Friday, 30 November 2007

TIME Magazine September 24, 2007 Vol. 170 No. 13

TIME Magazine September 24, 2007 Vol. 170 No. 13
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COVER: The Real Running Mates - Political spouses have traditionally wielded their influence in private. But in this race, all the rules will have to be rewritten
• HEALTH & MEDICINE: Beepocalypse Now? - Something is killing honeybees in record numbers. Three theories on why
Hyper Kids? Check Their Diet - Research confirms a long-suspected link between hyperactivity and food additives
• SOCIETY: Video Games That Keep Kids Fit - Never mind kickball or soccer. Some schools are now getting kids to break a sweat with exergaming fitness centers

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TIME Magazine November 6, 2006 Vol. 168 No. 19

TIME Magazine November 6, 2006 Vol. 168 No. 19
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COVER: Bush's Lonely Election Season - How the election became a referendum on an isolated President--and how it is likely to reshape American politics
• SCIENCE: The Buzz on Bees - Scientists map the genes of the honeybee, a key agricultural pollinator whose numbers are plummeting
• SOCIETY: In Touch With Jesus - Sugarcoated, MTV-style youth ministry is so over. Bible-based worship is packing teens in pews now
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Borat Make Funny Joke On Idiot Americans! High-Five! - Sacha Baron Cohen is either horrible or hysterical. You choose

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The Story of Early Chemistry by John Maxson Stillman

The Story of Early Chemistry by John Maxson Stillman
D. Appleton And Company, New York (1924) | English | DjVu | 10.89 MB

The book, originally published under the title The Story of Early Chemistry, tells the story of the development of chemical knowledge and science, from the beginning of time to the end of the 18th century. Contents: practical chemistry of the ancients; earliest chemical manuscripts; theories of the ancients of matter and its changes; early alchemists; chemical knowledge of the Middle Ages; chemistry in the 13th century; chemistry of the 14th and 15th centuries; progressive 16th century; chemical currents in the 16th century; chemistry of the 16th century; the 18th century, rise and fall of the Phlogiston theory; development of pneumatic chemistry in the 18th century; early ideas of chemical affinity; Lavoisier and the chemical revolution.

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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Global Language Resources, Inc. | 4.71 MB | PDF + DjVu

Book Description
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.

About the Author
Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York and eventually settling in England, wrote some twenty novels, many short stories, and a staggering number of letters. Geoffrey Moore was general editor for the works of Henry James in Penguin Classics. He died in 1999. Patricia Crick, one-time scholar of Girton College, Cambridge, is a teacher of modern languages.

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Visiting Singapore by Wee Mabel

Visiting Singapore by Wee Mabel
Pearson Education Asia | DjVu | 1.68 MB

A short story of one girl's trip to Singapore that includes both photographs and illustrations of her journey.

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Thursday, 29 November 2007

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In the early days of Puritan Boston Hester Prynne braves the stigma of adultery by wearing the embroidered scarlet "A" on her clothing.
A somber and compelling tale of love, pride, and moral struggle, The Scarlet Letter is considered Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterwork. A story of passion and atonement in Puritan New England, Hawthorne's story grows out of a radical ambivalence to America's spiritual, intellectual, and imaginative heritage.

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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frederick A. Stokes Company: New York (1911) | pages 400
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When orphaned Mary Lennox, lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle's great, empty house, she has nothing to do an no one to play with. Then a friendly robin shows her the way to a mysterious garden that has been locked up for years. Mary is determined to bring the secret garden back to life and, along the way, finds good friends and discovers the magic of making things grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden has been loved by generations of children since its first publication in 1912.

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A March On London by G.A. Henty

A March On London by G.A. Henty
Blackie & Son Limited: London and Glasgow (1911)
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Unedited, unabridged, original format editions with original colored cover art, these Henty books reproduce the original in careful detail.

