NOTE: This edition has a linked “Table of Contents” and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader, Amazon Desktop Reader, and your ipod e-book reader.This edition contains all of the “Sherlock Holmes” stories (4 novels and 56 short stories) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The contents are:Including the novels:A Study In ScarletThe Sign of the FourThe Hound of the BaskervillesThe Valley of FearShort story collections:The Adventure (more…)
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Business success is spelled in many different ways. For most, it’s dollars in the millions. For some, a corporate title with global perks. Yet others count on creativity to reach their goals. Milazzo, a pioneer and entrepreneur in the field of legal nurse consulting, considers all of the above–but, most importantly, identifies and skillfully employs 10 strengths common to both genders. It is, however, aimed at women because of the unique and documented bonds betwee (more…)
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Traub presents 10 years’ worth of lavish color photography on the annual counterculture festival, Burning Man. The first Burning Man was held on a San Francisco beach and attended by a couple dozen people. Today it takes place in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and is known as the Black Rock Arts Festival. Every year Black Rock City is erected around a giant wooden statue that is immolated to much fanfare at the end of a weeklong bacchanal. Traub’s images capture the fes (more…)
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Belying the sensationalistic title, Silverman’s memoir is a subtle, powerful evocation of the tragedy of incest. From the age of 4 until she left for college at 18, Silverman was sexually abused by her father, a powerful government official. Although the family lived in posh surroundings, hers was literally a house of horrors: her mother often retreated to her bedroom with a series of vaguely defined illnesses while her older sister jumped at any opportunity to get (more…)
A bookseller illegally offered PDF files of about 250 academic textbooks on various online venues on or about February 18th. Amazon Marketplace Sellers contacted the online venues and they got quickly shot down, but they still keep popping up here and there at times. Here is a brief story of the discovery of the scammers and the list of the first 40 titles to inform publishers and authors.
The nursery rhymes which we attribute to a mythical Mother Goose are the anonymous poems which have survived hundreds of years because of their popularity with small children, and the ease with which they can be memorized. There is no fixed list of Mother Goose rhymes. There are many hundreds, and many variant forms. We have selected our favorites, which include almost all of those with wide appeal. We have illustrated each rhyme with favorite pictures from our huge library of n (more…)
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