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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...stigations, 1835 Major General Sir William Henry (‘Thuggee’) Sleeman Sleeman: ‘Are you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, th... ... this province, which is of immense strategic importance, particularly against the aspirations of Russia to establish a foothold in India.’ Audrey... ...ning, in Calcutta, ‘Most of the royal princes realise that their own sovereignty depends on their treaties with the British, in the absence of which...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machination...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ... more warie and circumspect to looke about him, than that of parlies, and treaties of accord: And therefore is it a common rule in the mouth of all ... ...me up with his tongue. The armie which the Emperor Bajazeth had sent into Russia, was overwhelmed by so horrible a tempest of snow that to find some... ...ower, and disavowing so lewde and so vile an obedience. Iaropelc, Duke of Russia, sollicited an Hungarian Gentleman to betraye Boleslaus, King of Pol... ...aye Boleslaus, King of Polonia, in contriving his death or furnishing the Russians with meanes to work him some notable mischiefe. This gallant pres... ...ads of this realme assembled with great ceremony and publike charge about treaties and agreements, the true-deciding whereof depended in the meane w...

...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ... of San Stefano unwillingly, following a terminal defeat at the hands of a wrathful Russian army. The newly re-invented nation incorporated a huge s... ...le in pigsty mud for "not paying taxes". Joined by Turks who escaped the advancing Russian armies in North Bulgaria and by Bosnian Moslems, who fle... ...tro-Hungarians regarded the Serbs as cannon fodder in the attrition war against the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - n... ...utally deprived of their land and livelihood. All of them were enshrined in solemn treaties. The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) led to the expulsion of ... ...an League. To cleanse the Balkans of all Turks was the explicit goals of hush-hush treaties and clandestine encounters. The hidden agenda bespoke o... ...he shifting fortunes of a most bewildering battlefield. When the dust settled, two treaties later, Macedonia was dismembered by its neighbours, Bul...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...f murder, stealing and lying. ―Atheists make up a high percent of the Russian and Czech populations, probably because atheistic Marxism was a fa... ...for example, there are 22% who are atheists and 16% who are agnostics. In Russia 32% were atheistic or agnostic, but of the 58% who said they were C... ...argely a question of education. Of course tradition is also a factor. The Russians and Chinese are quite atheistic, probably because of their more r... ...batants‖ who are not protected by the Geneva Conventions or international treaties on the rights of prisoners of war. Utilitarianism would a...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...tomic nuclear meltdown. The true meaning of the name Chernobyl comes from the Russians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing ... ...ssians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing their own Russian nobility. The ecological destruction of Russia stemmed from t... ...ty. The ecological destruction of Russia stemmed from these two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States ... ...ter military forts were built first in the middle of enemy territory… and then treaties were arranged to lull the Indians into false sense of securit... ...instead of by their ethnic cultural social connections and roots. All of the treaties and horse trading practiced for thousands of years between rul... ...on it. Their greed for land knew no bounds, and recognized no boundaries, no treaties, no agreements… Every new treaty they broke. Every word they...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville 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... ... In his official capac- ity he might be called upon to enter into friendly treaties with Indian tribes, a thing not to be thought of. And even did no ... ...maker lies proudlier in his rags 191 Melville than the Emperor of all the Russias in his hollands,” oracu- larly said the stranger; “for death, thoug...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dici. On the subject of power they held the same doctrine now professed by Russia, namely: to which- ever head the crown goes, he is the true, the leg... ...rce Italy to support your interests; they will guarantee you advantages by treaties of commerce and 240 Catherine dé Medici alliance which shall reco... ...net, have you writ- ten it?” “Dearest, verses are as difficult to write as treaties of peace; but you shall have them soon. Ah, me! life is so easy he...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...rope I. EU and NATO – The Competing Alliances II. The Euro-Atlantic Divide III. Russia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. L... ... China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the United States. Only 23% of Spani... ...wn from 41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (from 71% to 56%), Russia (from 52% o 43%), Indonesia (from 38% to 30%), and Turkey... ...works. The GCC has recently established a customs union as well. A similar set of treaties may soon be inked with Iran with which the EU has a bal... ...debatable while customary law is only partially subsumed in the tradition (i.e., in treaties, conventions and other instruments, as well in the actu... ... ("peacekeeping operations") and enforce compliance with international or bilateral treaties between the aggressor and the attacked state or the a...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...oduce it provided the source is acknowledged. We will appreciate if a copy of reproduced materials is sent to us. 4 Fixing Global Finance Contents Ac... ... Fixing Global Finance Contents Acronyms 6-7 Data Notes 8 1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 9 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing ... ...nds in International Finance and Developmental Implications 30 4. The Rise of New Global Players 36 5. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of ... ...ecades, major financial crises have occurred in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, and the East Asian countries. But it is important to note that unli... ...te equity deals have involved more money than the annual public budgets of Russia and India. 4 Some executives of private equity firms earn billions ... ...tments, accounting for more than half of all PE inflows into BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries in 2007. The PE investments in India jum... ...ors who used to take undue advantage of the bilateral direct tax avoidance treaties (such as India- Mauritius tax treaty) are now taxed under the STT ... ...ping countries should also rethink the costs and benefits of bilateral tax treaties in the form of Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA). At present, ... ...e Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA). At present, there are more than 3000 tax treaties in force 108 Fixing Global Finance throughout the world. India al...

