Barack Obama

Barack Obama

By: Heather Lahr Wagner 

On February 10, 2007, a crowd of more than 15,000 people gathered outside the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The Capitol, chosen as the backdrop for this gathering, is rich in historical connections. Although the building is a reconstruction, it was on this site that Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous “House Divided” speech in 1858, boldly stating, “I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.” That speech that marked the beginning of his campaign for the U.S. Senate. As an attorney and politician, Lincoln spent a lot of time at the Capitol. As a state legislator, he had been involved in the campaign to relocate the Illinois capital from Vandalia to Springfield in 1837. Lincoln used the building for meetings during his 1860 presidential campaign, and, after his assassination, his body lay in state in its Representatives Hall. [download]

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Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

By: Margaret Speaker Yuan

Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866. Both of her parents, Helen and Rupert Potter, came from families that had made their fortunes in the cotton business. Rupert had been educated as a barrister (a member of the English legal profession). He had inherited so much money from his parents, however, that he found he did not need to practice law or even to work at all. Rupert enjoyed reading, visiting art galleries, going to his club, or pursuing a recently invented hobby, photography. He and his family lived at Two Bolton Gardens, on the outskirts of Central London. London in the 1860s and 1870s was a prosperous city with many new buildings being planned and constructed. Builders used the latest in high technology. [download]

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Bob Marley

Bob Marley 

By: Sherry Beck Paprocki

Thousands of people crowded into Meskal Square in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to celebrate what would have been the sixtieth birthday of the legendary reggae singer Bob Marley. The memory of Marley was powerful, and the music promised to be good. The Africa Unite concert would feature several of Marley’s adult children singing their own versions of the music their much-beloved father made popular. It was a sunny Sunday, February 6, 2005. The festive setting brought thousands of people together.Members of the Marley family flew in from Jamaica and the United States. Fans gathered from far-off places like Israel, Spain, South America, England, and even Japan. For months, the anticipation of this event had built. Red, gold, and green posters wrapped the lampposts in the city of Addis Ababa. Taxi drivers handed out advertisements for the big event. [download]

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Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

By: Rachel A Koestler Grack

Toward the end of 1963, Bruce Lee stood front and center of the Garfi eld High School gymnasium in Seattle. In front of him, a couple of dozen scruff y-looking teenagers slouched in their chairs. Garfi eld was a tough, inner-city school whose students were not strangers to fi ghts. But these kids had never heard of kung fu, the Chinese martial art form Lee was there to demonstrate. A few yawned and checked their wristwatches, and others snickered to each other as they eyed the shrimpy little Asian guy who thought he knew how to fight. Although kung fu was new to these hoodlums, karate was quite popular in the United States at the time. Lee began by showing them the diff erence between a karate-style punch and the wing chun centerline punch. [download]

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Chris Rock

Chris Rock 

By: Anne M. Todd

Only the backstage area of a theater is visible. An announcer yells, “Live, from the Takoma Theatre in Washington, D.C.… Are … you … ready? … It’s Chri-i-i-i-s R-o-o-o-c-k!” The crowd cheers in anticipation of the comedian’s entrance. The camera closes in on a battered, red door with the name “Chris Rock” printed on a small card. The camera slowly pans down the length of the door to the floor. The door opens and there is a glimpse of an all-black outfit shirt, pants, belt, and shiny leather jacket as a person emerges from the dressing room. The only items of clothing that are not all black are the shoes, which are glossy white on top. As the person walks through the doorway, the camera remains on his shoes. The shoes proceed through a dark, narrow passageway leading to the main stage, and the audience’s excitement level builds. [download]

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Sex God Method 2nd Edition

Sex God Method 2^nd Edition 

By: Daniel Rose’s

Congratulations on making the decision to purchase this book. Because if you’ve been looking to have a “secret edge” in the bedroom which will give you the sex life that most guys only dream about. This could be the most important book you ever read, and here’s way: if you’re not good in bed. You know pretty well what a miserable experience sex can turn into. First of all, if you can’t given women orgasm, they probably won’t want to have sex with you (believe me, I know). You might sleep with a girl once and have her leave you for a guy who’s better in bed…or you might find yourself slowly getting less and less sex in your relationship, until finally it seems like you’ve forgotten what real sex is even like. Your masculine confidence is slowly sapped from you with each sexual failure, until eventually you feel totally powerless to turn a women on. [download]

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Private Sector and Enterprise Development

Private Sector and Enterprise Development 

By: Lois Stevenson

Before beginning the more detailed discussion of private sector and enterprise development in The MENA-12 countries. Chapter 1 lays out the landscape of private sector development. Covering its many facets, the different view helds by donors and internationals organizations about what it is. The policy areas implicated in creating a favourable environment for the emergence of a robust private sector and why this is important for growth. It present a framework of the major component of PSD and makes the case for an integrated approach to PSD to address the growth and equity challenges in developing countries. In 1995 the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the organization for economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defined the private sector as “a basic organizing principls of economic activity where private ownership is an important factor. [download]

