Hyperink: 899 books
by Megan Yarnall
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick!Our Hyperink Quicklets include an overall summary, chapter commentary, key characters, literary themes, fun trivia, and recommended related readings.ABOUT THE BOOKRay Dalios Principles is a short work dedicated to the explanation of the differences...
by Valerie Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK So you want to live on less. Perhaps youd like to save for a downpayment on your first home or send your kids to private school. Maybe you have decided to quit your job to pursue a dream of starting your own small business. It could just be that you are seriously contemplating...
by Penelope Trunk
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK The New American Dream is about the pursuit of interestingness, not happiness. A career filled with variety, rather than defined by conventional paths to power and prestige, is what gives us satisfaction in the long run. This book is a blueprint for choosing a path of...
by Sarita Harbour
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK On April 5, 2012 Instagram was valued at 500 million dollars as part of a new round of funding with investors. Just a few days later, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, negotiated to buy it for $1 billion, $300 million cash and $700 million in Facebook shares. CNN called it one...
by Andrew Chen
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Andrew Chen is a blogger and entrepreneur focused on consumer internet, metrics and user acquisition. He is an advisor/angel for early-stage startups including Appsumo, Cardpool (acquired by Safeway), Catchfree, Gravity, Mocospace, Launchbit, Qik (acquired by Skype), WeeWorld, Votizen, and is also...
by Nayla Wren
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America is about the making of a great city and the development of two extraordinary, yet utterly disparate, men. The book is set in Chicago just before and during the 1983 Worlds Columbian Exposition (or the Worlds Fair...
by David Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less. Tim Ferriss is the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, a New York Times bestseller that incorporates the Pareto Principle and Parkinson's Law into a lifestyle of reduced working hours and more personal free time. After graduating from Princeton University, where...
by Devon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK In Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, Bill Bryson guides us through the complicated history of the English language to figure out why it is the way it is. It’s an interesting journey, part thesis and part pop science, that explains the most significant events in...
by Christina St-Jean
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK I’d stumbled upon Randy Pausch, a youngish professor from Carnegie Mellon University, quite by accident in 2011. I’d been looking for a good PowerPoint presentation about time management, and the one he gave was deemed to be really interesting, according to the Google...
by Brett Keith Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Laura Hillenbrand's second full-length focuses on the life of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic miler who became a war hero. His story has the ring of an Errol Flynn adventure flick (although Basil Rathbone would have made a bad Mutsuhiro Watanabe), and ever since his return...
by Lacey Kohlmoos
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Henrietta Lacks was a beautiful African American woman who always painted her toenails red. She loved to dance. She had a big laugh and mischievous eyes. She had five children whom she loved with every inch of her soul. No one knows what her favorite color was. Henrietta Lacks was full life,...
by Niko Silvester
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
ABOUT THE BOOK While working in New Guinea in 1972, where he was studying bird evolution, Jared Diamond met a local politician touring the area. At the time, Papua New Guinea was approaching independence after long being administered by Australia. Yali, the politician, spoke about preparing...
by Elspeth Michaels
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK In a 2006 interview with Meet the Author, the year when The Selfish Gene celebrated its 30th anniversary, Richard Dawkins had this to say: “...If I had to write it again, I wouldn’t write it very differently. It has been described as a revolutionary book, in one respect...
by Marci Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK How To Become A U.S. Citizen is your definitive pocket guide to becoming a permanent legal resident of the United States. Informative and concise, this book gathers and condenses crucial information on citizenship and presents it in an easy-to-read format. MEET THE AUTHOR...