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Authors: Tom Demarco Timothy Lister

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Tags: software business startup people coders managing

2006-09-07

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Type: fiction

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Author: Michael Crichton

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Tags: scifi eti

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Description: The navy has assembled a team of top scientists to investigate, what they believe to be, theThe navy has assembled a team of top scientists to investigate, what they believe to be, the wreckage of an alien spacecraft they discovered resting at the bottom of the ocean. An underwater habitat has been constructed near the craft on the ocean floor and a team sent down to investigate.

Once inside the craft, the team makes an astounding discovery: The controls are marked in English. Further inspection of the mile-long craft shows that there is room for a crew of 20, but no signs of the crew. They are surprised to discover a large, gleaming, metallic-looking sphere with a concealed door.

As each of the team members decides to enter the sphere, the line between reality and illusion begins to blur. Their behavior begins to become irrational. Each begins to distrust the other. Each must face their own inner demons. As time runs out, the team must surface and forget the terrifying experience of the sphere. ...

2006-07-22

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Author: Carl Honore

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Tags: life meditation stress slowness

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Description: Are you always in a hurry?

Does life feel like a never-ending race against the clock?Are you always in a hurry?

Does life feel like a never-ending race against the clock?

These days, many of us live in fast forward – and pay a heavy price for it. Our work, health and relationships suffer. Over-stimulated, over-scheduled and overwrought, we struggle to relax, to enjoy things properly, to spend time with family and friends. The Slow movement offers a lifeline. It is not a Luddite plot to abolish all things modern. You don’t have to shun technology, live in the wilderness or do everything at a snail’s pace. Being “Slow” means living better in the hectic modern world by striking a balance between fast and slow. In Praise of Slow is the first handbook for the emerging Slow movement. Through a blend of anecdote, reportage, first-hand experience, history and intellectual inquiry, it explains how the world got so fast and why slowing down can pay dividends in every walk of life. To illustrate the benefits of deceleration, the book travels from a Tantric sex workshop in London to a meditation room for executives in Tokyo, from a Chi Kung squash class in Edinburgh to a SuperSlow exercise studio in New York City, from a TV-free household in Toronto to Italy, the home of Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements. Wherever you go, whatever you do, the message is the same: slower is often better.

In the United States, the book is called In Praise of Slowness.

In the rest of the English-speaking world, it is called In Praise of Slow....

2006-07-08

 

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Author: H. G. Wells

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Tags: stories scifi short compilation

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Description: Well's own selection of his best short stories. They range from light-hearted comic talesWell's own selection of his best short stories. They range from light-hearted comic tales such as "The Obliterated Man" to breath-taking masterpieces of science fiction like "The Star"....

2006-07-03

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Type: fiction educational

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Authors: Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli

2006-06-13

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Author: Malcolm Gladwell

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Tags: science psychology life

2006-06-10

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Authors: Michael Baigent Richard Leigh Henry Lincoln

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Tags: religion conspiracy

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Description: Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?

•Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?

• Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
• Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
• Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?
• Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail?

According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible — they are probably true! so revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that the most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversey....

2006-05-30

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Author: Anne Rice

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Tags: vampires

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Description: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit,Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.

Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together....

2006-05-25

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Author: Anne Rice

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2006-05-25

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Author: William Gibson

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Tags: cyberpunk scifi

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Description: Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.

Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death. ...

2006-05-08