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Many of the world’s greatest businesses are family owned, and with this comes the threat of family feuding, sibling rivalries, and petty jealousies. Family Wars takes readers behind the scenes on a rollercoaster ride through the ups and downs of some of the biggest family-run companies in the world, showing how family in-fighting has threatened to bring about their downfall. Covering families such as Ford, Gucci, McCain, Guinness, Gallo, and Redstone, Family Wars is an astonishing expose of the way families do business and how family in-fighting can threaten to blow a business apart.

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Time Magazine, January 2, 1939: Hitler as Man of the Year

Time Magazine, April 8, 1966: Is God Dead?

Life, November 26, 1965: War In Vietnam

Esquire, April 1968: The Passion of Ali

Esquire, May 1969: The Drowning of Andy Warhol

Playboy, October 1971: First Playboy African-American Woman

National Lampoon, January 1973: If You Don’t Buy This Magazine…

The New Yorker, March 29, 1976: Steinberg Map of New York

Rolling Stone, January 22, 1981: John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Vanity Fair, August 1991: Demi Moore, Pregnant and Nude

Vanity Fair, August 1993: K.D. Lang and Cindy Crawford

Time Magazine, June 27, 1994: OJ Mug Shot Controversy

The Economist, September 10, 1994: The Camel-Humping Issue

Time, April 14 1997: Ellen’s Coming-Out Issue

Wired, June 1997: 101 Ways to Save Apple

Time, Dec 21, 1998: Devil Horns on Clinton

Esquire Magazine, December 2000: The Crotch Shot

The New Yorker, Sept. 24, 2001: Twin Towers in Silhouette

Entertainment Weekly, May 2 2003: Dixie Chicks

Seventeen, May 2003: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Zombie Arm

Rolling Stone, January 2006: The Passion of Kanye West

Baby Talk, August 2006

Texas Monthly, January 2007: Dick Cheney Cover Issue 

Time, August 29, 2007: Devil Horns on Billy Graham

Golfweek, January 19, 2008: The Noose that Hung an Editor

People Magazine, March 2008: Brangelina Twins

Vogue, April 2008: King Kong Cover

The New Yorker, July 21, 2008: The Obama Couple Satire

OK Magazine, June 2009: Michael Jackson Death Photo

Compiled and written exclusively for WDD by Angela West.

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Re-examination of the properties of distant galaxies leads to evidence that most present-day spirals built up half of their stellar masses during the last 8 Gyr, mostly during several intense phases of star formation during which they resembled luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs). Distant galaxy morphologies encompass all of the expected stages of galaxy merging, central core formation and disk growth, while their cores are much bluer than those of present-day bulges.

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Hemp Horizons: The Comeback of the World’s Most Promising Plant (The Real Goods Solar Living Book) (Paperback)

My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger is Recommended.

In the 11th grade, friends TC, Augie and Alejandra are in Ms. LaFontaine’s English class when they are assigned to do a project detailing their “Most Excellent Year”.  Each one of them decides on the 9th grade as being the best year of their young lives and  the reader watches the best year of their lives unfold in a series of class assignments, diary entries, instant messages, e-mail to and from each other, letters and e-mail between them and their parents, and their parents’ correspondence with each other. We wonder if TC will ever drop his wiseguy act long enough to get the girl, if Augie’s relationship will workout and whether Alejandra will ever have the courage to face her diplomat parents to tell them that it is her dream to sing and dance.

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My Most Excellent Year, by Steve Kluger

A Survey of Computers and Computing

The Most Complex Machine is an introductory computer science textbook that can also be read by anyone who wants to understand how computers work and what computer science is about. It is supplemented by software and lab worksheets based on that software. The software is provided as a set of Java applets that can be used over the World-Wide Web. Information about the course I teach using this text, including sample tests and quizzes, can be found at the bottom of this page. I can be reached by e-mail at: eck@hws.edu

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The Most Complex Machine

NON-FICTION
War by Sebastian Junger, Twelve (May 11, 2010).

Overhaul by Steven Rattner, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Fall 2010)

Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that Led America into the Vietnam War Ted Morgan. Random House (February 23, 2010).

The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personal Medicine by Francis Collins, Harper (January 5, 2010).

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath. Broadway Business (February 16, 2010)

FICTION
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson, Knopf (May 25, 2010)

Private Life by Jane Smiley, Knopf (May 4, 2010)

The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis, Jonathan Cape (May 11, 2010)

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey, Knopf (April 20, 2010)

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell, Random House (June 29, 2010)

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The Most Anticipated Books of 2010

Porn fans gather round. Seems like “Perverts of the Unknown” is one of the most sought after comic books. It’s being sold on the Amazon for $999.99. I hope that none of the 56 pages are stuck to each other .