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Title: Surviving Dreaded Conversations: How to Talk Through Any Difficult Situation at Work
Author(s): Donna Flagg

Language: English
Published: 04 November 2009
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071630252
Extension: EPUB
Size: 526 KB
Subjects: General, Psychology, Business & Economics, Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Work environment, Industrial Management, Labor & Industrial Relations, Workplace environment, Language in the workplace, Business Communication, Business Etiquette, Political Science, Psychology; Industrial, Workplace Culture
Categories: Business, Nonfiction


The essential guide for managers andprofessionals dealing with difficultworkplace conversationsSurviving Dreaded Conversations gives managers all theyneed to get through those difficult, face-to-face conversationswe all encounter in our office. Whether it'sfiring an employee, asking for a raise or delivering badfinancial news to a client or staff, expert author DonnaFlagg shows readers how to stop putting off theseuncomfortable conversations and start successfully facingthem head-on. Filled with tips, strategies, exercises,and easy-to-memorize scripts for effective preparation,Surviving Dreaded Conversations is packed with practicaladvice to help professionals get through the roughspots in the workplace.

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Title: Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive
Author(s): Les Stroud; Laura Bombier

Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061373510, 0061373516
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Reference, Sports, Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness, Camping, Outdoor Skills, Wilderness survival, Personal & Practical Guides, Outdoor Survival Techniques, Outdoor life, Safety


Product Description
From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest-and most remote-regions on Earth.
Now, the creator, producer, and host of the hit television program Survivorman transfers his decades of knowledge and experience to the pages of Survive!, a practical guide that gives everyday readers a no-nonsense look at the real world of survival.
Stroud offers readers the essential skills and tactics necessary to endure in any corner of the globe, along with a wealth of insider information born of his own experiences in the outdoors and unavailable in any other book. Readers will learn:

• How to make a survival shelter and why a lean-to is largely a waste of time.
  
• Why survival kits are important, and why you should make your own.
  
• Where to find water and why drinking contaminated water is sometimes warranted.
  
• How to locate and trap small animals and why the notion of tracking and hunting large game is largely a pipe dream.
  

Whether seasoned in the outdoor arts or new to adventuring, all readers will learn something from Survive!. Stroud's many colorful anecdotes and cut-to-the-chase philosophy not only make for an entertaining read, but also enhance anyone's ability to focus on the main goal when everything else has gone wrong-survival.

About the Author
Les Stroud is a filmmaker, outdoor adventurer, singer-songwriter and creator of the hit show Survivorman. He is a member of the prestigious Explorers Club and has produced, hosted, and appeared in many television specials including Shark Week, Surviving Alaska, and Off The Grid with Les Stroud. He has been featured in numerous media outlets including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Larry King Live, Men's Journal, and Entertainment Weekly.

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Title: Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Author(s): Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince

Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060889654
Extension: EPUB
Size: 247 KB
Subjects: Life Sciences, Disease susceptibility, Health & Fitness, Diseases, Survival - physiology, Science, Medical, Evolution, Research, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Natural selection, Genetic aspects, Human evolution, Variation (Genetics), Adaptation (Biology), General, Disease susceptibility - Genetic aspects


Amazon.com Review
Dan Ariely on Survival of the Sickest
MIT professor Dan Ariely has become one of the leaders in the growing field of behavioral economics, and his bestselling book debut,
_ I have always been puzzled by the way in which genetic diseases have managed to survive throughout the ages. How could it be that these diseases were able to withstand the evolutionary process, where only the most fit survive, and continue to be transferred from one generation to the next? Survival of the Sickest provides a thought provoking yet entertaining explanation to this puzzle. _
In this insightful book Dr. Sharon Moalem demonstrates how conditions that are considered unhealthy (such as hemochromatosis, diabetes, and high cholesterol), or even deadly in extreme cases, might actually put their carriers at an advantage in combating other life-threatening illnesses. For example, he explains that hemochromatosis, a disease that, if left untreated, will kill you, may have actually been a defense against the deadliest pandemic in history--the bubonic plague during the 14th century. It turns out that this genetic mutation, which continues to be passed down through generations, actually helped spare many lives at one point.
Throughout the book, Dr. Moalem draws many connections between seemingly disparate subjects, such as the accidental invention of ice wine and cold diuresis, in order to illustrate the basic mechanisms of genetics and medicine in charming and intuitive ways. He skillfully interweaves his knowledge of history, genetics, and medicine not only as they relate to specific medical conditions but also in a way that addresses important challenges of modern society and our future evolution.
In the most general terms, Dr. Moalem's description of the human body and its complexity left me in awe of how far we have come in our understanding of biology and medicine, while also being reminded that the road to understanding ourselves is still wide open with much more to learn in the decades, and even centuries, to come. It is a fantastic journey on which he leads us and Dr. Moalem is a kind, knowledgeable, humorous, and helpful guide.

