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  Wind and the Moon

  George MacDonald

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of The Wind and the Moon by George Macdonald. This is the fortnightly poetry project for September 28, 2014.

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  Bulls Bears & Basketball -...

  Chuck Thoele

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  A money expert uses his passion for college basketball to teach the ins and outs of personal finance in a more approachable fashion. 
   
  What can legendary UCLA coach John Wooden teach us about personal financial planning? How do Georgetown’s shot-blocking big men relate to investing strategy? And what does Christian Laettner’s famous last-second shot have to do with leaving a financial legacy for your family? In Bulls, Bears, & Basketball, financial planning veteran Chuck Thoele makes the case that average investors can learn a lot from their hardwood heroes. If you think sports stories are more exciting than financial rhetoric, this book is for you. Forget dry and technical lectures about financial planning. Thoele translates must-know financial concepts into basketball language that’s enlightening and fun to read. Assess your own team, scout the competition, perfect your offense, get tough on defense, and always keep an eye on the clock. Guiding readers through the colorful history of NCAA basketball, Thoele draws parallels between some of the game’s most dramatic moments and the principles of building financial security. He tells of unstoppable teams, coaching geniuses, and glorious victories and relates them to essential lessons about investing, insurance, retirement, estate planning, and more. 
   
  Praise for Bulls, Bears & Basketball 
   
  “Thoele . . . succeeds in instructing the reader in a decision-making process that can be easily understood, simple to apply, and entertaining at the same time.” —Steve Alford, Head Coach, UCLA Bruins Men’s Basketball Team 
   
  “Chuck Thoele cleverly weaves parallels between NCAA basketball—referencing real-life moments during games of play, unstoppable teams, and coaching geniuses—and essential lessons about investing. Having worked with RGT and Chuck for the past twenty-four years, I’m confident you’ll find Bulls, Bears & Basketball a valuable read.” —Troy Aikman, NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback 
   
  “Thoele skillfully masters the art of teaching readers must-know principles to building financial security for life. By connecting two of his greatest loves-helping people manage their money and the annual NCAA Tournament known as March Madness-Bulls, Bears, & Basketball puts a refreshing spin on learning valuable information.” —Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, American businessman, and investor

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  History of Silicon Valley

  IntroBooks Team

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  Silicon Valley is situated in Northern California and the unofficial capital of IT world. The most significant technology businesses made their headquarters at the San Francisco Bay Area. Genius innovators of past and present are the resident workers of this “mother-board area” of IT businesses. This is the place where ideas take shape. Since biggest of technology brands made their headquarters here, it is little surprising that almost a million IT graduates from all over the world work at this place. 
  Silicon Valley is the place where the best minds of Information Technology dream to work; this place is heaven for genius innovators. Billion dollar deals are very common here. 
  Hypothetically Silicon Valley has various meanings today; the actual Silicon Valley refers to the geographic location of the place where everything first started. But any location that boosts more than one IT company, thousands of employees are seen as “Silicon Valley” of that local area. Silicon Valley is hugely significant because of its contribution to the economy.  
  Nerds, intellectual, geeks, students from all over the world visit this part of Northern California every year to see what Silicon Valley work culture really is.

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  Eyes Wide Open

  Robyn Weatherley

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  Robyn Weatherley has spent years and hundreds of meetings in all types of Boardrooms, working with some of the best (and less fine) Board Directors in Australia.Her extensive career in corporate governance has included working with and advising numerous Boards of substantial operating entities (listed and unlisted, private and government), on how to operate on the right side of good governance and the law. Living and breathing the world of Directors means Robyn can provide both aspirational and new Board Directors with detailed, humanistic insights as to what a newbie to this field might encounter upon their first appointment - details very seldomly shared in structured education courses.Much like an informal fireside chat with a friend, 'Eyes Wide Open - A First Timer's Guide to the Real World of Boards and Company Directorship' takes the interested and keen, but uninitiated Director, on a high level journey through the very important step of how to conduct a thorough and effective due diligence; then on to the experience, expectations and risks of the appointment; a review of the people you'll be likely be working with, and then rounding out with insights concerning ongoing education and what the ongoing responsibilities of a Director look like.Straight forward, easy to grasp, conversational - this is what you'll find in 'Eyes Wide Open'.  It's a great ready reckoner for anyone considering a Board role in their future. Whilst the hardcover was published in 2015, the principles remain and hold as firm today, as they did when first written.

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  Managing Humans - Biting and...

  Michael Lopp

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  Read hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp's perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The Third Edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.
  
  Whether you're an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you-and help you survive and prosper amid the general craziness of dysfunctional bright people caught up in the chase of riches and power. Scattered in repose among these manic misfits are managers, an even stranger breed of people who, through a mystical organizational ritual, have been given power over the futures and the bank accounts of many others.
  
  Lopp's straight-from-the-hip style is unlike that of any other writer on management and leadership. He pulls no punches and tells stories he probably shouldn't. But they are magically instructive and yield Lopp's trenchant insights on leadership that cut to the heart of the matter-whether it's dealing with your boss, handling a slacker, hiring top guns, or seeing a knotty project through to completion.
  
  Writing code is easy. Managing humans is not. You need a book to help you do it, and this is it.
  
  You'll learn to: lead engineers, handle conflict, hire well, motivate employees, manage your boss, discover how to say no, understand different engineering personalities, build effective teams, run a meeting well, and scale teams.
  
  Who This Book Is For
  Managers and would-be managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bytes for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture.

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  The Gospel In Brief

  Leo Tolstoy

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  In this book, Tolstoy seeks to condense the four Gospels of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, into one, by looking along the lines of the teachings of Jesus Christ found in each book.  In doing so, he discovers that the Lord's Prayer is the best summation of all that Christ taught in the Gospels. - Summary by KHand

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