100 Amazing Books to Read in a Lifetime Hi Cora- Yikes! I am sorry you are so upset. I don’t think I was disrespectful or had guns blazing or attacking you. I read your comment as suggesting the list was composed to sell movies by Amazon. This is what I read from your original comment: “I’m with Sari….most to promote books to movies. So I must have misunderstood what you were saying and I guess I am confused considering the authors you mentioned also have movies out? And then when you made this remark: “There are better lists than this. I thought this was a great list- not perfect but we all know that would be impossible. I don’t think having a popular movie takes anything away from the books and it doesn’t mean they aren’t worth reading or that the entire list is not good.
25 Essential Books That Every College Student Should Read There is no college student who would like reading books, they say. Can you believe it? We hardly think so! Yes, reading is fashionable. books widen your vocabulary;books help students find new models for academic writing;books improve your cognitive skills;books expand your view of the world around;books let students remember grammar and punctuation rules autmatically;books help students learn a subject better;books help you avoid a social exclusion (according to this study of the Basic Skills Agency). Every college student has their own list of must-read, or at least must-check, books; but what if we tell you there are some writing masterpieces that are worth your attention and are essential for college students to read? 1. “You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.” This is a story about a relationship, a love triangle which subjects first met in college. 2. 3. “Don’t feel sorry for yourself. 5. 6. 7.
1000 Life Hacks 25 Books That Define Cool Let’s abandon the childish notion that reading isn’t cool. We’re grown men here and reading happens to be one of the many ways we enjoy spending a bit of our free time. Of course, sitting down with just any book doesn’t always make for a great experience. 1. This list could easily include just about everything Papa Hemingway wrote. 2. Written over 2,500 years ago, The Art of War is still as important today as it was for warriors back then. 3. Honestly, you could put just about every book from the good doctor on this list – Hell’s Angels and The Rum Diary come to mind – but if you had to pick one, you have to go with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and all its drug-fueled insanity. 4. There have been many war books released in the last few years and many are very, very good, some even make a strong antiwar case without just putting the idea out there (see: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk), but none of these can do what Slaughterhouse-Five did. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Learn How To Play The Hang Drum / HandPan In many ways the Hang, and HandPan are generally thought of as being quite intuitive instruments. And at least part of their popularity stems from the fact that even those with no musical experience, or training, can pick one up, and start making some pretty nice sounds, with little to no guidance whatsoever. And in my own personal experience, this tends to become true, just as soon as the novice player has mastered ‘the touch’ – a strike that is often described as being like ‘checking a stove to see if it is hot’, i.e. fast, and gentle. However, with this said, my own playing has improved massively, from watching and paying closer than usual attention to others playing HandPan on YouTube and the like, and especially, from watching videos specifically intended to tutor in HandPan playing technique. There are now a growing number of HandPan tutorial videos to be found online. Alternatively, and/or should you have exhausted the free resources mentioned within the above linked to post.
Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg How to Build a Memory Palace (with Sample <img alt="Image titled Build a Memory Palace Step 1" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn">1Edit step1Decide on a blueprint for your palace. While a memory palace can be a purely imagined place, it is easier to base it upon a place that exists in the real world and that you are familiar with or you can use some places of your favorite video game. A basic palace could be your bedroom, for example. Larger memory palaces can be based on your house, a cathedral, a walk to the corner store, or your town. The larger or more detailed the real place, the more information you can store in the corresponding mental space.
16 cool things you can do on the Internet for free The Beatles sang it and countless philosophers have claimed it, the best things in life are free. But is it really the case? Well, if you’re hanging out on the Internet, the answer is a resounding “yes”. To see why, check out the sixteen fantastic free things you can do online down below. If all of this online awesomeness has you feeling a bit nostalgic for the old days of the Internet, take a trip back in time and check out 14 websites from the 1990s that are somehow still around. 1. Learn coding for free at Code Academy. 2. GIMP offers free photo manipulation software. 3. Find tons of classic e-books at Project Gutenberg and Open Library. 4. Moving? 5. Duolingo offers free language learning in Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. 6. Coursera, MIT, and Khan Academy all offer free online courses that cover just about everything. 7. Free Rice donates 10 grains of rice for every vocabulary question that you get right. 8. You can find coupons for your prescriptions at GoodRx. 9.
