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Title: Street Food
Author(s): Clare Ferguson

Language: English
Publisher: Time-Life Books
ISBN: 9780737000306
Extension: EPUB
Size: 22 MB
Subjects: General, Cooking, Regional & Ethnic, Methods, International, Quick & Easy, International cooking, Cookery; International, Snack foods


Amazon.com Review
The basic premise of Street Food is just brilliant. A survey of food cooked and/or eaten on the streets of cities around the world promises some of the most excitingly vivid eating imaginable, and, continent by continent, Clare Ferguson delivers.

• From the Americas: Hush Puppies, Corn Dogs, and Cheeseburgers from the North; Chicken in Banana Leaves, Tortilla Wraps, and Jerk Pork from the Latin South and the Caribbean
  
• Europe: Italian Pizzas and Ice Cream, Scottish Fish and Chips, Greek Tiropitakia (fried cheese pastries)
  
• Africa and the Middle East: Turkish Lamb Pies, Iranian Roasted Beetroot, Nigerian Caraway Pastries
  
• India: Samosas, Tandoori Chicken (a particularly good version of this favorite), and Mango Kulfi
  
• Southeast Asia: Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, Philippines Pork Spring Rolls, Burmese Coconut Ice Cream
  
• China, Japan, and Korea: Fried Wonton Dumplings, Tempura, Korean Barbecued Beef
  

When the book reaches Australia and New Zealand, the sheer variety goes into overdrive, with cuisines from all over the world contributing to these young nations: Vietnamese Pork Satays, Lebanese Souvlaki, and Hokey Pokey (Scottish-Italian honeycomb toffee ice-cream).
Many readers will regret the omission of that one item that, for them, epitomized the experience of eating in the street. Mine would be the spicy, charred bratwurst grilled over fruit wood at a stall in one of Berlin's Christmas markets, smeared with mustard and eaten in a roll, washed down with hot mulled wine. I'm sure Clare Ferguson meant to include it, had her publishers allowed her more space.
Street food at its best is pure pleasure--it has to be. Why else pay for it and eat it? Pure pleasure is what Street Food offers in abundance. This is a fabulous collection, evocatively written, beautifully designed, and ravishingly illustrated. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk

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Title: Stuff Parisians Like
Author(s): Magny, Olivier

Language: English
Published: 05 July 2011
Publisher: PENGUIN group
ISBN: 0425241181
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Essays, Sociology, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Essays, Sociology, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)


In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Parisians.
To be mistaken for a Parisian, readers must buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone calls. Be sure to order San Pellegrino, not any other kind of fizzy water. They shouldn't be surprised when a waiter brings out two spoons after they order le moelleux au chocolat- it is understood that the dessert is too sinfully delicious not to share. Go to l'île Saint-Louis-all Parisians are irredeemably in love with that island. Feel free to boldly cross the street whenever the impulse strikes-pedestrian crosswalks are too dangerous. If they take a cruise on the Seine, they will want to stand outside, preferably with their collar popped up. If they want to decorate, may we suggest the photographs of Robert Doisneau? To truly be cool in Paris, own an iPhone, wear Converse sneakers, and order sushi. And as they stroll through the Luxembourg Gardens, remember-they can't go wrong wearing black.

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Title: Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
Author(s): Michael Davis

Language: English
Publisher: PENGUIN group
ISBN: 9780670019960
Extension: EPUB
Size: 510 KB
Subjects: General, Performing Arts, Television, Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities, Pop Arts, History & Criticism, pop culture, Television Plays And Programs, Dance, Television - History & Criticism, Children And Tv, Television programs for children, Sesame Street (Television program)


