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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two ... ... not particularly lively—but he paraded twice before the box where the now united couples were met, and nobody took any no- tice of him. Covers were l... ...a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament; and the place, from the day of that illustrious visi... ...tate. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in V anity Fair he had a higher place than the m... ...shion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And though he belonged to the household troops, who, as it was th... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial ed... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...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... ... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ... is a throwback to darker ages of religious zealotry, pernicious bigotry, virulent nationalism, and the capricious misrule of the mighty. According... ...f International Strategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction that "the ... ...trategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction that "the United States aims... ...0 years of the Politburo). But is this a sufficient incentive (or deterrent)? The members of the various elites in Western democracies are mobile ...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... 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... ...re is not much difference between the embryo and the comatose. A typical contract states the rights of the parties. It assumes the existence of pa... ...: "an invalid is breathing" would be categorized as an achievement only by informed members of a community and subject to the rules and the ethos o... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ... USA. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washi...

...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....

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...ty of Chicago Manual Style by University of Chicago Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org... ...... ...or instance, general practice has established certain usages in some of the sciences which it would not be advisable to ignore. Similar discrepancie... ...=Scan'dinavia), the Far East, Orient, Levant; the North, South, East, West (United States). But do wt, as a rule, capitalize adjectives derived fro... ...inavia), the Far East, Orient, Levant; the North, South, East, West (United States). But do wt, as a rule, capitalize adjectives derived from such ... ...ary, and artistic schools, and their adherents : Republican, Conservative, National Liberal, Social Democ- racy (where, as in continental Europe, i... ... the classics, a realistic novel. 8. The names of monastic orders and their members: Black Friars, Dominican, Jesuitism. 9. The proper (official) t... ...nstitution, State University of Iowa, Hyde Park High School; the Commercial Academy (Handelsakademie) of Leipzig, the Paris Lyceum (Lyc6e de Paris);...

...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a b...

...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

...Preface Table of Contents Rules for Composition Capitalization The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofr...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... 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... ...re is not much difference between the embryo and the comatose. A typical contract states the rights of the parties. It assumes the existence of pa... ...: "an invalid is breathing" would be categorized as an achievement only by informed members of a community and subject to the rules and the ethos o... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ... USA. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washi...

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

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...itten permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...ww.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ...ferent international environments and therefore applicable to multinationals or to national, export-orientated firms. The free cash flow of a firm... ...-software and communications system which will integrate into the systems of other members of the group of companies. 10. Otherwise, to initiate an... ..., retarded wealth formation. In some respects, the West - and especially the United States - are poorer now than they were in 1988. This monumental ... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...997 Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences The Pricing of Options The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 Bank of Sweden...

The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial ed... ...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... 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... ...XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. The Green-Eye... ...s - the less likely were cartels to emerge. Cartels are conceived in order to cut members' costs of sales. Small firms are motivated to pool their... ...reds of examples - from bankruptcy law to income security, from flood mitigation to national defense, and from consumer protection to deposit insur... ...nsurance Companies, and Capital Markets", David Rule of the Bank of England flatly states: "At least as important for the efficiency and robustness... ... USA. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washi...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...riginally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 F... ...d order, in other words, brainwashing. Webster's New World Dictionary , in fact , states that the word is "now often used disparagingly to connote d... ...ory when restrictions on the spread of ideas have been so relaxed, at least in the United States. Government, church and family are as liberal as th... ...enjoys his pipe but is plagued by cinder damage to clothing, badgering from family members and so forth-a problem. Inductively, he infers that to sto... .... Again, physical fitness is an idea that quickly becomes asocial cause in time of national emergency. So, in terms of group process, ideas frequen... ...as a result of its eagerness to welcome thinking minds from its neighboring social sciences. Promotion plays a key role in the marketing drama an... ...Typology of Exchange Transactions. " Proceedings of the Conference of the American Academy of Advertising. East Lansing, Mich.,107-11. -----. 1978. ...

...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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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban... ... religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national faith 107 * Temple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Po... ...country into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's larges... ... into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest colle... ...cupational years and work periods Local communities village administration membership of family and neighbourhood - community control - local hierarch... ...lish. This book is dedicated to my wife, Leena. Helsinki, 15 December 2004 Academy of Finland Nordic Institute of Asian Studies University of Helsinki... ...no longer sufficient. In Thailand, education in technology and the natural sciences take precedence; a new generation is now rising fast that is fully...

