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Title: Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey Into Alzheimer's
Author: Andrea Gillies

Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780307719119
Extension: EPUB
Size: 335 KB
Subjects: General, Women, Medical, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Diseases, Health & Fitness, Alzheimer's disease, Patients, Scotland, Specific Groups - Special Needs, Caregivers, Caregiving, Alzheimer's disease - Patients - Scotland, Alzheimer's & Dementia, Gillies, Alzheimer's disease - Patients - Care - Scotland, Caregivers - Scotland, Family Psychology, Diseases - Alzheimer's & Dementia, Andrea, Gillies; Andrea, Care
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness, Nonfiction

Five years ago, Andrea Gillies- writer, wife, and mother of three-seeing that her husband's parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in. She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind their friends and all that was familiar; hoping to find a new life, and new inspiration for work.

Her mother-in-law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and Keeper charts her journey into dementia, its impact on her personality and her family, and the author's researches into what dementia is. As the grip of her disease tightens, Nancy's grasp on everything we think of as ordinary unravels before our eyes. Diary entries and accounts of conversations with Nancy track the slow unravelling. The journey is marked by frustration, isolation, exhaustion, and unexpected black comedy. For the author, who knew little about dementia at the outset, the learning curve was steeper than she could have imagined. The most pernicious quality of Alzheimer's, Gillies suggests, is that the loss of memory is, in effect, the loss of one's self, and Alzheimer's, because it robs us of our intrinsic self-knowledge, our ability to connect with others, and our capacity for self-expression, is perhaps the most terrible and most dehumanizing illness. Moreover, as Gillies reminds us, the effects of Alzheimer's are far-reaching, impacting the lives of caregivers and their loved ones in every way imaginable.

Keeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss"-an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.

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Title: Katie Up and Down the Hall: The True Story of How One Dog Turned Five Neighbors Into a Family
Author: Glenn Plaskin

Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9781599952543
Extension: EPUB
Size: 293 KB
Subjects: Sociology, Social Science, Battery Park City (New York; N.Y.), Strangers - New York (State) - New York, Pets, Essays, Dogs, Families - New York (State) - New York, Customs & Traditions, Nature, New York (N.Y.), Cocker spaniels, Neighbors - New York (State) - New York, Animals, Marriage & Family, Cocker spaniels - New York (State) - New York, New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs, Plaskin; Glenn, Breeds, Neighbors, New York (State), Battery Park City (New York; N.Y.) - Social life and customs, General, New York, Biography & Autobiography, Human-animal relationships, Human-animal relationships - New York (State) - New York, Biography
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Pets, Nonfiction

A personal memoir by bestselling author and celebrity journalist Glenn Plaskin, KATIE is a moving story about a man who discovers the true meaning of family after adopting a cocker spaniel puppy. Through the magnetic personality of his mischievous dog, the author soon makes powerful connections with several of his down-the-hall neighbors in a high-rise located in the unique Battery Park City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. First, Katie trots into the lives of Pearl and Arthur, a warm-hearted elderly couple just a few doors down from Glenn. Later, John, a single Dad, and his rambunctious young son, Ryan, also move in and are seduced by Katie's charms.
All of their lives are profoundly changed as they are transformed from neighbors to friends to family, with Pearl as matriarch. The motherless boy finds a "Granny"; his Dad inherits a mother, Glenn discovers a confidante. Set in New York City, we witness nearly sixteen years of antics and family adventures spanning Hollywood high times, bad health, accidents, blustery winters, even the terrors of 9/11. Through it all, the family clings to each other, sharing a deep bond that give each comfort, support and security.
Based upon a widely-read article in Family Circle, here is an unforgettable story about the love that makes a family-one that transcends the hard realities of time, tragedy, and inevitable loss.

