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Social living requires the elimination, or at very best, the modification of many elements necessary to survival in nature. And when an emergency arises, very often it is the person who would be considered a criminal, in other situations, who alone is able to cope with the necessities. If we manage to eliminate violence from human affairs, what will we find when a need for violence arisesa need outside of mans artificial control of his environment?

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In science-fiction, as in all categories of fiction, there are stories that are so outstanding from the standpoint of characterization, concept, and background development that they remain popular for decades. Two such stories were Murray Leinsters The Mad Planet and Red Dust.Originally published in 1923, they have been reprinted frequently both here and abroad. Now Murray Leinster has written the final story in the series. It is not necessary to have read the previous stories to enjoy this one. Once again, Burl experiences magnificent adventures against a colorful background, but to the whole the author has added philosophical and psychological observations that give this story a flavor seldom achieved in science-fiction.

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So long as there are men and women alive, in a livable environment, then a new beginning is possible. It has been truly stated that those who fail to learn and understand history, are condemned to repeat history!

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NOW WHAT the hells the matter with me? thought Paul Wendell. He could feel nothing. Absolutely nothing: No taste, no sight, no hearing, no anything. Am I breathing? He couldnt feel any breathing. Nor, for that matter, could he feel heat, nor cold, nor pain.

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Yes, Earth may be a sort of fenced-off area, so far as other intelligent races of the galaxy are concerned. But not for the grandiose reasons that some have imagined....

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Now, if the animal we know as a cow were to evolve into a creature with near-human intelligence, so that she thought of herself as a person ...

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Its well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer youll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.

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The gifting of animals with human speech is scarcely an unique idea; the idea of a talking horse goes back at least to the siege of Troy, for certainly there must have been some dialogue amongst the Greek warriors enclosed in the wooden horses belly. But we think youll agree that Miss Smiths filly has something special. Incubus won every race but one. Yet though in this respect she matched Man o Wars record she wasnt actually a horse at all.

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We all have to die sometime, but its more the manner of our going, and the reason why we must die when we do thats the rub.

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Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2

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More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever writtenmany in eBook form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com, including 'Ticking' by Allen M. Steele; 'All Cats are Gray' by Andre Norton; 'The Velvet Glove' by Harry Harrison; 'The Day of the Boomer Dukes' by Frederic Pohl; 'The Troubadour' by Peter Sherman; 'Riya's Foundling' by Algis Budrys; 'Asleep in the Forest of the Tall Cats' by Ken Brady; 'Stairway to the Stars' by Larry Shaw; 'Nightmare on the Nose' by Evelyn E. Smith; 'Ask A Foolish Question' by Robert Sheckley; 'Earthlight' by Bryce Walton; 'The Maiden Mechanical' by Brenda W. Clough; 'Nightmare Planet' by Murray Leinster; 'Regeneration' by Charles Dye; 'Exile from Space' by Judith Merril; 'Flight From Tomorrow' by H. Beam Piper; 'Dignity' by Jay O'Connell; 'Contagion' by Katherine MacLean; 'Suite Mentale' by Randall Garrett; 'The Slizzers' by Jerome Bixby; 'The Fourth Invasion' by Henry Josephs; 'Genesis' by H. Beam Piper; 'The Hills of Home' by Alfred Coppel; 'Sentiment, Inc.' by Poul Anderson; 'This World Must Die!' by H. B. Fyfe; 'Death Between the Stars' by Marion Zimmer Bradley; 'The Eyes Have It' by Philip K. Dick; 'Song in a Minor Key' by C. L. Moore; and 'Fridays' by Jamie Wild.

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Jamie Wild, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Frederik Pohl, Murray Leinster, H. B. Fyfe, Poul Anderson, Alfred Coppel, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Philip Kindred Dick, H. Beam Piper, Allen M. Steele, Peter Michael Sherman, Algis Budrys, Ken Brady, Larry Shaw, Evelyn E. Smith, Robert Sheckley, Bryce Walton, Brenda W. Clough, Charles Dye, Judith Merril, Jay O’Connell, Katherine MacLean, Randall Garrett, Jerome Bixby, Henry Josephs, C. L. Moore, Warren Lapine

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They worried about the impression shed make. Who could imagine that shed fall in love, passionately, the way others of her blood must have done? Who was this strange girl who had been born in this placeand still it wasnt her home?...

