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Title: Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Author: Reingold, Dan
Published: 2006
ISBN: 0060747706
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 502
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Business, True Crime, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Business, True Crime, Nonfiction
"A well-documented, in-depth look at the Street that names heroes and villains and pulls no punches." -The Boston Globe
Dan Reingold was a top analyst for fourteen years, chief competitor to Salomon Smith Barney's Jack Grubman in the red-hot telecom sector. He was part of the Street and believed in it. But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir Reingold describes how his enthusiasm gave way to disgust as he learned how deeply corrupted Wall Street and much of corporate America had become during the roaring stock market bubble of the 1990s.
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst provides a front-row seat at one of the most dramatic-and ultimately tragic-periods in financial history. Reingold recounts his introduction to a world of leaks and secret deal-making; his experiences with corporate fraud; and Wall Street's alarming penchant for lavish spending and multimillion-dollar pay packages. He spars with arch rival Grubman; fends off intense pressures from bankers and corporate CEOs; and is wooed by Morgan Stanley's John Mack and CSFB's Frank Quattrone. He tells of confidential deals whispered about days before their official announcement, and recalls the moment he learned that WorldCom was massively cooking its books. And he reveals his shock at being an unwitting catalyst for a series of sexually explicit e-mails that would rock Wall Street; bring Grubman to his knees; and contribute to the stepping aside of Grubman's boss, Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill. In addition, he shows how government investigators never got to the heart of the ethical and legal transgressions of the era, leaving investors-even sophisticated professionals-cheated.
Reingold's stories range from outrageous to hilarious to simply absurd. But together they provide a sobering exposé of Wall Street: a jungle of greed and ego brimming with conflicts and inside information, and a business absurdly out of touch with the Main Street it claims to serve.
"Shows us that much of what propelled the meteoric rise of the stock market in the late nineties was self-interested, sometimes criminal, hot air . . . a riveting and revealing account." -Michael K. Powell, former chairman, FCC
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Title: Can't Buy Me Love
Author: Jonathan Gould
Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307353375
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 672
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Music, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Music, Nonfiction
That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can't Buy Me Love , Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Nearly twenty years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism.
Beginning with their adolescence in Liverpool, Gould describes the seminal influences--from Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry to The Goon Show and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland --that shaped the Beatles both as individuals and as a group. In addition to chronicling their growth as singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists, he highlights the advances in recording technology that made their sound both possible and unique, as well as the developments in television and radio that lent an explosive force to their popular success. With a musician's ear, Gould sensitively evokes the timeless appeal of the Lennon-McCartney collaboration and their emergence as one of the most creative and significant songwriting teams in history.
Behind the scenes Gould explores the pivotal roles played by manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin, credits the influence on the Beatles' music of contemporaries like Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, and Ravi Shankar, and traces the gradual escalation of the fractious internal rivalries that led to the group's breakup after their final masterpiece, Abbey Road. Most significantly, by chronicling their revolutionary impact on popular culture during the 1960s, Can't Buy Me Love illuminates the Beatles as a charismatic phenomenon of international proportions, whose anarchic energy and unexpected import was derived from the historic shifts in fortune that transformed the relationship between Britain and America in the decades after World War II.
From the Beats in America and the Angry Young Men in England to the shadow of the Profumo Affair and JFK's assassination, Gould captures the pulse of a time that made the Beatles possible-and even necessary. As seen through the prism of the Beatles and their music, an entire generation's experience comes astonishingly to life. Beautifully written, consistently insightful, and utterly original, Can' t Buy Me Love is a landmark work about the Beatles, Britain, and America.
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Title: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Author: Chelsea Handler
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780446552448
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Extension: EPUB
Size: 599 KB
Subjects: General, Relationships, Humor, Topic, American Satire And Humor, Humour collections & anthologies, Man-woman relationships, Form, Form - Essays, Essays, Comedy (Performing Arts), Humour: Collections & General, American wit and humor, Women
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
In these personal essays, the hilarious comedian and Chelsea Lately host reflects on family, love life, and the absurdities of adulthood with "cheeky candor" and signature wit (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the #1 bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood.
