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There is actually something to be said for Sven_Dufva's comment that Finland was better off with Russia. Without Russia there would be no Finland. Basically Russia took the poor and uncultured part of Sweden and made it a buffer zone. To make that work they had to encourage Finns to become nationalistic (Finland was given full Autonomy and the status of the Finnish language was elevated). That way these former poor Swedes would not welcome back any invading Swedish army.
Thats where the saying comes from: "We are no longer Swedes, we will never become Russians, so let us be Finns". Finland and the Finnish identity was something manufactured. We were Swedes but no longer. What made us different was what made us Finns. The poets of the day Topelius and Runeberg helped form this identity. Pride in poor hard simple life. Isolated bare nature. The noble savage. etc..
There is a great book about this called "Let us be Finns" written by a professor in history. This book changed my views about what formed the Finnish psyche and it makes sense of why Finns dislike Swedes so much.
I'm not just saying this as some guy thats got something against Swedes. Swedish is my mothers tongue and I have lived in Sweden many years.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
How to Use this Book 3
Care and Feeding of Your Video Games 11
Practice and Exercise 14
Primary Home Games 21
Secondary Home Games 214
Tertiary Home Games 286
Primary Arcade Games 315
Secondary Arcade Games 358
Computer Video Games 364
The Future of Video Games 375
Glossary 384
VideoGraph Conquering System 387
Index to Manufacturers of Home Games 401
Index to Video Games 404
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3486986M/The_complete_guide_to_conquering_video_games
http://overdrive.com - Everyone who has a library card should be using this
http://openlibrary.org - And everyone who is too lazy to go to the actual library and get a library card should be using this.
My interests are probably different than yours, but the sheer amount of free stuff out there that I was going to spend money on physical copies for has already paid the cost of my kindle. I've also spent some money on some books by bloggers, a few bucks here and there, because they can offer the digital copy for a much lower price.
Also, see these: http://openlibrary.org/ (My preferred) http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Et, si vous comprenez français, ici: http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Gallica bibliotheque actually seems pretty fantastic from what I've found there.
Indeed. John made a follow-up documentary three years later in 2010 that was twice as long called The Secrets of Scientology: A Panorama Special where he re-interviews Mike Rinder, this time after Mike left Scientology, who confirms it all, and Sweeney also wrote a book in 2013 called The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
This is strongly recommended. BUT WAIT -- THERE'S MORE!
In addition to this book, he also wrote
The Lady or the Tiger? and To Mock a Mockingbird.
These are fantastic books. The latter in particular is an introduction to combinatory logic. Highly recommended.
Vibert was a French academic painter who enjoyed great sucess during his lifetime. Unlike many of his peers who were working on large-scale canvases depicting heroic Christians and tragic mythology, he turned to more homey subjects, comedy and satire as well as tongue-in-cheek depictions of Christian clergy and their frivolous past-times. Not only did he enjoy taking a break from work to go out to plays, but he also wrote several comedies, many of which were successfully produced at Paris theaters such as the Vaudeville. In 1892 an important technical book was published by Vibert called La Science de la Peinture.
Online libraries - like http://openlibrary.org - work the same way, kind of. Even though they could technically "loan" unlimited copies of a book out, they only lend to one person at a time. You check the book out and you only get two weeks before it "expires" (thanks to noxious DRM that also cripples the ease of reading it).
So since most books are already out, you have to join waiting lists to get them. I joined one today which has 113 people in the waiting list before me. It may well be years before I get that book.
If I'm really keen to read something that I can't find an easily accessible digital copy of online, I just buy the paperback for a buck from Abebooks.
In Rome they married. There's strong evidence for it. I won't claim to have as much knowledge about Greece. I can't find a place to read it online but this book is my source.
Having children isn't a necessity in any civilization where survival rates are high. If this were relevant to any of our societies then our countries would "collapse and ruin" simply because gay people exist and aren't having children. Since, however, the four horsemen are not knocking on your door, you are greatly exaggerating the need for every couple to have children.
