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This research review examines the many facets of the public domain.
It discusses key papers, whose topic is the various justifications
for a rich repository of publicly-avaliable information, including
policies favouring robust competition, free speech, and scientific
and technological advance. It also explores problems in ensuring
access to public domain works, as well as commons management
mechanisms. Perspectives on the dynamic between the public domain
and the creation of new works are also presented. This research
review is an insightful resource for students and researchers with
a consideration of the public domain as an important topic in its
own right as well as shedding light on the underlying rationales of
intellectual property law.
These notes give a fairly elementary introduction to the local
theory of differentiable mappings. Sard's Theorem and the
Preparation Theorem of Malgrange and Mather are the basic tools and
these are proved first. There follows a number of illustrations
including: the local part of Whitney's Theorem on mappings of the
plane into the plane, quadratic differentials, the Instability
Theorem of Thom, one of Mather's theorems on finite determinacy and
a glimpse of the theory of Toujeron. The later part of the book
develops Mather's theory of unfoldings of singularities. Its
application to Catastrophe theory is explained and the Elementary
Catastrophes are illustrated by many pictures. The book is suitable
as a text for courses to graduates and advanced undergraduates but
may also be of interest to mathematical biologists and economists.
In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa,
Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred
space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion,
Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing
literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new
understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. This regard for
ritual sites above other locations rendered the act or mere
suggestion of seizing and destroying them powerful weapons in
inter-group religious conflicts. Lander demonstrates that the
quantity and harshness of discursive and physical attacks on ritual
spaces directly correlates to their symbolic value. This heightened
valuation reached such a level that rivals were willing to violate
conventional Roman norms of property rights to display spatial
control. Moreover, Roman Imperial policy eventually appropriated
spatial triumphalism as a strategy for negotiating religious
conflicts, giving rise to a new form of spatial colonialism that
was explicitly religious.
Twelve men pull off what should have been a perfect crime. In
Montana they rob both the sellers and buyers of drugs and leave no
witnesses. There is one glitch in the plan. One of the buyers turns
out to be a DEA agent. Feds are all over the place, backing the men
into a corner. To escape they go to the most isolated place in
Wyoming, the small town of Heritage located in the Rocky Mountains.
When the town's people learn who they are, the gang takes over the
town raining havoc and violence. Only one man is in position to
fight back but the odds are sorely against him.
It is the Thirty-first Century, the world as we knew it is gone and
a new world has emerged out of the ashes. This new world is called
Eden and it is one of the members of fourteen planets called The
Federation. These planets all have one thing in common. They all
seek a perfect world. There are no monetary system, no boundaries,
no flags and no governments. Pollution is a thing of the past and
all but two of the ailments have been eliminated. A perfect world
is finally within reach. Then three unexpected events occur. First,
a new planet with life forms in the first stages of evolution is
discovered. The problem is the planet has been knocked out of its
orbit around its sun. The Federation has no choice but to try and
save as many as possible. Because of their warring nature, they are
split up among the fourteen planets. Second, after an earthquake on
Eden, a new unknown gas is discovered coming out of the mountain.
Searching for the origin two mercenaries from the twentieth century
are found alive. The gas had kept them in suspended animation.
Third, Four spaceships carrying escaped convicts from another
galaxy suddenly appears. These events could not only disrupt but
could destroy all hope of a perfect world.
During the mid-fifties, five young sailors, stationed at Pensacola,
Fla. aboard the U.S.S. aircraft Carrier Saipan would carpool to
their homes every weekend. They liked to call themselves 'The
Fabulous Five'. Steve was the first to get home to Atlanta as the
others continued on. One weekend, early on a Saturday, Steve's
friend Ira took him on a fishing trip into the wilderness outside
Atlanta to a secret lake. They passed a mansion located near the
lake that Ira informed Steve was really a casino. Steve couldn't
get the casino out of his head. As fate would have it, The Fabulous
five sat on the beach the following Wednesday and the conversation
turned to money and then to a perfect crime. Steve proclaimed to
have an idea on the subject. A bet was made and what starts out as
just a lark to win the bet turns into an adventure that would alter
their lives forever.
Sean O'Neal and Carl O'Hara are best of friends and both are
Vietnam Vets. They live in the Cherokee National Forest. Once a
month John Henry and Billy Ray, two inbred brothers, pack up their
mules with marijuana from their fields in the forest and go on a
four day trip. Sean and Carl use this time to go to the fields and
steal enough for their own use. Sean is leaving the fields one
morning when he spots the two brothers returning early. They have
an oriental woman strapped to one of the mules. They had kidnapped
her and planned to rape and then murder her. Sean is at a lost as
what to do. Suddenly he finds his feet carrying him down the
mountain to aid the poor woman, knowing full well it would mean the
end of the quiet peaceful life he treasured so much in the
Tennessee Mountains.
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