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...is death is a mystery. Brand uncovers information pointing to Jamieson’s involvement in arming the international space station. As rogue generals from Russia, China and the U.S. try to install a mind-control weapon designed to divide the world into three parts, Brand tries to stop them. Enlisting the help of Mrs. Stone, the mafia and covert operatives, he must find the...

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...nager, shouted at everyone within earshot, commanding the floor like a general. “Let’s go people! Twenty minutes to airtime.” Simmons had been with ... ...accident,” she said not wanting to imagine the possibility. “There’s been no phone calls from the police or any hospital. Probably stuck in traffic... ...one enter through the green door that read Studio B. Simmons relaxed. She turned to Annie from makeup. “Get him prepped. Do the best you can.” Anni... ...most ready,” she said and walked away. Jamieson Stone sat there watching at least fifty people preparing for his nightly news cast, plus another t... ...nta, and the insistence of his father’s family sent him to live with his mother’s aunt in New York, a fashion designer. Fearing discrimination, his ... ...sition in one of the most prestigious political consulting firms in Washington, D.C. (the District of Colombia). No matter where he went he was alway... ...open up his own firm at the age of twenty-six. It was then that he met and married one of New York’s top fashion models, not so much because he love... ...How can we prove it?” “An autopsy.” “Impossible. And you know it.” “All suicides in the District of Colombia require an autopsy,” Brand said flatly... ...was rapidly conceding into night, but he could see a large house set back against a small forest of maples. The limo parked in front of the house, ...

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...lings in Laylah that make her question her life and her father's animosity toward her handsome rescuer. Confused by these emotions, she seeks answers from those closest to her and is rebuffed. She must make a choice. Obey her father's edicts or follow her heart to learn the truth about her past....

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...sonal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please pu... ...acy's first ten chapters were written. Chapter 1 Fall 2207: Floyal City, New Florida Territory Zina McFin stared at the giant, almost-impenetrable S... ... at Henry. “Now, now, there’s no need to get your fur knotted. You, of all people, should recognize that your union, and the resulting abomination it... ...but didn't see any monitoring devices. Smiling, he pulled a shot injector from his pocket and hurried to Laylah's side. He touched her arm and grima... ...now he would set his plan fully in motion. "There will be no more shifting from any of the staff. I know we can't curb the beast completely, but if a... ...tely, but if any staff member has to run as wolf, they are to go into the forests behind the house and do so. I will have the supply of serum delive... ... when she felt the presence of another. She stopped and turned toward the forest. Standing inside the shadow of the treeline was a white wolf with a ... ...things besides the wolf to worry about. Chapter 4 Fall 2220: Invarnash, New Florida Territory “Fight, fight, fight!” The chant from the gathered st... ...and his shrewd mind made him a formidable Tri-Ruler of the Citrus Unified District. It helped that his hulking stature and deep rumbling bass voice c...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...related to bees and wasps. They are so numerous that in some habitats - the Amazon forest, for instance - their combined weight is four times the c... ...u (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists, 116,000 visit... ...ryplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the v... ... Francisco, April 18, 1906, 05:12 AM Property damage: Fire destroyed the business district of San Francisco. Cities along the fault (e.g., San Jos... ...n, New York, on August 6, 1890. By 1972 the chair was adopted by 25 states and the District of Columbia. More than 4300 inmates, including dozens o...

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...cal, photocopy, recording or otherwise, with­ out prior written permission from Asian Publishing, Lower Lake, California, USA, with the exception of ... ...er and author. Portions of material in chapters 3 and 4 have been derived from The Famous Amos Story, © Wally Amos, 1983 Cover design by Dale Verme... .... ...J. C) Thank You, Thank You, Thank You If life is anything, it's people helping people. Truly, no man or woman is an island. We are all con... ...ion. I have also changed many of 11 12 • Man with No Name the names of people! places, times and dates to annoy the inno­ cent and protect the gui... ...at the papers in my hand. They were an order from The United States Ninth District Court in San Francisco, served on me on behalf of The (Nameless) ... ...my favorite food had come to an end. It took me a long time to accept the new shape of my life. I had always believed that challenging situations ar... ...eached a point of peace where I rejoiced in the opportunity to move on to new chal­ lenges and new opportunities. My career had taught me faith in m... ...nt she hit New York. She found a good-paying job as a live-in domestic in Forest Hills, Long Island. I started my new school, Food Trades Voca- Onl...