This is What Happens When Americans are Asked to Label Europe and Brits are Asked to Label the US Jan 8, 2014 At the end of last year, the BuzzFeed team asked students and co-workers to label a map. Those in the UK were asked to label a map of the United States, while those in the US were tasked to label a map of Europe. Yes there is a difference between labelling states of one particular country versus labelling countries in a continent. If you’d like to test yourself, I’ve included blank maps at the bottom of the post. Click here for a blank map of the United StatesClick here for a blank map of Europe To see all submissions, see the original BuzzFeed posts HERE and HERE Brits Were Asked to Label a Map of the United States Americans Were Asked to Label a Map of Europe Think You Can Do Better?
» 50 Amazing and Essential Novels to Enrich Your Library :zenhabits Post written by Leo Babauta. I recently ran into a couple of reading lists (I’ll share them at the end) and realized that I LOVE reading book recommendations. I can’t get enough of them. So I decided to compile my own (somewhat eclectic) list of novels I think are amazing and essential to every library. I hope you enjoy it. I should make some notes before diving in. Another note: there are actually many more books listed here than 50 — a number of those listed are actually series of books, in a couple cases series that include 20 or more books. There are classics here, but there are cheap thrillers and popular fiction and even a few “kids” books. If you could fill your library with only 50 books, you could do much worse than choose these 50. Not in any order but just in the order they came to me: King Lear, by Shakespeare. Some other lists of books I’ve enjoyed recently:
A criticism of CouchSurfing and review of alternatives | All that is wrong with the world... Table of Contents Introduction Free Accommodation The “CouchSurfing Spirit” and Super-Hippies Problems with CouchSurfing ……..Fraud and illegal behavior ……..The Verification Scam ……..Privacy Concerns ……..References and the lack of a dispute resolution process ……..Censorship Alternatives ……..Hospitality Club ……..GlobalFreeloaders ……..BeWelcome ……..Tripping ……..Crashatmine Conclusion References Introduction For the last six years I have been traveling a lot, being in a different place every few months. Before the internet was as popular as it is, there were other sites that offered hospitality exchange although it was arguably not the main focus. Free Accommodation There can be no question that one of the things all of these hospitality exchange sites have in common is free accommodation. Not everyone will use these sites for the purpose of free accommodation but the majority of people surfing do, at least to varying extents. The “CouchSurfing Spirit” and Super-Hippies BeWelcome
Best Places to Get Free Books - The Ultimate Guide When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well. Thank you for all your helpful contributions! In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order: ManyBooks – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader – Thanks Tony Bryan & abben BookCrossing – Where real books are released into the wild to be found by others – Thanks EngtechLibraryElf – The perfect companion to a public library system – Thanks EngtechScribd – Open library to publish and discover documents online – Thanks CincauHangus Word Public Library – 400,000 PDF ebooks for download – Thanks EllenFree Tech Books – Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes) – Thanks EllenBookins – Swap real books with other readers – Thanks Jimbob WellToldTales – Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter) – Thanks Kevin C. Google+
10 Things Super Successful People Do To Stay Calm The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance. TalentSmart has conducted research with more than a million people, and we’ve found that 90% of top performers are skilled at managing their emotions in times of stress in order to remain calm and in control. If you’ve followed my work, you’ve read some startling research summaries that explore the havoc stress can wreak on one’s physical and mental health (such as the Yale study, which found that prolonged stress causes degeneration in the area of the brain responsible for self-control). The tricky thing about stress (and the anxiety that comes with it) is that it’s an absolutely necessary emotion. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, reveals an upside to experiencing moderate levels of stress. “I think intermittent stressful events are probably what keeps the brain more alert, and you perform better when you are alert,” Kirby says. They Avoid Asking “What If?”
5 Grimm Fairy Tales You Should Only Read to Kids You Hate Many of Grimm's fairy tales have been lightened up for modern children. However, some of them are beyond any hope, and should only be read to children you hate. #5. "Bluebeard" All of Bluebeard's previous wives have died under sparsely detailed circumstances shrouded in mystery, although he has never been asked to produce either a body or an explanation, because police work at that time typically required crimes to be committed within a constable's field of vision. Bluebeard, the first and least creepy pickup artist. As he leaves, Bluebeard stresses that she can go anywhere in the castle except the cellar. Of course she opens it, and inside she finds all of Bluebeard's missing wives hanging on hooks from the ceiling. Then they all move into his house. #4. A boy buys a magic fiddle that makes everyone who hears it powerless to resist dancing (this fiddle is now owned by Charlie Daniels). Project GutenburgIt was a different time. The Jew goes to the police, and the boy is sentenced to hang.