Life Coaching for Dummies

Life Coaching for Dummies 

By: Jeni Purdie

Afew years ago I left my well-paid and prestigious job with a global corporation to venture into the scary world of self-employment as a life coach. Many of my colleagues who I’d come to know and love over the years wished me well and asked exactly what I’d be doing. ‘Well,’ said I, ‘I suppose what I’m really interested in is inspiring people to find the right balance, enjoyment, and meaning in their lives.’ ‘Oh,’ they replied, and a faraway look came into their eyes, ‘I could really do with some of that.’ Then their gaze focused back on their overflowing desk and the ringing phone. ‘But I don’t see how I can possibly give up my job.’ And they smiled, reached for the phone, and did what they knew they did best. I found their response very interesting because it summed up the precise feelings I’d wrestled with for three long years before finally taking my personal plunge. [download]

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Living Dairy Free for Dummies

Living Dairy Free for Dummies 

By: Suzanne Havala Hobbs

Why would anyone think that humans need milk from a cow to be healthy? After all, milk is tailor-made for the species it came from. Dogs drink milk from dog mothers, and giraffes drink milk from giraffe mothers. And cow’s milk, for example, is formulated to help calves grow and develop an enormous skeleton in a matter of several months. Human skeletons are small in comparison to cow skeletons, so why would a human need milk that’s formulated for fast, enormous bone growth? Humans are designed to get nourishment from human mothers when they’re infants. Human milk contains the nutrients they need in the amounts they need for the growth and development of the human body (not the cow body). The milk-drinking phase doesn’t last long either a year to a few years, at most. [download]

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Jewelry & Beading Design for Dummies

Jewelry & Beading Design for Dummies 

By: Heather H. Dismore

We love making jewelry and beading. We spend hours creating pieces for ourselves, our families and friends, and a few customers here and there. We think you can absolutely find the same joy and satisfaction by pursuing this exciting and versatile craft. If you have some experience with creating jewelry, Jewelry & Beading Designs For Dummies can help you take your skills to the next level. We give you projects of increasing difficulty to help you build on the foundation you have. We help you experiment with skills you may not think to try on your own, all the while coaching you along with step-by-step instructions. We hope this book inspires you to build up your bead supply so you’re ready to create when inspiration strikes. And we want you to have the confidence to create your own custom pieces by altering or building on the designs and easy to follow instructions we provide. [download]

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Classical Mythology

Classical Mythology

By: William Hansen

On a hot day some twenty-five centuries ago, Socrates and one of his companions, Phaidros, were walking alongside the cool stream of the Ilissos outside the walls ofAthens. “Tell me, Socrates,” said Phaidros, “wasn’t it from the Ilissos somewhere around here that Boreas is said to have carried off Oreithyia?” He was thinking of the myth according to which a daughter of the king of Athenswas playing on the banks of the stream when suddenly the god of the north wind abducted her, carrying her off to his northerly kingdom. “Yes, that’s what they say.” “Was it from here, then?” “No,” Socrates replied, “the spot is actually some distance downstream, at the place where you cross over to the precinct of Agra. There is an altar of Boreas somewhere around there.” Phaidros asked if Socrates believed the story was true. [download]

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Chancengerechtigkeit im Gesundheitssystem

Chancengerechtigkeit im Gesundheitssystem

By: Carsten Wippermann

Gesundheit ist eine wichtige Vor aussetzung für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe in einem umfassenden Sinne, die auch die Partizipation an Kultur, Politik, Arbeitsmarkt, Wirtschaft, Wohlstand und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung etc. einschließt. Daher hat Gesundheit bei den meisten Menschen einen hohen Stellenwert. So gilt Gesundheit als ein fundamentales Gut, im Verständnis vieler Menschen sogar als eines der höchsten Güter überhaupt. Die hohe Wertschätzung von Gesundheit geht allerdings in vielen Fällen nicht mit einer gesundheitsbewussten Lebensweise einher. Es besteht vielmehr bei vielen Menschen eine erhebliche Diskrepanz zwischen der ideellen Wertschätzung von Gesundheit und der täglichen Lebensführung. Aus gesellschaftlicher Sicht stellt sich Gesundheit als ein wichtiger humanitärer Faktor dar. Darin begründet sich die Fürsorgep. [download]

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Brutal

Brutal 

By: Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas

By South Bostonstandards, my childhood was surprisingly normal. I grew up in the Old Colony Housing Project, the fifth in a family of six kids, with two older brothers, two older sisters, and one younger sister. The odds were good with a family of six in Southie that one would run afoul of the law. I was that one. Our apartment on 8 Pilsudski Way, apartment 554, was about 1,200 square feet, with four small bedrooms, a parlor, and a kitchen. My par­ents were in one bedroom; we three boys were in the other. My older sis­ter Maureen had her own bedroom, and Patty and Karen shared theirs. I was born on March 21, 1956, and, at fifty, am two years older than Karen, who is the youngest of the six of us. Billy, at fifty-eight, is the old­est. [download]

