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Islands beyond the horizon : the life of twenty of the world's most remote places / by Lovegrove, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Wrangel Island -- Chinijo Archipelago -- Jan Mayen -- Mykines -- Guam -- San Blas Islands -- Ascension Island -- Fernando de Noronha -- Mingulay -- Pico in the Azores -- Tristan da Cunha -- Vigur -- St Kilda -- South Georgia -- Halfmoon Island -- Great Skellig -- Ile aux Aigrettes -- Solovetski Islands -- St Peter and St Paul Rocks -- Tuamotu Archipelago -- Appendix. …”
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Power questions : build relationships, win new business, and influence others / by Sobel, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Begin at the Beginning -- 8. Start Over -- 9. You Can Overcome Anything If You Understand Why -- 10. …”

Improving workplace learning /

Table of Contents: “…Workplace learning : perspectives and challenges -- Expansive and restrictive learning environments -- Applying the expansive-restrictive framework -- Learner biographies, workplace practices and learning -- How individuals influence workplace practices, and how work can change worker dispositions and identities -- Workplace learning : the direct and indirect impact of policy interventions -- The direct and indirect impact of policy interventions : case studies from the research -- Improving workplace learning : an integrated approach.…”

Shadow ops. by Cole, Myke

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

Table of Contents: “…Valente -- To hie from far Cilenia / Karl Schroeder -- The hebras and the demons and the damned / Brenda Cooper -- Penumbra / Gregory Benford -- The good hand / Robert Reed -- The Cassandra Project / Jack McDevitt -- Jackie's-boy / Steven Popkes -- Eight miles / Sean McMullen -- Ghosts doing the orange dance / Paul Park.…”
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Against fairness by Asma, Stephen T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Minorities, majorities, and favoritism -- Affirmative action and favoritism -- The finite stretch -- Feeling the stones with your feet -- Because you're mine, I walk the line -- The virtues of favoritism -- You can't love humanity. You can only love people -- The future of favoritism -- The archbishop and the chambermaid.…”

Words to eat by : five foods and the culinary history of the English language /

Table of Contents: “…Pig-pickin's, prunes, and Häagen-Dazs : "What's in a name" -- Fruit and apples : "Dare to say what you call apple" -- Leeks : weeds or vegetables? : "If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em" -- Milk and dairy : "Stone Age Brits got milk" -- Meat : "Forty pounds of meat -- or no less than sixty" -- Bread : "Give us this day our daily bread" -- The return of the native, pr, "Who killed Gourmet magazine?" …”
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Pickled : from curing lemons to fermenting cabbage, the gourmand's ultimate guide to the world of pickling / by Carrolata, Kelly

Agriculture, food security, and rural development.

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Adhilekhana ashritha nava pravanatha

Table of Contents: “…Globalization Activities in Asian - Sri Lankan History - Chaminda Mihindukulasuriya.…”

Mouse Guard : legends of the guard. by David Petersen

Table of Contents: “…v. 2: Autumn tale / art & story by Stan Sakai -- Leviathan / art, Alex Eckman-Lawn ; story, Nick Tapalansky -- A bone to pick / art & story, Ben Caldwell -- Love of the sea / art & story, Christian Slade -- Over the falls / art & story, Rick Geary -- The shade / art & story, Jemma Salume -- The mouse generals / art & story, Eric Canete ; colors, Scott Keating -- When moles are around / art & story, C. …”

Defying dementia : understanding and preventing Alzheimer's and related disorders / by Levine, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Understanding dementia -- Introduction -- Confounders of dementia: normal aging, mild cognitive impairment and pseudo-dementia -- Alzheimer's disease -- Fronto-temporal dementia: Pick's disease -- Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia -- Vascular dementia and mixed dementia -- Less common forms of dementia -- Lowering the risk of dementia and maximizing cognitive function -- Accelerated aging, cognitive reserve and what we can't control -- The importance of physical activity and exercise -- The need for cognitive stimulation and socialization -- Diet and substances that may reduce the risk of dementia.…”

Zenn Scarlett / by Schoon, Christian

Sins and CEOs : lessons from leaders and losers that will change your career / by Moran, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…The sin : cowardice : no balls and dangerous meetings -- The sin : fiddling : Rome is burning and we're off-site -- The sin : waffling : it's never "whatever" -- The sin : paralysis : bald tires and building coffins -- The sin : cluelessness : "that can't be me!" -- Aggressive sinners. The sin : fibbing : a few small repairs is all we need -- The sin : arrogance : "pursuing other interests" -- The sin : vanity : "did you read my book?" …”

The essence of Buddha-Dhamma by Kularatne, H. de S.

Table of Contents: “…The Singularity of Buddhism 7. Practical Anatta 8. Can Nibbana be Understood? 9. Washing your sins away 10. …”

Neverisms : a quotation lover's guide to things you should never do, never say, or never forget / by Grothe, Mardy

Table of Contents: “…Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died (wit & wordplay) -- Never let a crisis go to waste (words to live by) -- Never give advice unless asked (advice) -- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today (classic neverisms) -- Never underestimate the power of a woman: and a lot of other things as well ("never underestimate" neverisms) -- Never give in, never, never, never, never! …”
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Trust me, I'm lying : the tactics and confessions of a media manipulator / by Holiday, Ryan

Table of Contents: “…Blogs make the news -- How to turn nothing into something in three way-too easy steps -- Blogs as a business : a brief overview -- Tactic #1: bloggers are poor, help pay their bills -- Tactic #2: tell them what they want to hear -- Tactic #3: give them what spreads, not what's good -- Tactic # 4: help them trick their readers -- Tactic #5: sell them something they can sell (exploit the one off problem) -- Tactic #6: make it all about the headline -- Tactic #7: kill 'em with pageview kindness -- Tactic #8: use the technology against itself -- Tactic #9: just make stuff up (everyone else is doing it) -- The monster attacks : what blogs mean -- Irin carmon, the daily show, and me: the perfect storm of how toxic blogging can be -- There are others : the manipulator hall of fame -- Cute but evil : online entertainment tactics that drug you & i -- The link economy : the leveraged illusion of sourcing -- Extortion via the web : facing the online shakedown -- The iterative hustle : online journalism's bogus philosophy -- The myth of corrections -- Cheering on our own deception -- The dark side of snark : when internet humor attacks -- The 21st century degradation ceremony : blogs as machines of hatred and punishment -- Welcome to unreality -- How to read a blog : an update on account of all the lies -- Conclusion.…”

The future of the agriculture and the agriculture of the future : from beaten track to untrodden paths

Table of Contents: “…Indigenous knowledge for modern agriculture 8. Organic farming 9. Agriculture in urban and peri-urban agriculture 10. …”

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Table of Contents: “…ගුරු සිසු සබඳතාව. 10. Asean economic community( aec) after 2015 opportunities and challenges. 11. …”

Social media analytics : effective tools for building, intrepreting, and using metrics / by Sponder, Marshall

Table of Contents: “…-- Targeting your customers: using data to find your customer -- Tracking international: multicultural social media -- Online social intelligence: extracting signal from noise -- Friends, fans, and followers: determining their worth -- Influence: finding it and measuring it -- Scorecarding: collecting and understanding social media data -- Advanced social analytics: implementation and monitoring scorecards -- Going beyond monitoring: content creation and content tracking -- Monitoring tools and technologies: the limits of what we can collect -- Convergence: mashing up data from disparate sources -- Where we're going: the future of social media analytics.…”