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Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft
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Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft
FTC | 2006 | ISBN: 18774384338 | English | PDF | 52 pages | 6 MB
In the course of a busy day, you may write a check at the grocery store, charge tickets to a ball game, rent a car, mail your tax returns, change service providers for your cell phone, or apply for a credit card. Chances are you don’t give these everyday transactions a second thought. But an identity thief does.
Identity theft is a serious crime. People whose identities have been stolen can spend months or years – and thousands of dollars – cleaning up the mess the thieves have made of a good name and credit record. In the meantime, victims of identity theft may lose job opportunities, be refused loans for education, housing, or cars, and even get arrested for crimes they didn’t commit. Humiliation, anger, and frustration are among the feelings victims experience as they navigate the process of rescuing their identity.
Working with other government agencies and organizations, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has produced this booklet to help you remedy the effects of an identity theft. It describes what steps to take, your legal rights, how to handle specific problems you may encounter on the way to clearing your name, and what to watch for in the future.
Despite your best efforts to manage the flow of your personal information or to keep it to yourself, skilled identity thieves may use a variety of methods to gain access to your data.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:06
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A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher
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William A. Cohen “A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher"
AMACOM | 2007-11-14 | ISBN: 0814409199 | 272 pages | PDF | 1 Mb
Long considered the world’s greatest thinker and writer on management, Peter Drucker’s teachings continue to inspire leaders everywhere. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the Great Man and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker taught him literally changed his life. In a matter of a few years, he was recommissioned in the Air Force and rose to the rank of major general. Eventually, he became a full professor, management consultant, multibook author, and university president – as well as maintaining a nearly lifelong friendship with the master.
In A Class with Drucker, Cohen shares many of Drucker’s teachings that never made it into his countless books and articles, ideas that were offered to his students in classroom or informal settings. Cohen expands on Drucker’s lessons with personal anecdotes about his teacher’s personality, lack of pretension, and interactions with students and others. He also shows how Drucker’s ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today. Now every reader can benefit from Drucker’s thoughts on such topics as:
* what everybody knows is frequently wrong * why everyone should approach problems with their ignorance * top executives should stay no longer than six years * some so-called menial tasks can only be done by the boss * what everyone needs to be an effective manager * why self-confidence is a necessity
Enlightening and intriguing, A Class with Drucker will enable anyone to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:08
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Crack the Fat-Loss Code
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Wendy Chant “Crack the Fat-Loss Code"
McGraw-Hill | 2008-02-04 | ISBN: 007154691X | 304 pages | PDF | 3,8 Mb
The scientific way to lose fat
"Crack the Fat-Loss Code brings you the most sensible solution to permanent weight management I have seen."
--Frederick C. Hatfield, Ph.D., bestselling author of Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach, Hardcore Bodybuilding, and Ultimate Sports Nutrition
The human body evolved to resist starvation by holding on to fat. No wonder it's hard to lose weight! Now a revolutionary lifestyle plan finally cracks the code for efficient fat loss. Developed by leading nutrition specialist Wendy Chant, the plan is scientifically designed to help you "outsmart" your body's natural cycles for storing and burning calories. The plan teaches you to boost your metabolism through "macro-patterning"--a simple routine of alternating carb-up, carb-down, and baseline days. There are even built-in cheat days, so you can enjoy the foods you love. Once you get your eating habits on schedule, you'll find that you can lose weight . . . for good.
In just eight short weeks, you'll be able to:
REPROGRAM YOUR BODY--to burn the fat and keep it off.
FEEL HEALTHY, NOT HUNGRY--with limitless food options.
CONQUER THAT DIET PLATEAU--once and for all.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:08
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Blogwars: The New Political Battleground
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David D. Perlmutter “Blogwars: The New Political Battleground"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-03-07 | ISBN: 0195305574 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,1 Mb
Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have?
In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or fail to influence--American political life. Challenging the hype, Perlmutter points out that blogs are not that powerful by traditional political measures: while
bloggers can offer cogent and convincing arguments and bring before their readers information not readily available elsewhere, they have no financial, moral, social, or cultural leverage to compel readers to engage in any particular political behavior. Indeed, blogs have scored mixed results in
their past political crusades. But in the end, Perlmutter argues that blogs, in their wide dissemination of information and opinions, actually serve to improve democracy and enrich political culture. He highlights a number of the particularly noteworthy blogs from the specialty to the
superblog-including popular sites such as Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Powerlineblog, Instapundit, and Talking Points Memo--and shows how blogs are becoming part of the tool kit of political professionals, from presidential candidates to advertising consultants. While the political future may be
uncertain, it will not be unblogged.
For many Internet users, blogs are the news and editorial sites of record, replacing traditional newspapers, magazines, and television news programs. Blogwars offers the first full examination of this new and controversial force on America's political landscape.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:09
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The Phenomenal Self
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Barry Dainton “The Phenomenal Self"
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-05-25 | ISBN: 0199288844 | 432 pages | PDF | 2,1 Mb
Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, the key to which is experiential or phenomenal continuity.
Provided our mental life continues we can easily imagine ourselves surviving the most dramatic physical alterations, or even moving from one body to another. It was this fact that led John Locke to conclude that a credible account of our persistence conditions - an account which reflects how we
actually conceive of ourselves - should be framed in terms of mental rather than material continuity. But mental continuity comes in different forms. Most of Locke's contemporary followers agree that our continued existence is secured by psychological continuity, which they take to be made up of
memories, beliefs, intentions, personality traits, and the like. Dainton argues that that a better and more believable account can be framed in terms of the sort of continuity we find in our streams of consciousness from moment to moment. Why? Simply because provided this continuity is not lost -
provided our streams of consciousness flow on - we can easily imagine ourselves surviving the most dramatic psychological alterations. Phenomenal continuity seems to provide a more reliable guide to our persistence than any form of continuity. The Phenomenal Self is a full-scale defence and
elaboration of this premise.
The first task is arriving at an adequate understanding of phenomenal unity and continuity. This achieved, Dainton turns to the most pressing problem facing any experience-based approach: losses of consciousness. How can we survive them? He shows how the problem can be solved in a satisfactory
manner by construing ourselves as systems of experiential capacities. He then moves on to explore a range of further issues. How simple can a self be? How are we related to our bodies? Is our persistence an all-or-nothing affair? Do our minds consist of parts which could enjoy an independent
existence? Is it metaphysically intelligible to construe ourselves as systems of capacities? The book concludes with a novel treatment of fission and fusion.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:10
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How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People
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How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People 256 pages | McGraw-Hill; 1 edition | December 9, 2002 | ISBN: 007138569X | 1 Mb
In his international bestseller, Dinosaur Brains, psychologist Albert J. Bernstein told readers how to deal with difficult people at work. Now, in a groundbreaking new book, Bernstein tackles a more serious problem that profoundly affects the lives of millions of people: walking time bombs.
How do you help a friend who explodes into panic attacks?
What do you say when a depressed family member bursts into tears?
How do you protect yourself when a stranger blows up in your face?
Too often, our choices make matters worse. But it isn't our fault. All that we feel, and much of what we hear directs us to defend the fearful, comfort the sad, and talk sense to the angry, regardless of the utter futility of these well-meaning actions.
Moment to moment, people with mental disorders stand at the crossroads between getting better and getting worse. For disorders to heal, medicine, psychotherapy, the encouragement of friends, and the kindness of strangers must all point explosive people toward a single direction.
People with anxiety disorders must turn and face their fear rather than running away
Depressed people cannot wait to feel better to do the things that will make them feel better
Angry people have to recognize that anger is something they do, not a reaction to what is done to them
Reaching these goals sometimes requires stunning feats of mind over matter. In How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People, Dr. Bernstein demonstrates, step by step, how to do them.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:11
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VBA For Dummies
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VBA For Dummies 411 pages | For Dummies; 5 edition | January 10, 2007 | ISBN: 0470046503 | 4 Mb
VBA helps you put your computer in its place Write programs that automate tasks and make Office 2007 work better for you If your computer is becoming your boss instead of your servant, start using VBA to tell it what to do! Here's the latest on the VBA IDE and program containers, debugging and controlling your programs, working with multiple applications using a single program, and the most exciting stuff -- programming for all the Office 2007 applications.
Discover how to
Customize an application's interface
Quick-launch a VBA program
Store and modify information
Use VBA with the Ribbon
Understand object-oriented programming
Avoid runtime errors
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:12
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Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS
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Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS 488 pages | SitePoint | May 2, 2006 | ISBN: 9780975240298 | 20 Mb
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up.
However, unlike countless other "learn web design" books, this title concentrates on modern, best-practice techniques from the very beginning, which means you'll get it right the first time. The web sites you'll build will:
Look good on a PC, Mac or Linux computer
Render correctly whether your visitors are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or Safari
Use web standards so your sites will be fast loading and easy to maintain
Be accessible to disabled users who use screenreaders to browse the Web
By the end of the book, you'll be equipped with enough knowledge to set out on your first projects as a professional web developer, or you can simply use the knowledge you've gained to create attractive, functional, usable and accessible sites for personal use.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:13
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David Sklansky et al
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David Sklansky et al
PDF | ISBN: NA | 68 Mb
Hold em Poker For Advanced Players By Sklansky and Malmuth
No Limit Hold 'em Theory and Practice (David Sklansky, Ed Miller)
Sklansky On Poker Extra Outs (David Sklansky)
Small Stakes Hold'em (Ed Miller, David Sklansky & Mason Malmuth)
The Theory of Poker (Seventh printing, Complete) (David Sklansky)
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:14
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Space 2030: Tackling Society's Challenges
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Space 2030: Tackling Society's Challenges
OECD | 2005 | ISBN 9264008322 | English | 328 pages | PDF | 3.2 MB
This publication is the final report on a two-year OECD Futures Project devoted to the commercialization of space, the development of space infrastructure and the role to be played by public and private actors. The book explores the contribution space systems might make in dealing with looming societal challenges related to threats to the physical environment and the management of natural resources, growing mobility and its consequences, increasing security concerns, and the shift to the information society.
In addition, it formulates an overall policy framework that OECD governments might use in drafting policies designed to ensure that the potential that space has to offer is actually realized. (nss.org)
Foreword:
This publication is the final report on a two-year OECD Futures Project devoted to the commercialisation of space, the development of space infrastructure and the role to be played by public and private actors (the Space Project).
The project was carried out over 2003-04 and involved 25 public and private participants from the OECD area. It was launched in response to growing concern in many quarters that the potential contribution of space to the economy and society at large was not being fully exploited and that the topic would greatly benefit from policy attention beyond the space community itself.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:15
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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team
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Paul Sloane “The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team"
Kogan Page | 2006-11-01 | ISBN: 0749447974 | 183 pages | PDF | 1,4 Mb
"No modern business leader should be unaware of these insights," Brian Mcbride, VP Northern Europe, Dell "Rocket fuel for the business brain," Bill Penn, CEO, Sparx Group In this lively, energetic guide to leadership, highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter Paul Sloane shares dynamic techniques that are sure to unleash creative energy and lateral thinking. Packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises, the book encourages you to question your assumptions and develop new ideas with a variety of techniques. Lateral thinking puzzles at the end of each chapter illustrate the importance of thinking outside the box.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:23
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Lifelines for Money Misfortunes: How to Overcome Life's Greatest Challenges
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Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine “Lifelines for Money Misfortunes: How to Overcome Life's Greatest Challenges"
Wiley | 2007-10-19 | ISBN: 0470139072 | 244 pages | PDF | 1,2 Mb
No one wants to think about the unpredictable accidents, disasters, and crises that could disrupt our lives, but in order to overcome these unexpected surprises you must be prepared.
Nobody understands this better than author Stephen Pollan. Over the past thirty years, he has introduced thousands of individuals to innovative new strategies for dealing with their careers, money, and numerous other issues that are a part of the "business of life." And now, in Lifelines for Money Misfortunes, Pollan—with the help of coauthor Mark Levine—reveals both the secrets of personal crisis management and the tactics for navigating catastrophes that could upset your financial equilibrium.
Divided into two comprehensive parts, this practical guide will help you tackle some of life's toughest challenges. The essential insights found throughout these pages will allow you to persevere, even if:
You've lost your job
You're temporarily or permanently disabled
You lose a major client or customer
Your adult child needs financial support
You're transferred against your will
You haven't saved enough for retirement
Stephen Pollan doesn't have the answers to all of life's questions, but with Lifelines for Money Misfortunes, he'll advise you on how to best manage the crises that could critically affect your wealth and well-being.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:24
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Manifesto on The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin
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Manifesto on The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin
ChangeThis | 2004 | ISBN: 9781574101034 | English | 103 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
Available to you once again! There's never been a better time to start a business with no money. This manifesto will show you how. Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. In Free Prize Inside, his follow up to the best selling marketing book of 2003, Purple Cow, Seth helps you make your product remarkable with soft innovations. You need to make each of your employees idea champions so they can find the Free Prize.
Godin is author of six books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Seth is a renowned speaker as well. He was recently chosen as one of 21 Speakers for the Next Century by Successful Meetings and is consistently rated among the very best speakers by the audiences he addresses. He holds an MBA from Stanford and was called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" by BusinessWeek.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:25
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A Framework for Web Science
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Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James, A Hendler “A Framework for Web Science"
Now Publishers Inc | 2006-09-15 | ISBN: 1933019336 | 148 pages | PDF | 1,3 Mb
A Framework for Web Science sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions is outlined, together with a sub-disciplinary breakdown, emphasising the multi-faceted nature of the Web, and the multi-disciplinary nature of its study and development. These questions and approaches together set out an agenda for Web Science, the science of decentralised information systems. Web Science is required both as a way to understand the Web, and as a way to focus its development on key communicational and representational requirements. A Framework for Web Science surveys central engineering issues, such as the development of the Semantic Web, Web services and P2P. Analytic approaches to discover the Web's topology, or its graph-like structures, are examined. Finally, the Web as a technology is essentially socially embedded; therefore various issues and requirements for Web use and governance are also reviewed. A Framework for Web Science is aimed primarily at researchers and developers in the area of Web-based knowledge management and information retrieval. It will also be an invaluable reference for students in computer science at the postgraduate level, academics and industrial practitioners.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:26
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Confucius"The Analects Of Confucius"
PDF | ISBN not applicable | Year 475-221BC | 97 pages | English | 1.04MB
This masterpiece of Confucius encloses the assortment of his sayings and dialogues which were collated by parishioners after his death. "The Analects of Confucius" is considered as ground work of philosophical dogma called "Confucianism". It shows philosophy of the Far East in a very communal and cerebral mode. Enlightening!
About the Author
Chinese teacher, political theorist, and philosopher, of the sixth century B.C. Confucius was one of the most distinguished figure whose ideas have had a great impact on the civilization of East Asia. He is renowned as the founder of Confucianism.
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Posted in books by bahalaka on May. 11, 2008 // 00:28
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