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Dying to do Letterman : turning someday into today / by Mazan, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Woman -- Diagnosis Focus -- In Good Hands -- Reality Sets In -- Message in a Bottle -- My Next-to-Perfect Wedding Day -- That First Year -- With a Little Help from My Friends -- Going Public -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- Back to Basics -- Maybe Baby -- Tom Sawyer -- The Right Tape at the Right Time -- The Letterman List -- Forget the Cutting Room Floor -- Anticipation -- What Are Friends For? …”

Your company sucks : it's time to declare war on yourself / by Stevens, Mark

Table of Contents: “…-- You don't have to stay where you are -- An action plan for change -- Woo your customers: the power of the thrill -- Thrill to the nth degree: learn from the masters -- Thrill, thrill, and thrill some more -- Does your business "thrill?" …”

Harvard business review on manufacturing excellence at toyota / by Harvard business school publishing corporation

Table of Contents: “…. ; Ward, Allen C. -- 5. Time and motion regained / Adler, Paul S. -- 6. Managing in an age of modularity / Baldwin, Carliss Y. ; Clark, Kim B. -- 7. …”

Embedded language studies of Sri Lankan and Buddhist cultures. by Karunatillake, W. S.

Table of Contents: “…Buddhism in a Nutshell : The uses of Dhanmmapala 183 6. What do we see through the Dhamm eye? …”

Nanappabha : a felicitation volume in honour of venerable Dr. Pategama Gnanarama Maha Thera.

Table of Contents: “…The Theravada critique of the sarvastivadinas' doctrine of tritemporal existence 2. Some examples of samghabhadra's of the Vaibhasika doctrines 3. …”

Who was Bruce Lee? / by Gigliotti, Jim

“…Bruce Lee…”
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යකඩ යුගය

Yakada yugaya

by කොඑට්සි, ජේ. එම්

ඇගේ නම සෝබනා : වර්තමාන ඉන්දියානු කෙටි කතා

[Age nama sobana]

by රාඝවන්, චූඩාමණී

යකඩ යුගය

Yakada yugaya

by කොඑට්සි, ජේ. එම්

Collected ghost stories / by James, M. R.

Table of Contents: “…Canon Alberic's scrap-book -- Lost hearts -- The mezzotint -- The ash-tree -- Number 13 -- Count Magnus -- "Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" -- The treasure of Abbot Thomas -- A school story -- The rose garden -- The tractate middoth -- Casting the runes -- The stalls of Barchester Cathedral -- Martin's close -- Mr. …”

The snowball effect : communication techniques to make you unstoppable / by Bounds, Andy

Table of Contents: “…ve now got -- Persuade more people to say "yes" -- Understand what really motivates people -- Say things that excite people -- Align your agenda to everyone else's -- Get an enthusiastic "yes" very quickly -- Prove you're someone's best option -- Make a sale -- Write a winning proposal or sales presentation -- Stand out from the crowd -- Cause long-term change, not a short-term blip -- Use the best communication channel to get a quick "yes -- Create titles that instantly grab people -- Write eye-catching introductions -- Use analogies to make your point -- Structure your communications so they're more persuasive -- Pass an exam -- Get a job interview -- Enjoy your job more -- Ensure everyone : including you : thinks you're great -- Build powerful relationships quickly -- Get things right first time -- Deliver interesting presentations that impress everyone -- Use "word pictures" to help people remember things -- Use initials to help people remember things -- Use games and activities to make your point -- Enjoy using powerpoint -- Create great visuals to enhance your message -- Start a presentation brilliantly (when your audience is large and/or doesn't know you) -- Appear polished, even if you haven't practiced much -- Prepare for and deliver an excellent q&a session -- Ensure your important initiatives succeed -- Have good two-way conversations -- Enjoy attending networking events -- Help people read your documents quickly -- Improve people's performance through observation and coaching -- Improve people's performance after annual reviews -- Improve people's performance when you delegate to them -- Section E: Eliminate the negatives -- Stop saying "no" too quickly -- Say "no" in a way that doesn't cause you problems -- Come up with good ideas, but can't think of any -- R emove someone's concerns about what you're planning to do -- Remove someone's final reason for saying "no" -- Get good outcomes from challenging conversations -- Stop procrastinating about having challenging conversations -- Stop your messages becoming diluted -- Stop diluting other people's messages -- Stop hating presentations -- Avoid people instantly doubting your credibility -- Stop wasting your time with people who can't make decisions -- Prevent avoidable disasters -- Stop saying irrelevant stuff -- Break the pattern of hearing useful ideas, but doing nothing with them -- Conclusion: build momentum : to keep your snowball rolling, just turn right -- Appendix: Useful communication templates -- And for more help -- Acknowledgments -- About andy bounds -- Index.…”

