Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut's words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads [...]
Do you feel that what you re learning in school has nothing to do with your life? Do you feel that school s not really preparing you for the real world? If you answered yes to these questions, then this audiobook is for you When Robert Kiyosaki was growing up, he wasn t exactly an A student, but it[...]
T'ao Ch'ien, (365 - 427, C.E.), one of the most revered poets in classical Chinese literature, is presented in a lucid translation with an introduction. "David Hinton is one of the most impressive of the younger translators of classical Chinese poetry.... His renderings are varied and imaginative wh[...]
Booker T. Huffman, 2013 WWE Hall of Famer and winner of thirty-five championship titles within WWE, WCW, and TNA, has once again paired up with best-selling coauthor Andrew William Wright to uncover Booker T's story from his humble pro wrestling beginnings to becoming a global superstar and icon. Bo[...]
Everyone thrives on love, comfort, and the safety of family, friends, and community. But if you are denied these basic comforts early in life, whether through a lack of physical affection or emotional bonding, you may develop intense fears of abandonment that can last well into adulthood-fears so [...]
Fatal Familial Insomnia is a rare, inherited disease that has afflicted one noble Venetian family for centuries, striking at random and passing from generation to generation like a deadly dynastic curse. The cause? A rogue protein called a prion, which is impossible to destroy and is also responsibl[...]
Provides information on nutrition and balanced diet, government guidelines, food choices, nutritional needs of different groups; designing with food, adapting recipes, researching, themes; exploring ingredients, simple processes like thickening and foaming; basic recipes, preparation techniques; foo[...]
T. Coraghessan Boyle is regarded as one of America's greatest living short-story writers. This publication brings together all his stories into one volume.[...]
Zadanija po chistopisaniju, vkljuchennye v rabochie tetradi, pozvoljajut prodolzhit rabotu po formirovaniju navyka pisma, nachatuju v "Propisjakh". Zadanija na raspoznavanie oshibok v napisanii bukv napravleny na razvitie graficheskoj zorkosti uchaschikhsja. Chistye strochki prednaznacheny dlja vypo[...]
Den lilla møghætte og Pulven er hæs-blæsende, herlig, hæslig humor i sort særklasse. Her er de igen i sejt, savlende og sindsforstyrret selskab med Snifhvide, De tre bukke fra Brugsen, Hærge-Hans og Grimme-Grete og alle de andre.
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I serien Entimmesboken presenteras riktigt bra och engagerande noveller. Merparten är klassiker, men nyheterna i serien är skrivna av moderna författare. Fler kvinnliga och fler svenska författare kommer att vara representerade i kommande böcker.[...]
Det var främst under 1700-talet och tidigt 1800-tal som importer av får gjordes i större skala, då med hjälp av premiesystem och statlig propaganda. Här berättas om Jonas Alströmer som med riksdagens hjälp kom att bygga upp en s.k. schäferistat med både propaganda och utbildning som kan s[...]
Every flu season, sneezing, coughing, and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as far and as quickly away from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively, humans recoil from objects that they view as dirty [...]
THE "GENIUS" ("Cosmopolitan") NATIONAL BESTSELLER
THE ART OF CARING LESS AND GETTING MORE
Are you stressed out, overbooked, and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? It's time to stop giving a f*ck. THE ART OF CARING LESS AND GETTING MORE
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This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular cu[...]