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Though the young redwood grows is a supernally happy story with childhood surliness that explains how machines exist to augment man and may cast off the shackles of his physical limitations. This tale is about a capacity for empathy that had never existed in a robot before. The year is 3217 in Eddy, the coastal town where Marshall Powers lives. Marshall Powers who is a forester at Toad Island clocks out and goes to his home before receiving a ...

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Excerpt from Recollections of Sixteen Presidents From Washington to LincolnIT having been understood among my friends that I have seen all the Presidents of the United States, ex cept Washington and the elder Adams, their partiality has prompted the request that I should communicate to the public my recollections of them, and of other public men whom I have known personally during a life now past four-score years. To this request I have fre qu...

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Legend tell us the Irish saint Brendan the Navigator was the first European to discover North America. We now learn he had a motive for doing so, to bring an unhatched egg to the farthest reaches of the earth where it would never be discovered - but it is discovered, and something terrible is born. In a small town in New England, a young woman named Raeven is forced through chance and prophecy to take on the role of dragon-slayer once reserved...

Excerpt from Recollections of Sixteen Presidents From Washington to LincolnIT having been understood among my friends that I have seen all the Presidents of the United States, ex cept Washington and the elder Adams, their partiality has prompted the request that I should communicate to the public my recollections of them, and of other public men whom I have known personally during a life now past four-score years. To this requesti have ire que...

Excerpt from Recollections of Sixteen Presidents From Washington to LincolnIT having been understood among my friends that I have seen all the Presidents of the United States, ex cept Washington and the elder Adams, their partiality has prompted the request that I should communicate to the public my recollections of them, and of other public men whom I have known personally during a life now past four-score years. To this requesti have ire que...

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Excerpt from The Ecology and Management of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: Proceedings of a Symposium at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia, May 26-27, 1971The Red-cockaded Woodpecker has a barred back, barred outer rectrices, and streaked flanks, the Hairy Woodpecker is characteristically solid white in these areas. In addition, the white on the cheeks of the Red - cockaded Woodpecker is more extensive and distributed differe...

Excerpt from The Ecology and Management of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: Proceedings of a Symposium at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia, May 26-27, 1971The Red-cockaded Woodpecker has a barred back, barred outer rectrices, and streaked flanks, the Hairy Woodpecker is characteristically solid white in these areas. In addition, the white on the cheeks of the Red - cockaded Woodpecker is more extensive and distributed differe...

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(Homespun Tapes). Richard Thompson is one of the most brilliant and innovative guitarists of our time. A superb electric and acoustic player as well as a powerful singer and songwriter, he has been blending traditional Celtic and English music with American rock 'n' roll since the mid-1960s when he helped found the seminal British folk-rock band Fairport Convention. In this terrific instructional package, he teaches the intricacies of his uniq...

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The late Johan Frederik (known as Frits) Staal (November 3, 1930-February 19, 2012), was born in Amsterdam and said of his home country, "There was no religion there." While his academic interests included philosophy, Staal's education focused on the study of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and logic. His approach to the study of Vedic religion and ritual was informed by this background, expressed in his assertion that he was not interested i...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Finishing and Furnishing the New Custom-House, New York: August 25, 1842, ReportOn the loth November, 1840, (c, ) Hoyt wrote again to the Secretary. He said I suggest that you ask Congress for an appropriation to pur chase furniture for the building, &c., and gave it as his opinion that it, would require from five to seven thousand dollars, in addition to the furniture we now have that could be used, to fit up all the rooms.Mr. Fr...

Excerpt from Finishing and Furnishing the New Custom-House, New York: August 25, 1842, ReportOn the loth November, 1840, (c, ) Hoyt wrote again to the Secretary. He said I suggest that you ask Congress for an appropriation to pur chase furniture for the building, &c., and gave it as his opinion that it, would require from five to seven thousand dollars, in addition to the furniture we now have that could be used, to fit up all the rooms.Mr. Fr...

Margaret Elderdice (Shirley MacLaine) ist eine stets schlecht gelaunte ältere Dame, die keine Kontakte zu anderen Menschen pflegt und auch niemanden in ihre vier Wände lässt. Nur Cara (Liza Minelli) stellt eine Ausnahme dar, aber auch sie darf Margarets Räume nur betreten, um die grantige Alte auf der Violine zu begleiten, wenn sie Klavier spielt. Eine fortschreitende Arthritis macht es schließlich notwendig, die hübsche junge Robin (Jennifer ...