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Title: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Underground
Author: Kevin Poulsen

Language: English
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780307588685
Extension: EPUB
Size: 441 KB
Subjects: Technology & Engineering, Computer hackers, Commercial criminals - United States, Commercial criminals, Social Science, True Crime, Computers, General, United States, Criminals & Outlaws, Computer crimes, Butler; Max, Case studies, Computer crimes - United States, Biography & Autobiography, Computer hackers - United States, Security, Engineering (General), Criminology

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Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative-and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century's signature form of organized crime. The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone-some brilliant, audacious crook-had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin; other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents. Together, the cybercops lured numerous unsuspecting hackers into their clutches. . . . Yet at every turn, their main quarry displayed an uncanny ability to sniff out their snitches and see through their plots. The culprit they sought was the most unlikely of criminals: a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain's double identity. As prominent white-hat hacker Max Vision Butler, he was a celebrity throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. But as the black-hat Iceman, he found in the world of data theft an irresistible opportunity to test his outsized abilities. He infiltrated thousands of computers around the country, sucking down millions of credit card numbers at will. He effortlessly hacked his fellow hackers, stealing their ill-gotten gains from under their noses. Together with a smooth-talking con artist, he ran a massive real-world crime ring. And for years, he did it all with seeming impunity, even as countless rivals ran afoul of security officer. Yet as he watched the fraudsters around him squabble, their ranks riddled with infiltrators, their methods inefficient, he began to see in their dysfunction the ultimate challenge: He would stage his coup and fix what was broken, run things as they should be run-even if it meant painting a bull's-eye on his forehead. Through the story of this criminal's remarkable rise, and of law enforcement's quest to track him down, Kingpin lays bare the workings of a silent crime wave still affecting millions of Americans. In these pages, we are ushered into vast online-fraud supermarkets stocked with credit card numbers, counterfeit checks, hacked bank accounts, dead drops, and fake passports. We learn the workings of the numerous hacks-browser exploits, phishing attacks, Trojan horses, and much more-these fraudsters use to ply their trade, and trace the complex routes by which they turn stolen data into millions of dollars. And thanks to Poulsen's remarkable access to both cops and criminals, we step inside the quiet, desperate arms race that law enforcement continues to fight with these scammers today. Ultimately, Kingpin is a journey into an underworld of startling scope and power, one in which ordinary American teenagers work hand in hand with murderous Russian mobsters and where a simple Wi-Fi connection can unleash a torrent of gold worth millions. From the Hardcover edition.

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Title: Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads
Author: Nancy Baggett

Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
ISBN: 9780470399866
Extension: EPUB
Size: 779 KB
Subjects: Food
Categories: Cooking & Food, Nonfiction

The ultimate guide of super-simple no-knead bread recipes
For years, home cooks have shied away from baking their own yeast bread because they were intimidated by the mess, expertise, and kneading required. Now in paperback, Nancy Baggett's revolutionary Kneadlessly Simple lets even complete novices bake bread quickly and easily in their own homes, with no kneading and no mess.
Using the author's simple and effective technique, these recipes call for minimal ingredients and can usually be mixed in one bowl using a single spoon--with amazingly good results. A wide variety of breads are provided, including Crusty Sourdough Boules, English Muffin Loaves, pizza dough (and companion sauce recipe), Caraway Beer Bread, and much more.

• Perfect for inexperienced bakers and busy home cooks who don't have the time for kneading and kitchen clean-up yeast breads usually require, as well as budget-conscious consumers who love homemade artisan bread flavor, but not artisan bakery prices
  
• Author Nancy Baggett is the bestselling author of 13 cookbooks
  
• Includes 73 foolproof bread recipes for comfy classics like Cinnamon-Raisin Bread to contemporary favorites like Rosemary Focaccia
  

Nothing beats a loaf of fresh, warm-from-the-oven bread. Kneadlessly Simple lets even novice cooks create fragrant, full-flavored loaves without any specialized equipment, mess, or kneading.
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Title: Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Author: Anthony Bourdain

Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN: 9780739332351
Extension: EPUB
Size: 297 KB
Subjects: General, United States, Essays, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Biography And Autobiography, Biography, Cooking, Cooks, Literary studies: general, Cookery, General cookery, Food & Drink: General, General cookery & recipes, Methods, Travel, Restaurants, Cookbooks, Methods - General, American authors, Restaurants - New York (State) - New York - History, Hotel & catering trades, Food Service Management, Bourdain; Anthony, Cooks - New York (State) - New York
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Cooking & Food, Essays, Nonfiction

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain's brilliantly written and wonderfully read, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.

