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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