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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre · Random House Inc
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height... |
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Weightless: My Life as a Fat Man and How I Escaped
Gregg McBride · Central Recovery Press
Format: Book |
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Gregg McBride was always determined to make it big -- Although not quite this literally.By the time he was a young adult, Gregg McBride topped the scales at over 450 pounds and wore a sixty-inch belt.Pretending airline seatbelts fit across his belly, eating out of the trash to cheat on his diets,... |
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9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her
Brion McClanahan · Regnery History
Format: Hardcover |
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Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation. Which nine? Brion McClanahan, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers and The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution, will surprise readers... |
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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
Paul Tough · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 125
Format: Print book |
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In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does... |
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Soul Numbers: Decipher the Messages from Your Inner Self to Successfully Navigate Life
Michelle Arbeau · Open Road Media
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Is it just a coincidence that a record number of people are seeing in numbers, or could it be the fabric of the universe revealing itself to us? According to the religion of Kabbalah and even the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, the truths of the universe are contained... |
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud
Elizabeth Greenwood · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 246
Format: Print book |
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A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn.Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find... |
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Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations
Dan Roam · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover |
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"If I tell you the truth, if I tell it with a story, and if I tell that story with pictures, I can keep you glued to your seat. Let me show you how."For the vast majority of us, giving a presentation is an extremely difficult and nerve-wracking process, whether we're in a one-on-one... |
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Naturally, Delicious: 100 Recipes for Healthy Eats That Make You Happy
Danny Seo · Pam Krauss Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Danny Seo, America's leading sustainable lifestyle guru and founder/editor-in-chief of Naturally, Danny Seo magazine, creates a cookbook filled with more than 100 recipes for preparing healthy, easy, organic meals.In his wildly popular new magazine, Naturally, Danny Seo, editor-in-chief... |
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Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed
Kevin P. Hill · Hazelden
Format: Print book |
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Marijuana--or weed, pot, grass, MJ, Mary Jane, reefer, cannabis, or hemp among dozens of other names--has a long, colorful history dating back more than 2,000 years as the one of the most sought-after mood-altering substances in the world. Societal opinion about the drug has dramatically... |
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The Sociology Book
Christopher Thorpe · DK Publishing, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their... |
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Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair
Christopher Oldstone-Moore · The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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Beards - they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today... |
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
Devin Leonard · Grove Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese... |
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Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair - 4th Edition
Black & Decker Corporation (Towson · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book |
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Learn how to do all of your own home repairs with this comprehensive, visual guidebook! When something breaks in your house, finding and hiring an expensive repairman shouldn't be the only option for homeowners. Next time your faucet springs a leak or that bedroom doorknob punches a hole... |
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