... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ...eteorology. They are readily carried away by the influence of the last new writers, even when they are not first-rate, but they take absolutely no int... ... mornings; when with the fervour of the hypochon- driac I look through the textbooks of therapeutics and take a different medicine every day, I keep f... ...articular liking for them. With the exception of two or three of the older writers, all our literature of today strikes me as not being literature, bu... ... which I am accustomed when I read the works of our medical and scientific writers. It oppresses me to read not only the articles written by serious R... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ... ...y this advice to gain the conviction that the methods recom- mended in the textbooks as the best and as providing a safe basis for treatment turn out ...

...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... will be weakened." Jostein Gaarder in "Sophie's World", a bestselling philosophy textbook for adolescents published in Oslo, Norway, in 1991 and,... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ...scues of Mexico - following its systemic crises in 1976, 1982, 1988, and 1994 - are textbook examples of moral hazard. The Cato Institute called the... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c... ...ive uses of resources, painfully mindful of their costs. This is how the perennial textbook "Economics" (seventeenth edition), authored by Nobel pr...

...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...d iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the ... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...It is important to note, though, that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers I have quoted were not against intellectual property. All of them... ... is not against using a lengthened copyright term to give an extra reward to writers, even if this would dramatically raise the price of books. What h... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ys “usage rights.” Click “free to use or share” and then search for “physics textbook” and you can download a 1,200-page physics textbook, copy it, or... ... licenses exclude—human beings (rather than just lawyers) and computers. The textbooks, photos, films, and songs have a tasteful little emblem on them ... ...o share, even commercially,” you know you can go into business selling those textbooks, or printing those photos on mugs and T-shirts, so long as you ...

...................................................................... 10 The American Alex Groysman ....................................................... ...ity, during the fall semester of 2000, and the essays appear here with the writers express written permission. No portion of Best of Four may be repr... ...whom believed it was impor- tant to publish the best work of undergraduate writers so that students could have a better sense of what it meant to have... ...uld have a better sense of what it meant to have an audience. We knew that writers become better writers when they strive to publish their work. We al... ...doing five to ten hours of homework a week. Most of this work is done from textbooks. If a reading assignment is not completed for a dis- cussion, a s... ...Podhaj ski, Susan. “People of Power” Ameri- can Cheerleader. <http:// www.americancheerleader.com/aticles/ bovs/DeoDlepower. shtml> 19 Nov. 2000. 6 M... ...mpa- nies. We need not shatter the tranquility of this irreplaceable North American habitat” (Behr 19). Oil is not the only natural resource that is b...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...ective in fact. 1 Intimations of its significance are found in a number of writers, but John Fiske, in his Excursions of an Evolu- tionist, is accredi... ...f history and society culminated the ef- forts of a whole series of German writers—Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller, Goethe—to appreciate the nurturing... ...individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his ... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ... ...de of school? (b) Is it the pupil’s own problem, or is it the teacher’s or textbook’s problem, made a problem for the pupil only because he cannot get... ...ntact with things and laboratory exercises, while a great improvement upon textbooks arranged upon the deductive plan, do not of themselves suffice to...