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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, conclusion...

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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 living creature....

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...apitalists themselves. -- 16. Shaping the English Language-William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ?pope? orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. -- 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again-Inventors strived from the early 1800s to mechanize Gutenberg’s process—unsuccessfully until Mergenthaler bui...

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...print shop helps standardize The Treasure of Our Tongue, and Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. ... ... the beginning was the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders ... ...as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and th... ...rst electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you ... ... of information and technology took place when our Homo sapiens ancestors first made their appearance on this planet. Somehow, that couple kept its... ...pments in Chinese culture. Besides allowing religious freedom, he created aid agencies, reorganized and improved roads, and expanded waterways. C... .... In Kluger‘s account, Reid offered—and Mergenthaler accepted—financial aid along with a thousand shares in the company Reid had organized to cre...

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...Learning to breathe properly is the first step for everyone. Breathing is the basic fundamental aspect of our physical being. It is something we do all day everyday. It is vital that we have the skills to breathe effectively. Then we give the body the energy it...

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... 8 Author’s Note A lot has happened in the five years since this book was first published. I’ve have been fortunate enough to travel the world te... ... personal power? Conscious breathing is the key to achieving that power. The first step involves learning about how the body breathes and becoming ... ...nisms that prevent impurities and extremely cold air from entering the body. First, a screen of nose hairs traps dust and other particles that coul... ... you can move on to learning how to maximize the quality of your breathing. First let’s make sure we have the correct posture. 34 CHAPTER 3 ... ...t posture. 34 CHAPTER 3 35 Correct posture is the first prerequisite for performing breathing exercises. Proper alignment...

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...ow might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. In this first chapter the nature of an idea is developed, contextualized and shown to be a most timely topic. To pave the way for this book's argument that ideas are exchanged in marketlike transactions, the aim of this chapter is to...

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...rketing, such as family planning, antismoking, or better environment. Fine is the first person to write a book on the general principles of social ... ...t, price, place and promotion) in this endeavor. While it is hard to evaluate the first book written on any new subject, I am sure that Fine's work ... ...deas can also be promoted and are being promoted all the time, with or without the aid of modem marketing concepts. We have to assume that all idea... ...olved in pursuits in which marketing approaches may be usefully introduced for the first time. It is hoped that it will prove valuable, too, to stu... ...lized and narrow" (p. 60). This book attempts to bridge the theory /practice gap, first by postulating concepts such as a presence of an idea sector... ...berta Goodzeit, Joanne Lattanzio and Sandeep Tungare. Typists should be mentioned first, but I accede to tradition and last but not least thank Maur... ...air housing Family planning Fashion trend Fire prevention Fluoridation Foreign aid Forest fire prevention Foster parenthood Franchising Frate... ...gle-purchase items and include population control, shoplifting prevention, foreign aid, cancer research and literacy, to mention a few. They may be ... ...ing strategy for child abuse prevention includes the establishment of workshops to aid abused children and abusive parents alike, as well as other ed...

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...ependent 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: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single u...

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...our de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Le... ...rmission from the publisher. Copyright © 2007 by Steven James Bartlett First Edition ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card... ...ll, the nonfiction work, The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist’s Record, the first extensive artistic and photographic study of haciendas through- out M... ...e that clarity, centered in it, a brown intaglio, a small wooden carving, first one ship and then another. Our fleet had sailed back to us! I watche... ... I had pictured the ships as fast moving, bright on bright water. As the first one approached, I saw no happy faces, no lifted hands, no raised shi... ... wings. VOICES FROM THE PAST 282 I constructed the glider with the aid of my apprentices. I launched it at Mount Ceceri. Ceceri seemed the li... ...14, 1615 I remember the plague, how, with our theatre closed, I worked to aid the sick and cart away the London dead. Appleton...I remember his red ... ...f international slave trade. Congress appropriated the sum of $900,000 to aid in its suppression. Five ships have been captured at sea and the slave... ...do unto you, do ye even so unto them,” appealed to the Christian world to aid them in doing to a whole race of men as they would have no man do unto...