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Blake and Conflict

Blake and Conflict 

By: Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee 

For the majority of William Blake’s life, Britainwas a nation at war. Countries, ideologies and individuals clashed in the ferment of the American, French and Industrial Revolutions.Britainexperienced unprecedented levels of mobilization, chronic food shortages, riots and the repression of civil liberties in ‘Pitt’s terror’. Blake recoiled with horror from ‘the English Crusade against France’ and the consequences of living in a militarized state, where freedom seemed to be crushed under ‘the Iron Wheels of War’ (‘Anns. to Watson’, E613; Jerusalem, 22: 34, E168). Yet Blake’s works do not figure conflict simply as a destructive force. If the first plate of the illuminated book Milton decried attempts to ‘prolong Corporeal War’, it also accused ‘the Camp, the Court, & the University’ of seeking to ‘depress mental [War]’ (E95). [download]

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Java Game Programming for Dummies

Java Game Programming for Dummies 

By: Wayne Holder

This book shows you the techniques that make games tick, and gives you dozens of working Java code examples. In addition, each example is backed up by detailed explanations that fully deconstruct the code so that you can see how everything works. You can start from these working examples and customize them, use the parts to create entirely new games, or simply use them as a source of ideas for writing your own custom game code. While this book does, where necessary, discuss a little theory, the real heart of the book is intended more like a hands-on auto shop class than a physics lecture. After all, understanding how a water pump works is a lot easier if you can hold one in your hand and see where it fits on a real car engine. Likewise, understanding game code is a lot easier if you can examine each part of the code in detail and see where it fits in the overall structure of a working program. [download]

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IT Architecture for Dummies

IT Architecture for Dummies
 

By: Kalani Kirk Hausman 

The enterprise begins when you carefully put the first two computers together, and complexity grows with every step thereafter. Haphazard IT building practices can easily lead to an enterprise network that is poorly planned or composed of random, one-off projects undertaken as standalone goals. An e-mail consolidation project can unexpectedly derail concurrent licensing projects intended to vastly reduce expensive software licensing costs by carving the authentication domain into separate silos unable to share resources. A server virtualization project may run into difficulties if not coordinated properly with server consolidation projects to make sure that sufficient bandwidth and host resources are available when systems are transferred from physical to virtual states. [download]

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IBM Workplace Services Express for Dummies

IBM Workplace Services Express for Dummies 

By: Stephen R. Londergan

First off, thanks for buying your copy of IBM Workplace Services Express For Dummies. The intent of this book is to provide you with an introduction to and overview of IBM Workplace Services Express (WSE). WSE is a fairly new product (it came upon the world at the end of 2004) that helps teams (both big and small) work together, collaboratively and in real time, to get projects of all kinds (both big and small) done. What’s most exciting, in my humble opinion, about WSE is how it puts so many tools and technologies in the hands of small and medium-sized businesses tools and technologies that have been traditionally only available to large enterprise companies. WSE can help a little guy feel like one of the big guys. [download]  

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Kabbalistic Handbook for The Practicing Magician

Kabbalistic Handbook for The Practicing Magician

By: Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D. 

There are many fields of investigation and experimentation that fall under the general heading of Occultism: from general scrying to scrying in Spirit Vision; from Divination and its two most popular forms, the Tarot and the Pendulum, to the less used Geomantic Divination; from methods and techniques for developing the openly declared psychic functions of telepathy, concentration, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and telekinesis, to astral projection, mental projection, and mediumship; from magic in all of its broadband spectral majesty, to its specific practices of invocation and evocation, planetary and talismanic magic, Sephirotic and Path working investigations, to name but a few of the areas within the magical arts proper. All of these occult designated realms are, perhaps surprisingly, addressed by the Kabbalah. For instance, one may not ses how the faculties of telekinesis and telepathy could be covered by Kabbalistic doctrine. [download]

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All About The Foreign Exchange Market in The United State

All About The Foreign Exchange Market in The United State

By: Sorn Y. Cross

Each of these publications presents a lucid and informed picture of the foreign exchange market and how it operates, filled with rich insights and reflecting a profound understanding of the market and its complex mechanisms. Roger Kubarych’s report, written twenty years ago, provided a valuable analysis of the foreign exchange market that is still read and widely appreciated by persons interested in gaining a deeper understanding of that market. But the foreign exchange market is always changing, always adapting to a shifting world economy and financial environment. The metamorphosis of the 1980s and ‘90s in both finance and technology has changed the structure of the market and its operations in profound ways. It is useful to reexamine the foreign exchange market from today’s perspective. [download]

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Half Life 2 Mods for Dummies

