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Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2)
Part two of a five-volume series, in this installment we get a view of life after the fall of the western Roman empire. An interesting contrast is made between the supremacy of the state (Rome) vs. the supremacy of property...
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Farm Anatomy
What's the difference between a weanling and a yearling, or a farrow and a barrow? Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman's charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from...
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I Have Cancer. And I've Never Felt Better!
Told with both frankness and humor, I Have Cancer. And I've Never Felt Better! is the everyman's (or woman's) Lance Armstrong story. It's one woman's wild journey from unraveling a medical mystery that took nine years to solve, to navigating the...
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The Beauty Bias
"It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses...
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Unstuff Your Life!
A professional organizer and life coach shows readers how to kick the clutter habit with his complete how-to guide to total organizationArguably the most organized man in America, sought-after coach Andrew J. Mellen has...
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The Meaning of Matthew
The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activistToday, the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but before his grisly...
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The Macho Paradox
Praise for The Macho Paradox "An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful work that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations." --Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees...
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The Stargate Conspiracy
This book is a must read for both the believers and critics of Ancient Alien/Astronaut hypothesis. The book reveals layer by layer the covert planning of some big names in the world of Science, Technology & the world intelligence agencies to...
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Nisei Daughter
With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to relocation dring World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese...
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How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America (And the World)
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the...
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Beyond Snapshots
Ready to Capture Your Story with Beautiful Photos? Let professional photographers Rachel Devine and Peta Mazey show you how to use that fancy DSLR to photograph the story of your life, from falling in love and having a baby,...
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Girl Soldier
For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and forced...
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Count Down
Each summer six math whizzes selected from nearly a half-million American teens compete against the world’s best problem solvers at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Steve Olson followed the six 2001 contestants from the intense tryouts to...
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The Lost Art of War
In 1972, The Lost Art of War was discovered in an ancient Chinese tomb. The first complete manuscript ever found from the legendary military strategist Sun Tzu II (commonly known as Sun Bin, a lineal descendent of the great Sun Tzu), this...
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One Fine Potion
One of the most beloved stories in history, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series topped the best-seller charts, inspired the highest-grossing film series of all time, and has now become a $250 million Universal Studio theme park. What is it about...
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The Kingdom of Rarities
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars...
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The Good Girls Revolt
On March 16, 1970, Newsweek magazine hit newsstands with a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement entitled "Women in Revolt." That same day, 46 Newsweek women, Lynn Povich among them, announced they'd filed an EEOC complaint charging their...
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Following Ezra
A heartwarming, intimate and amusing memoir of a father's experience raising his autistic son. When Tom Fields-Meyer's son Ezra was three and showing early signs of autism, a therapist suggested that the father needed to grieve....
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Mississippi Sissy
Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest,...
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The Collaborative Habit
• An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders are team-builders who can inspire great group efforts. Tharp uses her decades of experience to...
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The Accidental Adventurer
Ben Fogle's life to date has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole, run the Sahara and skated across Sweden. He has encountered remote tribespeople in deepest Papua New Guinea, caused a...
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The Witness of Preaching
This thorough and detailed revision of "The Witness of Preaching" is even clearer and more helpful than the first edition. Long has updated the language, expanded the key chapter on biblical exegesis, and included more examples of sermon forms,...
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The Homiletical Plot
Now in reissue with a new foreword by Fred B. Craddock and afterword by the author, Eugene L. Lowry, "The Homiletical Plot," Expanded Edition follows in the same solid tradition of its predecessor. Upon its release, "The Homiletical Plot" quickly...
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Wearing God
Lauren F. Winner--a leading writer at the crossroads of culture and spirituality and author of Still and Girl Meets God--joins the ranks of luminaries such as Anne Lamott and Barbara Brown Taylor with this exploration of little known--and, so,...
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Dedicated to God
As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical...
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Grammar Girl's 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary—one...
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You Are Special
Chock-full of the wisdom, wit, and whimsy that have made Mister Rogers a beloved friend to so many, this Miniature Edition™ is the perfect gift for any graduate -- or a nostalgic homecoming for anyone who's ever "visited" the Neighborhood.
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The Christian World of the Hobbit
In his beloved story The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien takes readers into a world unlike any other, yet so much seems familiar. As Bilbo journeys there and back again, glimpses of the spiritual are seen. The Christian World of The Hobbit does what no book...
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Infections and Inequalities
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these...
