GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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A Rottweiler, Frank & I
By: Ian Miller
You know how it is, you fall down an enormous hole in the street marked Terminal Illness. You struggle to get out only to find that the world has changed -
you are the Invisible Man. You do not become any wiser but your priorities in life are forever changed. Humour from terminal illness? A difficult but true story.
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A study of culture, belief and social structure
By: Tahir Iqbal
Groundbreaking new analysis of culture, the economy, truth and politics. Ideal for the researcher, student or anyone who wants to really understand humanity.
English is written in a complicated style. Lack of clarity.
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Almanac
Some news is as predictable as the calendar on the wall because certain days on the calendar always make news. The seasonal stories fill up the paper. But do they feed your brain?
Ours do. Here is the knowledge you need to be a man or a woman for all seasons. Learn the real reason summer sizzles, leaves fall, and April rain smells like poetry. Meet the real St. Nick. Discover five days
in U.S. history as bad as 9/11 and see how the nation responded.
From Yom Kippur to Ramadan, you'll get a full year of knowledge fast when you read the KnowledgeNews Almanac. We've got the calendar covered. We even tell you how the calendar came to be.
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Americana
From the president, to the Congress, to the courts, what happens in Washington affects the world. You hear the news. But does anyone
ever explain why the American system works the way it does?
We do. Here are 40 things you should absolutely know about the USA. Get principled about freedom. Make sense of government, elections, and political fights. Discover
how past generations fought wars, made peace, and enshrined the American dream.
With the KnowledgeNews Americana ebook, you will understand the ideas, institutions, and icons that make America what it is. You'll have the
knowledge America's founders considered essential to patriotism. In fact, that's where we start with the founders' own "portrait of a patriot."
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Asian Culture Revealed: Yellow on the outside, Shame on the inside
By Anson Chi
Why do Asians really get straight As? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Many people believe that the reason has to do
with the pressure to perform and conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths
about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones—and open a hidden world of long-guarded secrets.
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Building a Cabinet
Having a Cabinet of presidential advisers seems as American as apple pie and impeachment. But in fact,
the Cabinet is not required by the Constitution.
A strong executive was the last thing many of America's founders wanted in the 1770s. They worried that if any
one man gathered too much power,the states would have another king.So the first constitution,the Articles
of Confederation,did not allow for a chief executive.
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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
by Captain Grose et al.
The merit of Captain Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue has been long and universally acknowledged. But its circulation was
confined almost exclusively to the lower orders of society: he was not aware, at the time of its compilation, that our young men
of fashion would at no very distant period be as distinguished for the vulgarity of their jargon as the inhabitants of Newgate;
and he therefore conceived it superfluous to incorporate with his work the few examples of fashionable slang that might occur to
his observation.
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INDIA THROUGH THE AGES
Modern India was born in 1947,when the British Empire
packed its bags,partitioned the Indian subcontinent,and
headed home.But ancient India's roots run far deeper
than the British Raj.How deep?Let's go and see.
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MAKING MODERN INDIA
India's ancient history dates back some 4,500 years.
But the events that made modern India began five
centuries ago, with the arrival of European traders
and the rise and fall of the British Raj. Here is
how India went from Raj to swaraj ("self-rule")
and so became the world's largest democracy.
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Memorable Quotes
By: 7th Kingdom
Beautiful uncommon quotes
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Russia And Belarus : New Business Culture
By Dr. Mikhail Kolontay, Vice-President of the Institute for Privatization and Management (Minsk, Belarus)
This book is about a new and booming business culture in Russia and Belarus. People in these countries were separated from the rest of the world by an "iron curtain" for eighty years. Perestroika broke
the "iron curtain", allowing conditions for free exchange of people and ideas. The concept of the "iron curtain" remains important as it continues to influence the behavior and ideology of many.
This book only shows you the preface: a fairy tale for adults. You will find a complete comparison of the business cultures in Belarus and Russia in the following book:
The Development of Business Styles in Post-Soviet
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Science News
When there's news in the Middle East or Washington, DC, a little history can help you understand. But when the story is enriched uranium or
birds with a deadly flu, you need to know some science, too.
Don't worry. We have the scientific knowledge you need to make sense of today's top news. Meet the stem cells and steroids in your own body. Look a horrible
hurricane like Katrina in the eye. Decide for yourself if Pluto's a planet.
Traveling from tiny viruses trying to steal your cells to a hundred billion galaxies out beyond the Milky Way, the KnowledgeNews SciencePhiles ebook will
rocket you through the science you need to understand 21st-century news.
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Searchlights on Health
by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols in 1920
The Science of Eugenics:
Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. Widely popular in the
early decades of the 20th century, it has largely fallen into disrepute after having become associated with the Holocaust.
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Social Issues Essays 2008-2009
By Garcia-Gonzalez
9 Social Issues Essays: *The Maximum Reasonable Size of World Population*, *The Non-Renewable and Non-Recyclable Natural Resources Belong To Planet Earth*,
*I Believe I Got the Founders of the United States On My Side*, *Racial or Ethnic Minorities Do Not Qualify For High Political Office*, *Electoral College System Enhancing*,
*One Dollar per Capita, Per Year, For Global Defense*, *Fair Business Taxation*, *Philosophical Blueprint for a Modern Library*, and *International Trade Authority*
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The Illustrated London Reading Book (1851)
By: Various
To deprive Instruction of the terrors with which the young but too often regard it, and strew flowers upon the pathways that lead to Knowledge,
is to confer a benefit upon all who are interested in the cause of Education, either as Teachers or Pupils. The design of the following
pages is not merely to present to the youthful reader some of the masterpieces of English literature in prose and verse, arranged and
selected in such a manner as to please as well as instruct, but to render them more agreeable to the eye and the imagination by Pictorial
Representations, in illustration of the subjects. It is hoped that this design has not been altogether unsuccessful, and that the ILLUSTRATED
LONDON READING BOOK will recommend itself both to old and young by the appropriateness of the selections, their progressive arrangement, the
fidelity of their Illustrations, and the very moderate price at which it is offered to the public.
You will not find the illustrations in the ebook you will download on this site but you can view them by clicking on:
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The Psychiatrist Who Cured The Scientologist
By: Aaron Gottfried
Through extreme mood changes of life altering highs and lows a teenage boy finds himself in an uphill battle. Not sure of what is the right path or trustworthy he ends up in an organization
that doesn’t recognize his would be affliction and would later keep him from treatment. It turns from a personal battle to a family battle between sanity and slavery. The truth is realized
only when the alternative would prove deadly.
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World Tour
Every single day, the news takes you to a faraway place and reports on some event that could literally change the world. You find out what
happened. But do you ever learn why?
You can. Here is the historical knowledge you need to really understand world news. Get smarter about Iraq, Iran, and Israel. Make sense of North
Korea and Northern Ireland. Understand Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia.
If you're curious about a country commonly in the news, chances are the KnowledgeNews World Tour will put events
there in historical context fast. So grab your passport, and get ready to take a journey around the world now!
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