Half Life 2 Mods for Dummies 

By: Erik Guilfoyle

If this is your first time venturing into the world of game modding, let me post a warning now: You are entering into something that many people (including me) have described as addicting, exciting, and frustrating all at the same time. I know very few people who started on the path of game modification and found it easy to stop working on their projects for even a few days. If you’re experienced in game modification, you already know what you’re getting yourself into. Either way, I welcome you to Half-Life 2 Mods For Dummies. I’ve lead many beginners along the path of game modification, and they all say the same thing: This is an addictive hobby, and it isn’t easy to put down even for the night. On several occasions, I’ve sat down in my computer chair to work on my game, planning to accomplish only a few things. [download]

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Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg for Dummies

Growing Your Own Fruit & Veg for Dummies

By: Geoff Stebbings

Gardening is an exciting journey. Every year is different: growing something new, experimenting with new varieties, and experiencing all that the British weather can throw at you (perfect weather one year and rotten weather the next!). No matter how many years you spend in the garden, you never get to know everything and you can always improve. But with every year you gain more experience, and the successes you have make your yearning for knowledge get even stronger. Growing your own crops gets you outside in the open air and gives you plenty of exercise. More importantly, growing crops gets you back in touch with the seasons and with nature something that modern living has moved us away from. You experience the near miracle of seeds germinating. You nurture your seedlings and young plants, do your best for them, battle against their enemies, enjoy the abundance of your plants, and finally feed your body with food that’s fresh and richer in nutrients than anything you can buy. [download]

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Herb Gardening for Dummies

Herb Gardening for Dummies

By: Karan Davis Cutler

You’ve probably already decided that you want to grow herbs, so we’ll keep this introduction short and sweet so that you can dive right into the more important and exciting stuff. But just in case you need a little more convincing, here are a few compelling reasons to try your hand at growing herbs: ✓ Herbs are versatile. As a group, herbs are both ornamental and practical, beautiful and useful. Most are fragrant, many taste good, and some are highly nutritious. Plus, they’re just plain interesting many have colorful names and equally colorful lore associated with them. ✓ You get the freshest harvest. There’s a big difference between herbs plucked fresh from the garden and the dried herbs sitting for who knows how long on the grocery store shelf. [download]

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All About Market Indicators

All About Market Indicators 

By: Michael Sincere

Why did professional trader and Market Wizard Linda Raschke move completely out of the stock market three days before a major crash? And what motivated Fred Hickey, a Barron’s Roundtable participant and editor of a monthly investment newsletter, to send out an alert to his subscribers three months before an October crash? And why did economist Bernard Baumohl recommend going long in the midst of one of the greatest recessions since the Great Depression? Is it luck or is it really possible to forecast what the market will do next? By the time you finish All About Market Indicators, you’ll have an answer. In this book, you’ll be taking an entertaining and educational journey. Along the way, you’ll meet a lot of fascinating people with different opinions about how to use market indicators. Some of the people you’ll meet use indicators to trade and invest, others create their own, and many do both. [download]

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All About Stocks

All About Stocks 

By: Esme Faerber

There are many compelling reasons why investors should invest in common stocks. For one, people are living longer and are going to need more money for retirement, and for medical and other expenses. Consequently, they are going to have to save more and invest it in assets that earn satisfactory rates of return to fund these increasing expenses. The key to success is to set aside more for savings and then invest it wisely. Investments are made to generate future purchasing power that will keep ahead of inflation and provide investors with a sense of financial security. If rates of return earned on these. investments are meager, this sense of security can quickly change to a sense of frustration. In order to generate future purchasing power, rates of return need to exceed the rate of inflation and cover the taxes paid on the earnings. [download]

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Football for Dummies

Football for Dummies 

By: Scott Muray

Congratulations! You’ve got a copy of Football For Dummies in your hands. This book has been written specially for people who want to know all they can about the greatest and most popular sport on the planet: association football. Football For Dummies aims to satisfy your curiosity, help you to understand the basics of how to play the game, arm you with knowledge so you can enjoy watching it to the full and show you that you have a whole world of football to be explore. There’s a reason football has taken off all around the globe, after all! Millions are passionate about the sport, from fans of the ‘beautiful game’ inBrazil to lovers of ‘soccer’ in theUS. And none more so than fans in the British Isles, where the game as you know it today took off back in the mid 1800s. It’s the simplest of sports in principle in the final analysis. [download]

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Genetics for Dummies

Genetics for Dummies

By: Tara Rodden Robinson

Genetics affects every aspect of life on earth. As a science, it’s one of the fastest growing fields because it has untold potential for good and for ill. Although complicated and diverse, all genetics comes down to basic principles of heredity and how DNA is put together. So it turns out that genetics, in many ways, is surprisingly accessible. Genetics is a bit like taking a peek behind a movie’s special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show. I may sound like a geek, but genetics is my favorite subject. If you’d told me I’d end up feeling this way when I took my first genetics course, I would have laughed. At first, I hated genetics (and I barely passed!). But as I learned more, I was hooked. Now, my career follows the genetics of birds in hopes of helping to conserve the natural beauty that makes our world such a wonderful place to be. [download]

