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Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life With Progeria by Hayley Okines
mobi |eng | 2011-11-24 | Author:Hayley Okines

Chapter 17 Hayley Sibling Rivalry I WAS NOT PLEASED when my brother Louis was born. I had to share my bedroom with him and he would wake me up in ...
( Category: Medical December 19,2014 )
Chinese Rules by Tim Clissold
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Clissold

10 THE THIRD CHINESE RULE: The Art of War Is of Vital Importance for the State; It Is a Matter of Life and Death; the Road to Safety or Ruin ...
( Category: China December 9,2014 )
The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn
epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Gervase Phinn

Thirteen “There has been a veritable harem wishing to speak to you today, dear boy,” said Sidney when I arrived at the office late one afternoon. “Is that not so, ...
( Category: Administration December 8,2014 )
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
epub |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Mendeleev’s Garden In 1945 the Science Museum in South Kensington reopened (it had been closed for much of the war), and I first saw the giant periodic table ...
( Category: Medical December 8,2014 )
Desperate Voyage by John Caldwell
epub, mobi |eng | 1948-12-31 | Author:John Caldwell

17 Dismasted W hen I awakened, it was daylight. I didn’t waken because I had slept enough, or because the daylight had caught my eye. Not forty-eight hours of sleep ...
( Category: Excursion Guides December 8,2014 )
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison by Jordan Belfort
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:Jordan Belfort [Belfort, Jordan]

“Can't you just come over with a straitjacket and take her away?” I asked George. “I don't see any other solution.” Those weren't the first words I'd uttered to George ...
( Category: Business December 3,2014 )
Economic Fables by Ariel Rubinstein
epub |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Ariel Rubinstein [Rubinstein, Ariel]

November 1994 I sat in my office at Princeton. It was evening, the door was open. John Nash walked by in the hallway and seemed to be looking for something. ...
( Category: Microeconomics December 3,2014 )
As Always, Julia by Joan Reardon
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Reardon [Reardon, Joan]

Per 1 cup cooked mashed potatoes: 1⅓ TB butter 1½ yolks (the US "large" egg, 1 TB per yolk) 1 TB cream (or milk, which is less rich!) salt, pepper, ...
( Category: French December 1,2014 )
Six Men by Alistair Cooke
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1978-11-05 | Author:Alistair Cooke

IV Humphrey Bogart * * * Epitaph for a Tough Guy * * * In the fall of 1952, we were coming to the end of the Eisenhower-Stevenson presidential campaign, ...
( Category: Culinary November 30,2014 )
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Bryan Stevenson

I arrived at the courthouse early the next morning to visit Walter in his basement cell before the proceedings began. When I headed upstairs, I was confused to see a ...
( Category: Criminology November 29,2014 )
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Josh Ozersky
epub |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Josh Ozersky

4 BARBARIANS AT THE GATE By 1969, five years after the sale, the average Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant had annual gross sales of nearly a quarter of a million dollars. ...
( Category: State & Local November 27,2014 )
The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Steve Coll

26. AMERICA IN MOTION THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION of 1979 cast thousands of privileged Persians into exile. Many gathered in Los Angeles, where they poured their agitations into business. First-and second-generation ...
( Category: Asian November 26,2014 )
OF TIME AND THE RIVER by Thomas Wolfe
epub, mobi | | 2011-04-07 | Author:Thomas Wolfe [Wolfe, Thomas]

Within a period of three furious months Robert made trips to Colorado seven times: he got on trains and was hurled 2000 miles across the continent as casually as a ...
( Category: Journalists November 26,2014 )
People Like Us: Misrepresenting The Middle East by Joris Luyendijk
mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Joris Luyendijk

Before I became a correspondent, I saw a journalist as a kind of a fly on the wall, an invisible microphone recording events, like the football commentators who sit somewhere ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 24,2014 )
My Beautiful Genome by Lone Frank
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Lone Frank

I’M THINKING ABOUT depression on the train from Washington, DC, to Richmond, Virginia. I’m on my way to meet Kenneth Kendler, who has been a psychiatric epidemiologist and a professor ...
( Category: Medical November 24,2014 )

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