موضوعات
آموزش و پرورش
ادبیات و زبان
پزشکی، دندانپزشکی و داروسازی
تاریخ و جغرافیا
داستان و رمان
دیگر
دین و فلسفه
روانشناسی
ریاضیات و آمار
سلامتی، تناسب اندام و رژیم غذایی
شیمی و پلیمر
علوم اجتماعی و حقوق
علوم زیستی و بیوتکنولوژی
فیزیک و نجوم
کامپیوتر و اینترنت
کتابهای کودکان و داستان
کسب و کار و اقتصاد
کشاورزی و دامپزشکی و غذا
معماری
مهندسی و فناوری
هنر و تئاتر
محصولات
It's Magic, You Dope - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: CHAPTER 1IT was the same two guys. I spotted them standing down at the end of the dark street, just beyond thecone of light cast by the street lamp. They were pretending to be neighborhood people, carrying on acasual conversation on the corner, but I knew they were the same guys I'd seen standing outside thelibrary when I'd left it a half hour before, in downtown Chicago.I was quite curious, but lacked the nerve to approach them and ask what they wanted. They might wantmy wallet and watch, and then where'd I be? So I just slammed the door of my sedan, and started up thewalk toward Susan's house, pretending I hadn't noticed them. I wished there were more people out ontheir porches, but the autumn evenings had been turning colder, and hardly anyone came out.I rang the bell of the two-story bungalow where Susan lived with her folks, and was reassured to hearthe sound of footsteps coming to answer the chimes. Mrs. Baker, Susan's mother, opened the door."Hello, Al,” she said. “Susan'll be down in a minute. Here, let me take your hat.” She rambled throughsome more mother-greeting-suitor talk, and I finally wound up in the living room, sitting in the centerof the sofa, alone, while Mr. Baker, Susan's father, puffed at his pipe and tried to engage me in lightconversation on the subject of burglary. Garvey Baker was the night-watchman at the Marshall Field'sstore up near Lake Street in Oak Park. He was usually about to go out to work about the time I showedup to see Susan. It helped.As long as we were on the subject of crime, I mentioned those two guys who seemed to have followedme from the Loop. Mr. Baker laughed. “You've been reading too many mystery books,” he said with aninfuriatingly paternal smile."Yes, sir,” I said, anxiously awaiting the moment when he would lift his gold watch from his vestpocket, say, “Well, better get down to the store before the thieves strip it bare,” and go. Mrs. Bakercame in with a tray."Thought you might like some cookies and lemonade,” she explained, setting the tray down on theendtable beside the sofa. I thanked her, and she laughed and went out into the kitchen again."Well,” said Garvey Baker, getting ponderously to his feet, and glancing at that gold watch. “I betterget on up to the store before the thieves strip it bare.” I was glad to hear the front door close behindhim. Then a light patter of feet on the hall stairs announced the arrival of Miss Susan Baker, and Ijumped gratefully to my feet...."Al,” she smiled, coming across the room to me, her hands outstretched to lightly grip mine."Hi, Susan,” I said, taking hold of her fingertips for that brief moment before she'd deftly tug them free."Do you like my dress?” she said, pirouetting. “Pop got it at his discount. Isn't it adorable?"I said it was, and she sat beside me on the sofa. Perhaps “beside” is too strong. It was a three-seater; sheand I filled the one and three cushions."Your mother made lemonade for us,” I said. “Here it is, on the tray.""Oh, how nice!” said Susan, her eyes dancing. “Wasn't that nice of Mom, Al?"I said it was, and we sat a while longer. Then, getting up a little courage, I turned to her and said,“Would you like some?""Oh, please,” said Susan, brightly.I arose and poured out two glasses of lemonade, gave one to her, and sat back with the other, on thetwo-cushion.
