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Texas Regional Guide 2010

Mobil · Mobil Travel Guide; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Forbes Travel Guide Texas 2010Author: Five Star Travel Corp (COR)Publisher: Mobil Travel GuidePublication Date: 2010/01/01Number of Pages: 208Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:
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A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 365
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become...
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader

Robert Middlekauff · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind...
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The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3

Edward Deeds · Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Deeds's subtle, meticulous, and wildly imaginative pencil and crayon drawings portray an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, antique cars, fantastic boats and trains, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture. None...
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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940

Gary Giddins · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.
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The Perfection Deception: Why Striving to Be Perfect Is Sabotaging Your Relationships, Making You Sick, and Holding Your Happiness Hostage

Jane Bluestein · HCI, 2015.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

When Dr. Jane Bluestein would tell someone that she just finished writing a book on perfectionism, the common reaction was a blank stare followed by the question, 'What's wrong with perfectionism?' Indeed, most people mistakenly confuse perfectionism with a healthy striving for excellence...
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Boats & Harbours in Acrylic

Charles Evans · Search Press
Format: Print book

Charles Evans has painted 24 inspirational images of boats and harbours in his extremely popular style. His instructional, informal and encouraging notes on each one, plus the outlines provided, will allow his many admirers to reproduce them for themselves. Boats and harbours make great...
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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully

Allen Kurzweil · Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,...
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Handbuilt Pottery Techniques Revealed: The Secrets of Handbuilding Shown in Unique Cutaway Photography

Jacqui Atkin · Barron's Educational Series; 2 edition
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

The brand-new edition of this very popular how-to book for potters is bigger and better than ever. It has gone up in page count from the first edition to accommodate additional projects with instructions for making them, and also features an expanded gallery of handsome color photos showing...
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Handmade Halloween Crafts

Ruth Owen · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Ghosts, pumpkins, spiders, and witches are great subjects for Halloween craft projects. Through the step-by-step directions in this book, readers can take on a plethora of fun crafts to celebrate the spookiest holiday, including a witchs hat piata, a spider bracelet made from duct tape,...
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

David Brion Davis · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 422
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly...
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Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education

John Owens · Sourcebooks
Format: Book

An explosive new look at the pressures on todays teachers and the pitfalls of school reform, Confessions of a Bad Teacher presents a passionate appeal to save public schools, before its too late. When John Owens left a lucrative job to teach English at a public school in New York Citys...
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The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C.

Barbara Safir · AdventureKeen
Pages: 380
Format: Print book

Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C. digs deeper and offers more than any other guide. The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C. is the insider's...
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Gandhi Before India

Ramachandra Guha · Random House Inc
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential - and controversial - men in modern history. Ramachandra...
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