Physical copies can be borrowed from these libraries: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL7285427W/In_search_of_serenity
Or you could buy one here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007DW1RA/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used
Not to say the eBook (I would love it in an epub format) isn't a good idea, here are just some alternatives.
http://openlibrary.org - free borrows of many books, old and contemporary. You can download pdf scanned versions which on an iPad are a much closer experience to a physical book.
http://abebooks.com has loads of books for about $1 - if you can afford postage?
You could also see if authors would send you free review copies of printed books, but you should be prepared to actually review them if so.
Other options may be to look through freecycle or post on a site like Nextdoor to see if anyone has old books they want to clear out.
Absolutely. You just need to download Adobe Digital Editions on to your computer and register it and then the books will download right on it and you can read them. The weird thing you can NOT do is transfer them from the computer to most ebook readers (some you can and we discuss this in the FAQ) but if you just want to read on a computer you can use ADE for Mac/PC. You can also use ADE via WINE on Linux boxes [http://forums.adobe.com/message/3912780]. If you're new to ebooks, the system is a little weird, so here's the outline for Open Library
- make sure you have Adobe Digital Editions or a compatible reader installed on your computer or device
- get a free account at Open Library
- search for a book you want to read in the Lending Library (look for books with the "borrow" icon - books with the DAISY icon are for print-disabled readers)
- click the borrow link and you'll be taken to a page with three choices: BookReader (i.e. read in your browser), PDF or EPUB. ADE can read either, some applicatons can only read EPUBs. Sometimes the EPUBS have errors but the files are much smaller
When you click the download link what happens is a small file with the name URLLink.acsm downloads. This then triggers whatever your book reader application is to open and then once it knows you're authorized. then it goes and downloads the file you asked for. If ADE or a compatible reader isn't installed, this might fail in a number of annoying ways. People who don't want to deal with Adobe DRM can just use our BookReader and read anonymously as long as you have a live internet connection.
I've been writing all the FAQ for this process, so if there's something we're missing in the help files, please leave me a message here or hit us up on the Contact Form.
Betaa, as far as I know it wasn't Islamic beliefs per say that held India's Muslim population back (and I mean the time before the taqseem), but a mistrust of the educational system that the British brought with them. Mistrust they would - the Brits had just knocked them out of their elite societal position under Mughal rule and were running around like they owned the place in their froopy white outfits while telling them to go to non-Islamic schools and study with those low-caste Hindus. Of course it would appear as an attempt to weaken these temporarily embarrassed millionaires!
The authors comment on the lack of modern writing on the Stoic attitude toward love. They may be interesting it looking at <em>The Stoic Idea of a City</em> by Malcolm Schofield, in which the Stoic attitude toward love is a significant topic.
Almost identical to this one at archive.org
Unfortunately there isn't any additional information there. Archive.org links to Open Library which states the publication date of that book is 1885
Indeed! There is, in fact, an entire sub-reddit devoted to it. (/r/christiananarchism)
Having only briefly read what's already here, I'll wade in with my 2¢.
It amuses me somewhat when some Christians say that Anarchism can't fit with Christian belief. The only nation ever established by God in the Bible - Israel - explicitly had no king, and was charged with caring for it's poor and needy, and any from other nations that passed through as well. The early Christians of the New Testament welcomed everyone, and gave to everyone as they had need (Acts 2:45).
