Revisit the Potter-Mania with books of JK Rowling

After the successful release of the second and final episode of Harry Potter, the worldwide phenomenon found its rule over ten years of the bestseller list and ticketing. As the Potter-mania reached its natural end, readers can engage in some restart sentimental reading or the character of more fantastic fiction of the Decade. For certified fanatics and first time HP-readers, this is the chance to meet and relive the adventures of "the boy who lived"!

New approach to Hogwarts

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books that accompanies it, first designed the story of a magical world located in the modern interior United Kingdom 1997 rear path. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, the first in a long series of books of Hogwarts-centered on a young Wizard named Harry Potter, saw his first publication in 1997. As successive series books, the philosopher's stone to critical and commercial success which opened finally led to his 2001 film adaptation. The same actors who played the characters highly appreciated in the first book-Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes has resumed their roles and all throughout the next films seven-Harry Potter (except Richard Harris, who was replaced by actor Michael Gambon after the latter's untimely demise) in the ten years after the first film.

Books by J.K. Rowling

Here is a list of the books of J.K. Rowling in the year of its publication. The other identified year is the year of the world output or adaptation of film of this particular book.
1. the sorcerers (1997; 2001)

2. the Chamber of Secrets (1998; 2002)

3. the prisoner of Azkaban (1999, 2004)

4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire (2000; 2005)

5 Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix (2003, 2007)

6 Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince (2005, 2009)

7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007;) (Part 1: 2010, part 2: 2011)

8 Fantastic Beasts and where to find the (2011)

9. The Quidditch through the ages (2001)

10. The tales of Beedle the Bard (2008)

11 Harry Potter Prequel (short story written for charity, 2008)

Copies of the first edition, published by Bloomsbury, those which are considered collectors items. The first edition release other books are expensive, even if you can find copies of opportunity sold online today.

The appeal or the Potter-mania

If you like reading on the fantastic worlds of magic and adventure as the thrill and enjoy, you will find that the books of J.K. Rowling are undoubtedly well written, mix fantasy with the ordinary all shares to its readers the common themes of friendship and the power of the will in the battle against good and evil.

J.K. Rowling books have been classified in the fantasy genre, with elements of adventure, mystery, thriller and romance. Other classifications include Fantasy and history from the age of the children. His stories are loved by children and adults that it resonates with the realities which may be relevant to readers (this, despite the magic trope in the novels).

At the present time, the author J.K. Rowling is occupied with his works of charity. In June 2011, it announces the launch of a Web site where she continued to extend to the world, that it has created a website called "Potter more." Pottermore.com is still in its Beta Version, but will be available for everyone in October 2011.

Today, his series remains a major influence on film and literature. With the success of the books of J.K. Rowling, fantasy has seen a resurgence of popularity and the following, as evidenced by the number of volumes published and the rise of the first time authors writing fantastic stories with as brave and charming characters such as Harry Potter.

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The Technologists by Matthew Pearl

The Tech?nol?o?gists by Matthew Pearl is a novel which takes place at post Civil War, Boston. The story takes place in the years dur?ing a very frag?ile time in our history.

Mar?cus Mans?field was a POW & is American Civil War vet?eran attends the first class of the Mass?a?chu?setts Insti?tute of Tech?nol?ogy as a char?ity stu?dent. Even though he is not as affluent as his friends, Mar?cus is brilliant and a sci?en?tist n heart and mind.

Mans?field and his col?leagues decide to inves?ti?gate recent strange occur?rences which hap?pened in the Boston Har?bor and the city itself. What's at stake is the future of MIT as well as mod?ern sci?ence itself.

The Tech?nol?o?gists by Matthew Pearl is an enter?tain?ing read with peculiar his?tor?i?cal detail and a nerdi?ness thrown in just for kicks. I found the char?ac?ters cap?ti?vat?ing and the plot line interesting.

The author does a great job interlacing fiction and non-fiction as well as the dia?log which was spo?ken in that time period. The difficult social norms of the time are pre?sented in the form of a lone MIT female stu?dent who is forced to study by herself.

There were sev?eral interesting views in The Technologists, it is writ?ten almost as a futur?is?tic novel, but of course with tech?nol?ogy most of us con?sider anti?quated. The ones I thought were the most inter?est?ing where the tech?no?log?i?cal aspect, Har?vard's reli?gious aspects, and flash?backs of the pro?tag?o?nist to the Civil War.

The over?reach?ing tech?nol?ogy which the MIT stu?dents dealt with, old in today's stan?dards but pre?sented in the book as the lat?est inno?va?tions are explained in an inter?est?ing way. Tech?nol?ogy, then as is now, is some?times seen as an evil, espe?cially when it looks as if it might cost a whole class their liv?ing wage.

