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Sometimes the planes don't fly on time.

Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is canceled Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O'Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: he starts to write a letter. But what begins as a hilariously excoriating demand for a refund soon becomes a lament for a life gone awry, for years misspent, talent wasted, and happiness lost. A man both sinned against and sinning, Bennie writes in a voice that is a marvel of lacerating wit, heart-on-sleeve emotion, and wide-ranging erudition, underlined by a consistent groundnote of regret for the actions of a lifetime -- and made all the more urgent by the fading hope that if he can just make it to the wedding, he might have a chance to do something right.

A margarita blend of outrage, wicked humor, vulnerability, intelligence, and regret, Dear American Airlines gives new meaning to the term "airport novel" and announces the emergence of major new talent in American fiction..
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With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the best computing language for the latest trends in computing and business While other languages have stagnated, Perl remains fresh, thanks to its community-based development model, which encourages the sharing of information among users. This tradition of knowledge-sharing allows developers to find answers to almost any Perl question they can dream up.

And you can find many of those answers right here in "Perl Hacks," Like all books in O'Reilly's Hacks Series, "Perl Hacks" appeals to a variety of programmers, whether you're an experienced developer or a dabbler who simply enjoys exploring technology. Each hack is a short lesson--some are practical exercises that teach you essential skills, while others merely illustrate some of the fun things that Perl can do. Most hacks have two parts: a direct answer to the immediate problem you need to solve right now and a deeper, subtler technique that you can adapt to other situations. Learn how to add CPAN shortcuts to the Firefox web browser, read files backwards, write graphical games in Perl, and much more.

For your convenience, "Perl Hacks" is divided by topic--not according to any sense of relative difficulty--so you can skip around and stop at any hack you like. Chapters include: Productivity Hacks User Interaction Data Munging Working with Modules Object Hacks Debugging

Whether you're a newcomer or an expert, you'll find great value in "Perl Hacks," the only Perl guide that offers something useful and fun for everyone..
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This book is the highly anticipated and the very first Tablature book "Introspection" by Greg Howe.Unlike most tablature books, the fingerings and overall transcriptions are unquestionably exact, due to the fact, that Greg Howe worked directly with the transcribers and verified every note contained within his 1993 release "Introspection".Includes: Jump Start, Button Up, Come and Get It, In Step, Desiderata, No Place Like Home, Direct Injection, and Pay as You Go..
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An instructive, proactive, and highly entertaining work of counterculture philosophy, alternative psychology and in your face spirituality, this book descibes how readers can rid themselves of limiting beliefs so that they may experience the fresh breezes of their uniqueness..
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Can conscious experience be described accurately? Can we give reliable accounts of our sensory experiences and pains, our inner speech and imagery, our felt emotions? The question is central not only to our humanistic understanding of who we are but also to the burgeoning scientific field of consciousness studies. The two authors of Describing Inner Experience? disagree on the answer: Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist, argues that improved methods of introspective reporting make accurate accounts of inner experience possible; Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher, believes that any introspective reporting is inevitably prone to error. In this book the two discuss to what extent it is possible to describe our inner experience accurately.

Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel recruited a subject, "Melanie," to report on her conscious experience using Hurlburt's Descriptive Experience Sampling method (in which the subject is cued by random beeps to describe her conscious experience). The heart of the book contains Melanie's accounts, Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel's interviews with her, and their subsequent discussions while studying the transcripts of the interviews. In this way the authors dispute about the general reliability of introspective reporting is steadily tempered by specific debates about the extent to which Melanie's particular reports are believable. Transcripts and audio files of the interviews will be available on the MIT Press website.

Describing Inner Experience? is not so much a debate as it is a collaboration, with each author seeking to refine his position and to replace partisanship with balanced critical judgment. The result is an illumination of major issues in the study of consciousness—from two sides at once..
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Reading through the Dear Future Me letters is a sociological experiment, tapping into a culture obsessed with the future and all that it entails: self-improvement, anxiety, technological change--all in an increasingly global world. Matt Sly and Jay Patrikios created FutureMe.org in 2002. The idea is simple--anybody can visit the site and write a letter to him or herself to be delivered in the future. In addition, the writer can elect to have the letter be "public but anonymous," creating a repository of letters that are readable by all. Dear Future Me is a collection of the best letters. The letters in Dear Future Me are fascinating because they delve into the lives of ordinary people when they're being really honest..
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Papers from the Third Reflective Practice Conference, held in July 1996 at Robinson College, Cambridge, U.K. Designed for those wishing to gain insight into the practice of reflection: to inform their own approaches to reflection, develop their practice, and to realize their therapeutic potential. Softcover. .
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Terrell, a recently single 30-year-old Businessman, enters a very cold and dark point in his life, after catching his partner, of 4 years, in their bed with someone else. Terrell finds himself in the middle of a battle between love and sex. A lot has changed since he's been in a 4 year committed relationship. Dating has merely evolved to keystrokes on the computer. True romantic love appears non-existent, whereas sex, on the other hand, is all too common. Disease is on the rise as infection rates climb the charts, and more and more people suffer. These issues concern Terrell as he contemplates on giving in to this pressure of a life without true romantic love but only sex. In pursuit for happiness, Terrell almost stops believing in love until he examine his own personal hurts and disappointments, and finally finds love..
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