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      • Encyclopaedias & reference works
        May 2016

        The Business Insider

        by Business Insider

        Business Insider is an award-winning business and technology news site founded in 2009.

      • Encyclopaedias & reference works
        May 2016

        International Business Times News

        by Kristina Jovanovski,Julia Glum,Dylan Love,Meagan Clark,Cristina Silva,Jessica Menton,Barbara Herman,Reuters,Morgan Winsor,Michelle FlorCruz,Kukil Bora,Marcus Baram

        IBTimes provide global Economic commentaries and news, strong companies coverage - including small and large cap firms - and insights into every particular market (stock, commodities and currency)

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        2005

        80,000 Word English Dictionary

        by Zhang Bairan

        80,000 word English dictionary collection of nearly 80,000 words. Both included in the core vocabulary of English. But also to expand the derived words and phrases commonly used to meet large. Secondary school students and teachers and other needs of English learners queries. For the study. The practical difficulties in the use of English. the dictionary has special instructions field.

      • Popular psychology

        The A-z Guide to Common Habits

        Overcoming Them Through Affirmations

        by Ann Gadd

      • The natural world, country life & pets

        Landscape Of Desire

        Identity and Nature in Utah's Canyon Country

        by Greg Gordon

        Landscape of Desire powerfully documents and celebrates a place and the evolutions that occur when human beings are intimately connected to their surroundings. Greg Gordon accomplishes this with a tapestry of writing that interweaves land use history, natural history, experiential education, and personal reflection. He tracks the geomorphology of southern Utah as well as the creatures and plants his student group encounters, the history lessons (planned and unplanned), the trials and joys of gathering so many individuals into a cohesive will, and his own personal epiphanies, restraints, insights, and disillusionments. Landscape of Desire examines the plight of the western landscape. It discusses a wide range of issues, including mining, grazing, dams, recreation, wilderness, and land management. Since recreation has replaced extraction industries as the primary use of wilderness, especially in southern Utah, Gordon addresses its impactful qualities. He overviews the history of the conflict between preservation and development and places these issues in a cultural context. The text is presented in a narrative format, following the individuals of one field course Gordon lead that explored Muddy Creek and the Dirty Devil River from Interstate 70 to Lake Powell. Though each chapter focuses on the geologic formation the group is traveling through, the plants, animals, ecology, and human impacts are all tightly woven into the narrative. Not only does the land affect the members of the field course, but their attitudes and insights affect the land. In Landscape of Desire Gordon achieves a vision of wholeness of this popular and contested region of Utah that centers around the implications of being human and also stewards of the wild.

      • The natural world, country life & pets

        Castle Valley, America

        Hard Land, Hard-won Home

        by Nancy Taniguchi

        This is American history told through the stories of an atypical, for Utah, region. Castle Valley is roughly conterminous with two counties, Carbon and Emery, which together formed a rural, industrial enclave in a mostly desert environment behind the mountain range that borders Utah's principal corridor of settlement. In Castle Valley, coal mining and the railroad attracted diverse, multiethnic communities and a fair share of historic characters, from Butch Cassidy, who stole its largest payroll, to Mother Jones, who helped organize its workers against its mining companies. Among the last major segments of the state to be settled, it was also a generally poor region that stretched the capabilities of people to scratch a living from a harsh landscape. The people of Castle Valley experienced complex, unusual combinations of both social cohesion and conflict, but they struggled through poverty, labor disputes, major mining disasters, and other challenges to build communities whose stories reflected the historical course of the nation as a whole. In order to convey her subject's both unique and representative qualities, Nancy Taniguchi has written an epic history that is not just local history, but American history written locally. Nancy J. Taniguchi, who lived for thirteen years in Castle Valley and was previously on the faculty of the College of Eastern Utah in Price, is professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus. She is the author of numerous published articles in mining, legal, women's, western, and Utah history and of one book, Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reformand Utah Coal.

