It’s True: You Eat Poison Every Day

It’s True: You Eat Poison Every Day

By: Peter Macinnis

My dentist said, “I’ve just given you a lethal injection.” He explained that the novocaine he’d just injected into my jaw was fatal or would be if it went into a vein. Where it was, in the muscle, the injection was safe. In researching this book, I discovered that poisons are used as beauty iids and medicines as well as for murder and war. I read stories of king and queens who thought each meal might be their last (ElizabethI had guards to taste test her food in case it was poisoned and people to check inside her gloves). I read about criminals who botched the job, and explorers who ate their dogs. I found out why green dresses were once so dangerous and why we should beware of Botox. It’s true, poison are everywhere. The ggod news is that you won’t die of them at least probably not today…… [download]

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The Kalam Effect-My Years with The President

The Kalam Effect-My Years with The President

By: P.M. Nair

APJ. Abdul Kalam became President of India in July 2002. He was a surprise choice for President. A scientist and not a politician, with an unusual hairstyle and an unassuming way of doing things, and no other agenda except that of seeing Indiabecome a developed and strong nation. How would such a man fit into the regal splendour of Rashtrapati Bhavan, and all the pomp and ceremony of a head of state, even if he was the recipient of the country’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna? What followed, however, as RM. Nair shows in The Kalam Effect, was a remarkable presidency that in the next five years transformed the way people looked at this office, and made Kalam popular in a way few politicians have been. Rashtrapati Bhavan became a much more accessible place, and his ‘at homes’ drew guests in the thousands. [download]

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Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

By: Patrice Anne Rutledge, Jim Grey and Tom Mucciolo

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 is the latest version of this powerful presentation graphics software program and is part of the Microsoft Office 2003 family. Using PowerPoint, you can create a basic slideshow quickly or you can delve into sophisticated features to create a customized presentation. Because it’s part of the Microsoft Office suite of products, you’ll find PowerPoint intuitive and very familiar if you already use any other Office applications, such as Word or Excel. Because creating a successful presentation is more than just becoming a PowerPoint power user, we’ve included a special section in this book on presentation skills. After you master PowerPoint, you can master presentation techniques, such as creating a script, evaluating the use of multimedia and color, reaching your audience, rehearsing your speech, speaking in public, and dealing with the technicalities of presentation. [download]

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The Lavender and The Rose

The Lavender and The Rose

By: Michael Graeme

It had begun with news of Amanda’s death. This had taken some time to sink in, and the experience was unlike anything I’d known before because Amanda had never been a real person to me, only a figure half glimpsed, like a stranger through frosted glass. It was Beatrice I had loved and Beatrice whose unacceptable loss I had struggled with. Before driving up toCumbriathat time to meet with Lamarr, I had come to the conclusion the purpose of my journey was to bear witness to the ending of an era, and a period of great mystery, one the tides of change had decided to lay to rest, without revealing much by way of answers. I knew now that was not what any of this meant at all. It was not the end of anything, but a new course whose purpose I could discern no more clearly than when it had begun ten years ago. [download]

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You’re Guide to Better Sex in 10 Steps

You’re Guide to Better Sex in 10 Steps

Published By: Lovecentria

Cela faisait presque une demi-heure que John Forbes Nash, deuxieme du nom, genie des mathematiques, inventeur d’une theorie du comportement rationel, precurseur de l’intelligence artificielle, contemplait unpoint situe juste devant le pied gauche de son visiteur, George Mackey, egalement mathematicien et professeur a Harvard. Il ne bougeai guere que pour repousser ses longs cheveux bruns, d’un geste brus que et repetitiif, quands ils lui retombaient sur le front. En cette fin d’apres midi du mois de mai 1959, il faisait deja desagreablement chaud. Affale dans un fauteuil de la salle commune de l’hopital, un pan de sa chemise en nylon depassant d’un pantalon sans ceinture, Nash, en depit de son gabarit athletique, avait l’air d’une puopee de chiffon et scs traits finement ciscles etaient depourvus d’expression. [download]  

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The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave

The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave

By: Leigh Branham

This book is about the hidden, elusive motivations that cause capable employees to start questioning their decision to join your company, start thinking of leaving, eventually disengage, and finally, leave. The true root causes of voluntary employee turnover are hiding in plain sight. If we really think about it, we already know what they are: lack of recognition (including low pay), unfulfilling jobs, limited career advancement, poor management practices, untrustworthy leadership, and dysfunctional work cultures. So, in what way are these root causes hidden, and from whom? Surveys tell us they are hidden from the very people who need to be most aware of them the line managers who are charged with engaging and keeping valued employees in every organization. The vast majority of line managers, in fact, believe that most employees leave because they are ‘‘pulled’’ away by better offers. [download]

