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Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

Bo Seo - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasionWhen Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea...
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story

Kermit Roosevelt III - ‎University of Chicago Press; First edition
Format: First Edition

Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality. There's a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration...
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Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

Tyler Cowen - ‎St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed...
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What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

David R. Montgomery - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Are you really what you eat?David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples...
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

Nell McShane Wulfhart - ‎Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The empowering story of a group of spirited stewardesses who fought for their rights in the cabin and revolutionized the workplace for all American women.It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs...
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Richard White - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why.In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's...
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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

FBMde Waal - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"Every new book by Frans de Waal is a cause for excitement, and this one is no different. A breath of fresh air in the cramped debate about the differences between men and women. Fascinating, nuanced, and very timely." -- Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind: A Hopeful HistoryIn...
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10 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2023: Extra Prep to Help Achieve an Excellent Score

The Princeton Review - ‎Princeton Review
Format: Paperback

PREP FOR EXCELLENCE WITH THIS BEST-SELLING SAT PRACTICE BOOK! The 10 full-length practice exams (1,500 questions!) in this book will help you polish your skills and set you up for SAT test-day success. Practice makes perfect, and the best way to practice your SAT test-taking skills is with...
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