...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 heale...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ...ed issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! This let... ... publishing practices and to the modern concept of intellectual property. Members register their books, obtain a BCID (BookCrossing ID Number) and t... ...thoring an encyclopaedia was such a daunting and expensive task that only states, academic institutions, or well-funded businesses were able to produ... ... the ARPANET. Other government departments joined the fray, headed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) which withdrew only lately from the Inte... ... It is not uncommon to find a mastery of English, a college degree in the sciences, readiness to work outlandish hours at a fraction of wages in Ger... ...990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washington Time...

...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...(second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by... ...che/ ISBN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and cre... ...BN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, ... ...atherhood of the original paradoxist conception, in gaining sympathizers, members, supporters, so that he is included in the most notorious referenc... ...paradoxes exist in mathematics? Does the most exact science, the queen of sciences - as Gauss had said - admit false and simultaneously true things?... ...appens the (hypothetical) good luck that could make of him ...a writer of national and even worldwide importance”. Hey, maybe still farther! He wish... ...phical area. * In 1995 Florentin Smarandache is granted the prize of the Academy of Letters and Arts in Perigord (France) and is co-opted as a memb...

...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a pe...

...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and al...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic L... ... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logi... ... ISBN: 1-931233-67-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America First International Conference o... ...ISBN: 1-931233-67-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America First International Conference on Neutr... ... difficult to mention. Rather, it is possible to express a partial or gradual membership.” Indeterminacy means degrees of uncertainty, vagueness, i... ...[28] Le, Charles T., The Smarandache Class of Paradoxes, in “Journal of Indian Academy of Mathematics”, Bombay, India, No. 18, 53-55, 1996. [29] M... ...knowledge representation, Preprint 232, Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1980 (in Russian). [32] Perez, Minh, Neutros... ...e Disjunctive Rule of Combination and the Generalized Bayesian Theorem”, Inter national Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol. 9, pp. 1 35, 1993. [62...

...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication ... ...brary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ... ...ing could keep me from thinking of his boat and its struggle. I named off members of his crew. I named their families. Phaon’s cousin was with him—... ... all my schooling did not amount to one year. I was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy building ti... ...one’s intellect, guard one’s health. It is also an opportunity to perfect national and international law. Cer- tainly, freedom should not be a code b... ... best to enlighten me on scientific points since I have never studied the sciences, a brief elementary course, I might call it. I found the two rema...

...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...

...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...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... .../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... ...essed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Con... ...hrough the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Nu... ...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ... book as the person who most influenced it. That influence remains. Beyond the academy, my main debt is to the board members and staff of Creative Commo... ... it. That influence remains. Beyond the academy, my main debt is to the board members and staff of Creative Commons, Science Commons, and ccLearn. Crea... ...astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The...

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

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

...ight © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Conten... ...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ...ears before the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for... ...fore the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for the do... ...ears of desperate resistance to a foe in possession of almost a tenth of the national territory, and that tenth industrially the richest in the countr... ...es that frighten the Anglo Saxon by their close resemblance to the poisonous members of the family. It takes a practised eye to distinguish c` epes an... ...—explains the existence of such re ally national institutions as the French Academy, and the French national theatre, the Th´ eˆ atre Franc ¸ais. The... ..., and make French not only elegant, but capable of dealing with the arts and sciences.” Think of the significance of such an act at such a moment! Fran...

...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; a...

...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

...rs by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ring, not only from all the provinces of France, but even from all foreign states, the most celebrated swordsmen. It was not uncommon for Richelieu an... ...ng a gentle- man. I will write a letter today to the Director of the Royal Academy, and tomorrow he will admit you without any ex- pense to yourself. ... ...he pleasure of hearing himself talk. He spoke upon all subjects except the sciences, alleging in this respect the inveterate hatred he had borne to sc... ...Musketeers were much attached to their young comrade. The friendship which united these four men, and the want they felt of seeing another three or fo... ... they had as yet but partisans; and he, Richelieu—the French minister, the national minister—would be ruined. The king, even while obeying him like a ... ...ay dearly for my death.” Grimaud hesitated. Mousqueton trembled in all his members. Athos, who heard Milady’s voice, came sharply up. Lord de Winter d...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ... APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESTO... ...A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions TABLE OF CONTENTS CO... ...c. Title Guaranty of Hawaii, Inc. Tori Richard, Ltd. Ultimate Innovations United Laundry Services, Inc. Watumull Stores Yobi Group, LLC Bank of Hawai... ...ris Tatum Jim Tollefson ADM Robert Willard Eric K. Yeaman EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Senator Daniel K. Inouye Senator Daniel K. Akaka Congresswoman M... ...its dependence on oil. Hawai‘i is the most petroleum- dependent of the 50 states – 90 percent of its power-grid electricity is generated by importe... ...ure, hybrid Stirling engines to generate utility-scale power for China’s national utility. In July, Sopogy reached an agreement with MAI Developmen... ... six months after the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed on as an international observer, joining the U...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