The Story of Wat Tyler's Rebellion is but little known, but the hero of this story passes through that perilous time and takes part in the civil war in Flanders which followed soon after. Although young he is thrown into many exciting and dangerous adventures, through which he passes with great coolness and much credit. Brought into royal favor he is knighted for bravery on the battlefield, and saving the lives of some wealthy merchants, he realizes fortune with his advancement and rank. New light is thrown on the history of this time and the whole story is singularly interesting.
The events that took place during the latter half of the fourteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth are known to us far better than those preceding or following them, owing to the fact that three great chroniclers, Froissart, Monstrelet, and Holinshed, have recounted the events with a fulness of detail that leaves nothing to be desired. The uprising of the Commons, as they called themselves - that is to say, chiefly the folk who were still kept in a state of serfdom in the reign of Richard II.

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Old French Fairy Tales by Sophie Ségur

Old French Fairy Tales by Sophie Ségur
The Penn Publishing Company: Philadelphia (1920)
PDF | 38.25 + 9.70 MB | pages 321

A wonderful book with 5 timeless French fairy tales magnificently illustrated with 8 beautiful and dramatic full page color and many black and white drawings by Virginia Frances Sterrett. "Done when she was only 19 years of age, this was Sterrett's (Chicago born) first book, and she is often referred to as the 'female Kay Nielsen'."

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The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
5.04 MB | PDF | pages 337

Nearly everyone who's had a brush with American lit knows the story of Emily Dickinson - her poetry unpublished in her lifetime, and then even after her death, her verses seeing the light of day only after having been "improved" on by an editor who found her rhymes imperfect and her meter "spasmodic." He even went so far as to make her metaphors "sensible." The fact is, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to whom Dickinson had sent her poems, was a representative of the poetic establishment, and as with all artistic establishments then and now, was too rigid in his thinking and too impoverished in his imagination to comprehend a new voice of genius.

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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
translated by Charles Boner
James Miller Publishing, New York (ca. 1868)
25.43 + 8.61 MB | PDF | pages 344

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for his children's stories such as The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, and The Ugly Duckling.
Hans Christian Andersen was tall and skinny with a big nose ­ he always thought that he was very ugly. His stories show compassion for those who are outcast and suffering. They also make fun of the spoiled and conceited.
His stories teach us that appearances can be deceiving, and that there is a magical beauty even within the most unlikely characters.

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Revision of English grammar with exercises

Język angielski - repetytorium gramatyki z ćwiczeniami
Bronisława Jasińska, Janina Jaślan, Monika Woytowicz-Neymann
Wydawnictwo Szkolne PWN | 10.52 MB | PDF pages: 304

Revision of English grammar with exercises designed for Polish secondary school students. The book is consisted of three parts: forms of words, structure of sentence and word formation. The answers key is added.

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Nowa gramatyka angielska w ćwiczeniach

Nowa gramatyka angielska w ćwiczeniach
Romuald Gozdawa-Gołębiowski, Bronisława Jasińska, Stanisław Kryński, Antoni Prejbisz
Wydawnictwo Szkolne PWN | 19.14 MB | PDF

This grammar coursebook is a new version of Gramatyka angielska w ćwiczeniach. Having clear organization and user-friendly, accessible language - the book is designed for anyone interested in improving their grammar.
Users appreciate the self-teaching quality that incremental exercises provide throughout the chapters, with answers at the end of the book.

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Favourite Fairy Tales by John Corner

Favourite Fairy Tales by John Corner
Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh (1861) | PDF | 28.52 + 6.41 MB

Ali Baba, or, The forty thieves -- The babes in the woods -- Cinderella, or, The little glass-slipper -- Jack and the bean-stalk -- Jack the giant-killer -- Little red riding-hood -- Puss in boots -- Robin Hood -- The three bears -- Tom Thumb -- Whittington and his cat

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Cambridge Professional English in Use ICT


Cambridge Professional English in Use ICT
Santiago Remacha Esteras, Elena Marco Fabre | 20 MB | PDF | Cambridge University Press

Cambridge Professional English in Use ICT, a new addition to the Professional English in Use series, is suitable for intermediate to advanced level learners of English.
The book covers a wide range of up-to-date topics on Information Communications Technology including computer systems, word processing, spreadsheets and databases, multimedia applications, email, web design and Internet security. There are also units on word building and typical language functions used in the world of ICT. The units present and explain new words in context and show learners how to use them. Primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, it can also be used to supplement classroom work.
Easy to use and written in a clear style, this book will be invaluable for anyone needing to improve their ICT vocabulary for work, home or study.
A resource website to support Professional English in Use ICT will include extra activities, news, podcasts and blogs relating to the world of ICT.

