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Kitchen Confidential

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:30:31 PST

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Updated Edition A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material.

Forms that Work

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:56:24 PST

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Forms are everywhere on the web - for registration and communicating, for commerce and government. Good forms make for happier customers, better data, and reduced support costs. Bad forms fill your organization's databases with inaccuracies and duplicates and can cause loss of potential consumers. Designing good forms is trickier than people think. Jarrett and Gaffney come to the rescue with "Des ...

Reality Check

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:40:37 PST

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More uncommon common sense from the bestselling author of The Art of the Start. In Silicon Valley slang, a “bozo explosion” is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, “If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities ...

The Gates of the Alamo

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:40:08 PST

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Read by Henry Leyva Four cassettes, 6 hours The Gates of the Alamo tells the tale of an American naturalist of towering intellect and ambition, powerfully but warily attracted to strong-minded, frontier-savvy widow with a 16-year-old son. These three characters bring us deeply into the life of Texas in the year leading up to independence, and ultimately into the harrowing moments of the battl ...

Nightwork

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:36:51 PST

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Before the term hacking became associated with computers, MIT undergraduates used it to describe any activity that took their minds off studying, suggested an unusual solution to a technical problem, or generally fostered nondestructive mischief. The MIT hacking culture has given us such treasures as police cars and cows on the Great Dome, a disappearing door to the President's office, and the co ...

eBoys

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:36:22 PST

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The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy. Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends a business historian's perspective with a journal ...

The Virtuous Consumer

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:35:41 PST

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Sure, there are people who chain themselves to old-growth trees, raise their one child diaper-free, and make their own soap. The Virtuous Consumer is for the rest of us, struggling to make choices that are better for the planet -- and for us. Leslie Garrett has created a comprehensive reference guide that -- like a smart, funny, and eco-conscious friend -- will steer you toward ethical purchases ...

Godel, Escher, Bach

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:34:53 PST

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.

Barbarians at the Gate

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:33:05 PST

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With more than 500,000 copies sold, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history: the frenzy of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us the view from the top of the financial ladder to the social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbar ...

Dreaming in Code

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:32:15 PST

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From Publishers Weekly Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new," Rosenberg observes—but the catch is that "the only software worth making is software that does something new." This two-tiered insight comes from years of observing a team led by Mitch Kapor (the creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet) in its efforts to create a "personal information manager" that can ...

iWoz

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:31:37 PST

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The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time. Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an ...

Organization Man

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:30:49 PST

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"The Organization Man is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. It established the categories Americans now use when thinking about the workplace, the suburbs, and their lives."--David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Sta

The Forever War

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:30:10 PST

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"Today we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." The first line of this 1974 sf war story still grabs hard: The Forever War, winner of both Hugo and Nebula awards, is a fine choice to launch Millennium's "SF Masterworks" series of classic reissues. Future soldier William Mandella's service in the interstellar "Forever War" chillingly echoes Vietnam, where Joe Haldeman was sev ...

Bargaining for Advantage

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:29:23 PST

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The award-winning guide to business negotiation used by top negotiators and training programs all over the worldcompletely updated and revised As director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negoti ...

The Name of the Rose

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:28:04 PST

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It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Made to Stick

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:27:33 PST

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Mark Twain once observed, “ A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—businessmen, educators, politicians, journalists, and others—struggle to make their ideas “stick.” Why do some ideas thrive whil ...

Coders at Work

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:26:58 PST

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Peter Seibel interviews 16 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work.

The Nine

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:26:32 PST

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Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of the Court will be at stake—Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of co ...

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:23:41 PST

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The essential "how to" book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan or sales plan. Step-by-step strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development for a new product or company. The book offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture. Packed with concrete examples, the bo ...

Founders at Work

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 9:23:22 PST

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia ...

The Soul of a New Machine

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:49:13 PST

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Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one companys efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technologica ...