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Cool It
Bjørn Lomborg is the best-informed & most humane advocate for environmental change in the world today. In contrast to other figures that promote a single issue while ignoring others, he views the globe as a whole, studies all the problems,...
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The Dumbest Generation (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
This shocking, lively exposure of the intellectual vacuity of today's under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a nation of know-nothings.Can a nation...
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Men are Stupid...and They Like Big Boobs
I feel breathless, scared and thoroughly grossed out from reading this book. By now you've no doubt heard about teenage girls who cut themselves? In a way, this is also a book about cutting, except this time it is a grandmother who is...
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The Michael Jackson Tapes
In 2000–2001, Michael Jackson sat down with his close friend and spiritual guide, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, to record what turned out to be the most intimate and revealing conversations of his life. It was Michael’s wish to bare his soul and unburden...
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Dispatches from the Edge
In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of...
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Eat Bacon, Don't Jog
This is your brain on Grant Petersen: Every comfortable assumption you have about a subject is turned upside down, and by the time you finish reading you feel challenged, energized, and smarter. In Just Ride—“the bible for bicycle riders” (Dave...
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Super Mario
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible. Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a...
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Small Things Considered
Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless...
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The Longest Trip Home
Finding your place in the world can be the longest trip home . . .In his debut bestseller, Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now,...
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World Order
Walter Isaacson, Time:“Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book.”Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder....
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The Asylum
I wanted to read his book because I heard the author talking about it on NPR. In the interview, Mr. Doingn was hilarious and charming. The book itself, may be great to someone who is into fashion and knows who all the people are that he talks about;...
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Mistrial
A searing manifesto on the ills of the criminal justice system from two of America’s most prominent defense attorneys.The American legal system changed dramatically in 1994, when the O. J. Simpson trial became a...
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Hannah's Gift
Every once in a while a book comes along that can change your life–a book so special, it is destined not just to be read but to be cherished, to be passed from one reader to another as a precious gift. Filled with wisdom and grace, tears and...
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America's Bitter Pill
America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant...
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The Road to Allah
buku ini benar2 bagus...memberi kesadaran kepada kita untuk kembali kepada Allah tanpa terkesan menggurui atau menyalahkan. Selain itu buku ini sangat enak untuk dibaca dalam situasi apapun...pernah lho nangis pas baca buku ini. Benar-benar mengajak...
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The Meaning Of Life
It's an age-old question that has stumped the great minds of history: What is the meaning of life? In his hilarious and uplifting style, best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive finally provides the answer: Figure out what you love and do...
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Uncle John's Gigantic Bathroom Reader
This one’s big. Make that pretty huge. No, wait—it’s GIGANTIC! Presenting Uncle John’s Gigantic Bathroom Reader, featuring two of our best-selling and hard-to-find titles: Uncle John’s Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader and...
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Jakarta Undercover 2
Indonesia's top-selling author, Moammar Emka, is back with another round of unbelievable but true stories about the seedy nightlife and underground sex services of modern, hip Jakarta. Delving deep into the city's karaoke clubs, massage parlors...
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Naked Statistics
“Brilliant, funny . . . the best math teacher you never had.”—San Francisco ChronicleOnce considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has...
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A Nation of Sheep
إن كتاب أمة من الغنم كتاب يتحدث في السياسة...
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All I Know Now
We all know that growing up is hard to do, and sometimes the only thing that makes it better are the reassuring words of someone who has walked that bumpy road just a few steps ahead of you and somehow ended up as a fully-functioning adult. Carrie...
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Between U and Me
In this original paperback book, Zendaya, star of the hit Disney Channel series Shake It Up, shares her wit and wisdom on everything from fashion to friendships to following your dreams! This book, inspired by actual questions that Zendaya...
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Voice of Reason
Critically acclaimed by some of the world’s top humanitarian, academic, and counter-culture icons, McGill’s Voice of Reason is an illuminating, yet distressing plea for safety and freedom in a world of uncertainty, violence, and liberty lost....
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Until It Hurts
Near the end of a long season, fourteen-year-old baseball pitcher Ben Hyman approached his father with disappointing, if not surprising, news: his pitching shoulder was tired. With each throw to home plate, he felt a twinge in his still maturing...
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The Seventh Child
A heartwarming account of one remarkable woman's life--part personal history, part social history, and all wonderful wisdom--that spans three generations of an African-American family.
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Manning Up
“Man up?! I cannot believe that she—the most revered gender specialist in the Southwest—is gender stereotyping me! I leave her office in a huff. But then I catch myself and think hard for a while….Though I’ll never know if this is actually what...
