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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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Australian gets 45 years for Indian student’s murder

<!– google_ad_section_start –> An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed on Friday for 45 years for the “horrifying” murder. Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old accounting student who lived in an adjoining room at his Sydney boarding house, the Supreme Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Dumpling eatery Din Tai Fung tops 101 Best Asian Restaurants poll

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwanese eatery Din Tai Fung, which is famed for its dumplings, was crowned Asia’s best restaurant, while restaurants in Beijing claimed the lion’s share of spots in the top 10 of a new survey of the food-obsessed region’s best dining. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Slower Chinese growth adds to pressure on leaders

<!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — Global economic malaise has knocked the stuffing out of Luo Yan’s business making toy animals. Sales of Hello Kitty dolls and plush rabbits have fallen 30 percent over the past six months, according to Luo, owner of Tongle Toy Enterprise, which employs 100 people in the southern city of Foshan, near Hong Kong. Orders from the United States and debt-crippled Europe are down 80 percent. “We don’t talk about profits anymore,” said Luo. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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First music video recorded in space? Brought to you by our favourite tweeting astronaut

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Commander Chris Hadfield leaves the International Space Station after five months with a fitting tribute <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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HSBC cards no longer work in many overseas ATMs

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Many on business trips or holidays have said they were unable to get their hands on their cash from ATM machines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Indonesia jails Australian, Pakistani people smugglers

<!– google_ad_section_start –> An Indonesian court jailed an Australian and a Pakistani for six years each after the men were caught organising an asylum-seeker boat to Australia, their lawyer said on Wednesday. Ali Qaseem, a 57-year-old from Sydney described by prosecutors as part of an “international people-smuggling network”, and Pakistani Sadaat Ali were also fined 500 million rupiah (HK$400,000) each. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Murder suspect strolls out of Philippine jail

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A former policeman on trial for murder in the Philippines escaped from jail on Thursday, then embarrassed authorities further by speaking to media outlets over the phone. Ex-police superintendent Cezar Mancao, charged with murder over the 2000 killings of a well-known publicist and his driver, casually walked out of a detention centre in Manila with the help of prison wardens, authorities said. “His escape is a big slap to the bureau’s face,” National Bureau of Investigation director Nonnatus Rojas told reporters after confirming the escape. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Australia proposes new tax for disability welfare

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pinned her government’s re-election hopes on a new welfare scheme for the disabled, proposing on Tuesday a new tax to better fund care for Australians with severe physical and mental disabilities. The tax would not be paid until July 1, next year. Gillard said legislation to create the tax would not be considered by Parliament before general elections on September 14. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Australian Charged With Hacking Government Site

Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday.

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Wages strike by Lufthansa staff grounds 1,755 flights

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Nearly 150,000 passengers were affected as Germany’s largest airline Lufthansa suspended almost its entire service for a full day because of a pay strike. The airline grounded a total of 1,755 flights yesterday, with those to European and domestic destinations the hardest hit. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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World experts to help China with bird flu investigation

<!– google_ad_section_start –> An international team of flu experts will go to China within a week to help with investigations into the deadly H7N9 virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The new strain of avian flu has killed 14 among 63 people known to have been infected, but no human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed. China confirmed on Saturday a seven-year-old child had been infected by the virus in the capital Beijing, the first case outside the Yangtze river delta region in eastern China where the new strain emerged last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Two top terror suspects survive Philippine offensive

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Two al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf commanders, including one on the FBI’s list of most-wanted terrorists, survived a Philippine military offensive that killed eight militants and led to the seizure of their jungle lair and bomb materials in the southern Philippines, the military said on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: the guest list

<!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 2,000 global political figures, celebrities and even a couple of Margaret Thatcher’s old foes have been invited to her funeral in London on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Asian stock markets mixed as gains cashed in

<!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday as investors turned cautious and took profits from recent rallies in spite of evidence pointing to an improving U.S. employment picture. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index retreated 0.6 percent to 13,463.66, a slip from the day before when the Tokyo benchmark closed above 13,500 for the first time since August 2008. The Nikkei has been riding high on the Bank of Japan’s aggressive new approach to jolting the world’s third-largest economy out of a prolonged slump. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Black market for guns thriving in Philippines

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Bespectacled and clean shaven, 37-year-old Jomari Paraas could pass for a typical office employee in the Philippines, except he has six guns in his backpack that he will soon sell. The father-of-two is a prolific player in the country’s enormous and lucrative weapons black market, which has been under scrutiny following a spate of high-profile massacres and shoot-outs this year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Xi calls for zero tolerance of any troublemakers in Asia

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday that Asia faced “new challenges” to its stability and warned no one could be allowed to throw the region into chaos as tensions mounted over North Korea. Xi, delivering a speech at an annual international forum on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, did not mention the crisis on the Korean Peninsula or China’s territorial disputes with Japan and Southeast Asian nations. But he said there should be no tolerance for those who foster “chaos for selfish gains”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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WikiLeaks Party unveils Australian election plans

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans on Saturday to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections and said it would be “embarrassing” if Julian Assange won but couldn’t take his seat. Assange, Australian-born founder of the controversial WikiLeaks site, announced that he would run for the Senate last year and is pushing ahead with the plan despite being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Expert ‘cautiously worried’ over China’s H7N9 bird flu strain

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A mutated bird flu virus that has killed six people in China displays worrying traits that warrant high vigilance, experts say, though the true extent of the threat is unclear. Most concerning is the virus’ wide geographical spread, and the fact that it seems to be spreading unseen among its host animals, possibly chickens or ducks. “I am cautiously worried,” virologist John Oxford of the Queen Mary University of London said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Australian extradited to NY in insider trade case

<!– google_ad_section_start –> NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian former research analyst brought to New York from Hong Kong to face trial in an insider trading case has pleaded not guilty. Bail was set at $250,000 for Trent Martin during his appearance Friday in federal court in Manhattan. He arrived Thursday in the United States after his extradition from Hong Kong, where he was arrested in December. The 33-year-old Australian citizen is charged with conspiracy and securities fraud. He is accused of trading illegally ahead of the public announcement of IBM’s 2009 acquisition of a software company. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Australian analyst extradited in inside trade case

<!– google_ad_section_start –> NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian former research analyst has been brought to New York to face trial in an insider trading case. Trent Martin was scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Friday afternoon. He arrived Thursday in the United States after his extradition from Hong Kong, where he was arrested in December. The 33-year-old Australian citizen is charged with conspiracy and securities fraud. He is accused of trading illegally ahead of the public announcement of IBM’s 2009 acquisition of a software company, SPSS Inc. <!– 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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  • Pre-Calculus MAC 2147 - Professor Rosenthal
    FALL 2011 […]
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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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