First Things First

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:34:52 PST

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I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, First Things First can help you understand why so often our first things aren't first. Rather than offering you another clock, Fir ...

Can I Keep My Jersey?

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:33:43 PST

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He’s been called a journeyman. Even Paul wouldn’t dispute that classification. Regardless, Bill Simmons, ESPN.com’s “The Sports Guy,” has said of Paul Shirley, “We could finally have an answer to the question ‘What would it be like if one of our friends was an NBA player?” There’s no denying that Paul Shirley is the closest thing pro basketball’s got to Odysseus. In Homeric fashion, he has logg ...

My Life on the Run

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:18:05 PST

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Bart Yasso, an icon of one of the most enduringly popular recreational sports in theUnited States, offers a touching and humorous memoir about the rewards and ...

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 2:42:28 PST

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A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us whether industrial or organic, alternative or processedhe develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result ...

The Invention of Air

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 9:48:43 PST

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Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change ...

Born to Run

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 9:48:26 PST

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Book Description Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us t ...

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 9:48:05 PST

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Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioural finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, here is the best-selling, authoritative and gimmick-free guide to investing. Burton Malkiel evaluates the full range of investment opportunities, from stocks, bonds and money markets to insurance, home ownership and tangible assets such as gold or collectibles. This edition ...

Glenn Beck's Common Sense

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 9:47:44 PST

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Product Description "If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...." In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense soluti ...

A Voyage Long and Strange

Thu, 6 Aug 2009 3:59:51 PST

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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz made an unsettling discovery: despite all his education, from grade school through college (as a history ...

The Bridges of Madison County

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 9:20:49 PST

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When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever. The romantic classic of the 1990's.

Sissy Nation

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 0:04:27 PST

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Praised by the" New York Times Book Review" for being "persuasive [and] provocative," this commentary reveals in furious, funny, and ferocious strokes how Americans became sissified, soft, and scared--and offers unforgettable solutions on how to snap out of it. The American Sissy cocoons in a safe, virtual world--Fundadome. He plays with online friendsters and he plays with himself, anything to a ...

Scratch Beginnings

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 3:18:28 PST

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Earnest, passionate, and hard to put down, Scratch Beginnings is a story that will notonly inspire readers, but will also remind them that success can come to...

This Voice in My Heart

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:51:13 PST

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Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago, he lay buried under a pile of burning bodies. The centuries–old battle between Hutu and Tutsi tribes had come to Gilbert's school. Fueled by hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred Tutsi children and teachers into a small room and used machetes to beat most of them to death. The unfortunate ones who survived the beating were doused wi ...

Schneier on Security

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 1:39:24 PST

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Presenting invaluable advice from the world's most famous computer security expert, this intensely readable collection features some of the most insightful and informative coverage of the strengths and weaknesses of computer security and the price people pay -- figuratively and literally -- when security fails. Discussing the issues surrounding things such as airplanes, passports, voting machines ...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:21:12 PST

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존 베런트가 우연히 들렸다가 매혹되어 8년 간 머문 미국 남부 조지아 주의 서배너Savannah를 무대로 펼쳐지는 다양하고 흥미로운 실제 인간 군상들의 이야기들과 그 속에서 벌어지는 사건들을 그린 소설 형식의 논픽션이다. 이야기는 커다란 두 개의 흐름이 엮어지면서 전개된다. 첫 번째 이야기는 서배너를 배회하는 여러 인물들에 대한 이야기이다. 또 하나의 이야기 축은 골동품 상인 짐 윌리엄스가 그의 ‘친구’ 대니 한스포드를 살해한 사건인데 이 사건으로 서배너는 큰 충격에 휩싸이게 된다. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defen ...

City of Light

Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:06:26 PST

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City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a lively account of both the people and the ideas behind this revolutionary technology. The basic concept underlying fiber optics was f ...

Angela's Ashes

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 7:52:28 PST

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood". So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish i ...

