Первый биографический очерк о Майн Риде появился в английском справочнике «Men of the Time» («Люди нашего времени») за 1837 год. Сведения о себе, согласно традиции, предоставил сам Майн Рид. Обладая буйной фантазией, он исказил некоторые факты своей биографии, местами кое-что приукрасив. Ввиду отсутствия иных сведений литературоведам долгое время приходилось основываться лишь на этих данных, пока в 1890 году не вышла книга вдовы писателя, Элизаб ...
В этой книге крупнейший австрийский физик Э. Шредингер рассматривает такие вопросы, которые традиционно считаются прерогативой философов, теологов, психоаналитиков и политиков: являются ли разум и материя, субъект и объект, внутреннее я и внешний мир совершенно разными вещами или это одно и то же, какое место занимает сознание в процессе эволюции жизни, что лежит в основе морали, можно ли все еще ожидать биологического развития современного чело ...
So vast has the international commitment of our government grown in the last decades, and with this the corresponding increase in the staff engaged in foreign affairs activities, that it is no longer possible to find the channels for personal communications we once had. Yet undoubtedly today’s officers are engaged in a wider variety of experiences than ever before in our history.<P> This series of Occasional Papers produced by the Center ...
The current book is an opinion document describing the opinion of this writer what he thinks are the opinions of various groups of diverse citizens of America-mostly of East Coast and West coast. ...
A violent rebellion is taking place in an abandoned parliament house. Having been boarded up to make way for a new parliament, the building now harbours a new breed of decision-makers – those with feathers and fur. Inside, an uprising is taking place led by the unscrupulous canines, Mr Hughes and Contessa Cavalier. It threatens to harm both animal and human civilisations. Two worlds collide when 11-year-old Lucy clambers through an ope ...
My ten year prison sentence began in the fall of 1986 at Lompoc Federal Prison Camp in Lompoc, California. New surroundings always lead to new acquaintances. As true for prison as it is for other locales, only the types you meet there are different. ...
A government shutdown occurs when Congress does not approve of or the President rejects the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Since the 1990s, Congress has often failed to pass the twelve to thirteen appropriation bills that set government-wide spending.<br /><br />In their stead they pass «continuing resolutions (CR)» to extend the existing spending law at or near current levels, and «omnibus» bills that combine many appr ...
Theresa May has officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party on Friday, but will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen in July, 2019. She announced her resignation saying it was a matter of deep regret that she had been unable to deliver Brexit. <br /><br />Her resignation may have made a no deal Brexit impossible to stop. German chancellor Angela Merkel said she had worked well with Theresa May bu ...
As eloquently stated in Gita, «No one can remain without performing action even for a moment. Every creature is helplessly made to perform action by the gunas (properties) borne of nature». When one performs karma, the person performs karma for material benefits or spiritual benefits. Some people perform one form of karma more than the other forms of karma. Monetary policy change should follow GDP growth rate and not try to stimulate GDP ...