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Twitter Marketing An Hour A Day

Twitter Marketing An Hour A Day 

By: Hollis Thomases

Today, nothing could be further from my perception. I have seen the proverbial light and I evangelize Twitter whenever and wherever I can. These days, the most common question I’m answering for others is not “What am I doing?” but “Why should I Twitter? I don’t get this thing or how it can help my company.” The turning point came for me in early 2008 when a colleague pointed me to a brief about how the tax-preparation firm H&R Block was using Twitter to help answer tax-return-preparation questions as a means to woo new customers. Reading this brief made me realize the potential of Twitter as a marketing tool. As an online marketing practitioner, the dots were connected, and I haven’t looked back since. Each day I’m reminded how valuable Twitter is as a marketing tool. It’s a place for research, for customer service, for product promotion, to distribute news, to build customer loyalty, and to get ideas. [download]

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Undercover Sex Signals

Undercover Sex Signals

By: Leil Lowndes

Are you a relative rookie in the relationship game who stutters when talking to anyone wearing a skirt? Or are you a bit older with the personality, experience, polish, money, prestige, and charm to attract women? Eitber way, one thing is sure. Unless you are the rare man who picks up on a woman’s subliminal sex signals, you are missing OUt on a lot of opportunities. Don’t think tbe beauty at tbe end of the bar is going to beckon you by crooking her finger and winking at you. She casts far more subtle signals that 30 out of every 31 men miss.’ They’re called undtrCouer sex signals or U.S.S.s and, if you don’t bite immediately, she fishes for smarter tuna. Going beyond sex for a moment (don’t hyperventilate; I’ll come back to it), let’s talk about relationships. What are your chances of having a great one with a woman who, half the time, you have no idea how she’s feeling or what she’s hinting at? [download]

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What Ever You Like

What Ever You Like 

By: Maureen Smith

“Are we almost there?” The uniformed chauffeur met Lena Morrison’s gaze in the rearview mirror. “About five more minutes.” Nodding briskly, Lena slid a tube of MAC lipstick across her mouth and surveyed her reflection in the compact mirror she’d removed from her evening purse. The lustrous red color made her full lips look as juicy and inviting as ripe mangoes dangling from the bowed branches of a tree. Smoky eye shadow accentuated her wide, dark eyes and high cheekbones. She’d exchanged her conservative office attire for a sexy black dress that hugged her curves and had a plunging back. Diamonds glittered at her ears, throat and wrists. She looked like a million bucks. Felt like it, too. So it was only fitting that tonight she was escorting one of Chicago’s most eligible bachelors to a glitzy party aboard his private yacht. Roderick Brand, president and CEO of a multinational energy conglomerate. Educated at MIT. Recently named Businessman of the Year by Forbes. Net worth $2.4 billion. [download]  

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Principles Economics

Principles Economics 

By: N. Gregory Mankiw

The word economy comes from the Greek word oikonomos, which means “one who manages a household.” At first, this origin might seem peculiar. But in fact, households and economies have much in common. A household faces many decisions. It must decide which members of the household do which tasks and what each member gets in return: Who cooks dinner? Who does the laundry? Who gets the extra dessert at dinner? Who gets to choose what TV show to watch? In short, the household must allocate its scarce resources among its various members, taking into account each member’s abilities, efforts, and desires. Like a household, a society faces many decisions. A society must find some way to decide what jobs will be done and who will do them. It needs some people to grow food, other people to make clothing, and still others to design computer software. Once society has allocated people (as well as land, buildings, and machines) to various jobs, it must also allocate the output of goods and services they produce. [download]

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Lighting The Nude

Lighting The Nude 

By: Roto Vision

The most common response from the photographers who contributed to this book, when the concept was explained to them, was “I’d buy that”. The aim is simple: to create a library of books, illustrated with first-class photography from all around the world, which show exactly how each individual photograph in each book was lit. Who will find it useful? Professional photographers, obviously, who are either working in a given field or want to move into a new field. Students, too, who will find that it gives them access to a very much greater range of ideas and inspiration than even the best college can hope to present. Art directors and others in the visual arts will find it a useful reference book, both for ideas and as a means of explaining to photographers exactly what they want done. It will also help them to understand what the photographers are saying to them. [download]

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Legacy of The Luoshu

Legacy of The Luoshu 

By: Frank J. Swetz

In the fall of 1991, I attended a conference at the University of Pittsburgh. During my free time I sought out the cultural and intellectual diversions the large city had to offer. I visited museums and art galleries. At one museum, I came across a display of rare documents European books and manuscripts that reflected the scientific climate of the Renaissance. Marking the end of a long hall was a round glass display case. The centerpiece, elevated within the case, was a copy of Astronomia Europaea, an account of Jesuit scientific accomplishments in China during the years 1669 to 1679, written by the head of the Jesuit mission, Ferdinand Verbiest (1623–1688), and published in 1687.1 Surrounding this impressive volume were some of Verbiest’s notes concerning his work and life in China. My attention was immediately drawn to one paper whose penciled diagrams seemed to involve the luoshu. [download]

