Gorbachev on My Country and The World

Gorbachev on My Country and The World

Translated By: George Shriver 

More than eighty years have passed since the event which in our country, until recently, was generally called the Great October Socialist Revolution. Today debates about its character, content, and consequences are intensifying and often sound just as irreconcilable as the positions taken by the participants in the revolution who found themselves in opposing camps. But then, what is surprising about that? More than two hundred years have passed since the great French revolution of the eighteenth century, but to this day that revolution inspires sharply conflicting judgments and opinions. This is all the more true of the October revolution not only because it is closer to us in time but because, just as the French revolution shaped the entire course of the nineteenth century, the Russian revolution, whatever one might say about it, largely determined the course of the twentieth century. And this century has proven to be a turning point for all humanity. [download]

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Tarzan-My Father

Tarzan-My Father

By: Johnny Weisssmuller, Jr. with William Reed and W. Craig Reed

Johnny Weissmuller was universally idolized, both during and after his lifetime. Fans not only adored him as the greatest Olympic champion swimmer of his time, but they also remember him to this day as the greatest Tarzan of them all. Why? I have asked myself that question many times. In the documentary film Investigating Tarzan, George McWhorter, curator of the Burroughs Memorial Collection, Louisville University, Kentucky, suggested that it probably had a lot to do with the times. The more I thought about that, the more I tended to agree. My father’s classic films encompassed the period of the Great Depression in the United States, which started with the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It was not only a national economic depression, but it was also a period of emotional and mental depression for the breadwinners whose families were going without food. [download]

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Meg Cabot-Who Wrote That

Meg Cabot-Who Wrote That

By: Camille-Yvette Welsch

Humanity is powered by stories. From our earliest days as thinking beings, we employed every available tool to tell each other stories . We danced, drew pictures on the walls of our caves, spoke, and sang. All of this extraordinary effort was designed to entertain, recount the news of the day, explain natural occurrences and then gradually to build religious and cultural traditions and establish the common bonds and continuity that eventually formed civilizations. Stories are the most powerful force in the universe; they are the primary element that has distinguished our evolutionary path. Our love of the story has not diminished with time. Enormous segments of societies are devoted to the art of storytelling. [download]

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Donald Rumsfeld-Known and Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld-Known and Unknown 

By: Donald Rumsfeld

My life has spanned more than one third of the history of the United States. As I thought more about this memoir and a title, the idea of the known and the unknown seemed to fit. Not only are there things in this book people believe they know about my life, but there are also things that may surprise and differ from what many may have read or heard or assumed. The same holds true about many of the events I observed from my years in Congress during the civil rights struggle and the Vietnam War era, through the Cold War and my service as secretary of defense during the age of terrorism. The known and the unknown are what I have attempted to present in this memoir that slice of our amazing country’s history of which I have been privileged to be a part. [download]

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J.D. Salinger-A Life

J.D. Salinger-A Life

By: Kenneth Slawenski

Since I have maintained a website devoted to the life and works of J. D. Salinger, it has grown extensively over time and receives a healthy amount of tra􀀞c but rarely generates more than a handful of e-mails per day. So you can imagine my surprise when I checked the mail on Thursday, January 28, 2010, and found not three or four messages shouting to be opened but fifty-seven. They were left unopened, too, for hours until I had gathered up the courage to confront them. By glancing at the e-mail on top of the heap, I knew exactly what had happened and how I would always remember that day. The news stared me down from my inbox through the starkest, most ugly of headers. It read: Rest In Peace J.D. Salinger. It should have read: Quicksand. A few words of explanation are probably in order here. For nearly aslong as I had been running the Salinger site, I had been chipping away at this book, determined to one day deliver a true and fair and unsentimental account of Salinger’s life justly infused with appreciation for his works. [download]

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Spiderman 3

Spiderman 3 

By: Peter David 

Peter Parker does not believe that old notion that, when one is about to die, one’s life flashes before one’s eyes. He considers it a sort of “after the fact” add-on. Someone has a near death experience and, in recalling it, mentally inserts all the highlights of his existence after the fact as a sort of mental counterpoint to life’s near termination. Memory, after all, is a tricky thing, possibly the most deceptive aspect of the brain’s function. The main reason Peter has come to be dismissive of the concept is because, in his activities as Spider-Man, he has been near death more times than he can count. More times, in fact, than any reasonable person should have to experience. In all those times, all those close shaves, he has never once seen his life go flashing before his eyes. [download]

