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3653 New eBooks So Far in 2003
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That's the 46 WEEKS of 2003 as Compared to ~31 YEARS!!!
Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #3653
Jan 2003 The Courtship of Susan Bell, Anthony Trollope[#17][crtsbxxx.xxx] 3700
Jan 2003 Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, by Trollope [#16][sarjkxxx.xxx] 3699
[Full Names: Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, Jamaica, by Anthony Trollope]
Jan 2003 The Task and Other Poems, by William Cowper [#1][ttaskxxx.xxx] 3698
Jan 2003 A Century of Roundels, by Swinburne [Swinburne #4][cnrndxxx.xxx] 3697
[Author: Charles Algernon Swinburne]
Jan 2003 The Prince and the Page, by Charlotte M. Yonge[12][prcpgxxx.xxx] 3696
Jan 2003 Every Man Out Of His Humour, by Ben Jonson[Ben #2][emohhxxx.xxx] 3695
Jan 2003 Every Man In His Humour, by Ben Jonson [Jonson #1][emihhxxx.xxx] 3694
Jan 2003 Louisa of Prussia and Her Times, by L. Muhlbach #7[luisaxxx.xxx] 3693
[Variant spellings: Louisa, Louise, Luise Muhlbach; and Luise von Muhlbach]
Jan 2003 The House of Life, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [thslfxxx.xxx] 3692
Jan 2003 Little Wars, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#20][ltwrsxxx.xxx] 3691
Jan 2003 Floor Games, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells[Wells#19][flrgmxxx.xxx] 3690
Jan 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, Paris To Rome [1loflxxx.xxx] 3689
Jan 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis, by Saki [H. H. Munro] #6[clovsxxx.xxx] 3688
Jan 2003 The Ruby of Kishmoor, by Howard Pyle [Pyle #5][rubykxxx.xxx] 3687
Jan 2003 The Army of the Cumberland, Henry M. Cist [?cmbrxxx.xxx] 3686
Jan 2003 Egypt (La Mort De Philae), by Pierre Loti[Loti #7][egyptxxx.xxx] 3685
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, All, by Winston Churchill [#9][wc09vxxx.xxx] 3684
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 3, by Winston Churchill[#8][wc08vxxx.xxx] 3683
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 2, by Winston Churchill[#7][wc07vxxx.xxx] 3682
Jan 2003 Mr. Crewe's Career, V. 1, by Winston Churchill[#6][wc06vxxx.xxx] 3681
(This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister)
Jan 2003 Cartrefi Cymru, by Owen M. Edwards[O M Edwards #2][crtcmxxx.xxx] 3680
[Language: Welsh]
Jan 2003 Getting Gold, by J. C. F. Johnson [Miner Handbook][ggoldxxx.xxx] 3679
Jan 2003 Jonah, by Louis Stone [jonahxxx.xxx] 3678
Jan 2003 On Our Selection, by Steele Rudd [onssrxxx.xxx] 3677
[Steel Rudd is pseudonym for Arthur Hoey Davis][Story of Australian Pioneers]
Jan 2003 The Firefly Of France, by Marion Polk Angellotti [fiofrxxx.xxx] 3676
Jan 2003 Die Versuchung des Pescara, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer[?versxxx.xxx] 3675
[This eBook is in German, 8vers10.* has accents, 7vers10.* has no accents.]
Jan 2003 The Dragon and the Raven, by G. A. Henty[Henty #3][tdatrxxx.xxx] 3674
Jan 2003 Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives [ivessxxx.xxx] 3673
Jan 2003 The 2000 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook#10][No#7][world00x.xxx] 3672
Jan 2003 Christie Johnstone, by Charles Reade[Chas Reade#8][crstixxx.xxx] 3671
Jan 2003 Peg Woffington, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade #7][pgwofxxx.xxx] 3670
Jan 2003 The Woman-Hater, by Charles Reade[Charles Reade#6][wmnhtxxx.xxx] 3669
Jan 2003 The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, Baker[angbnxxx.xxx] 3668
[Author: Samuel White Baker [Baker #8]
Jan 2003 Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis [wlfdzxxx.xxx] 3667
Jan 2003 Andreas Hofer, by Lousia Muhlbach [Muhlbach #6] [hoferxxx.xxx] 3666
[Variant spellings: Louise Muhlbach, Luise Muhlbach and Luise von Muhlbach]
Jan 2003 Maurine and Other Poems, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox[5][maurnxxx.xxx] 3665
Jan 2003 Yvette, by Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant [GM#17][yvttexxx.xxx] 3664
Jan 2003 The Girl From Keller's, by Harold Bindloss [tgfksxxx.xxx] 3663
[Alternate Title From The UK: Sadie's Conquest]
Jan 2003 Oscar Wilde, His Life & Confessions, V1 by Harris [1whlcxxx.xxx] 3662
[Author: Frank Harris]
Jan 2003 Quotations from The Essays of Montaigne, by Widger[dwqmnxxx.xxx] 3661
[#12 in our series of Widger's Quotations by David Widger]
Jan 2003 Out Of The Triangle, by Mary E. Bamford [outrixxx.xxx] 3660
Jan 2003 The Rosary, by Florence L. Barclay [rosryxxx.xxx] 3659
Jan 2003 The Prospector, by Ralph Connor [Ralph Connor #7][prspcxxx.xxx] 3658
Jan 2003 Wild Beasts and their Ways V1 by Samuel W. Baker#7[wbatwxxx.xxx] 3657
Jan 2003 Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879, by Samuel W. Baker #6[cyprsxxx.xxx] 3656
Jan 2003 The Parent's Assistant, by Maria Edgeworth [prtasxxx.xxx] 3655
Jan 2003 Alfred Tennyson, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #33][alftnxxx.xxx] 3654
Jan 2003 The Guns of Bull Run, by Joseph A. Altsheler [tgobrxxx.xxx] 3653
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TiVo -- the personal video recorder that cleverly records programs all day
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The Federal Communications Commission plans to reject a request by TV
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The Federal Communications Commission is reserving a new portion of
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Headline News Mostly Avoided By The Major U.S. Media
GDP IS LITERALLY A DILUTED SPIN DOCTORING OF GNP
GDP = Gross Domestic Product GNP = Gross National Product
Do you ever wonder why Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings
and even Jim Lehrer started reading off GDP statistics instead
of GNP numbers?
It's just more spin doctoring to make the U.S. economy not
look as weak as it really is. I wondered about his when it
started, and downloaded much of the following:
It is literally impossible to count every single product the U.S.
makes and every single hour of labor we provide. Therefore our GNP
is only an estimate. The way the government figures GNP is to put
products and services into five major categories: consumer (C),
investment (I), government spending (G), exports (X), and imports (M).
GNP = C+I+G+X-M is the formula. We add up the first four categories,
then subtract our imports because imports, of course, are not made in
this country. Lately the U.S. has not really counted exports and imports.
The government is now just adding up C+I+G and forgetting about the
X and M. This new measure is called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The formula is GDP=C+I+G. Notice that GDP is actually larger than GNP
because the dollar value of our imports is greater than the dollar value
of our exports. By using GDP, our economy doesn't show up as being as weak
due to the fact our imports outweigh our exports by a huge amount.
This is now simply eliminated from the news by the stroke of a gov't pen.
Try counting up just how much of the Evening News is written by such pens.
*
We noticed another one of these since writing the above:
re: the news about the U.S. economy, particularly the NON-trickling-down
of the recent economic booms to the public. You've probably all heard a
few reports that unemployment is finally down, even to the point of going
back a few months and saying, "Oops! Those were really UP. . .NOT down."
However, the previous booms, much larger and longer than at present, if
you can call that a boom, never "trickled-down" to any real improvement
in the public buying power. . .nothing in the past several decades.
One way you can tell the Spin Doctors are in total control, is that none
of the reports being issued are continuing to say "seasonally adjusted."
Obviously right now there is a serious "seasonal" boom in employment,
as all the retail outlets have hired on every possible employable person
for "only 68 more shopping days until Christmas," which obviously slants
the employment figures for October, November and December, and "Back To
School" slanted those for August and September. Once the post-holiday
figures come out in February and March, things may look different.
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