The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]

The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780374292782

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Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.

The World Is Round

The World Is Round
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062311069

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This classic children’s book is “a treasure trove for admirers of [Stein’s] singular vision and Hurd’s always charming artwork” (Publishers Weekly). Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein’s The World Is Round chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose—a whimsical tale that delights in wordplay and sound while exploring the ideas of personal identity and individuality. This volume replicates the original 1939 edition, including all of Clement Hurd’s original blue-and-white art printed on the rose-pink paper that Stein insisted upon. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book. The first, a foreword by Clement Hurd’s son, author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, includes previously unpublished photographs and sheds light on a creative family life in Vermont, where his father and mother, author Edith Thacher Hurd, often collaborated on children’s books. The second essay, an afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd, takes readers behind the scenes of the making of The World Is Round, including the numerous letters exchanged between Hurd and Stein as well as images of Stein with the real-life Rose and her white poodle, Love. “The perfect mix of Gertrude Stein’s painterly words and Clement Hurd’s elegant illustrations make The World Is Round an unforgettable treasure.” —Todd Oldham “a book. a beautiful book. arrived. it is pink and it is smart and it is beautiful. bring that book over here so i can look at it. would you like some tea?” —Maira Kalman

Bill Belichick vs. the NFL

Bill Belichick vs. the NFL
Author: Erik Frenz
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-10-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1633196178

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Bill Belichick started collecting Lombardi Trophies like some people collect coasters and won his fourth Super Bowl title in 2015. No other NFL team has been as successful since Belichick became the Patriots' head coach in 2000, winning titles after the 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2014 seasons, along with Super Bowl appearances after the 2007 and 2011 seasons. But is Belichick the best NFL coach of all time? In Bill Belichick vs. the NFL, author Erik Frenz not only explains what separates Belichick from his peers and compares his accomplishments to some of the all-time legends, but tells why, if there were a Mount Rushmore of NFL coaches, Belichick's face would already be on it. From his upbringing as a coach's son to learning under Bill Parcells to creating his own coaching tree, he has established a new standard that may be unparalleled in football history.

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
Author: Carolyn Mackler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780763619589

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Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. 10,000 first printing.

Because Amelia Smiled

Because Amelia Smiled
Author: David Ezra Stein
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536227943

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Just try not to smile! A positively inspiring picture book from the creator of the Caldecott Honor–winning Interrupting Chicken. Because Amelia smiles as she skips down the street, her neighbor Mrs. Higgins smiles too, and decides to send a care package of cookies to her grandson Lionel in Mexico. The cookies give Lionel an idea, and his idea inspires a student, who in turn inspires a ballet troupe in England! And so the good feelings that started with Amelia’s smile make their way around the world, from a goodwill recital in Israel, to an impromptu rumba concert in Paris, to a long-awaited marriage proposal in Italy, to a knitted scarf for a beloved niece back in New York. Putting a unique spin on "what goes around comes around," David Ezra Stein’s charmingly illustrated story reminds us that adding even a small dose of kindness into the world is sure to spur more and more kindness, which could eventually make its way back to you!

Inventing the Flat Earth

Inventing the Flat Earth
Author: Jeffrey B. Russell
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1997-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Reveals the facts behind the deceiving myths that have been professed about Columbus and his time.

Science Makes the World Go Round

Science Makes the World Go Round
Author: Michael Böcher
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319340794

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Researchers in the environmental sciences are often frustrated because actors involved with practice do not follow their advice. This is the starting point of this book, which describes a new model for scientific knowledge transfer called RIU, for Research, Integration and Utilization. This model sees the factors needed for knowledge transfer as being state-of-the-art research and the effective, practical utilization to which it leads, and it highlights the importance of “integration”, which in this context means the active bi‐directional selection of those research results that are relevant for practice. In addition, the model underscores the importance of special allies who are powerful actors that support the application of scientific research results in society. An important product of this approach is a checklist of factors for successful knowledge transfer that will be useful for scientists. By using this checklist, research projects and research programs can be optimised with regard to their potential for reaching successful knowledge transfer effects.

The Round World

The Round World
Author: Dan Oliverio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Fetishism (Sexual behavior)
ISBN: 9780997280203

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The Round World is the first book to explore obesity from the perspective of the people who find it erotic and seek fat people as romantic partners. By discussing the prejudices, medical issues, sexual kink, as well as proposing new models for sexuality, the book is a primer on loving yourself as you are, fat or not.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781840220698

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Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those inhabitants nothing apart from death, disease and destruction. Yet, for the Old World of Europe the four voyages of Columbus brought revelation where before there had been only myths and guesswork.People had thought it was only the great distance that made it impossible to reach Asia sailing west from Spain. No one had predicted that a vast continent stood in the way. And indeed, for Columbus himself, the revolution of understanding was too much to comprehend. He had counted on a new route to Asia that would bring him glory, riches and titles, and the thought of an unknown and undeveloped continent held no attractions. The trials and disappointments of the great explorer are graphically detailed in this biography first published in 1828, when Washington Irving was America's most famous writer.

Miles from Nowhere

Miles from Nowhere
Author: Barbara Savage
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1680510371

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This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version here. Miles from Nowhere is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage’s sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Along the way, these near-neophyte cyclists on their ten-speeds encountered warm-hearted strangers eager to share food and shelter, bicycle-hating drivers who ran them off the road, various wild animals (including an attack camel), rock-throwing Egyptians, overprotective Thai policeman, motherly New Zealanders, meteorological disasters, bodily indignities, and great personal joys. The stress of traveling together constantly tested yet strengthened the young couple's relationship and as their trip ends, you'll find yourself yearning for Barbara and Larry to jump back on their bikes and keep pedaling. Originally published in 1983, Miles from Nowhere has provided inspiration for legions of modern travel-adventurers and writers.