A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler Austrian writer Robert Seethaler’s Ein ganzes Leben, translated into English by Charlotte Collins as A Whole Life, illustrates well the notion that everyone’s life is a novel. Here we have the story of a quiet and simple man, Andreas Egger, born somewhere around 1898 and living out most of his life in a small village located in a valley in the mountains.
Usually a sophisticated plotter, bestseller Baldacci (Absolute Power) offers a story line and villain on a par with an average James Bond film in what's billed as his first international thriller. Nicholas Creel, the head of the Ares Corporation, a huge defense contractor, hires a perception management firm to start a second cold war by planting fake news stories on the Internet about Russian atrocities. The propaganda campaign soon turns violent with the massacre of the members of a London think tank, the Phoenix Group, apparently by a Russian hit team.
In a Manner of Speaking: Phrases, Expressions, and Proverbs and How We Use and Misuse Them
What do “the whole kit and caboodle,” “the whole shebang,” “the whole megillah,” “the whole enchilada,” “the whole nine yards,” “the whole box and dice,” and “the full Monty” have in common? They’re all expressions that mean “the entire quantity,” and they’re all examples of the breadth and depth of the English-speaking world’s vocabulary.
Based on the classic fairy tale. A little girl is given a magic porridge pot, but one day when her mother forgets to stop it cooking, the whole town is soon filled with porridge!
Dana Mosely - Chalk Dust Productions - Basic College Mathematics
Lecture Titles
0 Introduction Chapter 1 Whole Numbers * Chapter 2 Fractions * Chapter 3 Decimals * Chapter 4 Ratio and Proportion * Chapter 5 Percents * Chapter 6 Applications for Business and Consumers * Chapter 7 Statistics and Probability * Chapter 8 U.S. Customary Units of Measurement * Chapter 9 The Metric System of Measurement * Chapter 10 Rational Numbers * Chapter 11 Introduction to Algebra * Chapter 12 Geometry