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Flip Video for Dummies

Flip Video for Dummies 

By: Joe Hutsko and Drew Davidson

Your Flip is probably the easiest-to-use camcorder in the world. Just point, shoot, and copy to your computer. A few clicks later, friends, family, and even strangers around the world can view your creations on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and other sharing Web sites. Burning your movie to a DVD so that others can watch it on TV or their computer is nearly as quick and easy as the online sharing options. So why, you might wonder, would anyone need a whole book for such an easy-to-use gadget? Let me count the ways. . . . Options, baby, options. Sure you can shoot and upload your video in a few clicks. By editing your video and adding titles, credits, special effects, and a music soundtrack, however, you can make your movie more interesting to others. You’ll see how to do that in this book. Want to capture individual snapshots from your videos and then string those pictures together to create photo slideshows? It’s in here. [download]

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All About Futures

All About Futures 

By: Russel Wasendorf

Philosophers throughout the centuries have said that if God didn’t exist, man would have invented Him. The creation of futures markets may have been just about as inevitable a concept. Human beings have always had a love-hate relationship with the future: They can’t wait for things to get better, and they fear what will happen tomorrow. On a more mundane level, businesspeople have at least as much difficulty dealing with the unknown as the average person. How can they set firm prices for the products they sell or manufacture if they don’t know what they’ll have to pay for the raw materials they use? This question is at least 6,000 years old, dating back to when a futures market in rice is thought to have developed in China. By the Middle Ages there was already a sophisticated futures purchasing system for wheat and wool. [download]

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All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds

All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds 

By: Esme Faerber

People work hard for their money, and when they invest it, they expect to earn satisfactory rates of return. Money that is not spent is saved. This book is intended to assist savers with their investment options to earn satisfactory returns. There are a great number of investment alternatives, but many investors end up with the same few choices. Investments are made to generate future purchasing power that will keep ahead of inflation and provide investors with a sense of financial security. However, if rates of return earned on these investments are meager, this sense of security can quickly turn to a sense of frustration. Rates of return need to exceed the rate of inflation and cover the taxes paid on the earnings to produce positive purchasing power for investors. [download]

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Excel 2010 Just The Steps for Dummies

Excel 2010 Just The Steps for Dummies 

By: Daine Koers

Excel is like a giant accountant ledger sheet composed of a grid made up of columns and rows. At each row and column intersection is a cell. A single worksheet contains 16,374 columns across the top (stretching from column A to column XFD) and 1,048,576 rows down the side. That’s over 17 billion cells in a single worksheet. A cell address is the description of the intersection of a column and a row, such as D23 (in this example, D is the column name and 23 is the row). The Excel interface provides you with the right tools at the right time. In most Windows programs, you see menus and toolbars to select your options from. Instead of the traditional look, Excel provides icon- and button laden tabs on the Ribbon containing most Excel features. Throughout the course of this book, you discover methods to use Excel as a spreadsheet, of course; but you…[download]

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Firefighter Exam for Dummies

Firefighter Exam for Dummies 

By: Stacy L. Bell

Chances are that if you’re reading this book, you’ve thought about pursuing a career in the fire service. Good for you! Firefighting is an exhilarating career. Sure, it involves some risk, but for the most part, firefighters consider what they do honorable, rewarding, and essential for public safety. Firefighters rescue people from all manner of emergencies, including wildland fires, structure fires, floods, motor vehicle accidents, and more. They work to keep the public safe from harm. Perhaps you want to become a firefighter because you like the thought of helping people each day. Maybe you like the idea of an ever-changing work environment or you want a job that keeps you active all the time. Whatever your reason, we applaud your choice and want to help you get hired. The firefighter hiring process is unlike that of any other job. It’s much more than a job application, a resume, and an interview. [download]  

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Europe for Dummies

Europe for Dummies 

By: Wiley Publishing Inc

Finally, you’re taking that long-awaited trip to Europe. Congratulations! You’re about to embark on a great adventure, and part of you may feel a bit overwhelmed. You have lots of plans to make: where to stay, where to dine, how long to remain in each country, and which attractions to see but we can help you every step of the way. You already took the first step in the right direction by buying Europe For Dummies, 4th Edition!. You have in your possession a reference tool, not a guidebook that you have to read from cover to cover. Open up this book to any chapter to find the answers on how to make your European travel dreams come true. You can read Europe For Dummies from start to finish if you want, but if you’re already familiar with some aspects of international travel, feel free to skip over the first two parts and jump right into the destination descriptions. [download]

