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...COMMENTARY My aim First of all, I would like to place on record what my interest in this book is. I do not have any great interest in the minor details of Malabar or Travancore. Nor about the various castes and their aspirations, claims and counterc...

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...l 2 CORRECTED VERSION: 30th Oct 2019 This is a new version of the book released on Oct 30th 2019. A few numbers of typ... ... It should be noted that this digital book version can have various kinds of errors in spelling, grammar etc. These errors would be continuously... ... 59. Henry Valentine Conolly 60. Miscellaneous notes 61. Culture of the land 62. The English efforts in developing the subco... ...xception might be the location where Logan himself has dealt with the history writing. More or less connected to the part where the written ... ... the English rule. It goes without saying that the current-day formal history assertions about the English colonial rule are totally mislead... ...that in his Malabar Manual, on many things concerning the history and culture of Malabar. However, it was only in this year, that is, 2017, ... ...on, extending all over the south- western coast. For instance, in the 1700s there were rulers in Trivandrum, Attingal, Quilon, Kayamkulam, C... ...tch language is comparatively of a lesser feudal content than German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. This is my own summarisation based sl... ...y of their historical activities when compared to that of the German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. It must be admitted that I do not kno...

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...None before Prof. John Norton Moore has argued the value of democratic principles in deterrence and conflict avoidance. In this important book, Dr. Gary Sharp analyzes the concepts in Moore’s seminal work The War Puzzle (2005), which describes Moore’s incentive theory of war avoid...

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...1 LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS GLOBAL INFLUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features of a Liberal Democracy . . . . . . . . .2 Global Political Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 2 CONVENTIONAL THEORIES OF WAR AND WAR AVOIDANCE . . . . . . ...

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...At the age of 74, John Lilly stood as the twentieth century's foremost scientific pioneer of the inner and outer limits of human experience. He is a relentless adventurer whose "search for Reality" has led him repeatedly to risk life an...

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...Contents 1. Angels in the Beginning 1 2. "Einstein, Jr." 17 3. The Education of the Scientist 26 4. The Human Body 41 5. Inner and Outer Realities 56 6. Physician, Probe Thyself! 71 7. The Deeper and Deeper Self 80 8. On Beyond Human 106 9. The Uncontained Mind 131 10. Journey to the West 145 ...

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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down R... ...h Down Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- ... ...-3-2-1-Touch down! . . . and Gulliver returns. The greatest adventure inhuman history! Commander Lemuel Gulliver the 16th has completed the first jour... ... where we have justwitnessed the final leg of the greatest human adventure in history, even greater than that of hisillustrious ancestor, Lemuel Gulli... ...iographer, the Reverend Jonathan Swift, made “a modest proposal” in the early 1700s. Hisidea was to prevent the children of the poor people of Ireland... ...ced crime syndicates. Columbia isworse. And we certainly know a bit about the Italian and Sicilian mafias from the movies. Eventhe welfare paradise No... ...ter of its population. They could bring in foreign workers but thetraditional culture of Japan has not been particularly open to people from other cul...

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...I have written this book to help us recall the original dream for education, the vision of those who built the sandstone schools and those who taught in one room buildings for the sake of education. If we are a rich province, and we are, our schools should feel it. Our kids deserve the best we can give them and ...

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...Chapter Intro page 1 1 This land - page 6 2 The kids - page 12 3 The commute - page 17 4 The halls of learning - page 22 5 Bell, book and pointer - page 33 6 Water, water, not too common - page 43 7 Lunches, picnics and all-out socials - page 47 8 Write it down, figure it out -page 52 9 Now for morning announcements -...

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...ates.This is a personal research project and not an official publication of any school board or teachers' association. ii... ...c schools Abstract:Longtime teacher looks at the origins of public schools in Calgary Alberta, the priorities and creativity of ... ...ock in some of the cliffs. But those date back a long time and in more recent historywhen the land was dry, we know that two rivers met here. They wer... ...side downtown has on its walls posters of native leaders, sayingsabout native culture and I very much respect that we finally are valuing what our ear... ...zed for the policies those schools used for years, the assumption thatBritish culture was superior, the whisking away of native children from their pa... ...nclosed theirown supply of sharpened leads.The pencil still has an impressive history. Thomas Edison used 3 inch long very thickpencils made with soft... ...mes.___________________________________________________________________In the 1700s in early Canada there were naming traditions from European roots. ... ... from Europe.Norwegians and Irish, Scottish and Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, German,French came in waves, settled, spoke their language and ... ...urants have a wide rangeof options- including Thai, Cajun, Caribbean, German, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Mexican,Vietnamese, Indian. Children in many s...

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...What is capitalism, really? Almost all definitions out there is based on hearsay or wishful thinking. Correct diagnosis of any problem is the first and the most important task in solving it. Any solution must address the root cause(s) of a problem. Unfortunately, people are distracted away from the real issues by the Banker/Corporate owned med...

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...ULAR SOCIAL STATE JUSTICE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENDCAPITALISM.ORGTable of Contents INTRODUCTIONIn 2005, I was convinced that Am... ... thanks to printed dollars/debt!In June 2007, I was sure that the collapse of capitalism was imminent. In early 2008,with Bear Stearns bailout, my pre... ... tail you lose. Private bank bailouts have been standard since at leastthe 1700s (WSJ article, Government bailouts: a short list September, 2008) , so... ...rn banks are insolvent and interrelated. London based GermanDeutsche bank, Italian Monte Paschi were recently in the news.Major central banks FED,ECB,... ...00 yearsago. It was enforced within the frame of the oldest legal codes in history Urukaginaand Ur Nammu laws.Paper money was first invented in China ... ...s always serious in banking, at least a 200 year long proof remainsin real history books!Banker debts became government debts with public funded bailo... ...an save their nation." Ataturk"The foundation of the Republic of Turkey is culture." Ataturk"Nations who make habit of living comfortably without lear...