I have always thought of the University of Harvard as a for?ward think?ing uni?ver?sity. This novel, and a quick con?fir?ma?tion on Google, taught me that it wasn't always so. From my pre?vi?ous read?ing on Amer?i?can his?tory it seemed to me that Har?vard has always strove to inno?vate, but it seems that around that time Har?vard upheld its reli?gious stan?dards higher than its sci?en?tific ones. The uni?ver?sity wouldn't admit stu?dents who aren't Chris?tians as well as oppose ideas which do not agree with the Chris?t?ian dogma based on noth?ing but the ridicu?lous idea that reli?gion shouldn't be questioned.

A few of the chap?ters are told in flash?backs to the char?ac?ters' Civil War expe?ri?ence and how that expe?ri?ence came to influ?ence them at the cur?rent time?line. Per?son?ally, I would have loved to read more about that era, chap?ters switch?ing between war expe?ri?ence and how they affect peace time expe?ri?ences. How the war tech?nol?ogy which was meant to destroy can also be used to rebuild.

Over?all, while not a page turner, I found The Tech?nol?o?gists to be a solid, above aver?age mys?tery, which holds itself together well, writ?ten by a gifted author.

Known by the Quixotic pun of "Man of la Book" he is a father, husband, book blogger, software engineer & wood worker who is known the world over as a man of many interests and to his lovely wife as "an idiot".

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Javed Akhtar: Latest News, Videos, Photos

Synonymous with some of the most mellifluous and melodious lyrics and poetry in Hindi and Urdu, Javed Akhtar was born on January 17, 1945 in the erstwhile Gwalior State of Colonial India. His father was the legendary Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet Jan Nisar Akhtar who was also a member of the Progressive Writers' Movement. His mother, Safia Akhtar was a singer, teacher, and writer. Javed Akhtar was named Jadoo Akhtar at birth; however he was officially named Javed Akhtar. He also inherits a familial legacy of seven generations in which there were prominent writers and poets. It is no wonder that the young Jadoo Akhtar turned into a multi-faceted personality as a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter. His maternal uncle was the famous Urdu poet Asrar ul Haq Majaz while his grandfather was Iftikhar Hussain Muztar Khairabadi, most famous for his poem 'Main kis ke dil ka ghubar hun'. He is also related to the philosopher and poet, Maulana Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi who participated in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.

Javed Akhtar grew up in Lucknow and Aligarh. He lost his mother while he was a child and he was sent to study in Colvin Taluqdar's College in Lucknow. Then he moved to live with his maternal aunt, Hamida Salim in Aligarh. He studied at the Minto Circle in Aligarh and matriculated from the Aligarh Muslim University and he graduated from Saifiya College in Bhopal.

In 1964, Javed Akhtar moved to Mumbai and his tryst with Bollywood began. He was the scriptwriter for Yakeen which did not amount to any success. He formed a partnership with Salim Khan to work on the makings of Adhikar. G. P. Sippy's Sippy Films hired Salim-Javed to write the scripts for films such as: Andaz, Seeta Aur Geeta, Sholay and Don. He has also written a lot of poetry in Urdu outside the realms of Bollywood and a chunk of it has been published in Tarkash. He worked with his son Farhan Akhtar in movies such as Dil Chahta Hai, Lakshya, Rock On! He worked with his daughter Zoya Akhtar in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

In 1999, he was conferred the Padma Shri by the Government of India and in 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He has won 14 Filmfare Awards: seven times for Best Script and eight times for Best Lyrics! He has also been a recipient of the National Award, Videocon Screen Award, Zee Award and Lux Zee Cine Award. He won the National Integration Award from the All India Anti-Terrorist Association and the Avadh Ratan from the Government of U.P. and the Hakim Khan Sur Sammaan Award from the Maharana Mewar Foundation, Udaipur. He is member of the advisory board of the Asian Academy of Film & Television.

Javed Akhtar is an atheist. He is married to film personality, Shabana Azmi.

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Book Summary: Abundance - The Future Is Better Than You Think - By Peter Dimandis and Steven Kotler

Abraham Maslow defined the basic human hierarchy of needs as food, water and air and from there you move up to the top of the pyramid which is self-actualization. Image a world of clean abundant energy, clean abundant water, wellness instead of sick care, abundant food supply and medical treatment for all. Now imagine these things as self-sustaining systems and not charity.

Why is this important to me?

The major problems today are clean energy, clean water, health care, the environment and population growth which is why this book is important. Every year 11 million children around the world die from infectious diseases and other causes. Most of these could have been avoided with clean water. This statistic is horrible. The U.S. has spent over $1 Trillion dollars on wars to fight terrorism. The world water problem could have been solved for much less. People need to have a realistic perspective. Humans tend to think logically and linearly. Technological change happens exponentially. This is good news for us because all of these problems are solvable.