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Why It’s Great To Be A Girl

Why It’s Great To Be A Girl

By: Jacqueline Shannon

In the summer of 2005, my then sixteen-year-old daughter Madeline and I squealed with delight (and startled a few of our fellow theatergoers) when a girl in the sleeper-hit documentary Mad Hot Ballroom plugged my 1994 book Why It’s Great to Be a Girl. In the documentary, several groups of eleven-year-olds in mostly inner-city schools face the highs, the heartbreaks, and sometimes the humiliation of competitive ballroom dancing. In a few scenes, some of the girls are complaining about the attitudes, behaviors, and the “givens” of their male partners. “Why,” bristled one, “do THEY always get to lead?” At one point, silence. Then Emma, who the fi lm’s Web site describes as a “typical New York kid [who] always has something meaningful to say” and who “stands out as the girl who is wise beyond her years,” suddenly blurts out, “Look, I read this book called Why It’s Great to Be a Girl, and I learned that . . .” [download]  

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DIY for Dummies

DIY for Dummies

By: Jeff  Howell 

Welcome to DIY and Home Improvement All-in-One For Dummies, the only repair manual you’ll ever need. One glance through this book and you quickly see that it’s not overloaded with technical details and obscure advice that you’ll never want or need to know. Our goal was to compile a book that explains, in a fun and easy-to-understand style, how to complete a wide range of projects. This anybody-can-do-it approach appeals to fledging do-it-yourselfers and seasoned handymen and -women. We encourage you to dust off your toolbox and tackle simple repairs and improvements using our idiot-proof instructions. Basic steps and illustrations throughout the book walk you through the key points of maintaining and improving your home. These are tried-and-tested solutions to everyday home repair and improvement questions. [download]

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Droid X for Dummies

Droid X for Dummies 

By: Dan Gookin

To call the Motorola Droid X another cellphone is to do the gizmo a disservice. Sure, it can make phone calls. More than that, though, it’s a portable technology marvel. As such, the Droid X can be a daunting device. In fact, I know a lot of people who shy away from using their cellphones beyond using its basic phone features simply because of the complexity. That’s sad. The factor that’s probably most intimidating about the Droid X is that it’s a smartphone. People don’t like using devices that they believe are smarter than they are. But trust me on this one it isn’t the phone that’s smart. Nope, even though the Droid X is an amazing piece of technology, it harbors no native intelligence. The only way to prove it to you is to write a book explaining how the Droid X works and do it in an informative, relaxing, and often humorous manner, which is exactly what this book does. [download]

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Endometriosis for Dummies

Endometriosis for Dummies

By: Joseph W. Krotec and Sharon Perkins

Endometriosis is a chronic disease that, until recently, didn’t get the attention it diserves. In fact, not too long ago, medical personnel and laymen often disnissed the symptoms of endometriosis as being more psychological than physical in origin. Fortunately, times are changing, and interest in endometriosis research has never been higher. But the more researchers uncover about endometriosis, the more complicated this disease to be. For example, some researchers believe that endometriosis isn’t one, but several different diseases. And many researchers believe that endometriosis is closely related to autoimmune disease. If you are one of the millions of women suffering from endometriosis or if you suspect your symptoms are from endometriosis, you may not care much about research; you just want your symptoms to go away! We want you to feel better too. [download]

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War Poems

War Poems

By: Elbridge Jefferson Cutler

“XT OW let us raise a song of praise, like Miriam’s song of old, A song of praise to God the Lord, for bless ings manifold ! He lifteth up, He casteth down ; He bindeth, setteth free ; He sendeth grace to bear defeat ; He giveth victory ! O, hear ye how fromSomersetthe voice of triumph calls ! Hear how the echoes take it up on Henry’s conquered walls ! And wilder yet the thrilling cry : FortDonelsonis ours ! Like chaff before the roaring North fly fast the Rebel powers ; New Orleanssees her doom afar, and lifts a palsied arm, And haughty Richmond’s drunken streets are sobered with alarm ; Up Carolina’s frantic shore the tide rolls black and dire : The thunder’s voice is in its heart, its crest avenging fire ! On inland slopes and by the sea are wreck and flying foe; [download]

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Vice Presidents

Vice Presidents

By: L. Edward Purcell

This is a book of reference, and it is not intended, nor is it likely, that the biographies of all forty-seven American vice presidents will be read through from start to fi nish, from John Adams to Joseph Biden. Should readers choose to do so, however, they will discover much about the political history of our nation and the role played by the vice presidents. They will also, of course, discover a wealth of interesting facts about these men, from the titillating public innuendo about William Rufus King’s sex life to the otherworldly dreams of Henry Wallace. One of the most striking conclusions to be drawn from considering the lives of the vice presidents is the extremely high quality of the men who have borne that title. [download]

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The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India

The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India

By: Shelley Seale

There is a holocaust quietly happening amongIndia’s children. The perpetrator is poverty, and its foot soldiers are disease, gender and caste discrimination, unclean water, illiteracy, and malnutrition. Its allies are corruption, ineffective government policies, and rich industrialized nations that, in an indifferent and arrogant imbalance of global power, claim exemption from a battle fought on such far lands. While there may be no Adolf Hitler or Idi Amin behind it, make no mistake it is a holocaust all the same. While this silent war is waged against millions of children, a very different Indiais the one we see and hear about. Its emergence on the international markets with leading industries such as technology, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing have put it squarely in the center of global importance, with an astounding annual growth rate of nine percent bringing an influx of new wealth daily. [download]

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Cross Cultural Selling for Dummies

Cross Cultural Selling for Dummies

By: Michael Soon Lee, MBA.