Despite my best efforts, I don't think I can say it better than Jaques Ellul says it:
"All the churches have scrupulously respected and often supported the state authorities. They have made of conformity a major virtue. They have tolerated social injustices and the exploitation of some people by others, explaining that it is God's will that some should be masters and others servants, and that socioeconomic success is an outward sign of divine blessing. They have thus transformed the free and liberating Word into morality, the most astonishing thing being that there can be no Christian morality if we truly follow evangelical thinking. The fact is that it is much easier to judge faults according to an established morality than to view people as living wholes and to understand why they act as they do"
I highly Recommend Ellul. There's also a bunch of good stuff to read here
It could be done on either sub I suppose. I guess the point is more that it caters for things that you can stick on your tablet and read at your leisure (for a change), or even things that might be useful in a more scholarly situation (not that I would know anything about that). It doesn't seem to me that these things have a natural place to flourish in either r/history or r/askhistorians at the moment.
I feel you on PDF's too, they should always be marked as such. Nobody likes a surprise. (I quite like it as a title, but would be open to other suggestions.) In many cases you can provide a choice of formats, and then everybody is happy.
From OpenLibrary
A French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, existentialism, and Marxism, and his work continues to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology, and literary studies.
I've upvoted this post but would like to recommend another books: Empires of Belief. <em>Why We Need More Scepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century</em>.
> Is absolute belief making a comeback? Recently the public has accepted unquestioningly certain political, economic, and scientific theories, and for sceptical people, this is a deeply worrying trend. Stuart Sim outlines the history of scepticism in both Western and Islamic traditions from the Enlightenment to today. He argues that we need less belief and more doubt-an engaged scepticism that replaces dogmatism. Addressing contemporary debates surrounding terrorism and fundamentalism, Sims suggests that scepticism can play a greater role in public and political life.
Being skeptical of a scientific "consensus" even if it is a settled one, is not that bigoted as it might look like. There are multiple examples in the history when such "consensus" were blatantly wrong.
Here is this book entry in the Open Library.
the amazon link above leads to a mobile version that I don't know how to escape from to the normal version
This may also help....
You may also find Archive.com and Open Library such as... to find editions in the public domain.
Complete editions are hard to find cause each text are almost always separately edited
If she wants to read something by an LDS author, have her read Rough Stone Rolling. It's a big book though, so it would take a time commitment. Even better, read it together and discuss. They even sell it at Deseret Book. While it's fairly neutral, and doesn't touch on some of the more detrimental things, it's a great intro to some of the problems with LDS history. After that, move onto other things... like Wife No. 19
Wife No. 19 It's impossible to read this and stay in the church IMO.
(Not very complete, but very ethical. They even provide dumps, and they seem to be in the public domain -- see http://openlibrary.org/data and http://openlibrary.org/developers/licensing)
I guess you will fail to find a single book that will capture such a vast amount of history. However, books I'd recommend (in english):
- by Richard Pipes: The Russian Revolution 1899-1919
- by Martin Malia: The Soviet Tragedy
- and introductory overview: Soviet Union. A Very Short Introduction/Oxford univ. press.
Another problem is that the topic remains highly politicised and the primary sources are not still really open. Therefore, be ready to deal with partisan controversies in the books you read, especially those that provide some sort of an interpretation.
I studied Dubliners at University College Dublin, and we mostly used the Penguin edition (with introduction and notes by Terence Brown of Trinity College Dublin). The Penguin Modern Classics edition looks to be essentially the same. It's around 50 pages of introduction, 230 pages of stories and 80 pages of notes, which feels like a fair balance.
>This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
William S. Burroughs, "The War Universe", taped conversation, first published in <em>Grand Street</em>, No. 37 (1991)
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
People who want to reinterpret God's word will do so no matter what. It is remarkable how stupid people can be when their position depends on not understanding God's word.
Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace. [Words] of earth, purified seven times.