Key Features
* 'Over to you' sections allow learners to apply the vocabulary they have learned in the unit to their own lives.
* Covers a wide variety of ICT vocabulary giving learners the confidence and ability to function in English in this area.
* Informed by the Cambridge International Corpus, ensuring the language taught is frequent and up-to-date.

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The Bostonians by Henry James (Reading; Classics)

The Bostonians by Henry James (Reading; Classics)
Global Language Resources, Inc. | 3.20 MB | PDF

As devastating in its wit as it is sharp in its social critique of sexual politics. No writer in America had dared the subject before. No one has done it so well since.
Henry James' celebrated novel about a passionate New England suffragette, her displaced southern gentleman cousin, and a charismatic young woman whose loyalty they both wished to possess goes so directly to the heart of sexual politics that it speaks to us with a voice as fresh and as vital as when the book was first published in 1882. Majestic in its movement, rich and sympathetic in its ironies, The Bostonians is the work of a master psychologist at the top of his form.

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Creating Web Pages For Dummies

Creating Web Pages For Dummies
Bud E. Smith and Arthur Bebak | Wiley Publishing Inc. | 10.30 MB | PDF

* Focusing on the needs of the first-time Web page creator, this plain-English guide shows how to build a basic personal site in no time
* Updated to cover the latest trends and tools, including blogs, photo-hosting sites, and Google Page Creator
* Covers super-easy Web creation options (such as MySpace, Flikr, and Blogger), simple Web building alternatives (such as Google Page Creator and Yahoo! SiteBuilder), and more advanced techniques for creating robust, feature-rich pages (such as Dreamweaver and HTML coding)
* The number of personal Web pages is exploding: MySpace has over 50 million registered users, Technorati has registered 23.3 million blogs, and Flickr has 2 million users who have posted more than 100 million photos

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English Repetytorium tematyczno-leksykalne vol.1-3

English Repetytorium tematyczno-leksykalne vol.1-3
Malgorzata Cieslak | WAGROS Ewa Rostek
6,27 + 5,65 + 4,88 + 5,20 + 22,27 + 23,50 MB | Pages: 126 + 114 + 131 | PDF

A complete collection of three books recommended for Polish secondary school students taking their Matura or secondary-school leaving examination. A selection of topics in a form of short essays with a list of key vocabulary and a list of additional vocabulary concerning a given subject.
Because the books were designed for Polish students the equivalents of English words and expressions are given in Polish. Nevertheless, the books may also be used by any learner of English.

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International Finance and Accounting Handbook 3rd Edition

International Finance and Accounting Handbook 3rd Edition
Frederick D. S. Choi | Wiley | 0471229210 | 890Pages | PDF

The International Accounting and Finance Handbook is an excellent reference for assisting those with interests or responsibilities concerning the international dimensions of accounting, reporting, and control and finance. It provides the tools for managers who need to come to grip with the differences in accounting principles, financial disclosure and auditing practices in the worldwide finance and accounting arena.
* Provides an overview of international accounting and finance issues
* Contributors are from Big-5 firms, top legal and finance firms, and well-known academics
* Author is a leading academic expert in international accounting and finance with a great deal of practical consulting experience
* Shows important trends in international finance and accounting
* Provides practical examples and case studies

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300 Years of Gravitation by Stephen W Hawking

300 Years of Gravitation
Stephen W Hawking, W Israel | Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521379768 | 704 pages | DJVU | 5.52 MB


To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel assembled a series of unique review papers by many of the world's foremost researchers in cosmology, relativity, and particle physics. The resulting volume reflects the significant and exciting advances that have been made in these fields since the editors' acclaimed volume, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey (CUP 1979). Newton's immense contribution to the physical sciences is assessed, and its relevance to today's physics made clear. The international group of contributors then chart the major developments in the study of gravitation, from Newtonian gravity to black hole physics. In the fields of galaxy formation, inflationary and quantum cosmology, and superstring unification, the book provides important overviews written by workers involved in the many advances described. By shaping such a wide-ranging and scholarly series of articles into a cohesive whole, the editors have created a fitting and lasting memorial to the man who continues to inspire scientists the world over.

