If you are fond of reading sci-fi books, you might want to check outTor.com, a new site managed by Tor Books, part of the Macmillan publishing group, which offers free downloads of e-books for a limited time only. The offer only runs through Sunday so hurry now!
Twenty-four (24 ) free e-books and a collection of high-resolution cover art suitable for use as a computer desktop background are available for download. The downloads are available in HTML, MOBI and PDF formats.
Available titles are:
- Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
- Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
- Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
- Farthing by Jo Walton
- The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedies Lackey & James Mallory
- Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell
- Lord of the Isles by David Drake
- Through Wolf’s Eyes by Jane Lindskold
- The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove
- Reiffen’s Choice by S.C. Butler
- Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
- Spirit Gate by Kate Elliot
- Starfish by Peter Watts
- Touch of Evil by C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
- A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
- Orphans of Chaos by John Wright
- In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
- In the Midnight Hour by Patti O’Shea
- Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. Carver
- Flash by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
- Soul by Tobsha Learner
- Darkness of the Light by Peter David
- Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa
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Today’s education is evolving and the methods of learning are changing. Before, people were used to textbooks for studying, and to chalk and white boards for lectures. However, with the new age of technology, these traditional means have been replaced by more interactive and entertaining ways like video lectures, animations, online courses and audio books. There are also e-books, which have saved us from bringing several pounds of textbooks and thousands of bucks, and has created a more easier acquisition of this resources with the availability of free e-books in the internet for download.
LearnersTV.com offers all these good stuff for learning. Video and audio lectures by professors from reputed universities are available. Example of live online tests, free e-book downloads for all subjects and courses can also be found.
LearnersTV.com provides free video lectures, animations, live online tests, audio lectures, e-book download links etc. on different subject areas, courses and fields like general science (biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics) computer science, engineering, and medicine.
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Recently, one of the top keyword searches in this blog is “sase result”. These searchers were looking for the MSU SASE results for SY 2008-2009, given last August 25, 2007, but they are brought to my “MSU-IIT IDS and SASE Results” for school year 2007-2008 post, so I feel obliged to post the results here. The results have been released on the second week of December 2007
The Mindanao State University SASE (System and Admission Scholarship Exam) is a non-negotiable requirement for all forms of admissions, scholarship and study grants in the MSU System. The Exam is administered once a year, during the First Semester, for graduating high school students who want to enroll in the University the succeeding year.
Go to the MSU SASE page to see if you passed.
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Internet users, especially the teens, nowadays are vulnerable to malicious acts in the web such as online frauds and scams, pornographic sites and others.
Here are some of seven web safety tips from Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan for teens for a friendly internet environment:
1. Never post personal information online.
2. Don’t put strangers on your buddy list.
3. Don’t post potentially embarrassing images of yourself online.
4. Remember that anyone can read blogs.
5. Communicate only with friends and family.
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I thought that my four years of stay in medical college and the hospital rotations I am having right now for clerkship were the hardest part of my medical education, until I faced choosing for the best hospital to do my post-graduate internship, which include:
1. Monetary constraints. I come from an average family so I had to consider it.
2. The board exam which comes 2 months after internship. Many have advised that I should choose a hospital which is not too busy, nor benign to prepare for the board exam.
3. The skills I could acquire. I was advised that I should go to a public hospital to acquire more skills. In our clerkship, we were exposed to both private and public hospitals and I could really compare the difference. It is true that when you are at a private hospital, you acquire “lesser” skills, due to the lesser number of cases to handle, but the advantage is you get the appropriate techniques. Further, in private hospitals, you are “hands off” when you are not a license yet because the patient pays for a better service. At a public hospital, you are are exposed to different kinds of cases, the great thing is you can do the procedures yourself. But of course, this differences varies among hospitals.
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Last February, J.K. Rowling announced that the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series, entitled “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” will not be available as e-books. This was already the case of the previous books of Harry Potter.
Two reasons were cited by Rowling for not releasing electronic copies of the book:
1. She was concern about online piracy (which has never been a major problem for the Potter books),
2. And the desire for readers to experience the books on paper.
Although the first reason has minimized the online piracy of the book, it did not totally eliminate it. Copies of the previous versions, available in pdf and other e-book formats, were made available for downloads through P2P sharing programs. These were all user-made.
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