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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Le... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ..................................................................... ...ed leader of this human hell, was genuinely concerned. He pointed out the landmarks more with pity than with pride. His concern was obvious and deep... ...y are married, the relationship should be solid. I know that in Sweden and France over 50% of babies are born to unmarried people. That seems to be a... ... —―True Commander, but other countries show figures somewhat higher. In France the number of homosexual men was 4.1% (7) and in the UK 3.6% of men ... ... Muslim violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, then look at the civil strife in France with so many poor Muslims and others rioting. In Europe a third of ...

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...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 pri...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...kept by Leonardo da Vinci during the years 1516 to 1519 while he lived in France as the guest of King Francis I; there, he lived in the small residen... ...s of the château; it often seems to me that I have been here before! With Francesco, Salai and Giovanni busy in the adjoining studio, I try to belie... ...adjusted the han- dlebars you rode it into the Arno.” “Some splash!” said Francesco, coming in with Giovanni. “You could have gotten the bicycle out... ...r careful observation over a period of time, you’ll become aware of fixed landmarks. I made those drawings from the Coliseum...in Rome...” VOICES ...

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...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ... the 1970s remain, apart from the temple. The villages still have the old landmarks, same network of lanes, same rivers and canals; private compounds... ...el in Thai Studies. C. Clapham (ed.), Private Patronage and Public Power. Frances Printer, London. Keyes, Charles F. 1966. Peasant and Nation: A Tha...

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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 N...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...rade Center towers, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty were landmarks of New York City. She anxiously tried to isolate what had happ... ... signs and the American navy ships. It is a choice like the people in Paris, France." Gabriele didn't think that there was much of a similarity betwee...

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State ... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are to... ... in shape, are enor- mous; with those of the cathedral they form the great landmarks of the town. One of them bears the name of the Tour de l’Horloge;...

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... as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies...

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...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in...

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...ase the First — The Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Sha... ...le aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that ca... ...moor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He ... ...t for the jaded animal being de sirable, he did not hasten his search for landmarks. A clamber over the hill into the adjoining vale brought him to t... ...omen — Beck Knibbs, with her woolly black hair and rolling eyes; and flaxen Frances, consumptive from the winter damps of the water meads — who lived i... ...like polished steel: it was the English Channel at a point far out towards France. Before her, in a slight depression, were the remains of a village. ...

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... the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document ... ...e associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as a... ...im Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring clas... ...that once shone upon the board of Caesar. Some of us, kind old Pagans, watch with dread the shadows falling on the age: how the unconquerable worm inv... ...her comrades. Then, with a long cry, she disappeared again towards Lake County and the clearer air. At length it seemed to me as if the flood were beg...