Were You Raised by Wolves?: Clues to the Mysteries of Adulthood - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: It used to be that young people were let loose upon a grateful world with a modicum of social skill and the basic know-how to run a household. But such fundamental competence at the tasks of life seems to be rarer every day. How did we get to this pass? Should Mum not have done your homework? Should Dad have made Tiffany take that summer job instead of paying for her round the world trip? Perhaps. But what we really want to know is, what can we do about it? Why are so-called adults often unable to make their beds and clean up their own kitchens? They may even have jobs and apartments but why are they still relying on their doting parents to manage major details of their lives for them?In "Raised by Wolves", Christie Mellor lovingly offers a handbook full of advice and gentle verbal spankings that will send them off into the real world. She explains how to RSVP, clean a bathroom, behave in a restaurant, be a good party guest, and much, much more. It presents the things every adult needs to know in order to get through life without alienating every person they meet. This hilarious compendium includes information in a wealth of categories, including: how to poach a chicken (and what to do with it when you're done); how to make the perfect martini; 25 amazing uses for baking soda; how not to annoy your friends when you break up with your boyfriend; 10 common work situations, what you think they mean, and what they really mean; and, how to go a day without spending any money (and why you should, once in a while). Mellor's trademark arch, witty style makes even the most pointed advice palatable. If only we'd all had a book like this when we were young!
Studying Engineering at University: Everything You Need to Know - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Engineering is not a subject studied in secondary schools, and unless students have relatives 'in the business', many students who undertake engineering courses are not really sure what to expect. Studying Engineering at University focuses on making the transition from school to uni as painless as possible. The book provides real life examples of how engineers go about things and gives practical tips for approaching engineering study tasks such as problem solving. The book's approach means that students from a wide diversity of backgrounds will find helpful suggestions on all aspects of study, from preparing for tutorials, to learning how to do technical writing, to studying for exams.
You've Already Got It! (So Quit Trying To Get It) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Have you ever thought, I'm doing everything I know to do, what's wrong with me? What's it going to take to get God to move on my behalf? If you have, you're not alone. It's a question most Christian ask and yet remain frustrated with the answers they receive. The answer usually go something like this: If you will pray a little longer and with more sincerity, spend more time fasting, read a few more chapters in the Bible every day, and quit wasting time in front of the television, then God will answer your prayers. He's just waiting for you to shape up. In other words, your performance is the problem. The fact is, that couldn't be further from the truth. You've Already Got It! is a book filled with the good news that God's response isn't based on the things you must do; it's based on what Jesus did. As you read, you'll gain the knowledge to trust God. It's only the truth you know that will set you free!
Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Think win-win is the best way to make the deal? Think again. It’s the worst possible way to get the best deal. This is the dirty little secret of corporate America.For years now, win-win has been the paradigm for business negotiation—the “fair” way for all concerned. But don’t believe it. Today, win-win is just the seductive mantra used by the toughest negotiators to get the other side to compromise unnecessarily, early, and often. Have you ever heard someone on the other side of the table say, “Let’s team up on this, partner”? It all sounds so good, but these negotiators take their naive “partners” to the cleaners, deal after deal. Start with No shows you how they accomplish this. It shows you how such negotiations end up as win-lose. It exposes the scam for what it really is. And it guarantees that you’ll never be a victim again.Win-win plays to your emotions. It takes advantage of your instinct and desire to make the deal. Start with No teaches you how to understand and control these emotions. It teaches you how to ignore the siren call of the final result, which you can’t really control, and how to focus instead on the activities and behavior that you can and must control in order to negotiate with the pros.Start with No introduces a system of decision-based negotiation. Never again will you be out there on a wing and a prayer. Never again will you feel out of control. Never again will you compromise unnecessarily. Never again will you lose a negotiation.The best negotiators:* aren’t interested in “yes”—they prefer “no” * never, ever rush to close, but always let the other side feel comfortable and secure* are never needy; they take advantage of the other party’s neediness* create a “blank slate” to ensure they ask questions and listen to the answers, to make sure they have no assumptions and expectations* always have a mission and purpose that guides their decisions* don’t send so much as an e-mail without an agenda for what they want to accomplish* know the four “budgets” for themselves and for the other side: time, energy, money, and emotion* never waste time with people who don’t really make the decisionStart with No offers a contrarian, counterintuitive system for negotiating any kind of deal in any kind of situation—the purchase of a new house, a multimillion-dollar business deal, or where to take the kids for dinner. It is full of dozens of business as well as personal stories illustrating each point of the system. It will change your life as a negotiator. If you put to good use the principles and practices revealed here, you will become an immeasurably better negotiator.