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Murder for Revenge

Murder for Revenge 

By: Otto Penzler

Is there a more human emotion than revenge? In fact, does any other lifeform known to us engage in revenge, or even consider it? Animals kill other animals for food, or self-defence, or for power, for rank within the community. But for revenge? No. Humans, on the other hand, have engaged in this activity through all of recorded history. There have been many motivations for seeking revenge political and financial, for example but it is unlikely that any desire for revenge has been more frequently dragged from the centre of a person’s soul than the anguish of lost love. Whether that love is taken away by a decision of the beloved or surreptitiously stolen by a rival lover, or heinously and permanently erased by a murderer of that love object, the passion for revenge springs readily into the heart to avenge that greatest of all losses. [download]

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Winter Garden

Winter Garden

By: Kristin Hannah

On the banks of the mightyColumbia River, in this icy season when every breath became visible, the orchard called Belye Nochi was quiet. Dormant apple trees stretched as far as the eye could see, their sturdy roots coiled deep in the cold, fertile soil. As temperatures plummeted and color drained from land and sky, the whitened landscape caused a kind of winter blindness; one day became indistinguishable from the next. Everything froze, turned fragile. Nowhere was the quiet more noticeable than in Meredith Whitson’s own house. At twelve, she had already discovered the empty spaces that gathered between people. She longed for her family to be like those she saw on television, where everything looked perfect and everyone got along. No one, not even her beloved father, understood how alone she often felt within these four walls, how invisible. [download]

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The Hidden Queen

The Hidden Queen 

By: Alma Alexander

There were still echoes of sporadic fighting, but night was drawing in fast. Fodrun, finding himself suddenly alone in the middle of what had until less than an hour ago been a fierce battlefield, paused and looked around, taking stock. There was blood on him, none of it his own, but fatigue ached like a wound and his wrists throbbed with the pain of simply holding his sword. He remembered very little after the incandescent moment when he had seen Red Dynan, the king, stagger and slide off his horse with a cursed Rashin arrow in his eye. Fodrun had succumbed to pure battle frenzy, leading his small knot of men directly into the Tath army’s flank, exposing all to certain death for an instant of revenge. All were now dead. All except him. And he seemed only now to have woken from a nightmare. [download]

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Statue of Limitations

Statue of Limitations

By: Tamar Myers


It is no secret that I am an S.O.B. I love living South of Broad, in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina. Mine is one of the most coveted addresses in the nation, and it is rumored that God Himself lives here although I have yet to run into Him on my daily walks. I have, however, met several people who think they fit the bill. My best friend, Wynnell Crawford, is not as lucky. She’s merely a W.O.T.A. West of the Ashley. The Ashley, of course, is one of Charleston’s two principal rivers. The other important river is the Cooper. They meet at Charleston’s famous Battery, where together they form the Atlantic Ocean. Please don’t misunderstand me. There is nothing wrong with living west of the Ashley, but unless one lives on an honest-to-goodness plantation, being a W.O.T.A. is just not as good as being an S.O.B. [download]

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Erotic Stories

Erotic Stories 

By: Stephanie Sarg

Claire finished the breakfast dishes and was on her way out the door from her upscale suburban home and into the big four wheel drive Ford Explorer. Gliding smoothly into traffic, she thought that lately shopping seemed to be her only outlet. Her husband Frank was away on business at least three nights a week, and usually more. Not to be complaining, Frank is a wonderful provider and father for her and the twins, but it seemed like they hardly ever saw each other, let alone spending any meaningful time together. As she pulled into the mall parking garage, Claire’s thoughts turned to the ad she had seen in the local newspaper OPENING FRIDAY!!! BOUDOIR LINGERIE!!! Claire had been taken by the ad immediately, and she really could use some new bras and panties. [download]

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The Best Girl

The Best Girl

By: Emma Harrison

This is it. You’re almost done, I told myself as a cold gust of wind nearly knocked me into an evergreen. One more exam and you’re home free. Well, not exactly home, but still. No studying for four whole weeks. My very fingertips tingled in anticipation or was that from the frigid cold? Either way, I couldn’t believe I was on my way to my last final of my first semester of freshman year. It was almost over. The week I had dreaded ever since midterms. And it hadn’t even been that bad. Sure, I’d spent countless hours on a hard-asgranite chair in the library, surrounded by highlighted textbooks and nursing a rank case of permanent coffee breath. And of course there were half a dozen moments when my mind had gone utterly blank and I couldn’t even remember how to spell my own name, let alone who had written The Beauty Myth or why. [download]

