#100 - Angela Burt - The A-Z of Correct English - Common Errors in English

Author or Editor: Angela Burt
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Published: 2002
Pages: 195
Size: 1.45MB

The A–Z of Correct English is a reference book which has been written for the student and the general reader. It aims to tackle the basic questions about spelling, punctuation, grammar and word usage that the student and the general reader are likely to ask.
Throughout the book there are clear explanations, and exemplar sentences where they are needed. When it’s helpful to draw attention to spelling rules and patterns, these are given so that the reader is further empowered to deal with hundreds of related words.
The aim always has been to make the reader more confident and increasingly self-reliant. This is a fast-track reference book. It is not a dictionary although, like a dictionary, it is arranged alphabetically. It concentrates on problem areas; it anticipates difficulties; it invites cross-references. By exploring punctuation, for example, and paragraphing, it goes far beyond a dictionary’s terms of reference. It is not intended to replace a dictionary; it rather supplements it.

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#99 - Pam Peters - The Cambridge Guide to English Usage

Author or Editor: Pam Peters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Pages: 608
Size: 10MB

The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is written for English-users in the twenty-first century. It takes a fresh look at thousands of questions of style and usage, embracing issues that are time-honored yet still current, as well as those newly arising as the language continues to evolve. Some of these come with electronic communication and online documentation, but there are numerous others among the more than 4000 headwords in the book

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#98 - Various - New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology

Author or Editor: Various
Publisher: Crescent Books
Published: 1987
Pages: 465
Size: 1.9MB

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. Hence the English adjective 'mythical', meaning 'incredible'; and hence the omission from standard European mythologies, such as this, of all Biblical narratives even when closely paralleled by myths from Persia, Babylonia, Egypt and Greece; and of all hagiological legends. Otherwise, the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology offers a comprehensive and compact Who's Who or Who Was Who of the better known gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, demons, angels and saints from all over the world, including certain Moslem ones. It does not discuss philosophic theory or religious experience, and treats each cult with the same impersonal courtesy.

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#97 - Barry Langford - Film Genre Hollywood and Beyond

Author or Editor: Barry Langford
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2005
Pages: 309
Size: 13.5MB

Genre, as a police detective in a British crime film might say, has form. Aristotle opens his Politics, the foundational work of western literary criticism, by identifying it as a work of genre eriticism: 'Our suhject being Poetry, I propose to spclk not only of the art in general but also of its species and their respective capacities.

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#96 - Betty Scrampfer Azar - Basic English Grammar

Author or Editor: Betty Scrampfer Azar
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 1996
Pages: 476
Size: 134MB

Basic English Grammar remains a developmental skills text for students of English as a second or foreign language. Serving as both a reference and a workbook, it inaoduces students to the form, meaning, and usage of basic structures in English. It provide sample opportunities for practice through extensive and varied exercises leading to communicative activities. Although it focuses on grammar, it promotes the development of all language skills.

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#95 - Kirsten Malmkjær - The Linguistics Encyclopedia

Author or Editor: Kirsten Malmkjær
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Pages: 768
Size: 5.6MB

This book has lived through ten successful years. However, no work of reference to a developing discipline can remain at its cutting edge unless it, too, absorbs these developments. So, in this second edition of The Linguistics Encyclopedia, all but a very few entries – mostly those dealing with historical matters – have been extensively revised to take account of new developments in the fields they cover. The material on grammars has been rearranged, and there are brand-new entries on applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics and cross-linguistic studies, and forensic linguistics. In addition, there is a comprehensive, new Introduction to the discipline, written by Tony Howatt from Edinburgh University, a leading authority on the history of linguistics.

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#94 - William Strunk - The Elements of Style

Author or Editor: William Strunk
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 178
Size: 48.1MB

This edition has been modestly updated, with word processors and air conditioners making their first appearance among White's references, and with a light redistribution of genders to permit a feminine pronoun or female fanner to take their places among the males who once innocently served him.