From college Library Journal
Starred Review. Caroll Spinney (carollspinney.com), the voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch and winner of the Library of Congress's Living Legend Award, here narrates journalist Davis's gentle yet often surprising look at Sesame Street, the world's longest-running (40 years) and widest-reaching (120 countries) children's show. This will be a sure-fire hit in just about every library; highly recommended. [Includes a bonus interview with Davis and Spinney; the Viking hc was recommended "for all reference and browsing collections," LJ 12/08; visit www.streetgangbook.com for a bonus chapter profiling Roscoe Orman, who played Gordon on the show.-Ed.]-Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg Air Force Base Lib., Lompoc, CA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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In this history of �Sesame Street,� Davis writes that when the show d�buted, in 1969, the goal of its creators was nothing short of righting �the inequities in our society� through the education of lower-class precollegeers. Such populist choices as an urban setting, a multiracial cast, and a catchy brand of �edutainment� reflected both the mood of the era (it should �jump and move fast and feel and sound like 1969,� a producer said) and painstaking research: a series of seminars held in the summer of 1968 was attended by developmental psychologists, television-industry insiders, and children�s authors and entertainers (Maurice Sendak endured boring sessions by making X-rated doodles; Jim Henson�s sandals and beard sparked fears that he was a Weatherman). The book�s strongest sections are culled from extensive interviews with Joan Ganz Cooney, who oversaw production for more than twenty years, but the narrative loses steam once the show hits the air.
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Title: Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek
Author(s): Olivia Munn, mac montandon

Language: English
Published: 06 July 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781427209825
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Contemporary, Autobiography
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)


Today's hottest geek and host of G4's ATTACK OF THE SHOW dishes her unique brand of humor of on everything from Star Wars, gadgets, and her love of banana cream pie.
Olivia Munn is an actress, comedian and television host, best known for being the face of the G4 network. She also occasionally likes to get dressed up as Wonder Woman. SUCK IT WONDER WOMAN is her paean to Geeks everywhere. Using her trademark humor in essays like THOUGHTS ABOUT MY FIRST AGENT'S GIRLFRIEND'S VAGINA she skewers what it's like to live in Hollywood. In "SEX: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP YOURSELF HAVE MORE OF IT" she frankly gets down to the business of getting it on. In "WHAT TO DO WHEN THE ROBOTS INVADE (YES, WHEN!)," Olivia offers valuable information on... what to do when the robots invade! And just when you thought she couldn't get any more Geeky, she can. This book also includes an Olivia Munn timeline of great moments in Geek history and her answers to the Unofficial Geek FAQ. Is it any wonder that Olivia Munn is quickly becoming the most powerful Geek on the planet? SUCK IT WONDER WOMAN is a humorous look at geeks, gadgets, Hollywood, and huge heapings of banana cream pie.

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Title: Successful Onboarding: Strategies to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization
Author(s): Mark Stein, Lilith Christiansen

Language: English
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071739375
Extension: EPUB
Size: 694 KB
Subjects: Human Resources & Personnel Management, Training, Management, Employee orientation, Employee motivation, Recruiting, General, Leadership, Employees, Business & Economics


Product Description
CAPTURE THE ONBOARDING MARGIN WITH THE "4 PILLARS" OF SUCCESSFUL ONBOARDING
"Bringing a new employee on board can be the start of a rewarding relationship or the beginning of a missed opportunity. This smart book can teach you how to make the most of each employee's career starting on Day One." -Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND
"This book has the potential to change the way that we think about new hires and what is possible from the group. With the instruction provided, you can migrate onboarding from the administrative to the strategic, and deliver far greater value for your enterprise." -Betty Thompson, Senior Vice President, People Services, Booz Allen Hamilton
"People are a company's most important asset. Successful Onboarding makes the case for the importance of effective onboarding in setting up employees for success." -Stephen Squeri, Group President, Global Services and Chief Information Officer, American Express Company
"Hiring employees is the biggest investment most organizations make. Understanding how to make sure that investment sticks is what onboarding is about, and Successful Onboarding shows you how to do it right." -Peter Cappelli, Director of the Center for Human Resources, The Wharton college, The University of Pennsylvania; author of TALENT ON DEMAND
Fact: 1/3rd of all external hires are no longer with the organization after 2 years. What can you do about it? In a word: onboarding; although poorly understood, subject to narrow definitions, and with limited best practice understanding or management rigor. Consultants Mark Stein & Lilith Christiansen have worked with leading companies on it, and they've synthesized their work into a ready to use system. With Successful Onboarding, you can:
--Rewrite the employer-employee compact-to everyone's advantage
--Reduce time-to-productivity-while increasing the level of productivity and retention
--Make improvements at the systemic level-with gains realized with regularity
--Enroll new hires in your company's strategic plan
Successful Onboarding provides a business case, a systemic approach to the entire process, and instructive inside stories from Apple, Starbucks, Netflix, Microsoft, Baird, Bank of America, John Deere, and dozens of other industry leaders.

