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  • The Hit - David Baldacci
    From David Baldacci--#1 bestselling author and one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers--comes the most thrilling novel of the year. THE HIT Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming u […]
  • 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 […]
  • 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 […]
  • Silken Prey - John Sandford
    The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner. “If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport’s goin […]
  • 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 […]
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  • VJ - Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn & Gavin Edwards
    MTV’s original VJs offer a behind-the-scenes oral history of the early years of MTV, 1981 to 1987, when it was exploding, reshaping the culture, and creating “the MTV generation.” Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn (along with the late J. J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution—and the hijinks of music stars like Ada […]
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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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  • Inquebrantable - Jenni Rivera
    La única autobiografía autorizada de Jenni Rivera Jenni Rivera es la talentosa y aclamada cantante méxico-americana de música norteña, conocida como La Diva de la Banda, que falleció en un accidente aéreo el 9 de diciembre de 2012. Jenni había estado escribiendo su autobiografía, Inquebrantable, […]
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  • Waiting to Be Heard - Amanda Knox
    In November 2007, Amanda Knox was twenty years old and had been studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, for only a few weeks when her friend and roommate, a young English student named Meredith Kercher, was brutally murdered. The investigation made headlines around the world, and Amanda's arrest placed her at the center of a media firestorm. Young, naïv […]
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  • Drinking and Tweeting - Brandi Glanville & Leslie Bruce
    She’s the brutally honest breath of fresh air on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, known for her dramatic divorce, her barely-there clothing, and her inability to keep her mouth shut. So why should she change now? Brandi Glanville tells all in this hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir. Fans have been waiting for Brandi’s scoop on one of the biggest divorces […]
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Bloomberg appointee to scrutinise data privacy

<!– google_ad_section_start –> In a continuing effort to address concerns that reporters at Bloomberg News looked at terminal subscribers’ data, parent company Bloomberg appointed Samuel Palmisano, a former chairman and chief executive of IBM, to review its privacy and data standards. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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The man you call when the lights go out

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Nurse ordered to pay ex-boyfriend HK$1m fails to appear in court

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A nurse who was ordered to pay her ex-boyfriend almost HK$1 million in compensation for harassing him for six years failed to appear in court on Thursday and cannot be found. Joey Yip Lai-kuen, 34, failed to attend Thursday’s High Court hearing in which her ex-boyfriend Lau Tat-wai, 30, was seeking court orders for the disclosure and freezing of her assets so that he could be paid the HK$946,673 she was ordered in April to pay him. Her assets include the proceeds from the sale of her HK$2.8 million property in Tsang Kwan O, the court heard on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Google chief Larry Page discloses problem with vocal cords

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Google chief executive Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he remains fit enough to run the internet’s most influential company. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Beware of dodgy club membership pitches, says consumer council

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Consumer Council warned Hongkongers on Wednesday to beware of the deceptive tactics used by some salespeople trying to entice them into buying or renewing hotel or dining club memberships. The consumer watchdog said that it had received 124 complaints dealing with club memberships last year, down from 132 in 2011. And despite fewer complaints, the watchdog said, the nature of the sales practices had worsened from merely misleading to bordering on deceptive. <!– 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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Japan moving towards permanent nuclear reactor shutdown

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan’s west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Mothballing the reactor at Japan’s oldest nuclear station would be the most stringent measure adopted in Japan since the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station north of Tokyo exposed failings in nuclear oversight. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Taiwanese charged with trafficking Cambodian fishermen

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A Taiwanese woman has been charged with human trafficking after allegedly sending hundreds of Cambodians to work in slave-like conditions on fishing boats off Africa, police said on Wednesday. Lin Yu Shin, owner of the now defunct Giant Ocean International Company, was arrested in the tourist hub of Siem Reap last Friday, according to Chiv Phally of the interior ministry’s department tackling human trafficking. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Hong Kong businessman wins US$70m award in Las Vegas Sands lawsuit

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A jury on Tuesday dealt another defeat to casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in his nine-year fight with a Hong Kong businessman, awarding the former consultant US$70 million for helping Las Vegas Sands secure a lucrative gambling licence in Macau. But Las Vegas Sands says it won’t be paying up anytime soon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Casino owner Sheldon Adelson hit with $70 million verdict

