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
How to Make Your Own Video or Short Film: All You Need to Know to Make Your Own Ideas Shine - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Film-making has been both my passion and my career for almost 40years. There can be few other pursuits that extend to us such anopportunity to express ourselves with the same kind of freedom andcreative vigour, and it is no surprise that within the last few years newtechnologies have offered accessibility to the medium of video and filmfor virtually anyone who feels they have something to say. For me,picking up a camera, recording a series of events, then shuffling thescenes around in an edit suite to give an honest but creativeinterpretation of the original raw footage is not only supremelyrewarding but one of the great joys of life, and one that everybodyshould try at least once.The students I teach on my film course come from all walks of life, are ofvarying ages, nationalities and beliefs, and bring with them a wide rangeof subject matter they are keen to tackle, be it just for fun, for personalfulfilment or for a more serious career change.Performers who feel compelled to show off their skills; charity workerswho want to highlight the plight of the less fortunate; artists and writerseager to experiment within an audio visual medium; journalists keen touse film to explore social issues such as mental illness or threats to ourfreedom of speech; workers in uninspiring jobs who want to step into aworld of discovery and challenge, and learn new skills along the way, orpeople who live in ordinary streets in ordinary towns who simply wantto record and document events as they happen around them.Once just the domain of professional film-makers, the door is now opento anyone with the will and creative integrity to produce a body of work,small or large, that can offer personal fulfilment whilst informing,inspiring and entertaining millions of people worldwide
Don't Listen to Phil Hellmuth: Correcting the 50 Worst Pieces of Poker Advice You've Ever Heard - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What if many of the fundamental “truths” you’ve heardabout poker turned out to be false?Recognize any of these commonly held beliefs?• Preflop play doesn’t matter that much.• The key to getting paid off is playing looseso no one can put you on a hand.• Bigger 3-bets get more folds.• Calling is weak.• You have to bet this flop becauseyou don’t want to give up.There is certainly an element of truth to some of thesestatements, but by and large they are big misconceptions.Perhaps this shouldn’t bother us because, as poker pros, weprofit off the mistakes of others. But when we see so manyhigh-level players making so many fundamental mistakes intheir games, and having those moves endorsed by televisionannouncers, it’s enough to make us scream, “Stop! That’snot how it’s done!”This book focuses on correcting the greatest fallacies inpoker. There are an astonishing number of them, providingour common understanding of the game with an incrediblyshaky foundation. This did not come entirely as a surprise.Like many new players, we struggled to sift through allthe competing voices. One author would say this, anotherwould say that. For Dusty, it took more than 3 millionhands to generate an income that exceeded the sum totalof his bonuses.Hoping to give our readers a better leg up than wehad, we systematically take on what we recognize as flawedadvice. The two of us have combed through more than fourdecades of conventional poker wisdom. No one is spared:world champions, on-air commentators or other flavors ofthe month. Not even we are excluded from our criticism.One by one, we challenge each misconception, takingon what we feel are the top 50 ways to lose at poker. Byproving these misconceptions false, we think we benefit ourreaders in such a way that, by implementing these newfoundunderstandings, they can become more profitable tomorrow.We want this book to ultimately function as aFactCheck.org or “MythBusters” for poker. We hope you’llcome to look at us as watchdogs out to protect your interestsby questioning the powers that be.As we did in our previous books, Treat Your Poker LikeA Business and Way of the Poker Warrior, in this book wecover the game’s most frequent scenarios, seeking to providesolutions to situations that arise every 10 minutes rather thanonce a month. Our criteria for choosing misconceptions weresimple. Are they costing people money, and can we prove it?We hope to relate with our readers, letting them know thatthe scenario that’s vexing them now once did the same to us.Unlike our previous books, this is a comprehensivemanual that aims to troubleshoot the poker process fromthe top down, complete with hand analyses and a readerquiz at book’s end.The process of writing this book has led us to thinkabout coaching. Golfers don’t have 10 swing coaches.Baseball players don’t have 10 hitting coaches. Footballteams don’t have 10 offensive coordinators. But in poker,we tend to entertain advice from all comers, which leadsto confusion and a fragmented playing style. Why do wedo this?Profit motive.
