This is The New York Times best-selling book behind the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt Jonah Hill & Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opening this autumn Moneyball is the story of the Oakland As general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt). He has an epiphany: all conventional baseball wisdom is wrong. Reinventing his team on a budget he needs to outsmart the richer teams. Joining with Ivy Leaguer Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) they recruit bargain players whom the scouts consider flawed but who have a knack for getting on base scoring runs & winning games. Theyll either be the laughing stock of baseball or its vindicated underdogs. Moneyball is a Columbia Pictures release directed by Bennett Miller (Capote) from the screenplay written by Steven Zaillian (Gangs of New York) & Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) & produced by Michael De Luca The Social Network) Rachael Horovitz (Grey Gardens) & Scott Rudin (The Social Network). ...

Imagine living for an entire year without money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that & here is his extraordinary & compelling story. How do friends & family react? What do you eat? How do you wash? Mark Boyle finds out the hard way & explores the troubling consequences of our obsession with money. Encountering cuttlefish toothpaste seasonal foods paper made out of mushrooms & compost toilets Boyle puts the fun into frugality & reveals some indispensable tips for economical & environmentally friendly living. Heart-warming & witty The Moneyless Man will inspire you to question what really matters in life. ...

In direct response to the interest & questions raised by readers of the Moneyless Man in which Mark Boyle tells of his first year of operating completely without spending earning saving or using money the Moneyless Manifesto develops on the themes of Boyle's first book in order to look deeper in to the culture of modern economics & provide a how-to on the logistics of going moneyless or at least reducing dependency on money. Thought provoking in the first instance readers will also find it incredibly practical & useful. At first an in-depth exploration of the philosophy & theory behind moneyless living; combining deep ecology with economics to portray what Boyle believes to be radically new perspectives on some of the vital
- yet oft unquestioned
- pillars of economic theory. Boyle then looks at the perceived obstacles to moneyless living
- ranging from addiction to habits to access-to-land issues
- & lays out a new map for navigating these roadblocks. The third phase of the book offers a menu of solutions for those wishing to go moneyless or simply diversify their personal economy to make it more resilient to external shocks. Regardless of whether you live in the country or city & depending on the level of technology you like to use this portion of the book makes suggestions to address food shelter sex labour & materials transport education health & much more. The Moneyless Manifesto is complemented by contributions from many other well-known thinkers & doers in
- co-originator of Permaculture David Holmgren author of Sacred Economics Charles Eisenstein forest gardening pioneer & author Martin Crawford author of Wild Drugs Zoe Hawes wild food forager Fergus Drennan plus many more.




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DESCRIPTION Mongo DB is a document-oriented database thats highly scalable & delivers very high-performance especially with massive data sets that need to be spread across multiple servers. It blends the things you expect with any database--like indexing querying & high availability--with powerful new features like easy horizontal scaling (auto-sharding") map/reduce aggregation & a flexible document data model to support dynamic schemas. Mongo DB in Action is a comprehensive guide to Mongo DB for application developers. The book begins by explaining what makes Mongo DB unique & describing its ideal use cases. A series of tutorials designed for Mongo DB mastery then leads into detailed examples for leveraging Mongo DB in e-commerce social networking analytics & other common applications. KEY POINTS * Numerous examples implemented in Ruby * Comprehensive explanations * Written by a Mongo DB insider" ...

Mongolia is a land of constant surprises. Renowned for its classic rolling steppe land
- from where in times past nomadic Mongol
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The history of the Mongol armies is a catalogue of superlatives. No armies in history have ever won so many battles or conquered so much territory. No army has ever provoked such justifiable terror & loathing in its victims or slaughtered so many of its vanquished. What other army in history has marched on Russia in the winter & survived let alone won victories? The stories of these & many other amazing feats of this barbarian people are here brought vividly to life by Stephen Turnbull from the birth of Genghis Khan in the wind-swept steppes of Mongolia through the conquest of China & beyond. ...

Monica Galetti shows how to serve up great-tasting food at home every day easily & effortlessly. Her food is lively interesting & contemporary reflecting the many & varied influences on her cooking from her Samoan & New Zealand upbringing to her travels in Europe & Asia & her experience in a high-end London restaurant. Easily accessible good-quality ingredients simple techniques & enticing flavour combinations are the characteristics of her cooking. To Monica cooking at home must be fun easy & relaxed whatever the occasion. Here she presents her favourite recipes in chapters that reflect different meal situations. From work to the table offers exciting weekday meal solutions that are nutritious quick & adaptable such as Honey & soy glazed duck breast with pak choi. A leisurely weekend features recipes that give you time to relax away from the kitchen: undemanding slow-cooked food easy-to-prepare special lunches & suppers & delectable prepare-ahead desserts. A time for friends enables you to host an impressive dinner for friends without stress or fuss while Something different is the chapter to turn to when you want to serve something totally unexpected such as Blue cheese pannacotta or Honeycomb lollipops. Every recipe is beautifully photographed in Monicas home kitchen. Essentially this is a book for those who have limited time to cook but who enjoy great food & are constantly looking for fresh inspiration in the kitchen. ...

Monique Dembele saves lives & dispenses hope in a place where childbirth is a life-&-death matter. Her unquenchable passion to improve the lot of the women & children in her West African village is matched by her buoyant humour in the face of unhappy marriage & backbreaking work. This is the deeply compelling story of the rare friendship between a young development volunteer & this midwife who defies tradition & becomes
- too early in her own life
- a legend.

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Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an essential accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated & enhanced throughout this well established & handy referenced text assumes no prior knowledge & equips students & newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills & knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk identify key priorities & provide prompt & effective care. This new edition

Includes:: the following 5 brand new chapters: Monitoring the critically ill child Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient Monitoring the patient with infection & related systemic inflammatory response Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion Monitoring pain

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Prepare to be shocked. This novel written in 1796 is a Gothic festival of sex magic & ghastly ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style & tells a breathless tale of temptation imprisonment & betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul. Meanwhile two sets of young lovers are thwarted & the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits & is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden & skeleton-crowded vaults. Late Eighteenth Century audiences were polarised in opinion as to the novels merits. Lord Byron & the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewiss daring while Coleridge warned parents against The Monks suitability for their sons or daughters describing the novel as poison for youth. If you want a novel that still terrifies over two hundred years after it was written there is none finer than The Monk. ...