Sports Illustrated: The College Football Book

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Continuing its series of spectacular coffee-table books for the holiday season, Sports Illustrated presents The College Football Book, the ultimate gift for America’s most passionate fans.
SI launched this series in 2005 with The Football Book, devoted to the professional game. A New York Times best-seller that year, the book has taken root as a perennial, [...]

Hawai’i’s Punahou School Uses IBM to Aggressively Cut Energy Use

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IBM and Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawai’i have undertaken an aggressive energy reduction effort intended to cut Punahou’s data-center power consumption in half by 2016. In order to accomplish this goal, Punahou has replaced its legacy servers with high-performance, low-power System x servers from IBM, running VMWare virtualization software.
Punahou School, a private school for grades [...]

The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world’s top shooters

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THE FIRST BOOK WITH ONE FOOT ON THE COFFEE TABLE, AND ONE FOOT IN THE
CLASSROOM
Joe McNally, one of the world’s top pro digital photographers, whose celebrated work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, Time, and National Geographic (to name a few), breaks new ground by doing something no photography book has ever done—blending the [...]

Acer Supports Chicagoland Students Participating in United Nations Foundation Netraiser

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Acer America, part of the world’s third largest PC company (source: Gartner data, 2Q 2008), today joined Illinois Lt. Governor Pat Quinn to announce its participation with the Chicago Elementary Schools’ United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, a fundraiser to raise awareness and money to fight malaria in Africa. As part of the campaign, [...]

A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties (Hardcover)

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On June 6, 1968, at the age of 42 and at the height of his popularity, Robert F. Kennedy was tragically assassinated. Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator, father—Kennedy was all of these things—and, to many Americans, he embodied the power of possibility and positive change during a period of social unrest, racial inequality, and war.
Renowned Life [...]