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A short book combining extracts from the work of one of the world's greatest thinkers combined with commentary from one of Britain's most distinguished writers on philosophy.

Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715–1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber). It covers Cao Xueqin’s life from his birth in Nanjing in 1715 to the...

Ever since the “Monday Night Wars,” where WWE and WCW battled for wrestling supremacy (with the WWE coming out on top), there was now only one game in town. If fans wanted to watch wrestling, it was WWE or bust. That is no longer the case. Wrestling’s New Golden Age is both a historical...

Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently...

I hate high pressure sales routines! My wife knows I hate high pressure sales routines, but sometimes she judges the potential rewards sufficient to justify a violation of my sensitivities. That’s what happened the day we met Two Tone Jimmy.

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Finding the thing that motivates you is one thing, it is quite another to stick with it. And even while you have already succeeded in identifying what motivates you, the temptation to give in to more convenient, easier things like procrastination are much more powerful than getting yourself up and going....

It is my hope that this publication will enhance the lives of all that read it and bring about the life change needed for the addicted and alcoholic populations. I believe it to be a teaching for not only addictions but areas of life misdirected with the hope to recover. In the world in which we live...

In continuità con i seminari organizzati sui docenti che hanno dato prestigio alla Prima Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Milano (oggi Facoltà di Architettura e Società) nella seconda metà del '900 - Franca Helg (2006),Marco Zanuso (2007), Vittoriano Viganò (2008) - il volume ha come...

Finklestein noticed that many small business owners don't understand marketing; therefore they don't know whom to trust with their money. This book is intended to provide valuable marketing information and sound advice using practical and proven techniques for success.

Ron Williams’ flying career started in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve which he joined for his National Service in the 1950s. Having completed this he became a civilian pilot and embarked on a career that would see him flying an amazing variety of aircraft in all parts of the world. His...

In 1897, a stranger named Reverend Prescott Jernegan arrived in Lubec and made a bold claim: he could extract gold from seawater. To do so, he used so-called accumulators of electrically charged rods in iron pots. Fooling many, he actually hid the gold beneath a wharf in the Bay of Fundy during the night....

Are you a new team leader? Or maybe you do have experience, but you wish to improve the happiness and, of course, efficiency of your team? It is a daunting, but also challenging task. Many people need help with this important role; this book, ‘Leadership: 12 Simple Ways to Build an Effective Team’...

On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand...