Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
Harper | 2005 | ISBN: 9780060575014 | English | 41 pages | PDF
Ugly Americans is a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamour. A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold true story that rocked the financial community.
English for New Americans, a series of language-learning programs from Living Language. English for New Americans will greatly improve your ability to speak and understand "real" American English. The complete course consists of this workbook, one 60-minute videocassette, one 60-minute cassette, and an audioscript. The English for New Americans program uses an immerion approach, so you'll be using English from the start, just as you would in real life. the program provides you with the tools you'll need-vocabulary, phrases, and basic grammar-to help you communicate in typical situations.
Scientific American's The Memory Code - July 2007
Researchers are closing in on the rules that the brain uses to lay down memories. Discovery of this memory code could lead to new ways to peer into the mind.
Anyone who has ever been in an earthquake has vivid memories of it: the ground shakes, trembles, buckles and heaves; the air fills with sounds of rumbling, cracking and shattering glass; cabinets fly open; books, dishes and knickknacks tumble from shelves. We remember such episodes--with striking clarity and for years afterward--because that is what our brains evolved to do: extract information from salient events and use that knowledge to guide our responses to similar situations in the future. This ability to learn from past experience allows all animals to adapt to a world that is complex and ever changing.
Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It brings articles about new and innovative research to the amateur and lay audience.
