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K'EKCHI GRAMMAR - An IntroductionFree Academic eBooks by: George Max
An Introduction is a simple yet concise and precise grammar for the K’ekchi Mayan Language of Guatemala. It formally introduces the structural rules of a language that had remained only spoken for hundreds of years. Therefore, the main emphasis of th...
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Davidian New Verse Form RevisitedPoetry by: Wendy Webb
The rules of form for the Davidian, new poetry form devised by Wendy Webb (2002). Lots of examples of how to write a Davidian, from a one verse Minimal Davidian, to mixed verses, to a lengthy ballad-style poem. This verse form has been used in the ...
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A Guitar EncyclopediaReference by: Rich Cochrane
This is the most complete book of guitar scales and arpeggios ever written. It's truly massive: more than 400 large pages packed with diagrams, analysis and explanations. Of course it includes all the basic, common scales you need to play rock, blues...
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The Public DomainWriting & Publishing by: James Boyle
“Boyle is one of the world's major thinkers on the centrality of the public domain to the production of knowledge and culture. He offers a comprehensive and biting critique of where our copyright and patent policy has gone, and prescriptions for how ...
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Abracadabra!Miscellaneous by: Ray Newman
The story of the Beatles 1966 album Revolver. About the author: I'm not a professional writer and have never dabbled in journalism. I'm doing this for fun. I live and work in London, but am originally from Bridgwater, in Somerset. Bridgwater has a te...
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Viral SpiralGeneral Fiction by: David Bollier
Reporting from the heart of this "free culture" movement, journalist and activist David Bollier provides the first comprehensive history of the attempt by a global brigade of techies, lawyers, artists, musicians, scientists. business people, innovato...
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How to Write a Short Story that WorksWriting & Publishing by: Michael Allen
A short story that works is a story which, at the end, makes a reader chuckle, or brings a tear to the reader’s eye, or makes the reader’s jaw drop open in amazement. In other words, it’s a story that generates emotion. The story works in the sense t...
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Shattered CrystalsHistory by: Mia Kanner & Eve Kugler
Shattered Crystals recounts the history of the escape of my mother, Mia, my father, Sal, and my two sisters Ruth and Lea, from Nazi Germany after Crystal Night in November 1938 and how we defied the odds and survived in France before and after German...
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Dreaming in ArabicHistory by: Jennifer L Armstrong
The State of Israel was established in 1948. The same year, my Alma mater Ambassador College opened. It was established by Herbert W. Armstrong, the man who founded the Worldwide Church of God. Just like Israel of old, Ambassador College was intended...
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Wall StreeteBay by: Doug Henwood
Doug Henwood has a talent, remarkable as it is rare among observers of the financial scene, for making the obscure clear, the complicated simple and the arcane understandable. His irreverent take on Wall Street is a provocative challenge to conventio...
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LIFE: Love Infinitely Furthers EvolutionGeneral Non Fiction by: Sander R.B.E. Beals
The third and for now last in the trilogy which completes the image of man as a System in a way more loving style. Realizations on the fly, which lead to surprising insights even for me....
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System Engineering & Design ArchitectureReference by: Sander R.B.E. Beals
A further expansion of the trilogy published earlier, in which Everything is seen as a System. It clearly shows that some mechanisms are seen on various levels in our everyday world, making the Grand Overall Design a thing of extreme Beauty...
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Heat StrokeSci-fi Fantasy by: Mike Crowson
The Heat Death of the planet from an overdose of global warming isn't funny, nor is the occult, but the story as Gill and Steve try Isaac Brainridge's invention to explore the future telepathically. Rel occult as Gill, Steve and Brainridge clash with...
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The HologramGeneral Fiction by: Jeff Behnke
I am a logically and emotionally neutral human being. If you were to talk to me, you would notice that it is hard to distinguish a charge one way or another. It doesn’t seem as if I am negative at all, but it doesn’t seem as if I’m all that positive,...
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It’s Not You, It’s Your StrategyCareer by: Hillary Rettig
HIAPy offers an effective job search strategy and lots of other useful information, including: your primary task as a job searcher; attitudes and habits that promote success in a job search; what to do if your last job, or a prior one, ended badly; t...
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All Things Are LightsHistory by: Robert Joseph Shea
A story that entwines the fate of Cathars of southern France with the occult traditions of Courtly Love and the troubadours. If you are interested in history, war craft, battlefields, then this action historical ebook is for you.
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Highwayman loverRomance by: Sara Reinke
Charlotte finds herself on the wrong end of a pistol when her coach is stopped by evil highwaymen, the Black Trio. Although Charlotte survives the encounter, her mother decides Charlotte is in need of a husband to protect her. A truly romantic and in...
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Deeds of menMystery by: Marie Brennan
A young man's body found in a Coldharbour alley. Before his death, he uncovered secrets that could threaten the mortal world above and the faerie world below. A murder mystery starts at the end of James I's reign and the beginning of Charles I's - 16...