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  The Things We Make - The Unknown...

  Bill Hammack

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  Discover the secret method used to build the world . . .For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of—let alone understand—but that influences every aspect of our lives.Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan Award–winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we make, and how we make them. Now, for the first time, he reveals the invisible method behind every invention and takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. From the grand stone arches of medieval cathedrals to the mundane modern soda can, Hammack explains the golden rule of thumb that underlies every new building technique, every technological advancement, and every creative solution that leads us one step closer to a better, more functional world. Spanning centuries and cultures, Hammack offers a fascinating perspective on how humans engineer solutions in a world full of problems.

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  Instant Connection - How to...

  The INSTANT Series

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  The Instant-Series presents Instant Connection: How to Build Rapport with Anyone Instantly!Remember the last time you met somebody you really liked, you got along with, and you wanted to connect with, but they wouldn't budge or, worse, distanced themselves from you and didn't want anything to do with you?Whether that was a potential friend, member of the opposite sex, crucial client, valuable network, or important boss...that hurt, didn't it? Or at least made you felt rejected and unworthy.Whatever the case may be, the truth is you need to be able to build connections with people.Creating rapport and building connections with people is a must. Just ask anybody who is successful in friendship, love, and work.Within Instant Connection:How to build instant connections with people doing some of the simplest things you can imagine.How to make yourself somebody who can just easily turn strangers you meet into connections.Ways to work on building rapport every day so you when you see people, you know what to do.The one most important skill you need to develop in order to connect with anybody.What to do after you establish the connection and how to maintain it so it becomes a lasting connection.Plus custom practical how-to strategies, techniques, applications, and exercises to make connections with people.And much more....Establish rapport and build your connections now with Instant Connection!

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  Kill for the Thrill

  Michael W Sheetz

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  “The book recounts a brutal string of murders committed by John Lesko and Michael Travaglia, who face the death penalty.” —TribLIVE During the winter of 1979, southwestern Pennsylvania was rocked by a series of sensational murders, sparking a thirty-year criminal justice saga. A week of brutal, seemingly random killings culminated in the provocation and fatal shooting of Patrolman Leonard Miller, an officer new to the town of Apollo’s police force and only twenty-one years old. Little more than a year later, two men were convicted of the rash of homicides and sentenced to death—yet both are alive today. Incorporating details of the central characters’ personal lives as well as the state’s court system, criminologist Michael W. Sheetz here relays the awful story of the so-called “kill for thrill” crime spree with the drama of a novelist and the insight of an officer of the law.

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  The Unknown History of Black...

  Julius Kane

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  The black press made a huge difference when it came to reporting to black Americans what was going on in black America. All the lynching's, court cases and protests that were ignored by the mainstream white media, black media outlets reported every single detail. This needed overview shines a light on a forgotten part of black history.

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  Seized - Temporal Lobe Epilepsy...

  Eve LaPlante

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  Seized is a narrative portrait of a common brain disorder that can alter personality, illuminating the mind-body problem and the limits of free will. An invaluable resource for anyone touched by epilepsy, Seized gives first-hand accounts of three ordinary patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), explaining what they suffer and how they cope. The book also tells the stories of creative luminaries diagnosed with or suspected of having TLE, including van Gogh, Dostoevsky, Lewis Carroll, Saint Paul, and Flaubert. The psychological implications of Seized are, according to Publishers Weekly, “staggering.” Kirkus Reviews called the book “Fascinating . . . LaPlante’s descriptions of the human brain are wonderfully concrete, her historical research is well presented, and her empathy for TLE’s victims is clear.” In this “fascinating account of medical research,” Howard Gardner noted, “LaPlante shows how a brain scar may cause bizarre aggressive or sexual behavior—and works of profound creative imagination.”  

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  The Past That Would Not Die

  Walter Lord

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  Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation in the American South On September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. An air force veteran with sixty hours of transfer credits, Meredith would have been welcomed were it not for the color of his skin. As the first African-American student to register at a previously segregated school, however, he risked his life. The Supreme Court had determined that Oxford’s university must desegregate, and several hundred federal marshals came to support Meredith. It would not be enough. As President Kennedy called for peace, a riot exploded in Oxford. By eleven o’clock that night, the marshals were out of tear gas. By midnight, the highway patrol had pulled out, gunfire was spreading, and Kennedy was forced to send in the army. In this definitive history, Walter Lord argues that the riot was not an isolated incident, but a manifestation of racial hatred that was wrapped up in the state’s identity, stretching all the way back to the Civil War.

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