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Marvel Universe
Take a guided tour through the vast cosmos known as the Marvel Universe and meet the superheroes -- Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four -- and the supervillains -- Green Goblin, Magneto, Galactus, Doctor Doom -- whose adventures have...
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Marvel Year by Year
Includes two exclusive prints!From your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to the uncanny X-Men, Marvel Comics has been entertaining people for over 70 years with its fantastic characters and engaging stories."Marvel Year by Year"...
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The Karma of Love
This is a relationship book unlike any one you ve ever seen. An American monk who spent 25 years in Tibetan monasteries shares ancient secrets on how to find a partner, keep them, and achieve lasting happiness together. The book consists of answers...
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The Lifetime Reading Plan
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George W. Bushisms V
"I can only speak to myself." True -- and yet we must listen. Sometimes his accidental wit speaks louder than any prepared statement. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to...
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Food Will Win the War
Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans responded to appeals for personal sacrifice and changed the way they cooked and ate in order to...
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The Labrador Retriever Handbook
Information covers care and training of a very popular breed that is a dependable work dog, a hunter, or an affectionate house pet. Titles in this pet care series are similar to Barron's Pet Owner's Manuals, but are larger, with more detailed...
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Mystery Of The White Lions
This is Linda Tucker’s firsthand account of her journey into the mysteries of the most sacred animal on the African continent: the legendary White Lion. This book reveals the knowledge and ceremonies of Old Africa and the overwhelming love that has...
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Under Pressure
Discusses how the culture of consumerism and success at all costs is affecting the development of children, including the functions of toys, relentless educational testing, and competitive school sports...Title: .Under Pressure..Author: .Honore,...
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A New Mimesis
In pursuit of a powerful, common-sense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neo-classical conceptions of realism, and considers Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The...
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How to Lose Belly Fat Fast For Men and Women
Would you give anything to have a flat, taut tummy? Do you envy the people who are able to walk around with their midsection showing because all you see are the lines of their well-defined muscles? Would you like to know how to transform your belly...
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Pandora's Baby
On a September morning in 1973, a hospital administrator in New York City learned of a rogue experiment in progress at his institution, and he ordered the removal from an incubator of a test tube containing a frothy mixture of human eggs and sperm....
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The Mythology Bible
The world's most fascinating gods and goddesses come to life in the pages of this beautifully illustrated book. "The Mythology Bible" explores the powerful figures that have compelled us for millennia--including Indra, god of thunder in India's Rig...
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Doing Sixty and Seventy
Doing Sixty and Seventy By Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem became a spokesperson for issues about aging quite accidentally after declaring to a reporter on the occasion of her fortieth birthday, "This is what forty looks like. We've been lying for so...
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Atlantis
A painstaking piece of detective work, drawing on all available evidence, this is the most thorough and important work on a perennially fascinating topic.
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I Before E, Except After C
Dr. Rozakis offers this fun, engaging refresher course on spelling for adults, teens, and preteens alike, who--thanks in part to online instant messaging and text messaging--are quickly and quietly forgetting how to spell.
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Silent Battle
One of the least known (and least appreciated) realities of the first world war is what men had endured as prisoners of war in Germany hands. Captives in an enemy nation, whose only hope was to survive to wars' end and their eventual liberation from...
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Gallimaufry
What is a gallimaufry anyway? And when did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and here Michael Quinion, author of the bestselling POSH and other...
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No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste, and Hierarchy
Upper, middle, or lower? Which class are you? Hierarchies and rankings have been with us since the earliest times and, as Seabrook argues, they show no sign of disappearing yet. Those at the top would have too much to lose. This "No-Nonsense...
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The Everyday Activist
You want to change the world? Of course you do. But where do you begin?The Everyday Activist shows how even small actions can affect the local community and the wider world. Packed with ideas and facts from leading...
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The Bones
This isn’t about math. It’s about unlucky breaks and victory against all odds.This isn’t about percentiles and probabilities. It’s about late-night game-ending rolls where everything hinges on that climactic moment when one single die...
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Vicious
As one of the first musicians to take punk into the limelight, Sid Vicious became an icon at a very young age. His powerful musical legacy cannot be denied, and neither can the vivid self-destructiveness of his lifestyle, which ended infamously in...
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The Directors
The Directors, Take Three offers dozens of masterful insights on the craft of directing from such renowned filmmakers as Robert Altman, Wes Craven, Alan Parker, Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, and Barry Levinson. Here are details of their...
