Jackie Robinson: 100 facts, letters, quotes and FBI files you didn't know about

by Earl Edwards

Impress your friends, become an expert with all the little known facts you will learn about this great american hero.This book gives you 100 quick facts on number 42 of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Mr. Jackie Robinson. The first Black man to break baseball's color barrier and play in the Major Leagues. Did you know that the FBI kept a file on him? Why? Do you know that he had a relative that won a medal in the 1936 Olympics while Adolf Hitler looked on? Also included are letters he wrote to two presidents, some of his famous quotes and some of the FBI files that were kept on him....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 36 pages
Free download for Kindle from 19 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

Oil, The 4th Renewable Resource

by Shawn Alli

The first and last book you’ll ever need to understand oil and the myth of fossil fuels. The myth of fossil fuels and peak oil has been a part of the North American lifestyle for almost 100 years. Beginning first in the schools, children are anxious for an education but instead are indoctrinated to believe this deception. As a student grows up they hear the same message propagating through governments, media and various interest groups, eventually accepting it as a scientific fact. But the truth is now within your grasp in finding this book. In Oil, The 4th Renewable Resource, you’ll learn: o How the myth of fossil fuels begins. o How oil corporations are taking advantage of this myth. o The beginning of the abiotic oil theory in 1877. o How the myth of global warming and oil corpo...

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 180 pages
Free download for Kindle from 19 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

The Bug Out Book Package: Bug Out: What to Do When It's Time to Get Out of Dodge and The Bug Out Bag: What You...

by M. Anderson

Two great books on bugging out, one low price When and if a survival situation presents itself, how prepared will you be? If you aren't taking steps to prepare for survival now, you won't be ready when disaster strikes. This bug out book package gives you the knowledge you need to survive an emergency situation in which you have to leave your home. When the time to get out of dodge comes, will you be prepared? Natural disasters. Manmade disasters. War. Enemy invasion. Terrorist attack. The list goes on and on. There are countless situations in which you may need to evacuate the area you're living in. Are you prepared? Bug Out: What to Do When It's Time to Get Out of Dodge gives you the information you need to build a bug out bag, create an escape plan and be ready to get out of dodge a...

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 1.03 mb
Free download for Kindle from 19 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

101 Tips on How to Be a Bouncer: Techniques to Handle Situations Without Violence

by Darren Lee

*** For a LIMITED TIME ONLY receive a free audiobook download of this text with every purchase of the KINDLE version . Now you can let narrator Oscar Sparrow of Gallo-Romano Media do the reading for you while you kick back on the couch! The download link is in the book and the mp3 files are fully iTunes ready. ***               So you're a black belt, bodybuilder and think you have all the skills it takes to be a bouncer, huh?    Well you may make a great 'bouncer', but if you want to become a professional 'crowd controller' who can handle situations effortlessly and with as little violence as possible then you are intelligent enough to recognize the importance of mastering the techniques in this book.    With the nightlife industry becoming so heavily regulated a...

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 86 pages
Free download for Kindle from 19 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

Intervention Timing and Depression: An Examination of the Time Lapse between Onset and Intervention

by Mike Thorpe B.A. M.A. B.Ed

Intervention Timing and Depression: An Examination of the Time Lapse between Onset and Intervention focuses on the determinants of women's mental health over their life course. This research shows, through empirical evidence, that mental health screening in the public education is necessary in order to curb the effects of depression in women in their later life. This is important research that has not been published anywhere else. Exclusive to Kindle....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 176 kb
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

Evolution of Souls: The Importance of Common Values in Intercultural Relationships between Asian Women and Western...

by Daniel Marques

Traveling in many different Asian countries and talking to plenty mixed couples have allowed me to understand much about the reasons behind such new rapidly increasing tendency. There’s clearly a trend of Asian women looking for foreign men, not only inside Asia but outside as well. As the world opens more and we can travel to the opposite side of the globe in just a few hours on a shoestring, it’s natural that we may become more acquaint of people from different countries. This exchange between nations leads to mixed couples, for even though we may look different, deep down we’re all the same. When socializing it’s only normal that it may end up in marriage, even when the initial preference and self-image doesn’t allow seeing such outcome. Life simply happens in this way; and, b...

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 76 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

From Women's Rights to Human Rights: The Juarez Murders on the Eve of Narcoconflict

by Jenny Karubian

Over 400 women have disappeared from Juarez, Mexico since the early 1990s. Many of these women were found raped, mutilated, kidnapped and burned in the desert that surrounds Ciudad Juarez. Since the late 1990s, perspectives on these murders have shifted from violence against women's bodies to human rights violations. This text traces the emergence of these perspectives from 1997 until the Narco Conflict began in 2008....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 28 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

Secret Wisdom of the Orient: Ancient Wisdom for Life

by Master Dutch Hinkle

On Sale for $0.99 For a Very Limited Time !!! Learn SECRET Wisdom of the Orient from a master instructor who practices it every day. Gain knowledge from:      "The -3- Goals of Self-Defense",           "Be a Hot Stove !",                "Is Pressure Point Fighting Real ?",                  � �  "Can Killing Be Justified ?",                           "One Finger Defense",               � �               "Lies My Fathers Told Me",                                     and more. Find out why there are ALWAYS alternatives to fighting and physical confrontation. Why this book?  Someone once said that if you can't find the book you are looking for after a th...