From Publishers Weekly
Moalem, a medical student with a Ph.D. in neurogenetics, asks a number of provocative questions, such as why debilitating hereditary diseases persist in humans and why we suffer from the consequences of aging. His approach to these questions is solidly rooted in evolutionary theory, and he capably demonstrates that each disease confers a selective advantage to individuals who carry either one or two alleles for inherited diseases. But very little is new; the principles, if not every particular, that Moalem addresses have been covered in Randolph Nesse and George Williams's Why We Get Sick, among others. Whether he is discussing hemochromatosis (a disorder that causes massive amounts of iron to accumulate in individuals), diabetes or sickle cell anemia, his conclusion is always the same: each condition offers enough positive evolutionary advantages to offset the negative consequences, and this message is repeated over and over. Additionally, Moalem's endless puns and simple jokes wear thin, but his light style makes for easy reading for readers new to this subject. (Feb.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Title: Wheat Belly
Author(s): William Davis, MD

Language: English
Published: 19 June 2014
Publisher: Rodale Inc.
ISBN: 1443412732
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Cooking & Food, Health & Fitness, Self-Improvement, Nonfiction
Categories: Cooking & Food, Health & Fitness, Self-Improvement, Nonfiction


Renowned cardiologist William Davis explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges and reverse myriad health problems. Every day we eat food products made of wheat. As a result millions of people experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive stomach bulges that preventative cardiologist William Davis calls 'wheat bellies'. According to Davis, that fat has nothing to do with gluttony, sloth or too much butter: it's down to the whole grain food products so many people eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. After witnessing over 2,000 patients regain their health after giving up wheat, Davis reached the disturbing conclusion that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemic - and its elimination is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health. In Wheat Belly Davis exposes the harmful effects of what is actually a product of genetic tinkering being sold to the public as 'wheat' and provides readers with a user-friendly, step-by-step plan to navigate a new, wheat-free lifestyle. Benefits include: substantial weight loss, correction of cholesterol abnormalities, relief from arthritis, mood benefits and prevention of heart disease. Informed by cutting-edge science and nutrition, and numerous case studies, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making us sick.

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Title: What Technology Wants
Author(s): Kevin Kelly

Language: English
Published: 14 October 2010
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
ISBN: 0143120174
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1022 KB
Subjects: Science, Sociology, Technology, Nonfiction
Categories: Science, Sociology, Technology, Nonfiction


From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable[b]- a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potential [/b]

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed. This new theory of technology offers three practical lessons: By listening to what technology wants we can better prepare ourselves and our children for the inevitable technologies to come. By adopting the principles of pro-action and engagement, we can steer technologies into their best roles. And by aligning ourselves with the long-term imperatives of this near-living system, we can capture its full gifts. Written in intelligent and accessible language, this is a fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing opportunities in the world and how technology can give our lives greater meaning.

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Title: What to expect when you're expecting
Author(s): Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel

Language: English
Published: 21 January 2021
Publisher: New York : Workman Pub., c2008.
ISBN: 9780761148579
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Postnatal care, General, Family & Relationships, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Prenatal care
Categories: Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness, Self-Improvement, Nonfiction


Eating Well When You're Expecting provides mums-to-be with a realistic approach to navigating healthily and deliciously through the nine months of pregnancy - at home, in the office, at Christmas, in restaurants.
Thorough chapters are devoted to nutrition, weight gain, food safety, the postpartum diet, and how to eat when trying to conceive again. And the book comes with 150 contemporary, tasty and healthy recipes that feed mum and baby well, take little time to prepare and are gentle on queasy tummies.
At the heart of the book are hundreds of pressing questions every mother-to-be has: Is it true I shouldn't eat any food cooked with alcohol? Will the caffeine in coffee cross into my baby's bloodstream? I'm entering my second trimester, and I'm losing weight, not gaining - help! Is all sushi off limits? How do I get enough calcium if I'm lactose intolerant? I keep dreaming about a hot fudge sundae - can I indulge? (The answer is yes!)