The multicultural marketplace is on the rise and about to explode. According to theSeligCenterfor Economic Growth, total purchases by Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and Native Americans in theUnited Statesalready exceed $2 trillion annually. That figure is bigger than the economies of all but the nine largest countries in the world and is expected to rise to $3 trillion by 2011. These groups and others could become your customers if you demonstrate a sensitivity to their cultures and meet their unique needs. Unfortunately, without special knowledge, training, and practice, the average American salesperson is ill-prepared to take advantage of the opportunity. In fact, simply by sticking to their traditional sales pitches, many salespeople are destined to offend multicultural customers without ever realizing it. All they know is that the customer left all of a sudden without buying anything. [download]

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Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms for Dummies

Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms for Dummies 

By: Dr. Knut Schroeder 

Everybody develops new health problems sometimes. Often, these problems are familiar and not especially worrying. When you wake up with a slightly sore throat or get a mild headache after a long, busy day, for example, the chances are that you’ve already had this kind of thing before and you know instinctively what to do about it. You probably wait for a few days to see what happens, and in the meantime you might take some painkillers to help ease your symptoms. But what if your sore throat doesn’t settle? What if your headache gets worse rather than better? And what if you develop other additional symptoms such as vomiting or a fever? At some stage, you’re likely to start worrying about your symptoms and start thinking what to do next, and whether you should seek medical advice. [download]

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Diabetes Cookbook for Canadians for Dummies

Diabetes Cookbook for Canadians for Dummies 

By: Ian Blumer and Cynthia Payne

If you’re living with diabetes (either because you have diabetes or you have a loved one with diabetes) you likely already know that one of the most important tools to help you keep your diabetes under control is to eat healthfully. Hopefully you also know that healthy eating with diabetes doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice taste, variety, or the simple, sheer pleasure of eating well. We believe passionately that there is no such thing as a “diabetic diet.” A so-called diabetic diet is simply a nutritious, healthy eating program that balances the appropriate amounts of the key nutrients and supplies the right amount of calories for your needs. The recipes in Diabetes Cookbook For Canadians For Dummies are suitable for anyone who wants to eat healthfully, whether or not you have diabetes. The recipes are also suitable for low-fat diets and lower sodium diets as well. [download]

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The Smoking Horse: A Memoir in Pieces

The Smoking Horse: A Memoir in Pieces 

By: Stephen Spotte

The same spring I got kicked out of boarding school Larry turned seventeen and said he was joining the Air Force to fly jets. Plus his mama had just given birth again and the only place left for him to sleep was on the floor. It seemed his mama was forever nursing a baby in the one stuffed chair while his daddy, who always looked tired, leaned against the doorjamb wearing workpants and an undershirt and smoking a cigarette, his suspenders hanging loose, probably because he had nowhere to sit. Now that Larry’s daddy had literally fucked him out of a bed Larry wanted Bob and me to join up too, but Bob couldn’t because ofSharon. He said he needed to stick around. Larry told him that Sharon was an ugly bitch and mean besides; I said I was thinking about college. College? they hooted. You can’t even get through eleventh grade. [download]

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The Triple M of Organizations

The Triple M of Organizations

By: Edeltraud Hanappi

The topic of the book myth building in the world of business, specifically management seems to be particularly apposite at a time of economic crisis, when some long-accepted assumptions are being de-masked as mere myths. As several authors have already pointed out (e. g. Chalomiris 2008), the recent global econom ic calamity stemmed to a large extent from the fact that investment bankers increasingly lost contact to the real economy by playing virtual games in financial trading, a development often called securitization (see Minsky 1986). Pure speculation in the stock exchanges “worked” as long as all involved parties believed that profits were to be made, and no one questioned the underlying constitution and strength of the real market; however, as soon as the “bubble” imploded, the banks faced severe liquidity problems. [download]

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Building Your Business with Google for Dummies

Building Your Business with Google for Dummies 

By: Brad Hill 

In the Introduction of Google For Dummies I wrote, “There has never been an Internet phenomenon like Google.” The book you’re holding now doubles the truth of that statement, revealing and illuminating the hidden half of Google. Taken together, Google’s front end (the consumer search engine) and back end (the business services) make up an online juggernaut arguably more significant to online society than eBay, Amazon.com, or Yahoo! right now. And Google’s momentum as a revenue-generating media company is just starting to pick up speed. Google’s unprecedented performance is underlined by its much-publicized traffic statistics: more than 200 million searches each day and more than 55 billion searches per year, servicing at least 50 percent of all search queries. Approximate and changeable as these metrics are, they emphasize the impressive command Google has established in the consumer searching arena. [download]