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Slavery in America

Slavery in America

By: Dorothy Schneider and Carl J. Schneuder 

Africans knew slavery long before Europeans sailed to their shores. They enslaved their enemies and their criminals. Sometimes they enslaved debtors. Like all other peoples in the long history of slavery, Africans enslaved outsiders members of other tribes or erring members of their own tribes. Slavery became an integral part of Africa’s economic organization. According to slave trader Theodore Canot, “The financial genius of Africa, instead of devising bank-notes or the precious metals as a circulating medium, has from time immemorial declared that a human creature the true representative and embodiment of labour, is the most valuable article on earth.”  The slave system was both entrenched and widespread. No one will ever know how many Africans owned how many slaves in the early days, but scholars speculate that in the late 19th century, a majority of Africans were either slaves or the descendants of slaves. [download]

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The Fire Keeper

The Fire Keeper 

By: Robert Moss

It was the time of dream-telling. In the Longhouse, in the ruddy glow of the new fire of Midwinter, the clanmothers dressed the heralds in buffalo robes and bearskins. The women crowned them with wreaths of cornhusks that fanned out around their blackened faces. They fastened braids of cornhusks, like dance rattles, to the Bigheads’ wrists and knees. They knotted corn cobs into the thong ties of the animal hides. They armed the dream heralds with huge wooden paddles, shaped like corn pounders, to stir the ashes in the firepits and make the earth tremble under the elmbark lodges of the Upper Castle. “Now you are complete,” the clan mothers told them. “You will leave the Longhouse by the men’s door and return by the women’s door. You wear the skins the animal masters have given our men on the hunt and the fruits of the earth that the Mother has entrusted to the care of our women.” [download]

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Sexual Secrets

Sexual Secrets 

By: Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger 

the power of sex, the meaning of transcendence, the force of Brahma, the force of Vishnu, the force of Shiva, the triad of forces, understanding the sexual secrets, the realm of Brahma, the realm of Vishnu, the realm of Shiva, the three Shaktis, the goddess triad and the god triad, the meaning of Kali, her nakedness, her four arms, Parvati, one with Kali, Kali’s mantras, Kali’s yantra, sexual initiation, chakra puja, bhairavi chakra, yogini chakra, Kali consonants and vowels, the role of the guru, erotic fantasy, the emotions, nine sentiments, conjuring forth emotions, sentiments and colors, channeling emotions, sexual roles, role playing, old age, sex and transcendence, menopause, impotence, sex and pregnancy, the mystic child, astrology, sexual positions and astrology, magical powers, siddhis, siddhas, the power of drugs, drugs as sacraments, marijuana, fasting, abstinence, celibacy, Ganesha, Ganesha mantras, Ganesha’s role. [download]

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Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing

Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter

This book begins with me returning from Vietnam in 1973. I had less than a year to go before I was going to be discharged from the Marine Corps. That meant that in less than a year, I was going to have no job, no money, and no assets. So this book begins at a point that many of you may recognize and that is a point of starting with nothing. Writing this book has been a challenge. I have written and rewritten it four times. The first draft began at the SEC’s Accredited Investor Level, the level that begins with a $200,000 minimum annual income. After the book was completed the first time, it was Sharon Lechter, my co-author, who reminded me of rich dad’s 90/10 rule of money. She said, “While this book is about the investments that the rich invest in, the reality is less than 10% of the population in America earn more than $200,000 a year. [download]

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Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

By: N. Gregory Mankiw

Why have some countries experienced rapid growth in incomes over the past century while others stay mired in poverty? Why do some countries have high rates of inflation while others maintain stable prices? Why do all countries experience recessions and depressions recurrent periods of falling incomes and rising unemployment and how can government policy reduce the frequency and severity of these episodes? Macroeconomics, the study of the economy as a whole, attempts to answer these and many related questions. To appreciate the importance of macroeconomics, you need only read the newspaper or listen to the news. Every day you can see headlines such as INCOME GROWTH REBOUNDS, FED MOVES TO COMBAT INFLATION, or STOCKS FALL AMID RECESSION FEARS. These macroeconomic events may seem abstract, but they touch all of our lives. [download]

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Management and Marketing

Management and Marketing 

By: Ian Mackenzie 

One definition of a company is that it is nothing more than a sum of other people’s money invested in productive capacity or services which produce a profit greater than (1) the opportunity cost of the capital involved. From this definition follows the belief that the role of a company is to maximize its value for the shareholders. The managers must be permanently concerned with maximizing value, and not only if there’s the threat of a (2) raid. They have to concentrate exclusively on activities that create value, so that the company will regularly (3) divest less profitable operations, acquire other profitable businesses, and restructure itself. According to the logic of “value-based management”, it is not enough to (4) launch a successful new product occasionally, and to revitalize existing mature products by effective marketing programmes…. [download]

