In Greenhouse Summer, humanity's abuse of the environment has melted the polar ice caps, expanded deserts beyond all 20th-century conceptions, and transformed Siberia into a powerful and agriculturally fertile nation--and the changes aren't over, as Monique Calhoun learns when she is sent to Paris for the United Nations' conference on global warming. The scientists present terrifying evidence that Condition Venus may already have begun. Condition Venus is a climactic change that can quickly turn the Earth as hot and deadly as Venus. The end is truly near. And transnational factions working covertly for their own agendas may only hasten the end of the world and the death of every living creature.
Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering by Adyashanti
Sounds True, Incorporated (April 28, 2011) | 1591799244 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3 | 445 MB
Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery and expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. On Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights to open ourselves to that mysterious element that enters in the hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution in the way that we perceive life.
Easy Knitted Accessories: Funky And Fashionable Projects For The Novice Knitter - Jeanette Trotman
Jeanette Trotman | JPG | 200 pages |2004 | 0873499042 | 41 MB
The time-honored craft of knitting meets today?s colorful and funky styles in Easy Knitted Accessories. 25 projects for scarves, hats, bags, gloves and socks have a fun, contemporary look and are fast and easy to knit. Readers are first led through the basics of the techniques (including knitting with color, knitting with beads, changing colorways and embroidery) and then the book moves on to step-by-step instructions, photos and illustrations for each project.
Business the Richard Branson Way: 10 Secrets of the World's Greatest Brand Builder (Big Shots Series)
Des Dearlove | Capstone | 1841127647 | 2007 | 188 pages | PDF | 1 Mb
In many ways, Richard Branson and his company the Virgin Group are unique. In an era dominated by strategists, Branson is an opportunist with an uncanny knack of sniffing out great deals where others hesitate or fear to tread. Never before has a single brand been so successfully deployed across such a diverse range of goods and services. Branson is the ultimate brand builder.
Greedy Bastards:
How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry - Dylan Ratigan [Audiobook, Unabridged]
Si-n&Sc-r Audio | 2012 | 1442344490 | MP3@96 kbps | 6 hrs 49 mins | 282.36 MB
Infuriated by government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a failing educational system, Ratigan sees an America that has allowed itself to be swindled and robbed. In this book, his first, he rips the lid off our deeply crooked systemand offers a way out.
The Haves and the Have Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality[Audiobook, Unabridged]
Branko Milanovic
Audible | 2010 | ASIN: B004HFLLUC | MP3@64 kbps | 6 hrs 27 mins | 176.08 MB
Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money youll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why, beyond the idle curiosity, do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the worlds leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time. Milanovic uses history, literature and stories straight out of todays newspapers, to discuss one of the major divisions in our social lives: between the haves and the have-nots.
Anne Orr's Classic Tatting Patterns By Anne Orr
Dover Publications 1985 | 32 Pages | ISBN: 0486248976 | PDF | 23 MB
Here’s an excellent sourcebook for the passionate tatter! Included are nearly 90 first-rate, traditional patterns for creating lacy doilies, medallions, decorative edgings, and more. Embellish table settings, fine linens, blouses, anything enhanced by a touch of antique charm. Step-by-step instructions, 29 photographs.
Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America - William H. Chafe
Harvard University Press | 2005-11-01 | ISBN: 067401877X | PDF | 432 pages | 12.69 MB
A political leader's decisions can determine the fate of a nation, but what determines how and why that leader makes certain choices? William H. Chafe, a distinguished historian of twentieth century America, examines eight of the most significant political leaders of the modern era in order to explore the relationship between their personal patterns of behavior and their political decision-making process. The result is a fascinating look at how personal lives and political fortunes have intersected to shape America over the past fifty years.
The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown
James Barth
Wil,,,ey | 2009-05-04 | ISBN: 0470477245 | PDF | 526 pages | 10.12 MB
The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?
Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about it now?
In The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets, renowned finance expert James Barth offers a comprehensive examination of the mortgage meltdown. Together with a team of economists at the Milken Institute, he explores the shock waves that have rippled through the entire financial sector and the real economy. Deploying an incredibly detailed and extensive set of data, the book offers in-depth analysis of the mortgage meltdown and the resulting worldwide financial crisis.
The sequel to Katherine Dewey's popular book "Creating Life-Like Animals in Polymer Clay", this time she pulls out all the stops to teach both novice and accomplished sculptors alike just how she creates the realistic figures she has been renowned for over her 30 year professional career. If you aspire to be a figurative sculptor or already are one, this is a book you must have. In her no-nonsense, show-how-it's-done teaching style, Katherine shows with more than 400 full color photos, detailed illustrations, and step-by-step instructions how to do it all. Her modeling methods are not complicated.
Tatting: Adventures with Beads, Shuttle and Needle - Judith Connors
Lacis 2000 | 80 Pages | ISBN: 1891656228 | PDF | 17 MB
This latest book by Judith Connors continues the study of beaded tatting. It includes excellent instructions and extremely clear diagrams for basic beading techniques as well as more unusual bead placements. Her method on placing a bead in the center of a ring using a long picot is quite progressive. Basic instructions for needle tatting, split ring tatting, tatted squares or blocks, Japanese style needle tatting
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans [Audiobook] - Laura Browder
B.ack.tone Au.io | 1441771921 | 2010 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:33:00 | 125 MB
Women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, yet in today's wars, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty.
Stephen Fry Does "The Knowledge" (BBC Audiobooks) by Stephen Fry
AudioGO Ltd. (January 3, 2012) | ISBN: 1445865289 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/128Kbps | 40 MB
This archive-rich investigation into the changing value of knowledge comes at the issue from an original angle - the black cabbie's famed 'Knowledge' test.
Stephen Fry is a celebrated British actor, novelist, journalist, presenter, intellectual and wit. He has produced four novels and two volumes of autobiography, and has written for radio shows and TV. His TV credits include Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder, and he hosted the BBC TV series QI. His readings of the Harry Potter books have won him huge acclaim and several awards.
Basic Karate - Iain Morris
W. Foulsham & Co Ltd | 1969 | ISBN: 0572005857 | English | 96 pages | PDF | 14.6 MB
The word karate itself literally means "empty hand" (kara-empty, te-hand). Althougn many of the earlier origins of the art are traced to China, it owes its development to the inhabitants of Okinawa in the Ryukya islands, some 200 mites to the southwest of Japan. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the islands were conquered by the Japanese under the Daimyo of Satsuma. Like their Chinese predecessors, the Japanese would not allow the natives to carry weapons of any kind.
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