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Wikileaks Bank of America (v. 1.2)

Tobias Schulz опубликовал приложение 2011-05-07
(обновлено 2011-05-07)

With this app you can read the most recent secret Bank of America (BoA) documents as published by Wikileaks.

WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public.

100% of raised money will be sent to Wikileaks Defence Fund.
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Three Men in a Boat (v. 1.0)

tarzanapp опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames  between Kingston and Oxford.

The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.

The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff.This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel.

A similar book was published seven years before Jerome's work, entitled Three in Norway (by two of them) by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck. It tells of three men on an expedition into the wild Jotunheimen in Norway.

Learn Bonds Investing (v. 1.0)

i-ducate опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

Learn to invest in bonds more successfully, responsibly and intrinsically with this concise ebook on the what-s, why-s and how-s of bonds, markets, bond indexes, bond risks and bond investment strategies.

Knowing these concepts will help you to become a better, more responsible and informed bond investor. Learn all these now with this e-book which you can read on the go.

Topics include:

Introduction
Bonds vs Stocks
Who issues bonds?
Features of Bonds
Types of Bonds
Bonds issued in foreign currencies
Trading and valuing Bonds
Bond Markets
Bond Risks
Bond Credit Ratings
Bond Indices
Types of Bond Yields
Bond Price Sensitivity
Why invest in Bonds?
Bond Investment Considerations
Tax Status
How to invest in Bonds?
Reading Bond Prices
Bond Investment Strategies
How much of your portfolio should be in bonds?
Trading Bonds on Market Signals

Mother Teresa Biography (v. 1.0)

6sense technologies опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

NOW get the complete Bio of prominent people right on your Android phone! This reference app gives provides quick access to all the information and trivia on the leading figures of the past and the present.
In continuation of its effort to publish the biographies of the renowned people in the ANDROID, 6Sense Technologies brings the complete biography of Mother Teresa. This is the latest in the series of biographical apps brought by the company about the famous philosophers, scientists, inventors, politicians, businesspersons and entertainers.
In this application, you will find the minutest birth to death details about the greatest humanitarian and advocate for poor and helpless of our time.  , some    Not only this, you will also find famous quotes of the Mother Teresa.
The app will prove useful to those who like reading about famous people of past and present times. This will also be useful for students and researchers who want instant information at the touch of the button, anytime or anywhere.
Features:
•Detailed and accurate information
•No need of the Internet or Wi-Fi connection
•Complete biographic account plus pictures and quotes
•Useful of students, researchers and trivia buffs
•Share it with friends or family via email
•Great reference application

Edmund James Banfield Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

This book contain collection of 4 Books.

1. The Confessions of a Beachcomber [1908]
2. My Tropic Isle [1910]
3. Tropic Days [1918]
4. Last Leaves from Dunk Island [1925]

About the Author
Edmund James Banfield

BANFIELD, EDMUND JAMES (1852-1923), author and naturalist, was born on 4 September 1852 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, son of Jabez Walter Banfield (1820-1899), printer, and his wife Sarah Ann, née Smith. Jabez had served his apprenticeship with a Liverpool printer, but migrated to Victoria in 1852 and followed the gold rushes. On 20 November 1854 his family sailed in the Indian Queen to join him. A founding partner in the Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser, Jabez moved to Ararat in 1857 and started the Ararat Advertiser; it was owned by the family until the 1960s. He became a leading local citizen: treasurer to the borough council and the hospital board of management for some thirty-five years, magistrate, churchwarden and lay preacher, secretary to the cemetery trustees, and popular public reciter and reader of Dickens, Shakespeare and other classic authors.

Educated at an Ararat church-school, Edmund became a reporter and printer's assistant for his father, relaxing on weekend natural history trips in the Grampians. In the 1870s he worked on the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and in 1882 became reporter and sub-editor with the Townsville Daily Bulletin in Queensland. In 1884, probably with the backing of Burns Philp & Co., he travelled to England; while there an eye injured in childhood was removed, and he met Bertha Golding, who migrated to Townsville to marry him on 3 August 1886 at St James' Anglican Church. He had published The Torres Straits Route from Queensland to England in Townsville in 1885.

Banfield reported Robert Philp on his first election campaign in 1886, and in 1890 organized fund-raising functions for the North Queensland separation movement. Although he took professional responsibilities seriously, he felt that he lacked 'those qualities which make for dutiful citizenship' and was enraged by political, professional and personal wrongs, real and imagined. He camped with friends on Dunk Island near Tully and in September 1896 applied for a thirty-year lease of part of the island. Diagnosed as tubercular and in nervous collapse, he resigned from the North Queensland Newspaper Co. and, partly blind, with a palsied hand and a deaf wife, settled on Dunk Island from 28 September 1897.