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The Googlization of Every Thing

The Googlization of Every Thing 

By: Siva Vaidhyanathan

In the beginning, the World Wide Web was an intimidating collection, interlinked yet unindexed. Clutter and confusion reigned. It was impossible to sift the valuable from the trashy, the reliable from the exploitative, and the true from the false. The Web was exciting and democratic to the point of anarchy. As it expanded and became unimaginably vast, its darker corners grew more remote and more obscure. Some had tried to map its most useful features to guide searchers through the maelstrom. But their services were unwieldy and incomplete, and some early guides even accepted bribes for favoring one source over another. It all seemed so hopeless and seedy. Too much that was precious but subtle and fresh was getting lost. [download]

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The Capability Approach

The Capability Approach 

By: Flavio Comim, Mozaffar Qizilbash and Sabina Alkire

Amartya Sen’s capability approach has generated remarkable interest in recent years. This volume brings together a selection of papers initially presented at an international conference on the capability approach (CA) held at St Edmund’s College, Cambridgein 2001. This conference marked an important turning point in research on the capability approach. It brought together many young scholars who were interested in the approach as well as others who had been working on it for some time. The conference was initially motivated by issues relating to the usefulness of the approach in the particular contexts of poverty and injustice. However, conference papers covered a wide range of topics relating to concepts, measurement and other applications. In this volume, the papers are categorised in terms of these broad and overlapping areas. [download]

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The Family Values Movement

The Family Values Movement 

By: Samuel Willard Crompton

Everything changed between 1940 and 2000. Nothing changed between 1940 and 2000. Each of these statements is at least half right. Change, or the lack of change, depends on perspective, which is largely influenced by one’s generation: the time, place, and situation into which one is born and reared. Let’s examine what American family life was like in the 1940s, a time preserved for us by an artist’s paintbrush. the homecoming Born in 1894, Norman Rockwell was 51 when he painted The Homecoming, which became the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in late May 1945. In the painting, clothes hang on a line, and neighborhood children frolic in a tree. Mother stands on the stoop, her arms open wide. Father looks up from his carpentry, a grin spreading across his handsome, though weather-beaten, face. Brother leaps from the porch, his long legs working like pistons. [download]

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The Dead Janitors Club

The Dead Janitors Club 

By: Jeff Klima

I WALK INTO THE LOBBY of a shockingly splendid hotel, and the wheel on the cash register in my mind is clicking audibly upward. I anticipate leaving this place a few thousand dollars richer than when I walked in. So many factors are at play here; I am chomping at the bit, trying to discern them all. French doors gilded with a gold overlay breeze open effortlessly before me, working off unseen sensors and a pneumatic arm. Caucasian employees stare pleasantly at me from behind the counter. From a financial standpoint, this is a good thing. White people are terrified of death. An overabundance of detachment and safety in our culture has resulted in “whitey” becoming a benign collective of soft-shelled whiners, people who understand pain only in terms of there not being three-ply toilet paper on sale at the supermarket closest to their condo. [download]  

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex 

By: Dr. Judy Kuriansky

You’re about to embark on a wonderful journey! Would you like to feel more intense excitement than ever before? Experience more love for yourself and others than you ever imagined possible? Have the best sex ever truly, because it’s not just sex; it’s much more? If you answered yes, get ready to be transformed, to feel freer, and more enthusiastic about yourself and your life. I can make these promises to you because I know it’s possible and because I have seen inspiring transformations happen to men and women of all ages, young and old, when embarking on the exciting journey you can make in this book. In this part, I’ll introduce you to the ancient arts of lovemaking that started in the Eastern parts of the world thousands of years ago but that were lost over the centuries until now when we in Americaare reviving them. [download]

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Television, Power, and The Public in Russia

Television, Power, and The Public in Russia

By: Ellen Mickiewicz

When almost an entire population depends on television for its news, and its political leaders accord almost miraculous powers to the medium, and gobble one commercial channel after another, wouldn’t those political leaders want anxiously to know what viewers make of the news? Isn’t viewer-processing as vital to their strategy as message-creation? In today’s Russiathese are vital questions, on which careers and huge resources can ride and, strangely enough, the answer to both these questions is ‘‘no.’’ The other side of the television screen the one where the viewers are arrayed is invisible. Agreement with the message is assumed. Hence, the question: what if the ‘‘reception’’ on the other side of the screen was actually confounding and contradicting the leaders’ assumptions every day, and bywhat method are viewers able to do thus? [download]