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 40 pages
Free download for Kindle from 15 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake

by William Gibson, Yoko Ono, Barry Eisler and Jake Adelstein

In just over a week, a group of unpaid professional and citizen journalists who met on Twitter created a book to raise money for Japanese Red Cross earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. In addition to essays, artwork and photographs submitted by people around the world, including people who endured the disaster and journalists who covered it, 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake contains a piece by Yoko Ono, and work created specifically for the book by authors William Gibson, Barry Eisler and Jake Adelstein. “The primary goal,” says the book's editor, a British resident of Japan, “is to record the moment, and in doing so raise money for the Japanese Red Cross Society to help the thousands of homeless, hungry and cold survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. The bi...

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 93 pages
Free download for Kindle from 09 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

Global Library and Information Science: A Textbook for Students and Educators. With Contributions from Africa,...

by Ismail Abdullahi

This book presents international librarianship and library science through insightful and well written chapters contributed by experts and scholars from six regions of the world. The role of public, academic, special, school libraries, as well as library and information science education are presented from the early development to the present time. Its lively, readable approach will help the reader to understand librarianship in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America.Edited by Ismail Abdullahi, Professor of Global Library and Information Science, this book is a must-read by library science students and teachers, librarians, and anyone interested in Global Librarianship....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Publisher: Saur de Gruyter
Size: 592 pages
Free download for Kindle from 06 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

Believe in America: Mitt Romney's Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth

by Romney for President

Mitt Romney will rebuild the foundations of the American economy on the principles of free enterprise, hard work, and innovation. His plan emphasizes critical structural adjustments rather than short-term fixes. It seeks to reduce taxes, spending, regulation, and government programs. It seeks to increase trade, energy production, human capital, and labor flexibility. It relinquishes power to the states instead of claiming to have the solution to every problem. Any American living through this economic crisis will immediately recognize the severity of the break that Mitt Romney proposes from our current course. He is calling for a fundamental change in Washington's view of how economic growth and prosperity are achieved, how jobs are created, and how government can support these endeavors....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Size: 172 pages
Free download for Kindle from 06 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy: Printing and Library Work (IFLA Publications)

by Susan M. Allen, Lin Zuzao, Cheng Xiaolan and Jan Bos

In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite meeting "Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library Work" in Hangzhou in 2006 the richness of present day book historical research and library activities in China has been presented by more than sixty papers. This fine selection reflects the width and depth of this extremely important and immense Chinese heritage....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Size: 251 pages
Free download for Kindle from 06 June 2013 onward PDT/PST 

Guidelines for Legislative Libraries (IFLA Publications)

by Keith Cuninghame

The scale of change in the provision of information and research services since the original edition of this guide , in particular the development of the Internet, meant that it soon became clear that a more or less complete re-write was needed, rather than simply a revision of the existing text. However, the new edition has kept to the spirit of the original, which has been a valuable tool for many....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Size: 135 pages
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Praxeology and the Rothbardians

by Adam Knott

Praxeology and the Rothbardians is an essay by Adam Knott in which Knott argues that the normative property theories of Murray Rothbard and Hans-Hermann Hoppe are not part of praxeology, the general science of human action....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Publisher: Adam Knott
Size: 62 pages
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IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines (IFLA Publications)

by Christie Koontz and Barbara Gubbin

The public library is the prime community access point designed to respond to a multitude of ever-changing information needs. These guidelines are framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in most situations. They assist to better develop effective services, relevant collections, and accessible formats within the context and requirements of the local community. In this exciting and complex information world it is important for professionals in search of knowledge, information and creative experience to succeed. This is the 2nd edition of The Public Library Service IFLA/UNESCO Guidelines for Development....

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Publisher: De Gruyter
Size: 149 pages
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Social Science Libraries: Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks (IFLA Publications)

by Steve W. Witt and Lynne M. Rudasill

This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Section two focuses on the rise of data as a resource to be collected and shared within social science libraries. The third section focuses on the role of librarians to facilitate the development of social organizations that develop around new technologies and research communities. Changed role of librarians within social science libraries Describes new developments of social organizations Essential fo...

Genre: Politics & Current Events
Publisher: De Gruyter
Size: 138 pages
Free download for Kindle from 06 June 2013 onward PDT/PST