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Secret Justice

Secret Justice

By: James W. Huston

Pierre Lahoud stood and smiled. “At last, you have arrived,” he said to Wahamed Duar, perhaps the most hated man in the world. They embraced in a cold, distrusting, automatic manner. They crossed warily to the single table sitting in the middle of the candlelit room. Duar took the far side of the table, the side facing the single door. He sat slowly, scrutinizing everyone. His men were dispersed throughout the room, their weapons at their sides. Acacia controlled his expression of shocked disbelief. Where had Duar been? All the buildings had been searched carefully. They had been waiting for him in this abandoned building in the remote desert of Sudan for two hours how could ten men show up out of nowhere? He stood and moved slowly toward the exit. He had to transmit the signal to the American Special Forces circling overhead, waiting for this meeting, waiting to catch Duar. [download]

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

MANY YEARS LATER as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point. Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet. A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned al-chemists of Macedonia. [download]

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Compass Rose

Compass Rose

By: JohnCasey.

May sat on the first row of the bleachers, watching the boys warm up. Tom was the second-string catcher, might get in if their team got ahead by a lot. He was good behind the plate all that practice catching for Charlie in the backyard but he couldn’t hit as well as the first-string catcher. At least Charlie and Tom got to play on a team this year. Before Dick got his boat built he’d kept them busy during the summer doing chores. No games. And while Eddie Wormsley was fixing the house, they’d helped with that. Now there was some pleasure in their lives. Dick still expected them to work at something that brought in some money, but since he was at sea more than half the time, Charlie set his own schedule. He used the work skiff the same way Dick used to had his tongs, pots, hand lines. Tom at fourteen was an off-the-books boy at the boatyard, but they didn’t keep him half as busy as Dick used to. [download]

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Carlos Santana-The Great Hispanic Heritage

Carlos Santana-The Great Hispanic Heritage 

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek

“PROGRESS, NOT SUCCESS” Yet, it was not merely Carlos Santana’s impressive accomplishments as a musician that the Latin Academy wanted to commemorate that August evening in Los Angeles. In choosing him as its Person of the Year, the Academy was also paying. tribute to Carlos Santana’s outstanding humanitarian achievements. In 1998, Carlos and his wife of more than 30 years, Deborah King Santana, founded the Milagro Foundation to assist underprivileged children and teenagers around the globe in the areas of education, health, and the arts. (Milagro is Spanish for “miracle.”) Almost entirely funded by the Santanas, since its creation the Milagro Foundation has provided more than $2 million to agencies and charities in dozens of countries. [download]

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Einstein Defiant-Genius Versus Genius in The Quantum Revolution

Einstein Defiant-Genius Versus Genius in The Quantum Revolution 

By: Edmund Blair Bolles

In 1918 Albert Einstein’s face did not yet capture the living union of tragedy with genius. His hair had yet to shoot crazily from his broad, serious brow, and his eyes did not yet laugh and x-ray at the same time. He was still decades away from sticking out his tongue at a camera. Instead, photos from that period show a man not quite 40 years old who seemed firmly settled into middle age. His hair had gone gray; his eyes had lost some sparkle that had been evident in pictures taken only four years earlier. Anybody who saw him the day he rode a tram to the Reichstag probably took him to be just one more exhausted burgher looking for food in a starving city. Outside Einstein’s tram window,Berlinwas cracking open like Humpty Dumpty. Until recently people had thought the Great War was going well. [download]

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A Ticket To The Circus-A Memoir

A Ticket To The Circus-A Memoir 

By: Norris Church Mailer

Every evening at six, after an afternoon of writing in our studios, Norman and I would meet in the bar next to the living room for a glass of wine. We’d look out at the sea and the boats in Provincetown Harbor, watch the gulls, and talk. After a lifetime of booze bourbon and gin and rum, scotch and vodka now Norman liked red wine mixed with orange juice, a mild sangria punch, while I sipped a dry Kir on ice soda pop wines, a taste of sweet, a drop of alcohol, to help us unwind. Those were hard, slow days, the last days of summer 2007. Norman was still writing, but fighting to breathe, and I had my problems, too. Eternity was on our minds a lot of the time when we talked. [download]

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Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution

Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution 

By: Randal Keynes 

A CHILD’S WRITING CASE. The pale yellow ribbon curled inside is stitched with small glass beads. The goosefeather quills have dried ink on their tips, and the sealing wax has been melted over a candle flame. On the ribbon and the quills lies a fold of paper with a thick lock of fine brown hair. On the paper is written “April 23rd 1851.” And on a leaf torn from a pocketbook is a map of a churchyard: “Annie Darwin’s grave at Malvern.” The writing case was Annie’s, and is filled with her things. She was Charles and Emma Darwin’s first daughter. She died when she was ten. Charles wrote a “memorial” of her, and Emma kept the case to remember her by. It was passed down to my father, one of their great grandsons. [download]

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Chicano

Chicano 

By: Richard Vasquez

In the early 1970s, my cousin Mario Castaneda often visited my family’s home in Los Angeles along with his wife and young children. He ’d arrive, as usual, unannounced (Chicano style, Mario would say), and my parents would hastily prepare a snack and bring out cans of pop for the kids. I looked forward to Mario’s visits because he was the only member of our extended family with long hair and who wore bell bottom jeans. He also spoke in a tongue largely foreign to our household, one that connected us to a particular culture Chicano radical chic, let’s say that my parents could never indulge. “Qué pasa, homes?” Mario would greet me. “How’s my little primo doing in la escuela?” He delivered lines like these while cocking his head back slightly to emphasize his Chicanocool detachment. [download]

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Economic Principles of Law

Economic Principles of Law 

By: Cento Veljanovski

Economic Principles of Law applies economics to the doctrines, rules and remedies of the common law. In plain English and using nontechnical analysis, it offers an introduction and exposition of the ‘economic approach’ to law one of the most exciting and vibrant fields of legal scholarship and applied economics. Beginning with a brief history of the field, it sets out the basic economic concepts useful to lawyers and applies these to assess the core areas of the common law property, contract, tort and crime with particular emphasis on their doctrinal structure and remedies. This is done using leading cases drawn from the birthplace of the common law (England and Wales) and other common law jurisdictions. The book serves as a primer to the wider use of economics which has become increasingly important for law students, lawyers, legislators, regulators and those concerned with our legal system generally. [download]

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International Economics-Theory and Policy

International Economics-Theory and Policy

By: Paul R. Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld

You could say that the study of International trade and finance is where the discipline of economics as we know it began. Historians of economics thought often describe the essay of the balance of trade” by the Scottish philosopher David Hume as the first real exposition of an economic model. Hume published his essay in 1758, almost 20 years before his friend Adam Smith published The Weaalth of Nations. And the debates over British trade policy in the early nineteenth century did much to convert economics from a discursive, informal field to the model oriented subject it has been ever since. Yes the study of international economics has never been as important as it is now. [download]

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Encyclopedia of Political Economy

Encyclopedia of Political Economy 

By: Phillip Anthony O’Hara

Through the writing of original articles, this fully refereed A to Z Encyclopedia  of  Political Economy seeks to document the current state of knowledge in political economy in a succinct and eloquent manner. Special emphasis is placed on work undertaken during the 1960s–90s. The 1960s and 1970s saw a renaissance of interest in political economy and further developments have occurred into the 1980s and 1990s. There are now dozens of journals, and hundreds of books being published every year in political economy. The time is ripe to document this explosion of knowledge in a scholarly and accessible fashion as we look towards the twenty first century. Some of the material is based on pre-1960s developments; some is a synthesis of old and new; [download]

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Principles of Microeconomics

Principles of Microeconomics

By: N. Gregory Mankiw


“Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” So wrote Alfred Marshall, the great 19th-century economist, in his textbook, Principles of Economics. Although we have learned much about the economy since Marshall’s time, this definition of economics is as true today as it was in 1890, when the first edition of his text was published. Why should you, as a student at the beginning of the 21st century, embark on the study of economics? There are three reasons. The first reason to study economics is that it will help you understand the world in which you live. There are many questions about the economy that might spark your curiosity. Why are apartments so hard to find in New York City? Why do airlines charge less for a round-trip ticket if the traveler stays over a Saturday night? Why is Johnny Depp paid so much to star in movies? These are just a few of the questions that a course in economics will help you answer. [download]

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Principles of Macroeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics

By: N. Gregory Mankiw


Why have some countries experienced rapid growth in incomes over the past century while others stay mired in poverty? Why do some countries have high rates of inflation while others maintain stable prices? Why do all countries experience recessions and depressions recurrent periods of falling incomes and rising unemployment and how can government policy reduce the frequency and severity of these episodes? Macroeconomics, the study of the economy as a whole, attempts to answer these and many related questions. To appreciate the importance of macroeconomics, you need only read the newspaper or listen to the news. Every day you can see headlines such as INCOME GROWTH SLOWS, FED MOVES TO COMBAT INFLATION, or STOCKS FALL AMID RECESSION FEARS. Although these macroeconomic events may seem abstract, they touch all of our lives.Business executives forecasting the demand for their products must guess how fast consumers’ incomes will grow. [download]

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Great Sex Tips

Great Sex Tips 

By: Anne Hooper 

Increase erotic enjotment with this sexy little book packed with hot ideas to inspire and arouse. Heighten passion and enhance lovemaking skills with Anne Hooper’s adventurous guide to erotic tricks and techniques. Guaranted totantalize, the tips cover the full spectrum of sexual experience, from saucy seduction to spine tingling foreplay and fantasy. Fun and Sassy, with vivid color photos of the techniques in action, Great Sex Tips will encourage. You expand your sexual repertoir and become a bold, provocative and imaginative lover. [download]

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Men, Sex and Relationship

Men, Sex and Relationship 

Edited By: Victor J. Seidler

Men have grown up to identify with the public world of work. We have learned to be independent and self-sufficient. We have learned to go it alone and to do without the help of others. We have learned to identify with our work, even when it is not a matter of finding personal fulfilment but simply earning a wage. Class, racial and ethnic differences are obviously significant in men’s relationships to work, but male identity is in general an identity which is wrought within the public realm. Often there is little that prepares us for relationships, for in learning to be self-sufficient we learn to do without others. Often our very sense of male identity is sustained through our capacity for not needing the help of others. We learn to take pride in our selfsufficiency and we experience it as a sign of weakness to need the help of others. [download]

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My Secret Garden

My Secret Garden 

By: Nancy Friday

I began to be interested in sexual fantasies several years ago when I realized how much you could learn about the person you love by examining his or her fantasies. For it is pretty certain that sexual fantasies do reflect one’s secret vision of ideal sexual activity. That doesn’t mean I think you should take your lover’s dreams literally (most fantasies feature highly exaggerated behaviour), but you should become aware that buried in his or her favourite sexual fantasy is a core of desire to experience a special psychological attitude or activity and the accompanying physical sensations. You won’t really know your lover until you have unearthed those hidden desires. Nor will you have achieved complete trust and intimacy until you have been able to share your fantasies with each other and have them accepted. Perhaps this book will break the barrier of silence. [download]

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Society of The Mind

Society of The Mind

 

By: Eric L. Harry

 

two pictures, side by side. On the right, a surgeon was seated at a computer terminal. On the left, a robotic arm held an electro stimulator an inch above the shiny surface of the patient’s cerebral cortex. The picture of the exposed brain switched to a close-up, and there were gasps and moans of “o-o-u” from the undergraduates. “There won’t be any gore,” Laura said to quiet the disturbance. “The surgeon is going to locate the correct entry point for the incision by testing the responses of the patient to stimulation of particular areas of the brain.” “All right, Doug,” the surgeon’s voice came over the television speaker. “Johns Hopkins” appeared under the crystalline image of a man who was wearing a white lab coat and staring at his computer monitor. [download]

 

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The Ab Smart Fitness Plan

The Ab Smart Fitness Plan 

By: Adam Weiss, D.C.

How often have you admired the midsection of a model on a magazine cover or on TV? No question, a well defined set of abs is appealing. But just wanting a six-pack isn’t enough. You’ve got to put together the right combination of exercises, determine the number of sets and repetition ranges to perform, and train the muscles frequently enough to elicit results and just about everyone has a different opinion about what works best! Moreover, it’s not as if you can just do the exercises and be done; you have to watch what you put into your mouth and burn enough calories to see your results. Women and men have been trying to lose weight and get their waistlines flatter, smaller, and stronger for years. Their reasons vary: some want to look and feel better to become more appealing and attractive, others take up exercising their midsection because they hope to prevent back pain, and some people do it as conditioning for sporting events. [download]

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The A to Z of The Coptic Church

The A to Z of The Coptic Church 

By: Gawdat Gabra

Today’s Copts, members of the Coptic Orthodox Church, comprise the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Unofficial sources estimate their number at 9 million or more. The term “Copt” and the adjective “Coptic” derive from qibt, an abbreviated, Arabic transliteration of the Greek word for the indigenous inhabitants of Egypt (Άίγυπτος)/“aigyptioi” (Egyptians), itself a phonetic corruption of ancient Egyptian “Hikaptah,” a name for Memphis, the ancient capital at the apex of the Nile Delta. After the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, the term qibt came to distinguish the native Christians from the Muslim Arabs. When the majority of Egyptians converted to Islam during the following centuries, they naturally ceased to be Christians (qibt). [download]

