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...Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Louis... ...s Series Publication Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... ies to compose poems, which certainly can have shown no great promise, to judge by a line of too many feet which became famous among my companions—th... ...ating all his forces on a given point. But children, like men, are wont to judge of everything by first impressions, and after the first few days we c... ...e which, being more immediately connected than the oth- ers with the nerve-centers of the brain, must, when shocked, cause invisible disturbance to th... ..., by acquiring some privilege of position or of self-advertisement, either legal or ingeniously contrived, purchase the right of taking day by day out... ... an income of four or five thousand francs to a man who deals honestly. An advocate, a notary, a merchant, any recog- nized professional, has earned a...

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...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of ... ...ries Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of th... ...hree family portraits on the walls; a steel-clad knight, a cardinal, and a judge, who were all smoking long porcelain pipes, which had been inserted i... ... country to the other. Capmakers became colonels, assuming the du- ties of generals; revolvers and daggers were dis- played on large rotund bodies, en... ...ordinary, most unlikely, most extravagant, and funniest cases, and had won legal games with- out a trump in his hand—although he had worked out the ob... ...or rela- tions to follow it, is being conveyed to the com- *Title given to advocates in France. 195 Selected Writings mon grave, doing anything that ... ...lightest pretext for a divorce in anything that you have told me here. The judges would ask me whether I took the Law Courts for a theater, and intend... ...to take it back for eighteen thousand when you inform me, according to our legal formality, how it comes to be in your possession.” This time M. Lanti... ...rate, whose irreproachable life was a proverb in all the courts of France. Advocates, young counselors, judges had saluted, bowing low in token of pro...

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in ...

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... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Glo... .... First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19 Contents Part I 1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . ... ...old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extr... ... often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful,... ...understand it. . . ” “Yes, but could you forgive it?” “I don’t know, I can’t judge. . . Yes, I can,” said Anna, thinking a moment; and grasping the po... ...ith a self styled husband. In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be... ... where he had gained two steps up in rank, and an order rarely bestowed upon generals so young. As soon as he arrived in Petersburg, people began to t... ...urch in his village. On the woman question he was on the side of the extreme advocates of com plete liberty for women, and especially their right to ... ...poke of what I want to speak about of myself, and it’s easy for me to be his advocate; of whether there is not a possibility . . . whether you could ...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphy...

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...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...orean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario would have clung to the cou... ...ments-- could not be real. They were based on brief outward gestures and the judges had nothing but their own usual experiences of their petty and sel... ...ave received monthly from his former employer. It turned out to be perfectly legal. After all, he was a Korean citizen, albeit one on a traveler's vis... ...he present, he knew that it was only his thinking that made them painful. He judged that he was the source of his misery and with application he would... ...ay in his book bag. Then he got into a taxi and went to the Sejong Cultural Center. His seat was located in the middle of the auditorium. As he sat ... ...n perpetually and she half dreamed that if she succeeded with him, she could advocate Gabrieleism everywhere. It would be her movement--a philosophy ... ...lations of past academic accomplishments but more the prompting of those who advocated that post-graduates utilize ideas for pragmatic pursuits. Thes...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Darya Alexandrovna spent the summer with her children at Pokrovskoe, at her sister Kitty Levin?s. The house on her own estate was quite in ruins, and Levin and his wife had persuaded her to spend the summer with them. Stepan Arkadyevitch greatly appr...

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...na – Part Six by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., looking at a sparrow that had settled on the step and was pecking at the center of a raspberry. “Yes, but you keep a little further from the stove,”... ...,” she added, “awfully jealous over our past.” “Not all,” said Dolly. “You judge by your own hus- band. It makes him miserable even now to remember Vr... ...,” Kitty said, angry with her mother for appealing to Sergey Ivanovitch to judge in such a matter. In the middle of their conversation they heard the ... ...zed at him. He went on: “One day a son may be born, my son, and he will be legally a Karenin; he will not be the heir of my name nor of my property, a... ...ke of what I want to speak about of myself, and it’s easy for me to be his advocate; of whether there 102 Anna Karenina – Part Six is not a possibili... ...first of all to legitimize his daughter, and to be your husband, to have a legal right to you.” “What wife, what slave can be so utterly a slave as I,... ...arty, who knew every detail, and had reckoned up every vote. They were the generals orga- nizing the approaching battle. The rest, like the rank and f...