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Title: Kitchen Mysteries
Author: Hervé This

Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231141710
Extension: EPUB
Size: 717 KB
Subjects: Cooking & Food, Technology, Engineering, Nonfiction
Categories: Cooking & Food, Technology, Engineering, Nonfiction

"This's molecular gastronomy is garnished with [his] own rich philosophy of food and flavor" in a book that reveals the science behind everyday cooking (Nature).
In Kitchen Mysteries, Hervé This-international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy-offers a second helping of his world-renowned insight into the science of cooking, answering such fundamental questions as what causes vegetables to change color when cooked and how to keep a soufflé from falling. He illuminates abstract concepts with practical advice and concrete examples-for instance, how sautéing in butter chemically alters the molecules of mushrooms-so that cooks of every stripe can thoroughly comprehend the scientific principles of food.
By sharing the empirical principles chefs have valued for generations, Hervé This adds another dimension to the suggestions of cookbook authors. He shows how to adapt recipes to available ingredients and how to modify proposed methods to the utensils at hand. His revelations make difficult recipes easier to attempt and allow for even more creativity and experimentation. Promising to answer your most compelling kitchen questions, Hervé This continues to make the complex science of food digestible to the cook.
"Cooks who want to learn more about the chemistry and physics that make their efforts possible will discover useful things here."-Booklist
"This has made invisible processes visible, revealed the mysteries, and the bread has risen, baked, and been enjoyed."-Appetite for Books
"[An] eye-opening book."-Portsmouth Herald
" Kitchen Mysteries is another tour de force for the French scientific chef . . . Highly Recommended."-Choice

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Title: Kitchen Confidential
Author: Bourdain, Anthony

Published: 2010
Publisher: Books on Tape
ISBN: 9780739332351
Extension: EPUB
Size: 316 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Cooking & Food, Essays, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Cooking & Food, Essays, Nonfiction

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain's brilliantly written and wonderfully read, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.

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Title: Desert Queen
Author: Janet Wallach

Language: English
Published: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781400096190
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Politics, Nonfiction

The definitive biography, [b]mesmerizing and "richly textured " (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. • With a new Afterword • "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." -The Boston Globe[/b]
Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire.

In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements -a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind.
Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.

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Title: Jerusalem: The Biography
Author: Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Published: 2011
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780307280503
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history
Categories: History, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and ., to the Israel-Palestine conflict,[b] from thebestselling author of The Romanovs • "Impossible to put down.. Vastly enjoyable." -The New York Times Book Review
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How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the men and women who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan.

In this masterful narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore brings the holy city to life and draws on the latest scholarship, his own family history, and a lifetime of study to show that the story of Jerusalem is truly the story of the world.

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Title: The Company
Author: John Micklethwait

Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679642497
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Business, History, Nonfiction, Economics
Categories: Business, History, Nonfiction, Economics

From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world's most powerful institution.
Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn't know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until we place that seemingly humble Victorian innovation, the joint-stock company, in the center of the frame.
With their trademark authority and wit, Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history's great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the globe. What other earthly invention has the power to grow to any size, and to live to any age? What else could have given us both the stock market and the British Empire? The company man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonald'sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the globe, and understanding what this creature is and where it comes from has never been a more pressing matter. To the rescue come these acclaimed authors, with a short volume of truly vast range and insight.