      • Literary studies: general
        August 2010

        For People Who Love Books

        by Arthur Q. Gutch

        This book is perfect for the seasoned or novice author, bookstore owner, librarian, publisher, editor or active reader. In presenting this compilation of over 2,000 thought-provoking insights related to books, it is my hope that you will harvest the messages and wisdom of those speaking from the page to, in some way, better your work and life. It is a great companion for those who participate in the creation and delivery of books, who want a recent or ancient perspective that will inspire you to clarify your purpose and achieve your potential.

      • Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who)

        No Quarter Given

        The Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army, 1745-46

        by Alastair. Livingstone

      • Writing & editing guides
        May 2013

        501 Writers Useful Phrases

        by Quentin Cope

        501 Writers Useful Phrases 501 Writers Useful Phrases is a self help book for writers and authors, full of subject sentences and one-liners. You can use it as a ‘reminder’ tool when looking for a phrase or description of a particular moment that simply won’t come to you in a head full of words and characters. This will definitely not solve all your structural writing problems, and it’s certainly not designed to, but it is a great help at one o’clock in the morning when you simply want to get that last word down, with a smile of satisfaction, before curling up with the reoccurring dream of your next one selling a million.

      • Writing & editing guides
        August 2013

        501 More Writers Useful Phrases

        by Quentin Cope

        501 More Writers Useful Phrases This second edition of the ‘Writers Useful Phrases’ is not the complete answer to a ‘writer’s prayer’, but it is a great second line reference book of phrases you can use every day in your writing journey. So, what does 501 “More” Writers Useful Phrases contain? It’s simple really. If you have the first edition, this book is divided in to the same ten sections as the original version with each one containing 50 short phrases, quotes, expressions or complete sentences to fit a particular subject heading. The last section contains 51 entries, again making a total of 501 for this edition. Hopefully, you the reader … and more importantly, you the writer, will gain something more from this second writers new phrasebook in the series. It will make a great reference book and a significant addition to ‘501 Writers Useful Phrases’ … not only at the initial manuscript stage in the production of your next epic novel, but at the tough edit stage where just one small adjustment can make all the difference.

      • Writing & editing guides
        September 2013

        501 Writers One-Liners

        by Quentin Cope

        501 Writers One Liners This book of One-Liners is the third in the ‘501’ series. It contains a selection of one line thoughts and ponderings, many of which are amusing and some of which are profound. This offering is aimed mainly at writers and authors as a reminder pad of situations and observations seen through the eyes of someone with a sense of humor, or someone who has taken the trouble to actually sit on that mountain peak … somewhere, and think! The format is similar to ‘501 Writers Useful Phrases’ and ‘501 More Writers Useful Phrases’ in that the content is divided into ten sections with 50 ‘one liners’ in each section and 51 in the final section. If this little book does nothing more than bring a smile to your face at three o’clock in the morning, slaving tirelessly over the ending of Chapter Four, after a full day of looking after the kids or holding down a high pressure job for ten hours, then it will have been worth it. However, if only one of the offerings within these pages jogs a memory button, allowing you to construct that searched for finished phrase, then this can only be considered a bonus.

      • Writing & editing guides
        February 2014

        101 Writers Short Blurb Examples

        by Quentin Cope

        101 Short Blurb Examples With a limited amount of space available on a web page and with only a ‘thumbnail’ size image to wet your potential reader’s appetite, the ‘short blurb’ of up to 100 words becomes more and more important in the process of promoting your work as a writer. It’s now recognized as part of the smart marketing process, inviting a browsing reader to delve more into your Web link, eventually opening up your book … and reading the first few pages. Some fortunate individuals, along with many traditionally published authors, will have professionals employed to write ‘blurb’ for them, but the rest of us simply have to buckle down and get on with what is considered by many to be one of the most difficult processes of being a self-published writer. So, this little book will hopefully provide you with some useful assistance along the way by offering up 101 actual ‘blurbs’ written in short form and containing no more than 100 words. They are loosely edited into ten different subject headings, or writer’s genre, with ten examples under each heading, except for the last one, where there are eleven. After each example, a further distillation of the same subject matter is provided, defined widely with a certain amount of writer’s license, as a ‘Single Sentence’ … and both containing a word count as a confirmation of size. This is the second in the 101 series by the same author and a follow on from the very popular 501 series books for writers, potential writers and simply those of us who have an urge to get that sometimes elusive story down on paper.