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Revolution of The Heart

Revolution of The Heart 

By: Haiyan Lee

Before I comment on Liu’s preface, let me turn to an article by the anthropologist Sulamith Potter on the cultural construction of emotion in ruralChina. In this article, Potter contrasts the privileged status of emotion in western societies to the Chinese devaluation of emotion as a social force. Speaking reflectively, Potter reminds us that one of “our” most basic assumptions about emotion is that it is the legitimizing basis of all social relationships and social actions. We believe that social relationships are formed and sustained on the basis of emotion, and that any relationship that is not founded on emotional authenticity is impoverished and doomed to dissolution. We therefore invest great amounts of time, money, and eƒort to initiate, maintain, and fortify emotional ties, and we place a high premium on the expression and enactment of personal feelings. [download]

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The Genius of China-3000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention

The Genius of China-3000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention

By: Dr. Joseph Needham

One of the greatest untold secret of history is that the “Modern World’s” in which we live is a unique synthesis of Chinese and western ingridients. Possibly more than half of the basic inventions and discoveries upon which the “Modern World” rest come from Chinaand yet few people know this, Why?. The Chinese themselves are as ignorant of this fact as Westerners. From the seventeenth  century, the Chinese became increasingly dazzed by European technological expertise, having experienced a period of  amnesia regarding their own achivements. When the Chinese were shown a mechanical clock by Jesuit missionaries, they were awestruck, forgetting that it was they  who had invented mechanical clocks in the first place. [download]

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The Last Utopia-Human Rights in History

The Last Utopia-Human Rights in History 

By: Samuel Moyn

When people hear the phrase “human rights,” they think of the highest moral precepts and political ideals. And they are right to do so. They have in mind a familiar set of indispensable liberal freedoms, and sometimes more expansive principles of social protection. But they also mean something more. The phrase implies an agenda for improving the world, and bringing about a new one in which the dignity of each individual will enjoy secure international protection. It is a recognizably utopian program: for the political standards it champions and the emotional passion it inspires, this program draws on the image of a place that has not yet been called into being. It promises to penetrate the impregnability of state borders, slowly replacing them with the authority of international law. [download]

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From The Gracchi To Nero-A History of Rome

From The Gracchi To Nero-A History of Rome

By: H.H. Scullard

Carthage and Corinth, two great cities of the ancient world, crashed to their ruin amid smoke and flame in 146 B.C., destroyed and sacked by Roman troops. Thirteen years later a Roman tribune, Tiberius Gracchus, was clubbed to death in a fracas led by an ex-consul. These tragic episodes showed clearly that Rome’s power throughout the Mediterranean world was dominant and unchallengeable, but that her internal stability was weakened and threatened. She was gaining the whole world: must she at the same time lose her own soul? Could a city-state govern an empire? Could Rome adapt her institutions to meet the challenge of her increasing responsibilities? Above all, could she produce sufficient men of insight and goodwill who would persuade both the governing class and people to face squarely the pressing problems of the day and to seek solutions for the common good even when this might involve some sacrifice of individual gain by leaders and common man alike?. [download]

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Making Sense of Change Management

Making Sense of Change Management

By: Esther Cameron and Mike Green

This book is about making sense of change management. The world we live in continues to change at an intense rate. Not a day goes by, it seems, without another important discovery or boundary-pushing invention in the scientific fields. The economics of globalization seems to dominate much of our political and corporate thinking, while the shadow side of globalization refugees, exploitation, terrorism and the like develops at an equally alarming pace. The rate of change and discovery outpaces our individual ability to keep up with it. The organizations we work in or rely on to meet our needs and wants are also changing dramatically, in terms of their strategies, their structures, their systems, their boundaries and of course their expectations of their staff and their managers. [download]

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Strategy By Design-A Process of Strategy Innovation

Strategy By Design-A Process of Strategy Innovation 

By: James Carlopio

Organizational strategy is typically conceived and developed as an extension of the past and present. We analyze the market, the competition, the industry, and our internal resources and capabilities. We then reposition ourselves in existing m arkets or we extend our product/services into developing or adjacent markets. The future is assumed to be a linear extension of the past and present, and our rational analytical techniques help us to do this well. What happens, however, when the future is not a linear extension of the past and present? What happens when we want to innovate and reinvent our business model, our industry, or our world? How can we radically add value and provide high quality at low cost? How can we reinvent the ailing automobile industry or the air travel experience? [download]

