Imperialism and Global Political Economy

Imperialism and Global Political Economy 

By: Alex Callinicos

Empire is back with a vengeance. This is largely because the thing imperialism has increasingly obtruded itself on us all over the past few years, till now all the blood and clamour, the colonial expeditions and the grand financial and commercial manoeuvres are quite inescapable and undeniable. But, as historians have noted, empires have often disavowed themselves, and here there was a marked discursive shift in theUnited States, most notably during the administrations of George W. Bush. The journalist Ron Suskind reports a remarkable conversation with ‘a senior adviser to Bush’ during the summer of 2002, when the drums of war againstIraqwere beating ever louder: The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality’. [download]

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I’ll Tell You One Thing and That’s all I Know

I’ll Tell You One Thing and That’s all I Know 

By: Jann Arden

As I read through my journals from the past couple of years, in preparation for publishing this book, I could not believe the contrast from one 24 hour period to the next. Some morning I woke with more willpower and positive energy than anyone on the planet. Apparently as I slept, that glee, that pure joyfulness, would sneak out the back door. I would wake not knowing what I was doing and being unsure of how I felt, or what yhe point was. How could that happen overnight? My mother would always tell us kids, growing up, that as quickly as things could turn to crap, that’s how quickly they could turn themselves around and be good again very much like the way I have written these journals. One day great, fantastic! The next…well you’ll get the picture. The true journey of the human heart is indeed very difficult. I hope that as you read through these pages you’ll recognize bits and pieces of yourself within them. [download]

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Great Kings’ War

Great Kings’ War 

By: Roland Green and  John F. Carr  

After her visit with her Graduate Advisor, Danar Sirna was still in a state of shock as she rode the gravlift down to the 40th Floor of Dhergabar University Tower where the large assembly halls were situated. Her Advisor had dropped a bombshell, as he put it; he was a well known expert on Fourth Level, Europo-American specializing, she thought wryly, in clichés. Still, Sirna had just received the dream posting of the decade; she’d been assigned to the Kalvan Study Team as the only undergraduate! Lord Kalvan, the former Pennsylvania State trooper Calvin Morrison, had been picked up on a transtemporal conveyor accidentally and been dropped off on Aryan Transpacific, Styphon’s House Subsector where he’d created enough of a stir to spin off an entirely new time line, identified almost immediately by the Paratime Police. [download]

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein 

By: Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

To Mrs. Saville, England. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an entetprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived have yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far North of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am dancing, gives me foretaste of those ice climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my datdreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation. [download]

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Spiderman 3

Spiderman 3 

By: Peter David 

Peter Parker does not believe that old notion that, when one is about to die, one’s life flashes before one’s eyes. He considers it a sort of “after the fact” add-on. Someone has a near death experience and, in recalling it, mentally inserts all the highlights of his existence after the fact as a sort of mental counterpoint to life’s near termination. Memory, after all, is a tricky thing, possibly the most deceptive aspect of the brain’s function. The main reason Peter has come to be dismissive of the concept is because, in his activities as Spider-Man, he has been near death more times than he can count. More times, in fact, than any reasonable person should have to experience. In all those times, all those close shaves, he has never once seen his life go flashing before his eyes. [download]

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Chaucer and Boccaccio-Antiquity and Modernity

Chaucer and Boccaccio-Antiquity and Modernity 

By: Robert R. Edward

The Critical focus of this book is on Chaucer’s invention of antiquity and modern through his engagement with Boccaccio. By way introduction, I want this project. The first term is conventional; the others require more extensive discussion. By invention, I mean that Chaucer follows the protocol for rewriting in medieval poetic theory and reads antecedent text for what remains latent, potential, as yet unexpressed in their representation of fictional worlds. He negotiates both the language and the silences left by previous authors to see what else might be explored or reimagined from their work or situated in a different imaginative context. Chaueser poems thus emerge from a critical engagement with source texts and literary precursors. Invention funishes a technique of composition at the same time that it presupposes a theory and pratice of intertextaulity. [download]

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The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart

The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart

By: Carl Vigeland

One genius refl ects on another, with the perspective of nearly two hundred years adding to the weight of Einstein’s conclusion. Yet only fi fteen years after Mozart’s death in 1791, a court musician wrote: “He was a meteor on the musical horizon, for whose appearance we were not yet prepared.” Admired in his age and in ours, Mozart bequeathed to the ages musical riches in which everyone can delight.LincolnCenter’s air-conditioning still a technological novelty in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but a welcome blessing in the sweltering humidity of aNew York Summer presented both an opportunity and a challenge: how to fi ll the halls to best advantage programmatically and fi nancially during the summer, when the resident companies were not performing. At that time, the “season” began in mid-September and ended in late May, creating the possibility that the plaza could become an urban desert and the halls a fi nancial drain during June, July and August. [download]