Year's best SF. David G. Hartwell, by Hartwell, David G.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sleeping dogs / Joe Haldeman -- Castoff world / Kay Kenyon -- Petopia / Benjamin Crowell -- Futures in the memories market / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- A preliminary assessment of the Drake Equation, being an excerpt from the memoirs of Star Captain Y.…”
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Twenty observations on a world in turmoil / by Beck, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…-- Harm in exchange for money -- Illegal world citizens -- The cards of power are being reshuffled across the world -- Felt peace and waged war -- The return of social Darwinism or : which university do we want? …”

Do you Know? : a collection of useful information from science, art, literature, history, geography, discovery and present world happenings with a classified index

Table of Contents: “…2. words with a colour 3. who wrote the following lines? 4. how it started 5. some Shakespearian characters 6. Do you know your Literature? …”

Steampunk prime : a Vintage Steampunk Reader/ by Ashley,Mike

මගෙ නම නුජූඩ් වයස 10යි දික්කසාදයි

Mage nama Nujood vayasa 10 i dikkasadai

by අලී, නුජූඩ්

Images of Sri Lanka through American eyes : travellers in Ceylon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a select anthology /

Table of Contents: “…New England fishers of men in Jaffnapatam / Miron and Harriet Winslow -- 4. …”

Conflict resolution and peace building : the role of NGOs in historical reconciliation and territorial issues /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Sungho Kang, John W. McDonald, Chinsoo Bae -- New trends and challenges in modern armed conflicts / Ekaterina Stepanova -- Conflict transformation and historical reconciliation through multi-track diplomacy / John W. …”

Collector's choice : [featuring Professor Longhair].

Table of Contents: “…Go to the Mardi Gras (2:47) -- Every day, every night (2:19) -- If only I knew (2:32) -- Cuttin' out (2:36) -- Big chief (2:23) -- Big chief (alternate take) (2:27) -- Everyone's blowing (2:05) -- Everyone's blowing (alternate take) (1:55) -- I believe I'm gonna leave (2:19) -- A whole lot of twisting (2:13) -- Carnival time (Al Johnson) (2:39) -- Don't mess with my man (Irma Thomas) (2:19) -- You talk too much (Joe Jones) (2:30) -- I don't talk too much (Martha Carter) (2:10) -- Double-eyed whammy (Tommy Ridgley) (2:26) -- Check Mr. …”

Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / by Fisher, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Text complexity is the new black: -- Text complexity defined -- Revisiting how we match readers and texts -- Text complexity and the common core state standards -- The case for struggle -- Conclusion -- Quantitative measures of text complexity: -- Word-level analysis -- Sentence-level analysis --Conventional readability formulas -- Readability formulas that also measure readers -- Measuring coreference and cohesion -- Cautions and criticism of readability formulas -- Readability for early readers -- Conclusion -- Qualitative measures of text complexity: -- Considerate texts -- But not all texts are considerate -- Levels of meaning and purpose -- Structure -- Language conventionality and clarity -- Knowledge demands -- Returning to the hunger games, qualitatively -- Cautions and criticisms of qualitative analysis of text complexity -- Conclusion -- Matching readers to texts and tasks: -- Exploring the reader -- Exploring the task -- Exploring the question -- Shifting expectations -- Cautions and criticisms of matching readers with texts and tasks -- Conclusion -- A close reading of complex texts: Close reading -- Close reading up close in fourth grade : "post-it-notes" -- Close reading up close in ninth grade : "The road not taken" -- Conclusion.…”