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Title: What Should I Do with My Life?
Author(s): Po Bronson

Language: English
Published: 28 February 2013
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 0375758984
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Fiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Sociology, Nonfiction


Are you looking for the right path in 2023? This book tackles the question that most of us face at some point in our lives: 'what should I do with my life?', and provides illuminating answers.
Bronson's book is a fascinating account of finding and following the people who have taken the ultimate challenge of self-discovery by uprooting their lives and starting all over again. From the investment banker who gave it all up to become a catfish farmer in Mississippi, to the chemical engineer from Walthamstow who decided to become a lawyer in his sixties. These stories of individual dilemmas and dramatic - sometimes unsuccessful - gambles are bound up with Bronson's account of his own search for a calling.
'Inspirational... This book fascinates because of the broad spectrum of testimonies' Financial Times
'Something more than the usual self-help guff. What Should I Do with My Life? is closer to the oral histories of Studs Terkel or This American Life than to Tony Robbins' Times

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It's amazing that life sometimes leaves more questions than answers; Life sometimes gives the painful experience first, then teaches the lesson afterward...and I bet if you could have it our way, you would have the answers to all of your pressing questions right? Or most of them anyway!
Well, "What Should I Do With My Life Now: 4 Easy Steps To Attracting A Refreshing Change In Your Life, If Your Don't Know Where To Start!", speaks to the heart of it's readers, offering insight, encouragement, practical step-by-step exercises, and smart witty wisdom nuggets, all shared from a simple perspective that is easy to follow along with and implement in one's life.
Whether you are in a personal life transition, relationship transition, career transition, financial transition, business transition etc. within the pages of this book. you will find simple but powerful advice, and guidance on how to manage the changing and shifting environment around you, by focusing on 4 simple easy life steps.
In "What Should I Do With My Life Now?", Conrad takes you by the hand and helps you to focus on 4 simple principles.
They are:
1. Determine Your Direction (let's figure where you want to go)
2. Determine Your Distractions (let's figure out what's hindering your progress)
3. Determine Your Life's Core Product (let's build your life around something)
4. Determine Your Success Routine (let's start executing a plan of action)
This book is constructed around the fact that life, and nothing in it, is constant. Everything, or most of it changes; so you should focus more on adapting to and managing the changes of life, more than trying to focus on keeping things same; because no matter what, you and everything in your life, will always be moving in one direction, or another.
You life is always either moving away from something, or moving towards something. You want to move away from the things that stop you; things that keep you trapped; things that try to destroy your dream; things that leave you feeling that life is empty, meaningless, and without purpose.
You want to move towards the things that bring you happiness, things that bring fulfillment, things that bring success, significance, and meaning; and this is where you start with figuring out what you should be doing with your life.
But the question is, "How do you manage all of this in your life?"
Well, managing your life is really about managing your forward momentum.
It's about structuring your life in simple but strategic ways that enable you to move almost effortlessly and automatically forward - towards those things that bring you the happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction that you want and deserve to have as part of your life.
It's about you strategically structuring the direction and path you want your life to move in, and connecting each day with that plan to see real success...because once you do, then the answers to your question, "what should I do with my life?", easily flows like a soft refreshing stream over your life.

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Title: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Author(s): Malcolm Gladwell

Language: English
Published: 20 October 2009
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316075848
Extension: EPUB
Size: 334 KB
Subjects: Business & Economics, General, Psychology, Language Arts & Disciplines, Essays, Social Science, Popular Culture, Self-Help, Personal Growth, Social Psychology, Sociology, Criticism, Literature: Classics, Literature - Classics, Literary Collections, Journalism, Popular culture - United States, American essays, American Journalism, American prose literature - 21st century, Social values, American prose literature, Social values - United States
Categories: Business, Essays, Sociology, Nonfiction


Delve into this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of Malcolm Gladwell's writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience.
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.
Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
"Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.