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Contemporary Financial Management

Contemporary Financial Management 

By: Moyer – McGuigan – Kretlow

The financial management field continues to experience exciting change and growth. Financial practitioners are increasingly employing new financial management techniques and sophisticated computer resources to aid in their decision making. “Financial engineers” have created new derivative financial instruments and transactions, such as options, financial futures contracts, options on futures contracts, foreign currency swaps, and interest rate swaps, to help managers manage risk and increase shareholder wealth. Many domestic industries have been restructured because of the pressures of foreign competition. Leveraged buyout transactions also have forced managers to make more careful use of their firm’s resources. Corporate reformers have focused attention on the structure of corporate governance relationships and the impact of alternative managerial compensation packages on firm performance. [download]

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The Big Book of Marketing

The Big Book of Marketing

Edited By: Anthony G. Bennett

Why does anyone choose to buy one product instead of another? Why does one product succeed (making billions of dollars) and another languish (losing money)? Product providers of goods and service are constantly in search of new tools to make their product the successful product, the one that sells. These tools are collectively called marketing. A dynamic marketing effort can make the difference for a product and propel a company into the billion-dollar category. Why did customers around the world, who typically watch action films, flock to see Paramount Picture’s The First Wives Club, a romantic comedy? Why did customers who were happy using steel tennis rackets buy Wilson’s new carbon fiber racket?. [download]

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Process Management

Process Management 

By: Hans de Bruijn 

In recent years, the world of management has given considerable attention to the process aspects of management and change.Many changers define their own role as that of a process manager, process supervisor or facilitator. A frequently heard complaint about change processes is that too little attention is paid to the process (and too much complainantsadd to the substance). This attention for process management tends to be based on a distinction between substantive and process aspects of changes. Substantive aspects concern the question what changes are desirable, process aspects concern the manner how these changes can be recognized and implemented. In many cases, the substantive aspects of change are found to be so complex that express and targeted attention for the process aspects is necessary to complete a change process successfully. [download]

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Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management

By: Danny P. Wallace

Knowledge management (KM) gained prominence during the 1990s as an innovative approach to redirecting the energies and activities of organizations by enhancing the generation, flow, and use of internal knowledge. Knowledge management has generally been presented as transformative in nature and fundamentally different from prior models for organizational management. In particular, knowledge management has been described as being radically different from information management and especially different from information technology management. Knowledge management is frequently presented as a recent development born entirely of the business world. Gamble and Blackwell, writing in 2001, described knowledge management as having “come to the fore over the last 8–10 years.” [download]

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International Marketing-Analysis and Strategy

International Marketing-Analysis and Strategy

By: Sak Onkvisit and John Shaw


A study of international marketing should begin with an understanding of what marketing is and how it operates in an international context. A definition adopted by the AMA (American Marketing Association) is used as a basis for the definition of international marketing given here: international marketing is the multinational process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives. Only the word multinational has been added. That word implies that marketing activities are undertaken in several countries and that such activities should somehow be coordinated across nations. [download]

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Collective Intelligence-Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Collective Intelligence-Creating a Prosperous World at Peace 

Edited By: Mark Tovey

This book is not about collective intelligence as an abstraction, but collective intelligence directed towards a specific end. It attempts to get some traction on difficulties that seem almost impossible to address dealing with poverty and hunger, corruption and terrorism, climate change and resource shortages while at the same time building a more livable and less violent world. The problems that face humanity are trans-institutional. They are not problems that can be solved by governments alone. Only through coordinated cooperation between governments, universities, corporations, and NGOs, can we hope to make a dent in the acute challenges that face us. This involves bridging diverse viewpoints. When we are dealing with as many points of view as are expressed in such institutions, facilitated discussions can be very helpful. [download]

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The Zahiris-Brill Classics in Islam

The Zahiris-Brill Classics in Islam 

By: Dr. Ignaz Goldziher

This reprint of the English translation of Ignaz Goldziher’s monograph on the Zahiri or literalist school of law is indicative of the lasting interest in the oeuvre of this grand master of oriental studies on the one hand, and a renewed interest in the Zahihirs on the other. Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921) was somewhat of a legend already in his own lifetime, and the interest in his work and his person has never waned. Regarded by many as the one who almost single-handedly laid the foundations of the study of Islam as an independent academic discipline, he wrote a series of ground breaking works covering virtually all aspects of that religion, such as law, exegesis, theology, sectarianism, and relations with other faiths, besides Arabic language and literature. [download]