You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: "I believe you; I just don't see it." He was being polite again."It must make you irritable, this stranger coming and telling you""I'm not irritable. I'm not an irritable person."After that day, Paul did not come again to the Villa de France to talk of Jane. He made it clear to me that he felt uncomfortable, giving an excuse about thenoise at the hotel. I had not realizedothers would tell me this laterthat in the four years since Jane's death he had become reluctant to go out to publicplaces. (Nor had it occurred to me that at the hotel he could not smoke kif, whichI was also to learnwas so helpful to him in alleviating anxiety.) Hesuggested that I interview him in his flat, saying that we could talk better there. When I mentioned that other people were usually around, makingdiscussion difficult, he said he would make the time to see me alone.And so began our daily conversations about Jane, extended conversations that went on for four or five hours at a time. Each day he waited for me tobegin. As he waited, perhaps he was steeling himself, as for an ordeal, but he never gave any direct indication that this was so. He did make it clear,however, how much he admired her work, how he regretted that it had not been adequately recognized in her lifetime.I soon learned that if I came to him with my theories about Jane's writingfor theorizing, working at an abstract level, was part of my history (part of myselfthat was often at odds with storytelling)he would listen politely, but the conversation would go nowhere. At such times hisanswers had the quality of reiteration, of having been solidified. But if I could make myself stay with the specific, a phrase in her work or in a letter she hadwritten to him, a phrase that was provocative and mysterious at the same time, something new appeared in his response: a new incident in her life, a newmemory. Then there would be a new story, a revealing that was like a skein unwinding after the proper thread had been pulled.When he responded to my questions, he was forthcoming but in a way that is difficult to describe. It has been said of Paul many times that he is verydeceptive; he even said so himself in his autobiography. Yet, listening to him, I did not have a sense of deceptionthere was withholding, yes, but not in thesense of a deliberate refusal to tell. Rather, it seemed to me that his withholding was a process akin to his method of telling a story, where what isrevealed is revealed only at the necessary moment.I was being immersed in a world of stories: her stories, his stories about her, his stories about the two of them when they were together, about the gamesthey would play together. And then there were all the other stories, the subsidiary stories surfacing around me, arising out of the world of his daily life.One afternoon as Paul and I were just about to begin work, Mrabet came into the flat and sat down. He began a story about taking Jane to the market, inwhich he featured as a central character."I take Janie with me in car. Janie buy three bottle wine, one kilo meat, chocolate. Janie like chocolate. I look [at the bill]. Seventy-five hundred francs. I toldhim [an Italian shopkeeper], with seven thousand francs I could buy" Mrabet listed in Spanish a number of items that he couldbuy with this sum. "Janie told me no. I told Janie this day, 'Shut up.'""Glad I wasn't there," Paul said."Janie became small.""Like Alice in Wonderland," Paul interjected."Italiano hit me." And then, broadening the base of his accusation, "Cherifa hit me. Ayse [a Moroccan woman who had worked for Jane] hit me.""Ay, ay, ay," said Paul."Everybody hit me. Never buy anything from Italiano.""And Ang?le?" Paul asked. Ang?le was a Spanish woman who had also worked for Jane."Ang?le hit me.""One time," noted Paul, "Janie had six servants altogether. Not all at the same time. They rotated.""Culpa," announced Mrabet loudly. "Your fault.""According to him," Paul turned to me, "everything is my fault because I didn't command her, make her do this or that. Nobody could make her doanything," he insisted.Mrabet said something about men needing to control women."All right, it's my fault. It's all over, so don't tell me it's my fault." Whereas earlier in Mrabet's story Paul had prompted him to further telling, now the tone ofhis voice was aggrieved."Besides, Mrabet," I interjected, "Paul wouldn't have wanted to tell her.""He has a different ideathe man has to command," Paul explained."In this world," Mrabet said expansively, "every woman has to have a man over her." Then he added something about Paul not having been seriousenough and supplemented it with an aside to Paul in Spanish."He says the man has to keep the bit in the mouth, otherwise the woman runs away. Never let her do what she wants, or it's too late," Paul translated."It was too late when he met her," I said."It's never too late," Mrabet pronounced and got up and lef