Honore de Balzac's Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

This book contain colection of 45 books

1. Balzac, by Frederick Lawton
2. Honore de Balzac, by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
3. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (La Maison du chat-qui-pelote, 1830)
4. The Ball at Sceaux (Le bal de Sceaux, 1830)
5. The Purse (La bourse, 1832)
6. The Vendetta (La Vendetta, 1830)
7. Madame Firmiani [1832]
8. A Second Home (Une double famille, 1830)
9. Domestic Peace (La paix du ménage, 1830)
10. The Imaginary Mistress (La fausse maîtresse, 1842)
11. Study of a Woman (Étude de femme, 1835)
12. Another Study of a Woman (Autre étude de femme, 1842)
13. La Grand Breteche
14. Albert Savarus [1842]
15. Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées, 1842)
16. A Daughter of Eve (Une fille d'Ève, 1835)
17. A Woman of Thirty (La femme de trente ans, 1832)
18. The Deserted Woman (La femme abandonnée, 1834)
19. La Grenadière [1833]
20. The Message [1832]
21. Gobseck [1830]
22. A Marriage Contract (Le contrat de mariage, 1835)
23. A Start in Life (Un début dans la vie, 1844)
24. Modeste Mignon [1844]
25. Béatrix [1839]
26. Honorine [1845]
27. Le Colonel Chabert [1844]
28. The Atheist's Mass (La messe de l'athée, 1837)
29. The Commission in Lunacy (L'interdiction, 1836)
30. Pierre Grassou [1839]
31. Ursula (Ursule Mirouët, 1842)
32. Eugénie Grandet [1834]
33. Pierrette [1840]
34. The Vicar of Tours (Le Curé de Tours, 1832)
35. The Two Brothers (La Rabouilleuse, 1842)
36. The Illustrious Gaudissart (L'Illustre Gaudissart, 1834)
37. The Muse of the Department (La Muse du département, 1843)
38. An Old Maid (La Vieille Fille, 1837)
39. The Collection of Antiquities (Le Cabinet des Antiques, 1839)
40. Introduction by George Saintsbury
41. Two Poets
42. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
43. Eve and David
44. Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot, 1835)
45. The Magic Skin / The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de chagrin, 1831)

About the Author

Nineteenth-century French novelist, one of the creators of Realism in literature. His Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), spanning more than 90 novels and short stories, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte.

Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action.

The Unquiet Grave (v. 1.0)

tarzanapp опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

"The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace. It is thought to date from 1400 and was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child, as Child Ballad number 78.[1]

Francis Bacon books Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

This book contain collection of 7 Books

1. The Great Instauration
2. The Advancement of Learning
3. The New Organon
4. Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History
5. The Essays
6. The New Atlantis
7. Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature

About the Author
Francis Bacon

English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, best known as an advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His philosophical works lay out a complex methodology for scientific inquiry which is often called the Baconian method

Philosopher and statesman, was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, by his second wife, a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth. He was born at York House in the Strand on Jan. 22, 1561, and in his 13th year was sent with his elder brother Anthony to Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him “the young Lord Keeper.” Here also he became dissatisfied with the Aristotelian philosophy as being unfruitful and leading only to resultless disputation. In 1576 he entered Gray’s Inn, and in the same year joined the embassy of Sir Amyas Paulet to France, where he remained until 1579. The death of his father in that year, before he had completed an intended provision for him, gave an adverse turn to his fortunes, and rendered it necessary that he should decide upon a profession. He accordingly returned to Gray’s Inn, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to induce Burghley to give him a post at court, and thus enable him to devote himself to a life of learning, he gave himself seriously to the study of law, and was called to the Bar in 1582. He did not, however, desert philosophy, and published a Latin tract, Temporis Partus Maximus (the Greatest Birth of Time), the first rough draft of his own system.

Two years later, in 1584, he entered the House of Commons as member for Melcombe, sitting subsequently for Taunton [1586], Liverpool [1589], Middlesex [1593], and Southampton [1597]. In the Parliament of 1586 he took a prominent part in urging the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. About this time he seems again to have approached his powerful uncle, the result of which may possibly be traced in his rapid progress at the Bar, and in his receiving, in 1589, the reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, a valuable appointment, into the enjoyment of which, however, he did not enter until 1608.

About 1591 he formed a friendship with the Earl of Essex, from whom he received many tokens of kindness ill requited. In 1593 the offices of Attorney-general, and subsequently of Solicitor-general became vacant, and Essex used his influence on Bacon’s behalf, but unsuccessfully, the former being given to Coke, the famous lawyer. These disappointments may have been owing to a speech made by Bacon on a question of subsidies. To console him for them Essex presented him with a property at Twickenham, which he subsequently sold for £1800, equivalent to a much larger sum now.

Singular, though of course futile, attempts, supported sometimes with much ingenuity, have been made to claim for Bacon the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, and have indeed been extended so as to include those of Marlowe, and even the Essays of Montaigne.

Little Women (v. 1.0)

tarzanapp опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (commonly known as Little Women) is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first volume Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, prompting the composition of the book's second volume titled Good Wives, which was successful as well. The publication of the book as a single volume first occurred in 1880 and was titled Little Woman. Alcott followed Little Women with two sequels, also featuring the March sisters, Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).

Flatland By: Edwin A Abbott (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-05
(обновлено 2011-05-05)

About the Author
Edwin A. Abbott

English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland.

He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. He succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).

Written under the pseudonym "a square", Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students.

About the Book-
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. The further mathematical fantasy, Sphereland, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories created by Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time, and matter. Among Einstein's many challenges to common sense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe and the fact that light does not travel in a straight line. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of Einstein's theories, Sphereland gives lay readers ways to start comprehending these confusing but fundamental questions of our reality.