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Title: The relentless revolution: a history of capitalism
Author: Joyce Appleby, Joyce Oldham Appleby

Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393068948
Extension: EPUB
Size: 483 KB
Subjects: History, General, Historiography, Economics, Capitalism - History, Economic History, Capitalism, Free Enterprise, Business & Economics
Categories: Business, History, Nonfiction

"Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative-and destructive-glory." -New York Times Book Review
With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic, out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism was an unlikely development when it emerged from isolated changes in farming, trade, and manufacturing in early-modern England. Astute observers began to notice these changes and register their effects. Those in power began to harness these new practices to the state, enhancing both. A system generating wealth, power, and new ideas arose to reshape societies in a constant surge of change.
Approaching capitalism as a culture, as a historical development that was by no means natural or inevitable, Joyce Appleby gives us a fascinating introduction to this most potent creation of mankind from its origins to its present global reach.


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Title: Joy Bauer's Food Cures
Author: Joy Bauer, Carol Svec

Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 9781594864667
Extension: EPUB
Size: 648 KB
Subjects: Food
Categories: Cooking & Food, Health & Fitness, Self-Improvement, Nonfiction

Comprehensively updated with cutting-edge research and expertise from one of the country's foremost nutritionists, Joy Bauer's Food Cures shows you how common health concerns-from beauty issues to life-threatening diseases-can be managed, treated, and sometimes even cured by the foods you eat. Inside you will find easy-to-follow 4-step food prescriptions, customizable and convenient meal plans, and delicious recipes for your favorite meals and snacks. With Joy's wisdom and practical, medically sound advice, you will learn how to use food as nature's ultimate medicine.

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Title: The Wolf of Wall Street
Author: Jordan Belfort

Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780553384772
Extension: EPUB
Size: 702 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Business, Nonfiction, Economics
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Business, Nonfiction, Economics

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belfort's own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. It's an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions-until it all came crashing down.

Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street
"Raw and frequently hilarious." -The New York Times

"A rollicking tale of [Jordan Belfort's] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont . . . proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives." -Forbes

"A cross between Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese's GoodFellas . . . Belfort has the Midas touch." -The Sunday Times (London)

"Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . a hell of a read." -Kirkus Reviews

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Title: Eating Animals
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316069908
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Business, Cooking & Food, Nonfiction, Economics
Categories: Business, Cooking & Food, Nonfiction, Economics

Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.
Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill.
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the table with our greatest philosophers" -and a must-read for anyone who cares about building a more humane and healthy world.

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Title: The Secret History of the World
Author: Jonathan Black

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Quercus Books
Extension: EPUB
Size: 18 MB
Subjects: History
Categories: History, Nonfiction

Here for the first time is a complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occult roots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behind American foreign policy, here is a narrative history that shows the basic facts of human existence on this planet can be viewed from a very different angle.
Everything in this history is upside down, inside out and the other way around. At the heart of The Secret History of the World is the belief that we can reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that are hidden from us in our everyday, commonsensical consciousness.
This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. There have been many books on the subject, but, extraordinarily, no-one has really listened to what the secret societies themselves say. The author has been helped in his researches by his friendship with a man who is an initiate of more than one secret society, and in one case an initiate of the highest level.

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Title: The Dirt on Clean
Author: Katherine Ashenburg

Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 9780676976649
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: Health & Fitness, History, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: Health & Fitness, History, Sociology, Nonfiction

For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scbanging of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else's, but never immersing himself in - horrors! - water. By the early 1900s, an extraordinary idea took hold in North America - that frequent bathing, perhaps even a daily bath, was advisable. Not since the Roman Empire had people been so clean, and standards became even more extreme as the millennium approached. Now we live in a deodorized world where germophobes shake hands with their elbows and where sales of hand sanitizers, wipes and sprays are skyrocketing.
The apparently routine task of taking up soap and water (or not) is Katherine Ashenburg's starting point for a unique exploration of Western culture, which yields surprising insights into our notions of privacy, health, individuality, religion and sexuality.
Ashenburg searches for clean and dirty in plague-ridden streets, medieval steam baths, castles and tenements, and in bathrooms of every description. She reveals the bizarre rescriptions of history's doctors as well as the hygienic peccadilloes of kings, mistresses, monks and ordinary citizens, and guides us through the twists and turns to our own understanding of clean, which is no more rational than the rest. Filled with amusing anecdotes and quotations from the great bathers of history, The Dirt on Clean takes us on a journey that is by turns intriguing, humorous, startling and not always for the squeamish. Ashenburg's tour of history's baths and bathrooms reveals much about our changing and most intimate selves - what we desire, what we ignore, what we fear, and a significant part of who we are.