How to Practice

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 7:52:28 PST

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As human beings, we all share the desire for happiness and meaning in our lives. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. In this very special book, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and bestselling author helps readers embark upon the path to enlightenment with a stunning illumination of the timeless wisd ...

Undaunted Courage

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 7:52:28 PST

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In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author od D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis's lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along ...

Blood Struggle

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 7:52:28 PST

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The inspirational story of the extraordinary gains by Indian tribes over the past half-century. For generations, Indian people suffered a grinding poverty and political and cultural suppression on the reservations. But tenacious and visionary tribal leaders refused to give in. They knew their rights and insisted that the treaties be honored. Against all odds, beginning shortly after World War II ...

The Year of Living Biblically

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 7:52:28 PST

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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: Make no mistake: A.J. Jacobs is not a religious man. He describes himself as Jewish "in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant." Yet his latest work, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, is an insightful and hilarious journey for readers of all faiths. Though no fatted calves w ...

Wide-Body

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 7:55:25 PST

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Fahrenheit 451

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 3:24:23 PST

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The classic bestseller about censorship - more important now than ever before. Fahrenheit 451 ...the temperature at which books burn The novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. ...

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 3:24:23 PST

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Stock investing is a relatively recent phenomenon and the inventory of true classics is somewhat slim. When asked, people in the know will always list books by Benjamin Graham, Burton G Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street, and Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher. You'll know you're getting really good advice if they also mention Reminiscences of a Stock ...

Capturing Sound

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 3:24:23 PST

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There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. This is the clear message of Capturing Sound, a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. In a series of case studies, M ...

In Defense of Food

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 3:24:23 PST

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What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons ...

The Post-American World

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 3:24:23 PST

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"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm c ...

Stranger in a Strange Land

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:46:22 PST

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Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enorm ...

War Nerd

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:45:43 PST

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Self-described war nerd Gary Brecher knows he's not alone, that there's a legion of fat, lonely Americans, stuck in stupid, paper-pushing desk jobs, who get off on reading about war because they hate their lives. But Brecher writes about war, too. "War Nerd" collects his most opinionated, enraging, enlightening, and entertaining pieces. Part war commentator, part angry humorist ala Bill Hicks, Br ...

Once a Runner

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:08:36 PST

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This is the inspirational cult classic that Runner's World (and many others) have called "the best novel ever written about running". The Reno Gazette-Journal has also called it "a book so good, people will steal it." How often do you hear about someone borrowing a friend's book, then later buying their own copy because they liked it so much? Or a book so treasured that it gets passed from frie ...

Religious Literacy

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 6:16:02 PST

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Pistol

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 6:15:27 PST

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"Pistol" is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream -- and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete -- a basketball icon for baby boomers -- all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ...

No Excuses

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 6:14:54 PST

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Born without arms or legs below his elbows and knees, Kyle Maynard excels as a champion athlete, inspirational speaker, college student and male model. No Excuses is his inspirational autobiography that shows how a positive can-do attitude gives someone we might see as disadvantaged the advantage over life.

MENS HEALTH MUSCLE CHOW

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 6:14:27 PST

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Achieving your best body ever requires that two elements merge as one: solid training and good nutrition. This book provides the nutritional component of that muscle-building equation, offering the Men's Health take on food for fitness. "Men's Health Muscle Chow" gives you more than 150 simple recipes for delicious meals ranging from workout protein shakes to healthy dinners the whole family will ...

Here Comes Everybody

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 6:13:55 PST

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A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in deca ...

Eat This Not That

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 6:13:15 PST

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The smartest eating choices--made simple! The secret to looking, feeling, and living better than ever is not by depriving yourself of the foods you love. It's by making the best choices in a variety of real-life situations. Based on the most popular column in both Men's Health and Women's Health magazines, Eat This Not That is a comprehensive guide to what to eat at home, from the supermarket, ev ...

Andy Roddick Beat Me with a Frying Pan

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:04:05 PST

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The Portable Atheist

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:50:56 PST

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From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and pres ...

