Added by: orchiddl | Karma: 2026.11 | Fiction literature | 20 February 2010
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An Amorous thing - a short story collection
An Amorous Thing is a short story collection by Kody Boye. Featuring affection and the things it does to us, AAT contains 15 tales of the beautiful, the strange, and the downright horrific.
Added by: alternative | Karma: 85.25 | Audiobooks | 16 February 2010
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Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors' and Ford's combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room run by the Grateful Dead's former chef, and its employees traverse the firm's colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.
• SCIENCE: What Makes Teens Tick - A flood of hormones, sure. But also a host of structural changes in the brain. Can those explain the behaviors that make adolescence so exciting--and so exasperating?
• BUSINESS: Is Microsoft A Slowpoke? - Its big new product is way overdue. And Linux is challenging Windows' desktop dominance. What will it take to get the software titan moving again?
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 13 February 2010
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The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. Her husband died two weeks after the wedding and, now twenty-one, Ethelberta lives with her mother-in-law, Lady Petherwin. In the three years that have elapsed since the deaths of both her husband and father-in-law, Ethelberta has been treated to foreign travel and further privilege by her benefactress, but restricted from seeing her poor family.
