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Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

E.G. Vallianatos · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover

Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic...
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There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia

Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno · Nation Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country's cartels, a new, bloody chapter unfolded. In the late 1990s, right-wing paramilitary...
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Fodor's Bahamas

Bob Bower · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 380
Format: Print book

Whether a traveler's style is living large at a trend-setting resort or chilling on a secluded island with an icy cold beer in hand, the Bahamas has something for every taste, from all-inclusive resorts to exclusive private-island hideaways. Visitors can enjoy celebrity-chef restaurants...
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Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right

KENNETH STERN · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Widening the dialogue begun with Strangers in Their Own Land and Hillbilly Elegy, a former NPR CEO and lifelong Democrat's chronicle of his immersion in Republicanism to understand his fellow Americans across the political divide.Ken Stern doesn't believe that our political world...
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Fodor's Belgium, 3rd Edition

Felice Aarons · Fodor's Travel Publications
Pages: 307
Format: Paperback

Take a twilight walk along the canals of Brugge, window-shop in Antwerp for edgy designs, stumble across cartoon-art murals along the streets of Brussels, discover masterpieces by Rubens and Van Dyck or gain a new perspective at World War I sights - Fodor's Belgium, 3rd edition offers...
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Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People

Joseph A Michelli · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

Lead Your Business the Starbucks Way Foreword by Herve Humler, President and COO, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. One of the best-recognized and admired brands in the world, Starbucks singlehandedly transformed the ordinary delivery of coffee into a cultural phenomenon--a result...
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

Condoleezza Rice · Twelve
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom.From the end of the Cold War and the collapse...
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The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers' Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse

Molly Knight · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"From the outside looking in, the Dodgers have been a bubbling cauldron of personality, talent and moods, with the occasional dollop of jealousy. In The Best Team Money Can Buy, it's as if Molly Knight ushers you behind the closed clubhouse doors to see it for yourself." - Buster...
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Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

Ashley Dawson · Verso
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley...
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Building maintenance supervisor.

National Learning Corporation. · National Learning Corp.
Format: Paperback

This item is Non-Returnable.
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have

Bonnie Rochman · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery slope toward eugenics? Should doctors tell you that your infant daughter is genetically predisposed...
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Handmade Easter Crafts

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

Instead of wood or plastic, imagine a woven Easter basket made of duct tape! Using materials from around the house, including recycled items, the crafts in this book are sure to make preparing for Easter even more fun. Readers are guided by detailed step-by-step instructions to create table...
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Archaeology in the Land of the Bible

Avraham Negev · Schocken Books
Format: Hardcover

Book by Negev, Avraham
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Frommer's Eastern Europe (Frommer's Complete Guides)

Mark Baker · Frommer's; 1 edition
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback

Download a free companion podcast about Eastern Europe at Frommers.comTravel to Eastern Europe is booming-international arrivals to Eastern Europe have increased by an average of 3.9 percent each year since 2004Destinations covered in this guide are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia,...
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