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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before?In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from... |
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Bon Jovi: The Story
Bryan Reesman · Sterling
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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With their catchy hooks, good looks, and irresistible pop-metal sound, Bon Jovi became one of the bestselling bands of all time. Bon Jovi: The Story is the first fully illustrated comprehensive book paying tribute to the mega-popular group from their beginning 30 years ago - when they shot... |
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The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Dalai Lama · Avery
Pages: 354
Format: Print book |
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Featured on Oprah's Favorite Things list for 2016!An instant New York Times bestsellerTwo spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing... |
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T Osterholm · Little
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility... |
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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
Beth Kobliner · Touchstone
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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A completely revised and updated fourth edition of the New York Times bestseller, designed to guide younger adults through the world of personal finance.More than ever before, people in their twenties and thirties need help getting their financial lives in order. And who could blame them?... |
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Parents Matter: Supporting Your Child with Math in Grades K-8
Regina M Mistretta · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 128
Format: Print book |
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Parents are social factors in children's lives that can positively influence math achievement; and one does not need a degree in math to provide support! What one needs is a guidebook filled with good questions to pose, tips for supporting math thinking and general attitudes about math,... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York Times Bestseller * "Bright... |
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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The epic and controversial story of the development of the first widely used normal human cell-line and, through it, some of the world s most important vaccines In June 1962, a young biologist at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Leonard Hayflick, using tissue extracted from an aborted... |
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