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#93 - Leslie Houlden and Peter Byrne - Companion Encyclopedia of Theology

Author or Editor: Leslie Houlden and Peter Byrne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Pages: 1092

The aim of this Companion Encyclopedia is to provide as comprehensive a guide as possible to the present state of Christian theology in its Western academic manifestations and in the setting of the modern world. To understand the present, especially in the case of a long-standing phenomenon like Christianity, it is necessary to be aware of the past. So here there is much history as well as contemporary reflection and assessment.

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#92 - Hryhorij Dyczok - Buiding Grammar Skills for TOEFL iBT

Author or Editor: Hryhorij Dyczok
Publisher: Polandani
Published: 2007
Pages: 243

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#91 - Jane F.Gardner - Being a Roman Citizen

Author or Editor: Jane F.Gardner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Pages: 244

What was a Roman citizen? Answers to the question can follow a number of different lines of approach. One which is currently very influential is via the examination of the characteristics of Roman society and life in ‘Roman’ communities; the emphasis is not so much on citizenship as on ‘Romanness’. The definition of ‘Roman’ can be constructed, for example, by reference to the foreign, Hellenic model, cultural and also institutional, which the Romans both infiltrated and dominated, and at the same time absorbed and assimilated. It is possible therefore to study the subject from two angles, i.e. the ‘Hellenisation’ of the Romans, or the ‘Romanisation’ of their Eastern empire and its neighbours.

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#90 - N.E.Collinge - An Encyclopedia of language

Author or Editor: N.E.Collinge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Pages: 558

In the study of language the late 1980s may be seen in retrospect as an era of consolidation. No moderately aware eye will miss the epidemic of encyclopaedias of that time, their didactic sameness masked by a variety of style, even a desperate individuality. Some spread a single topic (say, dialectology) over an ample volume; some report on a kaleidoscope of topics under a summary, not always illuminating, heading (say, grammar). Some are terse and sober lexicons; some, like advertisers, seek their targets with a fine typographic frenzy. All suggest, no doubt involuntarily, that language and its study had for the moment stood still and might, while they caught their breath, conveniently sit for their portrait. And that is not a false picture.

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#89 - Peter N. Stearns - Western Civilization in World History

Author or Editor: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Pages: 138

This is a book about Western civilization and how to fit it into thinking about world history. During the past 15 years American educators, and sometimes the general public, have been treated to vigorous debates about the merits of teaching Western civ versus those involved in the newer subject of world history. The debates continue today, as we will briefly detail below. Typically, they proceed in an either–or fashion: one must either be devoted to the special virtues of Western civilization or one must embrace the world history vision, and there is not much in between. Correspondingly, we lack materials that would help students in a Western civ class think about a world history framework, or those in world history to spend just a moment on issues specific to Western civ. This book seeks to provide this kind of intermediary, by suggesting the kind of analysis essential to thinking about Western civilization in a world history context.

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#88 - Jack C. Richards and Richard Schmidt - Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

Author or Editor: Jack C. Richards and Richard Schmidt
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Published: 2002
Pages: 595

Language teaching and applied linguistics are fields which have their own core subject matter and which also draw on a number of complementary fields of study. Among the core subject matter disciplines are second language acquisition, methodology, testing, and syllabus design. The complementary fields of study include both the language based disciplines such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics, as well as the education based disciplines such as curriculum development, teacher education, and evaluation. The result is that students taking courses in language teaching and applied linguistics encounter a large number of specialized terms which frequently occur in articles, books and lectures. This dictionary attempts to clarify the meanings and uses of these terms.