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With Seduction in Mind

With Seduction in Mind

By: Laura Lee Guhrke

London, May 1896 DaisyMerrickwas unemployed. Such a circumstance wasn’t unusual Daisy had been in that particular pickle many times before. Some people, including her sister, were inclined to see her ever-changing job situation as her own fault, but to Daisy’s mind that opinion was most unfair. Today was a perfect example.Bristling with indignation, she marched out of the offices of Pettigrew and Finch, where she had just been informed by the matron in charge of typists that her services would no longer be required. And no, Matron had added upon her inquiry, they could not see clear to providing her with a letter of character. Given her shameless conduct, no favorable reference would be possible. “My shameless conduct?” she muttered, pausing on the sidewalk to search for a passing omnibus amid the traffic that clogged Threadneedle Street. “Mr. Pettigrew is the one who should be ashamed!” [download]

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Wolfsbane

Wolfsbane 

By: Andrea Cremer

I COULDN’T SHUT OUT the screams. Darkness surrounded me. A terrible weight pressed into my chest, making me struggle for each breath as I lay drowning in my own blood. I sat up with a gasp, blinking into the shadows. The screaming had stopped. The room became still, flooded with silence. I took a couple of painful swallows, trying to moisten my parched mouth. It took me a moment to realize that the screams had been my own, each cry clawing my throat until it was raw. I brought my hands up to my chest. My fingers moved along the surface of my shirt. The fabric was smooth, with no sign of rips or tears from the crossbow bolts. I couldn’t see well in the dim light, but I could tell this shirt wasn’t mine, or rather, wasn’t Shay’s borrowed sweater the one I’d been wearing the night everything changed. [download]  

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Beneath The Thirteen Moons

Beneath The Thirteen Moons 

By: Kathryne Kennedy

MAHRI POLED HER BOAT AROUND THE BASE OF THE SEA tree, the bone staff she used as much an extension of her body as her own arms. She ducked beneath a branch, a wide one, the limb as straight as the Power of a Seer could make it. The gloom of the evening blackened to inky darkness, the slap of the waves echoed eerily inside the cavern-like arch, and here Mahri chose to anchor her craft. She flipped her wrist in the pattern peculiar to her bone pole, and it retracted with a sliding hiss; her fingers shook as she slid it into a sheath of octopus skin. She patted the bone grapnel with its length of coiled rope and then dug into the small fish-scale pouch that hung against her hip. Mahri withdrew a small piece of zabbaroot, unsure if it would be enough for her task she’d never kidnapped a man before, how could she possibly know? [download]

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Alexander and Alestria

Alexander and Alestria

By: San Sa 

I, Alexander of Macedonia, son of Philip, king of kings, conqueror of the Greeks, came into this world on the night of a great fire. The temple of Artemis was alight. Ocher and yellow flames, forests of sparks and twisting wreaths of smoke, spilled into the sky. Thick clouds settled on villages in which every soul had taken refuge indoors, terrified by the fury of the divine huntress. By the time of my first memory I can already run to the top of the hill. My mother, who dresses me as a girl, takes me to play among the ruins. There are fragments of burned stone scattered in the grass, and wild flowers exhale their bitter fragrance. Wearing a white tunic and sandals with golden straps and with my hair in braids, I stumble up a collapsed flight of steps, hide behind a fallen column, and laugh when the slaves walk past without seeing me. [download]

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Kreativer Denken

Kreativer Denken 

By: Anne Brunner

Kreativität wer möchte nicht über diese Fähigkeit verfügen? Kreativität ist eine Schlüsselkompetenz, die in fast allen Lebensbereichen gefragt ist: in Wissenschaft und Technik, im künstlerischen Schaffen, in der stillen Reflexion auch im privaten Leben. Kreative Kompetenz zählt zu den wichtigsten Schlüsselkompetenzen überhaupt. Nach Hartmut von Hentig ist Kreativität ein „Heilswort“ unserer Zeit. Sie zu fördern wird als zentrale Aufgabe angesehen, sei es im Kontext der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, des Managementtrainings oder der Didaktik. Kein Wunder also: Kreativitätsmethoden sind en vogue. Sie zielen im Wesentlichen in zwei Richtungen: Entweder darauf, problemorientiert Lösungen für bereits Vorhandenes zu finden. Oder darauf, in „unbekanntes Land“ vorzudringen, also den Möglichkeitsraum als solchen phantasievoll zu erweitern, und damit den Horizont des Denkens. [download]

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In Want of A Wife

In Want of A Wife 

By: Cathy

‘You don’t believe in love, do you?’ she asked, and Louis laughed, raking his fingers through his hair. ‘I believe in lust, and I believe in marriage.’ ‘You mean marriage based on … what? How can you base a marriage on lust? Lust doesn’t last.’ ‘But it’s an enjoyable starting point, don’t you agree? Not that I’ve given much thought to marriage one way or the other.’ Lizzy shifted awkwardly. She realised that her legs were brushing against his, and she primly angled her body away from him. When their eyes met, she could see at a glance that he had noted the shift and was amused by it. ‘And what happens when the lust fades away?’ ‘Oh, that’s why it’s so important to be practical when it comes to getting married. A decent business arrangement doesn’t allow for any nasty surprises. There’s no such thing as the perfect marriage, but there is such a thing as the perfect criteria for a wife.’ [download]