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Title: Alison Weir (2010)
Author: Swynford, Katherine

Published: 2011
Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2007.
ISBN: 9780712641975
Extension: EPUB
Size: 339 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction

'Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday
The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman.

Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth century and Katherine was renowned for her beauty and regarded as enigmatic, intriguing and even dangerous by some of her contemporaries.
In this impressive book, Alison Weir has triumphantly rescued Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy. She was the mother of the Beaufort, then the ancestress of the Yorkist kings, the Tudors, the Stuarts and every other sovereign since - a prodigious legacy that has shaped the history of Britain.


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Title: The Great Transformation
Author: Karen Armstrong

Language: English
Published: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780375413179
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

[b]NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought-from the New York Times bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase
"A splendid book.... Lucid, highly readable.... Relevant to a world still embroiled in military conflict and sectarian hatreds." -The New York Times[/b]
In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have endured to the present day-development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Armstrong, one of our most prominent religious scholars, examines how these traditions began in response to the violence of their time. Studying figures as diverse as the Buddha and Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah, Armstrong reveals how these still enduring philosophies can help address our contemporary problems.

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Title: Language as a Local Practice
Author: Alastair Pennycook

Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415547512
Extension: EPUB
Size: 328 KB
Subjects: Literature, Language &#038
Categories: Grammar & Language Usage, Language Arts, Nonfiction

Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity.
By taking each of these three elements - language, locality and practice - and exploring how they relate to each other, Language as a Local Practice opens up new ways of thinking about language. It questions assumptions about languages as systems or as countable entities, and suggests instead that language emerges from the activities it performs. To look at language as a practice is to view language as an activity rather than a structure, as something we do rather than a system we draw on, as a material part of social and cultural life rather than an abstract entity.
Language as a Local Practice draws on a variety of contexts of language use, from bank machines to postcards, Indian newspaper articles to fish-naming in the Philippines, urban graffiti to mission statements, suggesting that rather than thinking in terms of language use in context, we need to consider how language, space and place are related, how language creates the contexts where it is used, how languages are the products of socially located activities and how they are part of the action.
Language as a Local Practice will be of interest to students on advanced undergraduate and post graduate courses in Applied Linguistics, Language Education, TESOL, Literacy and Cultural Studies.


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Title: Lake Michigan Backroads
Author: Robert W. Domm

Published: 2008
Publisher: MBI
ISBN: 9780760329801
Extension: EPUB
Size: 34 MB
Subjects: Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: Travel, Nonfiction

Here are 19 backroads drives around Lake Michigan, showing you the grand lake as never before in this richly illustrated exploration of the Great Lake's history, culture, ecology, and natural beauty. The big blue inland sea-the only Great Lake entirely within U.S. borders-appears here in all its natural diversity. These day trips take you to the ancient forests and vast sand dunes of Michigan and Wisconsin and on beautiful backroads in Illinois and Indiana. Lake Michigan Backroads conducts readers through the lake's varied landscapes and seasons, pausing at popular and little-known destinations for a look into life on the lake then and now.
Here are the shining blue waters plied by the Chippewa and Menominee, by the Jesuits and the voyageurs, and by countless immigrants seeking a new life. And here, in brilliant photographs and historical images, in anecdotes and thoughtful text, are their stories, inextricable from the story of the Great Lake itself. Lake Michigan Backroads speaks eloquently of remarkable natural resources and great promise, of immigration and trade, of devastating storms and human calamity, and of the people and their love of the lake. And their story plays out against Robert Domm's exquisite images, which evoke the lake's greatness through its days of calm and of stormy fury, the play of sunlight on its surface and the sweep of its shore in both autumn finery and the restless ice of winter.

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