Family moments are fair game, whether it's writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It's open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn't talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. Outrageously funny and deliciously wicked, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang is good good good good!
Chelsea Handler on . . . [*] Being unpopular: "My parents couldn't have been more unreasonable when it came to fads or clothes that weren't purchased at a pharmacy."
[*] Living with her boyfriend: "He's similar to a large toddler, the only difference being he doesn't cry when he wakes up."
[*] Appreciating her brother: "He's a certified public accountant, and I have a real life."
[*] Arm-wrestling a maid of honor: "It wasn't her strength that intimidated me. It was the starry way her eyes focused on me, like Mike Tyson getting ready to feed."
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Title: Challenge for the Pacific
Author: Robert Leckie
Published: 1956
Language: English
ISBN: 9780553386912
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 464
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Military, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Military, Nonfiction
From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and [i]New York Times[/i] bestselling author of [i]Helmet for My Pillow, [/i]whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries [i]The Pacific[/i], comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.
From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated-and ultimately foiled-attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy's plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.
Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world.
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Title: Comfort & Joy
Author: Kristin Hannah
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780345483799
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Pages: 256
Extension: EPUB
Size: 211 KB
Subjects: Fiction
Categories: New Age, Religion & Spirituality, Self-Improvement, Nonfiction
For readers of Kathleen Norris and Gretchen Rubin, a thought-provoking examination of the meaning of comfort.
Comfort is a universal human need. It's that craving to feel at one with the world we live in, warm (but not hot), protected (but not smothered), and secure (but not marooned) in what the future holds. Yet in our increasingly complex and overstressed world, we tend to overlook this important aspect in our lives. In Comfort: An Atlas for the Body and Soul, Brett C. Hoover, a scholar and Catholic priest, explores what comfort means-and it means different things to different people. He delves into the psychological, emotional, and spiritual facets of comfort and offers ways to rediscover it. With insight and humor, Hoover writes about the advantages and the pitfalls of seeking-and finding-comfort as he guides us towards the goal we should strive for: to find comfort in our own lives as we offer comfort to others.
By turns lyrical and thought-provoking, funny and poignant, Comfort is full of engaging and unexpected insights in our very human search for personal fulfillment.
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Title: Cleaving
Author: Julie Powell
Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780316003360
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Subjects: Autobiography, Food
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do - until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her memoir, Cleaving.
Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs - tough physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts.
The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world - from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.
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Title: Clapton
Author: Eric Clapton
Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9781415943441
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 352
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Nonfiction
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography.
More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys.
Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl "Clapton is God" on the walls of London's Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world's first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic "Layla."
During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for George's wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard , with its massive hit "I Shot the Sheriff." He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand , which included "Wonderful Tonight," the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage.
In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful "Tears in Heaven."
Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.
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Title: Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781451624960
Publisher: Scribner
Pages: 145
Extension: EPUB
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Subjects: Contemporary
Categories: Sociology, Nonfiction
Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about time travel.
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Title: 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Author: Charles Mann
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307596727
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 544
Extension: EPUB
Size: 25 MB
Subjects: History, Awards, World History, Americas - General & Miscellaneous History, Colonialism & Imperialism, Exploration & Discovery, Civilization - History, General & Miscellaneous World History, Americas - Colonial History, Americas - Exploration & Discovery, Civilization - General & Miscellaneous, World History - General & Miscellaneous, New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2011, Time Magazine's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2011, Washington Post Best Nonfiction of 2011
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world-from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. [b]• "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." - The New York Times Book Review
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Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City-where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted-the center of the world. In this history, Mann uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Mann has again given readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination.
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Title: The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company
Author: Charles Royster
Published: 1999
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Title: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Author: David Lynch
Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9781585426126
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Pages: 208
Extension: EPUB
Size: 143 KB
Subjects: General, Body; Mind & Spirit, Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography, Meditations, Self-Help, Meditation, Philosophy, Body, Mind & Spirit, Creativity, etc.), Mind & Body, Creation (Literary, artistic, Individual Director, Transcendental Meditation, Creation (Literary; artistic; etc.), Oriental Philosophy
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In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.