Running Within

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:32:36 PST

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Effective running requires fitness and harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. Running Within is your guide to developing each of those areas so that you can perform better, have more fun, and experience a deeper connection with running. Sport psychologist, best-selling author, and runner Jerry Lynch and physician and elite triathlete Warren Scott provide insights and prescriptions throughout. Am ...

I Run, Therefore I Am - Nuts

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:32:35 PST

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Whether you fall in the middle of the pack, up near the front of the pack, or so far from any semblance of a pack that you're wondering if everyone went home already, you'll find plenty to laugh about in this book. Popular running humorist Bob Schwartzlike the Dave Barry of runningwill have you in stitches as he pokes fun at the idiosyncratic personalities of runners and the strange and hilario ...

Bowerman and the Men of Oregon

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:45 PST

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No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games Wi ...

Catch-22

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:43 PST

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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he fu ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:43 PST

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One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prizewinning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy ...

Moon Is Harsh Mistres

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:43 PST

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Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-w ...

Eiger Dreams

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:43 PST

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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb. In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen of the world's most experienced ...

House

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:43 PST

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Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and triumphs.

How to Win Friends & Influence People

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:43 PST

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You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help reader ...

Brave New World

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:31:43 PST

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A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers." --Saturday Review of Literature "A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much exc ...

The Design of Everyday Things

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:22:32 PST

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Donald Norman's best-selling plea for user-friendly design, with more than 175,000 copies sold to date, is now a Basic paperback. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of E ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:22:32 PST

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이 책은 약물을 흡입하고, 혼란스러울 정도로 정신이 없었지만 매우 좋았던 시간들을 인쇄물로 옮겨적은 이야기이다. 이상한 여정을 지나온 미국 대중 문화의 연대기 속으로 긴 주말 여행을 떠나는 이야기이다. 기자라는 신분의 라울 듀크는 그의 변호사 곤조와 함께 일탈을 꿈꾸며 라스베가스로 향한다.그들의 일탈은 갖가지 종류의 마약을 입속에 털어넣음으로 시작된다. 머릿속에선 끊임없이 왜곡된 영상을 만들어내고,아무도 모르는 공포에 시달리고,모두가 혐오스러워하는 괴물로 변해가는데... 1998년 조니 뎁, 베네치오 델 토로 주연의 영화로 만들어져 감독인 테리 길리엄이 칸느 영화제 감독상 후보에 오르기도 했다. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of ...

Atlas Shrugged

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:22:32 PST

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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the ...

The Best Software Writing I

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:22:32 PST

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Frustrated by the lack of well-written essays on software engineering, Joel Spolsky (of www.joelonsoftware.com fame) has put together a collection of his favorite writings on the topic. With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the technical writing literati. T ...

A Confederacy of Dunces

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:22:32 PST

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The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of ...

The Perfect Mile

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:22:32 PST

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There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier. Roger Bannister was a young English medical student who epitomized the ideal of the amateur still driven not just ...

China Road

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:22:32 PST

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Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this utterly surprising and deeply personal ...

The Low GI Diet Revolution

Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:03:28 PST

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The Low GI Diet Revolution is the only science-based diet that is proven to help you lose up to 10 percent of your current weight and develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits that can protect you from illness and disease. Synthesizing over 20 years of ground-breaking research on carbohydrates and the glycemic index, the authors of the New York Times best-selling New Glucose Revolution series s ...

Purple Cow

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:12:04 PST

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"You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last? Face it, the checklist of tir ...

Under the Banner of Heaven

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:12:04 PST

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Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting read. The Lafferty boys were brought up in a squeaky clean All-American family. So what made two of them follow revelations from God to slit the throat of their ex-beauty queen sister-in-law and her infant daughter? The problem was that they got involved in the fundamentalist, survivalist wing of the Mormon Church. Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from t ...

