in the brand... ...g moored to an over-hanging root; but perhaps the very notion that I was bound in gratitude specially to enjoy my little cruise, and cherish its recol... ...n the cold room, and threw quite a glow on the floor. Twelve cockle-shells and a half-penny china figure were ranged solemnly along the mantel-shelf. ... ...less beeches of a faint yellowish grey, and leafless oaks a little ruddier in the hue. Then zones of pine of a solemn green; and, dotted among the pin...
...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...isorder of the brain.” —Ulloa’ s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the impor- tant charge, the petticoat. Oft have we k... ...e seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better... ...not. Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this special errand. The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving slee... ..., he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat. Such, the... ...e than one, and three that had each lost a boat’s crew. For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least... ...the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell ... ...ith low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones. On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not poss...
...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...a disorder of the brain.” Ulloa’s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the important charge, the petticoat. Oft have we kno... ...e seated upon the pier heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better... ... not. Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this special errand. The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving slee... ...dy, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad brimmed hat. Such, the... ...e than one, and three that had each lost a boat’s crew. For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least... ...the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell ... ...ith low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones. On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not poss...
... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....
...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...
...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...Staff Member Douglas N. Greenburg Counsel Barbara A. Grewe Senior Counsel, Special Projects Elinore Flynn Hartz Family Liaison Leonard R. Hawley Profe... ...ssistant R.William Johnstone Professional Staff Member Stephanie L. Kaplan Special Assistant & Managing Editor Miles L. Kara, Sr. Professional Staff M... ...draws from multiple sources—Islam, history, and the region’s political and economic malaise. He also stresses griev- ances against the United States w... ...ect unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia. Social and Economic Malaise In the 1970s and early 1980s, an unprecedented flood of we... ...4 9:12 AM Page 57 son,Arizona, in the late 1980s, went as far afield as China, Malaysia, the Philip- pines, and the former Soviet states of Ukraine... ...CIA ran a final, graded rehearsal of the operation, spread over three time zones, even bringing in personnel from the region.The FBI also participated... ...nt’s magnitude. 16 The NYPD precincts were divided into 35 different radio zones, with a cen- tral radio dispatcher assigned to each. In addition, the...
...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 and five Democra...
...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...
...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The Chinago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 A Piece o... ...eeing from a South American fever hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and was still able to toil with men. His weight was probably nin... ...e sky like a feathered thunderbolt, that drove the great gray goose across the zones, that hurled the spawning salmon through two thousand miles of bo... ...e box thereafter, and so well did he study the art of shirking that he wrote a special chapter on it, with the last several paragraphs de South of t... ...yielded to the extent of reading occasional papers before certain literary and economic societies. He did everything right — too right; and in dress a... ... and all around the whole scab and union labor problem and its relation to the economic welfare of the United States in the struggle for the world mar... ...tt was thankful. The taboo might have been water. For himself, he fabricated a special taboo. Only could he marry, he explained, when the Southern Cro...
...t 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 learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...
...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 ...
... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson 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... ... by which the individual exists and must order his conduct, is some- thing special to himself and not common to the race. His joys delight, his sorrow... ...ng propensity, some calling of nature, some over-weening in- terest in any special field of industry, inquiry, or art, he will do right to obey the im... ...ys and false ideas of hygiene. Brother officials used to call it “Damien’s Chinatown.” “Well,” they would say, “your China-town keeps growing.” And he... ...te a more pleasurable sense of contrast than when he passes from Damien’s ‘Chinatown’ at Kalawao to the beautiful Bishop- Home at Kalaupapa. At this p... ... a writer of fiction; but even as such, I know one thing that bears on the economic ques- tion– I know the imperfection of man’s faculty for business.... ...this matter all that I could wish to say, and con- demned beforehand great economical polities. So far it is obvious that they are right; they may be ... ...lumsy and the servile, the other born to beauty. She thought of the golden zones in which gentlemen were bred, and figured with so excellent a grace; ...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...
...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................
...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...eeing the true prophet doubled, as I thought, in places with the Bull in a China Shop, – it appeared best to steer a middle course, and to laugh with ... ...ret them after they are withdrawn. We soon come to regard them somewhat as special cases of a general law; what we really care for is something that t... ... so concise and telling, that a foreigner is tempted to explain it by some special richness or aptitude in the dialect he wrote. Hence that Homeric ju... ...of a poet by attracting too much of our atten- tion in that of a Bull in a China Shop. And where, by a little more art, we might have been solemnised ... ...n the peculiar attitude in which he stood to money, his system of personal economics, as we may call it, he displayed a vast amount of truly down-East... ...stance that for years, and after he had begun to mount himself into higher zones, he continued to have that family to dinner on the anniversary of the...
...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...
...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...
...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...waiting misfits? The misfits had but to be pos itive and concordant, in the special intenser light, to represent together (as the two sides of a coin s... ...w her long fingers and the shape and colour of her finger nails, he knew her special beauty of movement and line when she turned her back, and the perfe... ...ed human appeal, represented by gradations of tint, diminishing concentric zones of intensity, of importunity, really faded to the impersonal whitenes... ...ow on our friend’s amiability alone the weight of the demonstration of his economic history. Amiability, of a truth, is an aid to success; it has even... ...s not without an inkling on his own side that he was, as a taster of life, economically constructed. He put into his one little glass everything he ra... ...h snuff taking ironies as might belong to rococo chamberlains moving among china lap dogs. Every evening after dinner Charlotte Stant played to him; s...
...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...
...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...
...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...viceable edition. The edition published by Didot in 1857 has an altogether special character. In the biographical notice M. Rathery for the first time... ...in what concerneth your religion, as matters of the public state, and life economical. Do you believe, upon your conscience, that Homer, whilst he was... ...come very skilful in algorism. There- fore is it, that by a law rubric and special sentence thereof, that we cannot fail to take the wolf if we make o... ...ced compass of one family, who is attentive, vigi- lant, and active in the economic rule of his own house, whose frugal spirit never strays from home,... ...herb, that, maugre longitudes and latitudes, and all the variations of the zones, the Periaecian people, and Antoecian, Amphiscian, Heteroscian, and P... ...were to pass by Lanternland. The third ship had for her device a fine deep china ewer. The fourth, a double-handed jar of gold, much like an ancient u...
...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....