This edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally published in 1922. This classic tale is decorated with illustrations by Gwynedd M. Hudson who offers a beautiful and charming treatment of Alice's story. 'Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'. Telling the tale of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by surreal and anthropomorphic creatures, the book was a huge commercial success on its initial publication ...

Drawing on qualitative data such as national security and foreign policy literature, Defense Department strategy and operational documents, and interviews with leading academics and practitioners, this study identifies the drivers of the future security environment in order to guide analysis and decision making.

The analysis was carried out on diesel engine cylinder liner. The temperature distribution, stress distribution and displacement in cylinder liner, were investigated using ANSYS12 APDL. The emphasis of this study was to predict the, stress distributions of cylinder liner. The cylinder liner model was generated in ANSYS12 APDL package. Various mesh configurations were obtained in the meshing section of the package. The temperature distribution, stress distribution and displacement, were predicted along the cylinder liner. The results obtained for stress distribution ...

Can an army of orangutan guerrillas save the Indonesian rainforest? Why is China creating a retirement haven in the South China Sea for rich despots? What happened when the British descendant of the oversexed first White Rajah of Borneo returned to claim his throne? Did Filipino “love sorcerers” help swing a US election? Can an American pilgrim find enlightenment through carnal escapades? How can Asia’s first “shaman university” repel an attack by rogue black-magic wizards? And why is Indonesia’s Mermaid Queen really angry ...

Iranian women have a rich and long-standing legacy of political activism. The origins of the Iranian women's movement can be traced back to the emergence of independent women's groups and periodicals during the constitutional revolution of the early twentieth century. Despite women's active presence and contributions to global political developments of the past century, contemporary historical narratives, by and large, remain characterized by gender-blindness. This book problematizes the systemic side lining of women's causes and contributions, not only ...

Joshua Damasio, a young journalist, is commissioned by a newspaper to write a profile of an elusive philosophy lecturer. He begins to unearth a terrifying criminal plan with horrendous potential consequences. And who is this philosopher? What's he up to? Is he a good man in search of real truths, or an obsessive, disturbed and sinister character offloading his life and fears?

""A Vision of Truth: The Soul's Awakening"" is a novel written by Adelaide Walther and published in 1915. The story follows the journey of a young woman named Mary as she embarks on a spiritual awakening. Mary is dissatisfied with her life and feels unfulfilled despite her material possessions and social status. She begins to question the meaning of her existence and seeks answers through her faith and introspection. Along the way, she encounters various spiritual teachers and learns about different religions and philosophies. Through her experiences, Mary ...

The aim here is to demonstrate that emptiness, absence, the hollow or the invisible, perceived in contemporary art, are passwords or channels for reflection on the field of immanence. Emptiness in art can be related to an existential void that cuts through the subject and tries to take shape through artistic endeavour. This emptiness can be seen as the primordial lack seen in psychoanalytic theory. What at one moment is a continent, like the void that bathes the world, in the potter's metaphor is contained, embraced - as Romagnolo's hollow sculptures do - ...

The second-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people of the planet Asto is to look a superior in the eye. The Coldi people possess an instinct that demands the formation of hierarchical networks in which every person has a prescribed place. These networks provide stability. They also place one person at the top. Ezhya Palayi is that person. After having been released by his previous employers, Cory Wilson not only depends on Ezhya Palayi for his income, but he has developed an unusually friendly relationship with this man whom ...

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