CCebook-Original English Ebooks Rapidshare - magazine
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 11:59pm CET
Say You’re One of Them
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-06-09
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0316113786
ISBN-13: 9780316113786
Uwem Akpan’s stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they’ve ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can’t be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 11:53pm CET
How to Use Power Phrases to Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, & Get What You Want
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-12-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0071424857
ISBN-13: 9780071424851
Easy-to-master techniques for more effective communications in all areas of life In this breakthrough guide, communication guru Meryl Runion explains why effective communication is more than just a business tool. It is also the key to happier, healthier relationships, and greater personal fulfillment and business success. In How to Use Power Phrases to Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, & Get What You Want she introduces readers to the concept of power phrases--short, focused expressions that let people be direct and to the point without seeming brusque or nasty. In clear, down-to-earth la...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:58pm CET
Analysis for Financial Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 0
Published:
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0071254226
ISBN-13: 9780071254229
"Analysis for Financial Management 8e" is a paperback text and has been written to present standard techniques and modern developments in a practical and intuitive manner. It is intended for non-financial managers and business students interested in the practice of financial management. The emphasis is on the managerial applications of financial analysis....
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:51pm CET
Wastewater Treatment and Technology
Publisher: Thomas Telford, Ltd
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2003-10
List price: $142.00
ISBN-10: 0727732293
ISBN-13: 9780727732293
This book examines the processes available for the various stages of treatment of wastewater, begining with the preliminary processes of screening, grit removal and storm water separation and ending with tertiary treatment and sludge disposal. Key coverage: considers emphasis on the biological processes that are used for the oxidation of BOD and the removal of nitrogen and phosphorous; presents options for the treatment of industrial wastewater, including anaerobic digestion, physico-chemical processes and enhanced oxidation are also discussed; and examines what the future may bring and how th...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:35pm CET
Pacific Northwest (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Publisher: DK Travel
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-11
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0789496801
ISBN-13: 9780789496805
Highlights include: Astoria, Cannon Beach, Tillamook, Cape Mears, and other destinations in British Coulmia, Washington, and Oregon....
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:34pm CET
Southwest USA & Las Vegas (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Publisher: DK Travel
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0789495651
ISBN-13: 9780789495655
Covers: the Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona, Phoenix, Southern Arizona, Las Vegas, Southern Utah, the Four Corners, Santa Fe, Northern New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Southern New Mexico....
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:57pm CET
New York (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)
Publisher: DK Travel
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-03-20
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 075661533X
ISBN-13: 9780756615338
At first glance New York City might seem overwhelming, but the Eyewitness Travel to New York will make the city feel uncomplicated. Take a bite out of the Big Apple as you discover New York’s shopping, museums, restaurants, hotels, parks, nightlife, and theaters. This lavishly illustrated guide will enlighten your experience and make it easy to manage. Everyday in New York offers its visitors something new to see and experience....
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:29pm CET
The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060843837
ISBN-13: 9780060843830
Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host—the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"—decided to find out if it’s true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets and back to the strip clubs (but only because he left his glasses there), Sagal explores what the sinful folk do, how much they pay for the privilege, and how exactly they got those funny red marks. ...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:27pm CET
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-05
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393324826
ISBN-13: 9780393324822
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:27pm CET
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-10-02
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393329127
ISBN-13: 9780393329124
"Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain NewsThe best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an ar...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:15pm CET
Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development And Current State
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number of Pages: 807
Published: 2005-04-05
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1845422082
ISBN-13: 9781845422080
More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students and teachers of macroeconomics in the new millennium. The authors skillfully trace the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics from an historical perspective. They do so by thoroughly appraising the central tenets underlying the main competing schools of macroeconomic thought ...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:14pm CET
Die Happy: 499 Things Every Guy’s Gotta Do While He Still Can
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 031235620X
ISBN-13: 9780312356200
Attention, guys of America: It’s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding—never set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it’s too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you “settle down.” Die Happy is here to help you create the kind of stories you’ll be telling for the rest of your life. Stories about things like: How you spent your gr...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:11pm CET
Life with My Sister Madonna
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-07-14
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1416587624
ISBN-13: 9781416587620
Ciccone’s extraordinary memoir is based on his life and forty-seven years of growing up with and working with his sister - the most famous woman in the world....
