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Dr. Joe & What You Didn't Know: 99 Fascinating Questions About the Chemistry of Everyday Life - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What does being barefoot and pregnant on a cactus have todo with cherry ice cream? You probably think that's a prettybizarre question. But there is method to the madness. For overtwo decades now, I've tried to answer the public's questionsabout everyday chemistry on the radio, I hope with somedegree of success. Then, a few years ago, I had an idea. Whynot spice things up by turning the situation around and askingmy audience questions?Everybody seems to like quiz shows, especially when thereare prizes at stake, so I took to beginning each program with aquestion, offering a prize for the first right answer. We're talkinglocal radio here, not national TV, so the prizes were modest, buwe did manage to come up with some books, gift certificates,restaurant meals, and highly coveted "Dr. Joe" T-shirts. A newadventure was in the offing! I started off with some prettystraightforward questions — like, "Why does ouzo turn whitewhen you add water to it?"; and, "What is emu oil?"; and, "Whydoes lemon juice lighten the color of tea?" All good questions, Ithought, and somewhat challenging.Indeed, for the first few weeks, callers struggled to answermy questions; then suddenly it seemed as though they hadtaken smart pills. They started providing the correct answers7INTRODUCTIONDR. JOE SCHWARCZwith impressive frequency. It didn't take long for me to figureout what was going on. I wasn't testing the audience anymore,I was posing my questions to Google. And Google, as weknow, is pretty smart. As soon as a question passed my lips,those little fingers hit the keyboard. I tried instituting an honorcode, requesting that respondents not run to their computers.Yeah, sure.Obviously, another approach was needed. I attempted tophrase the questions in ways that would confound the searchengines. Like, "What is the connection between tangerine trees,marmalade skies, and morning glory?"; or, "What is the linkbetween Frankenstein and frog legs?" This approach seemed towork, and that's why you'll find a number of unusual-sound-ing questions in this little volume, which is a collection of thequestions I've posed on my radio show over the years. Ofcourse, you'll also find the answers — at least, my version ofthem.The questions come from a number of fields, but all havesome interesting scientific connection. There is no specific orderto the questions, no systematic attempt to educate. What I'vetried to do is demonstrate science's broad scope and show howscientific pursuit links to so many areas of our culture. So,come along for the ride, poke around, read a little here, a littlethere, pick up some bits of knowledge to fling around thedinner table, and have some fun doing it. And if you want toknow what being barefoot and pregnant on a cactus has to dowith cherry ice cream, just turn the page.
You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Let’s get one thing straight right from the start. Eversince I walked away with the top prize on the NBC re-ality show The Apprentice, starring Donald Trump—ajob running a division of The Trump Organization, at a start-ing salary of $250,000—I’ve been on the receiving end of arush of public attention that has shone a weird (and some-times harsh) spotlight on everything I’ve done, everythingI’m doing, and everything I might do next.Okay, so I might have suspected as much going in, but Ididn’t think things through. Why? Well, I wasn’t conditionedto think about things like celebrity and publicity and peopleasking for an autograph while you’re hurrying to catch aplane. I thought about the opportunities the show wouldoffer, the chance to work alongside Donald Trump and to testmy business instincts against some of the best and brightestyoung entrepreneurs the producers could find, but I didn’tthink about any fame or fortune that might come my way asa result. That wasn’t what it was all about—at least not forme. There were sixteen of us on the show to start, and we’ve1
Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records: How to Run Your Nonprofit Corporation So You Don't Run Into Trouble - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Nonprofit? Stay out of IRS trouble with the ultimate corporate housekeeping tool! Nearly 1.5 million nonprofit organizations are busy preserving historic sites, saving libraries, helping the homeless, greening our cities -- and so much more. Yet, while some have sophisticated record-keeping systems, most nonprofits are staffed by volunteers who need help running the organization and keeping up a proper -- and legal -- paper trail. Help has arrived! With Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records, you'll get the all-in-one solution every nonprofiteer needs to hold meetings and document actions taken by board members. Step by step, it walks readers through: calling meetings appointing officers taking minutes making resolutions voting on proposals adjourning meetings working with a lawyer, if necessary, and finding a tax adviser. Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records also provides useful tips and advice on how to do important tasks, such as organizing records, preparing meeting folders, and taking minutes. Plus, all necessary documents are included on the CD-ROM. It's everything you need to keep your nonprofit running smoothly and legally.
Everything You Wanted to Know About ADHD (...But Forgot You Wanted to Ask) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: . Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been divided into three clusters of symptoms: hyperactive, impulsive, and inattentive. As each patient presents with a specific degree of impairment in these three categories, a patient can, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV), be placed into the following subtypes: the predominantly inattentive type, the predominantly hyperactive- impulsive type and lastly the combined type, which is also the most frequent one.
Gastric Bypass Surgery: Everything You Need to Know to Make an Informed Decision - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: You have picked up this book because you want to lose weight. You’ve tried every weight loss program there is, and, as with most overweight people, while some of those programs have worked for a while, in the end the weight has always come back. You want something permanent. Weight loss surgery is a daunting decision, and a bit fright- ening, too, but it is undoubtedly the most effective approach to long-term enduring weight loss. As you consider weight loss surgery, you will have many questions. In my practice as a physician who treats people with obesity-related illnesses, I have helped many people navigate the sea of scientific jargon and bewildering proce- dures that this process entails. Most of my patients have the same questions. This book will give you the answers you need to make the right decision. But before you consider weight loss surgery, there are two questions you need to ask yourself: 1. Are you, in fact, a candidate for such a procedure?
Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? (2011-01-02 draft) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Preface The purpose of this book is to help you under- stand how to program shared-memory parallel ma- chines without risking your sanity.1 By describing the algorithms and designs that have worked well in the past, we hope to help you avoid at least some of the pitfalls that have beset parallel projects. But you should think of this book as a foundation on which to build, rather than as a completed cathe- dral. You mission, if you choose to accept, is to help make further progress in the exciting field of paral- lel programming, progress that should in time render this book obsolete. Parallel programming is not as hard as it is reputed, and it is hoped that this book makes it even easier for you. This book follows a watershed shift in the parallel- programming field, from being primarily the domain of science, research, and grand-challenge projects to being primarily an engineering discipline. In pre- senting this engineering discipline, this book will ex- amine the specific development tasks peculiar to par- allel programming, and describe how they may be most effectively handled, and, in some surprisingly common special cases, automated. This book is written in the hope that present- ing the engineering discipline underlying successful parallel-programming projects will free a new gener- ation of parallel hackers from the need to slowly and painstakingly reinvent old wheels, instead focusing their energy and creativity on new frontiers. Al- though the book is intended primarily for self-study, it is likely to be more generally useful. It is hoped that this book will be useful to you, and that the ex- perience of parallel programming will bring you as much fun, excitement, and challenge as it has pro- vided the authors over the years.
Multiple Sclerosis: The Questions You Have, the Answers You Need, Fourth Edition - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: M ultiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex disease for which the cause and cure are still unknown. In other words, there are still a lot of unanswered ques- tions for anyone living with MS. In this part of the book, we provide an overview of the disease—describing what we know and do not know about MS. Experts in the field provide up-to-date answers to the most commonly asked questions about what happens in MS, who gets the disease and why, how it is diagnosed, and what kinds of symptoms can occur. We start with a chapter designed to help you figure out how to make the best use of a book that is filled with more infor- mation than you may ever need to know about MS
You've GOT to Read This Book! LP: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book asks a lot of questions to help you learn how to study effectively. But there are no “right” or “wrong” answers here. Every question is designed to help you discover how you learn, and to help you do more of what works for you—whether you’re reading a text, listening to a lecture, writing a paper, or preparing for a test. For example, in order to understand what you’re reading right now, you are doing something that works for you. Maybe you’re reading this out loud. Or “hearing” your voice in your head as you read this silently. Perhaps you are making pictures on paper. Maybe you’re reading this as you’re walking. You might be reading all this in an orderly way, making a kind of outline in your head as you go along. Each of these ways is a different learning style. And the early chap- ters in this book focus on helping you find your own learning style. Later chapters help you work with your learning style so you can use it more often. The icons shown to the left stand for the five learning styles you’ll find out about in this book. Once you’ve identified your learning style in Chapter 2, “Discovering How You Learn,” you can look in the later chap- ters for the icon that stands for your style to find study tips that will help you take advantage of your strength. You’re more comfortable when you’re using your own style because you’re understanding more. And when you’re comfortable, you’re more receptive—you find it easier to get involved with what you’re studying, as you’ll see in Chapter 9, “Getting Involved in Learning.” When you’re involved with what you’re studying, it doesn’t feel like work; it becomes something you enjoy. Getting satisfaction from what you’re studying requires careful planning. Dividing big jobs into little ones makes overwhelming tasks more bearable. There’s a chapter in this book on that, too. Sometimes people can’t pay close attention to their studying because something else needs to be done. Spending a few minutes on that other job before studying will ease the conscience—thus making studying more productive. Also, some people work best if they work on several things at once. Maybe you’ve heard, “Can’t you just do one thing at a time?” Well, for you perhaps the answer is, “No, I can’t. I work best if I go back and forth between two or three projects. If I try to stick to one job at a time, I get distracted and don’t work well.” Many people work best this way
The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Henry David Thoreau is one of those authors that readers think they know, even if they don't. He's the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods, the mystic worshipping solemnly in the quiet church of nature. He's our national Natural Man, the prophet of environmentalism. But here Robert Sullivan—who himself has been called an "urban Thoreau" (New York Times Book Review)—presents the Thoreau you don't know: the activist, the organizer, the gregarious adventurer, the guy who likes to go camping with friends (even if they sometimes accidentally burn the woods down). Sullivan argues that Walden was a book intended to revive America, a communal work forever pigeonholed as a reclusive one, and this misreading is at the heart of our troubled relationship with the environment today. Sullivan shows us not a lonely eccentric but a man in his growing village: a man who danced and sang, who worked throughout his short life at the family pencil-making business, and moved into his parents' house after leaving Walden, but always paid his father rent. Passionate yet whimsical, The Thoreau You Don't Know asks us to re-examine our everyday relationship with the natural world, and one another.
You or Someone Like You - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbia—she, the daughter of a British diplo-mat from London, he a boy from an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Now on sleek blue California evenings, Anne attends halogen-lit movie premieres on the arm of her powerful husband. But her private life is lived in the world of her garden, reading books. When one of Howard's friends, the head of a studio, asks Anne to make a reading list, she casually agrees—though, as a director reminds her, "no one reads in Hollywood." To her surprise, they begin calling: screen-writers; producers, from their bungalows; and agents, from their plush offices on Wilshire and Beverly. Soon Anne finds herself leading an exclusive book club for the industry elite. Emerging gradually from her seclu-sion, she guides her readers into the ideas and beauties of Donne, Yeats, Auden, and Mamet, with her brilliant and increasingly bold opinions. But when a crisis of identity unexpectedly turns an anguished Howard back toward the Orthodoxy he left behind as a young man, Anne must set out to save what she values above all else: her husband's love. At once fiercely intelligent and emotionally grip-ping, You or Someone Like You confronts the fault lines between inherited faith and personal creed, and, through the surprising transformation of one exceptional, unfor-gettable woman, illuminates literature's power to change our lives.آیا 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.