Catching Ideas
Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything.
Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.
--from Catching the Big Fish
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Title: The Sword and the Shield
Author: Christopher Andrew
Published: 1999
Language: English
ISBN: 9781433234491
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages: 736
Extension: EPUB
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Subjects: Current Events, Nonfiction
Categories: Current Events, Nonfiction
Based on unprecedented access to a secret archive of intelligence, The Sword and the Shield presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe, revealing for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.
Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB. Mitrokhin spent over a decade making notes and transcripts of these highly classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and kept beneath his dacha floor. Now he has offered Christopher Andrew exclusive access to his archive. The picture that emerges in this sobering book will force us to acknowledge that there was indeed an enemy-and that he was very much in our midst.
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Title: Moscow, December 25th, 1991
Author: Conor O'Clery
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9781848271142
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: #genre
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Politics, Nonfiction
History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.
On the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War, Conor O'Clery has built his compelling and brilliantly constructed narrative of the fall of the Soviet Union around one day, December 25, 1991, the date Gorbachev resigned and the USSR was effectively consigned to history. From there, O'Clery looks back over the events of the previous six years: Gorbachev's reform policies of glasnost and perestroika; Yeltsin's ignominious fall and then rise to the top; the defiance of the once docile Soviet republics; the failed August coup by the hardliners; and the events that swiftly followed until a secret meeting in a central European forest sealed the fate of the communist monolith and the clock ticked down to the last day.
The result is an intricately detailed, thoroughly researched book, based on interviews with many of the key figures in a drama of Shakespearean intensity as well as contemporary reportage, the memoirs and diaries of key political figures and official documents. The book is written at a breathtaking, dramatic pace, drawing the reader in as it focuses equally on the personal and historical stories.
Moscow, December 25, 1991 is set to become a defining book on the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Title: Civilization: The West and the Rest
Author: Niall Ferguson
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9781101548028
Publisher: ePenguin
Pages: 432
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: General History
Categories: History, World History, Civilization - History, General & Miscellaneous World History, Civilization - General & Miscellaneous, World History - General & Miscellaneous
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
"A dazzling history of Western ideas."[b]-The Economist
"Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase." -Wall Street Journal
"[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force." -Boston Globe[/b]
Western civilization's rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.
How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or "killer applications"-competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic-that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.
Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
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Title: Chuck Klosterman on Pop
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781451624625
Publisher: Scribner
Pages: 24
Extension: EPUB
Size: 290 KB
Subjects: Contemporary
Categories: Sociology, Nonfiction
From Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs ; Chuck Klosterman IV ; and Eating the Dinosaur , these essays are now available in this ebook collection for fans of Klosterman's writing on pop music.
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Title: Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Author: Peggy Orenstein
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780061711534
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 272
Extension: EPUB
Size: 7 MB
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: Family & Relationships, Sociology, Nonfiction
Peggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and collegegirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults.
Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as the source of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages. But how dangerous is pink and pretty, anyway? Being a princess is just make-believe; eventually they grow out of it . . . or do they?
In search of answers, Peggy Orenstein visited Disneyland, trolled American Girl Place, and met parents of beauty-pageant precollegeers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. The stakes turn out to be higher than she ever imagined. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniable-yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters' lives.
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Title: Clark Howard's Living Large in Lean Times
Author: Mark Meltzer
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780786887774
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Pages: 272
Extension: EPUB
Size: 304 KB
Subjects: Business, Finance, Nonfiction
Categories: Business, Finance, Nonfiction
Clark Howard answers all these questions and many more in Get Clark Smart. With practical tips and on-line resources, Howard helps readers to get rich by saving money in unexpected places and investing those savings creatively. Howard has a passion for saving money and a zealots enthusiasm for sharing everything hes learned. His strategies for getting rich by saving wisely will turn readers into financial wizards.