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Marie Curie and The Science of Radioactivity

Marie Curie and The Science of Radioactivity 

By: Naomi Pasachoff

Marie Sklodowska Curie opened up the science of radioactivity. She is best known as the discoverer of the radioactiv elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy. Her work not only influenced the development of fundamental science but also ushered in a new era in medical research and treatment. [download]

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The Dynamic of Secessions

The Dynamic of Secessions 

By: Viva Ona Bartkus

This book investigates secession. It seeks to answer a single question: why do groups decide to secede? Since secession is frequently a contested subject, it may be helpful at the outset to clarify both its meaning and my approach. Secession is the formal withdrawal from an established, internationally recognized state by a constituent unit to create a new sovereign state. The decision to secede represents an instance of political disintegration, when the citizens of a sub-system withdraw their political activities from the central government to focus them on a centre of their own. When the leaders of both a seceding community and the state express their positions in stark, absolute terms, the avenue of compromise is often precluded, there by causing secessionist conflicts to be among the most bitter of struggles. [download]  

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The Esther Scroll

The Esther Scroll 

By: David J.A. Clines

Different parts of this book will probably appeal to different people. Septuagintalists will appreciate most Chapter 7 on the non Septuagintal Greek Esther; source-critics may find Chapter 9 interesting, where it is maintained that our ability to analyse sources is not a sufficient reason for concluding they existed; redaction-critics will turn rather to Chapters 3 and 4 where a proposal is made for peeling off late editorial layers from the end of the Scroll; while literary critics may find Chapters 1 and 10 (noting the inclusio) more to their taste, and savour the qualities of this intriguing tale, not only in the final form of the text, but in the various shapes in which it still exists or apparently once existed. With the needs of different readers in mind, I have tried to signpost the beginnings and ends of chapters with some account of the argument, so that the complete interlocking thesis of the book can be comprehended without reading every chapter right through. [download]

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The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day 

By: John Case

It was a mailman who reported it, calling 911 hal an hour before Delaney’s shift was supposed to end. The pickup was sitting in the driveway and there were lights on in the house, so the mailman thought someone must be home. But it had been days now, and still no one answered when he knocked. The mailbox wass filled to overflowing. So maybe, he figured, maybe Mr. Terio had suffered a heart attack. Delaney shook his head and swore at the mailman’s timing. Brent had a play off gamae at six, and it was five already. Helen would kill him. (You’ve got to be there for him, Jack! Show little support! What’s more important your own son or your buddies at the station?) Well, actually…the truth was, he liked to go to his son’s games. Brent was a good player better than he had ever been and it was fun to bask in the kid’s reflected glory. [download]

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Macaulay-The Tragedy of Power

Macaulay-The Tragedy of Power

By: Robert F. Sullivan

An irony governs the reputation of Thomas Babington Lord Macaulay 150 years after his death. Within living memory much of the English reading world has demoted him from an Eminent Victorian properly mentioned in the same breath with John Stuart Mill and George Eliot to a name known only to liberal arts graduates of a certain age and to students of nineteenth century culture. Meanwhile, his legacy flourishes in South Asia, where he detested living but relished power. The Latin inscription below his statue in TrinityCollege, CambridgeUniversity, acclaims him for reforming the letters and laws of India. The tribute sounds like imperial hyperbole until you hear the voice of a fluent English speaker in a call center in what was recently Bangalore(Bengalooru) and consider that in 1835 Macaulay, not yet thirty five, was instrumental in launching English as the subcontinent’s shared language. [download]

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Literary Memoirs

Literary Memoirs

By: Jose Victorino Lastarria 

Chileans take pride in their past. Theirs is a rich historical and literary heritage, passed on from generation to generation since the nineteenth century through public and private educational institutions and a lively publishing industry, as well as through the build-up of folk and elitelore. Few Chileans with the rudiments of primary or secondary education are unfamiliar with a set of heroes, events, and national accomplishments that would be the envy of any nation emergent from the western hemispheric independence movements of the 1775-1825 half century. Soon after winning independence from Spainin 1817-1818, Chileans turned to the task of nation-state building. By regional standards they did brilliantly. [download]

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In Search of Trojan War

In Search of Trojan War 

By: Michael Wood 

First, the tale. Homer of course is the starting point, with the Iliad and the Odyssey. But it is as well to make clear at the start that he was drawing on a vast cycle of stories which dealt with the Trojan War. The Iliad in fact deals with only one episode covering a few weeks in the tenth year of the war. In classical times a great series of epics, now lost or in fragments, told those parts of the story ignored by the earlier Homeric poems, and some of these, like the epics known as the Kypria and the Sack of Ilios, were evidently of great scope and power. They were composed soon after Homer: if he lived in the late eighth century BC (see Chapter 4) then his successors were probably working around 700 BC or soon after, by which time writing was becoming widespread in Greece. These successors to Homer may have written down their epics, but it is clear from the surviving fragments that they, like Homer, were drawing heavily on a long oral tradition. [download]

