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If Not Now, When?: Making the Most of Your Life, Your Relationships and Your Work

Ronald P Culberson · Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pages: 142
Format: Print book

The simple question about becoming a better person is If Not Now, When? In his previous book, Do it Well. Make it Fun, author Ron Culberson introduced us to the idea that excellence coupled with fun and humor can help us achieve both success and contentment in all areas of life and work....
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge

Helen Rappaport · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former...
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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide

Dave Thompson · Krause Publications
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

For the record From Abba to ZZ Top, Goldmine Record Album Price Guide, 8th edition, provides more than 100, 000 listings, detailed descriptions and values to American-released vinyl albums. This completely vetted and massive guide features:
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Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979

Susan Meiselas · Aperture
Pages: 71
Format: Print book

"Nicaragua" forms an extraordinary narrative of a nation in turmoil. Starting with a powerful and chilling evocation of the Somoza regime during its decline in the late 1970s, the images trace the evolution of the popular resistance that led to the insurrection, culminating with...
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How to Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food

MARK BITTMAN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate grilling guide and the latest in Mark Bittman's acclaimed How to Cook Everything seriesHere's how to grill absolutely everything - from the perfect steak to cedar-plank salmon to pizza - explained in Mark Bittman's trademark simple, straightforward style. Featuring more than...
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Gardening for Birds, Butterflies, and Bees: Everything you need to Know to Create a wildlife Habitat in your Backyard

Editors at Birds and Blooms · Reader's Digest Association
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Whether you're installing a new garden bed or trying to attract orioles for the first time, it helps to start with the right information. And here it is! In this book, experts and readers from North America's #1 Bird and Garden Magazine, Birds & Blooms, give their tried-and-true advice.Attracting...
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Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate

Andrew Paxman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country...
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A Guide Book of United States Paper Money, Fifth Edition

Ira Friedberg · Whitman Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Building on the scope of Robert Friedberg's groundbreaking research, A Guide Book of United States Paper Money, Fifth Edition, includes an engaging history of the paper currency of the United States. Every federal note - from the ultra rare Demand Notes of 1861 to the lunch money in our wallets...
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How to Choose a Partner

Susan Quilliam · Picador Usa
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

We don't have all the answers -- but we can help you choose a partner.Choosing a romantic partner is one of contemporary life's biggest adventures. But other aspects of modern living -- being globally more mobile, a fall in religious belief, social liberalization, and more job opportunities...
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Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

Tren Griffin · Columbia University Press
Pages: 209
Format: Print book

Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett's indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom" -- a set of interdisciplinary...
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The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book: Scrumptious Recipes & Fabled History From Toll House to Cookie Cake Pie

Carolyn Wyman · Countryman Press
Pages: 207
Format: Paperback

Full of fun facts, myths, secrets, and cookie recipes apt to make you as famous as Amos among your family and friends, The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book makes for great reading and great baking. The advent and swift rise of the chocolate chip cookie offers some of the best stories...
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How to Spot a Liar, Revised Edition: Why People Don't Tell the Truth...and How You Can Catch Them

Gregory Hartley · Career Press; 2 edition
Format: Print book

"Drawing on real life examples, the authors give you specific, practical coaching on how to detect deception. The lessons will sharpen your overall observation skills and supercharge your personal BS detector."--Peter Earnest, founding executive director of the International Spy Museum and...
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Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It

Claudia Hammond · Harper Perennial
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

"The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money-- perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics. We know we need...
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.

Charles Klosterman · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about...
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Judy: The Unforgettable Story of the Dog Who Went to War and Became a True Hero

Damien Lewis · Quercus
Format: Hardcover

British bestselling author Damien Lewis is an award-winning journalist who has spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones. Now Lewis brings his first-rate narrative skills to bear on the inspiriting tale of Judy--an English pointer who perhaps was the only canine...
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