Do Dead People Watch You Shower?: And Other Questions You've Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Medium Concetta Bertoldi answers all your questions about life after life . . . from the irreverent: (If the dead are always with us, do they have a XXX view of my bedroom?) . . . to the poignant: (Will my deceased father be with me when I walk down the aisle on my wedding day?) . . . to the heartfelt: (When loved ones leave this life too early or under tragic circumstances, are they eternally heartbroken or can they find peace in heaven?) Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In Do Dead People Watch You Shower?, the first-ever book of its kind, she exposes the naked truth about the fate and happiness of our late loved ones with no-holds-barred honesty and delightfully wry humor, answering questions that range from the practical to the outrageous. In addition she shares with us her own intimate secrets, revealing with refreshing candor how her miraculous gift has affected her life, her marriage, her friendships, and her career, as well as the myriad ways she has used it to help others.
Start and Run a Gift Job: What You Need to Do to Turn Your Idea into Reality (Small Business Start Ups) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: There are many questions to ask yourself when you decide to set up a busi-ness. These will range from ‘Why am I going into business and what do Iwant to achieve from it?’ to ‘How will my business operate?’ The answers tothe first question may be very complex and personal to you but the secondquestion is answered in this chapter:The legal classifications of a businessSole traderYou are on your own, no one to answer to, no one to tell you what to do –you are your own boss. You will, however, be responsible for purchases,sales, advertising and marketing, accounting, shopfitting, cleaning
See You in Court: A Social Worker's Guide to Presenting Evidence in Care Proceedings - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Are you looking forward to giving evidence? What do you have concerns about? Do you know how to prepare written evidence that will be taken seriously in court? "See You in Court" is an accessible guide for social workers on being a witness in care proceedings. With little training and few resources available, social workers can find preparing for court a daunting part of their role. "See You in Court" answers questions frequently asked by social workers in real cases, and gives information on court structures, basic rules of evidence, the roles of those involved in the proceedings, and court etiquette. The process of giving evidence is discussed, including how to deal with cross-examination. Case studies support the material, as well as multiple-choice questions and a checklist for witnesses. This practical book is essential reading for social workers, particularly those working with children and families.
Christ in You - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Many who are working among the downtrodden anddegraded ask: "How is this?" "And why?" We wouldtell them that every created being must work up andthrough every necessary phase, evolving from thelowest point of created life. Yet we know neither theday nor the hour When the Son of Man cometh. Oftenin the deepest darkness of experience, illuminationarises, changing the whole aspect and environment.The soul at once recognizes that only through thisperiod of apparent degradation and ignorance can itevolve. Make the most and the best of everyexperience, you will thank God for them all. Do notweep with those who weep, but help them by a mightylove, pure as a mother's, for in the love of a mother isthe unselfishness of Godآیا کتاب مورد نظر هنوز بر روی سایت قرار نگرفته است؟ جای نگرانی نیست! کافی است بر روی گزینه سفارش کتاب کلیک کرده و درخواست خود را ثبت کنید. در کمتر از چند ساعت کتاب شما را آماده خواهیم کرد.