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The Courtship Dance

The Courtship Dance

By: Candace Camp

NO ONE WOULD have guessed from the way Lady Francesca Haughston moved through the Whittington ballroom that she was making the opening moves of her campaign. She strolled along in her usual manner, pausing to compliment a dress here or flirt with one of her many admirers there. She smiled and talked and plied her fan deftly, a vision in ice-blue silk, her blond hair falling in a cascade of curls from an upswept knot. But all the while, her dark blue eyes were looking for her prey. It had been almost a month since she had vowed to herself to find a wife for the Duke of Rochford, and tonight she intended to set her plan in motion. She had made all her preparations. She had studied the young unmarried women of the ton, and through careful research and observation, she had managed to whittle the number down to just three whom she felt suitable for Sinclair. [download]

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The Witches of Santa Anna

The Witches of Santa Anna 

By: Lauren Barnholdt and Aaron Gorvine

Here’s how my first day of school at Santa Anna is supposed to go: 1. I will cruise effortlessly through the halls, never once getting lost, misplacing my schedule, or embarrassing myself in any way. 2. I will meet a boy who will fall madly in love with me. (Think Edward from Twilight, but without that whole weird there’s-a-vampire-staring-at-me-while-I-sleep thing. So I guess think Robert Pattison. Which would actually be perfect, since I’m English. Well, sort of. I grew up in England, but I’ve been in the USever since I was ten. I still have a tiny bit of an accent, which people usually think is cool, so sometimes I try to play it up and make it more pronounced than it actually is. I figure if it worked for Madonna, it should work for me.) 3. I will hook up with a new crowd of amazing friends that will become my friends for life. [download]

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John Tyler: The Accidental President

John Tyler: The Accidental President 

By: Edward P. Crapol

John Tyler is not one of the famous or better-known American presidents. If known at all, it usually is because of the catchy political slogan, “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” which was the rallying cry in the 1840 campaign of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison and his vicepresidential running mate, John Tyler. Perhaps when questioned, a number of Americans also might know thatTylerwas the first vice president to succeed to the presidency upon the death of the incumbent president. Maybe even some would also remember from their school days that his opponents mockedTyleras “His Accidency,” because of the manner in which he became the nation’s tenth president. His obscurity has not been for want of historical accounts of his life and career. A decade after his death, one of Tyler’s good friends and political allies authored a highly laudatory biography of his long public life intended to salvage the tenth president’s historical reputation. [download]

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International Economics

International Economics 

By: Barbara Ingham

International Economics is the application of economic theory to situations in which countries are closely connected, through the exchange of goods and services, or through some other type of economic relationship, such as that between a creditor country and a debtor country. International economics is concerned with the interrelationships and interdependencies between national economies. Paul Samuelson, Nobel prizewinner and one of the foremost economists in the world today, has written that no complete understanding of any modern economy is possible without a thorough grounding in international economics. International economics illuminates the interaction between domestic economic events, and important changes in the world economy. Samuelson himself has made important theoretical contributions to the pure theory of trade. [download]

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Flirting with Boys

Flirting with Boys

By: Hailey Abbott 

Oh my God!” Celeste Tippen’s best friend almost sent her flying onto the last row of white folding chairs set up on Longbrook High School’s lawn. Under the hot Palm Springs sun, dressed-up families were filling the aisles, clutching graduation programs, and claiming rows of seats by laying jackets and purses across them. Several audience members turned to look at the crazy girls in the back, but Devon Wright didn’t let go of Celeste’s elbow. “What?” Celeste spun around, rubbing her tan arm where Devon’s nails had dug in. That was definitely going to bruise. “Stefan Napoli!” Devon hissed, frantically smoothing. her sleek, shoulder-length black hair behind her ears. “How’s my hair?” Celeste rolled her eyes. “Fabulous, of course. When does your hair ever not look perfect?” Devon was now using Celeste’s sunglasses as a mirror to apply fuchsia lipstick from an ornate gold tube. [download]

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Forbidden Pleasures

Forbidden Pleasures 

By: Bertrice Small

“I’ve got bad news and bad news. Whadaya want first?” Aaron Fischer looked across the large mahogany desk at Emily Shanski, a.k.a. Emilie Shann. He was a stocky man in his sixties who wore impeccably tailored Armani suits, and had beautifully manicured hands. His gray hair, what was left of it, was nicely barbered around his balding pink pate. On the third finger of his left hand he wore a gold band engraved with a Celtic knot. The gold tie pin in his silk tie echoed the same design. “You dragged me in from Egret Pointe for bad news?” Emily grumbled. She didn’t like the look in Aaron’s usually warm brown eyes. Those eyes were serious today. It did not bode well. “Okay,” she sighed dramatically. “Gimme the worst of it first. Then the not so worst.” “I’m not sure which you’ll consider the worst,” he said slowly. “Kirk!” he called to his business and life partner. [download]

