"Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think." ―Albert EinsteinAt its best, the college experience can be invaluable for doing the most important work of all―finding your purpose. At its worst, it can be an expensive distraction that indoctrinates you into an instant-gratification culture and prevents you from building a meaningful base not just for your career but for your life.Drawing upon the great thinkers of contemporary philos...

This second edition serves as a foundational guide to plastics thermoforming, covering the essential topics of the industry today. The authors take a process application approach to the topic, rather than focusing on theory. The book explains materials and processes, as well as part and tool design. This second edition includes thorough discussion of green plastics within an expanded chapter on environmental issues. The authors also cover quality control, which is critical to any operation...

You've written your book and uploaded it to an online bookstore and you are waiting for your sales to take off. However, your sales are flat and you can't figure out why. If the problem is with your blurb then Blurbs That Zing: Perfecting Your Book's Description is the book for you. Ten minutes is all it will take to get you on the road to writing blurbs that will help, rather than hinder, your book sales.

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"Is Peter Klein Australia's answer to Dick Francis? As with Francis, Klein knows the territory intimately with his autobiography of racing life, A Strapper's Tale, selling out within months. He turns out to be a dab hand at crime fiction, too. Klein is a natural writer. This is a cracking yarn, written in an action-packed, unpretentious style, underscored vividly by the author's detailed knowledge of the racing world." THE AGE Pick of the WeekJohn Punter, ...

You have just written your very first book and you want to sell it but you haven't got a clue how to format it so that online bookstores will accept it and stock it. What do you do? You buy a copy of this book, that's what. 'Format Your Books for Online Bookstores' provides very easy to understand instructions which will get you up and running in no time at all. It is a very short book because it contains no padding, and time is money. You just want to get your book out there and you don't...

A serial killer is stalking young, female strappers. No one knows who it is, why he's doing it, or who is likely to be next. The police and the race clubs seem powerless to do anything. The women are terrified and the union is threatening to go on strike and close down the entire racing industry unless security can be guaranteed and the killer caught.Meanwhile, John Punter's got problems closer to home to worry about. There's a protection racket afoot and his restaurant Gino's is g...

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Besides being a master impresario himself, whose extraordinary vision of "bridging differences among cultures through the shared passion of music and dance" has embraced audiences the world over, Peter is a wonderful storyteller.The reader is swept away by an intriguing journey of producing theater, from the seeds of the artistic inspiration to the excitement of opening night. Other than the trials and tribulations of show biz, the book is an adventure keenly woven into the backdro...

A married vicar with a passion for a young single woman, a bitter publican, a Peeping Tom, a resentful church warden: our human frailties are still much as they always have been.Over three hundred years ago, the Reverend Robert Foulkes arrived as the new incumbent at the wealthy parish of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire. Charismatic, 'exceedingly followed and admired', he set off a chain of events which led to his hanging at Tyburn in 1679.What irrational impulse could have brough...

Are you thinking about visiting the Kruger National Park? Perhaps you have you already booked, and want to ensure that you extract the maximum benefit from this great experience? If so, Make the Most of Your Visit to Kruger National Park will prove to be invaluable. This is a very quick, and easy read, providing easy-to-digest tips on how to maximise your enjoyment of this wonderful wildlife park. It was specifically written for visitors from abroad who will not have had the chance to pick...

In the middle of the twentieth century, governments ignored the negative effects of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have also introduced accompanying programs to alleviate these harmful consequences of dams for local people, to reduce poverty, and to promote participatory governance. This type of dam building undoubtedly represents a step forward in responsible governing. But have these poli...