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  • 12th of Never - James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
    It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in […]
  • Inferno - Dan Brown
    In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code , Angels & Demons , and The Lost Symbol , Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harro […]
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgeral […]
  • Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James
    When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Er […]
  • And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
    An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just […]
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  • Wild - Cheryl Strayed
    A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.   At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, wit […]
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  • Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
    Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In  Lean In,  Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achievin […]
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  • Beautiful Boy - David Sheff
    What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor stu […]
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  • The Outsider - Jimmy Connors
    Jimmy Connors is a working-man's hero, a people's champion who could tear the cover off a tennis ball, just as he tore the cover off the country-club gentility of his sport. A renegade from the wrong side of the tracks, Connors broke the rules with a radically aggressive style of play and bad-boy antics that turned his matches into prizefights. In […]
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  • Someone Could Get Hurt - Drew Magary
    A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online. And now he’s finally bringing that unique voice to a memoir. In Som […]
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Top Communist Party unit to tighten rules on rapid promotions

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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China cracks down on over-the-top anti-Japan dramas

<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s television regulator has ordered a crack down on dramas about the country’s battles with Japan during and before World War II and demanded they be more serious, state media said on Friday, following viewer complaints about ludicrous storylines Ties have been shadowed for years by what Beijing says has been Tokyo’s refusal to admit to wartime atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in the country between 1937 and 1945, something taught to every Chinese school child and a staple of television dramas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Vietnam jails 2 student activists for inciting protests against China

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China. The sentences, handed down yesterday by a court in the southern province of Long An, were the latest in an intensified crackdown against dissent in the one-party, authoritarian state. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Ex-Philippine president leading in race for Manila

<!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Art with political twist goes on show

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Political artworks from the first decade after the Cultural Revolution – by artists in the new arts hub museum collection that is yet to be seen by the public – will go on show across the harbour tomorrow. Over 100 works by 22 artists – including Ai Weiwei , Ma Desheng and Wang Keping – are featured in the “Light Before Dawn: Unofficial Chinese Art 1974-1985″ exhibition at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, ahead of next week’s Art Basel debut in the city. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Questions over son’s rapid rise in Guangdong county leads to his demotion

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A 29-year-old deputy county head of Jieyang in Guangdong has been demoted to the rank of clerk after internet users questioned whether his father, who held the post before him, had a hand in his son’s fast-track promotion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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China calls US the ‘real hacking empire’ after Pentagon report

<!– google_ad_section_start –> China on Wednesday accused the United States of sowing discord between China and its neighbours after the Pentagon said Beijing was using espionage to fuel its military modernisation, branding Washington the “real hacking empire”. The latest salvo came a day after China’s foreign ministry dismissed as groundless a Pentagon report which accused China for the first time of trying to break into US defence computer networks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Communist Party papers remark on Hong Kong quake donation row, quoting pan-dems

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Two Communist Party mouthpieces yesterday reported the controversy in Hong Kong over the HK$100 million donation to earthquake victims in Sichuan – pointing the finger at the Red Cross Society of China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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HKU’s Malaysian students question election results back home

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A group of 30 Malaysian students, most of whom were too young to vote, gathered on Monday at the Democracy Wall at Hong Kong University to vent their deep distrust of Malaysia’s election results that brought the governing coalition its 13th straight election win. The messages they posted on the wall included: “I am against Dirty Politics” “Unfair! Rigged!” “I want democracy, not magic” and “Democracy is dead”. The posters were written in Chinese, English and Malay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Syrian Electronic Army claims credit for E! Online Twitter hacking

<!– google_ad_section_start –> E! Online says hackers compromised its Twitter and text messaging accounts, sending out erroneous news alerts about Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Hong Kong Red Cross vows to monitor use of Yaan quake donations

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Hong Kong Red Cross has promised to monitor the use of the HK$12 million it has received in donations to help survivors of last month’s earthquake in Sichuan province. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Last South Koreans leave jointly-run border factory

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, silencing the complex for the first time since it was launched nine years ago in a seemingly distant era of reconciliation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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China’s emotional ties to North Korea run deep in border city

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Peering at graphic pictures of supposed US biological warfare efforts during the 1950-53 Korean war, Zhang Ping tugs on the sleeve of a visiting foreign reporter to complain about the barbarism visited on his compatriots during the conflict. “Too terrible, those Americans,” he mutters, standing at a war museum on the Chinese side of the North Korean border, pointing out the pictures of infected animals and insects which China and North Korea say the United States dropped to poison their enemies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Construction worker killed by blast at Nanjing University

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A powerful blast in an abandoned university laboratory in Nanjing left one person dead and three injured yesterday. The explosion destroyed the lab at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology and shattered windows in nearby homes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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China arrests all 19 suspects in deadly Xinjiang clash

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Police have arrested all 19 suspects in connection with a deadly clash that began after authorities saw terrorists making explosives in China’s western region of Xinjiang, propaganda officials and state media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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‘Burma’s bin Laden’ spearheads 969 campaign urging boycott of Muslims

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Wrapped in a saffron robe, Buddhist monk Wirathu insists he is a man of peace. Never mind his nine years in prison for inciting deadly violence against Muslims. Never mind the gruesome photos outside his office of Buddhists allegedly massacred by Muslims. Never mind that the man dubbed “Burma’s bin Laden” has emerged as the spiritual leader of a pro-Buddhist fringe movement accused of fuelling a campaign of sectarian violence. Wirathu insists the world has misunderstood him. “If they knew my true ideas, they would call me saviour,” he says. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Critic of one-child policy in from cold

