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ABOUT THE BOOK Francois Hollande is poised to take the reins of the French government, whether the rest of the world is aware of who he is or not. Put another way, Hollande could just be the next big thing to hit European politics. Rising out of an unenviable political past characterized...

ABOUT THE BOOK “I wonder now, sir, whether I believed at all in the firmness of the foundations of the new life I was attempting to construct for myself in New York.” Americans remember where they were on September 11, 2001, a day that has become a permanent fixture in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...