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Lords and Priests

Lords and Priests 

By: Bill Bridges and Jackie Cassada

It is said there are four “estates” of power within the known worlds the nobility, the UniversalChurch, the Merchant League, and the Emperor, of these, the most ubiquitous, resourceful, enduring and cunning is that of the nobility. Like it or not, nobles hold the reins of power, for even the Emperor comes from their thanks and may one day be deposed by them. Their own press speaks highly of their magnanimity, but their detractors constantly grumble about oppression and revolt. The topic of royal reform is an ongoing debate in the known worlds. Most believe that reform can onlycome from within from the nobles themselves. To over throw the nobles from the outside (from the people) may not end the estate in the future, sotenacious has it proven in the past. [download]

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In My Courtyard

In My Courtyard 

By: John Alexander

I have a beautiful farm in the country. It lies near the silver river and a thick hedge protects the courtyard, with tall poplars to keep off the strong winds of winter. In the yard the hens and ducks are free to wander searching for food. All day long they scratch and poke amidst the dirt and dust, seeking any grains that might have been forgotten when they were given their daily corn. “Cock a doodle doo!” That cry comes from the fine bird with the haughty air. He is the rooster, the king of the courtyard, the most important bird there. All day he struts about, his head high and his spurs bent, ready to fight. In front of him a group of hens, with feathers like weeping willows, cluck and chatter in the dirt. Every day is much the same. The rooster and hens spend their time scratching and searching in the yard, all rushing to the fence with a great clacking noise when the farmer’s wife comes to feed them. [download]

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Empire of Alexander The Great

Empire of Alexander The Great 

By: Debra Skelton and Pamela Dell 

IN 336 b.c.e., A PROUD, INTELLIGENT, AND SUPREMELY ambitious young man rose to become king of Macedon, which is a kingdom on the northern border of modern-day Greece. He was only 20 years old and already wanted to take over the mighty Persian Empireto the east. He accomplished this feat and much more, despite the wealth, power, and military strength of his opponents. And he did it in just under 12 years. This illustrates his extraordinary gifts as a leader and military strategist (a person who sets strategy). It has also kept his name at the top of the list of legendary “action figures” even into the 21^st century, more than 2,300 years later. He is still known throughout the world as Alexander the Great. [download]

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Empire of The Mongols

Empire of The Mongols 

By: Michael Burgan

FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS, WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK rode across centralAsia, conquering nearby towns and cities. These horsemen lived on the steppes, which is a flat, grassy region that extends from Asia into centralEurope. The riders were nomads people with no permanent home. They moved from one grazing spot to another with their herds of horses, sheep, camels, goats, and cattle. Over the centuries, these nomads battled such people as the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Chinese, and the Arabs. Of all the nomadic warriors of centralAsia, the fiercest were the Mongols. In the 13th century, starting in their homeland ofMongolia, just north ofChina, the Mongols spread out to the south and west. Under the leadership of Chinggis Khan (ca. 1162–1227) and his descendants, the Mongols quickly built an empire that stretched fromKoreato eastern Europe the largest continuous area of land ever controlled by one ruling family. [download]

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Halfbreed

Halfbreed 

By: David Fridtjof Halaas and Andrew E. Masich

In west-central Oklahoma, about twelve miles south of Weatherford, the town of Colonyhuddles in a small valley thick with trees, a shaded oasis in endless grasslands. A visitor driving through sees first a row of comfortable brick ranch-style homes, complete with expansive, well groomed lawns, patio barbecues, and minivans parked in two car drive ways. A short way down the road is the old town center. An American flag waves above the post office, parked cars point toward a five-table cafe, and here and there stand turn of the century frame houses, some well kept, others abandoned. Nothing unusual. Just a small Oklahomatown. Across the road from the town center a broken sign, lettered in peeling paint, announces Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. [download]

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Eat Prey Love

Eat Prey Love 

By: Kerrelyn Sparks

Caitlyn had been warned never to come near this place. Gutsy or foolish, she didn’t know which category she fell into, but it was too late to worry about that now. She had arrived. Her rental car’s headlights illuminated a smooth, black-topped driveway. Tall trees arched over the road, their skeletal branches grasping like gnarled fingers at the starlit sky. She suppressed a shudder and focused instead on the patches of bright yellow daffodils scattered over the grounds. Looking for the positive, she would call it. Foolhardy, some might say. But when facing the unknown, she’d learned in her twenty-six years that keeping a good attitude was critical. The fact that the grounds appeared well-maintained was a good sign. And the security guard at the entrance had seemed friendly, checking her ID and welcoming her with a smile. Think of this as an adventure. You love adventure. [download]

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Hush…Hush…

Hush…Hush…

By: Becca Fitzpatrick

Chaunchey was with a farmer’s daughter on the grassy banks of the LoireRiverwhen the storm rolled in, and having let his gelding wander in the meadow, was left to his own two feet to carry him back to the chateau. He tore a silver buckle off his slice, placed it in the girl’s palm, and watched her scurry away, mud slinging on her  skirts. Then he tugged on his boots and started for home. Rain sheeted down on the darkening countryside surrounding the Chateau de Langeals, Chaunchey stepped easily over the sunken graves and humus of the cemetery; even in the thickest fog he could fiad his way home from here and not fear getting lost. There was no fog tonight, but the darkness and onslaught of rain were deceiving enaough. [download]

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Can’t Buy Me Love

Can’t Buy Me Love 

By: Jonathan Gould

On a gray, blustery Friday afternoon in February 1964, the four young British musicians collectively known as the Beatles arrived on a gleaming Pan American Airways jetliner at Kennedy Airport in New York, where they were met by a crowd of two hundred jostling reporters and photographers and some four thousand fans, mostly teenaged girls, who lined the rooftop observation deck of the airport’s International Arrivals Building in a great singing, shrilling mass. The reporters and photographers were there because, over the preceding three months, news of a phenomenon that had consumed the attention of the British public since the summer before had been drifting across the Atlantic in reports filed by the Londonbureaus of American newspapers, magazines, and television networks. [download]

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Advances in Computing, Communication and Control

Advances in Computing, Communication and Control 

By: Srija Unnikrisnan, Sunil Surve and Depak Bhoir

Line clipping procedure is the mechanism that tells how to cut off the lines which are outside the clipping window [1], [2], [5]. The line clipping procedure can be broadly classified into three disjoint classes. Class-1 contains the lines which are completely inside the clipping window and therefore are trivially accepted. Class-2 contains the lines which are partially inside the clipping window, for these lines we have no options but to divide the lines into segments at the intersections of the line and clipping window edges and then examine each segment that whether the segment is completely inside or completely outside the clipping window. Class-3 contains the lines which are completely outside the clipping window, and therefore are trivially rejected. This paper focuses on the lines which are trivially rejected. [download]

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101 Bears to Make

101 Bears to Make

By: Nancy Tillberg 

Let me begin by apologizing for the title this book. I’ve let you to believe that by reading it, you can make 101 bears. In fact, there are many more 101 teddy bears to be made. Over the past 20 years, many crafts people have taken up the challenge of producing their own teddy bears. These huggable wonders have come to be known as “Artists Bears”. What is an artist bear? It is a teddy bear that has been design and made by a single person, or “bear artist”. Some teddy bear artists work as hobbyists, while other sell their work through home based business and cottage industries. Other have even gone on to design teddy bears for major manufacturers. In 101 Bears to make, you will find basic patterns that have a number of interchangeable body parts. Happy Bear Making. [download]

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A Coloring Book of Ancient Ireland

A Coloring Book of Ancient Ireland 

By: Bellerophon Books

The Gospel Books made in the scriptoria were shrines for the word of god. They glorified the word and the word gave them power. The power of the Lord inhabited the books, and the books shared that power with their owners. Clorics, monks and saints of Irelandare always represented holding books, a badge of their office and holiness, and their protection against the bruto animal force of the devil. No matter what kind of crayons or paints or pencil you use to fill in this great latter U on the next page, with its dressing of birds, beast, and  knots, your colors came ready made and easy to use. The artist who drew the original U had to make his paint himself, grinding colored powders and mixing them with water, and adding a bit of raw egg white to make the paint stick to the page Part of the skill of being an artist a thousand years ago was knowing the recipes and technique for making good paint. [download]

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Doctor Who Human Nature

Doctor Who Human Nature 

By: Paul Cornell

Alexander Shuttleworth leaned back in the easy chair and drummed his fingers rhythmically on his stomach. ‘You may call it cake,’ he told his small audience, regarding the small saucer with the last few crumbs that sat on his lap, ‘but it goes beyond cake. Call it Ultrasponge, VictoriaMaximus, empress of icing sugar.’ The ladies of Joan Redfern’s WI group looked at him and then at each other nervously. A few giggled or laughed in a more civilised fashion. Alexander felt as if he was addressing a flock of sheep in hatpins. Well, Mr. Shuttleworth,’ Joan began, replacing her own plate delicately on the table, ‘may we move on to the subject of our talk for today, The Archaeology of the Bronze Age? [download]

