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The road problem
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The road to heaven
Growing up, I used to have a book called The Unexplained, and inside it was a picture of the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. Bosch's paintings were full of weird and wonderful animals coupled with hundreds of naked men and women in what looked like a garden party of the most exotic …
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The road to Absalom
The Road to Absalom is set in contemporary South Africa, where, for much of the predominantly young population, the country's ancien regime is little more than a childhood memory. David is a young articled clerk living a hedonistic and carefree life with his model girlfriend, Georgina, in Cape …
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The Road Home (Original writing)
… over an eighteen month period beginning in the Fall of 1991. Most of the work was done in conjunction with Richard Wiley's creative writing workshops. The stories are all fictional, though each one has some part of its genesis in my experience.
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Miles Davis: The Road to Modal Jazz
The fact that Davis changed his mind radically several times throughout his life appeals to the curiosity. This thesis considers what could be one of the most important and definitive changes: the change from hard bop to modal jazz. This shift, although gradual, is best represented by and …
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… it sounded exotic, and that was good enough for the four of us. We packed up our lives in London, bought a hardy vehicle, learnt some Russian, obtained letters of invitation from ministries of the interior, and set off. Along the way we ran into some trouble: treason in Croatia; psychosis in …
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Empirical Ionospheric Models: The Road To Conductivity
The Earth's polar ionosphere is a highly dynamic region of the upper atmosphere, and acts as the closure of the greater magnetospheric current system. This region plays host to many electrodynamic effects that impact terrestrial systems, such as power grids, railroads, and pipelines. These effects …
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
… thought to be inherently individualistic--whether such individualism was viewed as a strength, in the Mandevillean view, or as a weakness, by the civic humanists. Five thinkers from the Scottish Enlightenment--Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John …
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Perspectives on the road: narratives of motoring in Britain
This thesis is a study of the travel writing inspired by automobile journeys in Britain in the period 1896 to 1930 and the new modes of subjectivity afforded by the motor car. In permitting greater access to the countryside away from railway stations, motorists were able to gain fresh perspectives …
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The Image from the Road: Towards Mapping the Phenomenological
… forms of cognitive geography research, is the ‘cognitive map’, a concept that suggests “that people hold a map-like database in their minds to which they can add and use to tackle geographical tasks”. Kevin Lynch, an urban planner in the 1960s, was an early adopter of the cognitive map …
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The road not taken: Socialism a l’Ottoman, 1908-1912
… a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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The Road to Rio: Infrastructure, Image, and New Media
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is currently in the midst of extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. Central to the preparation and hosting of such mega-events are the issues of infrastructure and image. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential (and …
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Women Community College Presidents: The Road to the Presidency
In 2005, according to the American Association of Community College (AACC) and the National Institute of Leadership Development, women signify 259 community college presidents nationally. Hockaday and Puyear (2000), Weisman and Vaughan (2002) reported in 2002 that more women held presidencies at …
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