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Title: What Einstein Told His Barber: More Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions
Author(s): Robert Wolke

Language: English
Published: 29 July 2009
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440508797
Extension: EPUB
Size: 869 KB
Subjects: Essays, Science, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Essays, Science, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)


What makes ice cubes cloudy? How do shark attacks make airplanes safer? Can a person traveling in a car at the speed of sound still hear the radio? Moreover, would they want to...?
Do you often find yourself pondering life's little conundrums? Have you ever wondered why the ocean is blue? Or why birds don't get electrocuted when perching on high-voltage power lines? Robert L. Wolke, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and acclaimed author of What Einstein Didn't Know, understands the need to...well, understand. Now he provides more amusing explanations of such everyday phenomena as gravity (If you're in a falling elevator, will jumping at the last instant save your life?) and acoustics (Why does a whip make such a loud cracking noise?), along with amazing facts, belly-up-to-the-bar bets, and mind-blowing reality bites all with his trademark wit and wisdom.
If you shoot a bullet into the air, can it kill somebody when it comes down?
You can find out about all this and more in an astonishing compendium of the proverbial mind-boggling mysteries of the physical world we inhabit.
Arranged in a question-and-answer format and grouped by subject for browsing ease, WHAT EINSTEIN TOLD HIS BARBER is for anyone who ever pondered such things as why colors fade in sunlight, what happens to the rubber from worn-out tires, what makes red-hot objects glow red, and other scientific curiosities. Perfect for fans of Newton's Apple, Jeopardy!, and The Discovery Channel, WHAT EINSTEIN TOLD HIS BARBER also includes a glossary of important scientific buzz words and a comprehensive index. ->

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Title: What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers
Author(s): Andrew Thompson

Language: English
Publisher: Ulysses Press
ISBN: 9781569758144
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: General, Reference, Fiction, Questions & Answers, Trivia


Product Description
BAFFLING AND BIZARRE.
ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING.
This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise you with its fun and funky revelations:
♦ Why is New York called "the Big Apple"?
♦ How do people count cards at casinos?
♦ What keeps the head on a glass of beer?
♦ Why don't you ever see baby pigeons?
♦ Why is getting married called tying the knot?
About the Author
Andrew Thompson lives and works in London.

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Title: We Were Young and Carefree
Author(s): Laurent Fignon

Language: English
Published: 16 June 2010
Publisher: CCV Digital
ISBN: 0224083198
Extension: EPUB
Size: 267 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction


'Ah, I remember you: you're the guy who lost the Tour de France by eight seconds!'
'No monsieur, I'm the guy who won the Tour twice.

The international bestselling autobiography of the legendary French cyclist Laurent Fignon
Two-time winner of the Tour de France in the early eighties, Laurent Fignon became the star for a new generation. In the 1989 tour, he lost out to his American arch-rival, Greg LeMond, by an agonising eight seconds.
In this revealing account, the former champion spares nobody, not even himself, and pulls back the curtain on what really went on behind the scenes of this epic sport - the friendships, the rivalries, the betrayals, the parties, the girls and, of course, the performance-enhancing drugs. Fignon's story bestrides a golden age in cycling: a time when the headlines spoke of heroes, not doping, and a time when cyclists were afraid of nothing.
'Sports book of the year: He's ruthlessly honest, about himself and about cycling, and he provides a gripping insight into an unrelenting hard world' Independent

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Title: Web Design All-in-One For Dummies
Author(s): Sue Jenkins

Language: English
Published: 05 September 2006
Publisher: For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470417966
Extension: EPUB
Size: 7 MB
Subjects: World Wide Web, Web sites, Web graphics & design, Internet - Web Site Design, Web site development, Computers, Computer Books: Web Programming, Interactive & Multimedia, Design, Computing: Professional & Programming, Computer - Internet, Internet, General, Web Page Design, Web - Page Design
Categories: Computer Technology, Nonfiction


Nine minibooks, filling nearly 800 pages, take you beyond Dreamweaver basics, giving you the know-how and hands-on techniques necessary to create state-of-the-art Web sites. You'll master Dreamweaver basics, such as laying out pages, adding content to pages, and working with code; develop Web applications and databases; make pages dynamic; and learn to use Dreamweaver with Contribute. Order your copy of this reference to the popular software application today.