Abundance is an excellent book that not only defines the problems but highlights technology innovation that is happening right now that will solve these problems. This book is broken down into six major parts but for the sake of time, I will profile a few key points as well as focus on the What, Why and How.

1. The Facts - Fact One: Currently humanity uses 30% more of our planet's natural resources than we can replace. Fact Two: If everyone on this planet wanted to live with the lifestyle of the average European, we would need three planets' worth of resources to pull it off. Fact Three: If everyone on this planet wished to live like an average North American, then we'd need five planets to pull it off. Abundance shows that we can solve these problems. When seen through the lens of technology, few resources are truly scarce; they're mainly inaccessible. Yet the threat of scarcity still dominates the world view. The reason for this is because humans think logically and linearly while technological progression is exponential.

2. The Goal - Imagine a world of 9 billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge.

Let's look at the how portion with examples from Abundance.

1. Energy Possibilities - Energy has many components that need work. One is the production of clean energy, two is the transmission of that energy and three is the storage of the energy. What this means is that solar energy produced in San Diego (95% sunny days) could be stored and transmitted to rainy areas like Seattle. Smart grid technologies are needed as well. We are making progress. Corn produces 18 gallons per acre per year and palm oil about 625 gallons per acre per year. Modified algae (pond scum) will produce 10,000 gallons per acre per year. The technical progress with modified algae is moving fast. If this goal is hit and Miles per gallon improve with the cars then we could eliminate our dependence on foreign oil with 17% of the land mass of Nevada producing modified algae. Clean abundant energy is the source of fixing the rest of the problems outlined in this summary. These tasks create jobs which fuels economic growth. This is not a charitable problem. Charities may invest money but that is the way it needs to be looked at - as an investment not a gift.

2. Water Possibilities - Dean Kamen created Slingshot. This is a water purification system that runs with a sterling engine. This setup is so effective that it costs.002 cents per liter. The system running in India can run on cow dung to power the purifier. Today the cost per liter is.30 cents. Building the Slingshot commercially could reduce the price down to $2,500 each. The water problem is a big problem because 97% of the world's water is salt water. Basically fresh water consists of less than 1% of the total water supply. Another huge issue is 70% of the world's water is used in agriculture while 50% of the food is thrown away. There are enormous opportunities in clean water generation locally eliminating the need to transport it. Smart Grid technologies are in huge demand because it makes sense to simply use what is needed without the delivery waste.

Abundance is a great book that will get you thinking about solving these major problems we face as a species. Right now the world economy is sputtering and on the brink of a major shift. The ultimate goal of most humans is to have a job to sustain and better their lives. Jim Clifton wrote about this in his book the Coming Jobs War. These technologies and problems offer opportunities and business growth for people who have the foresight to take advantage of it.

I hope you have found this short summary useful. The key to any new idea is to work it into your daily routine until it becomes habit. Habits form in as little as 21 days. One thing you can take away from this book is problems equal opportunity through the right lens. Viewing the world through the right lens is critical to our success. To hone this skill, focus on root cause problems and looking for solutions.

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B Is For Books: 5 Books That Made Me A Better Coach

Please join me for a fun series. My mission, and I've chosen to accept it, is to write a post based on each letter of the alphabet. The English major inside of me is very excited about this project...and my inner nerd is even more fired up! Keep checking back as I tackle the intangibles of sport...from A to Z.

I'm a book nerd...I love 'em! So much so that I put a summer reading list together every year to make sure that I get my reading fix in. These are books that have helped me over the years and I'm sure you'll find them helpful as well. I hope this article makes it easier for you to get your learn on!

Here are five books that I return to time and time again...and they never let me down.

Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach Work and Play Differently by Kathy DeBoer

I, like many female former athletes of my age, only played for male coaches. So when I decided that I wanted to be a coach, I did it the only way I knew how...like a man. The result? Utter disaster. Sound familiar? Or are you a male coach who wonders why your female team isn't "aggressive" enough? I bet you'll love this book because there are lots of good stories and tips in there.

DeBoer says that culturally, young girls view winning and losing as opposite of the "closeness that females value" and avoid it in play activities. As you read this, your eyes will be opened to the type of environment that you can create to help your female team embrace competition.

The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

He had me at the tagline for the book: "Greatness isn't born. It's grown. Here's how." I'm sure we've all had those athletes who are pretty good, but we look at them and see who they could be if they just pushed themselves. We challenge them to try new things, but they are perfectionists and hate making mistakes, so they don't reach their potential. They play it safe, they stay comfortable...they're good, not great.