The added word is justified because "of earth" is plural, agreeing with words, not singular to agree with furnace. God speaks to us in our own Earthly languages, not in codes or incomprehensible allegories. People speak figuratively and so does God. In fact there are about 950 different kinds of figures in the bible, some having dozens of variations. you could earn a PhD by just cataloging all the figures in the bible. Here is a list done about a hundred years ago, almost the only work in the field in 2000 years. http://openlibrary.org/search?q=e.+w.+bullinger+figures+of+speech
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
While I agree that a Sage's hegemonikon (intellect/rational faculty/"inner self") would be unaffected, and would not experience a passion as a result of it, I expect if anything they might have an even stronger sympathetic feeling than many non-Sages as a result of oikeiosis. (Actually, it isn't really clear to me whether the classical Stoics thought that Sages would be futher along in oikeiosis than non-Sages. Sometimes it seems to be implied, but I haven't been able to dig up any unambiguous quotes to that effect. They certainly did not believe the inverse.)
This fits well with the observation, reported in Baumeister and Tierney's Willpower, that altruism and willpower are strongly positively correlated.
Leighton, president of the Royal Academy from 1878 until his death in 1896, was the quintessential Victorian cosmopolite and one of the last great masters of historical painting in the Grand manner. This particular canvas depicst a scene from Greek mythology. Alcestis, wife of Admetus, was willing to sacrifice herself so that her husband, who had angered Artemis, could live. In Euripedes's play, 'Hercules Furens', Hercules, a guest at Admetus's palace at the time of his wife's death, goes after Death and wrestles with him for the body of Alcestis and wins her back. An image of the preparatory sketch can be seen at the Leighton House Museum website. A full biography of the artist from 1900 with reproductions of some works that have since been lost can be accessed at the OpenLibrary website free of charge.
The "fake" Don Quixote was written under the pseudonym of Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda. Searching for the supposed author in Wikipedia yields this link, I hope it's what you're looking for.
Looks like this might be the book. Some non-English characters in the title and author's name, I think.
S.I͡U︡. Vitte i Rossii͡a︡
L.I. Zaĭt͡s︡eva. (<-- as far as I can tell, that's the author)
Published 2000 by [In-t ėkonomiki RAN] in Moskva . Written in Russian.
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL4020901M/S.I%CD%A1U%EF%B8%A1._Vitte_i_Rossii%CD%A1a%EF%B8%A1
My 2009 resolution was to make self-improvement a continuous process and I haven't looked back since.
In 2011 my biggest achievement was learning basic woodworking from this public domain book. It's amazing how much of the information is still relevant 100 years later.
I'm going into 2012 trying to lose some weight, a project that started back in November when I finally stepped on the scale. So far so good, despite my wife's delicious and non-healthy baking.
Here's another good old book:
Shaving made easy what the man who shaves ought to know ... Published 1905
edit add following Just realized the OP posted book was $5.00 or $118.00 by today's dollar, per inflation calculator at measuringworth.com
>Facts aren't your strong suite, huh?
And I take it jokes aren't yours? :p
That said, I didn't like your tone so I did some research. The Tyranid Biovore wasn't introduced until this W40k codex written in 1995 but published Aug. 7 1996. Here's a second source on that date.
Pokemon Red and Blue were both released in Japan on Feb 27, 1996. I'll head off criticism of this post by pointing out that it's ridiculous that Mr. Tajiri would have traveled to Nottingham, UK in 1995 to steal art assets from Games Workshop.
I finally found a book with a reference to cats and typewriters: The 300 Pound Cat.
Here's the cover.
I also have the same problem :(.Another good website is http://openlibrary.org/. And if you feel naughty, download this book for free here. It's a good book about North Korea.
The book is actually called "The Forgotten Soldier", I think most historians agree that some aspects of the book aren't right but others are very accurate. As far as the human condition goes I've heard he actually did a fantastic job at capturing that.
If you know French and are into comics, Sajer did a comic series about the Battle of Kursk which was written in a similar mature style/tone to The Forgotten Soldier. If you're interested I recommend checking it out.
Just looked at Open Library. Looks awesome, btw. First title I searched for: The Divine Comedy
Every edition listed not only has a .mobi file available, but also a "Send to Kindle" link
William Camden's Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine 1605:
"All the proof of a pudding is in the eating."