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...(Author to reader)--Reader, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces ar...

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... is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classics' the first volume was pub... ...ents and corrections to the Publisher, rbear [at]uoregon.edu. CONTENTS THE FIRST BOOKE Florio's Preface To the curteous Reader Dedicatory Poems The Au... ...st motherly- affected Lady Harrington) and by his acknowledgement in this first to all Readers give evidence, first that ir is de bonne foy, then mo... ...r his other-selfe, his peerlesse paire Steven de Boetie, in the 28. of the first, and thinke hee speakes to praise-surmounting Countesse of Bedford, ... ...i me cædere, nam sum Dianæ. Yet nor can you denie, nor I desseble, how at first I pleaded this Authors tedious difficultie, my selfe-knowne insuffici... ...Yet is pitty held a vicious passion among the Stoicks. They would have us aid the afflicted, but not to faint and co-suffer with them. These examples... ...worthy, wee are to endure them patiently, to conceale their vices, and to aid their indifferent actions with our commendations, as long as their a u... ... her authoritie in us; by which mild and gentle beginning, if once by the aid of time it have setled and planted the same in us, it will soone disco... ...er suffered their countrie to incur all extremities, than by her lawes to aid her, or to innovate anything. For truly in these last necessities, wher...

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...lay of US foreign policy, and an increase in education levels throughout the region. Based on these findings, three policy proposals are recommended. First, the United States needs to pioneer fairer trade agreements. Second, the United States needs to increase its foreign aid, with earmarks for economic investments. Third, the United States needs to work harder at being a ...

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...alit who rose up to such heights was never spared from the pangs of outcaste-ness and untouchability, which is based on birth. Thus, if the erstwhile first citizen of India faces such humiliation, what will be the plight of the last man who is a Dalit? As one of the world’s largest socio-economically oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically marginalized group of pe...

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...ste-ness and untouchability, which is based on birth. Thus, if the erstwhile first citizen of India faces such humiliation, what will be the plight... ... reading is also provided. A study of this kind is being carried out for the first time. We have used mathematical tools to study this sociologica... ...e model. Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) are more applicable when the data in the first place is an unsupervised one. The FCMs work on the opinion of ... ... occurs to a maximal positive or negative degree. Simple FCMs provide a quick first approximation to an expert stand or printed causal knowledge. We... ...cepts/nodes can represent processes, events, values or policies. Consider the first node C 1 = 1. We hold or clamp C 1 on the temporal associative... ...h chapter. In all these Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, which basically work with the aid of a connection matrix and the state vector, we have used C progra... ...stries and business centres. They don’t have proper food, sanitation, medical aid, support for their children’s education, proper clothes or proper ... ...Lord? No, he is just a purohit’s (Brahmin priest’s) son. He studied with the aid of scholarship. So also is the grandfather of Nehru, our ex-Prime ... ...s which lack basic infrastructure adequate class rooms and teachers, teaching aid etc. (Fraser, Sudha Sowbhagyavathy Growth of Literacy among SCs in...

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...ower and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The problem is that the dragons have grown lazy and dumb, and while they once had a cadre of sorcerers to call upon, they now only have one. The last sorcerer dragon, Ao Rue, is something of a misfit, and his eff...

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... in the Rye.” Originally published in 1994 by Omnimedia. It is the first, original fantasy novel published electronically. DEDICATION ... ...1944). The last was supplied by Andre Norton, who graciously accepted my first piece of fiction and who has ever and always been a faithful and loy... ...d their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The problem is that the dragons have grown lazy and dumb, an... ...d his challenges by the blunt and clear-headed Mei-chou; she is the cats' first-of-the-first and their shaman (it appears). Further, and also centr... ...he Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is the author of this -- the first original, electronic novel to be published over the Internet: Fire ... ...ire and Fur! The ancient mind oath. I call upon our friendship and your aid!" Something clicked in the back of Wen Ch'ang's young mind. He snap... ... His muscles tore in agony as he repeatedly forced his body to someone's aid. Yolbas followed him almost beat for beat. And even though Ao Rue h...

