Many Ebooks

[Fastest!]

Title: Sometimes the Magic Works
Author(s): Terry Brooks

Language: English
Published: 04 March 2003
Publisher: Ballantine Group
ISBN: 0345465512
Extension: EPUB
Size: 247 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Writing, Language Arts, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Writing, Language Arts, Nonfiction


"Terry Brooks is adamant about dedicating oneself to the craft, while showing awe and humility for the creative process. . . . Every serious writer should refer to this book regularly for inspiration as well as solid crafting advice."-Elizabeth Engstrom Cratty, Director of Maui Writers Retreat
In Sometimes the Magic Works, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks shares his secrets for creating unusual, memorable fiction. Spanning topics from the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of showing instead of merely telling to creating believable characters who make readers care what happens to them, Brooks draws upon his own experiences, hard lessons learned, and delightful discoveries made in creating the beloved Shannara and Magic Kingdom of Landover series, The Word and The Void trilogy, and the bestselling Star Wars novel The Phantom Menace.
In addition to being a writing guide, Sometimes the Magic Works is Terry Brooks's self-portrait of the artist. "If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical," says Brooks. This book offers a rare opportunity to peer into the mind of (and learn a trick or two from) one of fantasy fiction's preeminent magicians.
Praise for Sometimes the Magic Works
"A marvelously pragmatic initiation to the art of writing." -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
"[A] succinct and warmhearted autobiographical meditation on the writing life." -Publishers Weekly

"A wise, warm-hearted book-part autobiography, part how-to-do-it manual, with some amazingly candid behind-the-scenes material . . . Fantasy fans, novice writers, and even veteran pros will learn plenty from it." -Robert Silverberg, award-winning author of the Majipoor Chronicles

Download Sometimes the Magic Works Lessons From - Terry Brooks

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/8afbf6f9f8162a437f8fd6c1779af474/Sometimes_the_Magic_Works__Lessons_From__-_Terry_Brooks.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/320F530903646F8/Sometimes_the_Magic_Works__Lessons_From__-_Terry_Brooks.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Social Engineering
Author(s): Christopher Hadnagy

Language: English
Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB


Download Social Engineering The Art of Human Hac - Christopher Hadnagy

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/627a3ed353d03ff9ff2fb3b1246086d2/Social_Engineering__The_Art_of_Human_Hac_-_Christopher_Hadnagy.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/35939FD930E1454/Social_Engineering__The_Art_of_Human_Hac_-_Christopher_Hadnagy.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Smashwords Style Guide
Author(s): Mark Coker

Language: English
Published: 05 May 2008
Publisher: Mark Coker
Extension: EPUB
Size: 810 KB
Subjects: Publishing, formatting tips, premium catalog, ebook formatting, style guide, epublishing, smashwords formatting, smashwords, self publishing, ebooks
Categories: Computer Technology, Language Arts, Nonfiction