Well. Since I'm from Brazil and our libraries are not well funded, like at all, I buy most of my books through Amazon or Kindle.
BUT some books I want to read are too expensive to buy (you would have to bring from another country and the dollar is worth six times my coin, and we can spend, like, only 50 reais or 8 dollars without paying massives taxes for international purchasing), so I've been using open library to read. Maybe you can find what you are looking for here!
If you are okay with free digitized books, check out the completely legitimate OpenLibrary or Internet Archive .
You borrow the books for 2 weeks, then it expires. They are DRM unless they are out of copyright, then there is no DRM. You need Adobe Digital Editions, which is free.
They have hundreds of thousands of books, many very rare. Libraries digitize a book and then give the ownership to the service and discard the physical copy. (I believe).
It won't help much with the teaching aspect, unless you're studying the history of teaching, but since you're a history student... There are some great reads. There is no ownership, but there are some gems there.
You have been able to borrow much of what IA has for quite awhile.
Sign up for an Open Library account. Openlibrary
They don't send you spam email, you're not asked for a credit card you just sign up, search and borrow.
A tip- when you search for a book and it brings up a list, you'll see the book you want (if they have it) and it will say X number of copies. It may say it's already out but click on the book name and it will bring up the page for that book and list all copies separately. Sometimes there are still copies open for borrowing even if the search page says it's out.
The only emails I've ever gotten from openlibrary are when I've joined the wait list for a particular book and it has become available I think you have 48 hours to borrow before they move in to the next person.
Take a look at the this question in the FAQ.
Some modern psychotherapy methods are based on some elements of Stoic philosophy. If you want something specifically to address anxiety, then seeing a CBT therapist or reading something like Ellis's How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You might get you started in the easiest, most direct way to get instructions for using Stoic-inspired ideas to address your immediate issue. While this approach may be most directly applicable to your most pressing concern, though, it really is only just one application of a heavily modified form of one element of the philosophy. While probably a good place for you personally to start, to know anything about Stoicism you really need to follow it up with something that covers the philosophy more generally, and in a less modified form, for which I suggest seeing the resources in the FAQ.
Please tell me someone has scanned this and posted it up online? I can't find it on openlibrary.org. I can only imagine the idiocy inside that book. It needs to be preserved for all to see.
A figure of speech is a departure from the normal patterns of language for the purpose of emphasizing something. The simplest figure of speech is the SIMILE. A simile emphasizes a similarity of two things by merely saying it: "You are like a dog", or "You are as a dog". The figure rests entirely on one word.
A METAPHOR emphasizes a similarity of two things by saying they are the same; "You are a dog".
Next comes a big word: HYPOCATASTASIS. This is a Greek word for name-calling. Hypocatastasis just calls the fellow "Dog!" See Luke 13:32 "that fox", and Genesis 3:1 "the serpent".
A PARABLE is an extended figure of speech; a story based on a simile, metaphor, or hypocatastasis. If the story is possible, it is a MYTH. If the story is impossible, it is a FABLE. Stories about talking animals are fables. If a fable includes an explanation of the meaning, it is an ALLEGORY. Don't confuse any of these with LEGEND, which is a supposedly true but unverified historical account (Adam and Eve, for example).
These terms are not used with any precise meaning in modern discourse. For instance, most people think 'allegory' means "a story full of religious symbolism beyond human comprehension". But when discussing figures of speech they are very precisely defined. Here is a book that lists about 900 figures found in the bible. It is almost the only work in the subject for the last two thousand years: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=e.+w.+bullinger+figures+of+speech
Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace. [Words] of earth, purified seven times.