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#87 - Ira Wolinsky and Judy A. Driskell - Sports Nutrition

Author or Editor: Ira Wolinsky and Judy A. Driskell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Published: 2008
Pages: 272

The human system, like the systems of most other taxa, has devised mechanisms to store energy. This storage frees the body from the demands of continuously adding energy to the system. Macronutrients in foods contain energy-rich chemical bonds. After digestion and absorption, the energy is stored as chemical bonds in triglyceride (fat), in glycogen (carbohydrate) and, arguably, in skeletal muscle (protein). This stored chemical bond energy is what is used to perform work. In this sense, human energy metabolism is similar to an internal combustion engine wherein energy substrates enter (food or gasoline), are combusted, and heat and work are produced. Metabolic energy is quantified in units of kilocalories (kcal, 1000 calories) and kilojoules (kJ, 1000 joules) or megajoules (MJ, 1000 kJ).

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#86 - Bill Clinton - My Life

Author or Editor: Bill Clinton
Publisher: Alfred A.Knopf
Published: 2004
Pages: 870

When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein. The book’s main point was the necessity of listing short-, medium-, and long-term life goals, then categorizing them in order of their importance, with the A group being the most important, the B group next, and the C the last, then listing under each goal specific activities designed to achieve them. I still have that paperback book, now almost thirty years old. And I’m sure I have that old list somewhere buried in my papers, though I can’t find it. However, I do remember the A list. I wanted to be a good man, have a good marriage and children, have good friends, make a successful political life, and write a great book.

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#85 - Alvin Toffler - Future Shock

Author or Editor: Alvin Toffler
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1980
Pages: 654

To begin with, many of today's changes are not independent of one another. Nor are they random. For example, the crack-up of the nuclear family, the global energy crisis, the spread of cults and cable television, the rise of flextime and new fringe-benefit packages, the emergence of separatist movements from Quebec to Corsica, may all seem like isolated events. Yet precisely the reverse is true. These and many other seemingly unrelated events or trends are niter-connected. They are, in fact, parts of a much larger phenomenon: the death of industrialism and the rise of a new civilization.

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#84 - Michael Peters - The British Medical Association Complete Family Health

Author or Editor: Michael Peters
Publisher: A Dorling Kindersley Book
Published: 2005
Pages: 992

Today, people are faced with an often bewildering array of information regarding health matters, and it may be difficult to know where to find the most reliable source. The Complete Family Health Guide is based on mainstream information from a panel of medical consultants chosen by the BMA. Their experience provides an unrivalled assurance of quality and reliability.

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#83 - Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope

Author or Editor: Barack Obama
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2006
Pages: 418

The Senate chamber is not the most beautiful space in the Capitol, but it is imposing nonetheless. The dun-colored walls are set off by panels of blue damask and columns of finely veined marble. Overhead, the ceiling forms a creamy white oval, with an American eagle etched in its center. Above the visitors’ gallery, the busts of the nation’s first twenty vice presidents sit in solemn repose.

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#82 - Jelle Kaastra - Clusters of Galaxies

Author or Editor: Jelle Kaastra
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Pages: 418

Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. Their baryonic composition is dominated by hot gas that is in quasi-hydrostatic equilibrium within the dark matter dominated gravitational potential well of the cluster. The hot gas is visible through spatially extended thermal X-ray emission, and it has been studied extensively both for assessing its physical properties and also as a tracer of the large-scale structure of the Universe.

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#81 - Noam Chomsky - New Horizons in the Study

Author or Editor: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 230

Chomsky’s position on the world intellectual scene is unique. He was the leading figure in the “cognitive revolution” of the 1950s and 1960s, and he has dominated the field of linguistics ever since. His theory of generative grammar, in a number of different forms, has been a guide and inspiration for many linguists around the world and the point of comparison for almost everyone. You may not agree with Chomsky’s work, but it would be both short-sighted and unscholarly to ignore it.

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#80 - Michael Baker - The Marketing Book

Author or Editor: Michael Baker
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2003
Pages: 834

As a discipline, marketing is in the process of transition from an art which is practised to a profession with strong theoretical foundations. In doing so it is following closely the precedents set by professions such as medicine, architecture and engineering, all of which have also been practised for thousands of years and have built up a wealth of descriptive information concerning the art which has both chronicled and advanced its evolution.