The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to professionally create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, and Kobo. Smashwords also distributes ebooks to public libraries via OverDrive, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, CloudLibrary and Odilo.
The Smashwords Style Guide provides a great primer introduction on ebook publishing. Over 500,000 copies downloaded!
Updated September 24, 2014.
INSIDE THE SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE
GETTING STARTED
Welcome to Smashwords!
Do-it-yourself, or hire help?
Good formatting examples
What Smashwords publishes, what we don't publish
How to distribute books with Smashwords
How ebook formatting is different from print formatting
Introduction to Meatgrinder: How we convert your book into multiple ebook formats
Understanding the different ebook formats
The beauty and utility of simplicity
AutoVetter helps identify common formatting errors
Your required source file
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FORMATTING
* Pre-Prep*
Making Word Behave
Step 1: Make a back up
Step 2: Activate Word's Show/Hide
Step 3: Turn off Word's "AutoCorrect" and "AutoFormat" features
Step 4: Turn off Track Changes
Step 5: The Nuclear Method
Step 6: Hug a loved one
*Formatting*
Step 7: Managing and modifying paragraph styles, fonts
Step 7a. How to choose the best paragraph separation method (first line indent or block?)
Step 7b: How to implement your chosen paragraph separation method
Step 7b-a: How to define a proper first line indent
Step 7b-b: How to define trailing "after" space for block paragraphs
Step 7b-c: Special tips for poetry, cookbooks and learning materials
Step 7b-d: How to define proper line spacing
Step 7b-e: Managing font color
Step 8: Check your normalized text
Step 9: How to automate the removal of tabs and space bar spaces
Step 10: Managing paragraph returns
Step 11: Managing external hyperlinks
Step 12: Designating chapter breaks, page breaks, section breaks
Step 13: Working with images
Step 14: Text justification
Step 14a: Centering text
Step 15: Managing font sizes
Step 16: Style formatting, symbols and glyphs
Step 17: Headers and footers
Step 18: Margins, page sizes and indents
Step 19: Add the Heading style to your Chapter headers (optional)
*Building Navigation*
Step 20: Building navigation into the manuscript
Step 20a: Creating the NCX
Step 20b: Creating the linked Table of Contents
Step 20c: Advanced link building (Footnotes, Endnotes)
Step 20d: Troubleshooting and testing
*Front Matter*
Step 21: Front matter
Step 21a: Blurbs (optional)
Step 21b: Title and copyright page (required!)
Step 21c: Add a Smashwords license statement below copyright page
*The End of Your Book*
Step 22: The end of your book
*POST-FORMATTING*
Step 23: Preparing your cover image
Step 24: Review requirements for Premium Catalog distribution
*Uploading Your Book to Smashwords*
Step 25: How to upload your book
Step 26: How AutoVetter works
Step 27: After you publish - check your work
Step 27a: Check for EPUBCHECK compliance (important!)
Distributing Your Book with Smashwords
Step 28: How Smashwords distribution works
*How to Market Your Book*
Step...

Download Smashwords Style Guide - Mark Coker

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/03d2cc7b1946e892a7914ad5534e87e3/Smashwords_Style_Guide_-_Mark_Coker.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/9B56AC165034493/Smashwords_Style_Guide_-_Mark_Coker.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Author(s): E. F. Schumacher

Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061997761
Extension: EPUB
Size: 270 KB
Subjects: nonf_publicism, Economics, Theory, Philosophy, General, Aesthetics, Microeconomics, Business & Economics


SUMMARY:
Small Is Beautiful is Oxford-trained economist E. F. Schumacher's classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher inspired such movements as "Buy Locally" and "Fair Trade," while voicing strong opposition to "casino capitalism" and wasteful corporate behemoths. Named one of the Times Literary Supplement's 100 Most Influential Books Since World War II, Small Is Beautiful presents eminently logical arguments for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.

Download Small Is Beautiful Economics as if Peop - E. F. Schumacher

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/dd649fe73e0837d121e9e37fe7d0903a/Small_Is_Beautiful__Economics_as_if_Peop_-_E._F._Schumacher.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/D63E471954381DA/Small_Is_Beautiful__Economics_as_if_Peop_-_E._F._Schumacher.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Skinny Cocktails: The Only Guide You'll Ever Need To Go Out, Have Fun, and Still Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans
Author(s): Jaclyn Wilson Foley, Ray Foley

Language: English
Published: 01 November 2010
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402242832
Extension: EPUB
Size: 349 KB
Subjects: food
Categories: Cooking & Food, Health & Fitness, Nonfiction


More than 250 Tasty Low-Cal Cocktail Options
There's nothing better than letting loose with friends and a few drinks, but whether you're planning on kicking back after a hectic day or glamming it up for a night out, the last thing you want to do is obsess about calories.
[*]Enjoy The Low-Cal Frangelini
[*]Melt My Heart Mojito
[*]Seven Skinny
[*]Sparkling Summer Spritzer
[*]Dandy Shandy
With no-fear recipes, easy-access calorie counts, and minimal damage mixers, Skinny Cocktails is the must-have companion to a stress-free skinny life.

