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  • 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 […]
  • 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 […]
  • Dead Ever After - Charlaine Harris
    THE FINAL SOOKIE STACKHOUSE NOVEL There are secrets in the town of Bon Temps, ones that threaten those closest to Sookie—and could destroy her heart.... Sookie Stackhouse  finds it easy to turn down the request of former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back at Merlotte’s. After all, Arlene tried to have Sookie killed. But her relationship with Eri […]
  • 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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  • American Sniper (Enhanced Edition) - Chris Kyle, Scott Mcewen & Jim DeFelice
    This special enhanced edition features more than 10 exclusive videos and an additional 15 images and descriptions of the weapons used by the armed forces in their fight against terrorism overseas. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more th […]
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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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  • 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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  • Mom & Me & Mom - Maya Angelou
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.   For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian […]
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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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Amanda Knox offers her side of sensational murder case

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Amanda Knox, the American student accused of the 2007 murder of her British roommate while both were students in Italy, paints herself in her new memoir as a naive young woman railroaded by a foreign justice system. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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‘How do we cope?’ a man shouted as militiamen blocked the command centre

<!– google_ad_section_start –> DAY TWO: In SCMP reporter Zhuang Pinghui’s compelling account of the Sichuan earthquake, she tells of the day after the tremors struck and how shaken and injured villagers began a battle for survival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Second man arrested over Delhi girl rape

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A second suspect was arrested on Monday in the rape of a five-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case that has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes. Pradeep Kumar was arrested on Monday in the eastern state of Bihar, about 1,000 kilometres from New Delhi, and was being brought to the capital, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Angry mob protests against rape and torture of five-year-old girl

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the headquarters of New Delhi police yesterday after a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped and tortured, reviving memories of a brutal December assault on a woman that shook the country. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Lu Lingzi’s microblog reveals statistics student loved teddy bears, pet dogs

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Lu Lingzi learned on Sunday that she had passed a major exam for her studies at Boston University. The next morning, the test and a major project behind her, the 23-year-old Chinese graduate student and two friends headed over to watch the Boston Marathon. They chose spots near the finish line. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Texas student with violent fantasies wound 14 in college stabbing spree

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A 20-year-old student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college, wounding at least 14 people before being subdued and arrested, authorities said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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First suspected case of bird flu infection in Hong Kong

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong on Friday will step up its control measures against a new bird flu strain that has killed six people in eastern China after a Hong Kong girl showed flu symptoms following a visit to Shanghai. The seven-year-old has become the first suspected case of the H7N9 bird flu virus in Hong Kong. The girl has now been put in an isolation ward in Queen Elizabeth Hospital for further observation to confirm whether she has contracted the virus. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Girl, 11, dies after pet hamster bites finger

<!– google_ad_section_start –> An autopsy will be conducted on the body of an 11-year-old girl who died yesterday after being bitten by a hamster at home in Ma On Shan. The asthmatic girl was bitten on the little finger of her right hand while playing with her pet in her flat at Marbella Tower in On Chun Street shortly before 12.45am. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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High school football players guilty of raping drunken girl

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Two members of a high school football team were found guilty yesterday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided this Ohio city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community’s athletes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Video of Zhengzhou woman attacked on bus by older man wanting her seat goes viral

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The man grabbed the woman’s hair, struck her and dragged her from the seat. Several passengers got up and separated them. The man quickly jumped out of the bus after the fight. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Mother’s video surveillance of daughter angers Facebook users

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The woman admitted the girl was her daughter and she recorded the video through a webcam installed on her daughter’s desk lamp. “…Today’s homeworkprogress is not bad, but she kept talking to herself, and was singing while doing homework,” the woman commented on the video. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Boss outsources daughter’s homework to employees

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Nine civil servants have been suspended after doing a homework assignment for their boss’ 12-year-old daughter, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The employees in an undisclosed provincial government department spent three days on the assignment in the girl’s hometown, and claimed expenses. One of the employees, known only as Mr Chen, blew the whistle on the scam, claiming staff with a variety of skills helped out with the project. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Residence rights to focus on Basic Law

