Free Book (Kindle/nook) - PCAT Prep for the New CBT

PCAT Prep for the New CBT, by Kaplan, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
PCAT Prep for the New CBT is a free eBook that provides information on the computer-based Pharmacy College Admission Test coming into effect July 2011. In addition to Kaplan’s proven study strategies, there are a total of 50 practice questions with detailed explanations for all sections of the exam: Verbal Ability, Biology, Chemistry, Quantitative Ability, Writing, and Reading Comprehension.

This test-change primer links to Kaplan’s PCAT 2011 Test Change Info Center that will also help address your concerns around PCAT and the new CBT.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook) - Pictures of the Mind

Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are, by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Who are we?
What’s going on inside us when we think, feel, hope, or imagine?
Can we change?
Can we become happier, smarter, healthier, more altruistic–better?
For thousands of years, people have wondered about questions like these. Now, using the latest brain scanning technologies, neuroscientists can watch your brain at work–and they’re amazed by what they’re seeing. Now, you can see it, too. Pictures of the Mind presents the images that are revolutionizing neuroscience and offers you a personal tour of the frontiers of brain research.

You’ll discover why scientists are becoming increasingly excited about your brain’s abilities to keep growing, learning, changing, and healing, all through life. You’ll follow cutting-edge researchers as they blaze new trails toward potential cures for everything from depression to dementia and brain injury to addiction. And you’ll preview what could become the greatest scientific revolution of all: the one that finally explains mind, emotion, and consciousness.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook) - 15 Expert Lessons for Retirement Planning

15 Expert Lessons for Retirement Planning, a collection of business shorts from FT Press, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Everything you need to know to build a financially secure retirement, starting today!

These 15 concise, expert, easy-to-use mini-guides cover every aspect of retirement financial planning! Systematically reduce your retirement risk… save more wisely… protect IRAs and 401(k)s…assess where you stand, and what Social Security will and won’t deliver… decide when to retire… budget and plan for life after retirement… and much more!

From world-renowned leaders and experts, includingMoshe Milevsky, Trent Hamm, Liz Pulliam Weston, Bonnie Kirchner, Jane White, Frank Armstrong, III, Paul B. Brown, James Walker, and Linda Lewis.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook) - Ubiquitous Computing for Business

Ubiquitous Computing for Business: Find New Markets, Create Better Businesses and Reach Customers Around The World 24-7-365, by Bo Begole, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Ubiquitous Computing (“UbiComp”) is the next game-changing technology. In Ubiquitous Business, PARC UbiComp pioneer Bo Begole shows you how to successfully incorporate it into your products, services, processes, and strategies. Begole introduces UbiComp’s component technologies, thoroughly illuminates its potential impact, and demonstrates how to achieve real competitive advantage with it.

From the Web to the iPod, cell phones to social networks, a few extraordinary technologies have changed the world, enabling massive new industries and destroying companies that couldn't adapt. It's about to happen again, thanks to new Ubiquitous Computing ("Ubicomp") technologies that will interweave computing more deeply into human life than ever before.

Bo Begole stands at the center of the Ubicomp revolution: He leads the team at the legendary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that invented the paradigm and are creating and commercializing its technologies. In Ubiquitous Computing for Business, Begole briefs you on everything you must know to drive breakout value from Ubicomp technologies.

Begole maps the emerging landscape of Ubicomp, explaining how it reinforces and redirects other societal trends. Next, he helps you identify exceptional opportunities to profit from Ubicomp in internal processes, supply chains, and external products and services. Along the way, he helps executives, strategists, technology managers, and entrepreneurs make better decisions about everything from "build vs. buy" to risk mitigation.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook) - In the Line of Fire

In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts, by Jerry Weissman, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Jerry Weissman has made a career of coaching nearly 500 execs on their IPO roadshows, the most critical presentations of their lives. Now, he's written an indispensable guide to answering the toughest questions you'll ever face. Using compelling examples from Presidential debates to stock analyst meetings, Weissman teaches how to respond with perfect assurance. Discover how to avoid the defensive, evasive, or contentious answers that have destroyed political careers and ruin credibility. Learn to control your entire exchange with a hostile questioner: the question, answer, interactions with questioner and audience, timing, and above all, yourself. Whether an executive, politician, fundraiser, interviewee, teacher, student -- or even a family member at Thanksgiving dinner -- you're judged on how you handle these moments. Get this book: handle them brilliantly.

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