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Advertising and Societies

Advertising and Societies

By: Katherine Toland Frith and Barbara Mueller

Globalization refers to the increasing internationalization of economic life and its effects on trade, national sovereignty, laws and regulations, the mass media, and cultural identity (Corcoran, 1998). In economic terms, globalization is the process by which firms attempt to earn additional profits through entry into overseas markets. Although the term “globalization” became popular during the last part of the 20th century, the forces that shaped globalization can be traced back as far as the 15th century. Europeled the move toward globalization through colonization in the 18^th and 19th centuries. The United States led the most recent phase of globalization in the 20th century driven by the increasing access to communication technologies and the opening of international markets to multinational corporations and their advertising agencies. [download]

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Essential of Investment

Essential of Investment 

By: Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and Alan J. Marcus

The last decade has been one of rapid, profound, and on going change in the investments industry. This is due in part to an abundance of newly designed securities, in part to the creation of new trading strategies that would have been impossible without concurrent advances in computer and communications technology, and in part to continuing advances in the theory of investments. Of necessity, our text has evolved along with the financial markets. In this edition, we address many of the changes in the investment environment. At the same time, many basic principles remain important. We continue to organize our book around one basic theme that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are usually priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes. [download]

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A Matter of Oaths

A Matter of Oaths

By: Helen Wright 

I, the Emperor Julur, solemnly dedicate myself to the worlds of the Old Empire and to the people of those worlds. On my honour and on my immortality, I swear: That my loyalty will be to my people before all others. That my laws will be just. That I will serve my people to the best of my ability, in every way that I am able to serve, respecting their beliefs and taking responsibility for their well-being, and causing no harm to any unless for the protection of the Old Empire. That I will cherish the Guild of Webbers, and each member of the Guild, respecting their beliefs and taking responsibility for their well-being, causing harm to no member of the Guild unless for the protection of the Twin Empires. That I will keep this oath forever, or forfeit the loyalty of the Guild of Webbers. [download]

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Elvis Presley-The Amazing Story of The King

Elvis Presley-The Amazing Story of The King 

Published By: Uncut Legends 

Out ofTupelo,Mississippi, out ofMemphis,Tennessee, came this green, sharkskin-suited girl chaser, wearing eye-shadow a trucker dandy white boy who must have risked his hide to act so black and dress so gay. This wasn’tNew Yorkor evenNew Orleans; this wasMemphisin the ’50s. This was punk rock. This was revolt. Elvis changed everything musically, sexually, politically. In Elvis, you had the whole lot; it’s all there in that elastic voice and body. As he changed shape, so did the world: he was a ’50s style icon who was what the ’60s were capable of, and then suddenly not. In the ’70s, he turned celebrity into a blood sport but, interestingly, the more he fell to Earth, the more god like he became to his fans. His last performances showcase a voice even bigger than his gut, where you cry real tears as the music messiah sings his tired heart out, turning casino into temple. [download]

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Thomas Alva Edison-Inventing The Electric Age

Thomas Alva Edison-Inventing The Electric Age

By: Gene Adair

On the evening of December 31, 1879, the tiny villageof Menlo Park, New Jersey, became the site of a New Year’s party unlike any the world had ever seen. People were arriving by the trainload to gaze in awe at the latest wonder to emerge from the laboratory of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Just two years before, Edisonhad astounded the world with the phonograph a machine that talked. To the crowds that were swarming to Menlo Parkthat evening, he had promised something even more amazing. It was an electric light that could be used in homes, offices, and schools a remarkable technical innovation that promised to make gas lighting and oil lamps obsolete. The product of months of intensive labor, the invention was now ready for display to the general public. [download]

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The Seducer’s Diary

The Seducer’s Diary

By: Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard’s method, dictated by his volatile and provocative temperament resembles that of a fiction writer: he engages in multiple impersonations, assuming various poses and voices with an impartial vivacity. The method is, in one of his favorite words, mnieutic-ftom the Greek term for midwifery like that of his beloved model Socrates, who in his questioning style sought to elicit his auditors’ ideas rather than impose his own. Either/or, Kierkegaard’s fhst major work, was a bulky, two-volume collection of papers ostensibly found by the editor, “Victor Errmita” (“Victor Hermit”), in the secret comparbnent of a writing desk to which he had been mysteriously attracted in the shop of a secondhand dealer. Some time after its acquisitiory he tells us, he took a hatchet to a stuck drawer and discovered a trove of papers, evidently composed by two distinct authors. [download]