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...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for aw...

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...s trousers would be nothing compared to failing to present the long-awaited, first midwest appearance of the world-renowned tenor. “Get up, get up... ...ame country with a mere handful o’ men. And you’ll remember, Carew was the first to bolt with Flynn tailin’ close behind.” Barbara Scott 10 On... ..., searching. Actress Helene Bennett Among Victims. She’d found the first tiny article on a back page corner of the Times. The only mention ... ...last Christmas. She had hidden them away when Rupert opened Camilla’s gift first, also gloves. Soft and fine, these gloves were feather light, a pe... .... What if Daniel were sleeping and she woke him? What if he had found the first moment of peace since the fire and she disrupted it? Before the ec... ...e. Vife dead.” Too proud to breach Lydia’s closed door to enlist her aid with introductions and the procurement of a meal, Morgan gave up. D...

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...essing the issue. The book then presents various practical ways of remedying the situation. Topics covered include GDP, economic growth, microcredit, aid, and the Bretton Woods Organizations (the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organisation). The book is intended for an international audience. Though filled with references, the book is written in a...

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...End Poverty MYTH #4: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization Seek Primarily to Alleviate Poverty MYTH #5: Aid Alone, or Aid as Currently Practiced, Significantly Reduces Poverty MYTH #6: Microcredit & Income Generation are Miracle Cures for Poverty MYTH #7: Inequality is Inevitable and is Less of a Problem than Poverty MYTH #8...

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... are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expedit...

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... Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOW... ...se and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- E... ...-- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing... ...n -- Proofs of Norse settlement in America -- The courtship of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church... ...g rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing of the first priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusade... ...- Escaped from his pursuers, other dangers are encountered -- Making a club by aid of a fire -- A fight with a jaguar -- Bartholomew finds safety at l... ... helpful in teaching the value of good books; and above all, that it may be an aid to the perpetuation of honors won by heroes of discovery who have p... ...'s sail from Cape Verde, in which time the passage might be easily made by the aid of favorable winds. More or less confusion necessarily arises out o... ...l, in the absence of recorded dimensions, may be reasonably conjectured by the aid of such facts as are given. The mainmast is said to have been made ...

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...s like coding or communication theory, Markov chains, representation of groups and graphs, Leontief economic models and so on. This book has for the first time, introduced a new algebraic structure called linear bialgebra, which is also a very powerful algebraic tool that can yield itself to applications. With the recent introduction of bimatrices (2005) we have ventured...

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...oups and graphs, Leontief economic models and so on. This book has for the first time, introduced a new algebraic structure called linear bialgebra,... ...or n = 2 we get the linear bialgebra. This book has five chapters. In the first chapter we just introduce some basic notions of linear algebra and ... ... = T ∗ T. 1.2 Introduction to S-linear algebra In this section we first recall the definition of Smarandache R-module and Smarandache k-vec... ...che characteristic vectors (S- characteristic vectors). Thus this is the first time such Smarandache notions are given about S-basis, S-characteri... ...a new notion called Smarandache super vector spaces are introduced for the first time. DEFINITION 1.2.15: Let R be S-ring. V a module over R. We ...

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...ar rings help in the construction of finite machines or finite automaton and semi automaton. The notion of non-associative bialgebraic structures was first introduced in the year 2002. The concept of bialgebraic structures which we define and study are slightly different from the bistructures using category theory of Girard's classical linear logic. We do not approach the ...