...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the world. The turbulence in financial systems was followed by a significant reduction in real economic a...

...1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ...ed by the IMF's default-staving safety net. Conversely, the IMF's refusal to assist Russia in 1998 and Argentina this year - should reduce moral ha... ...editors and depositors have little leverage over delinquent debtors or banks. When Russia - and trigger happy Russian firms - defaulted on their ob... ...y no means least, as opposed to oft-reiterated wisdom - the markets have no memory. Russia has egregiously defaulted on its sovereign debt a few tim... ...t clients of the state, its resources, offerings, laws, regulations, international treaties, and economic opportunities (e.g., state companies to b... ...ces, and capital (tax holidays, free processing zones, no red tape, double taxation treaties and free trade agreements with other countries, etc.) ... ...icts (political risk), the country's laws, regulations, and favorable international treaties, its credit history, insurance available to investors a...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...pod.com/internet.html http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Table of Contents I. Battling Unemployment II. The Labour Divide - I. Emp... ... Israel succeeded to absorb more than 400,000 working age immigrants from Russia in the space of 5 years (1989-1994) - while reducing its unemployme... ...or her unemployment benefits. Many governments (e.g., Israel, Yugoslavia, Russia, Canada, Australia) offer the relocating worker financial and logis... ... comprise 13% of the workforce (up from 9% in 1990). A million have left Russia for Israel. In this past century, the world has experienced its most... ...ent - and expensive - labor and environmental provisions in international treaties may well be a ploy to fend off imports based on cheap labor and t...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...ty of Chicago Manual Style by University of Chicago Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org... ...World Public Library.org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subject: NonFiction, Reference Publisher: W... ...ww.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and... ... with "of," preceding the specific name : the empire, the state; empire of Russia, kingdom of Bel- gium, [kingdom of God, or of heaven], duchy of A... ... Chicago World's Fair, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 16. Titlesof specific treaties,acts, laws (juridical), bills,etc. : Treaty of Verdun, Art. V o... ...alone, when referring to the president of the United States, the emperor of Russia, the emperor of Germany, the sultan of Turkey, and the pope at R... ... and an organizer, but as the standard-bearer of civic right eousness." "In Russia the final decision rests with the Czar, advised by his ministers;... ...: of names of foreign institu- tions, 9; of foreign words or phrases, 68. Treaties, capitalization of names of, 16. Treatises titles of: capitaliz...

...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...