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Shakespeare A to Z

Shakespeare A to Z

By: Charles Boyce

Shakespeare is celebrated the world over for the poetry and passion of his plays. He reformed the English language, enriching the vocabulary and increasing the flexibility of verse and prose. Supremely creative himself, he constantly inspired creativity in others. Above all, his profound humanity has enabled succeeding generations to rediscover within the dramatic intensity of his vision their own individual concerns. To many people, in many nations, Shakespeare is still our greatest living author. All this we take for granted, but Shakespeare’s survival was by no means certain. His plays were not published until 1623, some seven years after his death. The Commonwealth ended performance continuity, and with the Restoration in 1660 control of his work passed to the literate only. [download]

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The Idea of Human Rights

The Idea of Human Rights

By: Michael J. Perry

It is often stressed that the idea of human rights is of recent origin, and that thisis enough to dismiss its claims to timeless validity. In its contemporary form, the doctrine is certainly new, though it is arguable that it is a modern version of the natural law theory, whose origins we can trace back at least to the Stoic philosophers and, of course, to the Judaic and Christian sources of European culture. There is no substantial difference between proclaiming “the right to life” and stating that natural law forbids killing. Much as the concept may have been elaborated in the philosophy of the Enlightenment in its conflict with Christianity, the notion of the immutable rights of individuals goes back to the Christian belief in the autonomous status and irreplaceable value of the human personality. [download]

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Rudolf Serkin-A Life

Rudolf Serkin-A Life

By: Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber

“Why should anyone write about me?” Rudolf Serkin was known to ask. “All I did was practice, practice, practice.” Although possessed of great charm, playful and quick, he was also a private person and mistrustful of speech, and for much of his life he fended off interviewers, journalists, and would-be biographers. Responding to a request for a radio interview in 1942, he cabled that in front of a microphone he felt like Harpo Marx. In his eighties he wrote to a friend, “To talk about Bach or Mozart or Schubert or any great music, my tongue would freeze in my mouth.” And when the German magazine Stern asked him for an answer of twenty lines or less to the question Aimez-vous Brahms?, he replied, “Unfortunately I do not have the talent to express in words what I feel about Brahms’s music. ‘This music is among the greatest and deepest and . . .’ You see. [download]

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Un Homme D’Exception

Un Homme D’Exception

By: Sylvia Nasar

Cela faisait presque une demi-heure que John Forbes Nash, deuxieme du nom, genie des mathematiques, inventeur d’une theorie du comportement rationel, precurseur de l’intelligence artificielle, contemplait unpoint situe juste devant le pied gauche de son visiteur, George Mackey, egalement mathematicien et professeur a Harvard. Il ne bougeai guere que pour repousser ses longs cheveux bruns, d’un geste brus que et repetitiif, quands ils lui retombaient sur le front. En cette fin d’apres midi du mois de mai 1959, il faisait deja desagreablement chaud. Affale dans un fauteuil de la salle commune de l’hopital, un pan de sa chemise en nylon depassant d’un pantalon sans ceinture, Nash, en depit de son gabarit athletique, avait l’air d’une puopee de chiffon et scs traits finement ciscles etaient depourvus d’expression. [download]  

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The Secret Ever Keeps

The Secret Ever Keeps

By: Art Tirrell

”Learning the truth about yourself doesn’t necessarily make you happy,” Jake Eastland says. He should know. At ninety-three, he contemplates his life as a bootlegger and a thug, a tycoon and a killer with regret, not for the crimes he’s committed, but for the family he’s never known. All that changes when Laurel Kingsford shows up on his doorstep. A dynamic young woman with a distinguished background in oceanic research, Laurel retreats to the only place she’s ever felt safe following the loss of her job, her life savings, and her fiancé. A genteel old inn overlooking LakeOntario’s southern shore, the Twice Told Hotel was where Laurelspent idyllic childhood summers in the company of her grandmother, Jean. Jake Eastland built the Twice Told in 1940 and it was where he, too, retreated after his marriage to a society gold digger named Jean ended. [download]

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Nixon

Nixon 

By: Ivan Morgan

On 9 August 1974 Richard Milhous Nixon became the first American president to resign office, thereby avoiding certain impeachment by Congress. The chain of events that brought about Nixon’s downfall began with the most famous burglary in history. On 17 June 1972 operatives of the Committee to Reelect the President had been caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in WashingtonDC. For the next two years Nixon sought to cover up White House involvement in political espionage, but the investigations of journalists, the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, special prosecutors and Congress inexorably uncovered evidence of the President’s obstruction of justice and abuse of power. [download]