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The Mediator Darkest Hour

The Mediator Darkest Hour

By: Meg Cabot

I don’t even really know how it happened. I was being way careful, you know? Careful not to fall in love with Jesse, I mean. And I’d been doing a really good job. I mean, I was getting out and meeting new people and doing new things, just like it says to do in Cosmo. I certainly wasn’t sitting around mooning over him or anything. And yeah, okay, the majority of guys I have met since moving toCaliforniahave turned out either to have psychopathic killers stalking them, or were actually psychopathic killers themselves. But that’s really not a very good excuse for falling in love with a ghost. It really isn’t. But that’s what happened. [download]

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William Topaz McGonagall-Poems

William Topaz McGonagall-Poems

By: William Topaz McGonagall

A Christmas Carol: Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the mom. That Christ our saviour was born! Earth’s redeemer, to save us from all danger, and as je Holy Record Tells, born in a manager. The ring, ring, Christmas bells, till your sweet music o’er the kingdom swells, to warn the people to respect the mom, that Christ their saviour was born. The snow was on the ground when Christ was born, and the Virgin Mary His Mother felt very forlom as she lay in a horse’s stall at a roadside inn, Till Christ our saviour was born to free us from sin. Oh! Think of the virgin Maru as she lay in a lowly stable on a bed of hay, and angels watching O’er her till Christ was born, Therefore all the people should respect Christmas mom. The way to respect Christmas time is not by drinking whisky or wine, but to sing praise to God on Christmas mom, the time that Jesus Christ His Son was born. [download]

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The Little Book of Chav Jokes

The Little Book of Chav Jokes 

By: Michael Powell

(1) The Chavster Song, sung to the tune: ‘You Are My Sunshine’: You are a chavster, A filthy chavster,You’re only happy,On giro day,Your mum’s out thieving,Your dad’s drug-dealing,So please don’t take, My mobile, Away….(2)  What did God say when he made the first chav?: ‘Oh shit. Now I’ve got to invent Ritalin.’(3) Why are chavs like roads?: They’re dangerous, covered in white stripes and they’re paid for out of your taxes.(4) Why are chavettes like margarine?: They’re cheap, full of fat and they spread easily.(5) Why did so many chavs move to Croydon?: They heard there were no jobs there. (6) How do you know how many chavs are loitering in McDonald’s car park?: See how many are missing from the pub. [download]

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The A to Z of The Coptic Church

The A to Z of The Coptic Church 

By: Gawdat Gabra

Today’s Copts, members of the Coptic Orthodox Church, comprise the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Unofficial sources estimate their number at 9 million or more. The term “Copt” and the adjective “Coptic” derive from qibt, an abbreviated, Arabic transliteration of the Greek word for the indigenous inhabitants of Egypt (Άίγυπτος)/“aigyptioi” (Egyptians), itself a phonetic corruption of ancient Egyptian “Hikaptah,” a name for Memphis, the ancient capital at the apex of the Nile Delta. After the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, the term qibt came to distinguish the native Christians from the Muslim Arabs. When the majority of Egyptians converted to Islam during the following centuries, they naturally ceased to be Christians (qibt). [download]

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The Agassy Story

The Agassy Story

By: Mike Agassi with Dominic Cobello and Kate Shoup Welsh

Believe me, I know what it feels like to be on the outside. I’ve spent the better part of my life on the fringes. I was born in Persia  later called Iranin 1930 to Armenian parents, a Christian in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. I remained an outsider in America, where I emigrated at age 21 with almost no money and even less English. My outsider status was cemented when, years later, my kids began playing competitive tennis. To the other parents, I was an appallingly middle-class Armenian casino worker from Las Vegasby way of Tehran, trying to involve my kids in the ultimate upperclass sport. Today, however, I am on the inside. I have an all-access pass to the 2002 Men’s Finals of the U.S. Open at Arthur Ashe stadium, a match in which my son Andre is competing against his long-time rival, Pete Sampras. [download]

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The Kennedy Men

The Kennedy Men 

By: Laurence Leamer

Twelve year old Joseph Patrick Kennedy may have been dressed like a young gentlemam, but he walked with the bold strut of an Irish tough full of the lore of the streets. As he hurried down Webster street, his blue eyes exuded a hungy intensity for whatever life might offer. He wass taller than most boys his age and had reddish hair and an abruptness to his features that left him just short of handsome. His strong, willful face had already lost whatever boyish innocence it once held. Joe had been brought up on the island enclave of East Bostonand knew the streets and byways with perpect acumen. Today, for the first time, he would be traveling without his family to the proud city across the bay. He would be passing through streets full of uncertainty, confronting strange new people. [download]

