Reader's Digest is a monthly general interest family magazine. Although its circulation has declined in recent years, the Audit Bureau of Circulation says Reader's Digest is still the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States, with a circulation of over 10 million copies in the United States, and a readership of 38 million as measured by Mediamark Research (MRI). According to MRI, Reader's Digest reaches more readers with household incomes of $100,000+ than Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Inc. combined.
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Includes: - Creative Destruction by Roger D. Hodge - How to Save Capitalism: Fundamental fixes for a collapsing system - Dreaming XXL: For the African-American market, bootleg shirts stretch Obama's image by Jake Austen - Photo Essay: Life and Death by Lynsey Addario - The Botch, new fiction by David Means - ... and more (Harper's Index, New Books, Findings, etc.)
TTC - Philosophy as a Guide to Living (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 4244
Taught by Stephen A. Erickson Pomona College Ph.D., Yale University
Is there meaning in human life?
All of us have asked ourselves this question. But for philosophers through the ages, it was the first question of many, for they needed to know whether such a question was even answerable by philosophy. And if it was, they needed to ask whether any positive answer could be pursued through the practice of philosophy itself.
Today, these questions remain as timely and controversial as ever.
NINE PRINCES IN AMBER is the first in the classic CHRONICLES OF AMBER, a series that exemplifies the Zelazny style, in which the first-person narrator, a tough-talking, ruthless (but essentially good-hearted) man must confront a menace from his mysterious past. A man with unearthly physical strength awakens as an amnesiac after an automobile accident. Gradually, he remembers that he is Prince Corwin, one of the many magical, long-lived members of the royal family of Amber. Amber is actually the real world, and all of the parallel worlds that flow from it are merely imperfect copies, or Shadows…including our own world.
An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, where she receives critical instructions