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Phenomenological Aesthetics

Phenomenological Aesthetics 

Edited By: Hans Rainer Sepp and Lester Embree

What happens when the traditional philosophical subdiscipline of aesthetics is approached phenomenologically? Is it changed? What are the consequences for phenomenology? Aesthetics is a late emerging subdiscipline within philosophy, and during the last three centuries has been for the most part considered inferior to logic and epistemology, as well as to ontology and ethics. To some extent it has also suffered the same fate within phenomenology, where it has yet to attain the same status as ethics. Nevertheless, it is astonishing to see how many phenomenologists have previously worked in aesthetics and how aesthetics is of central interest for such a considerable group of them today. Thus not only students, but also phenomenologists of different specialties as well as colleagues in different philosophical traditions may find the contents of the present handbook interesting. [download]

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Practice Makes Perfect

Practice Makes Perfect 

By: Julie James

THE ALARM CLOCK went off at 5:30 a.m. PaytonKendalllifted a sleepy hand to her nightstand and fumbled around to silence the god-awful beeping. She lay there, snuggled in amongst her cozy down pillows, blinking, rousing. Allowing herself these first, and last, few seconds of the day that she could call her own. Then suddenly remembering she jumped out of bed. Today was the day. Payton had a plan for this morning she had set her alarm to wake her a half hour earlier than usual. There was a purpose for this: she had observed his daily routine and guessed that he got to the office every morning by 7:00 a.m. He liked being the first one in the office, she knew. On this morning, however, she would be there when he got in.Waiting. [download]

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Origami Omnibus

Origami Omnibus 

By: Kunihiko Kasahara

Today at the mention of origami, everyone calls to mind the now world famous small colored square sheets of paper everyone users Actually. However, the history of such paper employed in origami for amusement is fairly short. In the late nineteenth century, a paper dealer in the Yushima district of Tokyo imported colored papers from Europe, cut them into small squares, and sold them in sets called origami. And this was the origin of the kind of origami popular today. Of course, origami itself is much older then the late nineteenth century. But until that time, it had been known by a variety of names kami-orimono, orisue, origata, tatamigami, and so on. And had employed the kind of paper called hanshi, which is white on both sides and rectangular in shape. [download] 

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Origami le Monde des Animaux

Origami le Monde des Animaux

By: Collection Idees Jeux

J’ai passe mon enfance a La Paz, capitale de Bolivie. Les jouets tout faits elant inabordables pour nos parents, nous avans appris tres tot a utiliser notre adresse et notre imagination pour fabriquer nos propres jouets, avec les materioux dont nous disposions : du papier, de la colle, du carton et des boitres de conserve. Nous nous inspirions des vilrines des grands magasins, mais aussi de la nature ou nous vivians, que nous airnions et respections. C’est de cette epoque que datent mes premiers animoux en papier plie. [download]

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Justice Without Borders

Justice Without Borders

By: Kok-Chor Tan 

Cosmopolitanism, as a normative idea, takes the individual to be the ultimate unit of moral concern and to be entitled to equal consideration regardless of nationality and citizenship. From the cosmopolitan perspective, principles of justice ought to transcend nationality and citizenship, and ought to apply equally to all individuals of the world as a whole. In short, cosmopolitan justice is justice without borders. On one cosmopolitan interpretation, this impartiality with respect to nationality and citizenship applies also to distributive justice in that a person’s legitimate material entitlements are to be determined independently of her national and state membership (e.g., Beitz 1999a; Pogge 1989, part III). But, as some cosmopolitans themselves have come to recognize, one serious weakness of the cosmopolitan position is its perceived inability to acknowledge and properly account for the special ties and commitments that characterize the lives of ordinary men and women (Beitz 1999b, p. 291). [download]

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Knowledge Management Systems

Knowledge Management Systems 

By: Ronald Maier

The transformation of organizations into knowledge-intensive and knowledgeaware organizations takes place at an ever-increasing pace. Knowledge as the key resource, not labor, raw material or capital, changes production functions in organizations significantly. Knowledge represents the key concept to explain the increasing velocity of the transformation of social life in general and the way businesses and social institutions work in particular (Drucker 1994). Estimates at leading research organizations suggest that up to 60% of the gross national product in the United States is based on information as opposed to physical goods and services (Delphi 1997, 10). In the last decade, this percentage is likely to have further increased which is reflected by a large number of studies that report similar or higher values. [download]

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Letter to My Daughter

Letter to My Daughter

By: Maya Angelou

To write about giving to a person who is naturally generous reminds me of a preacher passionately preaching to the already committed choir. I am encouraged to write on because I remember that from time to time, the choir does need to be uplifted and thanked for its commitment. Those voices need to be encouraged to sing again and again, with even more emotion. Each single American giver keeps alive the American Cancer Society, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Goodwill, Sickle Cell Anemia, American Jewish Society, NAACP, and the Urban League. The list continues to include church foundations, synagogue programs, MuslimTempleassociations, Buddhist shrines, groups, officials, and city and social clubs. However, the largest sums of money come from philanthropists. [download]

