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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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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...s were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously a... ... even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabe... ... (Professor Hart points out that paper‘s low cost made it possible for libraries not only to afford to stack more books but also to produce inexp... ... took from the sixth to the tenth century for this type of plow to become established in Europe, partly because it was only effective on large fields... ...the very wealthy could afford them. Books were still so precious that libraries linked them to desks with metal chains to prevent theft. One had...

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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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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...s were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously a... ...nd even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabet‘... ... (Professor Hart points out that paper‘s low cost made it possible for libraries not only to afford to stack more books but also to produce inexp... ... took from the sixth to the tenth century for this type of plow to become established in Europe, partly because it was only effective on large fields... ...d the very wealthy could afford them. Books were still so precious that libraries linked them to desks with metal chains to prevent theft. One had...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity 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 ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...e major theistic religions trace their beliefs to Abraham who lived about 1800 years before the Christian or the ‗common‘ era-- BCE. ―Some ... ...el of every denomination‘ And in a letter to Jeremiah Moore on August 14, 1800, he wrote that ‗The clergy, by getting themselves established by law,... ...Moore on August 14, 1800, he wrote that ‗The clergy, by getting themselves established by law, and ingrafted into the machine of government, have bee... ...eople. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy to be convenient auxiliaries‘ ―John Adams seemed ... ...s. The right to speed in an auto or to drink and drive was allowed in the 1800s. Not today. A few societies tolerate no alcohol for a driver-- a 0.00... ...a recession hits, tax revenues dry up and programs are cut or reduced. Cut libraries. Who really needs to know how to read or think. Cut schools for ...

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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 ... ...onal, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European U... ... plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly established teak plantations. So, just a year in each place, then the teak ... ...ding on mountainsides, where a few forest villages, such as Ban Dong, were established. Up on the mountains, they met peoples engaged in swidden cult... ...ars, people from China were also still evacuated to Lampang as late as the 1800s, and according to memory tradition passed down generations, the inhab... ... employed on hillsides in Eastern Finland and Karelia, discontinued in the 1800s, when the timber industry began to compete over exploitation of the f... ...ing the international culture, for it to invest in information technology, libraries, sport and the arts and generally in areas that bring new creativ...

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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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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, 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...

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...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ...m ISBN: 1931233-00-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE P... ...s vigorously to spread the revolutionary principles of his mentor and he has established numerous institutions as permanent memorials to Periyar. ... ...ies die more often than boy babies even though medical research has long ago established that girls are generally biologically stronger as new-born... ... Phule (1827 -1890) the earliest pioneer of the non-Brahmin movement in India established the Satyashodhak Samaj (the society of seekers of the Trut... ... honorary magistrate and he held 29 honorary positions at that time in banks, libraries, war recruitment committee, merchant associations, school c... ... are we going to become developed in 50 years? We assess how we were in 1900, 1800, 1700 and 1600? What was our status then? What should we do? We ...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... In order to understand how the Big Bang happened, some basic facts must be established. Two basic facts about the emergence of the Universe befor... ... who we don’t like: ourselves. Children sitting right next to each other in Libraries are sending text messages over the internet through chat lin... ... When humans first emerged; there were no schools, cars, or cities. No books, libraries, media, and no jobs: the concepts of work and school did not... ...ip and authority came out of human societies simply growing in size once they established settlements. Once there were too many people vying for the... ...he ancient world was completely destroyed. Every book that was ever in those libraries was burned. We have no idea at all what the wisest people of... ...ed. No civilization ever built. No Nation ever founded. No government ever established. No religion ever invented. No authority ever created… N...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attem...

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