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The Madame Curie Complex

The Madame Curie Complex

By: Julie Des Jardins

some fathers tell their kids about mythical home run hitters who won the World Series, or of courageous expeditions to Antarctica or the moon. My father’s story to me was about Enrico Fermi and the scientists who created a nuclear chain reaction beneath the stands of the football stadium at the University of Chicago during World War II. As a lifelong Chicagoan, Dad preferred this story to those about heroic men at Los Alamos. It was at this moment under Stagg Field, he believed, that brilliant men had convened for some greater scientific purpose. The only story as awe inspiring was the one he told of the Founding Fathers, who converged on Philadelphia in 1776 to establish, as Dad put it, the most enlightened democracy in the world. [download]

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Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You

Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You 

By: Dorian Cironne

I and find a naked guy on her bed, especially when naked Christine. It isn’t every day you walk into your sister’s bedroom that guy is your best friend, Joey. Now that I’ve gotten your attention it’s not what you’re thinking. But isn’t it amazing what happens when you hear the word ? The thing I didn’t mention is that my sister, Paterson, is an artist, and her bedroom doubles as a studio. My parents named her that because she was conceived in a Paterson, New Jersey, motel room about eighteen years ago. When she was younger, she used to ask why she couldn’t have a normal name, like Ashley or Christine . “You were lucky,” my mother would say. “If your father had taken another road, you could have been named Secaucus Callaway.” [download]

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A Gate At The Stairs

A Gate At The Stairs 

By: Lorrie Moore

The cold came late that fall and the songbirds were caught off guard. By the time the snow and wind began in earnest, too many had been suckered into staying, and instead of 􀀜ying south, instead of already having flown south, they were huddled in people’s yards, their feathers puffed for some modicum of warmth. I was looking for a job. I was a student and needed babysitting work, and so I would walk from interview to interview in these attractive but wintry neighborhoods, the eerie multitudes of robins pecking at the frozen ground, dungray and stricken though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken until at last, late in my search, at the end of a week, startlingly, the birds had disappeared. [download]

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Adventures of An Ice Princess

Adventures of An Ice Princess 

By: Liz Maverick

There are few things more humiliating in a woman’s life than having an engagement party thrown in her honor when the man in question hasn’t proposed. As she stood blushing violently in the doorway of the office conference room, Clarissa Schneckberg tried to look on the bright side of the situation. Although it was much, much worse than the typical fast-resolving, base-model public humiliation (say, walking around all day with something stuck to your ass), it was considerably better than the sort of lifechanging disaster which might involve an unwitting female in some combination of excessive nudity, a police chase, and a national television broadcast. It didn’t take long to assess what she faced. Kate had clearly told everyone that the engagement was a done deal. [download]

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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley 

Edited By: John Simonds and Kenneth Grant 

When Alick was about six years old his father moved from Leamington to Redhill, Surrey. There was some reason connected with a gravel soil and country life. The house was called The Grange. It stood in a large long garden ending in woods which overhung the road between Redhill and Merstham; about a mile, perhaps a little more, from Redhill. Alick lived here until 1886 and his memory of this period is of perpetual happiness. He remembers with the utmost clearness innumerable incidents and it becomes hard to select those which possess significance. He was taught by tutors; but they have faded, though their lessons have not. He was very thoroughly grounded in geography, history, Latin and arithmetic. His cousin, Gregor Grant, six years older than himself, was a constant visitor. [download]

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The Kitchen Witch

The Kitchen Witch 

By: Annette Blair

LOGAN Kilgarven plucked a bright red leaf off the sleek black hearse in his neighbor’s driveway. “What if she really is a witch?” Jessie Harris laughed as she buffed the chrome hood ornament. “Melody Seabright is no more a witch than I am.” “Jess, I only moved into the apartment above her a couple of days ago, and already I’ve heard that she’s flighty, unpredictable, and quite possibly a witch. After all that, you still think I should ask her to baby-sit?” Jessie straightened, raised a speaking brow, and gazed at him through the top of her bifocals. “What would have happened to you,” she asked, “if I had believed what people said about the town bad boy when you stood before me in juvenile court all those years ago?”. [download]

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