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Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 15:43:53 | Comments : 0

A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research
David Hopkins | ISBN: 0335221742 | PDF | 234 pages | Sep 2008 | 2 MB

"Hopkins mounts a strong case for teachers as researchers and provides a careful and well structured guide to practice."

“…it is well worth its place in my library. Any headteacher wishing to encourage staff to do research to improve professional practice should put it on the staffroom bookshelf.”
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 15:39:33 | Comments : 0

Born to Run: A Novel of Suspense
James Grippando | ISBN: 0061556114 | PDF | 342 pages | Dec 2008 | 1 MB

Bestselling author James Grippando is back with another innovative and action-packed thriller featuring his ever-popular hero.

Jack Swyteck gets caught in a dangerous web of intrigue and murder at the top levels of the United States government in his most high-profile and disturbing case yet.

Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck guards his own family secrets closely, after his father's two terms as Florida's governor made some personal rifts public. Things between the two men are finally better, and whenever Harry Swyteck asks for Jack's help he gets it. Suddenly, Harry needs it more than ever before.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 13:27:02 | Comments : 1

Natural Prozac: Learning to Release Your Body's Own Anti-Depressants
Joel C. Robertson | ISBN: 0062513540 | PDF | 229 pages | 1998 | 1 MB

Scientifically proven and easy to follow, Dr Joel Robertson’s groundbreaking lifestyle program makes a significant advance in treating and overcoming depression and its debilitating effects without drugs. With more than 21 million people now using Prozac and other anti-depressants worldwide, this book comprises an enormous breakthrough: an all-natural method anyone can use to regain control of their physical and emotional health.Robertson, an expert in pharmacology and brain chemistry, has been using this method with remarkable success for more than twenty years. His approach uses the body’s own natural chemistry to restore the brain’s chemical balance and end the dangerous cycle of negative thought patterns and behaviour that cause depression to recur. With detailed instructions on developing a tailored program of diet and exercise, new techniques for understanding and breaking free of negative habits, and targeted exercises for burning up self-destructive chemicals. Natural Prozac gives every depression sufferer a new option.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 12:32:35 | Comments : 0

Longshot: The Adventures of a Deaf Fundamentalist Mormon Kid and His Journey to the NBA
Lance Allred | ISBN: 0061718580 | PDF | 267 pages | May 2009 | 1 MB

Lance Allred was probably the last person you'd expect to make it in professional sports. Not only did he grow up on a polygamist commune in Montana, he struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder. If those hurdles to the NBA don't seem large enough, Lance is also deaf.

Self-deprecating, witty, and wholly original, Longshot is the unlikely story of an unlikely athlete, who despite these factors and a lot of setbacks along the way, finally realized his dream of playing in the NBA, becoming the first legally deaf player in the league.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 12:05:24 | Comments : 0

Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI
Candice Delong | ISBN: 0786867078 | PDF | 300 pages | 2001 | 1 MB

For twenty-five years Candice DeLong was on the front lines of some of the FBI's most gripping cases. She tailed terrorists, went undercover as a gangster's moll, and joined the manhunt for the Unabomber in Montana.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 11:42:51 | Comments : 0

Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture
George Dodds, Robert Tavernor | ISBN: 0262041952 | PDF | 439 pages | 2002 | 5 MB

Since Greek antiquity the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings, texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the body’s physical, psychological, and spiritual needs and pleasures. Topics include Greek temples; the churches of Tadao Ando in Japan; Renaissance fortresses and paintings; the body, space, and dwelling in Wright’s and Schindler’s houses in North America; the corporeal dimension of Carlo Scarpa’s landscapes and gardens; theory from Vitruvius to the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and Freudian psychoanalysis. The essays are framed by an appreciation of architectural historian and theorist Joseph Rykwert’s influential work on the subject.
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Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 11:42:30 | Comments : 0

Jerry Wiesner, Scientist, Statesman, Humanist: Memories and Memoirs
Walter A. Rosenblith | ISBN: 0262182327 | PDF | 637 pages | 2003 | 5 MB

How Jerry Wiesner, presidential science adviser and president of MIT, worked to make a better and safer world, as told by friends and colleagues and in his own autobiographical writings.

"Jerry Wiesner is well worth getting to know." -- Roy Herbert, New Scientist

"...[This] collection documents Wiesner's remarkable career...many of the book's essays are fascinating."
— Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Physics Today
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 11:27:02 | Comments : 0

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Sinusitis: Relieve Your Symptoms and Identify the Source of Your Pain
Alan R. Hirsch | ISBN: 0446691186 | PDF | 255 pages | 2004 | 1 MB

Before you reach for the antibiotics, find out the surprising truth about this frequently misdiagnosed and mistreated condition. While the real cause of the symptoms that afflict forty-five million Americans could be seasonal allergies, common colds, asthma, or even dental problems, sinus infection is often erroneously pinpointed as the culprit. Now sinus expert Dr. Alan Hirsch reveals how to look past the symptoms to determine if you suffer from true sinusitis or "pseudo-sinusitis," and, in either case, learn how to effectively treat the source of sinus pain.