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#79 John Grisham - Painted House

Author or Editor: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2001
Pages: 400

The trip took twenty minutes. always twenty minutes, even with little traffic. pappy didn’t believe in passing slower vehicles in front of him. of course, he was usually the slow one. near black oak, we caught up to a trailer filled to the top with snowy mounds of freshly picked cotton. A tarp covered the front half, and the montgomery twins, who were my age, playfully bounced around in all that cotton until they saw us on the road below them. then they stopped and waved. I waved back, but my grandfather did not. when he drove, he never waved or nodded at folks, and this was, my mother said, because he was afraid to take his hands from the wheel. she said people talked about him behind his back, saying he was rude and arrogant. personally, i don’t think he cared how the gossip ran.

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#78 - Alvin Toffler - Future Shock

Author or Editor: Alvin Toffler
Publisher: Bantam Book
Published: 1971
Pages: 362

This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt—or fail to adapt—to the future. Much has been written about the future. Yet, for the most part, books about the world to come sound a harsh metallic note. These pages, by contrast, concern themselves with the "soft" or human side of tomorrow. Moreover, they concern themselves with the steps by which we are likely to reach tomorrow. They deal with common, everyday matters—the products we buy and discard, the places we leave behind, the corporations we inhabit, the people who pass at an ever faster clip through our lives. The future of friendship and family life is probed. Strange new subcultures and life styles are investigated, along with an array of other subjects from politics and playgrounds to skydiving and sex.

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#77 - Eric Hobsbawm - Age of Extremes

Author or Editor: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 1994
Pages: 627

Hobsbawm has written extensively on many subjects as one of Britain's most prominent historians. As a Marxist historiographer he has focused on analysis of the "dual revolution" (the political French revolution and the industrial British revolution). He sees their effect as a driving force behind the predominant trend towards liberal capitalism today. Another recurring theme in his work has been social banditry, a phenomenon that Hobsbawm has tried to place within the confines of relevant societal and historical context thus countering the traditional view of it being a spontaneous and unpredictable form of primitive rebellion.

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#76 - Robert Slater - 29 Leadership Secrets from Jack Welch

Author or Editor: Robert Slater
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2003
Pages: 134

Jack Welch, the long-time Chairman and CEO of General Electric, has been hailed as the greatest business leader of our era and deservedly so. It was Welch who headed GE from April 1981 to September 2001 and who pioneered some of the most important business strategies of the past two decades. We now take these strategies for granted as part of the way American business is done: restructuring, the emphasis on being number one or number two, making quality a top priority (through his Six Sigma initiative), and so on. Moreover, Welch, unlike most other business leaders, created a tightly woven, carefully scripted business philosophy that provided brief, crisp guidelines for every aspect of business.

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#75 - Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red

Author or Editor: Orhan Pamuk
Published: 1998
Pages: 448

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Though I drew my last breath long ago and my heart has stopped beating, no one, apart from that vile murderer, knows what’s happened to me. As for that wretch, he felt for my pulse and listened for my breath to be sure I was dead, then kicked me in the midriff, carried me to the edge of the well, raised me up and dropped me below. As I fell, my head, which he’d smashed with a stone, broke apart; my face, my forehead and cheeks, were crushed; my bones shattered, and my mouth filled with blood.

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#74 - Michael Swan and Catherine Walter - The Good Grammar Book

Author or Editor: Michael Swan and Catherine Walter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 262

The Good Grammar Book teaches all the grammar needed for speaking and writing in English. It explains the rules, shows how the language works, and gives plenty of practice. It can be used either with the coursebook in class or as extra practice at home.

