...rious, sad-eyed disparity between dark and fair. Thus he fell in love and made her his only world. This woman sat by his side, adjacent to his azure... ...in, high-arching cheeks, and sleep-fluttery eyelashes. He fended off the intrusions of the world as he smoothed the covers and tucked her figure in.... ...in the casino's restaurant. Do you know that eateries in gambling dens are the best in the world?" I don't. It is my first trip away from Israel. B... ...er, quoting from Kafka and Freud and Tolstoy. That night he called upon the spirits of his library, whose books he romanced on benches under all the... ...is bookshelf. His wife got him some of the volumes and others he borrowed from the prison's library, my workplace. Shalev inclined and smothered a ... ... lanes muddied by steamy kitchen waste and absconded with a pack of printing paper from the library. Hiding them under my tattered blemished coat, I... ...agent posture, scanning the place through my nearly computerized eyes (imposing a conjured digital square rangefinder on my field of vision). I cou... ...1990 to Present Freelance consultant to many of Israel's Blue-Chip firms, mainly on issues related to the capital markets in Israel, Canada, the UK ...

... newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church as the world knew it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to every... ...hairman of the Armed Services Committee he controlled the purse strings of the world's most sophisticated Army. An Army designed to protect a Nation;... ... acknowledge it. Now his wife was threatening to leave him. He felt lost in a world of confusion; life no longer held any meaning for him. What happ... ...asked still trembling. "Who can say, Antonio? Perhaps, it is because you are related." "When should I leave?" Antonio asked, accepting his fate. ... ...im at the door, but neither spoke a word. Antonio followed his uncle into the library. Books filled every shelf, and a series of world maps hung on a... ...their arms. The horrific face of Death, which Gallucci had encountered in his library, emerged. Only Gallucci remained standing, calm, transfixed by ... ... on the money we're spending on fighting crime, which is almost entirely drug related" Alex pointed to a woman who seemed to be doing a version of ... ...the full story." He turned to Antonio and Angelo. "Tell the Senator about the library." Antonio and Angelo retold the events of their experience wi... ...onument, and churned the blistering rain into a torrent. Soule’ looked at his digital watch. The time glowed: ten o'clock. About a hundred yards awa...

... intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...

...‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves... ... 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 di... ... 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind... ...ar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as late as 1980, Linotypes still set 80 percent of the wor... ...and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blen... ...newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime liv... ...e my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to... ...ssor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you... ... By organizing entries alphabetically, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and library catalogs let us go quickly to a section with entries beginning wit...

...r and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk...