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  • 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 […]
  • 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 […]
  • Guilty Wives - James Patterson & David Ellis
    No husbands allowed Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. F […]
  • The Fifth Assassin - Brad Meltzer
    From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful. But now, Beecher White--the hero of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Inner Circle --discovers a killer in Washington, D.C., who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these four m […]
  • The Kingmaker's Daughter - Philippa Gregory
    Spies, poison, and curses surround her…. Is there anyone she can trust? In The Kingmaker’s Daughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a novel of conspiracy and a fight to the death for love and power at the court of Edward IV of England. The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the “Kin […]
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  • Impossible Odds - Jessica Buchanan, Erik Landemalm & Anthony Flacco
    In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. Together the two moved from Nairobi to Somalia, a […]
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  • An Invisible Thread - Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski & Valerie Salembier
    An Invisible Thread tells of the life-long friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness. When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afternoon, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to […]
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  • Night - Elie Wiesel & Marion Wiesel
    A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’ […]
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  • Happy, Happy, Happy - Phil Robertson & Mark Schlabach
    LIVING THE DREAM Duck calls—though the source of his livelihood—are not what makes Phil Robertson the man he is today. When asked what matters in his life, he’s quick to say, “Faith, family, ducks—in that order.” It isn’t often that a person can live a dream, but Phil Robertson, aka The Duck Commander, has proven that it is possible with vision, hard work, h […]
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  • My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
    The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determinatio […]
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Exiled Islamist praises ‘brave’ killing of soldier in London

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its “courage” and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Maestro who scaled heights brings celebration to city

<!– google_ad_section_start –> This is a major anniversary year for pianist-conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, the 75-year-old maestro who conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra tomorrow and on Saturday. First of all, it marks the 50th anniversary of his debut recording with Decca. In March 1963, he recorded Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor Anatole Fistoulari. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Hospitals treating nearly 60 injured, including more than a dozen kids, after Oklahoma tornado

<!– google_ad_section_start –> OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Hospitals treating nearly 60 injured, including more than a dozen kids, after Oklahoma tornado. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Several children pulled out of rubble alive at grade school in Oklahoma.

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Police: Elementary school in Oklahoma City suburb takes direct hit from mile-wide tornado

<!– google_ad_section_start –> MOORE, Oklahoma (AP) — Police: Elementary school in Oklahoma City suburb takes direct hit from mile-wide tornado. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Footage shows fires, flattened buildings after tornado rips through area near Oklahoma City

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Major projects can counter flooding in Asian cities, experts say

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Asia’s flood-prone cities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for rising populations, experts said yesterday at a water security forum. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that paralysed Jakarta and Manila last year and central Thailand in 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Environment ministry approves China’s biggest hydro dam

<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country’s tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 metres, will serve the hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over 10 years by a subsidiary of state power firm Guodian Group, it is expected to cost 24.68 billion yuan (HK$31.17 billion) in investment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Six foreign drug traffickers jailed up to 27 years

<!– google_ad_section_start –> In sentencing yesterday, Deputy Judge Mr Justice Gareth Lugar-Mawson described the case – involving cocaine with a street value of more than HK$500 million – as an extremely bad example of international drug trafficking. Saying he believed most of the cocaine was bound for the mainland, Lugar-Mawson said the law had to ensure Hong Kong would not become a drug transit centre in Asia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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DB residents on warpath over ferry fare rise

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Discovery Bay residents yesterday protested against a 9.5 per cent ferry fare increase approved by the Transport Department against their objections. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Love it or hate it, mums enjoy attention on Mother’s Day

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Mother’s Day – an occasion some families treat as a chance to show mum some thanks for all her hard work, but which others dismiss as just another commercial exploitation of human nature. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Turkish NTV television quotes minister saying death toll in explosion in Turkey is around 40

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Iran’s former president Rafsanjani has registered candidacy for June presidential election

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Mubarak appears in fresh trial over protester deaths

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Saturday to face a new trial for complicity in the murder of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising, as well as for corruption. The 85-year-old Mubarak, who was taken into court in a wheelchair dressed in white and wearing sunglasses, is on trial along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six security chiefs. He also faces corruption charges with his two sons, Alaa and Gamal. All defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges levelled against them. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Turkish official: Death toll in explosion near Syrian border rises to 13

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Conservation groups demand more action to save pink dolphins

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Leading conservation groups have called on the government to take urgent action to save Hong Kong’s pink dolphin population from pollution and reclamation. WWF Hong Kong called for an interdepartmental task force to be set up to find ways to save the dolphin population and for steps taken to halt reclamation projects they fear could push the mammals to the brink of extinction in Hong Kong waters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Ministers to consult public on retirement scheme

<!– google_ad_section_start –> With radical lawmakers mounting a filibuster of the budget bill to press the case for a universal pension scheme, government ministers on Saturday said the public would be consulted soon on a retirement protection scheme. A public consultation was “inevitable” once a government study of options was completed early next year, both the treasury and welfare ministers said. People Power lawmaker Albert Chan Wai-yip, a driving force behind the filibuster, which is holding up passage of the bill, welcomed their message. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Official says at least 4 killed, 18 injured in explosions near Turkey’s border with Syria

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Turkish state TV says several injured in explosion at municipal building near Syrian border

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Battery plant protest refects rising anger over pollution

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Saturday to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension over pollution. Police stood by as residents marched peacefully along a busy street in the Songjiang district of the city, gathering at an intersection near the site of a Carrefour hypermarket, chanting and holding signs saying “No factory here, we love Songjiang.” Many wore matching t-shirts with an image of a smoky factory enclosed by the red “no” symbol. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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  • Building a Business - Oxford University
    A lecture series of basic business skills, Building a Business covers good business practice with a focus on science entrepreneurship. It is designed around technological enterprise but most course material is relevant to general business practice. […]
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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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  • Circuits and Electronics - Instructor: Prof. Anant Agarwal
    6.002 (Circuits and Electronics) introduces the fundamentals of the lumped circuit abstraction. Topics covered include: resistive elements and networks; independent and dependent sources; switches and MOS transistors; digital abstraction; amplifiers; energy storage elements; dynamics of first- and second-order networks; design in the time and frequency domai […]
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Biology - Khan Academy
    Covers topics seen in a first year college or high school biology course. […]
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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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  • What Great Bosses Know - The Poynter Institute's Jill Geisler
    Jill Geisler heads the Poynter Institute's leadership and management programs. In these Poynter podcasts, she shares practical leadership lessons for managers who want to be great bosses. You can read companion "Great Bosses" columns on www.Poynter.org. Jill's book: "WORK HAPPY: WHAT GREAT BOSSES KNOW" is now available in book s […]
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  • Arming the Donkeys - Dan Ariely, Professor of Behavioral Economics, Duke University
    Duke economist and New York Times best-selling author Dan Ariely ("Predictably Irrational") is your host for a weekly series of informal one-on-one chats with researchers in social and natural sciences. […]
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  • Mindful Meditation at the Hammer - UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
    Meditation at the Hammer sessions are led by Diana Winston, Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC, and by guest leaders. Each week has a different theme, and usually includes some introductory comments, a guided meditation, some silent practice time, and closing comments. Each session also offers a new daily life practice for the week. […]
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  • Masters of Photography - National Geographic Live
    Step behind the camera with top-flight photographers. […]
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Preaching Christ in a Postmodern World - Dr. Edmund P. Clowney and Dr. Timothy J. Keller
    Originally taught as a Doctor of Ministry course, Dr. Keller and Dr. Clowney (1917-2005) ask, “Is Jesus made visible in every sermon or only talked about?” By analyzing and deconstructing other models of preaching that either exhort on moral levels or attempt to evoke an emotional response, Dr.’s Keller and Clowney provide a model of preaching that is Christ […]
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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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  • 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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