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Title: Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scbangrs
Author(s): Michael Schrenk

Language: English
Published: 01 March 2012
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593271204
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: COMPUTERS / Internet / General
Categories: Computer Technology, Nonfiction


There's a wealth of data online, but sorting and gathering it by hand can be tedious and time consuming. Rather than click through page after endless page, why not let bots do the work for you?
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scbangrs will show you how to create simple programs with PHP/CURL to mine, parse, and archive online data to help you make informed decisions. Michael Schrenk, a highly regarded webbot developer, teaches you how to develop fault-tolerant designs, how best to launch and schedule the work of your bots, and how to create Internet agents that:
-Send email or SMS notifications to alert you to new information quickly
-Search different data sources and combine the results on one page, making the data easier to interpret and analyze
-Automate purchases, auction bids, and other online activities to save time
Sample projects for automating tasks like price monitoring and news aggregation will show you how to put the concepts you learn into practice.
This second edition of Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scbangrs includes tricks for dealing with sites that are resistant to crawling and scbanging, writing stealthy webbots that mimic human search behavior, and using regular expressions to harvest specific data. As you discover the possibilities of web scbanging, you'll see how webbots can save you precious time and give you much greater control over the data available on the Web.

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Title: Weapons of Mass Deception
Author(s): Sheldon Rampton

Language: English
Published: 28 July 2003
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN: 1585422762
Extension: EPUB
Size: 275 KB
Subjects: History, Politics, Military, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Military, Nonfiction


Weapons of Mass Deception reveals:
[*]How the Iraq war was sold to the American public through professional P.R. strategies.
[*]"The First Casualty": Lies that were told related to the Iraq war.
[*]Euphemisms and jargon related to the Iraq war, e.g. "shock and awe," "Operation Iraqi Freedom," "axis of evil," "coalition of the willing," etc.
[*]"War as Opportunity": How the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have been used as marketing hooks to sell products and policies that have nothing to do with fighting terrorism.
[*]"Brand America": The efforts of Charlotte Beers and other U.S. propaganda campaigns designed to win hearts overseas.
[*]"The Mass Media as Propaganda Vehicle": How news coverage followed Washington's lead and language.
The book includes a glossary — "Propaganda: A User's Guide" — and resources to help Americans sort through the deceptions to see the strings behind Washington's campaign to sell the Iraq war to the public.

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Title: Website Optimization
Author(s): Andrew B. King

Language: English
Published: 08 July 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
ISBN: 0596515081
Extension: EPUB
Size: 7 MB
Subjects: COMPUTERS / Web / Page Design
Categories: Computer Technology, Nonfiction


Remember when an optimized website was one that merely didn't take all day to appear? Times have changed. Today, website optimization can spell the difference between enterprise success and failure, and it takes a lot more know-how to achieve success.
This book is a comprehensive guide to the tips, techniques, secrets, standards, and methods of website optimization. From increasing site traffic to maximizing leads, from revving up responsiveness to increasing navigability, from prospect retention to closing more sales, the world of 21st century website optimization is explored, exemplified and explained.
Website Optimization combines the disciplines of online marketing and site performance tuning to attain the competitive advantage necessary on today's Web. You'll learn how to improve your online marketing with effective paid and natural search engine visibility strategies, strengthened lead creation and conversion to sales methods, and gold-standard ad copywriting guidelines. Plus, your increased site speed, reduced download footprint, improved reliability, and improved navigability will work synergistically with those marketing methods to optimize your site's total effectiveness.
In this book for business and IT managers, author Andrew King, president of Website Optimization, LLC, has assembled experts in several key specialties to teach you:
[*]Search engine optimization - addressing best (and worst) practices to improve search engine visibility, including step-by-step keyword optimization guidelines, category and tag cloud creation, and guerilla PR techniques to boost inbound links and improve rankings
[*]Pay-per-click optimization - including ad copywriting guidelines, setting profit-driven goals, calculating and optimizing bids, landing page optimization, and campaign management tips
[*]Optimizing conversion rates - increasing leads with site landing page guidelines, such as benefit-oriented copy, credibility-based design, value hierarchies, and tips on creating unique selling propositions and slogans
[*]Web performance tuning - optimizing ways to use (X)HTML, CSS, and Ajax to increase speed, reduce your download footprint, and increase reliability
[*]Advanced tuning - including client-side techniques such as on-demand content, progressive enhancement, and inline images to save HTTP requests. Plus server-side tips include improving parallelism, using cache control, browser sniffing, HTTP compression, and URL rewriting to remap links and preserve traffic
[*]Web metrics - illustrating the best metrics and tools to gather details about visitors and measure web conversion and success rates. Covering both search marketing metrics and web performance measures including Pathloss and waterfall graphs
Website Optimization not only provides you with a strategy for success, it also offers specific techniques for you and your staff to follow. A profitable website needs to be well designed, current, highly responsive, and optimally persuasive if you're to attract prospects, convert them to buyers, and get them to come back for more. This book describes precisely what you need to accomplish to achieve all of those goals.