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#73 - Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole - Game Theory

Author or Editor: Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 579

Jean Tirole has published about one-hundred eighty professional articles in economics and finance, as well as 8 books including The Theory of Industrial Organization, Game Theory (with Drew Fudenberg), A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation (with Jean-Jacques Laffont), The Prudential Regulation of Banks (with Mathias Dewatripont), Competition in Telecommunications (with Jean-Jacques Laffont), Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System , and The Theory of Corporate Finance. His research covers industrial organization, regulation, game theory, banking and finance, psychology and economics, international finance and macroeconomics.

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#72 - Alfonso Novales, Esther Fernández and Jesús Ruiz - Economic Growth

Author or Editor: Alfonso Novales, Esther Fernández and Jesús Ruiz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Pages: 528

Dynamic, stochastic models with optimizing agents have become a standard tool for policy design and evaluation at central banks and governments around the world. They are also increasingly used as the main reference for forecasting purposes. Such models can incorporate general equilibrium assumptions, as it was the case with Modern Business Cycle Theory, or different types of market frictions, in the form of price rigidity or monopolistic competition, as in the New Keynesian Macroeconomics. These models can all be considered as special cases of models of economic growth, and the theoretical and computational methods contained in this book are a first step to get started in this area.

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#71 - H.W.Fowler - Modern English Usage

Author or Editor: H.W.Fowler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Pages: 873

High in Fowler's order of priority were prosodie and other poetical terms derived from classical literature and used, often with modifications, by English poets: alcaics, alexandrine, anacrusis, arsis, etc. The chalk-lined hand the classics master at Sedbergh is most clearly observed in this group of words. I decided, on balance, that these articles, with minor modifications, should be retained in the third edition.

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#70 - Mark Casson - The Entrepreuner

Author or Editor: Mark Casson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Published: 2003
Pages: 271

We all of us know someone who is an entrepreneur. He may be a property developer, a small businessman, or just someone who knows how to ‘turn a fast buck’. Perhaps he buys secondhand Jaguar cars that are destined for the scrapheap, does them up and sells them to the Japanese. Or he buys unwanted books from publishers and sells them at ‘unrepeatable’ bargain prices from a high-street shop.

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#69 - Murray N. Rothbard - Making Economic Sense

Author or Editor: Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1995
Pages: 380

One of the persistent Clintonian themes of the 1992 campaign still endures: if “it’s the economy, stupid,” then why hasn’t President Clinton received the credit among the public for our glorious economic recovery? Hence the Clintonian conclusion that the resounding Democratic defeat in November, 1994, was due to their failure to “get the message out” to the public, the message being the good news of our current economic prosperity.

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#68 - Ron Paul - Pillars of Prosperity

Author or Editor: Ron Paul
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2008
Pages: 475

Mr. Speaker, I have a deep concern for the direction in which our country is going. I have expressed this concern by pointing out the political and economic contradictions that surround us and have suggested that these contradictions merely are manifestations of philosophic errors made by our intellectual leaders. Although the country currently is more or less in a euphoric mood, I am convinced the errors we are making today will eventually result in a severe political and economic crisis.

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#67 - Stephen King - The Plant

Author or Editor: Stephen King
Publisher: Philtrum Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 270

A new year, and the slush in the slush pile grows ever deeper. I don’t know how the rest of your toiling editorial minions are doing, but I continue to roll the existential rock of America’s unpublished aspiring—at least my share of it. All of which is only to say that I read my share of crud this week (and no, I haven’t been smoking what W. C. Fields called “the illicit sponduix,” either—I’m just having a prolix day).

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#66 - John Grisham - The Broker

Author or Editor: John Grisham
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: 2005
Pages: 315

In the waning hours of a presidency that was destined to arouse less interest from historians than any since perhaps that of William Henry Harrison (thirty-one days from inauguration to death), Arthur Morgan huddled in the Oval Office with his last remaining friend and pondered his final decisions. At that moment he felt as though he'd botched every decision in the previous four years, and he was not overly confident that he could, somehow, so late in the game, get things right. His friend wasn't so sure either, though, as always, he said little and whatever he did say was what the President wanted to hear.