Starship Troopers

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 8:10:24 PST

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Science FictionLarge Print EditionStarship Troopers is a classic novel by one of science fictions greatest writers of all time and is now a Tri-Star movie. In one of Heinleins most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankinds most frightening enemy.

The World without Us

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 8:09:02 PST

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Discover the impact of the human footprint in "The World Without Us". Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standi ...

Dreams from My Father

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 8:09:02 PST

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Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a b ...

The Competitive Runner's Handbook

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:09:58 PST

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For both runners entering that first neighborhood race and elite marathoners, trainers Bob and Shelly-lynn Florence Glover's completely revised guide is the book on training to compete. A book that's already sold close to 200,000 copies, The Competitive Runner's Handbook will now offer all the latest information needed to design basic training programs; special workouts to increase strength, endu ...

Men's Health Home Workout Bible

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:59 PST

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Get bigger biceps, broad shoulders, a bigger bench press, powerful legs, cut abs . . . without ever leaving your home! The body you want, in the space you have. The strength you want, with the equipment you have. The muscles you want, in the time you have. You don't need to join a gym to get in shape. In fact, for a lot of guys, the gym is an impediment to getting in shape. The crowds, ...

Law 101

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:59 PST

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In the first edition of Law 101, Jay M. feinman offered a delightfully clear introduction to law, covering the main subjects found in the first year of law school and giving us a basic understanding of American legal tradition. This revised edition is up-to-date with Supreme Court cases through July 2005 and includes material on President's war powers, intellectual property, state constitutional ...

The Intelligent Investor

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:58 PST

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The best book on investing ever written, this classic work offers sound and safe principles for investing - principles that have worked for more than the half century since the first edition was published. This revised edition features a new introduction, appendix and chapter updates. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham's book has remained the most respected guide to investing ...

Odalisque

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:58 PST

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The trials of Dr. Daniel Waterhouse and the Natural Philosophers increase one hundredfold in an England plagued by the impending war and royal insecurities -- as the beautiful and ambitious Eliza plays a most dangerous game as double agent and confidante of enemy kings.

The Men's Health Gym Bible (Paperback)

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:58 PST

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Fundamentals of American Law

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:58 PST

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The American legal system today is the most significant in the world, yet until the publication of Fundamentals of American Law, there has been no book that provides both the basic rules on the theoretical understanding necessary to comprehend. This book is not simply the work of a single author, but a collection of especially written essays, each by an expert in the field, all of whom are on the ...

King of the Vagabonds

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:57 PST

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A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.

Quicksilver

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:03:57 PST

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In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.

What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel v. 2

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:57:39 PST

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In this sequel to the best-selling What Einstein Told His Cook, he has added a new feature for curious cooks and budding scientists, "Sidebar Science", which details the chemical processes that underlie food and cooking. In the same plain language that made the first book a hit with both techies and foodies, Wolke combines the authority, clarity and wit of a renowned research scientist, writer an ...

What Einstein Told His Cook

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:57:39 PST

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Does the alcohol really boil off when we cook with wine? Are smoked foods raw or cooked? Are green potatoes poisonous? This work provides plain explanations of kitchen mysteries, with a liberal seasoning of wit. Organized into basic categories for easy reference, this book contains more than 130 lucid explanations of kitchen phenomena involving starches and sugars, salts, fats, meats and fish, he ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:36:44 PST

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A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its we ...

The Audacity of Hope

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 9:59:04 PST

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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged, ready to pull off the shelf. It will have to be constructed from the best of our traditions and will have to account for the darker aspects of our past. We will need to un ...

How We Got Here

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:03:50 PST

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Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them. Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the Industrial Revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and ...

The World Is Flat

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:01:28 PST

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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufa ...

The Tipping Point

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:02:43 PST

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This celebrated New York Times bestseller -- now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback -- is a book that is changing the way Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

Blink

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:02:27 PST

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Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military ...

On Intelligence

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:01:55 PST

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From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intel ...