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Title: Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
Author: Kenneth Silverman

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781400044375
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages: 496
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: Autobiography
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Philosophy, Nonfiction

John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Now award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. We follow Cage from his Los Angeles childhood-his father was a successful inventor-through his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of creativity in him and, after his return to the States, into his studies with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg. We see Cage's early experiments with sound and percussion instruments, and watch as he develops his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. We learn of his many friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers; of his early marriage and several lovers, both female and male; and of his long relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would collaborate on radically unusual dances that continue to influence the worlds of both music and dance.
Drawing on interviews with Cage's contemporaries and friends and on the enormous archive of his letters and writings, and including photographs, facsimiles of musical scores, and Web links to illustrative sections of his compositions, Silverman gives us a biography of major significance: a revelatory portrait of one of the most important cultural figures of the twentieth century.

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Title: Andy Rooney_ 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
Author: Rooney, Andy

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781586487737
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Essays, Language Arts, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Essays, Language Arts, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor.
Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit brings together the best of more than a half-century of work (including long-out-of-print pieces from Rooney's early years) in an unforgettable celebration of one of America's funniest men. With selections from his beginnings as a correspondent for The Stars and Stripes during WWII to his arrival at CBS to his more than thirty-year stint on 60 Minutes, this book is a must-have for any Rooney fan.

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Title: Proud Tower
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Published: 1965
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307798114
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 608
Extension: EPUB
Size: 7 MB
Subjects: History, World History, General & Miscellaneous World History, World History - General & Miscellaneous
Categories: History, World History, General & Miscellaneous World History, World History - General & Miscellaneous

[b]The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with "a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish" (The New York Times)-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August

[/b]During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.

The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era.

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Title: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

Published: 2006
Language: English
ISBN: 9780805081244
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages: 256
Extension: EPUB
Size: 294 KB
Subjects: White collar workers, Communism & Socialism, Labor & Industrial Relations, Government, Displaced workers, Labor, United States, Job Hunting, Economic Conditions, Business & Economics, Political Science, General, Free Enterprise, Political Ideologies, Careers
Categories: Business, Politics, Nonfiction

The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible résumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a middle-class job-undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and-again and again-rejected.
Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything right-gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés-yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the business cycle. Today's ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their "surplus" employees-plunging them, for months or years at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly disposable workers-and little security even for those who have jobs.
Like the now classic Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing exposé of economic cruelty where we least expect it.


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Title: Be Your Own Mentor
Author: Sheila Wellington

Published: 2001
Language: English
ISBN: 9780375506888
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Extension: EPUB
Size: 323 KB
Subjects: Non-Fiction
Categories: Business, Business Life & Careers, Women in Business, Business Life & Skills, Business Skills - General & Miscellaneous, Women in the Workplace

Surprising secrets of success from some of America's women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the real world of work today and how to get ahead.

Catalyst studies reveal that having a mentor is the crucial key to success at work, and it's the single advantage men usually have, and women usually don't. Even at the best organizations for women, there is still a shortage of mentors. Be Your Own Mentor becomes that mentor for you, providing through stories and eye-opening advice a step-by-step guide to advancement. How to master the art of networking, how to create opportunities to gain experience and visibility, how to manage time, how to negotiate salary, and much, much more is discussed, as you learn from leading women how they got where they are, the mistakes they feel they've made along the way, and how they created lives of achievement and satisfaction. Hear from women such as Carly Fiorina (CEO, Hewlett-Packard), Cathleen Black (president, Hearst Magazines), Judith Rodin (president, University of Pennsylvania), and Andrea Jung (president and CEO, Avon). From that first resume all the way to the CEO's office, Be Your Own Mentor guides you along your path to success.

Be Your Own Mentor gives advice from top women on how to:
Devise a short-term and long-term career strategy
Gain visibility in the workplace and in your field
Create opportunities to gain valuable experience
Change your career path
Negotiate salary
Balance work and family
And much, much more...

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Title: at Home (2010)
Author: Bryson, Bill

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780767919388
Publisher: Transworld
Pages: 512
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Architecture, History, Home Design & Décor, Nonfiction
Categories: Architecture, History, Home Design & Décor, Nonfiction

In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually ends up in our home, in the paint, the pipes, the pillows, and every item of furniture. Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and his sheer prose fluency makes At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.



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Title: Barrel Fever (2010)
Author: Sedaris, David

Published: 1994
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316779401
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
Extension: EPUB
Size: 394 KB
Subjects: Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

In David Sedaris' world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer , Sedaris' collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.
David Sedaris made his debut on NPR's Morning Edition with "SantaLand Diaries", recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy's, and soon became one of the show's most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.

