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...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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...himself, then the labour has been little but therapy. Only those whose works impose order on the chaos of existence and reinvigorate flagging spirits by giving the viewer a glimpse of a less imperfect world, are worthy of the title “artist”. Not being entirely confident I deserved the appellation, I responded cautiously. ‘I made the paintings, if that’s what you mean.’ ...

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...S” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Susie Kle... ...rying to get its overpopulated head above water. The globalized ocean was drowning this rural, impoverished, overpopulated land. Water is an apt ana... ...oo much and you drown. Indus, like its neighbors Bangladesh and India were drowning in humanity. They educate one young mind and ten illiterate babie... ...s--but so often the prisoners of our own 5 decisions. So often jailed by our traditions. So often mired in the confinement of our helplessness. ... ...in the water table over the last three decades. The poor water management by the government has resulted in 40% of India‘s farms having no irrigatio... ...e rich of the globalized world. 11 But we have no rich, we are merely drowning victims in the sub-continent‘s ocean of pathetic poor. ―I... .... Most of the infections contracted don‘t 15 respond to antibiotics. Deaths of new-borns account for over one-third of all child mortality acro... ...World Health Organization has predicted that in five years, by 2030, AIDS deaths will be in the top three causes of death, along with heart disease ... ...ng with heart disease and cancer. While ten years ago it caused 3 million deaths a year, by 2030 it may be as high as 120 million total deaths from ...

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...s 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 copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it ...

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...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to... ... most diminutive being, though it was hardly the incarceration experienced by Ang San Suu Kyi or other famous political martyrs in its salience or it... ...y visible and in the superficial sheen of the nigrescent mire illuminated by the still ebullience of stretched refractions of the infrequent light of... ...this fading away was not like of a creature anesthetized, but more like a drowning wick of that votive candle under the framed Navajo sand painting o... ...rack in the sidewalk, and she regretted having winced from the prospect of drowning herself when she had the chance, of thinking, at the bayou, that ... ...it as moon to tide. It was undeniable that it was a feeling of a pleasant drowning within and a belief that one designated man would act as her lifeg... ...re. She could end it all. It would certainly go on without her: births, deaths, and this flurry of movement in between with each non-scavenging hum...

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... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS By ... ...................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY REL... ...o--to accept or reject such very different values, to accept or reject the leadership of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our... ...all field or in a boxing ring I wouldn‘t know. The closest I came to violence in my psychology classes was in dissecting a flatworm or nearly drowni... ...the turtle to bring him across the river, the turtle thought he was safe because there was no way that the scorpion would kill himself through drowni... ...the shyness passes as we become more sure of ourselves. ―Suicide is the ultimate retreat from one‘s problems. It now causes 20% of the deaths... ...istan and marital problems caused by their absence from home were cited as the causes. Soldiers had four times the normal American rate of 4.4 deaths...

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...i village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview shatters when they harbor a Yata woman raised to be livestock instead of a god. ...

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...Elissa Malcohn. All rights reserved. This e-book edition has been prepared by the author for a limited, free-distribution offer to the reading publ... ...alcohn ISBN-13: 978-0-9819764-0-2 Second edition (First edition published by Aisling Press, 2007) 1. Science Fiction. 2. Fantasy 3. Anthropologica... ...d written in 1985. I am very thankful for the guidance I received back then by members of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop (Jon Burrowes, Alex... ...We treat them as gods; that way they can justify participating in their own deaths." He sighed, deep and gravelly. "Without us they are ordinary. Im... ...ep eye contact and hissed, "My child, I have lived through many years, many deaths and Remembrances, and I have long known about your kind. The gods... ...ls rose between the trees while they were still far enough from Crossroads, drowning out the contented trills of night birds. 84 Elissa Malcohn De... ... the side off a stubby corridor. Therein rested the Masari records— births, deaths, transfers of land and property, accountings of business. They we...