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Conquering Childhood Obesity for Dummies

Conquering Childhood Obesity for Dummies

By: Kimberly A. Tessmer

What is it about overweight children that just breaks your heart? Is it that they sometimes have a hard time fitting in with their peers, or is it that they suffer from health problems that used to mainly afflict adults? Truly obese children used to be an anomaly in most schools; one or two were common, but you didn’t see anywhere near as many severely overweight children as you see today. The increased number of obese children means that there are a lot of kids out there who have serious issues with food, lack of physical activity, and the emotional and physical conditions that result from being obese. We wrote Conquering Childhood Obesity For Dummies not to say that, “Every child should be skinny, skinny, skinny!” We know that’s not realistic (no more realistic than saying that every adult woman should weigh 110 pounds and have curves in all the right places please). [download]

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Chicago for Dummies

Chicago for Dummies 

By: Laura Tiebert

Let’s get one thing straight upfront:Chicagois the best-kept big-city secret in theUnited States. A bold statement, you say? It may be, but it’s fitting for this straight-shooting metropolis on the prairie. Chicagois loud and smart, crude and glamorous, brash and refined. In some ways it’s casually elegant, and in others, unabashedly goofy. You can see the contrasts in the glamour of Michigan Avenue’s elegant hotels and the boisterousness of the fans screaming for “Da Bears” at Soldier Field. Flashy sports cars idle curbside at Rush Street’s hot spots, while farther west, art-school hipsters look for the offbeat in WickerPark. Then again, you can find Midwesterners in their conservative pullovers and khakis just trying to make sense of it all. The third-largest city in the United States, Chicagoconstantly revises itself and, in the last two decades, has reinvented itself to become a vibrant, cosmopolitan place. It has been said that Chicagois the most livable city in the United States. [download]

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice 

By: Harold Bloom

Of Shakespeare’s displaced spirits, those enigmatic figures who sometimes seem to have wandered into the wrong play, Shylock clearly remains the most problematical. We need always to keep reminding ourselves that he is a comic villain, partly derived from the grandest of Marlovian scoundrels, Barabas, Jew of Malta. In some sense, that should place Shylock in the Machiavellian company of two villains of tragedy, Edmund and Iago, yet none of us wishes to see Shylock there. Edmund and Iago are apocalyptic humorists; self-purged of pathos, they frighten us because continually they invent themselves while manipulating others. Shylock’s pathos is weirdly heroic; he was meant to frighten us, to be seen as a nightmare made into f lesh and blood, while seeking the audience’s f lesh and blood. [download]  

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The Oxford Book of American Poetry

The Oxford Book of American Poetry 

By: David Lehman

The past that foreign country where they do things differently is neither a fixed entity nor a finished narrative but a changing landscape of the mind where travelers come and go, talking of Michelangelo, Hamlet, T. S. Eliot, and much else less lofty. It may be that what we call the present defines itself in the disagreements we have about the past and the complicated negotiations we undertake to resolve our differences. This means at bottom that virtually all events, periods, tendencies, and climates of opinion are subject to continual reassessment and revision. New facts come to light, old testimony comes into question; our belief system changes and we need to adjust our understanding of history to bring it in line with our governing assumptions. And so, for example, a story once held to be “true” in the sense that it. [download]

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Beginning Programming for Dummies

Beginning Programming for Dummies 

By: Wallace Wang

First of all, anyone can learn to program a computer. Computer programming doesn’t require a high IQ and an innate proficiency in advanced mathematics. Computer programming just requires a desire to learn and the patience never to give up. Programming is a skill like swimming, dancing, and juggling. Some people are naturally better than others, but anyone can get better with constant practice. That’s why so many kids become programming wizards at such an early age. The kids aren’t necessarily brilliant; they’re just willing to put in the time to learn a new skill, and they’re not afraid of failing. If you ever dreamed about writing your own programs, rest assured that you can. Programming can be lots of fun, but it can also be frustrating, annoying, and time-consuming. [download]

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Beginning Programming with Java for Dummies

Beginning Programming with Java for Dummies 

By: Barry Burd

Well, if you want to write computer programs, this book is for you. This book avoids the snobby “of-course-you-already-know” assumptions, and describes computer programming from scratch. The book uses Java an exciting, relatively new computer programming language. But Java’s subtleties and eccentricities aren’t the book’s main focus. Instead, this book emphasizes a process the process of creating instructions for a computer to follow. Many highfalutin’ books describe the mechanics of this process the rules, the conventions, and the formalisms. But those other books aren’t written for real people. Those books don’t take you from where you are to where you want to be In this book, I assume very little about your experience with computers. [download]

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Blocking Spam & Spyware for Dummies