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Title: Mary Tudor
Author: Anna Whitelock

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780679603986
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 432
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: History, Biography, European History, Historical Biography, Women's Biography, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Biography - Britain, 1485-1603 - Tudor Dynasty - British History, Britain - Historical Biography - 1485-1603 (Tudor Dynasty), Britain - Historical Biography - Rulers & Royal Families, Political & Legal Figures - Women's Biography
Categories: History, Biography, European History, Historical Biography, Women's Biography, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Biography - Britain, 1485-1603 - Tudor Dynasty - British History, Britain - Historical Biography - 1485-1603 (Tudor Dynasty), Britain - Historical Biography - Rulers & Royal Families, Political & Legal Figures - Women's Biography

She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain's stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary." Now, in this impassioned and absorbing debut, historian Anna Whitelock offers a modern perspective on Mary Tudor and sets the record straight once and for all on one of history's most compelling and maligned rulers.

Though often overshadowed by her long-reigning sister, Elizabeth I, Mary lived a life full of defiance, despair, and triumph. Born the daughter of the notorious King Henry VIII and the Spanish Katherine of Aragon, young Mary was a princess in every sense of the word-collegeed in regal customs, educated by the best scholars, coveted by European royalty, and betrothed before she had reached the age of three. Yet in a decade's time, in the wake of King Henry's break with the pope, she was declared a bastard, disinherited, and demoted from "princess" to "lady." Ever her deeply devout mother's daughter, Mary refused to accept her new status or to recognize Henry's new wife, Anne Boleyn, as queen. The fallout with her father and his counselors nearly destroyed the teenage Mary, who faced imprisonment and even death.

It would be an outright battle for Mary to work herself back into the king's favor, claim her rightful place in the Tudor line, and ultimately become queen of England, but her coronation would not end her struggles. She flouted the opposition and married Philip of Spain, sought to restore Catholicism to the nation, and fiercely punished the resistance. But beneath her brave and regal exterior was a dependent woman prone to anxiety, whose private traumas of phantom pregnancies, debilitating illnesses, and unrequited love played out in the public glare of the fickle court.

Anna Whitelock, an acclaimed young British historian, chronicles this unique woman's life from her beginnings as a heralded princess to her rivalry with her sister to her ascent as ruler. In brilliant detail, Whitelock reveals that Mary Tudor was not the weak-willed failure as so often rendered by traditional narratives but a complex figure of immense courage, determination, and humanity.

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Title: Are You Kidding Me?: The Story of Rocco Mediate's Extraordinary Battle With Tiger Woods at the US Open
Author: Rocco Mediate, John Feinstein

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316049108
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: United States, History, Sports & Recreation, Woods; Tiger, Golfers, Golf, U.S. Open (Golf tournament), Mediate; Rocco, (2008, Golfers - United States
Categories: Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

June 2008's US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns in golf history. Day after day the invincible Tiger Woods was challenged by Rocco Mediate, a respected journeyman. On Sunday, both ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectations, Mediate played Woods to yet another tie, losing only after forcing a sudden-death showdown.
Through it all, Rocco Mediate emerged as one of the most likable, open, and fascinating golfers. In Are You Kidding Me?, he tells the full story of these five life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider knowledge of the golf world is unparalleled, Mediate relives one of sport's greatest feats, how one man overcame every obstacle to challenge the game's finest.

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Title: Bacon: A Love Story
Author: Heather Lauer

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780061971266
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Extension: EPUB
Size: 452 KB
Subjects: Cooking & Food, Nonfiction
Categories: Cooking & Food, Nonfiction

"[A] paean to pork."
-Boston Herald
A love letter to the "best meat ever," Bacon, by unabashed bacon enthusiast Heather Lauer, is a wondrous collection of bacon bits-filled with fun facts, recipes, history, and smoked porcine worship. The Memphis Commercial Appeal says, "If you can make it to the end of this book without craving just a taste of the savory stuff, then you're probably the world's strongest vegetarian." Adoring, entertaining, and informative-sizzling with Lauer's infectious passion for her mouthwatering subject-Bacon is the next best thing to bacon wrapped in bacon.


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Title: An Exaltation of Soups
Author: Patricia Solley

Published: 2004
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-307-52313-6
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: Cooking & Food, Essays, History, Nonfiction
Categories: Cooking & Food, Essays, History, Nonfiction

Throughout history and around the world, soup has been used to bring comfort, warmth, and good health. A bowl of soup can symbolize so much--celebrations, major life passages, and the everyday. Inspired by Patricia Solley's website, SoupSong.com, and organized according to function--soups to heal the sick, recover from childbirth, soothe a hangover, entice the object of your affection, and mark special occasions and holidays--An Exaltation of Soups showcases more than a hundred of the best soup recipes of all time, including:

• Festive Wedding Soup with Meatballs from Italy

• Egyptian Fava Bean Soup, made to give strength to convalescents

• Creamy Fennel Soup with Shallots and Orange Spice from Catalonia--perfect for wooing a lover

• Hungarian "Night Owl" Soup, designed to chase a hangover

• Spicy Pumpkin and Split Pea Soup from Morocco, served to celebrate Rosh Hashanah

• Tanzanian Creamy Coconut-Banana Soup for Kwanzaa

Spiced with soup riddles, soup proverbs, soup poetry, and informative sidebars about the lore and legends of soup through the ages, An Exaltation of Soups is a steaming bowl of goodness that is sure to satisfy.