Download Skinny Cocktails The Only Guide You'll - Ray Foley

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/46f653b1b281b9a781950ee711f152c8/Skinny_Cocktails__The_Only_Guide_Youll__-_Ray_Foley.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/37BBEA7BAD5F1F0/Skinny_Cocktails__The_Only_Guide_Youll__-_Ray_Foley.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Sleeping With The Devil
Author(s): Robert Baer

Language: English
Published: 15 July 2003
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1400050219
Extension: EPUB
Size: 301 KB
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction


"Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state-a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can't get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?"
In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA's efforts to fight global terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil, Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government's cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America' s dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism.
For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked in a "harmony of interests." America counted on the Saudis for cheap oil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative business relationships for the United States, while providing a voracious market for the kingdom' s vast oil reserves. With money and oil flowing freely between Washington and Riyadh, the United States has felt secure in its relationship with the Saudis and the ruling Al Sa'ud family. But the rot at the core of our "friendship" with the Saudis was dramatically revealed when it became apparent that fifteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers proved to be Saudi citizens.
In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa'ud's culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist ---c groups that have been directly linked to international acts of terror, including those against the United States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa'ud family, the fierce anti-Western sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link between the two. In hopes of saving its own neck, the royal family has been shoveling money as fast as it can to mosque colleges that preach hatred of America and to militant fundamentalist groups-an end game just waiting to play out.
Baer not only reveals the outrageous excesses of a Saudi royal family completely out of touch with the people of its kingdom, he also takes readers on a highly personal search for the deeper roots of modern terrorism, a journey that returns time again and again to Saudi Arabia: to the Wahhabis, the powerful ---c sect that rules the Saudi street; to the Taliban and al Qaeda, both of which Saudi Arabia helped to underwrite; and to the '. Brotherhood, one of the most active and effective terrorist groups in existence, which the Al Sa'ud have sheltered and funded. The money and arms that we send to Saudi Arabia are, in effect, being used to cut our own throat, Baer writes, but America might have only itself to blame. So long as we continue to encourage the highly volatile Saudi state to bank our oil under its sand-and so long as we continue to grab at the Al Sa'ud's money-we are laying the groundwork for a potential global economic catastrophe.

Download Sleeping With the Devil - Robert Baer

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/4d8e59e92ff94a2f68e8b18fe77cff97/Sleeping_With_the_Devil_-_Robert_Baer.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/69B7786E079C92E/Sleeping_With_the_Devil_-_Robert_Baer.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Sliding Into Home
Author(s): Kendra Wilkinson

Language: English
Published: 06 July 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781439180914
Extension: EPUB
Size: 559 KB
Subjects: Autobiography, Models (Persons) - United States, Biography, Television personalities - United States, Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Models (Persons), United States, Television personalities, Rich & Famous, Biography & Autobiography, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities, Wilkinson; Kendra
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction


KENDRA BARES ALL

Fans of the E! smash hit series The Girls Next Door fell in love with sporty Playboy beauty Kendra Wilkinson's care- free spirit, infectious laugh, and down-to-earth nature. Now that she's moved out of the world's most famous bachelor pad and into her own delightfully chaotic world on Kendra as wife to NFL star Hank Baskett and mother to their newborn son, we've watched her hilarious antics as she adjusts to domestic life. But how much do we really know about the fun-loving star? In this humorous and optimistic, sometimes heartbreaking, but always unfailingly honest memoir, Kendra reveals the highs and lows of her extraordinary journey.

She wasn't always the quintessential girl next door. Before she was a reality television superstar, Hugh Hefner's girlfriend, or one of the most popular Playboy cover models ever, Kendra was an athletic tomboy whose father walked out on her family when she was a little girl. She grew into a rebellious teenager with a serious drug habit before she quit cold turkey and beat the odds to graduate from a high college that almost didn't give her a second (or third, or fourth) chance.

Following her rocky teenage years, an out-of-the- blue phone call from Hugh Hefner changed everything. Kendra dishes candidly about life in the Playboy Mansion: the sex, the parties, the show, and even her relationships with her Girls Next Door costars-Hef, Holly, and Bridget. She tells the true story about how she and Hank met and built a relationship in secret while she was still Hef's girl- friend and a public face of Playboy. Finally, she reflects on the slew of unexpected changes in the short space of a year that have brought her sliding into home from Playboy party girl to wife and mother with a blooming Hollywood career. If you think you've seen all of Kendra, think again. She's only warming up. . . .