The added text is justified because "of earth" is plural, agreeing with plural 'words', not singular 'furnace'. The verse says that God talks to us in our own languages and figures of speech. The Greeks extensively studied figures. Here is a book that lists about 900 figures found in the bible. It is almost the only work in the subject for the last two thousand years: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=e.+w.+bullinger+figures+of+speech
The figure in your question is called "condecension": a higher being condescends to be desribed in terms that apply to a lower being. For example we say a man "gets up on his hind legs." A man does not have hind legs, but he condescends to be described in words that apply to an animal. God does not have emotions or arms or changes of heart. But He speaks of himself as if He did because we understand those terms.
It's awfully hard to give a straight answer because nobody knows what a myth is, and everybody assumes that everybody in history was just some kind of superstitious wacko. They make all these assumptions without even bothering to read the available records. For instance the ancients were quite specific: they did not worship gods named for planets, they worshipped the planets. In those days Saturn and Jupiter dominated the sky, and Venus and Mars put on quite a show for a long time. Here is a careful investigation of ancient myths and legends, considering stories in hundreds of languages from all over the world and going back to 10,500 BC. It is very long, and it is still in progress. http://saturniancosmology.org/
A myth is a parable based on a figure of speech, usually a simile, metaphor, or hypocatastasis. A myth is possible, a fable is impossible, and if it includes an explanation then it is an allegory. Here is a free book that lists about 900 figures found in the bible. It is almost the only work in the subject for the last two thousand years: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=e.+w.+bullinger+figures+of+speech
A couple lesser known recent titles:
Closing Minds: How Scientology's “Ethics Technology” is Used to Control Their Members by Jefferson Hawkins, Hawkeye Publishing Co., February 17, 2015. ASIN: B00TQEJ8EU
Have You Told All?: Inside My Time with Narconon and Scientology by Lucas A. Catton, Catton Communications, February 13, 2013. ISBN: 0615768725
That's about $108/year. You can buy a lot of books for that kind of money...even more if you go with digital versions, which are often half price or less.
Amazon has a lot of Freemasonry-related eBooks that can be downloaded for free or under $5. Openlibrary.org is a great resource for free eBooks. If you like actual books, you'd be surprised what you can find at secondhand stores and auctions for dirt cheap.
my goal is to snowboard on heard island one day but boat rentals are expensive: http://www.charterworld.com/index.html?sub=Expedition-Yacht-Charter
and yeah i guess technically it's zooming "almost" all the way out but it's still way the fuck out there...i just got this out of print book about an expedition to heard island in the 60s when I read it I'll let everyone know if it took them a month: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL820031W/The_sea_and_the_snow
Holy shit I think you've found it Bugcity..
As soon as I read the name Claire Carmichael I was sure it was the one... and the cover certainly looks familiar..
THank you so much Bugs, you've brought a long and strenuous search to an end... now I just need to find where I can purchase it and jump back into my childhood.
Thanks again mate and have a good one!
There are plenty of textbooks available in pdf and other formats... you just have to dig around a bit.
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23337160M/An_American_history
A surprisingly good book that is aimed at homeschoolers is here. There's probably more emphasis on church music than normal, but it is a great jumping off point.
Actually I've been meaning to for around a week now. It's available for free here if you're willing to set up an account (only takes a few moments).
"The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad" by Thornton Burgess sounds like exactly what you are looking for except that all the ones I searched were not "mostly illustrations", but just had like 14-15 illustrations. Maybe that is just because there are several different publications with different layouts... The following link is to ProjectGutenberg, and it has the entire story and illustrations free (if you don't already know about Project Gutenberg, don't worry, it is legal and not pirating) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12630/12630-h/12630-h.htm#image-1 * Here is another link to a copy of the book that is illustrated (it says published in 2007, but they just mean re-published since the original book came out in the 90's) http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9334972M/The_Adventures_of_Old_Mr._Toad_(Illustrated_Edition)_(Dodo_Press)
I couldn't see a link to actually read the book.
Openlibrary.org has it available to download in a bunch of formats though :)
Here's a direct link to the good old fashioned text file version.
Assuming that you are speaking French, there is Max Gallo's <em>Histoire du Monde</em>, from the Revolution to our times. Not about all epochs in the timeframe you are looking for, but a good half of it.
