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by Linda Przygodski
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Though conspiracy theories exist in every nation and in every society, some have managed to pique the interest of readers on an international level. The Secret Order of the Illuminati is among these. My personal interest in this particular conspiracy theory and its historical...
by Steven Middendorp
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Quicklets: Learn more. Read less. George Orwell (1903-1950) was born as Eric Blair in in Motihari, Bengal. Along with Animal Farm, 1984 is among Orwell's most popular works. Before he wrote either of these novels, Orwell supported himself as a book reviewer and journalist. Orwell lived through...
by Abdul Montaqim
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Like many people out there, I sometimes visit quotations websites, just to read a few wise words, have my spirits lifted, and maybe get some ideas. And quotations by Confucius are always worth reading for their emphasis on human values and strengths. Confucius was fundamentally...
by Joseph Phillip Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK What do Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Jeremy Lin have in common? Heres a hint, its not that theyre basketball superstars. If you said training, then you are absolutely right. They all train hard to be able to play at their level. Those spectacular moves you...
by Lily McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK You may have heard somewhere that men are from Mars, and women are from Venus. Whether or not this is indeed the case (I hear NASA is still looking into it), we’re all here together on planet Earth. And we have to get along. And what better way to get along with the “opposite”...
by Ben Mitchell Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK “This is a country that loses a prime minister and that is so vast and empty that a band of amateur enthusiasts could conceivably set off the world’s first non-governmental atomic bomb on its mainland almost four years would pass before anyone noticed. Clearly, this is a...
by Davanna Cimino
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick! ABOUT THE BOOK Bill Brysons Im a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away is an hilarious, pointed, and sometimes poignant collection of the columns he wrote for the British magazine, Night & Day. Bryson wrote these pieces...
by Charles Limley
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK By 1838, tensions between Mormon settlers and residents of western Missouri reached dangerous levels, and violence soon erupted. As more and more members of the newly created church began settling in the growing Mormon strongholds of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri and...
by Seth Leeper
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK If you can’t shake the feeling that you’re stuck in the circumstances that surround you, you’re frustrated with the stagnation of your career’s momentum, or you yearn for something more than you already have, Dan Gilbert’s Why Are We Happy? lecture may help you gain...
by Elspeth Michaels
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Skins, a British teen dramedy set in Bristol, England, chronicles the lives of a core group of friends at Roundview College. Often heralded as the best, the original ensemble is an eclectic bunch, transcending Breakfast Club stereotypes, and even the rigid clique systems of high school. Named after...
by Zeya Schindler
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK “By 2050 the development gulf will no longer be between a rich billion in the most developed countries and five billion in the developing countries; rather, it will be between the trapped billion and the rest of humankind.” Written in 2007, Paul Collier’s,...
by Deena Shanker
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK I first read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina shortly after finishing Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The books, both set in Russia in that late 1800s, tell two very different stories, yet explore many similar themes. Anna Karenina is a tale of an adulterous upper class...
by Steven Needham
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Graduation from college is a time of joy and relief, but for those saddled with student loan debt, it can also be a time of fear and trepidation. Students get a six-month grace period before they’re required to start paying their loans, but this will pass quickly, so it is...
by Danielle Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK When I first read Robinson Crusoe, I’ll admit, it was an assignment. I wasn’t really into the idea of reading a story about a man who gets dumped on an uninhabited island and then finds redemption as he learns to live with himself for twenty-eight years. As soon as I started...