Download Sliding Into Home - Kendra Wilkinson

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/b1608d949b548b71155f61fa354c81a4/Sliding_Into_Home_-_Kendra_Wilkinson.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/0E80ABCA80FFFA2/Sliding_Into_Home_-_Kendra_Wilkinson.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: The Best American Travel Writing 2011
Author(s): Sloane Crosley

Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547333366
Extension: EPUB
Size: 372 KB


The hilarious and well-traveled Sloane Crosley, author of the New York Times bestseller I Was Told There'd be Cake, helms this collection of the genre's gems.

Download Sloane Crosley - The Best American Travel Writing 2011

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/4018c83925cea3d6026ae5b68c0ff705/Sloane_Crosley_-_The_Best_American_Travel_Writing_2011.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/D034C9A094CA91D/Sloane_Crosley_-_The_Best_American_Travel_Writing_2011.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It
Author(s): Teresa Giudice, Heather Maclean

Language: English
Published: 04 May 2010
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN: 1401310354
Extension: EPUB
Size: 11 MB
Subjects: Food
Categories: Cooking & Food, Nonfiction


First generation Italian-American star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa Giudice, shares delicious, easy to make recipes and the best advice to stay healthy and full-by simply enjoying flavorful food!
To many of us, "diet" is a four-letter word. And rightfully so. Starving yourself thin or keeping track of each bite like pennies in your checkbook is no way to live. So what's a girl with skinny jean dreams supposed to do?
Teresa Giudice has the answer. In fact, she was born with it. The first-generation Italian-American mom of four and svelte star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey credits her knockout figure to her Old World upbringing. And now, in her fun, encouraging, and budget-friendly cookbook, she skewers the myth that looking fabulous has to be a chore.
In Skinny Italian, she reveals how to: substitute tedious meal plans with simple, flavorful recipes; choose fresh, flavorful ingredients instead of counting calories; slow down and enjoy a faster metabolism; replace starvation with celebration by adopting an Italian attitude to cooking, eating, and entertaining; love food, love eating, and still love your body afterward!
Teresa shows how anyone can master the cornerstones of Italian cuisine. Learn how to make six different tomato sauces from scratch, how to choose and use the right olive oil, and how to prepare over sixty Giudice family recipes straight from Salerno. From Gorgeous Garlic Shrimp to Beautiful Biscotti, you'll want to make these sumptuous recipes again and again. Discover how easy and economical wholesome, homemade cooking can be.
Skinny Italian is not a diet book. It's an "eat it and enjoy it" book. Join Teresa and discover how gorgeous can be a sumptuous side effect to living la bella vita.

Download Skinny Italian Eat It and Enjoy It Live - Teresa Giudice

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/afa74714ef9599dfd650abaf821994be/Skinny_Italian__Eat_It_and_Enjoy_It_Live_-_Teresa_Giudice.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/406040821254844/Skinny_Italian__Eat_It_and_Enjoy_It_Live_-_Teresa_Giudice.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Sleepers
Author(s): Lorenzo Carcaterra

Language: English
Published: 23 February 2010
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 0593158156
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: True Crime
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, True Crime, Nonfiction


An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty, violence and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City. Now a major film starring Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Robert de Niro and Kevin Bacon.
Four boys - lifelong friends who shared everything - in the confines of New York City's Hell's Kitchen, content with playing as many pranks as they can without getting caught. Until one disastrous afternoon.
When a harmless scheme goes terribly wrong, the boys are left facing a year's imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys, and the beatings and abuse they find there will change their lives forever.
In the years that follow, one will become a lawyer, one a reporter, and two will grow to become hitmen for-hire. But for all of them, the legacy of Wilkinson - the pain, fear and anger - still rages on within. Only revenge will erase it.
One final, audacious stand against a corrupt system. If they are caught this time, the only thing to lose is their lives.