You might want to consider other of his works, that address specific times or people (Jeanne d'Arc, the different Louis', Napoleon, Hugo, de Gaulle, etc. - he wrote about all of them) and L'ame de la France to get an overview of French history. Also, Le roman des rois: les grands Capétiens touches multiple kings.
Bezmenov is great! His books (like No Novosti is good news) can be found on the Internet and I highly recommend reading it and similar books by KGB defectors.
> but I don't see how a human emotion could be genetic in dogs.
easy:
> ~~human~~ mammalian emotion
it's beneficial to all creatures to be able to communicate simple emotions. complex spoken language is far better, and it is unique to humans so we wouldn't need to evolve such primitive emotional expressions, so it's far more likely to be mammalian in origin and not human, and once the established norms of emotional expression have come about there's no reason for them to change.
> You haven't yet proved that this is the case.
I guess you never even took a look at the link I provided, I guess you're just talking shit then, or you have no attention to detail.
here's it again: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals By <em>Charles Darwin</em> and ebook link
Apparently in this book he is quoted as describing himself as an agnostic
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2950937W/Conversations_with_Carl_Sagan
Also, some speculate that he may be described as a pantheist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism) based on way he described God as governing the universe through a series of laws.
This is similar to an idea put forth by one of the authors in this: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL20716156M/Theodicy_in_the_Old_Testament But I couldn't tell you which, as I read it five years ago. Basically, things aren't so much a punishment from God, but a natural consequence of bad actions.
If you can find it there's a great book by PHD author Larry Parsky called "compentency mathematics"
One of the most brilliant books written for basic math skills IMHO, which are the foundation for all the higher level skills.
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9557704W/Competency_Mathematics
Does any of these help?
[Open Library entry](http://openlibrary.org/books/OL8143859M/Doors_to_the_Unknown_(AD_D_Planescape) Links to loan or buy
As a matter of interest, how does the prospect of filling the missing material sit with mods?
I can't fill the request, but what is the stance on providing a few pages for these sort of requests? It would seem to fit under 'fair use' of a copyright work.
This is one of those times where a library would come in handy. Archaic source? Of all the discussion to come out of this POS article, I get roped into trying to find an article from a book first published nearly 30 years ago.
Interesting project!
> I don't expect users other than a master admin and circulation attendants [...]
Why not? I would think that sharers would want to see what's available. Or do you mean "users" as in "people who can process transactions"? I don't think it would be too hard to add some basic discovery--titles, authors, and maybe even subjects (since you appear to have MARC records).
While we're on the subject of MARC--do you think it's necessary? MARC is a heavy format, and MARC records often have lots of useless data. Have you considered a more friendly format for import. Maybe something like the Open Library OPDS? You can get all the information a patron or library would need, plus useful stuff that AACR2/MARC doesn't handle like work relationships, covers images, and links to related resources.
I would recommend posting this to the Code4Lib mailing list (if you haven't already).
If you were to post this on github (or the like) I'd be glad to help out however I can. I'm not much of a designer, but I am a library programmer with a fair amount of front-end (Javascript) and backend programming skills.
My grandfather gave me this book when I was a teenager. It was paper back with a red binding. It seemed like a silly thing you would order off of television infomercial, but he probably ordered it from an ad in the back of a magazine. Anyway, I read it and it was really helpful.
I had forgotten about it for the most part until I read your comment about gardens and bank loans.
I don't know if it is out of print, looks like amazon has it. whatever the open library is seems to have it.
It's called "the art of conversation and how to apply its technique" written by Milton Wright published in 1936.
Yip/ I'm over 50 yrs old - Currently reading in French...
Here's millions of books that Amazon lists as free collections:
Including:
Internet Archive - Over 2.5 million free titles - http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Open Library - Over 1 million free titles - http://openlibrary.org/