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Hands on Reflexology

Hands on Reflexology 

By: Andrew James

Balance and wholeness are all most of us want from life. We can get lost in our everyday existence; doing more ‘things’ and taking on more responsibility, and thus lose sight of our own ‘self. This is when reflexology steps in. Reflexology is one of the most accessible complementary therapies; hands and feet are all you need to bring health, happiness, fun and rejuvenation to your whole being. I have introduced reflexology to thousands of people, through individual treatment, lectures, TV and radio, conferences or talks to international companies and small self-help groups. 1 am still amazed that even with just a one-day workshop it is possible to see an instant change in people’s physical, mental and emotional state. They leave at the end of the day feeling more balanced, literally walking on air, with something achieved for themselves. [download]

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In The Company of Heroes

In The Company of Heroes 

By: Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov

I first met Michael Durant in April 1997, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, when I was researching my book Black Hawk Down. Durant was still an active-duty pilot with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, a unit with a top-security clearance, and it had taken me more than a year to get permission to interview him. When I arrived at Fort Campbell, I was surprised to find myself with not one, but three public affairs officers as escorts. They introduced me to Durant, a fit man with ramrod posture and a very serious manner, and then asked if we minded if they all sat in on the interview. It seems they weren’t worried about a security breach; they just wanted to hear Durant tell his story. No wonder. Durant’s experience is one of the most harrowing in the history of the American military, and one of the most compelling ever told. [download]  

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How to Develop Children as Researchers

How to Develop Children as Researchers 

By: Mary Kellett

In the adult world research process is greatly valued as an advanced learning tool and whetstone for critical thinking. The importance of research in professional and personal development is increasingly being acknowledged. So why should children not benefit in a similar way? Traditionally, children have been excluded from this learning process because research methodology is considered too difficult for them. Principal obstacles focus around three key barriers: age (and by implication, competence), knowledge and skills. If we can find ways to overcome these barriers and explore innovative approaches to engage children in the research process then we can access a rich and, hitherto, largely untapped source through which to develop creativity, critical thinking skills and analytical capability. [download]

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Eloise: Letters to A Lost Child

Eloise: Letters to A Lost Child

By: Loise Lavallee

sitting alone in your room, I have long dreaded this moment, seeking the right words, gentle words of love which will bring about your rebirth. Dizzy before this quest for missing words and with the need to come to terms with our new reality, I have arrived after opening and closing many doors. I have this constant, fine pain, a small needle piercing just above my heart; emptiness and pain mingled with doubt and panic. How can I recreate your beauty, your softness, your strength, your suffering, and above all, your magic? Faced with the task, I doodle, I let myself be distracted and wander so that I can hold back, just a little. First I come to a picture of you at five months old. You are intact, smiling, with your brilliant cheeks and mirthful eyes, my little girl, so fall of life. Just beside it is another image of you, ten years later at the pavilion, with your freckles showing springtime and your dainty straw hat slightly tilted to one side, cruelly emphasizing your too-open mouth. [download]

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Engaging Minds

Engaging Minds 

By: David A. Goslin

One of the intriguing paradoxes of education in the United States is that many people believe that the nation’s schools are badly in need of reform, yet most people report that they are satisfied with the schools their children attend. Another is that nearly everyone acknowledges the importance of academic achievement for success in life, yet many Americans remain deeply ambivalent about how much time and effort their children should spend on schoolwork rather than sports, work, and other activities. American ambivalence about the amount of effort children should devote to academic achievement contributes to the fact that during much of the time most students spend in school, they are less than fully engaged in learning academic skills. It also helps to explain why the nation has made so little progress in improving education despite nearly three decades of intense effort. [download]

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Every Thing Must Go

Every Thing Must Go 

By: James Ladyman and Don Ross 

The aim of this book is to defend a radically naturalistic metaphysics. By this we mean a metaphysics that is motivated exclusively by attempts to unify hypotheses and theories that are taken seriously by contemporary science. For reasons to be explained, we take the view that no alternative kind of metaphysics can be regarded as a legitimate part of our collective attempt to model the structure of objective reality. One of our most distinguished predecessors in this attitude is Wilfrid Sellars. He expressed a naturalistic conception of soundly motivated metaphysics when he said that the philosopher’s aim should be ‘knowing one’s way around with respect to the subject matters of all the special [scientific] disciplines’ and ‘building bridges’ between them (1962, 35). It might of course be wondered whether or why science has any role for non-specialist bridge-builders. [download]

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Commodity Investing

Commodity Investing 

By: Frank J. Fabozzi

Commodities are currently enjoying a renaissance due to institutional investors such as pension funds and traditional portfolio managers. Many market participants attribute the recent dramatic price increases in commodities to increased demand for consumer goods, particularly from the populous countries of India and China. Demand from Brazil and Russia, two of the fastest-growing economies currently, has undoubtedly also played a part. (Collectively, these four countries are referred to as the BRIC countries.) Globalization and economic and political convergence have been behind the stimulated growth in these economies to a large extent. Besides increased investment on an enterprise level, increasing state investment in infrastructure in China has also led to enormous demand for commodities. This has caused a shock to the worldwide supply and demand dynamics, leading to at least short-term price increases. [download]