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... semi automaton. The notion of non-associative bialgebraic structures was first introduced in the year 2002. The concept of bialgebraic structures w... ... a non-Cauchy element or neither. 6 This book has ten chapters. The first chapter is unusually long for it introduces all concepts of Smaranda... ...ncipation and liberation was "Educate. Organize. Agitate." Education – the first aspect through which Dr. Ambedkar emphasized the key to our improvem... ...f, only the main definitions and very important results are given. In the first section we just recall definition of groups, loops and S-loops. Sect... ... reals or integers or rationals or complex or modulo integers without the aid of another algebraic structure it is really difficult to give natural ... ...e semirings and Smarandache semivector spaces the reader can refer [122]. First we introduce the concept of semirings and semivector spaces. DEFI...

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... a national priority unrelated to free trade. Good governments of poor countries practice this to avoid food shortages and anarchy. Food always comes first – that is the message of this powerful book. History is replete with failed societies that lost sight of the centrality of food and farmers. Today, wealthy country delusions of isolation from instability in the rest of ...

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... Survive 38 Rediscovering Food Security 38 Forgotten Food; Forgotten Famines 40 Fundamental Knowledge 42 Food Crises and Foreign Aid 45 International Approaches 48 Variables in Food Security 52 Food Reserves 57 Food Security and the Recent Crises 59 Informed Policy 64 Chapter 4 Forgotten Food Producers: Small Fa...

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...ds in heaven, like vacations between school years. In heaven, we do not stay in a steady contemplation, but operate round the clock to learn and aid others, under the guidance of masters and together with other entities of an equal level of evolution. "Heaven" has many different levels, of increasing grades of beauty, light and perfection. Death is much more...

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...ard Being born and dying Birth, for relatives Death, in ordinary consideration Life and death: how to know more? FIRST PART: EXPERIENCES Death-bed observations NDE: death in the resurrected reports Death in regressions Birth in regressions SECOND PART: EXCHANGES WITH THE BEYOND Messages ...

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...and style have varied dramatically over two centuries from single sheets to 100 pages plus. Some papers were issued once or twice; others from their first appearance are still in print today. Some were conceived as newsletters or magazines, and then became newspapers. By reverse, others started as newspapers and changed their format. But all are recognizable by format ...

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...he present work calls for a different organization. There are three main sections. Section I organizes the newspapers alphabetically by the title's first noun: for example, Aha Elele, Ka (The Convention), or Facho, O (The Torch), or Honolulu Advertiser, The. There are two exceptions. One is those Hawaiian language papers commonly referred to by the article preceding th...

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..., which gives it a real specificity. The paradox is of the nature of an explosive nucleus resulting from the fusion of satisfaction and anxiety. The first situation, during an instant, is derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of something concealed and absurd. Something, that is dis...

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...d not bear solitude. The professional writers know this type of letter. At first I’d had a reflex of restraint, justified by the lack of knowledge in... ...the highest pretensions to amateurism. Ion Barbu, isn’t it?, comes to you first in your mind and it is enough to discourage the velleities in this fi... ...sition of the verses and the astonishment of the blank spaces. It was the first contact with paradoxism, discovered still in its incipient and more ... ...he stages of the road. And it is in this way that the project - not the first anyway, as it can be ascertained from the biography afterwards - has... ...lorentin Smarandache, since if we speak about Paradoxism, we speak of him first of all - precisely the ideas with which I had begun these introducin... ... inexhaustible grotesque, an Orwellian greatness of the absurd, (with the aid of the social disorder forces the pell-mell was re-established and the... ... Smarandache declares his intention to enlarge the dramatic means with the aid of mathematics, in the formula of a combinatory theater (permutable ar...

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...It’s about the beginning of the latest century. Inside a calm city, near a warm bed there’s a personal computer near the backdoor on the first floor of a creaky house, a teenage boy is inside. He has heard much gossip about the daily challenges and the everyday complaints which people are confronted by and dealing with. Those people who are the heart, the soul...

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It was just dawning on the trio who sat huddled around the radio, that this was not a drill, when they heard and saw the first explosion.