Download Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/9ecf5a660f9ffed51f2d81e144ab847c/Sleepers_-_Lorenzo_Carcaterra.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/D2B37C9BFC62532/Sleepers_-_Lorenzo_Carcaterra.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Skeptics and true believers: the exhilarating connection between science and religion
Author(s): Chet Raymo

Language: English
Published: 26 May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Religon
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction


Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an adult. Skeptics and True Believers is the culmination of that search-a passionate, ever-inquisitive statement that science and religion can mutually reinforce the way we experience the world.Acknowledging that the scientific and the spiritual communities are increasingly split, Raymo builds strong bridges between them. He illustrates his argument with an array of thought-provoking stories, such as the remarkable migratory flight of a small bird called the red knot; the long, glorious glide of the Comet Hyakutake across the night sky; a hilarious alien abduction that didn't happen. Together, they are compelling evidence that religion should embrace the reliable knowledge of the world that science provides, while at the same time science should respect and nourish humankind's need for spiritual sustenance. "Miracles are explainable," Raymo paraphrases the writer Tim Robinson, "it is the explanations that are miraculous."For anyone drawn to reflect on life's meaning and purpose, Chet Raymo's uncompromising skepticism and reverence for mystery will affirm and inspire.

Download Skeptics and true believers the exhilar - Chet Raymo

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/46abc1cbc3143476cd329e5abf189467/Skeptics_and_true_believers__the_exhilar_-_Chet_Raymo.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/6406E926CB9C63C/Skeptics_and_true_believers__the_exhilar_-_Chet_Raymo.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Slash
Author(s): Slash, Anthony Bozza

Language: English
Published: 13 October 2009
Publisher: It Books
ISBN: 9780061351433
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, Rock Music, Personal Memoirs, Rock Musicians, Music, Rock, Biography & Autobiography, Genres & Styles, Composers & Musicians
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction, Entertainment


From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll
He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies. Slash spent his adolescence on the streets of Hollywood, discovering drugs, drinking, rock music, and girls, all while achieving notable status as a BMX rider. But everything changed in his world the day he first held the beat-up one-string guitar his grandmother had discarded in a closet.
The instrument became his voice and it triggered a lifelong passion that made everything else irrelevant. As soon as he could string chords and a solo together, Slash wanted to be in a band and sought out friends with similar interests. His closest friend, Steven Adler, proved to be a conspirator for the long haul. As hairmetal bands exploded onto the L.A. scene and topped the charts, Slash sought his niche and a band that suited his raw and gritty sensibility.
He found salvation in the form of four young men of equal mind: Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler, and Duff McKagan. Together they became Guns N' Roses, one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. Dirty, volatile, and as authentic as the streets that weaned them, they fought their way to the top with groundbreaking albums such as the iconic Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion I and II.
Here, for the first time ever, Slash tells the tale that has yet to be told from the inside: how the band came together, how they wrote the music that defined an era, how they survived insane, never-ending tours, how they survived themselves, and, ultimately, how it all fell apart. This is a window onto the world of the notoriously private guitarist and a seat on the roller-coaster ride that was one of history's greatest rock 'n' roll machines, always on the edge of self-destruction, even at the pinnacle of its success. This is a candid recollection and reflection of Slash's friendships past and present, from easygoing Izzy to ever-steady Duff to wild-child Steven and complicated Axl.
It is also an intensely personal account of struggle and triumph: as Guns N' Roses journeyed to the top, Slash battled his demons, escaping the overwhelming reality with women, heroin, coke, crack, vodka, and whatever else came along.
He survived it all: lawsuits, rehab, riots, notoriety, debauchery, and destruction, and ultimately found his creative evolution. From Slash's Snakepit to his current band, the massively successful Velvet Revolver,Slash found an even keel by sticking to his guns.
Slash is everything the man, the myth, the legend, inspires: it's funny, honest, inspiring, jaw-dropping . . . and, in a word, excessive.

Download Slash - Slash

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/06038c7d1c63f122ddc516afde1bdbd4/Slash_-_Slash.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/E636B2F012B174F/Slash_-_Slash.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Smart choices: a practical guide to making better life decisions
Author(s): John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa

Language: English
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2002.
ISBN: 9780767908863
Extension: EPUB
Size: 673 KB
Subjects: General, Self-Help, Business & Economics, Finance, Education, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Decision making


Amazon.com Review
Have you ever hired someone only to regret your decision two months later? Or looked at your financial portfolio and wondered why you bought the stocks you did? In Smart Choices, authors John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa take the guesswork out of the decision-making process and offer a systematic approach to making the right choice. Most of us have problems making decisions, because we've never learned how. The authors write:

Despite the importance of decision making to our lives, few of us ever receive any training in it. So we are left to learn from experience. But experience is a costly, inefficient teacher that teaches us bad habits along with good ones. Because decision situations vary so markedly, the experience of making one important decision often seems of little use when facing the next.

