The Illustrated World’s Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions
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Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith’s classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World’s Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differenc… More >>
The Illustrated World’s Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions
August 28, 2010
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Living Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World’s Faiths
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Encompassing traditional faiths, indigenous religions, and the new religious movements, this book focuses on the historical development and teachings of each religion and explores how these religions have evolved into contemporary beliefs and practices…. More >>
Living Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World’s Faiths
August 24, 2010
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Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World’s Wealthiest Widows
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The mesmerizing biography of one of the world’s richest, most intriguing women—philanthropist and socialite Lily Safra In the early morning of December 3, 1999, Lily Safra stood shivering in her nightgown on the grounds outside her sumptuous Monte Carlo penthouse where, just hours before, her fourth husband, reclusive billionaire Edmond Safra, died in a fire. An American nurse employed by the Safra family was eventually convicted of the arson death. Overnight… More >>
Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World’s Wealthiest Widows
July 31, 2010
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Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World’s Wealthiest Widows
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The mesmerizing biography of one of the world’s richest, most intriguing women—philanthropist and socialite Lily Safra In the early morning of December 3, 1999, Lily Safra stood shivering in her nightgown on the grounds outside her sumptuous Monte Carlo penthouse where, just hours before, her fourth husband, reclusive billionaire Edmond Safra, died in a fire. An American nurse employed by the Safra family was eventually convicted of the arson death. Overnight… More >>
Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World’s Wealthiest Widows
July 31, 2010
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Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete
- ISBN13: 9781422146576
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Every week, millions of people including many of your employees spend hours playing multi-player online games with a level of engagement they don t bring to work. These aren t just adolescent video games we re talking rich narrative quests with 3-D environments, cool avatars, and compelling goals and rewards. Imagine the value if you could transfer key ingredients of game design and the gamer excitement and focus that come with it to the office. What if your employe… More >>
July 23, 2010
Tags: Businesses, Change, Compete, Engagement, Games, People, Total, Using, Virtual, Work, World's Posted in: Computers and Internet 5 Comments
Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs
- ISBN13: 9780345504128
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Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and … More >>
Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs
July 5, 2010
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The World’s Greatest Books Volume 01 Fiction
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery…. More >>
The World’s Greatest Books Volume 01 Fiction
July 1, 2010
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number
- ISBN13: 9780767908160
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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887…This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as “The Golden Ratio,” was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to … More >>
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number
June 3, 2010
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Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
- ISBN13: 9780262512626
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In Play Between Worlds, T. L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps—as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in which thousands of players participate in a virtual game world in real t… More >>
Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
June 3, 2010
Tags: Between, Culture, Exploring, Game, Online, Play, World's Posted in: Puzzles and Games 5 Comments
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird
- ISBN13: 9780812973136
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Caring for orphaned animals at her own zoo in the tropical country of Belize, Sharon Matola became one of Central America’s greatest wildlife defenders. And when powerful outside forces conspired with the local government to build a dam that would flood the nesting ground of the only scarlet macaws in Belize, Matola was drawn into the fight of her life.
In The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, award-winning author Bruce Barcott chronicles Sharon Matola’s… More >>
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird
June 1, 2010
Tags: Beautiful, Bird, Fight, Flight, Last, Macaw, Most, Save, Scarlet, Woman's, World's Posted in: Outdoors and Nature 5 Comments