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In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions
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In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions

Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple Physics, popular math and science writer Paul Nahin presents a plethora of situations that explore the science and math behind the wonders of everyday life. Roaming through a diverse range of puzzles, he illustrates how physics shows us ways to wring more energy from renewable sources, to measure the gravity in our car garages, to figure out which of three light switches in the basement controls the light bulb in the attic, and much, much more.
 
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25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
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25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]A slim companion to Maxwell's bestselling Winning with People, this volume aims to teach readers skills that will help them improve their interpersonal relationships. Using a tag-team approach, with Parrott kicking off each topic and Maxwell butting in for a "Mentoring Moment" every few pages, the authors offer up familiar nuggets of advice such as "Pass the Credit on to Others," "Listen with Your Heart" and "Point Out People's Strengths." While the book supposedly offers "specific skills that can be mastered in a matter of days," workable suggestions are unfortunately lost in the avalanche of fawning praise that Parrott heaps upon Maxwell.

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Tags: Others, skills, advice, praise, Parrott, People, Maxwell
Praise Singer
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Praise SingerPraise Singer

In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts.


 
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The Importance of Being Lazy - In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations
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The Importance of Being Lazy - In Praise of Play, Leisure and VacationsThe Importance of Being Lazy - In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations

Author draws on studies of Americans' vacation habits to show why 'doing nothing' is a fundamental human necessity. Argues that as a culture whose mythology is steeped in the hard work and accomplishments of our pioneering forebearers, we know how to work hard but not how to play; and what we really need is some time off.
 
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Tags: pioneering, forebearers, accomplishments, steeped, mythology, Importance, Leisure, Vacations, Being, Praise
The Praise of Folly
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The Praise of FollyThe Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion, Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is an essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511.
 
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