Smart Choices outlines eight elements involved in making the right decision, from identifying exactly what the decision is and specifying your objectives to considering risk tolerance and looking at how what you decide on today influences what you may decide in the future. The book is full of real-life situations and scenarios that effectively illustrate each element of a good decision. If you think the topic of making the right choice is mundane or a simple matter of common sense, then think again. Smart Choices will relieve you of the regret that so many of us carry because we didn't know how to "think it through." --Harry C. Edwards

From Publishers Weekly
In 1966, the Lovin' Spoonful had a #2 hit with "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" Two years later, Raiffa answered that question for a generation of academics with his book Decision Analysis, whose argumentAthat decision-making skills can be learned and applied as a discipline of their ownAmade Raiffa deeply influential in management and social science. Raiffa (a former professor at Harvard Business college), his longtime associate Hammond (a professor of management and engineering at the University of Southern California) and Ralph Keeney (The Art and Science of Negotiation) here explain decision-analysis techniques and stratagems for the benefit of nonspecialists. They provide substantial, straightforward explanations of concepts (risk tolerance, sunk costs, desirability curves) that sound arcane but may help readers to buy the right car, choose a mutual fund, decide on a college, or plan a vacation. Unfortunately, the lingo of self-help often substitutes for the jargon of management consulting, as when Raiffa's famous five decision steps become the trendy acronym PrOACT. And the example problems can seem clich?d, two-dimensional or implausible, even when based on fact. Nevertheless, recommendations like "Remember that the value of an incremental change depends on what you start with" and "Make sure your subordinates reflect your organization's risk tolerance in their decisions" are, at the least, good reminders that the logic of decision making is often counterintuitive; at best, they are an important, useful set of insights.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Download Smart Choices A Practical Guide to Maki - John S. Hammond

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/585f1881755ae06fde5aa304246b977b/Smart_Choices__A_Practical_Guide_to_Maki_-_John_S._Hammond.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/5BA42BA851B1420/Smart_Choices__A_Practical_Guide_to_Maki_-_John_S._Hammond.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Steinbrenner
Author(s): Bill Madden

Language: English
Published: 22 April 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0061690317
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction


"Having covered the Yankees for thirty years, and with access to previously unavailable material, Madden provides a definitive and captivating biography." -Kirkus Reviews
2010 Winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame J. G. Taylor Spink Award
If you love the New York Yankees, arguably the most storied franchise in all of sports-or even if you're just a fan of baseball history, or big business bios-this biography of the larger-than-life team owner for the past four decades is a must for your bookshelf. For more than thirty years Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News, and he brings all his insights and inside connections to Steinbrenner: the definitive biography of one of New York's most intriguing and long-standing sports figures, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
"Riveting . . . Reading the book feels like the literary equivalent of passing a traffic accident; it is all but impossible to turn away." -The New York Times
"Definitive, indispensable . . . A vivid and entertaining portrait." - Sports Illustrated
"[Madden] offers an insider's look at how Steinbrenner has run his team, even finding unexpected-certainly underpublicized-humanity in his subject." -Booklist

Download Steinbrenner The Last Lion of Baseball - Bill Madden

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/250fd902e21e6339444cad42a7819db7/Steinbrenner__The_Last_Lion_of_Baseball_-_Bill_Madden.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/48664604D522719/Steinbrenner__The_Last_Lion_of_Baseball_-_Bill_Madden.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: How the States Got Their Shapes
Author(s): Mark Stein

Language: English
Published: 30 March 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061431395
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: State & Local, U.S. States - Historical Geography, United States Geography, Historical Geography, United States - Boundaries - History, Travel, U.S. States, General, United States, U.S. States - Boundaries - History, History
Categories: History, Nonfiction


