Feature Articles
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So Much for That
From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness.
Shep Knacker has long saved for “The Afterlife”: an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic [...]
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The Lost Man Booker Prize Winner Announced
Just to recap from my earlier blogs (dated Feb 4, 2010 and March 31, 2010) – back in 1971, the Booker Prize was revamped to honour the best novel of the year based on its year of publications. And so, many books published in 1970 were left without any opportunity of winning a Booker Prize… until [...]
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Books you could have been jailed for reading
Many books have been banned for not conforming to the political, religious or moral codes of their country.
Here, we shall be looking at ten controversial books which may have been banned around the world.
Although you’re unlikely to be jailed these days, you might have been once so read carefully.
1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is [...]
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Your Handy Guide to FIFA World Cup 2010
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Contests and Promotions, Feature Articles
The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international football competition contested by the men’s national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the [...]
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Strategy Power Plays! A Must Read!
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In Strategy Power Plays, Karen McCreadie and Tim Phillips combine some of the greatest political and military stategic concepts from their interpretations of these two classics: Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Here, in one handy volume McCreadie and Phillips interpret the key ideas in these classics for the modern [...]
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Flashback to the Tragic RMS Titanic Incident – 98th Anniversary
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The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland. At the time of her construction, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.
Shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912, four days into [...]
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Dale Carnegie
5 Essential People Skills
The business leaders and trainers from Dale Carnegie Training have discovered that applying appropriate assertiveness to all your interactions is the most effective approach to creating a successful career. The 5 Essential People Skills will help you be the most positively commanding, prosperous, and inspired professional you can be. You will learn [...]
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Gone Tomorrow
Gone Tomorrow
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. By definition they’re all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o’clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, he becomes sharply aware: [...]
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Steel
Big Girl: A Novel
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.
Victoria -a chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes and ordinary looks – has always felt out of place in her family. When her younger sister [...]
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e-Reader, at what price will you buy?
Technical Specifications
- Capacity – 2GB (Internal) up to 32GB (External)
- Dimensions/Weight – 203×127×9mm (HxWxD)/284g
- Connection Type – USB 2.0
- Menu Language – 15 Languages (English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Korean, Turkish, Dutch, Swedish, Czech, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional, and Japanese)
- Playback Time – Reading: 9000 pages, Music: 20 Hours, Recording: 5 Hours (all [...]
