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Caliphate: The History of an Idea
Hugh Kennedy · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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In Caliphate, Islamic historian Hugh Kennedy dissects the idea of the caliphate and its history, and explores how it became used and abused today. Contrary to popular belief, there is no one enduring definition of a caliph; rather, the idea of the caliph has been the subject of constant... |
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NCLEX-PN 2017 Strategies, Practice and Review with Practice Test
Kaplan · Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Teaches you to think like a nurse Passing the NCLEX-PN exam is not just about what you know - it's about how you think. With expert critical thinking strategies and targeted practice, Kaplan's NCLEX-PN 2017 Strategies, Practice & Review shows you how to leverage your content... |
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Hope for a Cool Pillow
Margaret Overton · Outpost19
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
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Margaret Overton's Hope for a Cool Pillow is a passionate argument for planning end-of-life care. As physician, daughter and student of American health care, Overton pulls from all corners, showing us the emotional, financial and physical costs of not being prepared. Her daily rounds... |
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Novel Living: Collecting, Decorating, and Crafting with Books
Lisa Occhipinti · Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Format: Hardcover
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In this digital age, the fate of physical books remains in question. Even the concept of curling up with a good book conjures new images. But there remains a sensory thrill to physical books—to seeing and feeling them, to turning their pages—that makes many of us value them even more... |
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How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation
Anthony Mancuso · Nolo
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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A guide that provides the forms and information needed to turn your group into a tax-exempt nonprofit. With this book, you can form a nonprofit corporation in any state and gain 501(c) (3) tax-exempt status with the IRS. Includes step-by-step instructions for both IRS Form 1023 and the new streamlined... |
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The Life of the Automobile: The Complete History of the Motor Car
Steven Parissien · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car.The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention, and author Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent... |
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The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
INC DORLING KINDERSLEY · DK
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An essential guide to milestone developments in astronomy, telling the story of our ideas about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos - from ancient times to the present day.From planets and stars to black holes and the Big Bang, take a journey through the wonders of the universe.... |
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I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me To America's #1 Daytime Drama
Eric Braeden · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past... |
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Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
Benjamin Hardy · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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If you're relying on willpower alone to help you lose weight, improve your relationships, or achieve more at work, you're doomed to fail. The environment around us is far too powerful, stimulating, addicting, and stressful to overcome by white knuckling. The only way to stop just surviving... |
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails
YANIS VAROUFAKIS · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world... |
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Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875
David Dobson · Clearfield
Format: Print book
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In the compilation of this volume, David Dobson combed archives and libraries in Scotland, England, and Denmark to yield the first listing devoted to Scottish inhabitants of the West Indies for the period between 1707 and 1857. While the full impact of Scottish settlement in the West Indies... |
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