...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

...Preface Table of Contents Rules for Composition Capitalization The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofr...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...ly the Jewish community as a whole - seem to benefit no matter what. When Czarist Russia collapsed, Jews occupied 7 out of 10 prominent positions ... ... than Altneuland. Herzl died in 1904, having actually been deposed by Zionists from Russia who espoused ideals of equality for all, Jews and non-Jew... ...iod. But the countries comprising the vast expanses of the New Independent States, Russia and the Balkan had no real acquaintance with it. To them ... ...debatable while customary law is only partially subsumed in the tradition (i.e., in treaties, conventions and other instruments, as well in the actu... ...("peacekeeping operations") and enforce compliance with international or bilateral treaties between the aggressor and the attacked state or the att... ...ded and abetted by the attacked state; 9. Honor one's obligations to frameworks and treaties of collective self-defense; 10. Protect one's citizens...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...ly the Jewish community as a whole - seem to benefit no matter what. When Czarist Russia collapsed, Jews occupied 7 out of 10 prominent positions ... ... than Altneuland. Herzl died in 1904, having actually been deposed by Zionists from Russia who espoused ideals of equality for all, Jews and non-Jew... ...iod. But the countries comprising the vast expanses of the New Independent States, Russia and the Balkan had no real acquaintance with it. To them ... ...debatable while customary law is only partially subsumed in the tradition (i.e., in treaties, conventions and other instruments, as well in the actu... ...("peacekeeping operations") and enforce compliance with international or bilateral treaties between the aggressor and the attacked state or the att... ...ded and abetted by the attacked state; 9. Honor one's obligations to frameworks and treaties of collective self-defense; 10. Protect one's citizens...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope 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... ...ial measures without a public avowal of such mea- sures. France can do so. Russia can do so. The government of the United States can do so, and could ... ... said that the Danube has in fact been closed against Austria, in spite of treaties to the contrary. But the faults of bad and weak govern- ments are ... ... two nations is an affair for treaty; and it has not yet come to that that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politic... ...world, must of course guarantee her security. Such guarantees are given by treaties; and, in the wording of them, it is presumed that such treaties wi... ...g been educated at the military college at West Point. During our war with Russia he was sent to the Crimea by his own government, in conjunction with... ...e dignity of the States government. I heard much of the tender sympathy of Russia. Russia sent a flourishing general message, saying that she wished t...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni vers... ...ed to the Union in numbers nearly equal to those of the first Confederation. Treaties of peace, amity, and commerce have been concluded with the princ... ...avy of the United States; with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties and to appoint ambassadors and other officers; to give to Congre... ...an before? Can aliens make trea ties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among f... ..., no less in this divided world than in a less tormented time, the people of Russia. We do not dread, rather do we welcome, their progress in educatio...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 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... ........................................................... 405 CHAPTER VI OF TREATIES OF COMMERCE ......................................................... ... France, and 172 The Wealth of Nations Germany; even Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, have all advanced considerably, both in agriculture and in manufact... ...sometimes by drawbacks, some- times by bounties, sometimes by advantageous treaties of com- merce with foreign states, and sometimes by the establishm... ...other kinds as were supposed to deserve particular favour. By advantageous treaties of commerce, particular privileges were procured in some foreign s... ...market, with the manufactures of Great Britain; thirdly, the peace between Russia and Turkey has occasioned an extraordinary demand from the 492 The ... ...ns T urkey market, which, during the distress of the country , and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplie...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...ied against Germany were busily spinning a disastrous web of greedy secret treaties, were answering aggression by schemes 4 In the Fourth Year of agg... ...gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed t... ...se opening days. The Russian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed to all the imperialist plans of the Allies; in the end ... ...f imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it was so, but b... ...to end war,” and we still did not know clearly how. We thought in terms of treaties and alliances. It is largely the detachment and practi- cal genius... ... with governments that do not stand for their peoples; we have had all our Russian deal, for example, repudiated and thrust back upon our hands; and i...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t thirty years. Since it came to an end the social and political events in Russia have moved at an accelerated pace, but the deep origins of them, in ... ... for all time. Women are, one may say, the foundation of his art. They are Russian of course. Never was a writer so profoundly, so whole-souledly nati... ...Never was a writer so profoundly, so whole-souledly national. But for non- Russian readers, Turgenev’s Russia is but a canvas on which the incomparabl... ... of growth and development was, later, modified and confirmed by two other treaties, which guaranteed to all the parties in a just and eternal union a... ...story shows that such an arrangement, however hedged in by the most solemn treaties and declarations, cannot last. In this case it would lead to a tra... ...menace of such a specially dangerous situation the paper and ink of public Treaties can- not be an effective defence. Nothing but the actual, living, ...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...quished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and en- tered into various compacts and conventions with foreign ... ... The just causes of war, for the most part, arise either from violation of treaties or from direct violence. America has al- ready formed treaties wit... ...l as more safe with respect to us. Because, under the national government, treaties and ar- ticles of treaties, as well as the laws of nations, will a... ...ntative. If we compare the wealth of the United Nether- lands with that of Russia or Germany, or even of France, and if we at the same time compare th...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high v... ...,” the abbe was saying. “It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place herself disinterestedly at th... ...ady was a Princess Drubetskaya, belong- ing to one of the best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of society had lost her ... ...he restless movement by political and diplomatic com- binations, laws, and treaties. The historians call this activity of the historical figures “the ...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication 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... ... subterfuge to limit a newly spreading religion by the terms of obso- lete treaties? The Bohemian Protestants ap- pealed to the verbal guarantee of Ma... ... this territory, the indivisibility of which had been guaranteed by solemn treaties; and the Emperor, who seemed disposed to enter upon it as a vacant... ...ars; but he never shrunk from a just one. His arms were successful against Russia, and Sweden was augmented by several important provinces on the east... ...im troops. He had great reason to rejoice at the friendly disposi- tion of Russia, as it was indispensable to his interests that Sweden itself should ... ...n Bavaria threatened Aus- tria itself, that he yielded to the pressing en- treaties of the Elector and the Emperor, and determined to effect the long-...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

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