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The Black Swan
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty.
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Inside AL Qaeda
The definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, extensive interviews with its members and field research in Al Qaeda supported conflict zones around the globe. The book sheds light on Al Qaeda's financial infrastructure and how the organization trains combat soldiers and vanguard fighters for multiple guerrilla, terrorist and semiconventional campaigns in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Caucasus and the Balkans. In addition, Rohan Gunaratna investigates the clandestine Al Qaeda operational network in the West. Finally, Gunaratana shows that for Al Qaeda to be destroyed or seriously weakened there needs to be a multipronged, multiagency and multinational response by the international community.
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Phantoms In The Brain
Combining gripping stories and cutting edge science,V.S.Ramchandran,one of the worlds leading nero scientists, pushes back medicines last great frontier the human mind to address some of the big questions.
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Autobiography Of A One Year Old
Have you ever wondered just what your baby was thinking? Are you ready to find out? 'I thought it was about time someone told it like it is. So I'm spilling the beans on the world of a one-year-old. A world where you're left in the charge of totally inept parents. Where everything's at completely the wrong height. Where you're not allowed to splash in the bath but you are in the pool.Where nobody understands a single word you say. And where diapers and diapers and poop loom large at every turn. It's a roller-coaster ride through on heck of a year. I've laughed a lot, I've cried a lot, I've learned a lot. And so will you. You might even discover the answer to that age-old question: Humpty Dumpty - did he fall or was he pushed? Anyway, must run. I see a bowl of tepid gloop is being spooned out for me. What joy."
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Darwin's Radio
Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps --the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. <BR>Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve--an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.
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Breakfast With The Ones You Love
Meet Lea Tillim, aka Cadaver Dimples, Star of Morgues and Emergency Rooms. Scarecrow thin, with a sharp crew cut and a dead face, Lea
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Why Do I Love These People ?
We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another
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Eight Steps To Seven Figures
In the tradition of the megabestseller The Millionaire Next Door, Eight Steps to Seven Figures brings together in-depth interviews with over two hundred everyday people whose investments have made them millionaires. But while The Millionaire Next Door describes its subjects' lifestyles and spending habits, Eight Steps to Seven Figures focuses squarely on the investing strategies and principles that ordinary people have used to achieve the magic million-dollar mark.Filled with the insights and investment advice that hundreds of everyday people have followed to become rich, and buttressed with countless you-are-there stories of how these millionaires did it, Eight Steps to Seven Figures is an absolute must for today's investors.
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Letting Go of Your Bananas
I have been told that the way they used to capture monkeys in Africa was by placing bananas in the bottoms of narrow-necked jars. When a monkey came upon the jar, in an effort to remove the banana, it would put its hand into the jar and grab on to the banana. Unwilling to let go of its food, the monkey was now stuck with a jar on its hand.
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Boom
Drs. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg are two of the most influential voices on the professional-speaking circuit today. Their mission: to create corporate cultures where impassioned people exercise the freedom to make a difference and change the world! The Freibergs have coauthored the international bestseller NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success and GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-As-Usual. They have been interviewed by CBS's 60 Minutes and appeared on CNBC and the CBS Morning News for their insights on the links between gutsy leaders, passionate employees, cultures of accountability, and loyal customers.
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Funny Letters From Famous People
In this humorous collection of celebrity wit, acclaimed broadcaster and humorist Charles Osgood offers witticisms penned by luminaries ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Andy Rooney. Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood here selects and introduces a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and screen. Funny Letters from Famous People delivers rib- tickling communications from the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Flannery O'Connor, S. J. Perelman, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, John Cheever and dozens more. Providing an entertaining look at celebrated lives, Osgood lets us glimpse Mark Twain squabbling with the gas company, Dwight D. Eisenhower kvetching to Mamie about Patton, and radio personality Fred Allen desperately seeking logic from his insurance carrier in one of comedy's most amusing epistles. Sprinkled throughout with Osgood's own humorous quips, Funny Letters from Famous People is a delightful compendium of clever letter writing at its side-splitting best.
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The Diary Of A Young Girl
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
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21st Century Synonym And Antonym Finder
Designed for rapid access, this innovative reference helps the reader find the perfect choice of words to get his/her ideas across with impact and accuracy. Specially created for contemporary writers and speakers, it includes essential definitions and avoids outmoded, useless entries.
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Nightfall
ON A PLANET WITH SIX SUNS, NIGHT IS ABOUT TO FALL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS. The planet Kalgash is on the brink of chaos
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The Rebel
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For albert camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular unrisings
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Joker in the pack
An addictive, attention-grabbing account of life at IIMs! I could see half of my batchmates fit into the shoes of the protagonist. Realisim, lack of political correctness, and the human element to the protagonist love life are the key elements of the story. The authors have done an excellent job of capturing the range of emotions-excitement, disappointment, turmoil, joy- that is a part and parcel of MBA life.' SRamakrishnan (IIMC) Execituve vice president & regional head North india, HDFC bank 'A very entertaining read... one person's "insider" perspective of the MBA system. Although fictional, it remains grounded just enough in reality to evoke nostalgia in most MBA graduates... and perhaps anger in a few!' Vinit S Chauhan Global business manager JP Morgan chase President IIML alumni association Support Manjunath Shanmugan Trust You can support the trsut by pruchasing a copy of the book and also encouraging your family and freinds to do so. One percent of all sales will go to the trust.
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The Vault
In a hospital basement in Stockholm, two bullet-riddled bodies lie sprawled on the floor-the victims of a terrifying hostage siege. Behind the tragedy lie dark secrets- of a murder, corruption and torture
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The Art Of living
The art of living contains practical guidence for every day living. It also deals with subjects like: How to be more likeable How to read character The art of developing memory The divine art of making friends.
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German & English dictionary
No other portable German & English paperbound dictionary gives you so much at so low a price with 768 pages and more than 70,000 entries. It is the most complete German & English dictionary of its kind, designed by foremost authorities for greatest convenience and use. It includes thousands of modern words and definitions you will find nowhere else. Among the special features: Concise German grammar, with a full list of irregular verbs. Tables of noun declension and pronouns. Explanations of the different meanings of both English and German words. Detailed guides to pronunciations. Plus handy Metric Conversion Tables. All In one easy-to-use, easy-to-carry compact volume.
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Play therapy
Play therapy gives a child a vital opportunity to "Play Out" his feeling and problems--his fears, hatred, loneliness, and feelings of failure and inadequacy. Here is an intensely practical book that gives specific illustration of how therapy can be implemented in play contacts, and tells how the toys of the playroom can be vivid performers and aids in growth. The case histories in this book are true. As she did with DIBS IN SEARCH OF SELF, Dr. Axline has taken them from the rich mine of verbatim case material of children referred for play therapy. These children range in age from four years to twelve, and their problems covers the wide spectrum of maladjusted youngsters--the hostile child, the withdrawn child, the dependent child, and the handicapped child. It's all here in an important and rewarding book for parents, teachers, and anyone who comes in contact with children.
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Nemesis
In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people--but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster.
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The Bantam Book Of Correct Letter Writing
Your guide to easy, modern letter writing. Lillian Eichler Watson, famous authority on letter writing, tells you everything you need to know to write clear, correct, effective letters. Here are the basic, simple and complete rules for : ! ? :; & ' - ! grammar and punctuation * correct stationary * proper form * envelopes * special forms of address* and every kind of business, personal and social letters. With hundreds of specimen letters to guide you! The unique, detailed table of contents will show you where to find the immediate and specific answer to any letter writing problem for any occasion.