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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... ...rprise its oracle. P I am criticized for my simple dress, my tastes. The townspeople say I should not be aloof. They say I am too aristocratic. The... ... an imposing figure, even majestic. Leaning on his cane, staring over the townsmen who crowd the forum, he looks a pillar, his head shaggy, beard gl... ...bird faltered. What directed them? Not a sound, as they flew. Some of the townsmen gathered to stare, dead silent. In tens and twenties, they flew o... ... it represents. At least I see that much. Henley Street 1615 “Small coals! Small coals!” “Hot peas!” I wish I could hear those raucous London... ...ce, second floor, a narrow room with a pair of elegant brass spittoons, a Pennsylvania wood burning stove. High on the wall, above my desk, hung an ... ...pt at it, learning, unlearning. For every stick of wood we burned in that Pennsylvania stove we had an ardent opinion. Billy and I earned about $3,...

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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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...y before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the subl...

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...e gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his ... ...e Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his... ... with his own spirituality, to harmonize his soul with the peace of his Father in Heaven. He rolled the rosary beads, one by one, through his finge... ...indow at soft, silky clouds etched into a blue, September sky that overlooked Pennsylvania Avenue. Something was different, she knew it, but she cou... ...lowly opened his eyes. His once gray eyes had turned into two black pieces of coal. "Uncle," Antonio screamed "are you all right?" Gallucci's face ... ... it to protect ourselves from the French who invaded our island, pillaged our towns, slaughtered our people, but that was not enough for them, they r... ...trembling with an uncontrollable anger. Gallucci yanked off his glasses. His coal-black eyes glared out at Ballato. "These eyes come from my encoun... ...shoving its way to any exit. The wailing and shrieks of terror pierced into a coal-black sky. Suddenly, a deafening roar boomed above the stadium a...

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...ildren 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 social structure. It has been...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...age, they enclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep... ...ssors, some Internet libertarians. Of particular note was the Digital Future Coalition, which grew to represent a broad range of interested groups and... ...ier, producer and assembler, distributor and advertiser, tended naturally to coalesce into vertically integrated firms or symbiotic commercial partners... ...land, from the best places to see blue whales to the history of the Blue Dog Coalition. Would you create a massive organization of paid experts, each ... ...h the revolution raged, endangering the defenses of the country, wasting its towns, decimating its population, turning its overburdened soil into dust... ... “A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 148 (2000): 673–742. His anthol- ogy, Copyright: ...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy,...

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...tion of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere....

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