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The Amateur Astronomer by Sir Patrick Moore

The Amateur Astronomer
Patrick Moore | Springer | ISBN: 1852338784 | 12 edition | 293 pages | PDF | 8 MB

This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moore’s classic book has been completely revised in the light of changes in technology. Not only do these changes include commercially available astronomical telescopes and software, but also what we know and understand about the universe. There are many new photographs and illustrations. Writing in the easy-going style that made him famous as a writer and broadcaster, Sir Patrick introduced astronomy and amateur observing together, so that his reader gets an idea of what he is observing at the same time as how to observe. Almost half the book is Appendices. These are hugely comprehensive and provide hints and tips, as well as data (year 2000 onwards) for pretty well every aspect of amateur astronomy. This is probably the only book in which all this information is collected in one place.

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Encyclopedia of Finance

Encyclopedia of Finance
Cheng-few Lee, Alice C. Lee | Springer | pages 1116 | 27.75 MB | PDF

The Encyclopedia of Finance is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial management, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It will also have international approach to ensure its maximum appeal.

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Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Prevention

Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Prevention
Debasis Bagchi, Harry G. Preuss | CRC Press (2007) | 14 MB | PDF

With unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage, Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention is a comprehensive resource for sound, up-to-the-minute data for managing obesity.
Divided into eight sections, the text covers epidemiology and pathophysiology, associated degenerative diseases, drug development and safety, the intricacies of childhood obesity, and the benefits of bariatric surgery. An expansive portion of the book considers natural, nutritional, and physical approaches to weight management. It explores exercise; diet; and gender differences; along with research on a wide range of functional foods, neutraceuticals, and natural supplements such as hydroxycitric acid, marine lipids, polyphenolic compounds, trivalent chromium, and ephedra.

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Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry 1st Edition

Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry 1st Edition
Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0198527837 | 976 pages | CHM

The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry is a new book directed at medical students, doctors coming to psychiatry for the first time, psychiatric trainees, and other professionals who may have to deal with patients with psychiatric problems. It is written by a group of experienced, middle-grade psychiatrists and is designed to provide easy access to the information required by psychiatry trainees on the wards or on-call. It closely follows the familiar format of the Oxford Handbooks series, and provides coverage that is comprehensive, evidence based and practical. The content of the handbook is written in the concise, note-based style characteristic of the series, with topics confined to single pages. The book is divided into four sections: Fundamentals of Psychiatric Practice; General Adult Psychiatry; Psychiatric Subspecialties; and Useful Reference Material.
Within each chapter, topics are covered in a clear, logical, manner. For the clinical disorders there is detailed information on the aetiology, epidemiology, clinical features, common differential diagnoses, assessment / investigation, management, and prognosis. There is in-depth coverage of psychiatric assessment, psychopathology, evidence-based practice, mental health legislation in the UK, therapeutic issues, transcultural psychiatry, and eponyms in psychiatry. The book is internally cross-referenced and has both key references to important papers and to further information resources. As well as being indexed alphabetically, it is also indexed by ICD-10 / DSM-IV codes, and there is a quick index for acute presentations. This Handbook is practical and directive in style, designed to provide portable reassurance to doctors beginning psychiatry. There is helpful advice for the management of difficult and urgent situations, and the text is peppered with clinical observations on the practice of clinical psychiatry and guidance based upon the experience of the authors.

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Wednesday, 28 November 2007

Shakespeare’s Brain - Reading with Cognitive Theory

Shakespeare’s Brain - Reading with Cognitive Theory
Mary Thomas Crane | Princeton University Press
1.05 MB | PDF | 288 pages | ISBN: 0691069921

Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal interaction of body and environment, brain and culture, and which refocuses attention on the role of the author in the making of meaning. Crane reveals in Shakespeare's texts a web of structures and categories through which meaning is created. The approach yields fresh insights into a wide range of his plays, including The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest.