"[A] wonderfully entertaining account of an often-overlooked oddity of America's history: how the jigsaw-puzzle layout of the United States emerged." -Vogue
The New York Times Bestseller
Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?
We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities-the entire state of Maryland(!)-have become so ingrained that our map might as well be a giant jigsaw puzzle designed by Divine Providence. How the States Got Their Shapes is the first book to tackle why our state lines are where they are. Here are the stories behind the stories, right down to the tiny northward jog at the eastern end of Tennessee and the teeny-tiny (and little known) parts of Delaware that are not attached to Delaware but to New Jersey.
Packed with fun oddities and trivia, this entertaining guide also reveals the major fault lines of American history, from ideological intrigues and religious intolerance to major territorial acquisitions. Adding the fresh lens of local geographic disputes, military skirmishes, and land grabs, Mark Stein shows how the seemingly haphazard puzzle pieces of our nation fit together perfectly.
"Give me the splendid irregularities any day. God bless the panhandles and notches, the West Virginias and Oklahomas." -The Wall Street Journal
"For anyone who's been confounded by the largest of all jigsaw puzzles, the one that carved out those fifty weirdly formed states, here is the solution. It's history, it's geography, it's comedy, it's indispensable." -Andro Linklater, author of Owning the Earth

Download Stein, Mark - How the States Got Their Shapes

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/a8a2e30500badca8946aedb969adbcd8/Stein_Mark_-_How_the_States_Got_Their_Shapes.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/709F08C2B09956B/Stein_Mark_-_How_the_States_Got_Their_Shapes.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Steak
Author(s): Mark Schatzker

Language: English
Published: 29 April 2010
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
ISBN: 0143119389
Extension: EPUB
Size: 535 KB
Subjects: Cooking & Food, Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: Cooking & Food, Travel, Nonfiction


The definitive book on steak has never been written-until now
"Of all the meats, only one merits its own structure. There is no such place as a lamb house or a pork house, but even a small town can have a steak house." So begins Mark Schatzker's ultimate carnivorous quest. Fed up with one too many mediocre steaks, the intrepid journalist set out to track down, define, and eat the perfect specimen. His journey takes him to all the legendary sites of steak excellence-Texas, France, Scotland, Italy, Japan, Argentina, and Idaho's Pahsimeroi Valley-where he discovers the lunatic lengths steak lovers will go to consume the perfect cut. After contemplating the merits of Black Angus, Kobe, Chianina, and the prehistoric aurochs-a breed revived by the Nazis after four hundred years of extinction-Schatzker adopts his own heifer, fattens her on fruit, acorns, and Persian walnuts, and then grapples with ambivalence when this near-pet appears on his plate.
Reminiscent of both Bill Bryson's and Bill Buford's writing, Steak is a warm, humorous, and wide-ranging read that introduces a wonderful new travel and food writer to the common table.

Download Steak One Man's Search for the World's - Mark Schatzker

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/cbf011aa2a992bb87989f1e343dadd06/Steak__One_Mans_Search_for_the_Worlds__-_Mark_Schatzker.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/F0892EE5C40671A/Steak__One_Mans_Search_for_the_Worlds__-_Mark_Schatzker.epub

Download Steak - Mark Schatzker

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/3a0f9e87e9a82e4919cb45133993619c/Steak_-_Mark_Schatzker.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/5648F9B489F27C3/Steak_-_Mark_Schatzker.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Author(s): Steven Pinker

Language: English
Published: 04 October 2011
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670022953
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Sociology, Psychology, Science, Social History, 21st Century, Crime, Anthropology, Amazon.com, Retail, Criminology
Categories: Psychology, Science, Nonfiction


"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this-the most inspiring book I've ever read."
-[b]Bill Gates (May, 2017)
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year[/b]
The author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now offers a provocative and surprising history of violence.
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millenia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, programs, gruesom punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened?
This groundbreaking book continues Pinker's exploration of the esesnce of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives-the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away-and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.

Download Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declined

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/8835b51b19d7e689f950e3475bf43d8a/Steven_Pinker_-_The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature_Why_Violence_Has_Declined.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/2DEBC48E064C27C/Steven_Pinker_-_The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature_Why_Violence_Has_Declined.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet
Author(s): Wallace Wang

Language: English
Publisher: No Starch
ISBN: 9781593270001
Extension: EPUB
Size: 208 KB
Subjects: General, Web, Social Science, Computers, Sociology, etc, Computer hackers, Subculture, Internet, Handbooks, Anthropology, Cultural, manuals, Computer network resources, Security, Computer - Internet, etc., Networking, Viruses, Computer crimes, Computer hackers - Handbooks, Subculture - Computer network resources, Computer security, Subculture - Computer network resources., Computer Books: Internet General, Data security & data encryption, Data encryption, Computing: Professional & Programming, Handbooks; manuals; etc, Security - General, Network security, Computer networks, Internet - Security, Browsers, Internet - Handbooks, Security - Viruses


