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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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The GOP Must Win Back the Black Vote

Jamelle Bouie writes at the Washington Post that if Mitt Romney had secured the same percentage of the African-American vote as George W. Bush, he'd be president today. 

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Son of evangelist Rick Warren commits suicide

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The son of popular US Christian evangelist Rick Warren has killed himself, the California church announced. Warren drew national attention in 2009 when he gave the invocation at US President Barack Obama’s historic inauguration. He is the author of the multimillion-selling book The Purpose Driven Life. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Deal on migrant labour lifts barrier to US immigration talks

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Prospects for a sweeping US law to create a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants have brightened after major business and labour groups reached an agreement on a guest-worker programme. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Why I Hate Debates

Do you want 20 more of them in 2016? Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s chief 2012 strategist, does not.

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Republican Party calls for change to halt losing streak at polls

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Republican leaders have offered a sweeping self-critique of a party they said was in an “ideological cul-de-sac” and needed better outreach and a new brand of conservatism to appeal to younger voters, ethnic minorities and women. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Barack Obama is a liar, Sarah Palin says at Republican conference in US

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, has called US President Barack Obama a liar and urged her party to stand by conservative values. “Barack Obama promised the most transparent administration ever. Barack Obama, you lie,” she said at the Conservative Political Action Conference. She was echoing a line from a Republican member of the House of Representatives who shouted at Obama during a speech to Congress in 2009 and accused him of lying about health care for illegal immigrants. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Rand Paul wins US conservatives’ 2016 presidential straw poll

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Paul, popular among the younger conservatives who thronged to the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, narrowly beat Senator Marco Rubio in the CPAC Straw Poll. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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We Learn Nothing

Garance Franke-Ruta canvasses CPAC delegates as to why Romney lost.

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Race debate at CPAC descends into chaos after slavery slur

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Panel designed to offer ways for GOP to connect with minority voters falls apart after provocative remarks from attendeeA discussion about race descended into chaos at CPAC on Friday when an attendee suggested slaves benefited from being given “food and shelter”.The provocatively titled session, “Trump the Race Card: Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You’re Not One”, had been billed as offering a way for Republicans to counter suggestions of racism and win over minority voters.But it fell apart when two people at CPAC, the largest annual gathering of US conservatives, interjected from the floor and and made a series of extreme remarks.The session’s moderator, K Carl Smith, described himself as a “Frederick Douglass Republican”, an audience member interjected. “When Douglass came through slavery … he [wrote] a letter to his former slave master and said: ‘I forgive you for all the things you did to me’,” Smith said.From the floor, Scott Terry, pictured, asked: “For giving him shelter and food for all those years?”The comment drew gasps from the crowd, and Smith moved quickly to try and defuse the situation, using a microphone to drown out the protests of another audience member. The controversy overshadowed the rest of the session, a breakout panel from the main conference.

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CPAC 2013: Mitt Romney urges GOP to ‘listen to Chris Christie’ – live

Big-name speakers on day two of the biggest conservative conference in the US include Donald Trump and Mitt RomneyJim Newell

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The Caucus: Romney’s Warm Reunion, and Other CPAC Updates

Mitt Romney received a warm welcome at the political gathering known as CPAC, and Senator Mitch McConnell urged his party to keep up the fight against the health care law.

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Republican senator backs gay marriage after son comes out

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Ohio Republican US Senator Rob Portman, who was on the short list last year to be the party’s vice presidential candidate, said he reversed his opposition to same-sex marriage after learning in 2011 that his son is gay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Come on, Mitt! You Always Thank the Help!

The one good thing to come out of Mitt Romney’s 47% debacle: surely never again will a Republican presidential candidate forget to thank the waitstaff after a fundraising dinner.

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We Need More Revenue for Social Security

What happens if we cut Social Security benefits for future retirees?

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2012 Was Much Bigger Than Mitt

Last week, David gave a talk at the UK Policy Exchange, a British think tank. The topic centered on why Mitt Romney lost the election and why the GOP is likely to see the similar election results for the forseeable future.

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In Defense of Ann Romney

Michelle Cottle has a suggestion for her fellow pundits: Cut Ann Romney some slack.

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Jeb Bush calls for revamp of US immigration policy

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush writes in a new book that Mitt Romney moved so far to the right on immigration that it proved “all but impossible” for the Republican presidential nominee to appeal to Hispanic voters last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Newt’s Reality Check

Gingrich says conservatives were ‘kidding themselves,’ while Ann Romney blames the press. By Howard Kurtz.

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No, I’m Pretty Sure Mitt Romney ‘Gets It’

The Daily Beast’s own Peter Beinart is out today with a rather scathing critique of what he deems Mitt Romney’s failure to get why he lost.

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He Still Doesn’t Get It!

Months after blaming his loss on Obama’s ‘gifts,’ Romney proved he’s still clueless, says Peter Beinart.

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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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