From the Trade Paperback edition.


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Title: Being Wrong
Author: Kathryn Schulz

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780061997938
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 416
Extension: EPUB
Size: 780 KB
Subjects: Psychology, Nonfiction
Categories: Psychology, Nonfiction

"Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it."
-Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz, editor of Grist magazine, argues that error is the fundamental human condition and should be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan, Being Wrong will change the way you perceive screw-ups, both of the mammoth and daily variety, forever.


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Title: Apache Security
Author: Ivan Ristic

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476644349
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Pages: 470
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: Reference:Computers
Categories: Computer Technology, Nonfiction

With more than 67% of web servers running Apache, it is by far the most widely used web server platform in the world. Apache has evolved into a powerful system that easily rivals other HTTP servers in terms of functionality, efficiency, and speed. Despite these impressive capabilities, though, Apache is only a beneficial tool if it's a secure one.
To be sure, administrators installing and configuring Apache still need a sure-fire way to secure it--whether it's running a huge e-commerce operation, corporate intranet, or just a small hobby site.
Our new guide, Apache Security , gives administrators and webmasters just what they crave--a comprehensive security source for Apache. Successfully combining Apache administration and web security topics, Apache Security speaks to nearly everyone in the field. What's more, it offers a concise introduction to the theory of securing Apache, as well as a broad perspective on server security in general.
But this book isn't just about theory. The real strength of Apache Security lies in its wealth of interesting and practical advice, with many real-life examples and solutions. Administrators and programmers will learn how to:

• install and configure Apache
  
• prevent denial of service (DoS) and other attacks
  
• securely share servers
  
• control logging and monitoring
  
• secure custom-written web applications
  
• conduct a web security assessment
  
• use mod_security and other security-related modules
  

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as mainstream Apache users will also gain valuable information on PHP and SSL/ TLS. Clearly, Apache Security is packed and to the point, with plenty of details for locking down this extremely popular and versatile web server.

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Title: Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
Author: Stephen Law

Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9781616144111
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Pages: 271
Extension: EPUB
Size: 724 KB
Subjects: Philosophy, Nonfiction
Categories: Philosophy, Nonfiction

This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural landscape contains numerous intellectual black-holes-belief systems constructed in such a way that unwary passers-by can similarly find themselves drawn in. While such self-sealing bubbles of belief will most easily trap the gullible or poorly educated, even the most intelligent and educated of us are potentially vulnerable. Some of the world's greatest thinkers have fallen in, never to escape. This witty, insightful critique will help immunize readers against the wiles of cultists, religious and political zealots, conspiracy theorists, promoters of flaky alternative medicines, and others by clearly setting out the tricks of the trade by which such insidious belief systems are created and maintained.

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Title: Architecture of Minoan Crete (2010)
Author: Unknown

Published: 2023
Language: English
ISBN: 9780292778399
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Pages: 220
Extension: EPUB
Size: 9 MB
Subjects: 0292721935 9780292721937
Categories: Art, Architecture & Photography, Architecture, Architectural Time Periods & Styles, Geographic Locations - Architecture, Ancient Architecture - General & Miscellaneous, Ancient Architecture - Greek, Europe - General & Miscellaneous Architecture

A comprehensive, scholarly, engaging look at the meanings behind key architectural designs of ancient Minoan culture.

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between history and prehistory. In this culturally dynamic context, architecture provided more than physical shelter; it embodied meaning. Architecture was a medium through which Minoans constructed their notions of social, ethnic, and historical identity: the buildings tell us about how the Minoans saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen by others.

Architecture of Minoan Crete is the first comprehensive study of the entire range of Minoan architecture-including houses, palaces, tombs, and cities-from 7000 BC to 1100 BC. John C. McEnroe synthesizes the vast literature on Minoan Crete, with particular emphasis on the important discoveries of the past twenty years, to provide an up-to-date account of Minoan architecture. His accessible writing style, skillful architectural drawings of houses and palaces, site maps, and color photographs make this book inviting for general readers and visitors to Crete, as well as scholars.

