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Financial Accounting For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Maire Loughran
Format: Paperback

Learn to speak fluent finance - and ace your exams! Warren Buffett said that "accounting is the language of business.'' And for many accounting and business students, the obscure terminology of accounting makes fluency hard to achieve. Financial Accounting For Dummies can help...
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life - the humble parking spot. Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow...
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The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book: The History and Issues Explained (The Handy Answer Book Series)

David L. Hudson Jr. J.D. - Visible Ink Press
Format: Hardcover

The U.S. Supreme Court, its decisions, and its nominating process for new justices are often in the news ... but are just as often not well understood. Constitutional law professor David L. Hudson, Jr., explains the cases, processes, and important history with this in-depth primer on the U.S....
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GRE Prep Plus 2024: 6 Practice Tests Proven Strategies Online (Kaplan Test Prep)

Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Test Prep
Format: Paperback

Kaplan's GRE Prep Plus 2024 guides you through the GRE step-by-step, with expert strategies, essential content review, and five online practice tests. Get an advantage on test day with our proven test-taking strategies, math skills review, and one-year access to online practice and lesson...
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Of Cockroaches and Crickets: Learning to Love Creatures That Skitter and Jump

Frank Nischk - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

This deep dive into the wonderful world of insects teaches us to love the tiny, seemingly terrifying creatures all around us.For many people, cockroaches are the most pesky of pests. Not so for entomologist Frank Nischk. In this funny and fascinating book, Frank reveals his love and admiration...
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Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

Joan Biskupic - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business...
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Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina

Jared Fishman - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

The former federal prosecutor and founder of the Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his battle to crack open a police shooting and cover-up in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the justice department...
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One Thought Scares Me...: We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know

Richard Dreyfuss - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork. It might not be too late.. Our democratic republic is failing, and it shouldn't be a surprise. We can't fly a plane without training; we can't practice medicine without attending medical school. And yet we expect...
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Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences

Jack Roth - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

Startling new insights into the JFK assassination In Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of US intelligence operations associated...
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Making Conversation: Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Communication

Fred Dust
Format: Hardcover

A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained,...
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