About the Author
Mark A. Stein: With a finance education from the George Washington University college of Business in 1990, and subsequent professional service experience as a foundation, Mark entered the management consulting industry in 1995, and has since led hundreds of corporate strategy, investment analysis and organization development engagements for leading multi-national corporations. Mark speaks at Organization Development and onboarding conferences. He is married with three kids and lives in Bethesda, MD.
Lilith Christiansen: Lilith has 15 years of organization development consulting experience with Kaiser Associates and Booz Allen Hamilton. Lilith has led numerous organizational improvement and employee programs redesign projects for clients in both public and private sectors. Lilith is a graduate of University of Virginia and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton college of Business. Lilith is married, has two children and lives in Arlington, VA.
Reviews
"This is a terrific resource for anyone wanting to create an effective onboarding program." -Mindy Moye, Ph.D., Manager Employee Engagement, John Deere
"In Successful Onboarding Lilith and Mark demonstrate the financial impact that the onboarding process can have on your organization, and provides a roadmap for improving your return on investment. The book has already changed the way we think about onboarding in our organization." -Andrew Blocher, Chief Financial Officer, Federal Realty Investment Trust
"Goodbye old-college orientation and welcome to onboarding. A great reference to tailor your onboarding based on your culture and strategy. This book demonstrates how sound and creative onboarding can prevent a lot of voluntary off-boarding from high performing employees." -Sonia Narang, Director, Leadership & Organization Development, Sony Pictures Entertainment
"Every company leader who is serious about delivering results through people should read this book. Successful Onboarding not only gives a roadmap to successful hiring and retention, but also addresses the common pitfalls that lead to adjustment struggles, discouragement and skepticism from new hires. This book rings true to those of us who coach leaders in the onboarding transition." -Kate Ebner, Co-Director, Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Program, Principal, The Nebo Company
"This is an important book for business leaders who want to assure employee engagement from Day One! Practical and instructive, the book gives leaders everything required to plan and implement an onboarding strategy that provides maximum organizational benefits. Not only does the book convincingly build the business case for excellence in onboarding, the authors lay out in the clearest of terms a 'recipe' to assist practitioners to plan and implement a strategy that will contribute the results we are all looking for..engaged employees who choose to build a career in our organizations and contribute to organizational success in the long term! Well done, Mark and Lilith!" -Bonnie DuPont, Corporate Director; Former Group Vice President, Corporate Resources, Enbridge, Inc.
"_Successful Onboarding _could easily be titled Maximizing Your ROI. If you adopt the authors' perspective and follow the best practices they present, your organization will get the greatest possible return on its investment in new talent. Stein and Christiansen's work will shift your focus from activities to results." -Scott Eblin, Eecutive coach and author of THE NEXT LEVEL: WHAT INSIDERS KNOW ABOUT EXECUTIVE SUCCESS
"An approach to transforming your organization's onboarding process from a one-time transaction to a sustained and integrated employee experience that drives performance and engagement right out of the gate." -Matt Motzkin, Director, Organizational Development, Disney-ABC Television Group
"A comprehensive and highly practical guide to the critical-but underappreciated-practice of onboarding new employees. The authors make a convincing business case for strategic onboarding and then outline a step-by-step process for a positive and enduring outcome." -Max Stier, President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service

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Title: Water
Author(s): Steven Solomon

Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB


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Title: The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Author(s): Shane Harris

Language: English
Published: 16 March 2010
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 1594202451
Extension: EPUB
Size: 478 KB
Subjects: #genre
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction


Our surveillance state was born in the brain of Admiral John Poindexter in 1983. Poindexter, President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser, realized that the United States might have prevented the terrorist massacre of 241 Marines in Beirut if only intelligence agencies had been able to analyze in real time data they had on the attackers. Poindexter poured government know-how and funds into his dream-a system that would sift reams of data for signs of terrorist activity. Decades later, that elusive dream still captivates Washington. After the 2001 attacks, Poindexter returned to government with a controversial program, called Total Information Awareness, to detect the next attack. Today it is a secretly funded operation that can gather personal information on every American and millions of others worldwide.