Crane's cognitive reading traces the complex interactions of cultural and cognitive determinants of meaning as they play themselves out in Shakespeare's texts. She shows how each play centers on a word or words conveying multiple meanings (such as "act," "pinch," "pregnant," "villain and clown"), and how each cluster has been shaped by early modern ideological formations. The book also chronicles the playwright's developing response to the material conditions of subject formation in early modern England. Crane reveals that Shakespeare in his comedies first explored the social spaces within which the subject is formed, such as the home, class hierarchy, and romantic courtship. His later plays reveal a greater preoccupation with how the self is formed within the body, as the embodied mind seeks to make sense of and negotiate its physical and social environment.

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Physical Chemistry: Understanding our Chemical World

Physical Chemistry: Understanding our Chemical World
Paul M. S. Monk | Wiley | ISBN: 0471491810 | 618 pages | PDF

Understanding Physical Chemistry is a gentle introduction to the principles and applications of
physical chemistry. The book aims to introduce the concepts and theories in a structured manner through a wide range of carefully chosen examples and case studies drawn from everyday life. These real-life examples and applications are presented first, with any necessary chemical and mathematical theory discussed afterwards. This makes the book extremely accessible and directly relevant to the reader.
Aimed at undergraduate students taking a first course in physical chemistry, this book offers an accessible applications/examples led approach to enhance understanding and encourage and inspire the reader to learn more about the subject.

* A comprehensive introduction to physical chemistry starting from first principles.
* Carefully structured into short, self-contained chapters.
* Introduces examples and applications first, followed by the necessary chemical theory.

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501 SERIES for English Learners (with keys)

501 SERIES for English Learners (with keys)
LearningExpress, LLC. | 11.1 MB

* 501 Critical Reading Questions
* 501 Grammar and Writing Questions 3rd edition
* 501 Reading Comprehension Questions 3rd edition
* 501 Synonym and Antonym Questions
* 501 Vocabulary Questions
* 501 Word Analogy Questions
* 501 Writing Prompts

501 Critical Reading Questions: This specialized drill book provides the focused practice necessary for test-taking success. Plus, all answers are explained, using terms that clarify context, main ideas, themes, and critical thinking skills for effective studying and positive reinforcement. Each practice consists of several passages followed by questions and answer explanations.

501 Grammar & Writing Questions: multiple choice and essay format. Teaches grammar, paragraph development, sentence structure, verb tenses, and more.

501 Reading Comprehension Questions: includes reading samples ranging from simple instructions and general interest magazine articles up to basic-level college textbook materials.

501 Synonyms and Antonym Questions: The book increases a student's vocabulary and refines their knowledge of words, bringing about higher standardized test scores and more effective verbal and written communication.

501 Vocabulary Questions: To measure verbal skills, most standardized or placement tests include a vocabulary section. In addition, civil service, health care, or job placement exams evaluate a candidate's verbal aptitude with a vocabulary test.

501 Word Analogy Questions: Many standardized tests-including high school entrance exams, SATs, civil service exams, GREs, LSATS, and others-use analogy questions to test both logic and reasoning skills and word knowledge.

501 Writing Prompts: High school exit exams, college placement exams, and other important high stakes tests require students to answer specific questions-in writing-while under pressure.

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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought
Jeff Biddle, John Bryan Davis | Blackwell Publishing | 730 pages
8.53 MB | English | PDF

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought. The essays in the first section focus on the history of economic ideas, with topics ranging from ancient, medieval and Islamic thought, to Marxian, Utopian and post-war thought. The second section explores important historiographical topics, including the sociology of economics, methodology, exegesis, and textuality.Each chapter serves as a complex introduction to the chosen topic, and gathered together they provide an extensive synthesis of the field as a whole. The volume is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying the history of economic thought, and will also serve as an excellent text for courses in this area.