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:07pm CET
Look at My Striped Shirt!: Confessions of the People You Love to Hate
Publisher: Broadway
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-12-26
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0767924185
ISBN-13: 9780767924184
Target. Observe. Ridicule.You run into them every day—the striped-shirt guy, the karaoke master, the dude with a pencil-thin beard, the guy who won’t shut up about his fantasy football team—characters who annoy, irritate, and incense us all. Based on the wildly popular essay on ThePhatPhree.com by Mike Polk, this book is a look inside the heads of the most infuriating douchebags on Earth. It’s the best of ThePhatPhree.com plus more than fifty all-new, hilarious pieces written by some of your favorite writers from this site.Everyone’s (Least) Favorite, The Stripe...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:07pm CET
The Alphabet Of Manliness
Publisher: Citadel Press
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 080652720X
ISBN-13: 9780806527208
From the publisher: This is the only sentence in the entire book that will give you a chance to adjust your face; take your time, because it s about to be rocked off permanently. Finally, a book that guarantees your balls will be stomped; a book so manly that it will make even the burliest of men (and in some cases, the burliest of women) feel inadequate. So manly, it needs to be shaved: The Alphabet of Manliness. This collection of sacred writings may very well be the greatest compilation of all things manly throughout history. Here s a small sample of the ass-kickery found within these ...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:06pm CET
sTORI Telling
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1416950737
ISBN-13: 9781416950738
Tori Spelling Reads Her Fabulous #1 New York Times BestsellerShe was television’s most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling’s daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin of Beverly Hills 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character’s exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed -- and sometimes slammed -- the same doors it had opened.sTORI telling is Tori’s chance to finally tell her side of...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:47am CET
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Number of Pages: 487
Published: 2002-12-10
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0582237262
ISBN-13: 9780582237261
*Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English *Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact *Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text *Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points *Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:13am CET
Essentials of Economics
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2008-09-27
List price: $179.95
ISBN-10: 0324590024
ISBN-13: 9780324590029
With its clear and engaging writing style, ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMICS, 5E, continues to be one of the most popular books on economics available today. Mankiw emphasizes material that you re likely to find interesting about the economy (particularly if you re studying economics for the first time), including real-life scenarios, useful facts, and the many ways economic concepts play a role in the decisions you make every day....
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:17am CET
Better Together: Restoring the American Community
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-08-24
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743235479
ISBN-13: 9780743235471
In his acclaimed Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and in which our social structures have disintegrated. But in the final chapter of that book he detects hopeful signs of civic renewal. In Better Together Putnam and coauthor Lewis Feldstein tell the inspiring stories of people who are reweaving the social fabric by bringing their own communities together or building bridges to others. Better Together examines how people across the country are inventing new forms of social activism and commu...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:15am CET
Japan Rising
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-01-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1586484176
ISBN-13: 9781586484170
Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions arise about its motivations. What are the driving forces that influence how Japan will act in the international system? Are there recurrent patterns that will help explain how Japan will respond to the emerging environment of world politics? American understanding of Japanese character and...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:14am CET
Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
Publisher: Basic Books
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2000-11
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0465051960
ISBN-13: 9780465051960
This final work by a world-renowned economist will take its place among the classics of political economy Why do some economies do better than others? How does society encourage the kind of market economy that generates continually increasing incomes? How do particular styles of government affect economic performance? World-renowned economist Mancur Olson tackles these questions and others in what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus. Olson contends that governments can play an essential role in the development of markets. Reliable enforcement of private contracts and protection of indi...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:59am CET
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140296271
ISBN-13: 9780140296273
Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has long been the subject of controversy over his failure to speak out against Hitler’s Final Solution. In Hitler’s Pope, award-winning journalist and Roman Catholic John Cornwell shows that, even well before the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII was instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to unhindered power--and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.Drawing upon secret Vatican and Jesuit archives to which he had exclusive access, Cornwell tells the full, tragic story of how narcissism, longstanding personal antipathy for the Jews, a...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:59am CET
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 3
Publisher: AK Peters
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2003-09
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 1568811438
ISBN-13: 9781568811437
In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the second edition retains the original’s wealth of wit and wisdom. The authors’ insightful strategies, blended with their witty and irreverent style, make reading a profitable pleasure. In Volume 3, the authors examine Games played in Clubs, giving case studies for coing and pa...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:45am CET
The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2006-12-24
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0131345559
ISBN-13: 9780131345553
Praise for the second edition of The Design of Sites "In my worldwide IBM marketing role, I have the benefit of working with some of the finest international interactive agencies and internal Web teams. As I read The Design of Sites, [I see] the insight from years of professional advice has been put to paper. Nowhere have I seen such a practical, effective, and easy-to-use book to solve and avoid Internet design issues. I keep a copy of the book handy to remind me of the things I forgot and to gain fresh perspectives. It never fails to deliver."-John Cilio, marketing manager, IBM System x & ...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:44am CET
The Idea of Design
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 1996-02-21
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262631660
ISBN-13: 9780262631662
The Idea of Design is an anthology of essays that addresses the nature and practice of product design and graphic design in the contemporary world. The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of the international journal Design Issues, focus on three themes: reflection on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture. The authors are distinguished scholars, historians, designers, and design educators. The diversity of their work illustrates the pluralistic and interdisciplinary dimensions of the idea of design in contemporary culture. Contributors: Rudolf...
Full download
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:43am CET
Design Methods (Architecture)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 407
Published: 1992-09-15
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0471284963
ISBN-13: 9780471284963
Since its initial publication in 1970, Design Methods has been considered the seminal work on design methodology. Written by one of the founders of the design methods movement, it has been highly praised in international journals and has been translated into Japanese, Romanian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. As Jones states in the preface: "Alongside the old idea of design as the drawing of objects that are then to be built or manufactured there are many new ideas of what it is, all very different:designing as the process of devising not individual products but whole systems or environments suc...
Full download