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The Economics of Enough

The Economics of Enough 

By: Diane Coyle

This is not a book about the financial crisis. But that crisis has proven a catalyst for many people to ask fundamental questions about the way the economy is organized, and about the links between the economy and the kind of society we’d like. The Economics of Enough looks at this wider question, or rather set of questions. It is about how to ensure that government policy and the actions of individuals and private businesses serve all of us better in the long term, and how to make sure what we achieve in the present doesn’t come at the expense of the future. It’s about how to run the economy as if the future matters. This certainly hasn’t been the case for at least a generation. Western economies face a staggering set of problems, all politically difficult to tackle. We face them in the context, too, of global uncertainty of an unstable world where the balance of  power is shifting and in every direction there seem to be new threats. [download]

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Successful Selling

Successful Selling 

By: Pauline Rowson

Selling inBritainhas often been considered a rather nasty occupation. This probably goes back to the days when being in ‘trade’ wasn’t quite the done thing! We still don’t like being sold to. Yet how can our businesses succeed unless we sell our products and services? We are all in the business of selling: selling ourselves, our company and our products or services. We are all sales people, from the person on the reception desk to those in administration, from the van driver to the sales representative out on the road. When we answer the telephone, when we drive our vans with the company name on it, when we attend a training course or meet someone at a function, when we talk to existing customers and when we target prospects we are selling. [download]

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Sexing The Soldier

Sexing The Soldier 

By: Rachel Woodward and Trish Winter 

This book is about the politics of gender and the British Army. The intention of this book is straightforward. We engage with a range of debates and arguments around men and women’s participation in armed forces, we look in detail at one example from one place and time (the British Army, in the UK, at the beginning of the twenty first century) and we ask to question. The first question is: how does gender work as an axis of organisation within the contemporary British Army and what understandings of gender follow from this? The second question is: how does this military understanding of gender relate to civilian understanding of and responses to the British Army, the armed forces more widely, and military activities and militarism in general? In this book, we argue for a broader understanding and awareness of gender issues than that suggested by much contemporary military and public debate, with its focus on questions around women’s military participation. [download]

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Russian Silhouettes

Russian Silhouettes 

By: Genna Sosonko

On 18th August 2001 my life will be divided into two equal halves. The first took place in St Petersburg, which was then called Leningrad, and the second in Amsterdam. Although these two cities have much in common, for me St Petersburgand Amsterdamdo not overlap. The Neva and the Amstel are different rivers, and if I happen to be walking along Amsterdam’s Tsaar Peterstraat or along the Nevsky Prospekt past the DutchChurchin St Petersburg, my peripheral vision registers the difference and I see very well what sets the two cities apart. Just as a child brought up in a dual language family knows with whom in which language to speak. The number five tram has not changed its route and it stops close to my house in Amsterdam, just as it did in my past life in Leningrad, but here too no confusion arises. [download]

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Tarzan-My Father

Tarzan-My Father

By: Johnny Weisssmuller, Jr. with William Reed and W. Craig Reed

Johnny Weissmuller was universally idolized, both during and after his lifetime. Fans not only adored him as the greatest Olympic champion swimmer of his time, but they also remember him to this day as the greatest Tarzan of them all. Why? I have asked myself that question many times. In the documentary film Investigating Tarzan, George McWhorter, curator of the Burroughs Memorial Collection, Louisville University, Kentucky, suggested that it probably had a lot to do with the times. The more I thought about that, the more I tended to agree. My father’s classic films encompassed the period of the Great Depression in the United States, which started with the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It was not only a national economic depression, but it was also a period of emotional and mental depression for the breadwinners whose families were going without food. [download]

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Revolution of The Heart

Revolution of The Heart 

By: Haiyan Lee

Before I comment on Liu’s preface, let me turn to an article by the anthropologist Sulamith Potter on the cultural construction of emotion in ruralChina. In this article, Potter contrasts the privileged status of emotion in western societies to the Chinese devaluation of emotion as a social force. Speaking reflectively, Potter reminds us that one of “our” most basic assumptions about emotion is that it is the legitimizing basis of all social relationships and social actions. We believe that social relationships are formed and sustained on the basis of emotion, and that any relationship that is not founded on emotional authenticity is impoverished and doomed to dissolution. We therefore invest great amounts of time, money, and eƒort to initiate, maintain, and fortify emotional ties, and we place a high premium on the expression and enactment of personal feelings. [download]