Take On the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decade’s rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Street’s obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it hard to tell financial fantasy from reality, salesmanship from honest advice.In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt—former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission—shows how you can take matters into your own hands. At once anecdotal (names are named), informative, and prescriptive, Take on the Street expounds on, among other subjects: the relationship between broker compensation and your trading account; the conflicts of interest inherent in buy-hold-or-sell recommendations of analysts; what exactly happens—and who gets a piece of the action—when you place an order; the “seven deadly sins” of mutual funds; the vagaries and vicissitudes of 401(k) investments; how accountants engage in sleight of hand to fake impressive company performance; how to find the truth in a company’s financial statements; the real reason for the Street’s hostility to full disclosure; the crisis in corporate governance, and, given these shenanigans and double-dealings, what specific steps you can take to safeguard your financial future.With integrity and authority, Levitt gives us a bracing primer on the collapse of the system for overseeing our capital markets, and sage, essential advice on a discipline we often ignore to our peril—how not to lose money.
Blueprint for Your Library Marketing Plan: A Guide to Help You Survive And Thrive - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: In these challenging times, libraries face fierce competition for customers and funding. Creating and implementing a marketing plan can help libraries make a compelling case and address both issues attracting funding and customers by focusing on specific needs. But where and how do you start?Drawing on the authors many decades of experience in marketing and as librarians and trustees, Blueprint for Your Library Marketing Plan offers a step-by-step program to get any library up to speed with minimal angst. * Lay the groundwork through strategic planning and data collection * Write the plan, including targeting the market, defining services, setting goals, and taking action to promote the library * Use marketing planning to create and position new and existing services and programs * Implement and track the plan then evaluate resultsReproducible forms and worksheets, quick start tips, strategies and models from other libraries, and resources for more information enhance this one-stop handbook. Librarians and directors in public, academic, and special libraries, marketing specialists, and students and instructors in library programs can learn to tailor marketing plans, prioritize services, and address community needs using this library-focused, hands-on guide.
10 Things You Need To Know Before You See The Doctor: A Physician's Advice From More Than 40 Years Of Practicing Medicine - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Takes consumers behind the scenes of hospitals and doctors? offices to understand how and why medicine works the way that it does. HMOs. PPOs. Indemnity insurance. Medicare. Second opinions. You hear these terms. You know you’re supposed to understand what they mean ... and use them when you need medical care. But most people have a hard time applying what they know when they or their family members are in an emergency room or doctor's office. This book gives clear tools for making good decisions when you see a doctor and have to sort through many options. People who read this book will be able to ask the right questions of health care providers: * demand the best medical care * be smart and aggressive consumers * with real-life medical stories and hospital experiences that will instruct - and amaze
A Guide to Elder Planning: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself Legally and Financially (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Let's face it... in today's world, senior citizens and their families face more complicated financial, legal and personal planning decisions than ever before--and making the wrong decisions can be catastrophic. In this book, Steven J.J. Weisman, renowned estate planning attorney and host of the nationally syndicated radio show "A Touch of Grey," offers you practical, simple guidance on every one of these issues. Written with simplicity and humor, Elder Planning uncovers strategies and loopholes for retirement, health care, long-term care, asset protection, investments, taxes, social security, housing, Medicare/Medicaid, estate planning, substitute decision, and more. This book is easy to read and easy to use, making it the indispensable resource for anyone needing to protect themselves, their parents and their heirs.
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.
Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Bk Currents) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: America has been run as a corporate regime for several years -- a merger of big business and government that makes profits more important than human rights and erodes the democratic tradition. Costly wars abroad, a national debt that grows exponentially year after year, and the inability to deliver stable work and essential social services are undermining the legitimacy of the regime -- opening the door to a new period of regime change. Today, new grass roots progressive movements are mobilizing, becoming a catalyst for change. In "Hidden Power, author Charles Derber shows how these movements can transform the political landscape, breaking the Democratic party out of its corporate shell and moving it toward a new unifying vision of how to create real democracy in a world run by big money.
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!
More How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Advanced Basics, The Fun Begins (Howell Equestrian Library) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Techniques to help riders fine-tune their communication and riding skills This follow-up to How Your Horse Wants You to Ride helps intermediate to advanced riders improve their communication with their mounts and polish their overall riding skills. Readers get a complete tutorial–much of which can be found nowhere else–on taking their riding skills to the next level.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.