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The Last Horsemen
The Last Horsemen is the inspiring story of John Dodd and his family, who have lived on Sillywrae Farm—the last farm in Britain to be worked by horses—for more than 150 years. Telling the inspirational story of a year in the...
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Better Than Sex
"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."--The Philadelphia InquirerSince his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter...
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Boomerang
In this incisive account, a prize-winning social scientist offers deep insights into the changing terrain of U.S. politics and public policy. Because of far-reaching changes in the Reagan era, Theda Skocpol shows, the Clinton Health Security bill...
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Sprawl Costs
The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the...
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Five Thousand Days Like This One
Amid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The...
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Out West
One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark's “Voyage of Discovery” (1804–1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate journeys: Lewis and Clark's epic adventure...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition 2009
GENRE: Non-fiction, biography, informational entertainment.SUMMARY: This edition features a glow-in-the-dark cover. The odd-but-true facts are loosely separated into six chapters, covering animals, human body strangeness, and more. Every...
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Degrees Of Freedom
First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt's Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch's interest in the relations between art and goodness,...
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Mexico Unconquered
Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Mexico Unconquered probes the overwhelming...
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Surviving and Other Essays
Bettelheim offers impressive insight into the mechanism of the Holocaust, not because his writing is so eloquent, but because many of the essays in this collection were written and reflect on a time during the Holocaust. His life-course narrative is...
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Bats - Creatures of the Night (All Aboard Reading: Level 2: Grades 1-3)
Did you know that bats are not blind? That the smallest bat is the size of a bee? Kids will learn all this and more in this exciting book about one of nature's most misunderstood creatures.
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The Entropy Exhibition
First published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition is the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as New Wave science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the...
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Free Spirit
Nice to learn about the Bowie family life behind the scenes. I don't know where this book came from but it has been haunting my bookshelf for some years. Easy fast read. Far be it for me to criticize someone's actual life events, but I did find...
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My Hope for Peace
From the distinguished educator, international crusader for humanitarian causes, and widow of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner President Anwar Sadat comes a foolproof plan for peace in the Middle East.In 1979, the Camp David Accords, brokered by Jimmy...
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Để tôi đọc lại
Nguyễn Hiến Lê (sinh năm 1912 tại Hà Nội mất năm 1984 tại Sài Gòn) là một học giả, dịch giả, nhà giáo dục và hoạt...
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Women and Men in World Cultures
Is there something in the basic makeup of human beings that dictates behavior along gender lines? What can we actually know about the gender of the past? How has social "progress" affected gender? "Women and Men in World Cultures", a text for...
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Die Kunst zu fliehen
Even though the novel contains a lot of biographical and technical information, and some art historical jargon, even these parts of the story are told in such an imaginative and intriguing way that they never become boring. In fact, I truly admire...
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Skuggbarn
Linda var mellanstadieflickan som blev kär. Den tjugo år äldre mannen lovade henne guld och gröna skogar bara hon träffade några kompisar till honom först. Fram tills Linda var 16 år sålde hennes stora...
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Stitching Stars
Interesting history of story quilts tells about the particular quilts of Harriet Powers but also about the history of applique use. It seems this skill was also utilized in Africa where it is still commonly used and by men no less. The work and...
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Breaker Boys
Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child...
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Healthy for Life
Really interesting read that makes sense to me. It really hits home how Americans (and people in general) are so addicted to carbohydrates and what it is doing to our bodies.My only beef (no pun intended) is that, while I am not a...
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Talking Sense About 'Fifty Shades of Grey', or, Fanfiction, Feminism, and BDSM
Heard of Fifty Shades of Grey but don't know what the fuss is about? Read it but not sure what to think of that fuss?The mass media have created a lot of heat about E. L. James's trilogy, but shed very little light on it. This...
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Liaison
The story of a complex love affair that almost qualifies as folie a deux, "Liaison" is a gripping read. When Bernard Boursicot, a young, insecure French embassy worker meets Shi Pei Pu, a shy, soft-spoken Chinese man, they begin a long, tumultuous...
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City Cycling
A great book for a beginner and even intermediates can get a tip or two from this. This book helped me learn how to mend a puncture, how to clean and lube my bike and it has given me some more confidence and pointers as to how to ride along with...
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A Promise Kept
Robertson McQuilkin served as the president of a seminary when he discovered that his wife, Muriel, was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. McQuilkin took on more and more of Muriel's care (she felt secure only with him) until he ended up...
