Digital imprint: 12409 books
Summer of Unrest: The Debt Delusion
Exposing ten Tory myths about debts, deficits and spending cuts
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Britain in 2011 is in the grip of debt hysteria. If the current coalition government is going to be remembered for one thing it is the cuts: the most severe that this country has seen for decades. Cuts to university funding, libraries and public sector workplaces have seen the most high profile resistance,...
by Dr. Mundalaguthu Jayaram Rai
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The author, Dr. Mundalaguthu Jayaram Rai is a medical doctor, graduated from Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore. He hails from Puttur of Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka state, India. Reading and writing has been his childhood passion and now a hobby. He did his MRCP (UK) in internal medicine...
Brilliant Mistakes
Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Named #1 Best Business Book of 2011, by Patriot-NewsPennLive.com
If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant, or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from a brilliant mistake.
Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps...
by Raymond E. Blake
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Blood's Thicker Than Water is a story of Sex, Money, Murder and family ties in the heart of the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Two crews collide and leave a blood-bath in the streets; News reporters and local on-lookers are left speechless as Police and Medical personnel scrape up the pieces that the M.O.B and Yayo Boyz violently left behind.
Sacred Cows
The Rushdie Affair - How it Seemed Then
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
In 1989, after the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, Fay Weldon published Sacred Cows, a pamphlet critical of the fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran.
Weldon’s pamphlet received a lot of attention on publication – mostly criticism...
Public Art in Chicago
Photography and Commentary on Sculptures, Statues, Murals and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Public Art in Chicago collects writings published in the Chicago Tribune about more than 40 of Chicago's most famous and memorable installations of public art: sculptures, statues, fountains, mosaics, murals, and more. The articles included here were published between 1887 and the present and include...
Torngat Mountains, A New Waiver
A Northwords Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"Torngat Mountains, A New Waiver" is Noah Richler's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
Introduced by award-winning journalist and radio personality Shelagh Rogers, Northwords is...
by N Chokkan
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Nagasubramanian Chokkanathan (born January 17) better known by his pen name N.Chokkan is a Tamil Writer who has written two novels and nearly 100 short stories. His works has been translated into other Indian languages. Apart from this, he has written columns in several Tamil magazines. His interest...
Crack the C-Suite Code
How Successful Leaders Make It to the Top
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An insider’s guide to creating your own path to the corner office
How can I reach the C-suite? That is the most common question Cassandra Frangos hears from the executives she coaches. Many aspire to reach the C-suite, but the typical paths to the top are hard to find and difficult to follow.
In...
by Nariman Youssef
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
On 25th January this year 50,000 people descended on Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest against president Hosni Mubarak. What followed was an extraordinary 18 days when the square became the focal point for the hopes and fears of Egypt's people, in a situation often joyous but also intense, as the...
by L.L. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
As the Pilgrims set off for the New World to establish a colony, danger and struggle created many challenges to overcome. To survive and ensure the success of their colony, the Pilgrims looked to a few strong leaders. This book supports students as they compare and contrast the experiences of the...
Portraits in Jazz
80 Profiles of Jazz Legends, Renegades and Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Howard Reich has reported on jazz for the Chicago Tribune for almost four decades, and in this time he has met musicians both celebrated and obscure. From his exclusive interviews with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald, to profiles of the early masters like Louis Armstrong,...
by Rex Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
For over two decades, the art of the interview was very nearly the sole province of Rex Reed, the Master of the Celebrity Profile. While still in his twenties Rex Reed became the widely-syndicated film critic for The New York Observer and from that vantage point began to interview everyone in the...
Muslim Meems
Images to make you laugh... ok, at least smile!
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
A meme is a concept, usually in the form of an image, that spreads via the Internet. It has a good use in the real world: to create a message in a funny way. This collection is taken from across the whole Internet. Actually, just from Facebook. But they're all designed for Muslims to enjoy. With over...