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Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster?

, 2015
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half ...
D. Sims, T. Mitchell
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Green Polymer Chemistry and Bio‐based Plastics: Dreams and Reality

, 2013
Dwindling fossil resources, surging energy demand and global warming stimulate growing demand for renewable polymer products with low carbon footprint.
R. Mülhaupt
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Dreaming an Impossible Dream

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1975
Norman Malcolm wrote:That something is implausible or Impossible does not go to show that I did not dream it. In a dream I can do the impossible in every sense of the word.Malcolm nowhere suggests why this remark should be regarded as true. Indeed, many philosophers would regard it is palpably false.
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Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

, 2014
Every morning Chicagoans wake up to stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city," and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims?
L. Ralph
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Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California

, 2004
List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Maps 1. Agrarian Dreams 2. Finding the Way: Roads to Organic Production 3. Organic Farming: Ideal Practices and Practical Ideals 4.
J. Guthman
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End-of-life dreams and visions: a longitudinal study of hospice patients' experiences.

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2014
BACKGROUND End-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) have been well documented throughout history and across cultures. The impact of pre-death experiences on dying individuals and their loved ones can be profoundly meaningful.
Christopher W. Kerr, J. P. Donnelly, Scott T. Wright, Sarah M Kuszczak, Anne Banas, Pei C. Grant, Debra L. Luczkiewicz   +6 more
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Dream a Little Dream

Architectural Design, 2011
AbstractDoes the protocell require too great a leap in scalar imagination for architects? A detail of a building is manageable but what about something smaller than the microscopic? Mark Morris encourages designers to scale down to the diminutive level of the nanoscale by providing them with some inspiring precedents in architectural theory and popular
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The Neuropsychology of Dreams : A Clinico-anatomical Study

, 2014
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. The Classical Case Reports of Charcot-Wilbrand Syndrome. Charcot's Variant of the Charcot-Wilbrand Syndrome: Cessation or Restriction of Visual Dream-Imagery. Wilbrand's Variant of the Charcot-Wilbrand Syndrome:
M. Solms
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Perverse Dreams and Dreams of Perversion

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2006
This paper (1) posits the occurrence of perverse dreams as a type of mental phenomenon in the constellation of perverse processes; (2) considers manifest dreams of frank perversion as a type of perverse dream within the class of perverse dreams as a whole; (3) relates the subtype of perverse dreams without manifest perversions to the occurrence of ...
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--And What to Do about It

, 2009
Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold ...
J. Lerner
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