... -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28 Firm But Renewable Energy -- 30 Building the Smart Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...n control our own destinies. This is what much of science and most of education is all about. If we can get a better grasp of the appropriate scienc... ...ion and love for all humanity, and to the religious militarism that seeks to annihilate all who do not have the true faith—even those who are member... ... culture, they live by the laws of their own characters. In your country the self actualized people‘s values may often be different from your nation... ...us eye problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United... ...problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United States... ...resses the sex drive it may reappear in the behavior of a second personality. Dual or multiple personalities is the result of this action. The Academ...

...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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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ...has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object bef... ...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...tood. The accommoda- tion also for the ministers of the government and for members of the two Houses has been insufficient. Hotels, lodgings, and furn... ...was in consequence obliged to abandon his commis- sion and retire from the Academy. Will that young lady ever again sleep quietly in her bed? I should... ...r right to render that worship in the mode most consistent with their con- sciences, no person shall be by law compelled to join or be classed with an...

...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...F THE GEN- ERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ............................................................. ...of men of learn- ing, but upon the public conduct of princes and sovereign states. I have endeavoured, in the fourth book, to explain as fully and dis... ...which of them, by that of some particular part only, or of some particular members of it: secondly, what are the different methods in which the whole ... ...ivided into any number of parts, as by fusion those parts can easily be re-united again; a quality which no other equally durable commodities possess,... ... to explain them. In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually explained in this manner.... ... them. In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually explained in this manner. The direct...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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Smallholder Dairying in the Tropics

By: Lindsay Falvey & Charan Chantalakhana

...Total consumption of milk in developing regions is projected to increase from 164 million metric tonnes in 1993 to 391 million metric tons by the year 2020 – a 138 percent increase! The expected increase in per capita consumption is from 38 to...

...Table of Contents About the Authors Acknowledgements Foreward Chapter 1: The dairy industry in a changing world H. Schelhaas Introduction Four specific features of the dairy industry Milk production The processin...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...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... ... 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... ....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 TERRORISM 47... ... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...r Bob Kerrey John F . Lehman Timothy J. Roemer James R.Thompson COMMISSION MEMBERS Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page xi Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:2... ...ng cultural preference for technical fields over the humanities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to study abroad, lacked the... ... and his concerns in another commence- ment speech, this time at the Naval Academy, in May 1998, the President said: First, we will use our new integr...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

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

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...em, rendered one state insensible to the distresses of another, save where national jealousy could indulge a mali- cious joy at the reverses of a riva... ...e was ef- fected; a guarantee, which, being rejected by the Roman Catholic members of the Diet, and only inserted in the treaty under their protest, c... ...te sta- tion fallen to him. His character was mild, he loved peace and the sciences, particularly as- tronomy, natural history, chemistry, and the stu... ...varia, under whose eyes he was instructed and edu- cated by Jesuits at the Academy of Ingolstadt. What principles he was likely to imbibe by his inter...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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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... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...de visible, tan- gible, in the struggles, in the contacts of the fine con- sciences, in their perplexities, in the sophism of their mistakes. For a fi... ...estricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. Maupassant is an intensely national writer. He is so intensely national in his logic, in his clearness... ...ement will only be lim- ited by the power of helping itself to the severed members of its friends and neighbours. The era of wars so eloquently denoun... ...lish. A wild and stormy abode, sometimes, was that confined, shallow-water academy of seamanship from which I launched myself on the wide oceans. My t...

.......... 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 Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...gion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All states of mind are neurally conditioned— Their significance must be tested ... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ... [4] Max Nordau, in his bulky book entitled Degen- eration. In the natural sciences and industrial arts it never occurs to anyone to try to refute opi... ...uncon- sciousness was entirely real. He never spoke depre- catingly of any nationality or class of men, or time in the world’s history, or against any... .... But I here fear that I may begin to “jar upon the nerves” of some of the members of this academic audience. Such contemporary vagaries, you may thin... ...e answered in my behalf. “One Sabbath, I went to hear the Methodist at the Academy. He spoke of the ushering in of the day of general judgment; and he...

Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ...ing room, which like all the rooms in the house was exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one behind each chair—stood wait- ... ...premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for you to read when I am gone. Y ou will f... .... “The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chem- istry, and the like, into which intelle... ...ans. Besides being advocates of bold action, this section also represented nationalism, which made them still more one-sided in the dispute. They were...

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