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#65 - William H. Webster - Accounting for Managers

Author or Editor: William H. Webster
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2004
Pages: 255

Accounting knowledge is a core business skill that both complements and enhances your other talents. Individuals promoted to management or supervisory roles from either line or staff jobs find that many of their new responsibilities involve knowing something about accounting. Congratulations on your promotion! You’ve come to the right place to start developing those accounting skills. If you haven’t had a recent promotion, more congratulations are in order. You are taking steps to gain the skills that will lead to promotion in the near future.

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#64 - Subhash C.Jain - Marketing, Planning and Strategy

Author or Editor: Subhash C.Jain
Publisher: Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
Published: 2003
Pages: 930

Over the years marketers have been presented with a series of philosophical approaches to marketing decision making. One widely used approach is the marketing concept approach, which directs the marketer to develop the product offering, and indeed the entire marketing program, to meet the needs of the customer base. A key element in this approach is the need for information flow from the market to the decision maker. Another approach is the systems approach, which instructs the marketer to view the product not as an individual entity but as just one aspect of the customer’s total need-satisfaction system. A third approach, the environmental approach, portrays the marketing decision maker as the focal point of numerous environments within which the firm operates and that affect the success of the firm’s marketing program. These environments frequently bear such labels as legal-political, economic, competitive, consumer, market structure, social, technological, and international.

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#63 - Shelagh Heffernan - Modern Banking

Author or Editor: Shelagh Heffernan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2005
Pages: 716

This book is a sequel to Modern Banking in Theory and Practice published by John Wiley & Sons in 1996. It is a sequel rather than a second edition, because it does substantially more than merely update the 1996 text. In fact, this book has taken much longer to write than the 1996 book! In the eight years since Modern Banking in Theory and Practice was published, many aspects of banking have changed considerably, though the key characteristics that distinguish banks from other financial institutions have not. Some might question the need for a book on banking rather than one on financial institutions. While banks remain special and unique to the financial sector, books need to be devoted to them.

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#62 - Milton & Rose Friedman - Free To Choose - A Personal Statement

Author or Editor: Milton & Rose Friedman
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Published: 1980
Pages: 178

Ever since the first settlement of Europeans in the New World America has been a magnet for people seeking adventure, fleeing from tyranny, or simply trying to make a better life for themselves and their children.
An initial trickle swelled after the American Revolution and the establishment of the United States of America and became a flood in the nineteenth century, when millions of people streamed across the Atlantic, and a smaller number across the Pacific, driven by misery and tyranny, and attracted by the promise of freedom and affluence.

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#61 - J.R.R.Tolkien - The Silmarillion

Author or Editor: J.R.R.Tolkien
Publisher: Ainur
Published: 2001
Pages: 178

The Silmarillion, now published four years after the death of its author, is an account of the Elder
Days, or the First Age of the World. In The Lord of the Rings were narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age; but the tales of The Silmarillion are legends deriving from a much deeper past, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils.

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#60 - Martin Fridson and Fernando Alvarez - Financial Statement Analysis

Author or Editor: Martin Fridson and Fernando Alvarez
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2002
Pages: 396

Financial statement analysis is an essential skill in a variety of occupations including investment management, corporate finance, commercial lending, and the extension of credit. For individuals engaged in such activities, or who analyze financial data in connection with their personal investment decisions, there are two distinct approaches to the task.
The first is to follow a prescribed routine, filling in boxes with standard financial ratios, calculated according to precise and inflexible definitions. It may take little more effort or mental exertion than this to satisfy the formal requirements of many positions in the field of financial analysis. Operating in a purely mechanical manner, though, will not provide much of a professional challenge. Neither will a rote completion of all of the “proper” standard analytical steps ensure a useful, or even a nonharmful, result. Some individuals, however, will view such problems as only minor drawbacks.