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Yi Fuxian was trained as a clinic medicine specialist before obtaining a PhD in medicine in the United States, but the Hunan native is better known as a staunch critic of the mainland’s one-child policy, or family planning as authorities prefer to call it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Nato says war against Afghan’s Taliban being won

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Nato said on Thursday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is being won, despite reports by other agencies of a sharp upsurge in insurgent attacks this year. “While numerous challenges remain, there are some basic facts that highlight the improved security across the country,” said US General Joseph Dunford, head of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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3 Tibetans self-immolate to protest Beijing, say reports

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heavy security presence, exiled Buddhist monks and reports said on Thursday. More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2011 to protest Chinese policies in the region and call for the return of their beloved spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, from exile. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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21 killed in ethnic ‘terror’ clashes in China’s Xinjiang

<!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 20 people, including police officers and social workers, were reportedly killed on Wednesday in violent clashes in China’s ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, what is being described as a “terror incident”. “Twenty-one persons were killed in all… including social workers and policemen,” an official surnamed Cao from the provincial government’s news office said of the incident, which, he added, occurred on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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  • Linear Algebra - Prof. Gilbert Strang
    This is a basic subject on matrix theory and linear algebra. Emphasis is given to topics that will be useful in other disciplines, including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, similarity, and positive definite matrices. *Please note that Lecture 4 is unavailable in a higher quality format. […]
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  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming - Eric Grimson, John Guttag
    This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The cla […]
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  • Introduction to Algorithms - Prof. Erik Demaine Prof. Charles Leiserson
    This course teaches techniques for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, emphasizing methods useful in practice. Topics covered include: sorting; search trees, heaps, and hashing; divide-and-conquer; dynamic programming; amortized analysis; graph algorithms; shortest paths; network flow; computational geometry; number-theoretic algorithms; polynom […]
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  • Game Theory - Video - Ben Polak
    (ECON 159) This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, […]
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  • Introduction to Programming in C# - Course Materials - Georgia State University
    This course provides an introduction to programming using the C# language. Emphasis is placed upon the development of correct, efficient programs that are easy to maintain. Topics include problem analysis, program design, documentation, testing and debugging. Basic features of the C# programming language are covered. […]
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  • Harvard Thinks Big - Harvard University
    Harvard Thinks Big is a campus-wide event that brings together some of Harvard’s most renowned faculty members to speak to the school’s undergraduate community. Harvard Thinks Big borrows from the mold of the TED conferences— a collection of all-star Harvard professors each speak for ten minutes about something they are passionate about. The goal of the even […]
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  • Critical Reasoning for Beginners - Oxford University
    Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate them? In this six-part course, you will learn all ab […]
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  • Dean Lectures - California Academy of Sciences
    This series of talks for the general public is given by noted scientists in the fields of astronomy and space science. It is held in the Morrison Planetarium, home of the most accurate and interactive digital Universe ever created, which is shown on the world's largest all-digital dome. This iTunes U Collection contains the audio podcasts from this lect […]
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  • Machine Learning - Andrew Ng
    This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. The course also discusses recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing. Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminati […]
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  • iPad and iPhone Application Development (HD) - Paul Hegarty
    Updated for iOS 5. Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone and iPad platform using the iOS SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multi-touch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller paradigm, memory management, Objective-C programming language. Other topics include: obje […]
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  • Mathematics for Computer Science - Tom Leighton, Marten van Dijk
    This course covers elementary discrete mathematics. Mathematical definitions and proofs are emphasized. Topics include formal logic, induction, graph theory, asymptotic notation and growth of functions, counting principles, and discrete probability. […]
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  • Programming Methodology - Mehran Sahami
    This course is the largest of the introductory programming courses and is one of the largest courses at Stanford. Topics focus on the introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing. Programming Methodology teaches the w […]
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  • Mindful Meditations - UCLA
    Our mission is to foster mindful awareness through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society. Mindful Awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental and emotional experiences. Mindful Awareness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost th […]
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  • Masters of Photography - National Geographic Live
    Step behind the camera with top-flight photographers. […]
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  • Science and Cooking - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
    This public lecture series discusses concepts from the physical sciences that underpin both everyday cooking and haute cuisine. Each lecture features a world-class chef who visited and presented their remarkable culinary designs: Ferran Adria presented spherification; Jose Andres discussed both the basic components of food and gelation; Joan Roca demonstrate […]
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  • Physics I: Classical Mechanics - Walter Lewin
    8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stel […]
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  • Single Variable Calculus - Prof. David Jerison
    This introductory calculus course covers differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, with applications *Note: Lectures 8, 17, 27, 33 were the exams and therefore have no videos. […]
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  • Electricity & Magnetism - Prof. Walter Lewin
    In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Teles […]
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  • Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus - MIT OpenCourseWare
    Calculus Revisited is a series of videos and related resources that covers the materials normally found in a freshman-level introductory calculus course. The series was first released in 1970 as a way for people to review the essentials of calculus. It is equally valuable for students who are learning calculus for the first time. About the Instructor Herb Gr […]
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  • Financial Theory - Video - John Geanakoplos
    This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Rather than separating off the financial world from the rest of the economy, financial equilibrium is studied as an extension of economic equilibrium. The course also gives a picture of the kind of thinking and analysis done by hedge funds. […]
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