Education - Electronic Books

Chinese Fables 1.0

`Chinese children are made to learn (proverbs and maxims)by heart, and ordinary grown-up Chinamen may be almost said to think in proverbs.` Professor Herbert A. Giles, 1892. This quote from Herbert A. Giles (he compiled the first exhaustive Chinese-English dictionary in 1892) aptly describes the contents of Chinese Fables, a handsome new ebook. This program presents the sensibility and pragmatism of Chinese culture and thought. It's a collection of 43 fables with beautiful Chinese artwork and music. These traditional proverbs were originally told from 722 through 221 BC (mostly by Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu). Now they're in a navigable ebook format to be learned and treasured for millenniums to come. If you've never experienced Chinese Fables, they're similar to the tales of Aesop. Each fable contains a brief story with an underlying moral. Using the ebook, you can casually browse through each fable and print each page, as you'd like. Use a complete index to find proverbs by name. There's even a search tool that will help you retrieve fables based on particular words and concepts. Chinese Fables is a rewarding handbook for the intellect and conscious. The tales and anecdotes, passed down from generation to generation, will be a wonderful addition to your ebook collection. The morals are more often implied than spelled out,

Starr Cyberbooks Web Edition 1.0

This e-book program includes 3 novels, a collection of 21 short stories, a travel book, a screenplay adaptation and a stage play. An excerpt from each work is offered in the HTML demo version. The complete edition is in Microsoft Word format. THE FLOWERS OF EDEN: A dropout joins the odd residents of a remote tropical rainforest where marijuana is grown for fun and profit. THE COSMOS WITHIN: A man who enters the strange world of a Hawaiian kahuna sees his reality crumble until he risks death to reach an infinitesimal universe. KONA WINDS: PI Dex Hamilton searches the islands for the missing husband of a rich and beautiful woman who may have murdered him.

The Skills v.1.0

The second book of As Simple As Photoshop series covering obligatory skills: color and tonal adjustments, layers, transformations, selecting techniques. Tutorials are illustrated with animated screenshots.

Boy who knew 1.0

Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, etc. Paranormal to us but normal to children who experience them. How can they explain what happens to them with their limited vocabulary and language skills. The fact that it is so obvious to them that they can not understand why we do not see or hear what they do. These stories show the problems facing the children and the parents when extra-sensory perception experiences happen in a family.