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...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of ... ...: motherhood as the continuation of playing with dolls, manhood epitomized by competition and money, and old age the enjoyment of spending time relivi... ...esent, which would be less painful than recalling happy times that fleeted by and had no chance of being resumed once again. This moving world that he... ...e she was again, the one who had absconded away from them at their parents deaths in a Bangkok- to-Ayutthaya automobile accident, walking away from h... ...ort? - A mirror - A mirror? She said nothing until, like a drowning swimmer, words bubbled up from the disconcerting ocean of silence ... ...emed the man; and Nawin liked what was true and like himself. "It was like drowning in molecules--at least a little. Still, I survived it all right, s... ...preceded it. It was the type of pleasure gained at being saved from a near drowning, and in his case it was, in his ineffable sense of loss while wand...

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...a, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2... ...ficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate glob... ...e of former village communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. Internation... ...a hurry overtake recklessly. In Thailand, road traffic accidents cause the deaths of tens of thousands of people annually, but driving is unavoidable.... ...ere and the number of victims has begun to decline, although statistics on deaths will continue to rise. Maybe deaths from Aids will gradually become ... ...y, and no longer have a future in any case. In densely populated villages, deaths of ten people from Aids constitutes a rare cause of death in recent ... ... Buddha. The second was the spirit of water, and it protected the boy from drowning. The third helped Buddha fight against enemies. The fourth had win... ...by. The relatives asked the sorcerer the reason for the child's death, his drowning, and were told that the good phii of my house had sold the boy to ...

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...tter understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. B... ...about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to t... ...codes, etiquette, myths, etc? One reason modern consumer culture is quickly drowning out other cultures is because without an outer enemy, without ... ... power of national banks, moneyed capitalists…money: filthy lucre, capitalist deathsheads: the Jewish Rothschild family intermarrying with English, A... ...Harbor was going to be bombed and letting Americans die so he could use their deaths as an excuse to declare war. Just like Bush Jr. used the pre-kn... ...first would-be skinners lost their own skins in the process and died horrible deaths. They were literally skinned alive by their own evils… they di... ...ican West: and its culture of pure greed, has been washing over the Earth and drowning out everything else in its path. The American culture of mas... ...t work ethic has taken this fact for granted for 500 fucking years… Now it is drowning in that fact, and even as western affluence is drowning in it...

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...PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL FOREWORD by Willis 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 62...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "T... ... RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS ... ...D VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in th... ...d. They were men of generally irregular lives and violent temper, whose bloody deaths were in most cases a fitting conclusion to careers of unbridled ... ...e of the attachés made the crossing on the back of a horse, but barely escaped drowning, being washed far down by the turbulency of the stream. But wi... ...t Funchal, capital of Madeira Island, where the first accident happened in the drowning of Mr. Wier, the master's mate. Here the scientists of the exp...

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...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty E... ...Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State Universit... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate,... ...ngs regret, Or breaks their hopes, or hearts, or heads, or necks: Thus drownings are much talk’d of by the divers, And swimmers, who may chanc... ...ost to die. ‘Whom the gods love die young,’ was said of yore, And many deaths do they escape by this: The death of friends, and that which sla... ...ts of either faith! Hurra! and Allah! and one moment more, The death cry drowning in the battle’s roar. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Seven” 183 ... ...appears; But there his project reach’d its utmost pitch (‘Mongst other deaths the General Ribaupierre’s Was much regretted), for the Moslem me... ...n Of this same mystic friar’s curious doings, About the present family’s deaths and wooings. Of these few could say more than has been said; ...

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...ation The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...y way. The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...aded, right end uppermost. Here, as he instinctively grasped the reins, as drowning men seize at straws, he admirably served the purpose of an anchor.... ...e background. On the tomb were the names, with the dates of the births and deaths, of several individuals, all of whom bore the name of Grant. An extr... ... sheriff; “you amaze me! for a 248 The Pioneers man of your experience in drownings to act so foolishly! Just now, you were half full of water, and n...