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...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the 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 ...

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...onment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * ... ...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...* Ban Mae Kong Nya, village of northern plains 57 * Ban Dong, the last forest village 58 Village houses 62 Traditional pillar house 62 * Mode... ...of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of h... ...Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of... ...have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the cit... ...ugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour patterns of gender equality and... ...iver plain more distant from the city, and the third, Ban Dong, is a small forest village in the mountains skirting the north-eastern parts of the pro... ... the village at the time to have a wedding. My husband's uncle was kamnan (district leader) and he organized the wedding. We even had a photo taken, i...

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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 private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r 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... ... taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely per... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...ure artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some ... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...and my girls. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 33 P All day in the fragrant lemon forest, fallen fruit underneath the trees...all day alone. I have hated lo... ..., the brevity of summer, the dying year. It has the shepherd’s power, the forest’s—passion tamed and sanctified. Another one I like is... VOICES ... ...ses purchased for the army are unfit for service? Was it true that in the District of Columbia, horses have been chained to trees, where they gnawed...

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...d States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard ...

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...cended in the afternoon sky and glowed bril­ liantly above the lush green of the forest, but just under a gray blanket of clouds. The old man's aged ... ...he day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was attached to the end of the string wit... ...ely about them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. ... ...om Sealt to his grandfather's name. Seattle. As they walked through the sacred forest his grandfather would tell him how the Great Spirit had woven... ... what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his braves wanted t... ...he wisdom of the Elders, nor would he give the white man cause to slaughter his people. Yes, tomorrow he would sign the Treaty. His people must be k... ...he United States and the Suquamish Indians. A day that marks the beginning of a new relationship ... a new era between the Union and the Red Man. We... ...heless, very instrumental in getting the mon­ ey that was desperately needed for new medical equipment at the reservation hospital. Has great contact... ...E I.E. BUILDING was the architectural center-piece of the Los Angeles Financial District. The sixty-five story edifice was sculpted out of gleaming,...

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...nstruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their soci...

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....] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publi... ...on rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOW... .... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...ters and planters, ultimate possession of the tribe’s lands, its fields or forests or plains, was by the whole people. The lands were hunted or plante... ...he tropical north, the temperate southern woodlands and grassy tablelands, forests, mountain ranges and coastal plains, and the vast sands of the cent... ...f warmth and plenty which contrasts with the environment of the tribe, the district inland and eastward of Albany, which is cold and wet for over half...

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...ts Jack Rhodes, Royce's business partner. Sparks fly, but can she really trust a man she knows nothing about? And why is it that every time something new develops in the case, he seems to be there? Warnings to back off escalate to an attempt on her life. Now, for Laura Kate, it's more than just a mystery. Depending on Jack might be a mistake, but if Laura Kate can get past...

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...ese screen. Folding a panel, he looked out the window and let the pent-up air seep from his lungs. His was the lone car in the parking lot. Arnold... ...irmed the two signatures. Everything appeared satisfactory, and he pulled a wallet from his back pocket. “Thank you, gentlemen.” He fanned out t... ... on the ground in pointe tendue. That was until Laura Kate came home and brought a new art form, new, that is, for small Southern Belles. Some thin... ...he evil eye, Mr. Brewster?” “There are those who are born able to put spells on people, even strong people like you are, Miss Laura Kate.” S... ...en Serpents Die 11 “You didn’t do yourself any favors with the judge and district attorney.” “I know that.” “You should have agreed... ...chard.” “Now don’t go downplaying The Jazz Palace. Its sound is famous clear up to New York.” “We’re not having this conversation,” Mather said, ... ...des, wasn’t being eccentric de rigueur in the South? Her impoverished side of what people called ’the blue-blooded O’Connells‘ was right up there w... ...uck bumped her and she swerved right. Her tires skidded on shoulder and suddenly a forest loomed askance. She braced to hit the gully and run into ... ... listened and heard nothing. But then, Live Oaks was a vast place with many roads, forests, and hills. She returned through the magnolias, and ...

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... the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit 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 ...

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...amy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2... ... Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ... ...United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM ... ...vilization. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treated by the people who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradatio... ... civilized standards.” Ex-President of India, the late K. R. Narayanan The New Indian Express, Saturday, 12 Nov. 2005 K.R.Narayanan was a laude... ...cally oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in India suffer not only from the exces... ...was obtained, and they made it into those beasts who live in the air, in the forest and in villages. His mouth was the Brahmins, his arms were ma... ...not die if the Nadars visit the temple and worship them. But the gods in the districts of Madurai, Tirunelveli, and Ramanathapuram alone die if the... ...en people who toil like animals for over 14 to 18 hours in the rain or shine, forests, fields, hills, seas, workshops, industries and business centr...