<!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS — A Hong Kong businessman hit a $70 million court-awarded jackpot Tuesday when a jury agreed that he had helped the casino empire run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson get a gambling foothold in the People’s Republic of China. This is the second time in five years that jurors have awarded consultant Richard Suen a sizable sum in the bitter dispute. A jury’s 2008 finding for Suen was thrown out on appeal. Adelson’s lawyers vowed Tuesday to appeal the latest verdict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Tunnel collapse traps workers at Indonesian mine

<!– google_ad_section_start –> As many as 30 miners were trapped underground on Tuesday after a tunnel caved in at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, police said. The accident happened on Tuesday morning at the Grasberg mine in remote Mimika district, said Papua police spokesman Colonel Gede Sumerta Jaya. A search was underway, but the fate of the trapped workers was unclear, he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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TVB challenge to new licences rejected

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The High Court on Monday rejected broadcaster TVB’s bid for a judicial review of government deliberations on the issuing new licences for free-to-air television stations. In his ruling, Mr Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung said on Monday the court should not intervene now because the government had not made a decision on whether to grant new licences. TVB said in court filings in January that the Communications Authority made an “unlawful” recommendation in July when it supported licence applications from three companies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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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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Lurid Nazi-themed production of Wagner opera cancelled

<!– google_ad_section_start –> It was supposed to be one of the highlights of Richard Wagner anniversary celebrations, but a controversial Nazi-themed production of his Tannhäuser has been cancelled after it caused some audience members to seek medical help and prompted others to walk out in anger. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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US sanctions Taiwanese firm over North Korea shipments

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The US Treasury yesterday set sanctions on a Taiwan company and its chief executive for their ties to an effort to supply arms-related equipment to North Korea. The Treasury named Trans Multi Mechanics of Taichung, Taiwan, and chief executive Tony Chang Wen-Fu as having sanctions imposed under laws aimed at freezing the assets of those designated “proliferators of weapons of mass destruction” and their supporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Apple accused of tax evasion and spreading pornography by mainland legal group

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Apple is evading taxes in China and spreading pornography, said a Chinese consumer protection group in Beijing on Friday. The China Association of Consumer Protection Law, in a report published by the Legal Daily newspaper, accused Apple’s online stores in China of not paying import taxes for software that they sell to mainland consumers. The accusations come amid a global debate on how online retailers should be taxed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Eight dead as container ship crashes into control tower at port in Genoa

<!– google_ad_section_start –> At least eight people were feared dead after a container ship smashed into a control tower in Italy’s busiest port in Genoa. The 50-metre high, glass-topped tower was destroyed when the Jolly Nero ploughed into the dock during the night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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At least 3 killed in Italy after ship crashes into port

<!– google_ad_section_start –> At least three people were killed and six injured when a container ship rammed a control tower in the northern Italian port city of Genoa late on Tuesday, harbour officials quoted on local television said. “It is a terrible tragedy,” the head of the Genoa Port Authority Luigi Merlo told local Genoa television station Primocanale. “At the moment there is no explanation for the accident.” Two of the dead were harbour officials and the third was one of the pilots, local Primocanale quoted officials as saying. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Tourists, guide killed as Mayon volcano erupts in Philippines

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Three German tourists and their Filipino tour guide were killed yesterday when the Mayon volcano exploded into life, spewing massive boulders “as big as cars” and a giant ash cloud. Another tourist is missing and presumed dead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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bbTV to suspend local news channel

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) spokeswoman Jessie Cheng Ching-man said bbTV’s contract with HKTV ends on August 31 and the pay-TV service would not be renewing it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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  • Psychology - Yale School of Medicine
    Yale Faculty and distinguished guests speak on psychology research and latest studies happening at Yale. […]
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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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  • Early Middle Ages - Paul H. Freedman
    Major developments in the political, social, and religious history of western Europe from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transformation. Topics include the conversion of Europe to Christianity, the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam and the Arabs, the "Dark Ages," Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance, and the Viking and H […]
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 5 Minute Spanish I - David Nance
    These concise videos cut straight to the point in explaining introductory Spanish grammar concepts. Whether you are new to Spanish, looking for review materials, or in need of something to supplement what you are learning in your Spanish class, these videos should help you quickly improve your understanding of Spanish grammar. If you have an iPad, you may al […]
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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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