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Title: Empire Lost: Britain, the Dominions and the Second World War
Author: Andrew Stewart

Published: 2020
Language: English
ISBN: 9780300195248
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages: 497
Extension: EPUB
Size: 414 KB
Subjects: History, United States History, World History, Military History, European History, Colonial Era - United States History, Americas - General & Miscellaneous History, Colonialism & Imperialism, British & Commonwealth - Armed Forces, British History - General & Miscellaneous, American Colonial History - Great Britain - American Colonies, Americas - Colonial History, British Armed Forces - General & Miscellaneous, British History - Military History, British Imperialism & British Empire - History
Categories: History, United States History, World History, Military History, European History, Colonial Era - United States History, Americas - General & Miscellaneous History, Colonialism & Imperialism, British & Commonwealth - Armed Forces, British History - General & Miscellaneous, American Colonial History - Great Britain - American Colonies, Americas - Colonial History, British Armed Forces - General & Miscellaneous, British History - Military History, British Imperialism & British Empire - History

Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire's loss of the American Revolution.
The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory.
In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire.
"A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world."-Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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Title: An Ordinary Man
Author: Paul Rusesabagina; Tom Zoellner

Published: 2006
Language: English
ISBN: 9781602851542
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
Pages: 224
Extension: EPUB
Size: 257 KB
Subjects: General, Large type books, History, Historical - General, Historical, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Murder, True Crime, Africa, Prevention, Cultural Heritage, Human rights workers, Native Americans, Large print books, East, Genocide - Rwanda - Prevention, Rwanda, Human rights workers - Rwanda, Rusesabagina; Paul, Rwanda - History - Civil War; 1994 - Civilian relief, Genocide, Rwanda - History - Civil War; 1994 - Refugees
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Multi-Cultural, Nonfiction

The remarkable autobiography of the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda

"Fascinating.your book is called An Ordinary Man, yet you took on an extraordinary feat with courage, determination, and diplomacy." - Oprah, O, The Oprah Magazine
As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. In An Ordinary Man, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his "guests" and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life as a refugee and activist.

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Title: Being Geek
Author: Michael Lopp

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780596155407
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Pages: 338
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
Categories: Business, Computer Technology, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

As a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he's a jerk? Join that startup? Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Netscape, and Symantec in Being Geek -- an insightful and entertaining book that will help you make better career decisions.
With more than 40 standalone stories, Lopp walks through a complete job life cycle, starting with the job interview and ending with the realization that it might be time to find another gig. Many books teach you how to interview for a job or how to manage a project successfully, but only this book helps you handle the baffling circumstances you may encounter throughout your career.

• Decide what you're worth with the chapter on "The Business"
  
• Determine the nature of the miracle your CEO wants with "The Impossible"
  
• Give effective presentations with "How Not to Throw Up"
  
• Handle liars and people with devious agendas with "Managing Werewolves"
  
• Realize when you should be looking for a new gig with "The Itch"
  

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Title: Batavia's Graveyard
Author: Mike Dash

Published: 2002
Language: English
ISBN: 9780609607664
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Pages: 400
Extension: EPUB
Size: 732 KB
Subjects: History
Categories: History, Nonfiction

From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia's Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.
It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas.
With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeed-but for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Java-some 1,800 miles north-to summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus's treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers.
Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he'd learned in Holland's secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus's band of butchers.
Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia's commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company's gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia's Graveyard.
Impeccably researched and beautifully written, Batavia's Graveyard is the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash's place as one of the finest writers of the genre.

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Title: Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court & Win (5th Edition)
Author: David Wayne Brown

Published: 2003
Language: English
Publisher: NOLO
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: General, Law, Practical Guides, Reference, United States, Popular works, Traffic courts - United States, Transportation, Criminal Law, Traffic violations, Automotive, Traffic courts, Pro se representation, Traffic violations - United States, Courts, Pro se representation - United States
Categories: Law, Reference, Nonfiction


From Library Journal
Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why municipalities may issue traffic tickets, not all of them related to unsafe or illegal driving. His book targets those who feel they have been unfairly ticketed and those who through "bad luck or indiscretion" have a need to fight a ticket. He covers types of violations, speed detection methods, how to read a ticket, understanding the charges, and how to prepare, research, and argue a case. He provides a rich appendix with summaries of traffic court rules, citations to the motor vehicle laws of each state, and references to related web sites. The text is highlighted with icons that point up cross references, tactical hints, and warnings about potential problems. Brown does not minimize the homework that needs to be done to challenge a traffic ticket successfully, and his chapter on reading the law and performing legal research is nicely done. Recommended for most public libraries.AJoan Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"State and local governments are increasingly relying on traffic ticket revenue for daily operations. Beat Your Ticket gives responsible motorists the means to protect their rights." -- James J. Baxter, President, National Motorists Association
"This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own." -- The Electric Review
"Covers... when to seek professional help, when to take the traffic-college option, how to research for court, and how to conduct yourself before the judge. -- Mike Maza,Dallas Morning News

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