The whole concept of the book is that we are in control of our talent and our greatness...that we can work at it if we work in the correct manner: "struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter." Reading through the book, we learn how to make this happen for our players.

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy

Unlike the first two books, this one is more biography than "how to". I think that the title of this book could have been "Quiet Confidence" as well. Think about the inner strength and confidence Dungy must have had in himself and his way of doing things that he was able to buck the tradition and be a football coach on his own terms. What an awesome lesson for us all to learn!

To have confidence in your calling as a coach when the results aren't turning out how you'd like. To have confidence in your coaching style and philosophy when others tell you that you can't be successful using your methods. The book details Dungy's career from player to Super Bowl champion...and all of the ups and downs in between. But the one thing that is a consistent theme throughout the book is his commitment to his coaching style.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Franklin Covey

When I first got into the workforce, the company I worked for had a 7 Habits seminar right there in the office. Over the course of three days, I learned how to be a professional and how to work well with others...I'd say that was a pretty impactful three day period!

The first three habits are all about us as individuals, the next three are about interacting with others, the final habit is for all of us to pursue a lifetime of learning...always looking to get better. As you work through the book, the habits work to transform us from dependency to independence to interdependence. Interdependence means mutual reliance upon one another...or a "team"! I've used this book as a captain's training manual and also as a team book with pretty good success.

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations From On and Off the Court by John Wooden

So often when people talk about team chemistry or leadership or team dynamics, they seem to think, "Well, that's great...if I have time to get to it." I think it's partly because coaches understand the tangibles: setting up a practice plan, putting together drills, making corrections to specific behaviors. I also think it's partly because coaches don't understand the ins and outs of those intangibles (and how to measure if we've been successful), so we tend to stay away from them.

But if we are to believe the Pyramid, then a successful team is built upon intangibles. What Coach Wooden has brilliantly given us with his Pyramid is a way to measure the success of those intangibles. Build these blocks of the Pyramid of Success into your practice plans and you'll be well on your way to achieving your goals! There's more in this book than the Pyramid...but those are the pages of my book that are well worn.

There are so many books out there that will make us better coaches...these are my top five, but certainly not the only ones that have impacted my coaching life.

Dawn Redd is the Head Volleyball Coach at Beloit College. Come visit Coach Dawn's community of coaching nerds and team leaders over at her blog, http://www.coachdawnwrites.com/, where she teaches how to become an excellent coach, motivate individuals, and build successful teams.

Her book, Coach Dawn's Guide To Motivating Female Athletes, is available for purchase on her website.

Kindle Fire Is a Good Competitor According to IT Experts

Few would disagree with the statement that Amazon's Kindle and the associated Kindle Store are revolutionary in the field of books and publishing. Their collection has millions of electronic books available for sale, such as popular Romance Books, cooking and recipe books, as well as popular classics by authors such as Jules Verne and William Shakespeare.

When the Kindle was first released, it became an instant success. But just like with any other electronic gadget, there had to be progress. The latest edition of this progress would be the arrival of the Amazon Kindle Fire, which offers many interesting features to its users. The device has not been released yet, but according to a Computer World report, it is expected to ship on November 15th 2011 and pre-sale orders are already being taken.

One of the main advantages of the Kindle Fire is its relatively low price point of $199. Its main features are a 7 inch color screen, capable of displaying at a 1024 by 600 resolution. It also contains a browser that lets users access multimedia content and social networking sites, as well as practically any other website on the web. Of course, it does retain the ability to read PDF files, which is a common format for many eBooks distributed outside of the Amazon Kindle store, such as independently produced online erotic books.

The low price point of the device means that is will be able to compete well against Barnes & Noble's Nook Color, which costs $249. According to Bob O'Donnell, an analyst working for IDC, the price of the Kindle Fire would be low enough to make it an impulse buy for some shoppers. Furthermore, one of the reasons behind this low price is the fact that Amazon will be engaging in direct sales, that is selling the Kindle Fire directly from its online store and not in retailers. Some believe that this may change in the future as was the case with previous versions of the Kindle, which first were sold exclusively online, but then made their way to retail stores around the globe.

Analysts are predicting that the fact that the user cannot try out the device in a store will not impede sales, as buyers of the Kindle Fire will have access to a detailed list of features and product specifications on Amazon's website. Furthermore, the vast majority of these buyers would already know how an e-reader works and what it can do for them, therefore the ability to actually see the device in action in a store is not expected to be a very important point for consumers. Some buyers who were considering getting the $499 Apple iPad may even opt to go for a Kindle Fire instead, as it contains many of the same features that they would be looking for.

Carmella Borcher is the author of this article and is an avid fan of Romance Books - particularly Erotic eBooks.