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I too Had a Love Story

I too Had a Love Story 

By: Ravinder Singh 

I remember the date wall: 4^th March 2006. I was in Kolkata and about to reach Happy’s home. I had been very excited all morning as I was going to see our gang of four after three years. Aftrer our engineering, this was the first time when all of us Manprect, Amardeep, Happy and I were going to be together. During our first year in the hostel, Haapy and I were in different rooms on the 4^th  floor of the block a building. Being on the same floor, we were acquaintances but I never wanted to interact with him. I didn’t think him “a good guy” because of his fondness for fights and the red on his mark sheet. But, unfortunately, I was late in getting back to the hostel at the beginning, of the second year and almost all the rooms were already allotted by then. I was not left with any choice other than becoming. Happy’s roommate. [download]

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How to Become an Alpha Male

How to Become an Alpha Male 

By: John Alexander

I’ll bet you think that since I’m the successful author of a very popular dating book (namely, the one you’re reading right now), that I’m a born stud who’s never had any trouble getting women. Yeah, right… You know that guy you went to high school with who just didn’t have it in the social skills department? The guy who couldn’t get a date on a bet? The guy who was awkward to talk to because he couldn’t even hold up his end of a decent conversation? I was that guy. Throughout high school and early college, I had no friends, didn’t hang out with anyone, and struck out with every woman I dated. I spend my Friday and Saturday nights alone, sexually frustrated. My 21st birthday came and went, and I was still a virgin. I was miserable and I didn’t know how to change that. To make matters worse, I took my failures personally. [download]

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Storm Warnings

Storm Warnings

By: Nora Roberts

The Pine View Inn was nestled comfortably in the Blue Ridge Mountains. After leaving the main road, the meandering driveway crossed a narrow ford just wide enough for one car. The inn was situated a short distance beyond the ford. It was a lovely place, full of character, the lines so clean they disguised the building’s rambling structure. It was three stories high, built of brick that had been weathered to a soft rose, the facade interspersed with narrow, white-shuttered windows. The hipped roof had faded long ago to a quiet green, and three straight chimneys rose from it. A wide wooden porch made a white skirt around the entire house and doors opened out to it from all four sides. The surrounding lawn was smooth and well tended. [download]

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Song of The West

Song of The West

By: Nora Roberts

The land in southeast Wyomingis a magnificent paradox. Spreading plains and rolling hills coexist with rocky mountains and thick velvet pines. From the kitchen window, the view was astounding, and Samantha Evans halted in her duties for a moment to drink it in. The Rockiesdominated the vast curtain of sky, their peaks laced with snow, though it was late March. Samantha wondered if she would still be in Wyomingthe following winter. She dreamed of long walks with the air biting and sharp on her cheeks, or wild rides on a spirited mount with hooves kicking up a flurry of white. But none of that could happen until her sister was well enough to be left alone. A frown creased her smooth brow. [download]

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Rules of The Game

Rules of The Game 

By: Nora Roberts

 A jock. Terrific.” Brooke took a long swallow of strong black coffee, tipped back in her glove-soft leather chair and scowled. “I love it.” “No need to be sarcastic,” Claire returned mildly. “If de Marco wants to use an athlete for promotion, why should you object?” She gazed absently at the chunky gold ring on her right hand. “After all,” Claire continued in her dry voice, “you’ll be making quite a bit directing the commercials.” Brooke sent Claire a characteristic look. Direct, uncompromising gray eyes bored into the soft blue of the older woman’s. One of Brooke’s greatest talents, and her greatest weapons, was her ability to stare down anyone from a corporate president to a temperamental actor. [download]

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Her Mother’s Keeper

Her Mother’s Keeper 

By: Nora Roberts

The taxi zipped through the airport traffic. Gwen let out a long sigh as the Louisianaheat throbbed around her. She shifted as the thin material of her ivory lawn blouse dampened against her back. The relief was brief. Squinting out of the window, she decided the July sun hadn’t changed in the two years she had been away. The cab veered away from downtown New Orleansand cruised south. Gwen reflected that very little else here had changed in the past two years but herself. Spanish moss still draped the roadside trees, giving even the sun-drenched afternoon a dreamlike effect. The warm, thick scent of flowers still wafted through the air. The atmosphere was touched with an easygoing indolence she nearly had forgotten during the two years she’d spent in Manhattan. Yes, she mused, craning her neck to catch a glimpse of a sheltered bayou, I’m the one who’s changed. I’ve grown up. [download]