But Poindexter's dream has also become America's nightmare. Despite billions of dollars spent on this digital quest since the Reagan era, we still can't discern future threats in the vast data cloud that surrounds us all. But the government can now spy on its citizens with an ease that was impossible-and illegal-just a few years ago. Drawing on unprecedented access to the people who pioneered this high-tech spycraft, Shane Harris shows how it has shifted from the province of right-wing technocrats to a cornerstone of the Obama administration's war on terror.

Harris puts us behind the scenes and in front of the screens where twenty-first-century spycraft was born. We witness Poindexter quietly working from the private sector to get government to buy in to his programs in the early nineties. We see an army major agonize as he carries out an order to delete the vast database he's gathered on possible terror cells-and on thousands of innocent Americans-months before 9/11. We follow General Mike Hayden as he persuades the Bush administration to secretly monitor Americans based on a flawed interpretation of the law. After Congress publicly bans the Total Information Awareness program in 2003, we watch as it is covertly shifted to a "black op," which protects it from public scrutiny. When the next crisis comes, our government will inevitably crack down on civil liberties, but it will be no better able to identify new dangers. This is the outcome of a dream first hatched almost three decades ago, and The Watchers is an engrossing, unnerving wake-up call.

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Title: War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror
Author(s): John Yoo

Language: English
Published: 01 December 2007
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780871139450
Extension: EPUB
Size: 287 KB
Subjects: General, History, United States, Current Events, Government policy, Political Freedom & Security, International Relations, 2001, Political Science, Politics, Terrorism, Military, Government, History & Theory - General, History & Theory, Executive power, Political Freedom & Security - General, 2001-2009, International Security, War on Terrorism, 21st Century, National, War on Terrorism; 2001-2009, War on Terrorism; 2001, War and emergency legislation, War and emergency powers
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction


The key legal architect of the Bush administration's response to 9/11 delivers a fascinating insider account of the war on terror.

While America reeled from the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, John Yoo and a skeletal staff of the Office of Legal Counsel found themselves on the phone with the White House. In a series of memos, Yoo offered his legal opinions on the president's authority to respond, and in the process had an almost unmatched impact on America's fight against terrorism. His analysis led to many of the Bush administration's most controversial policies, including detention at Guantanamo Bay, coercive interrogation, and military trials for terrorists, preemptive attacks, and the National Security Agency's wiretapping program. In fascinating detail, Yoo takes us inside the corridors of power and examines specific cases, from John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla to an American al-Qaeda leader assassinated by a CIA pilotless drone in the deserts of Yemen.

"At its core, War by Other Means offers spirited, detailed and often enlightening accounts of the decision-making process behind the key 2001-03 legal decisions." - The Washington Post

"Unambiguous and combative, Yoo's philosophy is sure to spark further debate." - Publishers Weekly

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Title: A History of Zionism
Author(s): Walter Laqueur

Language: English
Published: 01 July 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805208992
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nonfiction


From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement.

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Title: War
Author(s): Sebastian Junger

Language: English
Published: 11 May 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9780007337705
Extension: EPUB
Size: 332 KB
Subjects: General, History, United States, Social Science, Sociology, Military, Afghan War (2001-)
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Nonfiction


In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat-the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.

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Title: Wall Street: a history : from its beginnings to the fall of Enron
Author(s): Charles R. Geisst

Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press US
ISBN: 9780195170603
Extension: EPUB
Size: 51 MB
Subjects: Middle Atlantic (DC; DE; MD; NJ; NY; PA), State & Local, Investments & Securities, Wall Street (New York; N.Y.), Economics, Wall Street, General, United States, Economic History, Stock exchanges, International, Securities industry, Free Enterprise, Business & Economics, History


Review
Praise for the first edition:
"A thorough retelling of a critical--though often overlooked--aspect of U.S. history."--The Wall Street Journal
"A quick-reading history of the United States as told through the doings of bankers and brokers."--The Washington Post
"Geisst has produced a sweeping history of Wall Street, from its inception as an outdoor market to its current status of global financial center.... This lively narrative is a good survey of American economic history that puts Wall Street at the forefront."--History
"An important and entertaining commentary for anyone interested in understanding the role of Wall Street in the development of the U.S. into an economic superpower."--James R. Barth, Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance, Auburn University

Product Description
In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. Wall Street is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.