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Christmas is not everybodys favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond to the holiday season. Their response is a mixed one: do we participate, try to ignore the holiday entirely, or create our own traditions and make the season an enjoyable time? This book, the first on the subject of Jews and Christmas in the United States, portrays how Jews are shaping the public and private character of Christmas by transforming December into a joyous holiday season belonging to all Americans.Creative and innovative in approaching the holiday season, these responses range from composing Americas most beloved Christmas songs, transforming Hanukkah into the Jewish Christmas, creating a national Jewish tradition of patronizing Chinese restaurants and comedy shows on Christmas Eve, volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens on Christmas Day, dressing up as Santa Claus to spread good cheer, campaigning to institute Hanukkah postal stamps, and blending holiday traditions into an interfaith hybrid celebration called Chrismukkah or creating a secularized holiday such as Festivus.Through these venerated traditions and alternative Christmastime rituals, Jews publicly assert and proudly proclaim their Jewish and American identities to fashion a universally shared message of joy and hope for the holiday season. See also: http://www.akosherchristmas.org

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Titanic. Two Moon Junction. A Night in Heaven. Sirens. Henry & June. 9 Songs. Lady Chatterley. And more. A new "body guy" genre has emerged in film during the last twenty years-a working-class man of the earth or bohemian artist awakens and fulfills the sexuality of a beautiful, intelligent woman frequently married or engaged to a sexually incompetent, educated, upper-class man. This body guy exhibits a masterful athletic, penile-centered sexual performance that enlivens and transforms the previously discontented woman's life.Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt relate a host of wide-ranging films to a literary tradition dating back to D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and an emerging body culture of our time. Through an engaging and compelling narrative, they argue that the hero's body, lovemaking style, and penis-revealed through extensive male nudity-celebrate conformity to norms of masculinity and male sexuality. Simultaneously, these films denigrate the vital, creative, erotic world of the mind. Just when women began to successfully compete with men in the workplace, these movies, if you will, unzip the penis as the one thing women do not have but want and need for their fulfillment.But Lehman and Hunt also find signs of a yearning for alternative forms of sexual and erotic pleasure in film, embracing diverse bodies and vibrant minds.  Lady Chatterley's Legacy in the Movies shows how filmmakers, spectators, and all of us can be empowered to dethrone the body guy, his privileged body, and preferred style of lovemaking, replacing it with a wide range of alternatives.

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Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster, explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of rebuilding and starting over replicates past vulnerabilities, and analyze Katrina's imprint alongside American's myths of self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have emerged in our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons that should be learned from Katrina.

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Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, Keith Wailoo, Evie Shockley, Lyra Stein, John Aiello, Richard Mizelle, Nancy Boyd-Franklin, William Rodgers, Mia Bay, Niki Dickerson, Ann Fabian, David Troutt, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, Roland Anglin, Keith Wailoo

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New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences

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Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology.Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history-especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments-and addresses key present-day problems related to sustainability, such as global climate, biodiversity, oceans, and more.Contributors to Knowing Global Environments reveal how the field sciences have interacted with practical economic activities, such as forestry, agriculture, and tourism, as well as how the public has been involved in the field sciences, as field assistants, students, and local collaborators.

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Jeremy Vetter, James Rodger Fleming, Stuart McCook, Michael Reidy, Mark Barrow, Lynn Nyhart, Robert Kohler, Helen Rozwadowski, J. Conor Burns, Jeremy Vetter

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The set of Jewish mystical teachings known as Kabbalah are often imagined as timeless texts, teachings that have been passed down through the millennia. Yet, as this groundbreaking new study shows, Kabbalah flourished in a specific time and place, emerging in response to the social prejudices that Jews faced.Hartley Lachter, a scholar of religion studies, transports us to medieval Spain, a place where anti-Semitic propaganda was on the rise and Jewish political power was on the wane. Kabbalistic Revolution proposes that, given this context, Kabbalah must be understood as a radically empowering political discourse.  While the eras Christian preachers claimed that Jews were blind to the true meaning of scripture and had been abandoned by God, the Kabbalists countered with a doctrine that granted Jews a uniquely privileged relationship with God. Lachter demonstrates how Kabbalah envisioned this increasingly marginalized group at the center of the universe, their mystical practices serving to maintain the harmony of the divine world. For students of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalistic Revolution provides a new approach to the development of medieval Kabbalah. Yet the books central questions should appeal to anyone with an interest in the relationships between religious discourses, political struggles, and ethnic pride. 