A comprehensive, all-natural program to prevent and treat sinusitis and sinus-related disorders. Complete with lifestyle and dietary changes to improve respiratory function, including alternative therapies.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 11:26:00 | Comments : 0

The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince
Consuelo de Saint-Exupery | ISBN: 0812967178 | PDF | 345 pages | 2003 | 1 MB

Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met in Buenos Aires in 1930—she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife.

Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince’s beloved rose—unique in all the world—whom he could not live with and could not live without.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 11:05:23 | Comments : 0

Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University
Richard Bradley | ISBN: 0060568550 | PDF | 405 pages | 2005 | 1 MB

Under the presidency of former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Harvard University, has been embroiled in controversies that have spilled over the ivy-covered walls of the campus and onto the front pages of the American newspapers. In this work, Bradley (former executive editor of George magazine) exposes the inside politics that have roiled the Harvard campus during Summers' tenure, addressing the reasons the Harvard Corporation picked Summers for the job, conflicts between Summers and African American studies professors Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West, and various other academic controversies.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 08 Aug 2009 10:34:17 | Comments : 0

Survivors
Terry Nation | ISBN: 1409102645 | PDF | 256 pages | Nov 2008 | 1 MB

A virus has wiped out 95 per cent of the world's population in just a few weeks, leaving the remaining 5 per cent to stay alive in a world devoid of the most basic amenities - electricity, transport and medicine. The few survivors of the human race are forced to fall back on the most primitive skills in order to live and re-establish some semblance of law and order. Abby Grant, widowed by the plague, moves through this new dark age with determination, sustained by hope that her son, who fled his boarding school at the onset, has survived. She knows she must relearn the skills on which civilisation was built. With others, she founds a commune and the group return to the soil. But marauding bands threaten their existence. For Abby, there's a chance for a new life and love when she encounters James Garland, the fourteenth Earl of Woodhouse, who is engaged in a desperate fight to save his ancestral home. But more important, she must find her son.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 07 Aug 2009 12:26:04 | Comments : 1

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Posted By : rexT | Date : 07 Aug 2009 11:59:44 | Comments : 0

The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero (Oxford World's Classics)
Cornelius Tacitus | ISBN: 019282421X | PDF | 585 pages | Aug 2008 | 1 MB

Here is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus' timeless history of three of Rome's most memorable emperors. Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power, writes caustically of the brutal and lecherous Tiberius, the weak and cuckolded Claudius, and "the artist" Nero. In particular, his gripping account of the bloody reigns of Tiberius and Nero brims with plots, murder, poisoning, suicide, uprisings, death, and destruction. The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians. J. C. Yardley's translation is vivid without sacrificing accuracy, and is based on the recent Latin Heubner text, with variations noted in an appendix. Anthony A. Barrett's introduction and notes provide invaluable historical and cultural context. This superb edition also includes maps, a glossary of Roman terms and place names, and a full index of names and places.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 07 Aug 2009 11:49:29 | Comments : 0

Well-Being in Amsterdam's Golden Age
Derek Phillips | ISBN: 9085550424 | PDF | 266 pages | Feb 2009 | 1 MB

This captivating volume paints a broad portrait of daily life in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Taking the reader into the heart of the Dutch Golden Age, Derek Phillips uses a wide variety of sources in order to provide a wealth of domestic detail: from how people washed their clothes and cooked their meals to how they lived, married, and raised their children. Well-Being in Amsterdam's Golden Age covers the terrain of merchants' offices, regents' drawing rooms, and servants' quarters through a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, revealing the processes linking equality and well-being in seventeenth-century Amsterdam and beyond.
Posted By : rexT | Date : 07 Aug 2009 10:52:13 | Comments : 0

Educating for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace
Anita Wenden | ISBN: 0791461734 | PDF | 221 pages | 2004 | 1 MB

Acknowledging the dual notions of danger and opportunity that present themselves in contemporary social and ecological crises, this book explores how both peace and environmental education can transform the way we think and what we value. The book outlines the link between social violence and ecological degradation and the need to educate for the purpose of achieving social and ecological peace. Specialists in peace and environmental education offer a holistic and integrated approach on educating about these problems and challenges. They also provide educational strategies, such as curricular frameworks and pedagogical innovations appropriate for both formal and informal settings, and case studies and examples that illustrate their application.