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Robert Herrick-Poems

Robert Herrick-Poems

By: Robert Herrick

Clergyman and poet, Robert Herrick was born in London, the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, a wealthy goldsmith. In november 1592, two days after making a will, his father killed himself by jumping from the fourth floor window of his house. However, the Queen’s Almoner did not confiscate the Herrick estate for the crown as was usually the case with suicides. There is no record of Herrick attending school. In 1607 he was apprenticed to his uncle Sir William Herrick as a goldsmith. A country life: to his brother M. Tho. Herrick (1610) is Herrick earliest known poem, and deals with the move from Londonto farm life in Leicestershire. To my Dearest sisters M. Merice Herrick was written before 1612. He entered St. John’sCollege, Cambridgein 1613, and became friends with Clipsby Crew to whom he addressed seveeral poems such as “Nuptial Song”. [download]

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Risk and The Law

Risk and The Law

Edited By: Gordon R. Woodman and Diethelm Klipple

It was an Englishman writing in the nineteenth century, Sir Henry Maine, who famously observed that the transition from feudalism to industrial capitalism marked ‘a movement from Status to Contract’. Inherent in this claim was the notion of mobility, in two senses. First, improving communications meant that it was becoming easier to travel and thus to trade, so that wealth could be accumulated faster than ever before and without the need for bloodshed. Second, since these opportunities were becoming available to ever greater proportions of the population, people could no longer be expected necessarily to remain within the social class into which they had been born. Social status was thus no longer the fixed bedrock of society: generalised commodity exchange, facilitated by the law of contract, enabled everyone to climb the social ladder. [download]

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Principles of Corporate Finance

Principles of Corporate Finance 

By: Richard A. Brealey and Stewart C. Myers 

THIS BOOK IS about financial decisions made by corporations. We should start by saying what these decisions are and why they are important. Corporations face two broad financial questions: What investments should the firm make? And How should it pay for those investments? The first question involves spending money; the second involves raising it. The secret of success in financial management is to increase value. That is a simple statement, but not very helpful. It is like advising an investor in the stock market to “Buy low, sell high.” The problem is how to do it. There may be a few activities in which one can read a textbook and then do it, but financial management is not one of them. That is why finance is worth studying. Who wants to work in a field where there is no room for judgment, experience, creativity, and a pinch of luck? Although this book cannot supply any of these items, it does present the concepts and information on which good financial decisions are based, and it shows you how to use the tools of the trade of finance. [download]

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Mystery of The Ages

Mystery of The Ages 

By: Herbert W. Armstrong

The world’s number one concern today is the question of human survival! Science and technology have produced the weapons of mass destruction that could blast all human life off this earth! So many nations now possess nuclear weapons that one madman could ignite the nuclear World War III that could erase all human life from this planet. Yet the truth of God, if known and acted on, could have saved humanity from this threat and all its evils! Stop a moment. Think on this. You live in a world seemingly far advanced in science, technology, higher education and diffusion of knowledge. People think it’s a world of great progress. We send men to cavort about on the moon and return them safely back to earth. [download]

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Love Systems’ Routines Manual

Love Systems’ Routines Manual 

By: The Don and Savoy

The following is a brief introduction to the Emotional Progression Model as taught in our live workshops and in Magic Bullets. If you are familiar with it, feel free to skip ahead unless you want a quick review. For those of you who are new, this section will get you up to speed on some of the basic concepts and terminology that will be used throughout the rest of the book. The Emotional Progression Model, as it currently exists, was developed by many men simultaneously and rigorously testing, evaluating, and sharing tactics and techniques to attract beautiful women. This makes us sound like technicians in lab coats, but in actuality we were just doing what we would have been doing anyway going out and meeting women except that pooling our knowledge made us more successful with every night. [download]

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Monster Mayhem-Jokes to Scare You Silly

Monster Mayhem-Jokes to Scare You Silly 

By: Sam Schultz

Q: What did the mother ghost say to her son when they got into the car? A: Be sure to fasten your sheet belt. Ad in monster newspaper: “Use Mummy Soap for that School-Ghoul complexion.” Q: What kind of banks do vampires go to? A: Blood banks. Q: Where would you find a one-handed monster? A: In a second-hand store. Monster (to gas station man): Fill meup. Gas Station Man: You have to have acar first! Monster: But I had a car for lunch!. [download]

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An Introduction to The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

An Introduction to The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

Edited By: Jean Khalfa  

When Deleuze started to write, in the years immediately after World War II, the French intellectual terrain was divided into camps: on one side the human sciences presented themselves as a type of knowledge which would make philosophy redundant, on the other, a highly scholarly but purely historical discourse on philosophy relegated it to the museum. Both thus equally supposed the death of philosophy as creative thought. More generally, hopes for a true intellectual renaissance in the wake of the Liberation had been crushed. Apart from important but marginal thinkers such as Sartre,4 of course, but also, later on, Gilbert Simondon, or Raymond Ruyer for instance, nothing new seemed possible within the dominant philosophical production. An atmosphere particularly stale to a philosopher who said, retrospectively, that he had always opposed (naively even) the idea of the end of philosophy as a creative activity, judging creative thought to be, on the contrary, more urgent than ever. [download]