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First-Time Parents
First-time Parents is an updated and redesigned edition of a practical guide to parenting that focuses especially on first-time parents. There is advice on pregnancy and birth; day-to-day babycare - feeding, washing and dressing; as well as...
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Celestially Auspicious Occasions
Explores the variety of ways different cultures have marked the movement of t stars and seasonal changes with celebrations throughout history.
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Boldness Be My Friend
A reissue of war memoirs first published in 1954. A straight forward narrative of the author's experiences as a POW in Stalag VIIIB and his attempts to escape. It is interesting, readable and the prose is remarkably clean. The most...
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The Politics of Truth
The concept of ideology--traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas--has recently been subjected to devastating criticisms. Michele Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which...
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Bermuda Triangle (DK Readers: Level 3)
Book for 2nd and 3rd graders.This book explains the Bermuda Triangle to children. This is a great idea, because children love the supernatural - especially when it could be TRUE! :)This book combines illustrations of the famous BT...
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Comic Visions 2e
Comic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history of American television comedy. Most comprehensive social and critical history of American television comedy Very engaging, lucid and entertaining...
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Picture Letters from the Commander-in-Chief
The battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest campaigns of WWII. Under the command of Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the Japanese army held off U.S. Navy and Naval Air Corps. attack for over a month before finally succumbing to defeat....
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Cane Fires
Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II. --The Hawaiian Journal of...
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Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg
Discover the paranormal legacy of one of America's most celebrated historical sites. Based on scores of investigations conducted at the battlefield, Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg presents a wealth of fascinating Civil War history and compelling,...
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The Bankers
I have the greatest respect for Shane Ross, a colourful but upright character who has been a business editor of the Sunday Independent, a Senator and TD, but that doesn't affect my review of this book. To a degree the reader needs to have...
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A Year with the Producers
A behind-the-scenes story with more than a touch of theatrical magic about it, A Year with The Producers is a book for actors and theater fans everywhere.
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Decades
What Cameron Silver doesn't know about fashion is not worth knowing. For fifteen years he has owned Decades, the renowned vintage boutique on Melrose Avenue, hunting the world for couture from decades past, matching gorgeous red-carpet gowns to...
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Baby Development
Packed with fun games and activities to encourage development in communication, movement, sociability, cognitive ability and hand control, this title explains key milestones with clear photographs and step-by-step instructions to guide you through...
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The devil of Decourcy Island
THis is the legend of Brother XII. His negarious deeds were the talk of Canada in the 1920s and 1930s when he established a cult following and colony on Vancouver Island.
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Mental Training for Peak Performance
In this brand-new edition, updated with material on today's best athletes, a top sports psychologist reveals the mental strategies champions use to win in a variety of sports-from cycling and skiing to golf and tennisMental...
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The Works of Charles Darwin Complete Set
Are they needed? To be sure. The Darwinian industry, industrious though it is, has failed to provide texts of more than a handful of Darwin's books. If you want to know what Darwin said about barnacles (still an essential reference to cirripedists,...
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The Iraq War
In this book, respected military analyst Anthony Cordesman provides the first in-depth examination of the key issues swirling around the most significant U.S. war since Vietnam. Finding answers is essential if we are to understand the United States'...
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Fire in the Head
In 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' William Butler Yeats refers to the ‘fire in the head’ that characterises the visionary experience. Tom Cowan has pursued this theme in a lyrical cross-cultural exploration of shamanism and the Celtic imagination...
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TOEFL iBT
Edited by ETS, the people who make the test! Find out all about the new TOEFL Internet-based test; Get over 500 real TOEFL questiond and essay topics
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Cannabis Pharmacy
Evidence-based information on using cannabis for ailments and conditions, plus a comprehensive guide to the most popular varietiesThe most comprehensive, easy-to-use book available on understanding and using medical...
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Rastafari
Interviews with 30 converts from the 1930s and 1940s are a component of Barry Chevanne's book, a look into the origins and practices of Rastafarianism. From the direct accounts of these early members, he is able to reconstruct pivotal episodes in...
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Little House in the Ozarks
In more than 140 articles and essays collected here for all to enjoy, this beloved author's writings on American life during a simpler time abound with humor and spunk that transcend the years. Laura Ingalls Wilder -- beloved author of one of the...
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Not for Sale
READ THIS BOOK! It is all about global slave trade. It is really REALLY hard to read. It is heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story. And there is a “mature subject matter” advisory. But if you want to help you should definitely read it - it...