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#59 - Roger Penrose - Road to Reality

Author or Editor: Roger Penrose
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2004
Pages: 1094

Amphos the craftsman had lived all his life in the same small town as his father and his father before him, and his father’s father before that. He made his living constructing beautifully decorated gold bracelets, earrings, ceremonial cups, and other Wne products of his artistic skills. Such work had been the family trade for some forty generations—a line unbroken since Am-tep had settled there eleven hundred years before.

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#58 - Alan Greenspan - The Age of Turbulence

Author or Editor: Alan Greenspan
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2007
Pages: 532

On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, I was flying back to Washington on Swissair Flight 128, returning home from a routine international bankers' meeting in Switzerland. I'd been moving about the cabin when the chief of the security detail that escorted me on trips abroad, Bob Agnew, stopped me in the aisle. Bob is an ex-Secret Service man, friendly but not especially talkative. At that moment, he was looking grim. "Mr. Chairman," he said quietly, "the captain needs to see you up front. Two planes have flown into the World Trade Center." I must have had a quizzical look on my face because he added, "I'm not joking."

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#57 - Edvard Radzinsky - Stalin

Author or Editor: Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher: Anchor books
Published: 1997
Pages: 660

Every day the largest country in the world woke up with his name on its lips. All day long that name rang out in the voices of actors, resounded in song, stared out from the pages of every newspaper. That name was conferred, as the highest of honors, on factories, collective farms, streets, and towns. During the most terrible of all wars, soldiers went to their deaths intoning his name.

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#56 - John A.Tracy - Fast Forward MBA in Finance

Author or Editor: John A.Tracy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2002
Pages: 320

This book is for business managers, as well as for bankers, consultants, lawyers, and other professionals who need a solid and practical understanding of how business makes profit, cash flow from profit, the assets and capital needed to support profit-making operations, and the cost of capital. Business managers and professionals don’t have time to wade through a 600-page tome; they need a practical guide that gets to the point directly with clear and convincing examples.

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#55 - Robert E. Whaley - Derivatives Markets, Valuation, and Risk Management

Author or Editor: Robert E. Whaley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2006
Pages: 930

The book’s title is Derivatives: Markets, Valuation, and Risk Management. In a nutshell, that is what it intends to provide—an understanding of derivatives markets, derivatives valuation, and risk management using derivative contracts. The first part of the book— Markets —sketches the landscape. What are derivative contracts? Where do they trade? Why do they exist? While a seemingly endless number of derivative contract structures will appear as we proceed through the chapters of the book, do not be misled.

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#54 - Leonard Susskind and Janet Lindesay - An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution

Author or Editor: Leonard Susskind and Janet Lindesay
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Published: 2005
Pages: 183

It is now almost a century since the year 1905, in which the principle of relativity and the hypothesis of the quantum of radiation were introduced. It has taken most of that time to synthesize the two into the modern quantum theory of fields and the standard model of particle phenomena. Although there is undoubtably more to be learned both theoretically and experimentally, it seems likely that we know most of the basic principles which follow from combining the special theory of relativity with quantum mechanics.It is unlikely that a major revolution will spring from this soil.

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#53 - George Soros - The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

Author or Editor: George Soros
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2008
Pages: 162

We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. In some ways it resembles other crises that have occurred in the last twenty-five years, but there is a profound difference: the current crisis marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency. The periodic crises were part of a larger boombust process; the current crisis is the culmination of a superboom that has lasted for more than twenty-five years.

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#52 - J.R.R.Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Author or Editor: J.R.R.Tolkien
Publisher: Gorbedoc
Published: 2006
Pages: 1347

Then Frodo kissed Merry and Pippin, and last of all Sam, and went aboard; and the sails were drawn up, and the wind blew, and slowly the ship slipped away down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore glimmered and was lost. And the ship went out into
the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

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#51 - Tom Dalzell - Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author or Editor: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Pages: 720

The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.
With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

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