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Developing New Business Ideas

Developing New Business Ideas 

By: Andrew Bragg and Mary Bragg

At some time in their life, almost everybody has had an idea for starting their own business or for launching an innovative project. You are probably no different. The idea might have been sparked by something you saw on a foreign holiday or in a different market sector. You might have been dissatisfied with a product or service which did not work properly. It might have been an article which you read in the paper. Your own experience might have highlighted a particular gap in the market. You might think that your current organisation lets customers down and that you could do better on your own. You might have been made redundant. You might just be fed up with working for others. You might even be one of the favoured few who has had a ‘Eureka’ moment. But did you actually do something with your initial idea? [download]

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Charles Darwin: Leben und Werk

Charles Darwin: Leben und Werk 

By: Von Wolfgang Scaumann 

1st die Welt erschaffen worden, oder ist sie spontan entstanden? Alte Mythologien und Religionen sind sich mit den modernen Naturwissenschaften darin einig, dass es unsere Erde nicht von Ewigkeit an gegeben hat. Fruher war das eine Philosophie, heute sind wir dessen sicher. Als der Mensch zu denken begann, war ihm Vie-Ies unverstandlich, und so schuf er sich seine Cotter, denen er alles zuschrieb, was seine Vernunft nicht erklaren konnte. Dazu gehorte die Erschaffung der Welt als gottliche Tat. Gott erschuf die Welt in sechs Tagen, so steht es in der Bibel. Mit dem Aufkommen der Naturwissenschaften regten sich zunachst Zweifel, ob die sechs Tage wortlich zu nehmen sind. Wie kommen z.B. Muscheln in Gesteine, die man fernab von jedem groi3eren Gewasser und viele Meter iiber dem heutigen Wasserspiegel findet? [download]

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Business Writing and Communication

Business Writing and Communication 

By: Kenneth W.Davis

In this knowledge economy, writing is the chief value-producing activity. But you may not be writing as well as you could. That may be because you think writing requires a special talent that some people have and some people don’t. In fact, writing is a process that can be managed like any other business process. If you can manage people, money, or time, then you can manage your writing. And you can profit from the results. This book will give you the tools to become in the next 36 hours a more effective, efficient manager of your own writing. • You’ll become more effective because you’ll learn to produce writing that gets things done. • You’ll become more efficient because you’ll learn to produce more effective writing in less time. How can this magic happen in just 36 hours? It’ll happen because you’ll learn to take the management skills you already have and apply them to the process of writing. [download]

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Baby Tips for Grandparents

Baby Tips for Grandparents 

By: Simon Brett

You may think being a grandparent’s easy, that all you have to do is sit back and enjoy watching the development of another generation. But being a grandparent brings all kinds of new challenges. It puts new stresses on your relationship with your children and it’s also a diplomatic minefield. You’ll find, in your new role, you spend a lot of time biting your tongue to avoid saying the wrong thing. Oh yes, it’s tough. How fortunate then that you have this small book of advice to guide you through the choppy waters ahead. Before the baby’s born Try not to ask: ‘Should you be doing that in your condition?’ A grandmother-tobe should try to avoid turning into a primitive Wise Woman, dangling keys or needles over the bump to predict gender. [download]

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Business to Business Marketing

Business to Business Marketing 

By: Chris Fill and Karen E. Fill

This part consists of two chapters that introduce the two main themes of the book: business to business (B2B) marketing and information systems and technology (IS&T). These chapters are designed to provide a thematic platform on which the rest of the book builds. Chapter 1 introduces the fundamental characteristics of B2B markets and considers the nature, size and dynamics of the sector. Reference to the consumer market is made to highlight both the differences and similarities between the two fields and approaches. The main objective of this chapter is to set out the essential characteristics and importance of B2B marketing, the pivotal aspects of value creation and interorganisational relationships. This enables readers unfamiliar with the B2B market to become conversant with topics that are developed and explored in subsequent chapters of the book. [download]

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Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha

Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha 

By: Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Yoga is the science of right living and, as such, is intended to be incorporated in daily life. It works on all aspects of the person: the physical, vital, mental, emotional, psychic and spiritual. The word yoga means ‘unity’ or ‘oneness’ and is derived from the Sanskrit word yuj which means ‘to join’. This unity or joining is described in spiritual terms as the union of the individual consciousness with the universal consciousness. On a more practical level, yoga is a means of balancing and harmonizing the body, mind and emotions. This is done through the practice of asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha, shatkarma and meditation, and must be achieved before union can take place with the higher reality. The science of yoga begins to work on the outermost aspect of the personality, the physical body, which for most people is a practical and familiar starting point. [download]

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