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...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

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...nt Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage --... ... in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American con... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...the bark of trees 118- 122 CHAPTER X. A Remarkably just Emperor. -- The famous district of Mangi -- The rich and mighty Fanfur -- How he surrendered h... ...ce spread, and where deep seas now roll in perpetual unrest a verdant plain or forest-covered country once invited the energies of man? RISE AND FALL ... ...ss. Amber has since been ascertained to be a vegetable resin, that exuded from forest trees which are now extinct, and which is found in large deposit...

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...city 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 for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...nd social injustice are bad maybe there is some hope for you. Look at the forest, you‘re concentrating on one or two trees. We all have to be more s... ...Mikhail Gorbachev said ‗To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.‘ ―At any rate, agnostics don‘t accept ... ...le state votes for its senators, but for the House of Representatives the districts can be skewed or gerrymandered so that some districts become ‗sa...

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...f, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@... ...Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and di... ... Internet, has been transformed beyond recognition since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolve... ...g a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media delivery - to frantic efforts to contain the red ink it oozed al... ...cts. The very definition of "artist" will expand to encompass all creative people. One will seek to distinguish oneself, to "brand" oneself and to au... ...to third party web sites (such as Bartleby.com and SatireWire). It allows people to donate money or effect micro-payments, apparently through its pa... ...ed-line and mobile- phone telecommunications operator in the Urals Federal District. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Prime-TASS, the... ...s in this context. I hope I made my point clear and that you can see the forest from the (too many) woods. Both the Law and Technology deal with id...

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...In this book the authors endeavor to provide the people of the State of Hawaii with a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings. The firs...

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...adour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using...

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...ing of Faraday’s other arm and stumbled. Only his relentless grip kept her from falling. “It wasn’t his fault, Mr. Faraday.” Her voice came out ... ...n’t happen again, I promise.” Faraday cleared his throat and edged away from her. “He’ll never have the opportunity. Not when I have him arres... ...nless you want to die right now. Don’t tell me it’s no use.” ***** New York Morgan had the papers spread all over the parlor floor.... ... Wind whips flames as homeless flee devastation. Riverside business district laid waste. 300 killed; 90,000 homeless. Morgan crawled... ...t again. Now, in her heart she knew somewhere, in Chicago or home again in New York, Daniel Connolly needed her. She turned to the last page and r... ...name of Anthony Comstock is not one that is easily sullied. My war against people of your ilk is well-known. You are merely a minor skirmish.” Co... ...it Daniel every evening, rollicking in about six with news from the theater district, of Halverson’s new minstrel show which folded two nights after... ... whose golden voice charmed the birds from the sky, and the beasts from the forests. Flowers and trees bowed to his mastery. Even the wind no longe... ... “We could go to court, if we had the time. We could pay off all the right people, if we had the money. But there is a faster, cheaper way, Danny,...

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...Sarah wanted to escape the city life and her wealthy family. Moving from mainland Australia, she purchased a farm in Tasmania. Persistent, yet green to rural living, the new next door neighbour has her attention and she is out to win his heart in the most embarrassing ways. A family tragedy t...

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...state: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts ... ...time there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time that he, from his "exalted tomb," disdainfully sullied. A god watching the cookie w... ...n of such comfort to them as teenagers. Back then, before finding the dead people and each other, each of them had been wandering respectively through... ...d uncomely Laotian, should seem sensual to him now. No, he thought, with a new idea repudiating the old, the only peculiarity was that as a casualty o... ...re it belongs out of the corners. This was his response to silence. - Why, people ask me are we, I, an archaeological anthropologist and you, a playbo... ...mirrors could do. Still, while moving out of the toilet and pondering this new justification for male promiscuity within the corridor between the two ... ...robes stepping outside a rectory that was near a temple. Then, there was a forest, and a few minutes later from a cleared sylvan embankment, the stenc... ... painter's penchant for easily obtained nude models in Bangkok's red light district. Biadklang's talents at present are clearly dwarfed when compared ... ...supposed that he was making reference to an elephant in a hamlet, one in a forest, or one in a field of a passing landscape. "Do they put elephants in...