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  • Eleven Rings - Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty
    During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the “Zen master” half in jest by sportswriters, […]
  • 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 […]
  • Mine For Tonight / Mine For Now / Mine Forever / Mine Completely - J. S. Scott
    This complete collection of The Billionaire's Obsession includes: Mine For Tonight Mine For Now Mine Forever Mine Completely Heart Of The Billionaire ~ Sam and Maddie's story is now available. Down on her luck, nursing student and full-time waitress Kara Foster gets a massive blow to her already desperate financial situation that will surely find h […]
  • 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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  • Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore
    With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Moore has had unique access to all of Thatcher’s private and gove […]
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries

<!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google’s dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company’s website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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US ambassador summoned in Russia spy row

<!– google_ad_section_start –> US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on Wednesday met officials at the foreign ministry after being summoned to explain the presence of an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the embassy who was detained this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Grandson of Malcolm X killed in Mexico City

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said on Friday. He was 28. City prosecutors are investigating the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of blunt-force trauma injuries. United States officials confirmed that Shabazz was killed in Mexico City. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Study finds Europe, Asia shared common language 15,000 years ago

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Languages spoken by billions of people across Europe and Asia are descended from an ancient tongue uttered in southern Europe at the end of the last ice age, according to research. The claim, by scientists in Britain, points to a common origin for vocabularies as varied as English and Urdu, Japanese and Itelmen, a language spoken along the northeastern edge of Russia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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More than a thousand petition to save renowned HKU library

<!– google_ad_section_start –> About 1,500 academics, students and researchers – including a former US diplomat – have signed an online petition for more funds for the University of Hong Kong library, which they say is “going downhill very fast”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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ESF fees could rise 20pc as subsidy phases out

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Fees for new students entering the English Schools Foundation from 2016 could be more than 20 per cent higher as the government phases out its decades-old subsidy for the foundation. The change is the result of drawn-out negotiations between the Education Bureau and the ESF, which officials have described as a “colonial legacy”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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The mother of all Gangnam parodies, Harilela style

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The music video features a “super mum” rapping about her day-to-day joys – and pains – of 21st century motherhood. <!– 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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Ferguson to have hip surgery in offseason

<!– google_ad_section_start –> MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson will have hip surgery this summer that could see him miss the start of next season. The English champions confirmed widespread reports in the British media on Saturday that Ferguson is booked in for an operation that will not interfere with the club’s three-week preseason tour of Thailand, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong ending July 30. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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British PM Cameron faces poll battering by anti-EU party UKIP

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s ruling Conservatives were yesterday at risk of losing hundreds of seats in local polls amid a surge in popularity for the anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP). The elections will go some way to measuring the threat UKIP will pose to the Conservatives’ hopes of re-election in 2015. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Early American settlers ate buried corpse of young girl

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Archaeologists excavating a rubbish pit at the site of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, US, have found the first physical evidence of cannibalism among the desperate population, corroborating written accounts left behind by witnesses. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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The racist curse of Fu Manchu

<!– google_ad_section_start –> His words drip with malice and evil genius; his moustache droops low and his eyebrows arch high. But while there seems little place for Dr Fu Manchu in a modern multicultural world, variations on the character have proved remarkably resilient, says Dr Jenny Clegg, a British Sinologist who has studied the stereotype. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Starving US settlers driven to cannibalism, say researchers

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Settlers at Virginia’s Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the US Smithsonian Institution reported on Wednesday. This is the first direct evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in the Americas, according to the Washington-based museum and research complex. <!– 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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Hospital in Lusaka symbol of China’s soft power in Zambia

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Joy Bwalya-Mwale, 16, had a baby tied to her back and an umbrella to protect her from the burning sun. The teenage mother had come for a check-up at the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, where her daughter, Natalia, was born eight months ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Confession sites all the rage on Hong Kong university campuses

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Secrets are surfacing across campuses as Hong Kong students lay bare their lives on new university confession sites. Part love confessional, part gossip blog and complaints forum, the contents of the Facebook community pages have gone viral. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Negative news is the media ‘fulfilling its mission’: Carrie Lam

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Officiating at the 2012 News Awards prize presentation ceremony in which the South China Morning Post won 11 prizes, Lam said it was newspapers’ mission to unmask secrets. “Some of the award-winning scoops today may not be a delight to see, but … they are fulfilling the mission of the press,” she said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Birmingham owner Carson Yeung pleads not guilty to money-laundering charges

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung Ka-sing insisted he made his fortune through legitimate stock trading as he pleaded not guilty to money-laundering charges in court on Monday at the long-delayed start of his trial. The former hairdresser-turned-football tycoon from Hong Kong was arrested and charged in June 2011 with five counts of knowingly dealing in ill-gotten gains worth tens of millions of dollars. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Scottish independence gets boost from Hong Kong’s money markets

<!– google_ad_section_start –> In a week that has seen Britain discuss the very future of the pound sterling and the possible break-up of the United Kingdom, Hong Kong’s money changers have provided an unwitting boost to the Scottish independence movement by offering a separate – and more favourable – rate for Scottish pound notes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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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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  • 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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  • Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability - John Tsitsiklis
    Video Lectures from 6.041 Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability, Fall 2010 […]
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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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  • Differential Equations, Spring 2006 - Instructors: Prof. Arthur Mattuck Prof. Haynes Miller
    Differential Equations are the language in which the laws of nature are expressed. Understanding properties of solutions of differential equations is fundamental to much of contemporary science and engineering. Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) deal with functions of one variable, which can often be thought of as time. Topics include: Solution of […]
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Masters of Photography - National Geographic Live
    Step behind the camera with top-flight photographers. […]
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  • Statistics 2, 001|Fall 2009|UC Berkeley - Fletcher H Ibser
    STAT 2 LEC 001 Fa09 […]
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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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  • 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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  • Philosophy for Beginners - Oxford University
    Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. This series of five introductory lectures, aimed at students new to philosophy, presented by Marianne Talbot, Department for Continu […]
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  • How to Think Like a Psychologist - Stanford Continuing Studies Program
    How to Think Like a Psychologist Stanford Continuing Studies Program Genre: Psychology Release Date: March 23, 2012 […]
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