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How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families

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Complicating the common view that immigrant incorporation is a top-down process, determined largely by parents, Vikki Katz explores how children actively broker connections that enable their families to become woven into the fabric of American life. Childrens immersion in the U.S. school system and contact with mainstream popular culture enables them more quickly to become fluent in English and familiar with the conventions of everyday life in the United States. These skills become an important factor in how families interact with their local environments. Kids in the Middle explores childrens contributions to the family strategies that improve communication between their parents and U.S. schools, healthcare facilities, and social services, from the perspectives of children, parents, and the English-speaking service providers that interact with these families via childrens assistance. Katz also considers how childrens brokering affects their developmental trajectories. While their help is critical to addressing short-term family needs, childrens responsibilities can constrain their access to educational resources and have consequences for their long-term goals. Kids in the Middle explores the complicated interweaving of family responsibility and individual attainment in these immigrant families.Through a unique interdisciplinary approach that combines elements of sociology and communication approaches, Katz investigates not only how immigrant children connect their families with local institutional networks, but also how they engage different media forms to bridge gaps between their homes and mainstream American culture. Drawing from extensive firsthand research, Katz takes us inside an urban community in Southern California and the experiences of a specific community of Latino immigrant families there. In addition to documenting the often-overlooked contributions that children of immigrants make to their families community encounters, the book provides a critical set of recommendations for how service providers and local institutions might better assist these children in fulfilling their family responsibilities. The story told in Kids in the Middle reveals an essential part of the immigrant experience that transcends both geographic and ethnic boundaries.

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Databases of both convicted offenders and no-suspect cases demonstrate the power of DNA testing to solve the unsolvable. George Woody Clarke is a leading authority in legal circles and among the news media because of his expertise in DNA evidence. In this memoir, Clarke chronicles his experiences in some of the most disturbing and notorious sexual assault and murder court cases in California. He charts the beginnings of DNA testing in police investigations and the fight for its acceptance by courts and juries. He illustrates the power of science in cases he personally prosecuted or in which he assisted, including his work with the prosecution team in the trial of O. J. Simpson.Clarke also covers cases where DNA evidence was used to exonerate. He directed a special project in San Diego County, proactively examining over six hundred cases of defendants convicted and sentenced to prison before 1993, with the goal of finding instances in which DNA typing might add new evidence and then offered testing to those inmates.As Clarke tells the story of how he came to understand and use this new form of evidence, readers will develop a new appreciation for the role of science in the legal system.

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Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform

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The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security,  stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored  programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for  work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The  low-wage jobs that individuals in transition are typically able to  secure provide few benefits yet often disqualify employees from  receiving federal aid.Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth  interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and  Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the  well-being of adults and children who leave the program for work. We  hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working mothers cannot  obtain the preventive medicines to keep them well, and stories of  pregnant women receiving little or no prenatal care who end up in  emergency rooms with life-threatening conditions.Representative of  poor communities nationwide, the vivid stories recounted here illuminate  the critical relationship between health insurance coverage and the  ability to transition from welfare to work.

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Jewish Studies, the first volume in a groundbreaking new series, Key Words in Jewish Studies, introduces the basic approach of the series by organizing discussion around key concepts in the field that have emerged over the last two centuries: history and science, race and religion, self and community, identity and memory. The book is oriented by contemporary critical theory, especially feminist and postcolonial studies, and the multidisciplinary approaches of cultural studies.

By looking backward and forwardand across continents and disciplinesto unearth the evolution of the scholarly study of Jews, Andrew Bush provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Jewish studies from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. In the course of engaging scholarship on periods from the classical to the contemporary and from the disciplines of history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, Bush questions male-dominated and Ashkenazi-centric visions of the field. He concludes with an experimental exposition of a new Jewish studies for a time where attention to difference has overtaken the security of canons and commonalities.