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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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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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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— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... of France. The gonorrhea rate is 75 times higher than that of France and Germany. The syphilis rate is more than triple the European rate. ... ...ope. The teen abortion rate is 3 times that of France and 8 times that of Germany. And while Americans start their sexual experiences only a few mont... ...higan Court of Appeals struck down the law, but the State‘s supreme court overturned the appellate court‘s ruling. This reinstated the four cases of... ...apanese statistics indicate that Japan has the highest rate of arrests and convictions for reported rapes. Their other crime rates are also low, for ...

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...ater track where his partner was last seen alive. Julie West, a dedicated but struggling jockey, pins her dreams of an elusive win on the new trainer in town, never suspecting she’s a person of interest—and not because of her riding skills.Kurt didn’t expect his contrary colt to flourish under Julie’s feminine touch nor for his own rusty heart to soften. However, his decei...

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...s reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or a portion thereof, in any form. This book may not be resold or uploaded for distribution ... ...mud, blasted on his bugle, and the post parade began. Most fans sought refuge in the clubhouse, yet ten feet away two women in stylish raincoats als... ...idn’t know if Lazer Cat would run well either. The horse had performed poorly in four starts on a sunny day, but maybe he’d like the shitty weather. ... ...t 2 in. Occupations: university student. Distinguishing Features: none. Prior Convictions: none. He skimmed her history. No siblings, mother deceas... .../Canadian citizenship. Distinguishing Features: scar on right shoulder. Prior Convictions: assault and battery. Prior Charges: robbery, drunk driving... ... and turned to the glowing screen. Otto's adult record had begun in Montana. Convictions included drunk driving and assaulting a police officer. He... ... say the owner’s name was?” he asked. “Marcus Friedman. He’s from Belgium or Germany, someplace like that. Last year he saw me selling my pewter at... ...led straw that even a starving horse wouldn’t eat. A cracked water bucket was overturned in the far corner. “Did he quit feeding you?” The geldi...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ... this to me: I do not understand. There is a famous research experiment in Germany called: Biosphere. Where some of the most famous scientists g... ...crisy that cannot be disproved. Attack someone’s self-rationalized religious convictions as being wrong and evil? Everybody claimed the sanctity o... ...evil? Everybody claimed the sanctity of holding their own personal religious convictions! If you want to disapprove of someone else’s religious et... ...r pants in sick fear. Because a silent majority they cannot fight… has just overturned the entire legal basis of Western Civilization which is gree... ... secret ideas, secret prejudices, secret hypocrisies, secret opinions, secret convictions, secret vanities, secret self-delusions, secret rationaliza...

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...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-ente...

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