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60 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time - History's Biggest Mysteries, Cover-ups, And Cabals
In December, I went to The Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles and was in love with their discount section upstairs. I had a few books I saw that I had always wanted to buy, but I saw this book. A book with a Barnes and Noble discount sticker...
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The Eight Human Talents
Gurmukh, an internationally renowned yoga teacher, outlines the spiritual and physical practices of Kundalini Yoga, which she has taught for the last thirty years. With illustrated, step-by-step instructions, she teaches the basic principles of the...
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When Organizing Isn't Enough
Are you eager to make a change but unsure what's next?Organizing works when you know "where" you're going but don't know "how" to get there. But sometimes organizing isn't enough. When you're eager to make a change in your life, but you are unsure...
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Flight Maps
Our ReviewFlight MapsFor this unusual foray into nature writing, Jennifer Price doesn't go off into the mountains. She goes where the vast majority of American have their most consistent experiences of...
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Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Our Bodies, Ourselves by The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, claims to have “served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about...
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Total Flirt
It's not blondes who are having more fun — it is the total flirts! Flirting is half desire to flirt with someone we find attractive, and half knowing how to use the "tools of the flirting trade." Our desire to connect with someone cute gives...
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Mind Set!
MINDSET!John NaisbittDaras Books, Jakarta 2007352 halaman978-979-1208-01-7Dalam buku ini John Naisbitt mengungkapkan 11 kunci yang perlu diperhatikan dalam membaca peluang bisnis di masa mendatang, yakni: 1. Dunia terus...
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The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans
Quite a hilarious read... yes, it sterotypes Germany and Germans but so what, there's a lot of truth and realism in it, and I think the authors really hit a nerve here and there. Made me laugh out loud quite a few times, here are some...
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Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love
The best of the interviews given by the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and his wife, Courtney Love, one of rock's most controversial couples.
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Under the Covers and between the Sheets
Bibliophiles, grab your glasses! Here is a compendium of interesting--and often scandalous--facts and quips about the literary world. Featuring authors and tomes of yesteryear and yesterday, from Tolkien's Middle- earth to Jeffrey Eugenides's...
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French Ways and Their Meaning
Il y a dans ce petit livre un ensemble d'articles écrits par une journaliste américaine ayant vécu en France au début...
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The Straight Dope
Is it true what they say about Catherine the Great and the horse? How do they measure snow? How do they get the stripes into toothpaste? Do cats have navels? How are coins taken out of circulation? Why do men have nipples? Cecil Adams has...
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Cavemen, Monks, and Slow Food
During the Middle Ages, when sugar was rare and expensive, rotten teeth were a status symbol. Today, sugar is so cheap that food manufacturers use it for filler, and we rhapsodize about the fresh, local ingredients that medieval peasants grew in...
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Titanic, First Accounts
My interest and obsession with the "Titanic" began at a very early age and still I am fascinated with every little tidbit I discover! I own many books on the "Titanic", most are from the 1997 movie, but this is the first book I have read that gives...
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Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures
Jane Austen completed only six novels, but enduring passion for the author and her works has driven fans to read these books repeatedly, in book clubs or solo, while also inspiring countless film adaptations, sequels, and even spoofs involving...
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Kids at Work
This book talks about child labor during the year of the Great Depression. Children were put to work because the labor was cheaper and back then they did not have any laws that protects this children. Despearate for money, many family have sent...
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I Can Hear You Whisper
An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture. A mother notices her toddler is not learning to talk the way his brothers did… Is something...
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Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, 2D
Can anyone speak a language he or she has not learned normally, in childhood or later? Claims to have accomplished this are made from time to time, but only rarely do they receive support when carefully examines. In this volume Dr. Stevenson...
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Lettere luterane
Nell'ultimo anno della sua vita Pasolini condusse, dalle colonne del "Corriere della Sera" e del "Mondo", una rovente requisitoria contro l'Italia che vedeva intorno, "distrutta esattamente come l'Italia del 1945". Partendo dall'analisi delle...
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The Best of This Is A Crazy Planets
Lourd Ernest Hanopol de Veyra is many things at once: front man of the band Radioactive Sago Project, TV personality, poet, award-winning writer, blogger, and now, author. His two-year-old blog This is a Crazy Planets has gained a large following on...
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Negotiating with the Dead
Atwood writing about how she became a writer, what it means to be a writer, and why writers do what they do.If, in my struggles to be a writer, I manage to become even half as talented as Margaret Atwood, that will be enough. That's really all I...
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The Vertical Farm
"The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier’s visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world’s food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us...