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Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

By: Nora Roberts

Stuart Spencer hated his hotel room excessively. The only advantage to being in New York was that his wife was in London and couldn’t hound him about sticking to his diet. He’d ordered up a club sandwich from room service and was savoring each bite. He was a portly, balding man without the jolly disposition expected from one with his looks. A blister on his heel plagued him, as did a persistent head cold. After he’d gulped half a cup of tea, he decided with cranky British chauvinism that Americans simply couldn/t brew decent tea no matter how much they tried. He wanted a hot bath, a cup of good Earl Grey, and an hour of quite, but, he feared, the restless man standing by the window was going to force hi to postpone all of that…perhaps indefinitely. [download]

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The Right Path

The Right Path 

By: Nora Roberts 

The sjy was cloudless-the hard, perpect blue of a summer painting. A breeze whispered through the roses in the garden. Mountains were isted by distance. A scent-flowers, sea, new grass-drifted on the air. With a sigh of pure pleasure, Morgan leaned farther over the balcont rail and just looked. Had it really only been yesterday morning that she had looked out on New York’s steel and concrete? had she run trough a chill April drizzle to catch a taxi to he airport? One day. It seemed impossible to go from one world to another in only a day. But she was here, standing on ghe balcony of a villa on the Isle of Lesbos. There was no gray drizzle at all, but strong Greek sunlight. [download]

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A Matter of Choice

A Matter of Choice 

By: Nora Roberts 

James Sladerman frowned at the toe of his shoe. He’d been frowning since the summons from Commissioner Dodson had reached him in the squad room that morning. After blowing out a long stream of smoke, Slade crushed out the cigarette in the mosaic ashtray to his left. He barely shifted his body. Slade knew how to wait. Only the night before he had waited for more than five hours in a dark, chilly car in a neighborhood where it paid to watch your back as well as your wallet. It had been a tedious, fruitless five hours, as the stakeout had produced nothing. But then, Slade knew from long experience that police work consisted of hours of endless legwork, impossible boredom, and paperwork, punctuated by moments of stark violence. Still he preferred the five-hour wait to the twenty minutes he had spent in the commissioner’s carpeted, beige-walled outer office. It smelled of lemony polish and now, his own Virginia tobacco. The keys of a typewriter clattered with monotonous efficiency as the commissioner’s secretary transcribed. [download]

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Bhutto-A Political Biography

Bhutto-A Political Biography 

By: Salmaan Taseer

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a political phenomenon. In a country where the majority of politicians have been indistinguishable, grey and quick to compromise, he stalked among them as a Titan. He has been called  ‘blackmailer’, ‘opportunist’, ‘Bhutto Khan’ (an undisguised comparison with Pakistan’s military dictators Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan) and ‘His Imperial Majesty the Shahinshah of Pakistan’ by his enemies. Time magazine referred to him as a ‘whiz kid’ on his coming to power in 1971. His supporters called him Takhare Asia’ (The Pride of Asia) and Anthony Howard, writing of him in the New Statesman, London, said ‘arguably the most intelligent and plausibly the best read of the world’s rulers’. Peter Gill wrote of him in the Daily Telegraph, London: ‘At 47, he has become one of the third world’s most accomplished rulers.’ [download]

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Next Generation Leadership

Next Generation Leadership

By: Sherry H. Penney and Patricia Akemi Neilson

Emerging Leaders have much to say about leadership. This Book is informed by what we are learning from them about what leadership should look like in the future, how it may differ from past models, and how our society can benefit from their insights. If we are to have effective leaders in the future, we must find those potential leaders now and provide them with leadership training and development. That is what we set out to do. As we looked at our region at the turn of the century, it became clear that the leadership profile is in f lux. Many of the businesses that once were prominent in our area as well as companies that had traditionally provided the business and civic leadership no longer exist. [download]

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Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot

By: Camille-Yvette Welsch

Humanity is powered by stories. From our earliest days as thinking beings, we employed every available tool to tell each other stories . We danced, drew pictures on the walls of our caves, spoke, and sang. All of this extraordinary effort was designed to entertain, recount the news of the day, explain natural occurrences and then gradually to build religious and cultural traditions and establish the common bonds and continuity that eventually formed civilizations. Stories are the most powerful force in the universe; they are the primary element that has distinguished our evolutionary path. Our love of the story has not diminished with time. Enormous segments of societies are devoted to the art of storytelling. [download]