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Algebra: Abstract and Concrete (2nd edition)

Algebra: Abstract and Concrete (2nd edition)
F. M. Goodman | Prentice-Hall | 464 pages | PDF

This introduction to modern or abstract algebra addresses the conventional topics of groups, rings, and fields with symmetry as a unifying theme, while it introduces readers to the active practice of mathematics. Its accessible presentation is designed to teach users to think things through for themselves and change their view of mathematics from a system of rules and procedures, to an arena of inquiry. The volume provides plentiful exercises that give users the opportunity to participate and investigate algebraic and geometric ideas which are interesting, important, and worth thinking about. The volume addresses algebraic themes, basic theory of groups and products of groups, symmetries of polyhedra, actions of groups, rings, field extensions, and solvability and isometry groups. For those interested in a concrete presentation of abstract algebra.

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Anxiety, Depression and Emotion

Anxiety, Depression and Emotion
Richard J. Davidson | Oxford University Press | 3.55 MB | CHM | pages 291 | ISBN: 0195133587

This unique volume focuses on the relationship between basic research in emotion and emotional
dysfunction in depression and anxiety. Each chapter is authored by a highly regarded scientist who looks at both psychological and biological implications of research relevant to psychiatrists and psychologists. And following each chapter is engaging commentary that raises questions, illuminates connections with other bodies of work, and provides points of integration across different research traditions. Topics range from stress, cognitive functioning, and personality to affective style and behavioral inhibition, and the book as a whole has significant implications for understanding and treating anxiety disorders.

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Earth Time: Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon


«Earth Time: Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon»
Douglas Palmer | Wiley | ISBN: 0470022213 | 358 pages | PDF

The dramatic history of planet Earth and the rocky road to understanding the past.
* A probing account of the history of the earth and an introduction to the many eccentric characters that have attempted to understand its origins.
* Full of fascinating anecdotes about 19th century explorers and natural philosophers who first carved up Earth's history just as others were carving up the globe.
* Unravels the fascinating history of rock strata and the implications they have had on accepted theories on the Earth's life.
* Considers the future of the earth, and what a repeat of some of the catastrophic events of the earth's past, such as major earthquakes and asteroid collisions, could mean for life today.

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Belgian Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis

Belgian Fairy Tales
by William Elliot Griffis
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York (c1919) | pages 276
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A collection of twenty-six folk and fairy tales from Belgium including 'The War Storm and Baldy the Horse', 'The Swan Maidens and the Silver Knight', 'A Congress of Belgian Faires' and 'The Ogre in the Forest of Hazel Nuts'.

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Complete Idiot's Guide To Finance And Accounting (New edition)

Complete Idiot's Guide To Finance And Accounting (New edition)
Michael Muckian | Alpha Books, New edition
32.15 MB | 320 pages | PDF

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finance and Accounting helps you create a budget, manage a payroll, and develop a financial management--from the perspective of a nonfinancial manager.
The guide is well constructed and facilitates easy scanning of any topic that is currently driving you to distraction. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 (on accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general cash-flow issues, respectively) are particularly worth a careful read. Pay special attention to the shortcuts and red flags that are highlighted in small boxes; in many instances, they can save your company big headaches.

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Collins Cobuild English Guides Prepositions

Collins Cobuild English Guides Prepositions
Collins CoBUILD (1991) | ISBN-10: 000370520X | 381 pages | PDF | 62.13 MB

Derived from the COBUILD database, each book in this series provides clear and detailed explanations, supported by numerous English examples, on specific areas of English. Integrated language activity work reinforces the reference material, checking understanding and exploiting important vocabulary and usage. They are in a pocket format, and include an answer key. The book is designed for Russian natives.

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Russian Fairy Tales by Peter Polevoi

Lawrence and Bullen, London (1892) | pages 326
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Russian Fairy Tales by Peter Polevoi, translated from the Russian by Robert Nisbet Bain
The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen was first made generally known to the British Public by Mr. W. R. S. Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. That excellent and most engrossing volume was, primarily, a treatise on Slavonic Folk-Lore, illustrated with admirable skill and judgment, by stories, mainly selected from the vast collection of Afanasiev, who did for the Russian what Asbjornsen has done for the Norwegian Folk-Tale. A year after the appearance of Mr. Ralston's book, the eminent Russian historian and archaeologist, Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi (well known, too, as an able and ardent Shaksperian scholar), selected from the inexhaustible stores of Afanasiev some three dozen of the Skazki most suitable for children, and worked them up into a fairy tale book which was published at St. Petersburg in 1874, under the title of Narodnuiya Russkiya Skazki (Popular Russian Märchen). To manipulate these quaintly vigorous old-world stories for nursery purposes was, as may well be imagined, no easy task, but, on the whole, M. Polevoi did his work excellently well, and while softening the crudities and smoothing out the occasional roughness of these charming stories, neither injured their simple texture nor overlaid the original pattern.

