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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some o...

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...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...cope Broadening" Debate 22 Social Marketing: Two Meanings 23 A BROADENED TYPOLOGY OF PRODUCTS 23 The Typology 24 Implications 27 EXCHANGE TRANSAC... ...are merely representative and not all will be discussed in the text. The top row lists exchanges for which no profit to the seller was intended to ... ...exchanges for which no profit to the seller was intended to accrue; the bottom row lists exchanges in which profit was the principal motivation. The... ...n considers services rendered, the third column covers ideas and the fourth column lists causes or social issues. Examples of items appropriate to ... ...n crier to tell his own version of the day's news. Only a few statesmen and a few monarchs received written and sealed dispatches and their source ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ... in. Church steeple, reflected in the water, sways: The church registry lists column after column of dead: Not a sound. 355 n S... ...ves: “You talk in riddles, sir. Your plays ridicule us. You disesteem our monarchs, King Richard for one. Your plays attract the vulgar. You praise ...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

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... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor. All the monarchs of the Norman 5 Sir Walter Scott race had shown the most marked p... ... so?—Prior, your collar is in danger; I will wear it over my gorget in the lists of Ashby-de-la-Zouche.” “Win it fairly,” said the Prior, “and wear it... ... have friends, I have followers—man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists; let him come in his plate and his mail, and all that can render cowa... ...ield in the presence of Prince John himself, who was expected to grace the lists, had attracted universal attention, and an immense confluence of pers... ...ingsburgh, a personage, who, on account of his descent from the last Saxon monarchs of England, was held in the highest respect by all the Saxon nativ... ...other to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, during her early residence for education in England,...

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...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hat of the well of Bethlehem, longed for by King David, one of its ancient monarchs, was then, as before, only obtained by the expenditure of blood. T... ...pardieux! This is smoothly said to soothe a sick man; but does a league of monarchs, an assemblage or nobles, a convocation of all the chivalry of Eur... ...ell advised that we came to expostulate, on the part of the Council of the Monarchs and Princes of the Crusade, against the risk of permitting an infi... ...e of either. Impeach me if thou wilt—I am prepared to defend myself in the lists against the best Templar who ever laid lance in rest.” “Yet thou star... ...ield other satisfaction than that which these poor limbs can render in the lists to any bold challenge—ay, were it against five champions instead of o... ...s own liveries, caused the carnation to triumph over all other hues in the lists and in the battle. Sir Kenneth was struck nearly mute by seeing such ...

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...Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...h the crest and helm of gold! Full well we know the trophies won In the lists at Cottiswold: There, vainly Ralph de Wilton strove ‘Gainst Marmio... ...nts that rival’s fame With treason’s charge—and on they came, In mortal lists to fight. Their oaths are said, Their prayers are prayed,... ...e Wilton to the block!’ Say ye, who preach Heaven shall decide When in the lists two champions ride, Say, was Heaven’s justice here? When, loyal in... ...ved to plead, lament, and sue - Suit lightly won and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. I said he joyed in banquet bower; But, ‘mi... ...g observed their meeting eyes With something like displeased surprise: For monarchs ill can rivals brook, E’en in a word or smile or look. Straight to...

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... who ledst this glorious Eremite Into the Desert, his Victorious Field Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ?d to tell of deeds Above Heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left thro...

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...Table of Contents: THE FIRST BOOK., 1 -- PARADISE REGAIN?D. The Second BOOK., 13 -- PARADISE REGAIN?D. The Third BOOK., 24 -- PARADISE REGAIN?D. The Fourth BOOK., 34 -- Notes, 49...

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...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton: Paradise Regained Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE FIRST BOOK. . . . . ... ...t the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence 10 By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute, And be... ...hou art wont, my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ’d to tell of deeds A... ...erve? 235 The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory, Empires, and Monarchs, and thir radiant Courts, Best school of best experience, quic... ...0 Huge Cities and high towr’d, that well might seem The seats of mightiest Monarchs, and so large The Prospect was, that here and there was room ... ... all Wealth, pleasure, pain or torment, death and life, 305 Which when he lists, he leaves, or boasts he can, For all his tedious talk is but vai...

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... Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is f... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...’d yet, I wish thee happiness! PERICLES: Like a bold champion, I assume the lists, Pericles, Act I, scene i 7 Nor ask advice of any other thought Bu... ...Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it. Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He’s more secure to keep it shut than shown: For vice repeat... ..., scene i 22 SCENE II: The same. A public way or plat form leading to the lists. A pavilion by the side of it for the reception of King, Princess, ...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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...Excerpt: We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. ?Yes, you too have been in Arcadia,? we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the hous...

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................................................................. 4 THE REAL THING ........................................................ 21 THE STORY OF IT ........................................................ 48 FLICKERBRIDGE ......................................................... 65 MRS. MEDWIN ............................................................. 85...

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...me Short Stories by Henry James “Brooksmith,” “The Real Thing,” “The Story of It,” “Flickerbridge,” and “Mrs. Medwin” A PENN S TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSIC... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Short Stories by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...s not perhaps so far removed, in that vanished world, from their type, the Monarchs’, quoi! of a breeched and bewigged age. “We’ll put, on anything th... ...urse gave me a lead, but there was a margin for interpretation. I took the Monarchs into my confidence, I told them frankly what I was about, I mentio... ...een looked for. Most of these illustrations were the subjects in which the Monarchs had figured. Without going into the ques- tion of what had been lo... ... the current fashion for young women so equipped was to enter the Parisian lists. Addie had accordingly chanced upon her, on the slopes of Montparnass...

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Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

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...n. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ......................................................

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...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ............................................................... 291 RULES FOR MONARCHS. .................................................................... ... Neither lamb nor steer, But the altars reek with human gore.” And he lists, and ev’ry word he weighs, While his eager soul drinks in each soun... ... thy grave will people read: This was a very man, indeed! 1815.* RULES FOR MONARCHS. IF men are never their thoughts to employ, Take care to provide t... ...of noble birth now wand’ring in mis’ry? Princes are fleeing disguised, and monarchs in banishment living. Ah, and she also herself, the best of her si...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hich unlucky period a building mania seems to have seized upon many of the monarchs of Europe, and innumerable public edifices were erected. It seems ... ...of their good-natured black faces, and they let the cloth blow about as it lists, and grin unconfined. Wherever we went the negroes seemed happy. They... ...dmitted, but may look through the bars, and see the coffins of the defunct monarchs and children of the Royal race. Each lies in his narrow sarcophag...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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