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The Espresso Book Machine Version 2.0

A demonstration of the EBM, Version 2.0

The Espresso Book Machine (EBM) is a print on demand (POD) machine that prints, collates, covers, and binds a single book in a few minutes

Book Review…”Black Like Me”

Title: Black Like Me
Author: John Howard Griffin
Publisher/Copyright year:
Penguin Group/1960

“Black Like Me” is a remarkable nonfiction book of what it is like to be black person in the deep south. It describes the discrimination a man faces every day just based on the color his skin and how far we have come regarding racial issues. I [...]

The Solomon Key

The Solomon Key is the working title of an unreleased novel in progress by American author Dan Brown. The Solomon Key will be the third book involving the fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon. The book will focus on the work of the Freemasons. The book has been in development for several years and there currently [...]

The Glass Bead Game

The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel) is the last work and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. Begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943, the book was mentioned in Hesse’s citation for the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.
“Glass Bead Game” is a literal translation of the German title. The title [...]

The Little green book of getting your way : Jeffrey Gitomer

Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Following in the bestselling footsteps of Little Red Book of Selling, Little Red Book of Sales Answers, Little Black Book of Connections, and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude, Jeffrey Gitomer’s The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way digs deep into the 9.5 elements that make persuasion, and getting [...]

The Master Key System : Charles F. Haanel

The Master Key System is a personal development book by Charles F. Haanel that was published in 1912.
Though originally a 24 week correspondence course, it was published in book form in 1917. Along with “The Science of Getting Rich”, by Wallace D. Wattles, the Master Key System is the source of Rhonda Byrne’s inspiration for [...]

Thai cuisine : Famous dishes

Many Thai dishes are familiar in the West. In many dishes below, different kinds of protein can be chosen as the ingredient, such as beef, chicken, pork, duck, tofu or seafood.
Breakfast dishes

Jok (Thai: โจ๊ก) – a rather bland rice porridge very commonly eaten in Thailand for breakfast. Similar to the the rice congee eaten in [...]

The Five People You Meet in Heaven : Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom, published in 2003. A television movie of the same name was broadcast by ABC in 2004, starring Jon Voight as the main character, Eddie.
 Introduction and Death
The novel opens at Ruby Pier on Eddie’s 83rd birthday. He goes about his normal routine until [...]

The Kite Runner : Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003, it is the first novel published in English by an author from Afghanistan.
Introduction
The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his [...]

A Beautiful Mind : Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash by Sylvia Nasar, a New York Times economics correspondent. It inspired the 2001 film with the same name.
The book is a biography of Nash, starting with his childhood, over his years at Princeton and MIT, his work for the [...]