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Tuesday, 27 November 2007

Polish Fairy Tales by A. J. Gliński

John Lane Company; London, New York (1920) | pages 162
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Polish Fairy Tales by A. J. Gliński, translated from the Polish by Maude Ashurst Biggs; illustrated by Cecile Walton
These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Gliński, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may even date from primitive Aryan times. They represent the folklore current among the peasantry of the Eastern provinces of Poland, and also in those provinces usually known as White Russia.
They were set down by Gliński just as they were related to him by the peasants.
In the translation it was of course necessary to shorten them considerably; the continual repetition — however quaint and fascinating in the original—cannot easily be reproduced. Portions, too, are often told in rhyme, or in a species of rhyming prose that we associate with the ancient ballad. The obvious likenesses between these and the folklore of Germany, the Celtic nations, or to the Indian fairytales, will strike every reader.

The frog princess.--Princess Miranda and Prince Hero.--The eagles.--The whirlwind.--The good ferryman and the water nymphs.--The princess of the Brazen Mountain.--The bear in the forest hut

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Irish Fairy Tales by Edmund Leamy

Irish Fairy Tales by Edmund Leamy
PDF (colour) + PDF (black/white) + DjVu | 14.54 + 5.89 + 5.22 MB
M.H. Gill: Dublin (1906) | pages 192

In writing these stories, Edmund Leamy turned to the Gaelic past to give something to the Irish people which would implant in them a love for the beauty and dignity of their country's traditions.
The book features such tales as "Princess Finola and the Dwarf" and "The Fairy Tree of Dooros".

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Danish Fairy Tales by Sven Grundtvig


The Four Seas Company: Boston (1919)
PDF + DjVu | 7.42 + 1.89 MB | pages 192

Danish Fairy Tales by Sven Grundtvig, translated by J. Grant Cramer
Fourteen traditional Danish tales of wizardry, witchery, dark forests, remote kingdoms, princesses, and wicked stepmothers.
These folk-tales, and many more, were originally collected by Svendt Grundtvig, a Danish professor and philologist. He found that throughout all the country districts, men and women were telling stories and reciting ballads that they had learned from their grandmothers, who, in their turn, had heard them from crooners of old songs, and tellers of old tales. Professor Grundtvig realized that these echoes of an earlier time were precious; that, if they were not perpetuated in written form, they would be lost. It was a labour of love on his part to collect these tales; a labor that lasted
over twenty years, and that enlisted the aid of many of his countrymen. Grundtvig says that he has
kept the simplicity and artlessness of the oral tradition; and that, in the case of varying versions from different parts of the country, he has taken the purer and more complete form, but
has always preserved the epic unity.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations

The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Tony Augarde (Editor) | Oxford University Press | 2.12 MB | PDF; txt | 530 pages

In this dictionary, "modern" is defined as 20th century; thus, entries are quotes originating from people alive after 1900. If the speaker was also quotable before 1900, those remarks are included as well. Using the same format as The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1979. 3d ed.), this book consists of some 5000 quotations from a wide range of sources: arrangement is alphabetical by the names of the authors, and each quotation includes a reference to a printed source. The index, nearly half as long as the text itself, provides quick and easy access to quotations by keywords. Some of the authors included here are also represented in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. In many of these cases, however, the newer title attributes even more quotations per author. There are a number of quotations given first in their original (non-English) language, followed by an English translation. Song, book, and movie titles are also represented.
Recommended as a companion volume to the earlier Oxford title and a worthy addition to that often-used shelf in any reference collection.

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