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The Skeptic's Dictionary
A wealth of evidence for doubters and disbelievers "Whether it's the latest shark cartilage scam, or some new 'repressed memory' idiocy that besets you, I suggest you carry a copy of this dictionary at all times, or at least have it within reach as...
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On the Road with Janis Joplin
One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll ReadsAs a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show—and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young...
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Running Free - Breaking Out From Locked-In Syndrome
Can you imagine being trapped in your own body? Able to see and hear everything going on around you but unable to move or speak - the blink of an eye your only way to communicate. Super-fit young mother-of-three Kate Allatt's life was torn apart...
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How to Have More than Enough
In Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey showed readers how to get out of debt. Now he uses the same blend of down-home wisdom and straight talk to take readers to the next step: building wealth. But success means more than...
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Sleetmute
New York City. 1968. I was 24. I had just graduated from college. I applied to VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) as a possible deferment from the Army and Vietnam. I was young and I thought I knew everything. I figured if they had VISTA in...
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Random Acts of Kindness
In his bestselling book Join Me, Danny Wallace instructs his legions of followers to perform a 'Random Act of Kindness' every Friday. As a result, his thousands of followers (dubbed the Karma Army), without warning, made people happier the length...
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Mawson's Will
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to...
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The 36-Hour Day
Revised in 2006 for its twenty-fifth anniversary, this best-selling book is the "bible" for families caring for people with Alzheimer disease, offering comfort and support to millions worldwide. In addition to the practical and compassionate...
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as...
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Running Ransom Road
The monikers drunk, addict, abuser, and boozehound were Caleb Daniloff’s for fifteen years. Now, the introduction that fits him best is My name is Caleb and I am a runner. In Running Ransom Road,...
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Book Of Humour
A delectable offering from a writer who not only knows how to make us laugh but also knows how to laugh at himself Playful tigers, 'ghosts', elephants, crows and old favourites like Uncle Ken, Miss Bun, the author's slightly eccentric grandfather...
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Present Shock
“If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.” This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but...
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On My Own Two Feet
Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder.In this...
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No Escapes - Melancholic Beauty in Norwegian Landscapes (No Escapes #1)
- Collector's Edition -“NO ESCAPES – Melancholic Beauty in Norwegian Landscapes” is a series of Art Books with exquisite photography of Norwegian landscapes and nature. It is a source of inspiration and reference for painters,...
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The Fat Flush Foods
The Fat Flush Foods: The World's Best Foods, Seasonings, and Supplements to Flush the Fat From Every BodyEverything you need to know about the top fifty Fat Flushing foodsThe "New York Times "bestselling "The Fat Flush Plan "is...
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Sex and Real Estate
Cultural historian Marjorie Garber offers incisive and witty commentary on what men and women today really want in her enlightening study of what may be the most meaningful relationship any of us will ever have.Real estate has become a form...
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The Empowerment Manual
A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonprofit dedicated to social change—millions of such voluntary groups exist around the world. These...
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Don't Go To Law School (Unless)
Going to law school has become a very expensive and increasingly risky gamble. When is it still worth it? Law professor Paul Campos answers that question in this book, which gives prospective law students, their families, and current law students...
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Tea By the Nursery Fire
Now this was a lovely idea: an author beloved by generations of children, towards the end of her life, telling the story a much-loved figure from her own childhood. The story of her Gran-Nannie.Emily Huckwell was born in Sussex in the...
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Popcultured
There's no avoiding popular culture we've been enculturated into it. What does it mean to be faithful Christians in a pop culture world? How do we think Christianly about celebrity and leisure? Some Christians try to abstain from "worldly" pursuits,...
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Muhammad
Le Prophète occupe une place unique dans la conscience et la vie des musulmans. Il est l'Envoyé de Dieu, celui qui a reçu et transmis le Coran. Il n'est pourtant pas un médiateur : Muhammad ne fut qu'un homme, qui a...
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Animals Nobody Loves
Between the incredible pictures and striking facts, this informational text is great for students in second-fourth grade. It is for educating children about animals that nobody loves and not very many people even like. Seymour Simon provides...
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This Is the Rain
You swim in it. You take a bath in its, You brush your teeth with it. You splash it. You drink it. You flush the toilet with it. It is 65% of you.Water, Where does it come from? Where does it go?
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Shakespeare's Division of Experience
William Shakespeare regarded men and women quite differently. In his early plays, the so-called masculine qualities of prowess, bravery, and individualism were accorded more respect than "feminine" attributes of mercy, compassion, and intuitiveness....