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Title: Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes
Author: Lifetime Television
Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781401341138
Publisher: Voice
Pages: 100
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: General, Cooking, Cookery, Methods, Wine, Quick & Easy, Methods - Quick & Easy, Health & Fitness, Weight Control, Recipes, Low Fat, Health & Healing - Weight Control, Health & Healing, Low-calorie diet, Diets, Cookbooks, Low-fat diet
Categories: Cooking & Food, Health & Fitness, Nonfiction
Lose weight without losing your mind!
Cook Yourself Thin, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a healthy, delicious way to drop a dress size without all the gimmicks. Eighty easy, accessible recipes teach readers how to cut calories without compromising taste.
For some of us, losing weight has always been a struggle. The challenge: figuring out how to cook healthy, low-fat foods that won't leave you hungry, bored, or running for a gallon of ice cream! Cook Yourself Thin shows how to cut calories, change diets, and improve health without sacrificing the foods we love.
Cook Yourself Thin is not a fad diet. It gives skinny alternatives to your cravings. You can't live without your chocolate cake or mac 'n' cheese? You don't have to! There's never enough time to cook Cook Yourself Thin keeps it simple with easy instructions and fun recipes you'll want to make again and again.
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Title: The Fourth Star
Author: Greg Jaffe
Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307409065
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 336
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, Military, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Military, Nonfiction
They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military's brutal winnowing to reach its top echelon. They became the Army's most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq.
Collectively, their lives tell the story of the Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. Theirs is a story of successes and failures, of ambitions achieved and thwarted, of the responsibilities and perils of command. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared, and how the Army, drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed, saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless, low-tech foe. In The Fourth Star, you'll follow:
•Gen. John Abizaid, one of the Army's most brilliant minds. Fluent in Arabic, he forged an unconventional path in the military to make himself an expert on the Middle East, but this unique background made him skeptical of the war he found himself leading.
•Gen. George Casey Jr., the son of the highest-ranking general to be killed in the Vietnam War. Casey had grown up in the Army and won praise for his common touch and skill as a soldier. He was determined not to repeat the mistakes of Vietnam but would take much of the blame as Iraq collapsed around him.
•Gen. Peter Chiarelli, an emotional, take-charge leader who, more than any other senior officer, felt the sting of the Army's failures in Iraq. He drove his soldiers, the chain of command, and the U.S. government to rethink the occupation plans-yet rarely achieved the results he sought.
•Gen. David Petraeus, a driven soldier-scholar. Determined to reach the Army's summit almost since the day he entered West Point, he sometimes alienated peers with his ambition and competitiveness. When he finally got his chance in Iraq, he-more than anyone-changed the Army's conception of what was possible.
Masterfully written and richly reported, The Fourth Star ranges far beyond today's battlefields, evoking the Army's tumultuous history since Vietnam through these four captivating lives and ultimately revealing a fascinating irony: In an institution that prizes obedience, the most effective warriors are often those who dare to question the prevailing orthodoxy and in doing so redefine the American way of war.
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Title: Daily reflections: a book of reflections by A. A. members for A. A. members
Author: Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous World Service
Published: 2018
Language: English
ISBN: 9780916856373
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, c1990.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 155 KB
Subjects: Psychopathology, Devotional calendars, Psychology, Substance Abuse & Addictions, Religious aspects, General, Meditations, Alcoholics, Drug Dependence, Self-Help, Twelve-Step Programs, Addiction, Alcoholism
Categories: Self-Improvement, Nonfiction
This is an audiobook of reflections by AA members for AA members. It was first published in 1990 to fulfill a long-felt need within the Fellowship for a collection of reflections that moves through the calendar year - one day at a time. Each chapter contains a reflection on a quotation from AA. Conference-approved literature, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, As Bill Sees It, and other books.
These reflections were submitted by members of the AA Fellowship who were not professional writers, nor did they speak for AA but only for themselves, from their own experiences in sobriety. Thus, the audiobook offers sharing, day by day, from a broad cross section of members, which focuses on the three legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous: recovery, unity, and service. Daily Reflections has proven to be popular, aiding individuals in their practice of daily meditation and providing inspiration to group discussions, even as it presents an introduction for some to AA literature as a whole.
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