Blocking Spam & Spyware for Dummies 

By: Peter Gregory and Michael A. Simon

Spam as a luncheon meat is a fine product. Just ask anyone who grew up in Hawaii, where they consume more of the mechanically separated pork product per capita than anywhere else in the United States. The spam that arrives in our e-mail inboxes, on the other hand, is almost universally loathed (even in Hawaii), and some folks even predict that it will bring about the end of e-mail entirely. Likewise, spyware has begun to have a visible impact on businesses and consumers who are spending more time looking over their shoulders (so to speak), wondering whether their information is safe. Although businesses are unlikely to abandon the most useful communication medium since the telephone just to avoid spam and spyware, this terrible twosome is having a significant impact on any business with a presence on the internet. [download]

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The International Law of Human Trafficking

The International Law of Human Trafficking 

By: Anne T. Gallagher

During 1998 and 1999, I participated in a series of meetings inViennaconvened under the auspices of the United Nations. Their purpose was to hammer out, as quickly as possible, an international agreement on transnational organized crime, as well as a set of supplementary protocols on the specifi c issues of traffi cking, migrant smuggling, and the trade in small arms. My job, as the representative of Mary Robinson, the then High Commissioner for Human Rights, was to use her voice in persuading States not to dilute or let go of the basic international human rights principles to which they were already committed. We had good reason to be worried. Migrant smuggling had recently been identifi ed as a security threat by the preferred destination countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, and had moved from the margins to the mainstream of international political concern.Human trafficking. [download]

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The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush

The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush 

By: Carolyn B. Thompson and James W. Ware

George W. Bush may not hold himself out as a genius, but as the book closed on the 2002 midterm elections, it became abundantly clear that he is a brilliant leader. From the 2001 tax cut through terrorist and geopolitical crises, Bush’s mandates have carried the day since the moment he entered the Oval Office. It is therefore unfortunate that in modern politics no president has suffered as many jabs about his intelligence as George W. Bush. Although politicians are regular targets for comedians, late night talk show hosts, and cartoonists, with “Dubya” the attacks have been specially vicious. During the 2000 presidential campaign, David Letterman one night wisecracked, “Bush has a new campaign slogan. It’s ‘Reformer with Results.’ Which I think is a big improvement on the old one. [download]

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Basic Math & Pre Algebra for Dummies

Basic Math & Pre Algebra for Dummies 

By: Mark Zegarelli

Once upon a time, you loved numbers. This isn’t the first line of a fairy tale. Once upon a time, you really did love numbers. Remember? Maybe you were 3 and your grandparents were visiting. You sat next to them on the couch and recited the numbers from 1 to 10. They were proud of you and be honest you were proud of yourself, too. Or maybe you were 5 and discovering how to write numbers, trying hard not to get your bs and as backwards. Learning was fun. Numbers were fun. So what happened? Maybe the trouble started with long division. Or sorting out how to change fractions to decimals. Could it have been figuring out how to add 8 percent sales tax to the cost of a purchase? Reading a graph? Converting miles to kilometers? Trying to find that most dreaded value of x? Wherever it started, you began to suspect that math didn’t like you and you didn’t like math very much, either. [download]

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Adopting a Pet for Dummies

Adopting a Pet for Dummies 

By: Eve Adamson

I have lived with many animals: dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, mice, snakes, lizards, fish, tarantulas and other large startling bugs. Some were rescued, some purchased, and some were adopted from shelters. I’ve also made many common pet-owner errors throughout the years. I even gave up a few of my beloved pets to rescue groups when I thought I no longer could keep them. And then one day, there I was, a pet writer without a pet. I hadn’t had the heart to try any of it again until one day in 1999, when I walked into the Iowa City/Coralville Animal Care andAdoptionCenter. I meandered along the rows of kennels looking at the enthusiastic Lab mixes, the baying Beagles, the pining pit bulls and I kept thinking, “They won’t have a small dog; they won’t have a small dog.” And then I saw Sally, a slender, delicate, fine-boned rat terrier with Italian Greyhound features, golden-brown eyes, velvety ears that tipped loosely forward, and a tight white coat with orange markings. [download]

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Act 2007 for Dummies

Act 2007 for Dummies

By: Karen S. Fredricks 

Act! Is the best selling contact manager software on the market today; it’s used by more than 4 million professionals and 11,000 corporations worldwide. For many of these users, ACT! Represents their first foray into the area of contact relationship management (CRM). Contact management software is a little more complex to understand than other types of software. With a word processor, each document that you create is totally separate; if you make a mistake, you need only to delete your current document and start fresh. Contact management, however, builds its way into a final product; if you don’t give a bit of thought as to what goal you wish to achieve, you could end up with a muddled mess. I am a fanACTic, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. I use ACT! At work. I use ACT! On the road. I use ACT! At home. I’ve even inspired my  friends to use ACT! [download]

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