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Title: Wedlock
Author(s): Wendy Moore

Language: English
Published: 10 March 2009
Publisher: THREE RIVERS PR
ISBN: 9780307383365
Extension: EPUB
Size: 499 KB
Subjects: General, Europe, History, Historical - General, Language Arts & Disciplines, Women, Historical, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Great Britain, Historical - British, Literary, Art, Linguistics, Social History, Botanists, Science & Technology, Dramatists, Linguists, Scandals, Women linguists, Monarchy And Aristocracy, Scandals - Great Britain, Women dramatists, Women botanists, Women botanists - Great Britain, Strathmore; Mary Eleanor Bowes, Botanists - Great Britain, Dramatists; British, Dramatists - Great Britain, Great Britain - History - 18th Century, Women linguists - Great Britain, Women dramatists - Great Britain, Linguists - Great Britain
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction


A cinematic and thrilling true story exploring the life and catastrophic marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore-"a tale of wealth, status, and privilege, laced with lust, greed, [and] pride" (The Times)

"Spectacular . . . Serious, perceptive, thoughtful and-by no means least-compulsively readable."-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. At eighteen, she married the handsome but aloof ninth Earl of Strathmore in a celebrated, if ultimately troubled, match that forged the Bowes Lyon name. Freed from this unhappy marriage by her husband's early death, she stumbled headlong into scandal when a charming Irish soldier, Captain Andrew Robinson Stoney, flattered his way into the merry widow's bed.

When Mary heard that her gallant hero was mortally wounded in a duel defending her honor, she could hardly refuse his dying wish; four days later they were married. Yet the "captain" was not what he seemed. Staging a sudden and remarkable recovery, Stoney was revealed as a debt-ridden lieutenant, a fraudster, and a bully.

Immediately taking control of Mary's vast fortune, he squandered her wealth and embarked on a campaign of appalling violence and cruelty against his new bride. Finally, fearing for her life, Mary dared to plan an audacious escape and an even more courageous battle to reclaim her liberty and her fortune.
Based on meticulous archival research, Wedlock is a gripping, addictive biography, ripped from the headlines of eighteenth-century England.

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ISBN: 9780307383372
Size: 543 KB
Subjects: Autobiography, Scandals, Science & Technology, Literary, Women linguists, Social History, Botanists, Monarchy And Aristocracy, Dramatists, Women dramatists, Women botanists, Historical - British, Linguistics, Women, Language Arts & Disciplines, Historical - General, Linguists, Historical, Great Britain - History - 18th Century, History, Art, General, Biography & Autobiography, Biography

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Title: We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga
Author(s): Paul Shaffer; David Ritz

Language: English
Published: 06 October 2009
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780385524834
Extension: EPUB
Size: 863 KB
Subjects: General, United States, Performing Arts, Television, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities, Composers & Musicians - General, Popular Music, Musicians, Paul, Television Plays And Programs, Shaffer, Late night with David Letterman (Television program), Late show with David Letterman, Conductors (Music), Conductors (Music) - United States, Musicians - United States, Shaffer; Paul
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Performing Arts, Nonfiction


Paul Shaffer-born and bred music junkie and longtime leader of David Letterman's Late Show band-opens up in this candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir. From playing seedy strip joints in Toronto, to being the first musical director of Saturday Night Live and helping to form the Blues Brothers, to being onstage every night with David Letterman and playing with the greatest musicians of our time, Shaffer has lived the ultimate showbiz life. Now-dishing on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears-Paul gives us the full behind-the-scenes story of his life, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age of twelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theater.

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Title: Watching Earth from Space: How Surveillance Helps Us -- and Harms Us (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
Author(s): Pat Norris

Language: English
Publisher: Praxis
ISBN: 9781441969378
Extension: EPUB
Size: 32 MB
Subjects: Technology & Engineering, Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems, Nature, Applied Sciences, Science, General, Weights & Measures, Aeronautics & Astronautics


SUMMARY: Our planet is constantly monitored by hundreds of space-borne instruments. This book describes the technology of those instruments and the sciences that provide useful information from them. It also discusses the political implications of space-borne monitoring. From the moment satellites were launched into orbit their ability to see what was happening on a global scale was appreciated - and feared. This well researched book strives to answer such diverse questions as: Are satellites really a threat to individual privacy? How bad, really, is climate change and global warming? Why can't we find Osama bin Laden? Does the world have enough fresh water? The military side of the story is linked to the big security issues that we face, such as terrorism and civil wars. The civilian side of the story involves numerous successful collaborations in weather forecasting, navigation, communications, and other such "peaceful" uses of satellite surveillance. How the world handles the knowledge gained from these Earth watchers will be critical in the years to come, and Norris skillfully leads us through the issues and possible paths we can take.