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Lacan-Figures du Savoir

Lacan-Figures du Savoir 

By: Alain Vanier

Qui était Lacan ? Un des grands penseurs de notreépoque, lui qui considérait la pensée comme une maladie? Un « psy » qui nous aurait permis de mieux com prendre notre prochain et nous-même, lui qui recommandait au psychanalyste de ne pas chercher à comprendre, et voyait dans la tentation de le faire, une manifestation de la résistance du praticien? Un idéologue, s inon un gourou, entraînant à sa suite une jeunesse fascinée, à qui il aurait évité de sombrer dans le terrorisme qui flamba après Mai 68 dans des pays voisins ? Un charlatan abusant les foules en usant d ‘ une façon illicite des énoncés de la science, en manipulant d ‘ une façon peu académique la tradition philosophique? Un surréaliste égaré dans la pensée sérieuse ? Une figure déroutante, assurément, n ‘ occupant jamais la place à laquelle on voulait l ‘ assigner que l ‘ on se reconnût parmi ceux qui le vilipendaient. [download]

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Murder for Revenge

Murder for Revenge 

By: Otto Penzler

Is there a more human emotion than revenge? In fact, does any other lifeform known to us engage in revenge, or even consider it? Animals kill other animals for food, or self-defence, or for power, for rank within the community. But for revenge? No. Humans, on the other hand, have engaged in this activity through all of recorded history. There have been many motivations for seeking revenge political and financial, for example but it is unlikely that any desire for revenge has been more frequently dragged from the centre of a person’s soul than the anguish of lost love. Whether that love is taken away by a decision of the beloved or surreptitiously stolen by a rival lover, or heinously and permanently erased by a murderer of that love object, the passion for revenge springs readily into the heart to avenge that greatest of all losses. [download]

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Foul Play-Jokes That Won’t Strike Out

Foul Play-Jokes That Won’t Strike Out

By: Rick and Ann Walton

Q: Where do guards throw the guard-enias? A: Into flower baskets. Q: Why did the baseball player take a mitt to the beach? A: To catch some rays. Q: When did the Sun play baseball? A: In the All-Star game. Q: Why do happy ghosts play basketball? A: Because they’re high-spirited. Q: Why do people like basketball players? A: Because they are courteous. [download]

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The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes

The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes

Compiled By: Rob Manuel

Oh dear God, how are we supposed to introduce this? In your hands you are holding the most depraved, foul and offensive collection of jokes collected in one book. You’re probably expecting us to write something to justify this collection aren’t you? Something erudite and wordy that explains that these jokes are a reflection of society’s pressure points and fears? Nope. Sorry. You’ll have to look elsewhere for that stuff, for we know the sordid truth: Sick jokes are guilty pleasures shared when you think no one who may be offended is listening. And we’ve got the whole damn lot of them. Even the ones where they said, “No, you can’t print that, they’ll fire-bomb the publishers”. But don’t worry. If you do find yourself getting nauseated, just turn to the ‘panic page’ on p 168 where we’ve stuck some nice fluffy jokes and a picture of a kitten. See? All better now. Enjoy the book!. [download]

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Lorenz Hart-A Poet on Broadway

Lorenz Hart-A Poet on Broadway 

By: Frederick Nolan

Lorenz (Larry) Hart, one ofAmerica’s foremost song writers died last night in Doctors’ Hospital after a short illness of pneumonia. He was 47 years old. Lorenz Hart was Broadway’s “Laureate of Lyrics.” For more than 20 years he and Richard Rodgers combined their talents to write distinguished musical comedies. Mr. Hart’s last contribution to the Broadway musical-comedy scene was the elaborate revival of the Fields-Hart-Rodgers hit of 1927, “A Connecticut Yankee,” which included not only five of the popular numbers from the original version, such as “My Heart Stood Still,” but several new numbers. Born in this city, the son of Max M.and Frieda Hart, he prepared for college at the ColumbiaGrammar Schooland was graduated from ColumbiaUniversity. [download]

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Donald Rumsfeld-Known and Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld-Known and Unknown 

By: Donald Rumsfeld

My life has spanned more than one third of the history of the United States. As I thought more about this memoir and a title, the idea of the known and the unknown seemed to fit. Not only are there things in this book people believe they know about my life, but there are also things that may surprise and differ from what many may have read or heard or assumed. The same holds true about many of the events I observed from my years in Congress during the civil rights struggle and the Vietnam War era, through the Cold War and my service as secretary of defense during the age of terrorism. The known and the unknown are what I have attempted to present in this memoir that slice of our amazing country’s history of which I have been privileged to be a part. [download]