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Title: Wall Street Versus America : The Rampant Greed and Dishonesty That Imperil Your Investments
Author(s): Gary Weiss

Language: English
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
ISBN: 9781591840947
Extension: EPUB
Size: 400 KB
Subjects: General, United States, Finance, Business & Economics, Investments & Securities, Law, Securities industry, Criminal Law, Business Ethics, Securities fraud, New York Stock Exchange


From Publishers Weekly
Never mind Enron-corruption, fraud and towering incompetence are Wall Street's daily bread and butter, insists this lively j'accuse. Ex-_BusinessWeek_ reporter Weiss (_Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street_) details the myriad ways the financial industry preys on small investors. Scbanging the bottom are the boiler-room operators who peddle worthless microcap stocks over the phone and the "paid research" outfits hired by companies to tout their stocks under the guise of independent analysis. But the author finds plenty of chicanery at the pinnacle of Wall Street probity, blue-chip mutual funds, which, he contends, charge exorbitant fees and pay kickbacks to brokers to steer customers their way-while yielding a markedly worse return than market indexes. He also pillories the industry's toothless watchdogs-the New York Stock Exchange, a business media addicted to hype and puffery, and a do-nothing Securities and Exchange Commission. (Weiss's savaging of oft-lionized ex-SEC chairman Arthur Levitt is particularly vicious and funny.) The author sometimes meanders, and his cures for the rot-empowered short-selling and investor grousing on the Internet-seem pretty feeble. But Weiss's wise-guy attitude and muckraking chops make for a devastating broadside. (Apr. 6)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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If you're like half of America, and you own stocks, either directly or through mutual funds, IRAs, or 401(k)s, you may not want to hear what Weiss has to say about the industry--but you'd better read it anyway, for your own good. Weiss, an award-winning investigative journalist, formerly with Business Week, refuses to toe the party line. He describes practices we thought were confined to the fringe dark side of The Street, such as boiler room fraud; overpaid, uncaring fund managers; ineffectual SEC regulations; and Wild West-style hedge funds. The wall that is supposed to separate CEOs, analysts, underwriters, and the media has long disappeared, according to Weiss, as these forces cozy up to form a coalition designed to separate you from your money. If this all sounds too tough to beat, Weiss describes a way to fight back--for instance, place funds in an unmanaged index fund and beat more than half the managers "playing" the market right off the bat. Traders will enjoy the behind-the-scenes look at the war between short sellers and just about everybody else. David Siegfried
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Title: Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Author(s): Henry David Thoreau

Language: English
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808509103
Extension: EPUB
Size: 467 KB
Subjects: General, Juvenile Fiction, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Essays, Massachusetts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, American, Literary, Authors, 19th century, Criticism, Literature - Classics, Juvenile Nonfiction, Nature, American - General, Literary Collections, Science & Nature, Politics & government, Wilderness areas, Natural history, Authors; American, Henry David, 1817-1862, Thoreau, Walden Woods, Homes and haunts
Categories: Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction


One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism. "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden stresses the significance of self-reliance, solitude, meditation, and nature in rising above the the life of quiet desperation lived by most people. that, he argues, is the lot of most people. Part autobiography, part manifesto Walden is a moving treatise on the importance distancing oneself from the consumerism of modern Western society and embracing nature in its place.

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Title: Waiting for Superman
Author(s): Participant Media

Language: English
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586489275
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Title: SuperCooperators
Author(s): Martin Nowak

Language: French
Published: 22 March 2011
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN: 1439100187
Extension: EPUB
Size: 403 KB
Subjects: Science, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: Science, Sociology, Nonfiction


EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature "red in tooth and claw"?
Martin Nowak, one of the world's experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. He offers a new explanation for the origin of life and a new theory for the origins of language, biology's second greatest information revolution after the emergence of genes. SuperCooperators also brings to light his game-changing work on disease. Cancer is fundamentally a failure of the body's cells to cooperate, Nowak has discovered, but organs are cleverly designed to foster cooperation, and he explains how this new understanding can be used in novel cancer treatments.
Nowak and Highfield examine the phenomena of reciprocity, reputation, and reward, explaining how selfless behavior arises naturally from competition; how forgiveness, generosity, and kindness have a mathematical rationale; how companies can be better designed to promote cooperation; and how there is remarkable overlap between the recipe for cooperation that arises from quantitative analysis and the codes of conduct seen in major religions, such as the Golden Rule.
In his first book written for a wide audience, this hugely influential scientist explains his cutting-edge research into the mysteries of cooperation, from the rise of multicellular life to Good Samaritans. With wit and clarity, Nowak and Highfield make the case that cooperation, not competition, is the defining human trait. SuperCooperators will expand our understanding of evolution and provoke debate for years to come.

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Title: Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard
Author(s): Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Language: English
Published: 16 February 2010
Publisher: Random House Business
ISBN: 1847940323
Extension: EPUB
Size: 941 KB
Subjects: Business, Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help
Categories: Business, Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help


#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! The ultimate guide to making changes and following through, from the authors of Made to Stick and Decisive-hailed as "witty and instructive" (The Wall Street Journal), "packed with examples and hands-on tools that will get you moving right away" (BusinessWeek)

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems-the rational mind and the emotional mind-that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort-but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people-employees and managers, parents and nurses-have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
• the lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients
• the home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping
• the manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you.

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Title: Sway
Author(s): Ori Brafman

Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 622 KB


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Title: Swindled: the dark history of food fraud, from poisoned candy to counterfeit coffee
Author(s): Bee Wilson

Language: English
Published: 16 June 2020
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
ISBN: 9780691138206
Extension: EPUB
Size: 9 MB
Subjects: Technology & Engineering, Food industry and trade - History, Health & Fitness, Cooking, Food Science, General, Food contamination - History, Safety, Food contamination, Food industry and trade, History
Categories: Cooking & Food, History, Technology, Nonfiction


Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many ways swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and even poisoned our food throughout history. In the hands of people and corporations who have prized profits above the health of consumers, food and drink have been tampered with in often horrifying ways-padded, diluted, contaminated, substituted, mislabeled, misnamed, or otherwise faked. Swindled gives a panoramic view of this history, from the leaded wine of the ancient Romans to today's food frauds-such as fake organics and the scandal of Chinese babies being fed bogus milk powder.
Wilson pays special attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and England and their roles in developing both industrial-scale food adulteration and the scientific ability to combat it. As Swindled reveals, modern science has both helped and hindered food fraudsters-increasing the sophistication of scams but also the means to detect them. The big breakthrough came in Victorian England when a scientist first put food under the microscope and found that much of what was sold as "genuine coffee" was anything but-and that you couldn't buy pure mustard in all of London.
Arguing that industrialization, laissez-faire politics, and globalization have all hurt the quality of food, but also that food swindlers have always been helped by consumer ignorance, Swindled ultimately calls for both governments and individuals to be more vigilant. In fact, Wilson suggests, one of our best protections is simply to reeducate ourselves about the joys of food and cooking.

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Title: Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition
Author(s): David Pogue

Language: English
Published: 26 February 2008
Publisher: Pogue Press
ISBN: 9780596804251
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: General, Computers, Windows Workstation, Computer Books: Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Computing: Consumer Books ('Technical Trade'), Operating Systems - Macintosh, Macintosh OS, Hardware - Personal Computers - Macintosh, PCs, Macintosh (Computer), Computer Operating Systems, Hardware, Computer Literacy, Hardware - Personal Computers - General, Mac OS, Personal Computers, Macintosh, Operating systems (Computers), Computer - Apple
Categories: Computer Technology, Nonfiction


Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X. Why is this such a good time to switch? Upgrading from one version of Windows to another used to be simple. But now there's Windows Vista, a veritable resource hog that forces you to relearn everything. Learning a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. And if you're still using Windows XP, we've got you covered, too. If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know:
[*]Transferring your stuff - Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.
[*]Re-creating your software suite - Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.
[*]Learning Leopard - Once you've moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you're in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh.
Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is your ticket to a new computing experience.

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Title: Sweet Thunder
Author(s): Wil Haygood

Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB


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