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Title: Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test
Author(s): edited by Mark D. White

Language: English
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
ISBN: 9780470396858
Extension: EPUB
Size: 563 KB
Subjects: General, Social Science, Popular Culture, Popular Culture - General, Philosophy (General), Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Comic book & cartoon art, History of Ideas & Popular Philosophy, 1953-, Comics & Graphic Novels, Comic books; strips; etc, Moral and ethical aspects, Moore; Alan, Comic books; strips; etc., Popular philosophy, Watchmen, Comic books; strips; etc - Moral and ethical aspects, Moore; Alan;


Product Description
Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate costumes to conceal their identity and fight crime, and an intricate plot to kill and discredit these "superheroes."
Alan Moore's Watchmen popularized the graphic novel format, has been named one of Time magazine's top 100 novels, and is now being made into a highly anticipated movie adaptation. This latest book in the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series peers into Moore's deeply philosophical work to parse and deconstruct the ethical issues raised by Watchmen's costumed adventurers, their actions, and their world. From nuclear destruction to utopia, from governmental authority to human morality and social responsibility, it answers questions fans have had for years about Watchmen's ethical quandaries, themes, and characters.

From the Back Cover
Can we justify Ozymandias's grand plan?
Does Dr. Manhattan really know what's going to happen in the future?
Is the Comedian actually a comedian (or just a jerk)?
Can either Silk Spectre be considered a feminist?
Does Nite Owl's paunch actually make him virtuous?
Watchmen is the most critically acclaimed graphic novel ever published and turned the world of comic superheroes on its head. This masterpiece of realistic storytelling, dialogue, and artwork, courtesy of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, raises a host of compelling philosophical questions. How do Ozymandias and Rorschach justify their actions? What are the political ramifications of the Comedian's work for the government? How do we explain the nature of Dr. Manhattan? And can a graphic novel be considered literature? Whether you're reading Watchmen for the first time or have been a fan for more than twenty years, Watchmen and Philosophy will help you read deeper into the philosophical questions and the revolutionary story that changed comic fiction forever.

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Title: Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test
Author(s): William Irwin, Mark D. White

Language: English
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
ISBN: 9780470396858
Extension: EPUB
Size: 594 KB
Subjects: General, Social Science, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Comics & Graphic Novels, Popular Culture, Comic books; strips; etc, Comic books; strips; etc., Moral and ethical aspects, Moore; Alan, Comic books; strips; etc - Moral and ethical aspects


Product Description
Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate costumes to conceal their identity and fight crime, and an intricate plot to kill and discredit these "superheroes."
Alan Moore's Watchmen popularized the graphic novel format, has been named one of Time magazine's top 100 novels, and is now being made into a highly anticipated movie adaptation. This latest book in the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series peers into Moore's deeply philosophical work to parse and deconstruct the ethical issues raised by Watchmen's costumed adventurers, their actions, and their world. From nuclear destruction to utopia, from governmental authority to human morality and social responsibility, it answers questions fans have had for years about Watchmen's ethical quandaries, themes, and characters.

From the Back Cover
Can we justify Ozymandias's grand plan?
Does Dr. Manhattan really know what's going to happen in the future?
Is the Comedian actually a comedian (or just a jerk)?
Can either Silk Spectre be considered a feminist?
Does Nite Owl's paunch actually make him virtuous?
Watchmen is the most critically acclaimed graphic novel ever published and turned the world of comic superheroes on its head. This masterpiece of realistic storytelling, dialogue, and artwork, courtesy of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, raises a host of compelling philosophical questions. How do Ozymandias and Rorschach justify their actions? What are the political ramifications of the Comedian's work for the government? How do we explain the nature of Dr. Manhattan? And can a graphic novel be considered literature? Whether you're reading Watchmen for the first time or have been a fan for more than twenty years, Watchmen and Philosophy will help you read deeper into the philosophical questions and the revolutionary story that changed comic fiction forever.

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