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Your Beliefs Shape Your Life

By: Frederick Gans

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Your Beliefs Shape Your Life

By: Frederick Gans

Conventional probability theory states that the odds of tails coming up when flipping a coin are fifty percent. This figure is not quite correct. Once a penny slipped from my hand and fell on the kitchen table with a single knock. Strangely, the usual noise of a coin settling on a tabletop was missing. To my amazement, the penny was standing on the kitchen table on its edge. The odds against such an event are astronomic. The penny was standing there, as if an invisible hand from another dimension held the coin steady. "Nothing happens by chance," say the spiritualists. What if such a hand is there for me to steady my life and shape my future? This book describes unbelievable events in my life that prove the existence of such a helping hand.

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166

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Xlibris Corporation

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1441546316

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9781441546319

On the Grampian Hills. Grouse and Ptarmigan Shooting, Deer Stalking, Salmon and Trout Fishing. And Other Sketches

By: Frederick Feild Whitehurst

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On the Grampian Hills. Grouse and Ptarmigan Shooting, Deer Stalking, Salmon and Trout Fishing. And Other Sketches

By: Frederick Feild Whitehurst

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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254

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385401917

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9783385401914

Mysteries of Police and Crime

By: Arthur George Frederick Griffiths

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Mysteries of Police and Crime

By: Arthur George Frederick Griffiths

ÊIt may be said that society itself creates the crimes that most beset it. If the good things of life were more evenly distributed, if everyone had his rights, if there were no injustice, no oppression, there would be no attempts to readjust an unequal balance by violent or flagitious means. There is some force in this, but it is very far from covering the whole ground, and it cannot excuse many forms of crime. Crime, indeed, is the birthmark of humanity, a fatal inheritance known to the theologians as original sin. Crime, then, must be constantly present in the community, and every son of Adam may, under certain conditions, be drawn into it. To paraphrase a great saying, some achieve crime, some have it thrust upon them; but most of us (we may make the statement without subscribing to all the doctrines of the criminal anthropologists) are born to crime. The assertion is as old as the hills; it was echoed in the fervent cry of pious John Bradford when he pointed to the man led out to execution, ÒThere goes John Bradford but for the grace of God!Ó Criminals are manufactured both by social cross-purposes and by the domestic neglect which fosters the first fatal predisposition. ÒAssuredly external factors and circumstances count for much in the causation of crime,Ó says Maudsley. The preventive agencies are all the more necessary where heredity emphasises the universal natural tendency. The taint of crime is all the more potent in those whose parentage is evil. The germ is far more likely to flourish into baleful vitality if planted by congenital depravity. This is constantly seen with the offspring of criminals. But it is equally certain that the poison may be eradicated, the evil stamped out, if better influences supervene betimes. Even the most ardent supporters of the theory of the Òborn criminalÓ admit that this, as some think, imaginary monster, although possessing all the fatal characteristics, does not necessarily commit crime. The bias may be checked; it may lie latent through life unless called into activity by certain unexpected conditions of time and chance. An ingenious refinement of the old adage, ÒOpportunity makes the thief,Ó has been invented by an Italian scientist, Baron Garofalo, who declares that Òopportunity only reveals the thiefÓ; it does not create the predisposition, the latent thievish spirit.

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684

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Library of Alexandria

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1465604197

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9781465604194

Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive

With Alphabetical Index

By: Frederick Temple

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Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive

With Alphabetical Index

By: Frederick Temple

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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346

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3752522895

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9783752522891

The Pollock–Holmes Letters

By: Frederick Pollock,Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

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The Pollock–Holmes Letters

By: Frederick Pollock,Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

This book is the first in a two-volume set containing the trans-Atlantic correspondence between the celebrated jurists Sir Frederick Pollock and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Volume two contains the letters dated between 1919 and 1932 and includes their discussion of legal decisions made by Holmes in his capacity as a judge of the United States Supreme Court.

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369

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Cambridge University Press

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1107512093

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9781107512092

Cool Orchids (trade)

And How to Grow Them: with a Descriptive List of All the Best Species in Cultivation

By: Frederick Burbidge

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And How to Grow Them: with a Descriptive List of All the Best Species in Cultivation

By: Frederick Burbidge

Englishman Burbidge was a legendary and intrepid collector of tropical orchids. His experience trying to cultivate these tropical plants in more temperate regions led him to publish "Cool Orchids" in 1874, which focused on successful orchid growing in cooler climates. Illustrations.

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182

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Applewood Books

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1429091185

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9781429091183

Hegel

By: Frederick Beiser

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Hegel

By: Frederick Beiser

Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex ideas, though rewarding, are often misunderstood. In this magisterial and lucid introduction, Frederick Beiser covers every major aspect of Hegel's thought. He places Hegel in the historical context of nineteenth-century Germany whilst clarifying the deep insights and originality of Hegel's philosophy. A masterpiece of clarity and scholarship, Hegel is both the ideal starting point for those coming to Hegel for the first time and essential reading for any student or scholar of nineteenth century philosophy. Additional features: glossary chapter summaries chronology annotated further reading.

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Routledge

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1134383916

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9781134383917

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What If ... ?

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On the Grampian Hills. Grouse and Ptarmigan Shooting, Deer Stalking, Salmon and Trout Fishing. And Other Sketches

On the Grampian Hills. Grouse and Ptarmigan Shooting, Deer Stalking, Salmon and Trout Fishing. And Other Sketches

Mysteries of Police and Crime

Mysteries of Police and Crime

Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive

Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive

The Pollock–Holmes Letters

The Pollock–Holmes Letters

Cool Orchids (trade)

Cool Orchids (trade)

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