<!– google_ad_section_start –> In the first indication of the exact scope of the administration’s controversial request to the court over the issue of awarding right of abode to foreign domestic helpers, David Pannick QC said the government wanted an interpretation of Article 158, which states that the power to interpret the mini-constitution “shall be vested in the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Top court rejects abode bid by Hong Kong-born girl

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Court of Final Appeal on Tuesday refused an application by an eight-year-old girl born locally to mainlanders to join the right of abode challenge mounted by foreign domestic helpers. Liang Wing-ki and her mother, Li Yinxian, worried that her right of abode would be affected after the government said it would request the top court to ask Beijing to clarify an interpretation relating to the right of abode of different categories of persons including Chinese nationals born in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Lamma IV engineer recalls last moments on ill-fated ferry

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The engineer of the sinking Lamma IV waved at a nearby ferry to signal that help was needed, but got no response from the ship, the commission of inquiry heard on Thursday. The nearby vessel belonged to Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry, Leung Pui-sang told the inquiry into the October 1 disaster, in which 39 people died last year. He did not specify that it was the Sea Smooth – which had just collided with Lamma IV – but left the impression that it was. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Police confirm New Zealand girl not Madeleine McCann

<!– google_ad_section_start –> DNA tests have confirmed a New Zealand girl is not missing British youngster Madeleine McCann, police said on Wednesday. Members of the public have twice mistakenly identified the New Zealand girl as Madeleine. The first sighting was last March and the second on New Year’s Eve. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Japan pop idol Minami Minegishi shaves head after sex scandal

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Pictures of the roughly-shorn head of Minami Minegishi, 20, were emblazoned on national newspapers yesterday amid news that the pop princess had broken the band’s cardinal rule: no dating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Accused in India ‘tried to run over woman after rape’

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The rapists who assaulted and murdered a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over with the vehicle after the attack, reports said yesterday, citing a grisly police account. Her boyfriend, who was beaten up and thrown off the bus after the girl had been repeatedly raped, managed to pull her to safety just in time, police are to allege in a 1,000-page charge sheet to be presented in court today. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Release of Henan knife attack video stirs controversy

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Police have released shocking security footage of the brutal attack on primary schoolchildren in Henan less than a week after the attack by a knife-wielding man left 23 pupils injured. The video has caused further outcry among China’s netizens, who blame the school  for failing to protect the students. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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  • Justice with Michael Sandel - Professor Michael J. Sandel
    Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard's history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard's historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. Now it's your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens […]
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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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  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Audio - David Blight
    (HIST 119) This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history. Those meanings may be defined in many ways: national, sectional, racial, constitutional, individual, social, intellectual, or […]
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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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  • Historical Jesus - Stanford Continuing Studies Program
    Who was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? What did he actually say and do, as contrasted with what early Christians (e.g., Paul and the Gospel writers) believed that he said and did? What did the man Jesus actually think of himself and of his mission, as contrasted with the messianic and even divine claims that the New Testament makes about him? In short, wh […]
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  • Masters of Photography - National Geographic Live
    Step behind the camera with top-flight photographers. […]
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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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  • 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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  • Biology - Khan Academy
    Covers topics seen in a first year college or high school biology course. […]
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 - Khan Academy
    Topics covered in the first two or three semester of college calculus. Everything from limits to derivatives to integrals to vector calculus. Should understand the topics in the pre-calculus playlist first (the limit videos are in both playlists) […]
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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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  • The Human Brain (Video) - UCTV
    UCTV delivers documentaries, faculty lectures, cutting-edge research symposiums and artistic performances from each of the ten University of California campuses. […]
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  • Physics - Khan Academy
    Projectile motion, mechanics and electricity and magnetism. Solid understanding of algebra and a basic understanding of trigonometry necessary. […]
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