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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These...

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...riginally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 F... ...SSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION ... ... ideals with current negative myths about the business world; (2) the social cause advocate who is already marketing ideas and perspectives on socia... ...a social issue or a cause-a concept. Concepts are conceived, initiated, sponsored, advocated, promulgated, disseminated and adopted by methods that ... ... 12 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES Man is not a circle with a single center; He is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are ... ...oy the Health maintenance orgs Health, value of Hiking, walking Lefthandedness Legalized gambling Literacy Littering prevention Mainstreaming ... ...boundaries are grey areas. Social workers perform psychotherapy and attorneys may legally serve as real estate brokers. The American Institute of ... ...appears in Pessemier (1972) discussing, what he termed, "Measuring the Individual's Judged Worth of Social Alternatives." IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL PRICE... .... Respondents were asked for a self-rating of "your confidence in your ability to judge the product." It is thus also a measure of perception to d...

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...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 th...

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...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic world. I owe t... ...he Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases... ...uce you to intellectual property, to ex- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you tha... ... to alert the world to the danger posed by climate change, or a passion- ate advocate of homeschooling, or a cartoonist with a uniquely twisted view o... ...istration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who told Randall that she could not write her critique i... ...ndall that she could not write her critique in the words she wanted to use—a judge enforcing copyright law. 37 “They killed Miss Scarlett!” the astoni... ...results, and so on. Rejecting a protectionist and one-sided opinion from its Advocate General, the court ruled that the mere running of a business whi...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwa...

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...tion as Growth ............................................................................................. 46 Chapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline................................................... 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic C...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...ed the key to memory in that oral world. Even the courts were oral, so judges had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the... .... They served as the religious, governmental, educational, and commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes grew into major economic enter... ...et of papermaking, but the arrogance of one of T‘ang Emperor Hsuan-tsung‘s generals opened the way near Samarkand for the secret‘s escape. After t... ...nals—those who could read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Me... ...of unsold copies.  Targeting separate markets, such as academic, church, legal, or erotic.  Deciding when and where to purchase capital equipment,... ... ―The right to learn is now aggressively opposed by intellectual property advocates, who want ideas elevated to the status of land, cars, and other ... ...right to create limitations that previously did not exist on the public‘s legal right to copy. It turns out that it always seems legal to copy as lo...

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...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 CONCEPTS OF GOD ...

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...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... ...s and her idealistic concepts of ethics as higher level motivations. We do come close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-center... ...ed what they saw as senseless killings of innocent people by Islamic terrorists. The question of the cartoons was—is this what Muhammad would advoca... ...ery area. 53 ―But as Michelle Bachelet has said, women are often judged... ...r drive in the sexual area. But I see that it is such a universal problem.‖ POWER AND RELIGION --―Power can come from fame in both the legal ... ...er‘s extermination of the Jews had religious overtones in his otherwise secular war. Whether religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the genera... ...and socially beneficial motivation. One may have the ambition to develop a business, to be an athlete, to be an opera star, to be an effective judge ... ...was held by the lawyers to be the ‗unconscious‘ reason that she killed her sons whom she supposedly loved. There are certainly huge numbers of legal ...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORI...

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... 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 C... ...Improvising a Homeland 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 ... ...t down! Pull it down!”The hijackers remained at the controls but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them.The air- ... ... an effort to preserve their mission, members of the air defense community advocated the importance of air sovereignty against emerging “asymmetric th... ...dividuals were just the first symptoms. 8 Third, the successful use of the legal system to address the first World Trade Center bombing had the side e... ...the numerous prior consultations between FBI agents and pros- ecutors, the judge might rule that the FISA warrants had been misused. If that had happe... ... White House. President Reagan’s second secretary of state, George Shultz, advocated active U.S. efforts to combat terrorism, often recommending the u... ...ll Group considered ideas about how to respond to or prevent such attacks. Generals Shelton and Zinni came up with military options. Special Operation... ...ht the AC-130 option feasible. 142 The most likely explanation for the two generals’ differing recollections is that both of them thought serious prep...