Review
". . . a travelog of many of the most interesting or inflammatory corners of the Internet." -- Slashdot, September 18, 2003
"Anyone with a PC should read this book." -- About.com, July 28, 2003
"This is (another!) very useful and inspiring No Starch title." -- Tim Smith, Producer, MEGAPOLITAN, July, 2003
"an informative look into all the annoying and painful ways you can be screwed on the Internet" -- The Inquirer, October 27, 2003

Product Description
This offbeat, non-technical book looks at what hackers do, how they do it, and how you can protect yourself. The third edition of this bestseller adopts the same informative, irreverent, and entertaining style that made the first two editions a huge success. Thoroughly updated, this edition also covers rootkits, spyware, web bugs, identity theft, hacktivism, wireless hacking (wardriving), biometrics, and firewalls.

Download Steal This Computer Book 3 What They Wo - Wallace Wang

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/cfc31a9bd486b682513698293d93b262/Steal_This_Computer_Book_3__What_They_Wo_-_Wallace_Wang.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/A8DFEC73E8F96F1/Steal_This_Computer_Book_3__What_They_Wo_-_Wallace_Wang.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: Instant City
Author(s): Steve Inskeep

Language: English
Published: 13 October 2011
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
ISBN: 1594203156
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Architecture, History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: Architecture, History, Politics, Nonfiction


From the host of NPR's Morning Edition, a deeply reported portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world. In recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented shift of people from the countryside into cities. As Steve Inskeep so aptly puts it, we are now living in the age of the "instant city," when new megacities can emerge practically overnight, creating a host of unique pressures surrounding land use, energy, housing, and the environment. In his first book, the co-host of Morning Edition explores how this epic migration has transformed one of the world's most intriguing instant cities: Karachi, Pakistan.
Karachi has exploded from a colonial port town of 350,000 in 1941 to a sprawling metropolis of at least 13 million today. As the booming commercial center of Pakistan, Karachi is perhaps the largest city whose stability is a vital security concern of the United States, and yet it is a place that Americans have frequently misunderstood.
As Inskeep underscores, one of the great ironies of Karachi's history is that the decision to divide Pakistan and India along religious lines in 1947 only unleashed deeper divisions within the city-over religious sect, ethnic group, and political party. In Instant City, Inskeep investigates the 2009 bombing of a Shia religious procession that killed dozens of people and led to further acts of terrorism, including widespread arson at a popular market. As he discovers, the bombing is in many ways a microcosm of the numerous conflicts that divide Karachi, because people wondered if the perpetrators were motivated by religious fervor, political revenge, or simply a desire to make way for new real estate in the heart of the city. Despite the violence that frequently consumes Karachi, Inskeep finds remarkable signs of the city's tolerance, vitality, and thriving civil society-from a world-renowned ambulance service to a socially innovative project that helps residents of the vast squatter neighborhoods find their own solutions to sanitation, health care, and education.
Drawing on interviews with a broad cross section of Karachi residents, from ER doctors to architects to shopkeepers, Inskeep has created a vibrant and nuanced portrait of the forces competing to shape the future of one of the world's fastest growing cities.

Download Steve Inskeep - Instant City

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/3901fd686b75a7694d800de661387c4c/Steve_Inskeep_-_Instant_City.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/771B1E2774D02CE/Steve_Inskeep_-_Instant_City.epub

[Fastest!]

Title: The Stuff of Thought
Author(s): Steven Pinker

Language: English
Published: 11 September 2007
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
ISBN: 0143142585
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Psychology, Science, Nonfiction
Categories: Psychology, Science, Nonfiction


This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language
Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today?s most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Download Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought

Code:

https://rapidgator.net/file/c6d8bba0161db26b22f90b85829e0e4d/Steven_Pinker_-_The_Stuff_of_Thought.epub

Code:

https://nitroflare.com/view/03E3D12B7B6AC27/Steven_Pinker_-_The_Stuff_of_Thought.epub