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Sexing the Caribbean
The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean.
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I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby
This lively, entertaining, and often funny history of America's supermarket tabloids is the first book to offer a behind-the-scene's look at the intriguing world of tabloid journalism, and especially the unique personalities that made it such a...
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Cold Sweat
Being the child of a global superstar is never easy, but being the daughter of the “Hardest Working Man in Show Business”—that’s a category unto itself. Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father’s attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and...
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Llewellyn's 2009 Herbal Almanac
'The Herbal Almanac' helps the reader get the most from nature's most versatile plants. Top herbalists present about three dozen articles with tips on growing and gathering herbs, and on using herbs for natural health and beauty, as well as in...
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What Happened to the Cross? Distinctive LDS Teachings
What do we as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints really believe? What causes us to act as we do? How are we like other Christians? In what ways are we different?At a time when the spotlight of the public...
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Stroll
Winner: 2011 Toronto Heritage Award of MeritWhat is the ‘Toronto look’? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts...
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Great Snakes! (level 2)
This is a book that talks about many characteristics and traits of different types of snakes. It would be a good book for students in kindergarten through second grade to learn about lifecycles and reptiles. It gives many different examples of...
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The Trial of Oscar Wilde
Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Ellmann's James Joyce (1959), for which he won the National Book Award in 1960, is considered one...
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A Death in Belmont
A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood.In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly...
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America's Most Haunted
Diana Camilo 10/13/11Family 4E Homework : Book Report Book : " True Scary Places " ( America's most Haunted ) BY : Allan Zullo This book requires...
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I Know Just What You Mean
"Friendship "matters" to women; it matters a lot; women today -- with lives often in transition -- depend on friends more than ever. Many who once believed marriage was "the" center of life...now know that friends may be the difference between a...
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The Bigot
Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America’s leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will surely...
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Guantánamo
In the months following its initial release, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know has proved to be a disturbingly accurate account of the Bush administration's tangle with civil liberties and torture. Written by Michael Ratner...
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Dreams of a Nation
Over the last quarter-century, Palestinian cinema has emerged as a major artistic force on the global scene. Deeply rooted in the historic struggles for national self-determination, this cinema is the single most important artistic expression of a...
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Simple Acts of Moving Forward
Get Out of the RutWe all get “stuck” at times. You may be creatively blocked, spiritually burned out, or in some other way stalled, paralyzed, or simply bored. The good news is, there is always something you can do...
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IRA
As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, the author focuses on the bombs and explosives and shows how the IRA became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise and...
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Develop Your Medical Intuition
Use your intuition to tune into your body and improve your health. Discover the four types of intuition (mental, emotional, physical, spiritual) and the five basic medical intuitive skills (clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience,...
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Aurora Australis
In an age when it is fashionable to forget the achievements of the great explorers of the heroic age, comes the timely rebirth of this legendary book, penned by a band of brave British men whose wit and wisdom blazes like a sun beside today¿s...
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C'mon, Get Happy
shows some dark realities of fame, particulary the fame of teenage sex symbol role and tv show star. david does have an annoying braggadoccio attitute towards his empty sexual exploits that is disturbing (though later he does acknowledge the...
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The Jewish 100
Michael Shapiro is a writer, photographer and interviewer who specializes in travel. He’s the author of A Sense of Place and works part-time as an editor at The Press Democrat, in Santa Rosa, Calif.He is the author of A Sense of Place: Great...
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Klaus Barbie
This book details Klaus Barbie's World War II military career as a German officer and the evil choices he willingly made. This is an evil man who used the complexities of war to his own advantage. He was the type of Nazi that gave all Nazis a bad...
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Desperate Deserts
Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign...
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Point Man
The true story of a young British private in Afghanistan, who held the most dangerous job in the British Army for nearly two years.Between 2007 and 2008, twenty-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. An...
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We Don't Need Roads
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the wildly successful and beloved Back to the Future trilogy, just in time for the 30th anniversary Long before Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled through time in a flying DeLorean,...
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North Korea Confidential
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family,...
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Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens
Let's face it: life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated-and those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters...
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Polar Bears
Whose fur isn’t really white?Who usually gives birth to twins?Who’s the biggest bear in the world?The Polar Bear! Full of fascinating information, this book explores the world of the polar bear on land and...
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Resilience
This work explores resilience, one of the most important and intriguing characteristics affecting human wellbeing. In western societies scant attention has been paid to exploring how and why some people and some communities are better able to cope...
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