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Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno

Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno 

By: Rex Mortimer 

The Indonesian Communist Party (PKl) rose to its height of strength and influence during the fint half of the 1960′s, a period dominated inIndonesiaby the charismatic figure of President Sukarno, who for a time mesmerized his own countrymen and attracted world attention by prodigious displays of grandeur and anti-imperialist bravado. During Sukamo’s reign, and under his protection, the PKl became the largest non ruling Communist party in the world, and many inside and outside Indonesia believed it would usher in the next Communist state. Then, almost overnight. the party was destroyed in one of the great bloodbaths of modern history. In the wake of the bizarre and controversial coup episode of October 1965, it was swept off the political stage, to be followed soon after by its patron Sukarno. [download]

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Holiday Howlers-Jokes for Funny Parties

Holiday Howlers-Jokes for Funny Parties 

By: Peter and Connie Roop

Q: What is the best thing to put in a birthday cake? A: Your teeth. Q: How do you call a skeleton? A: On the telebone. Q: What happened when witches look alike? A: You don’t know which witch is which. Q: Why won’t Santa give you five cents? A: Because he’s Nickle-less. Q: What kind of tape do you use on Halloween? A: Mask-ing tape. Q: What’s a favorite ghost dance? A: Boo-gie woogie.. [download]

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Margaret Cho-Asian Americans of Achievement

Margaret Cho-Asian Americans of Achievement

By: Caroline Tiger

When Margaret Cho was 15 years old, she was a devoted member of the “Cutting Club.” Although her parents would see her leave every morning for the bus, with her backpack swung into place, she never actually arrived at school. Instead, she hung out with the other “bad kids,” drinking alcohol and smoking pot and hanging out at their houses while their parents were at work. In fact, there were entire semesters when she didn’t go to class and she never tried to make up the work she missed. She cared very little about school. She had a 0.6 GPA (the consequence of all F’s and one Incomplete). Not surprisingly, Lowell High expelled her. Lowellwas a magnet school it was fi lled with some of the smartest kids in San Francisco’s public school system. It makes sense that a school for above average students would not tolerate behavior like Margaret’s. [download]

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Malcolm X-Millitant Black Leader

Malcolm X-Millitant Black Leader

By: Jack Rummel

Nearly 20 years ago Chelsea House Publishers began to publish the first volumes in the series called BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT. This series eventually numbered over a hundred books and profiled outstanding African Americans from many walks of life. Today, if you ask school teachers and school librarians what comes to mind when you mentionChelsea House, many will say “Black Americans of Achievement.” The mix of individuals whose lives we covered was eclectic, to say the least. Some were well known Muhammad Ali and Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr, for example. But others, such as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, were lesser-known figures who were introduced to modern readers through these books. The individuals profiled were chosen for their actions, their deeds, and ultimately their influence on the lives of others and their impact on our nation as a whole. [download]

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J.D. Salinger-A Life

J.D. Salinger-A Life

By: Kenneth Slawenski

Since I have maintained a website devoted to the life and works of J. D. Salinger, it has grown extensively over time and receives a healthy amount of tra􀀞c but rarely generates more than a handful of e-mails per day. So you can imagine my surprise when I checked the mail on Thursday, January 28, 2010, and found not three or four messages shouting to be opened but fifty-seven. They were left unopened, too, for hours until I had gathered up the courage to confront them. By glancing at the e-mail on top of the heap, I knew exactly what had happened and how I would always remember that day. The news stared me down from my inbox through the starkest, most ugly of headers. It read: Rest In Peace J.D. Salinger. It should have read: Quicksand. A few words of explanation are probably in order here. For nearly aslong as I had been running the Salinger site, I had been chipping away at this book, determined to one day deliver a true and fair and unsentimental account of Salinger’s life justly infused with appreciation for his works. [download]

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Isaac Newton-A Biography

Isaac Newton-A Biography 

By: Gale E. Christianson

AT ONCE MORTAL AND IMMORTAL, ISAAC NEWTON WAS BOTH A living, breathing man and a legend that forever changed the world. Yet so reclusive was he at his most creative that his biographers have succeeded in viewing him only through a glass darkly. During a rare moment of introspection, Newtononce compared himself to a boy playing on a seashore, casting about for a few beautiful pebbles that he likened to his greatest discoveries. It is worth noting, however, that even this simple metaphor is misleading. While Newton’s home was an island, he never set eyes on the open sea beyond the fens until well after he had grown to manhood. Neither, so far as is known, did he seriously entertain the idea of taking in the wonders of the Continent only a short sail away, or of communing with Europe’s foremost scientific minds. [download]

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