      • Writing & editing guides
        November 2013

        101 Fiction Writing Tips

        by Quentin Cope

        101 Fiction Writing Tips Fiction writing is thought by many would be authors to be the most popular published genre and therefore perhaps the best to be aiming at when considering a writing career. Current best estimates are that in 2016, published books will double in number from all of those in existence at the end of 2011. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to get two knowledgeable individuals to agree on what that figure is in reality. However, one reasonably sound statistic is the percentage of fiction and non-fiction publications now produced annually in the English language. The current estimates are around 30% for fiction and 70% for non-fiction. So, the lesson to learn there then, is that you may stand a considerably better chance of success as a writer by putting together a book of your grandmother’s best apple pie secrets than attempting the possibly thankless task of coming face to face with the prospect of writing a novel … a work of fiction … a work of fantasy, a work that will need to find a particular audience. This book is not an answer to that quandary and neither does it offer any form of guarantee to you as a potential author. What is does provide however, is a list of 101 tips of advice and reference to the writer who simply wants’ to ‘get on with the job!’ These offerings are provided from personal experience of both the self-publishing and traditional publishing routes. They are collected together in this short book format with the sole aim of supplying you, the potential writer of fantastic fiction, with a series of easy to absorb statements and explanations written in a language that is uncomplicated and to the point. Hopefully, some or much of it will afford you the help and assistance you may be looking for and therefore energize you in the pursuit of your writing projects.

      • Biography: general

        Alaska's Daughter

        An Eskimo Memoir of the 20th Century

        by Elizabeth Pinson

        Elizabeth B. Pinson shares with us her memories of Alaska's emergence into a new and modern era, bearing witness to history in the early twentieth century as she recalls it. She draws us into her world as a young girl of mixed ethnicity, with a mother whose Eskimo family had resided on the Seward Peninsula for generations and a father of German heritage. Growing up in and near the tiny village of Teller on the Bering Strait, Elizabeth at the age of six, despite a harrowing, long midwinter sled ride to rescue her, lost both her legs to frostbite when her grandparents, with whom she was spending the winter in their traditional Eskimo home, died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. Fitted with artificial legs financed by an eastern benefactor, Elizabeth kept journals of her struggles, triumphs, and adventures, recording her impressions of the changing world around her and experiences with the motley characters she met. These included Roald Amundsen, whose dirigible landed in Teller after crossing the Arctic Circle; the ill-fated 1921 British colonists of Wrangel Island in the Arctic; trading ship captains and crews; prospectors; doomed aviators; and native reindeer herders. Elizabeth moved on to boarding school, marriage, and the state of Washington, where she compiled her records into this memoir and where, now in her 90s, she lives.

      • Reference works
        February 2012

        Encyclopedia of Thai Massage

        A Complete Guide to Traditional Thai Massage Therapy and Acupressure.

        by

      • Humour
        March 2012

        From Astral Sex to Zen Tea Bags

        by GERRY THOMPSON

        A handy guide for anyone who wishes to sound pompous, affected and self-obsessed, especially in the alternative, eco-friendly or mind-body-spirit realms. A hilarious antidote to self-developers and social media geeks; a no-holds-barred parody of those navel-gazers and karmic sojourners who may just be taking themselves a little too seriously. Sample entries:·Beaverweaver: Male who poses as a shaman purely in order to pick up women.·Macroneurotics: An obscure food cult and eating disorder, which came to the West from Japan in the nineteen-fifties, and gained a considerable following among reformed drug dealers in the USA. Macroneurotics holds that food is the only important thing in the Universe. The three main foods, held to be able to create total health, happiness, success, fulfilment and enlightenment, are brown rice with miso soup, brown rice with seaweed, and brown rice on its own.·Mistake: There isn't any such thing as a mistake there are only 'learning experiences'.

      • Islam

        The Muslim 100

        The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History

        by Muhammad Mojlum. Khan

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