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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 ... ...al plain near Lampang city. The second village, Ban Mae Kong Nya, might be described as a medium-sized plains village, located on a tributary river pl... ...e buffalo is slow. The buffalo has many advantages: the manure is good for plants, the meat can be eaten, and a field ploughed with a buffalo gives a ... ... grow rice, tomato, beans and chilli peppers, but nothing long-term, large plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly e... ...ons. So, just a year in each place, then the teak trees grow and shade the plants so much that the crop suffers. Swidden cultivation used to be easy a... ...he future. The postlocal world and Finland.’] (WSOY 1989), in which I have described environmental systems of various periods and their structural ch... ...ple's living environment, anything that attracts public attention, that is described in the media, becomes more and more important, interesting and va...

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...stian 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 spanish mai...

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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 ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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............................................................................................................................................... 39 Lover in All Shapes. ..................................................................................................................................................... 40 The Goldsmith?s Apprentice. ................................

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...The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...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. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylva... .................................................... 327 THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS. ...................................................................... ...ow plain and height With dewdrops are bright! How pearls have crown’ d The plants all around! How sighs the breeze Thro’ thicket and trees! How loudly... ...re; A fourth, fifth, sixth appear’d, And sat around our board; And now the plants we’ve rear’d High o’er our heads have soar’ d! How fair and pleasant... ...ith toil and with dread,— The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead. 1782.* 149 Goethe Johanna Sebus. [T o the memory of an excellent and beaut... ...o the righthand and lefthand, Hoping somewhere to see the form of the well-described maiden; But wherever they look’d, no trace of the girl they disco... ...orrow “T ruly I was not prepared by your son for such a reception, When he described his father’s nature,—that excellent burgher, And I know I am stan...

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...pt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arran...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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............................................................................................................................ 28 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...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. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lminated. And with him there rose Maupeou, the banisher of Parlements; who plants you a refractory President ‘at Croe in Combrailles on the top of ste... ...was his new ‘manoeuvre of breaking the enemy’s line.’ (9th and 12th April, 1782.) It seems as if, according to Louis XV., ‘France were never to have a... ...st credit. (Annual Register (Dodsley’s), xxv. 258-267. September, October, 1782.) And so, with this loud explosion, the noise of War has ceased; an Ag... ...y the Gallows. Twenty years ago, the Friend of Men (preaching to the deaf) described the Limousin Peasants as wearing a pain-stricken (souffre- douleu... ...lings and movements in the region of the Argonne, which are all faithfully described by Dumouriez himself, and more interesting to us than Hoyle’s or ... ... of birds. By degrees you get a very uncommon sensation; which can only be described by similitude. It seems as if you were in some place extremely ho...