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Opposites Attract

Opposites Attract

By: Nora Roberts

Asher and Ty were opposites and years before it seemed as if they had everything either of them could want they were champions, they were in love and engaged, and they were happy even with opposite personalities. At least, they were happy until Asher broke the engagement and immediately married another man. The story picks up several years later when Asher is divorced and trying to make a comeback in the tennis world. She’s determined to be the #1 tennis player in the world once again and she seems to be on the right course. She’s figured out everything except for the way she feels when she sees Ty again and the anger he has towards her throws off her self-confidence. Through a series of events around the tennis courts, the story finally comes out about why and how Asher could leave the only man she ever loved and why she’s now back on the circuit. [download]

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Encyclopedia of Terrorism

Encyclopedia of Terrorism 

By: Harvey W. Kushner 

Terrorism, in various forms, has been practiced throughout history and across a wide variety of political ideologies. There are as many definitions for the word terrorism as there are methods of executing it; the term means different things to different people, and trying to define or classify terrorism to everyone’s satisfaction proves impossible. However, most definitions of terrorism hinge on three factors: the method (violence), the target (civilians or the government), and the purpose (to instill fear and force political or social change) The adoption of terrorist techniques by insurgent groups, especially in the developing world, led to a perception of terrorism as a natural outgrowth of the anticolonial struggle merely another weapon of revolutionary guerrillas in their campaigns for independence. [download]

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Exotic Nuclear Excitations

Exotic Nuclear Excitations 

By: S.C. Pancholi

This monograph on high spin physics is geared towards the beginners in research or the young researchers, in the exciting field of high spin nuclear structure physics. New and interesting phenomena have and are being discovered in this field which is providing a microscopic insight into the behaviour of nuclei under the extreme conditions of high excitation energy, highest spins and abnormal neutron to proton ratios. The quest for achieving the highest spin states has resulted in remarkable success in this direction. An attempt has been made in this monograph to provide the reader an up-to-date knowledge of some of the recent exotic phenomena at high spins in a collective and consolidated manner. The topics covered are the rotational alignment and bandcrossings, magnetic rotation, triaxial strong deformation and wobbling motion and chirality in nuclei. [download]

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Emily The Strange-The Lost Days

Emily The Strange-The Lost Days 

By: Rob Reger and Jessica Gruner

I’m in a town called Blackrock, according to the newspaper. I’m not sure whether a town this small even needs a newspaper. Too bad I can’t remember any other towns to compare it to. Here’s what I’ve seen: two secret, mybe fifteen buildings, and then dust plains all arround. Almost everything natural and human made is some shade of beige. There’s bus depot. A couple of stores. One tiny patch of grass that’s passing for a park. It seems quite and peaceful here but for some reason I prefer to assume it’s crawling with menace and secret abominations. Not sure if that says more about Blackrock or about me. Anyway, New thing I know: 1. Nothing here looks familiar; 2. Nobody in Blackrock seems to know me; 3. Many people in Blackrock think I’m worth staring at; 4. Strange…. [download]

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Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology

Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology

By: David J. Driscoll M.D.

Many pediatricians and family practice physicians are intimidated by heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. This may result from the perception that learning so many types of congenital heart defects and diseases may appear to be an insurmountable task. In addition becoming an expert in auscultation of the heart does require considerable experience, and it is easy to become frustrated when one is unable to make an anatomic diagnosis on the basis of physical examination. This is unfortunate because it is often difficult even for experts and frequently unnecessary to make an anatomical diagnosis on the basis of physical examination alone. Rather, it is important to determine whether the patient (i) does or does not have congenital heart disease, (ii) has cyanotic or acyanotic heart disease, (iii) has heart failure or pulmonary overcirculation (too much pulmonary blood flow), (iv) has reduced cardiac output, or (v) requires urgent detailed evaluation and treatment. I hope this book will facilitate all primary care physicians who care for infants and children to make these distinctions. [download]

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Female Orgasm-Black Book

Female Orgasm-Black Book 

By: Lee Jenkins

Let me start by saying what I’m an ordinary guy, just like you. My penis isn’t the largest in the locker room. The women out there don’t mistake me for Hollywood’s latest hot celebrity. I’m not rich, or famous, I’m not a “platboy”, and I’m not exactly what you’d call a genius, though I wasn’t born yesterday either. But I have been blessed with some pretty insightful, and more importantly, wisdom to share that has the potensial to open doors to uncharted territory in your sex life. Ican’t offer you increased size or a magical potion to incite lust and desire in every woman you meet. But, if you make a solid commitment to read and practice the wisdom you’ll find over the next several chaptere, I can promise that the special woman in your life will be purring like a kitten, eager and available for erotic….. [download]

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